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You have created your character and entered the world of Knight Online. You will find yourself standing in a castle with naught but the clothes on your back. There is much for you to learn: What information is on your screen? Where are you? How do you communicate with others? How do you move around the world? How do you equip yourself for battle? How do you fight? Many newcomers to MMORPGs can feel overwhelmed when first entering an online community; even game veterans will need to figure out how the game functions before they can proceed. Fortunately, you have the Beginner's Guide! This section of the Beginner's Guide will cover many of the basics of adventuring in Knight Online so that you can get started on your quest to become a powerful member of the Knight Online world.
Movement and Interacting
You want to familiarize yourself with such game elements as the starting area, interface, movement, and the basics of equipment and fighting.
Movement
Moving your character is a simple matter. You can either left-click on a location to move to it, or use the following keys to direct your character:
W – moves character forward
S – moves character backward
A – turns character left
D – turns character right
E – auto-runs in the direction you are facing
Fighting
And now we arrive at the heart of the game: combat! To begin combat, you must first choose a target. You can target the closest monster of enemy player by pressing “Z” or by left-clicking on your prey. To begin attacking with a melee weapon, you can either double-click the target or press the “R” button. You can also choose to use one of your skills to launch an attack by pressing the corresponding hotbar button (1-8).
Treasure
When you kill a monster, the creature will drop a treasure chest. Click on this chest to see what items are inside and click the items to pick them up. You never know what you'll find inside, from game coins to pieces of armor to magical scrolls. Some items that are dropped will not be useable by your character, and you will want to sell these items to merchant NPCs or other players to make money.
Equipment
Your character's equipment is very important.
A strong suit of armor can turn aside the mightiest blow, and a powerful weapon will allow you to slay enemies quickly and efficiently.
You can acquire equipment by purchasing it from a merchant NPC, another player, or by picking up pieces of equipment that drop from monsters you defeat in battle.
If you pick up a useable item, you can equip it via your inventory (press "I" to see your inventory).
This is done two ways:
1) Right-click the item and it will auto-equip (only if your character meets the requirements for the item, which can be seen by moving the cursor over the item).
2) By clicking on the item and holding the left mouse button on it while dragging it to the desired slot.
Chatting
Getting to know other players is one of the best parts of Knight Online. Communicating with other players is accomplished via the chat window.e early By pressing the “Enter” key, a cursor will appear in this box at the lower left of your screen. Depending on which tab you have clicked on (all chat, whisper, shout, party, clan, or alliance), the text you enter will be sent to that group.
There is also another type of chat called a Private Message, or “PM.” By either right clicking on a player and choosing “whisper” or typing “/pm (username)” a window will pop up with that player's name and anything typed in that window will only go to that user. A PM window must be closed or minimized to be able to talk to other players in the main chat window again.
In the very top left of the chat window there is a “...” button. By pressing this button, you can choose types of chat you wish to see. It is important for players of Knight Online to understand what character development means with respect to the early levels (1-30). As was stated at the beginning of this guide:
The early levels in Knight Online are important, as it is where you will learn skills, explore the world, learn the quest system, make friends, kill monsters, and develop abilities that will eventually be needed in PvP conflict. Revel in this time, and make the most of it as you travel along the path of knighthood and approach the fields of war.
In this section of the guide, you will find important information on leveling and experience, stats, jobs, and skills.
Skills
Pressing “K” will bring up your character's skill window.
Jobs Level 10 is an important milestone in your character's development. After speaking with him, you will be able to distribute or redistribute “Skill Points” into three different categories of skills.
Stats Every time your character gains a level, you earn points to spend on your character's attributes, allowing you to strengthen and customize your character.
Those are the two primary statistics for your character class. STR: Strength determines physical attack/defense ability.
INT: Intelligence affects the magic points available to a magician or priest.
MP: Magic power affects the damage a character's magical spells inflict.
Leveling & Experience
As you kill monsters and complete quests, you will earn experience points.
When you earn enough experience, you will gain a level. With each level gain, your character will earn stat points that you will be able to distribute as you see fit. Also, with every level gain after your first job change at level 10, you will earn skill points that you will be able to distribute into your skill trees. You earn bonus experience points when partying with other players to kill monsters, so it is smart to travel and hunt in groups of friends. A good strategy is to always try to be working on a quest, always be killing monsters, and whenever possible be doing so while in a group. You want to attack monsters that offer the greatest experience reward, while not being too tough in a fight. Questing Quests are an integral part of Knight Online.
