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Outside of the actual game world, here is where you’ll be spending most of your time. The items in this section allow you to perform maintenance on your gear, buy and sell items in the Auction House, buy entry tickets for the Daily Lotteries, and a lot more. Each option is thoroughly described below.

Interaction

Send Message

Here’s where you can send private messages to another player. Just type in their name and the message you want to send and click Send Message. You can also do this from your log if someone sends you a message first by clicking on their name and then clicking Send Message in their profile window. You will not be able to access your sent messages once they are gone, so try to remember what you said until the other player replies to you. When you get a response you’ll see a log entry notice on your screen and you’ll be able to read their message in your Log window.

Find Player

If you are looking for a player to view their profile, trade with them, or send them a message, you can do it here. Just type in their name and you will be taken to their Profile page.

Any other player’s profile page is basically the same as yours, with a couple of exceptions. First, you won’t be able to see their backpack, only their equipped items. Also, there is a new section just above their Inventory entitled Available Actions. These actions represent everything you can do with regards to another player. You can talk to them via a Private Message by clicking on Send Message. You can add them as a friend or enemy. You may attack or trade with them, as well as invite them to your guild. Whether or not you’ll be able to invite a player to your Guild depends on the permissions you’ve been given by the guild founder. Read the section Guild for more specific information on that topic. If the other player is already a member of a Guild, you will see their Guild rank and the name of the Guild they belong to at the top of their profile screen. By clicking on the Guild name, you can see the details page of their Guild.

By the way, if you type in a player’s name and you get the error message ‘Player