The world is filled with hundreds of different quests, with rewards ranging from experience and money to items of great power. NPCs with question marks over their heads have quests to offer you, so you should speak to such NPCs whenever you see them. Some adventurers focus exclusively on killing monsters in order to gain experience. While that approach will indeed level your character, a faster way to gain levels and equipment is questing while killing. What you want to do is try and make sure that whatever you are killing for the best experience reward also works toward completing a quest. This way, you will earn money and additional experience while fighting the same monsters. Skills Hotbar This is your main skill bar where you will place all of your skills (you can have up to eight different skill bars, toggling between them by clicking on the arrows on the left edge). Once skills are placed on the skill bar, the user can press keys 1-8 to use the corresponding skill. This allows you quick access to your most important abilities. Main Menu Buttons Below the chat window, in the lowermost left corner of your interface,
there are three buttons:
Menu (“M” icon)
Power Up Store (“P” icon)
Help (“?” icon) Main Character Buttons In this area of the interface, players have a set of quick-launch buttons for frequently used commands that open up vital character information windows or perform common actions.
The main character buttons are as follows: In order, the button are the “Town” (allows you to teleport back to the center of the town you are bound to), the “Inventory”(brings up your inventory), the “Character” (shows your characters stats and other character information), the “Skill” (lists the different skills obtained and available to your character), “Trade” (allows your character to trade with another selected character), “Invite Party” (invites another player into your party), and the “Sit” (makes your character sit on the ground) buttons. Experience Meter Beneath the skills hotbar is your experience meter, which shows your percentile progress toward the next level. Understandably, this is one of the most popular windows in the game. Game Action Window This window reports on various in-game actions, such as damage done to your character, the damage you do to other characters/monsters, use of items, and the receipt of items. Chat Window This box is your main communication area, and it gives you many options for talking to other players. You are able to read local chat, send private messages to other players, shout (longer range than local chat), use party chat (speak to only those in your specific party), use clan chat (speak to only those in your clan), and use alliance chat (speak to up to three different clans that are part of your alliance). To chat, simply hit “Enter” and type what you want to say. Then hit “Enter” again to send your message. Nation Notice Across the very top center of your screen, you will sometimes see a message bar delivering important in-game announcements. Sometimes the messages deal with wars, and sometimes with actions by the King of your nation.
Character Status
The character status area of your interface provides critical information. Your name and level are displayed here. Also, this is where you see your character's health and magic points. If your health reaches zero you will die, so keep an eye on this at all times! Your location and coordinates are displayed on a bar, and this window can expand into a mini-map.
Account and Game Status
Several account and game status messages are visible in the upper right area of the interface. The top message will list premium account status, and tell players how many days remain on their account. Other messages you will see here involve quest information, patch notes, and other important announcements the Knight Online team wants to deliver to all players. Right click on the anvil to access the upgrade system.
You will be given three choices:
1. Upgrade Item
2. Compound Accessory
3. Walk Away Place the upgrade scroll into one of the 9 slots in the middle of the upgrade display and then place the weapon or armor you wish to upgrade in the single slot on the left. Click “OK”. There is a chance that your item will break and be lost forever. There are items such as the “Trina's Piece” that will increase your chances of success. To compound an accessory, you will need a “Compound Accessory” scroll and 3 of the exact type of accessory. An example of this is if you had 3 Ring of Life +0, you could add them into the 3 open slots in the compound menu along with a Compound Accessory Scroll and the end result would be a Ring of Life +1. You cannot mix and match different accessories or levels of power, they all must be the same.
Magic Anvil
The Magic Anvil is where you can upgrade armor and weapons or compound accessories. To start a transaction with a merchant NPC, right click on the merchant to open a window.
There will be three options in the window:
1) I want to trade
2) I want to exchange
3) Walk away I want to trade” will open the trade window.
I want to exchange” is used to receive quest rewards. To purchase an item, click and hold the left mouse button on the item and drag it into an empty slot in your inventory. The purchase price displays when you move the cursor over the item. If you wish to sell an item to an NPC, you can find its worth by moving the mouse cursor over the item in your inventory while still in the trade window. To sell the item, left click on it and hold the mouse button while dragging the item to the merchant's inventory. A window will pop up asking if you will sell the item. Click “OK” to complete the transaction and collect your riches. Player Merchanting To purchase an item, click and hold the left mouse button on the item and drag it into an empty slot in your inventory.
The purchase price displays when you move the cursor over the item. If you wish to set yourself up as a vendor, you can either press “H” and click on the merchant option, or in the text box area type “/merchant”
.
You want to familiarize yourself with such game elements as the starting area, interface, movement, and the basics of equipment and fighting.
Movement
Moving your character is a simple matter. You can either left-click on a location to move to it, or use the following keys to direct your character:
W – moves character forward
S – moves character backward
A – turns character left
D – turns character right
E – auto-runs in the direction you are facing
Fighting
And now we arrive at the heart of the game: combat! To begin combat, you must first choose a target. You can target the closest monster of enemy player by pressing “Z” or by left-clicking on your prey. To begin attacking with a melee weapon, you can either double-click the target or press the “R” button. You can also choose to use one of your skills to launch an attack by pressing the corresponding hotbar button (1-8).
Treasure
When you kill a monster, the creature will drop a treasure chest. Click on this chest to see what items are inside and click the items to pick them up. You never know what you'll find inside, from game coins to pieces of armor to magical scrolls. Some items that are dropped will not be useable by your character, and you will want to sell these items to merchant NPCs or other players to make money.
Equipment
Your character's equipment is very important.
A strong suit of armor can turn aside the mightiest blow, and a powerful weapon will allow you to slay enemies quickly and efficiently.
You can acquire equipment by purchasing it from a merchant NPC, another player, or by picking up pieces of equipment that drop from monsters you defeat in battle.
If you pick up a useable item, you can equip it via your inventory (press "I" to see your inventory).
This is done two ways:
1) Right-click the item and it will auto-equip (only if your character meets the requirements for the item, which can be seen by moving the cursor over the item).
2) By clicking on the item and holding the left mouse button on it while dragging it to the desired slot.
Chatting
Getting to know other players is one of the best parts of Knight Online. Communicating with other players is accomplished via the chat window.e early By pressing the “Enter” key, a cursor will appear in this box at the lower left of your screen. Depending on which tab you have clicked on (all chat, whisper, shout, party, clan, or alliance), the text you enter will be sent to that group.
There is also another type of chat called a Private Message, or “PM.” By either right clicking on a player and choosing “whisper” or typing “/pm (username)” a window will pop up with that player's name and anything typed in that window will only go to that user. A PM window must be closed or minimized to be able to talk to other players in the main chat window again.
In the very top left of the chat window there is a “...” button. By pressing this button, you can choose types of chat you wish to see. It is important for players of Knight Online to understand what character development means with respect to the early levels (1-30). As was stated at the beginning of this guide:
The early levels in Knight Online are important, as it is where you will learn skills, explore the world, learn the quest system, make friends, kill monsters, and develop abilities that will eventually be needed in PvP conflict. Revel in this time, and make the most of it as you travel along the path of knighthood and approach the fields of war.
In this section of the guide, you will find important information on leveling and experience, stats, jobs, and skills.
Skills
Pressing “K” will bring up your character's skill window.
Jobs Level 10 is an important milestone in your character's development. After speaking with him, you will be able to distribute or redistribute “Skill Points” into three different categories of skills.
Stats Every time your character gains a level, you earn points to spend on your character's attributes, allowing you to strengthen and customize your character.
Those are the two primary statistics for your character class. STR: Strength determines physical attack/defense ability.
INT: Intelligence affects the magic points available to a magician or priest.
MP: Magic power affects the damage a character's magical spells inflict.
Leveling & Experience
As you kill monsters and complete quests, you will earn experience points.
When you earn enough experience, you will gain a level. With each level gain, your character will earn stat points that you will be able to distribute as you see fit. Also, with every level gain after your first job change at level 10, you will earn skill points that you will be able to distribute into your skill trees. You earn bonus experience points when partying with other players to kill monsters, so it is smart to travel and hunt in groups of friends. A good strategy is to always try to be working on a quest, always be killing monsters, and whenever possible be doing so while in a group. You want to attack monsters that offer the greatest experience reward, while not being too tough in a fight. Questing Quests are an integral part of Knight Online.
The world is filled with hundreds of different quests, with rewards ranging from experience and money to items of great power. NPCs with question marks over their heads have quests to offer you, so you should speak to such NPCs whenever you see them. Some adventurers focus exclusively on killing monsters in order to gain experience. While that approach will indeed level your character, a faster way to gain levels and equipment is questing while killing. What you want to do is try and make sure that whatever you are killing for the best experience reward also works toward completing a quest. This way, you will earn money and additional experience while fighting the same monsters. Skills Hotbar This is your main skill bar where you will place all of your skills (you can have up to eight different skill bars, toggling between them by clicking on the arrows on the left edge). Once skills are placed on the skill bar, the user can press keys 1-8 to use the corresponding skill. This allows you quick access to your most important abilities. Main Menu Buttons Below the chat window, in the lowermost left corner of your interface,
there are three buttons:
Menu (“M” icon)
Power Up Store (“P” icon)
Help (“?” icon) Main Character Buttons In this area of the interface, players have a set of quick-launch buttons for frequently used commands that open up vital character information windows or perform common actions.
The main character buttons are as follows: In order, the button are the “Town” (allows you to teleport back to the center of the town you are bound to), the “Inventory”(brings up your inventory), the “Character” (shows your characters stats and other character information), the “Skill” (lists the different skills obtained and available to your character), “Trade” (allows your character to trade with another selected character), “Invite Party” (invites another player into your party), and the “Sit” (makes your character sit on the ground) buttons. Experience Meter Beneath the skills hotbar is your experience meter, which shows your percentile progress toward the next level. Understandably, this is one of the most popular windows in the game. Game Action Window This window reports on various in-game actions, such as damage done to your character, the damage you do to other characters/monsters, use of items, and the receipt of items. Chat Window This box is your main communication area, and it gives you many options for talking to other players. You are able to read local chat, send private messages to other players, shout (longer range than local chat), use party chat (speak to only those in your specific party), use clan chat (speak to only those in your clan), and use alliance chat (speak to up to three different clans that are part of your alliance). To chat, simply hit “Enter” and type what you want to say. Then hit “Enter” again to send your message. Nation Notice Across the very top center of your screen, you will sometimes see a message bar delivering important in-game announcements. Sometimes the messages deal with wars, and sometimes with actions by the King of your nation.
Character Status
The character status area of your interface provides critical information. Your name and level are displayed here. Also, this is where you see your character's health and magic points. If your health reaches zero you will die, so keep an eye on this at all times! Your location and coordinates are displayed on a bar, and this window can expand into a mini-map.
Account and Game Status
Several account and game status messages are visible in the upper right area of the interface. The top message will list premium account status, and tell players how many days remain on their account. Other messages you will see here involve quest information, patch notes, and other important announcements the Knight Online team wants to deliver to all players. Right click on the anvil to access the upgrade system.
You will be given three choices:
1. Upgrade Item
2. Compound Accessory
3. Walk Away Place the upgrade scroll into one of the 9 slots in the middle of the upgrade display and then place the weapon or armor you wish to upgrade in the single slot on the left. Click “OK”. There is a chance that your item will break and be lost forever. There are items such as the “Trina's Piece” that will increase your chances of success. To compound an accessory, you will need a “Compound Accessory” scroll and 3 of the exact type of accessory. An example of this is if you had 3 Ring of Life +0, you could add them into the 3 open slots in the compound menu along with a Compound Accessory Scroll and the end result would be a Ring of Life +1. You cannot mix and match different accessories or levels of power, they all must be the same.
Magic Anvil
The Magic Anvil is where you can upgrade armor and weapons or compound accessories. To start a transaction with a merchant NPC, right click on the merchant to open a window.
There will be three options in the window:
1) I want to trade
2) I want to exchange
3) Walk away I want to trade” will open the trade window.
I want to exchange” is used to receive quest rewards. To purchase an item, click and hold the left mouse button on the item and drag it into an empty slot in your inventory. The purchase price displays when you move the cursor over the item. If you wish to sell an item to an NPC, you can find its worth by moving the mouse cursor over the item in your inventory while still in the trade window. To sell the item, left click on it and hold the mouse button while dragging the item to the merchant's inventory. A window will pop up asking if you will sell the item. Click “OK” to complete the transaction and collect your riches. Player Merchanting To purchase an item, click and hold the left mouse button on the item and drag it into an empty slot in your inventory.
The purchase price displays when you move the cursor over the item. If you wish to set yourself up as a vendor, you can either press “H” and click on the merchant option, or in the text box area type “/merchant”
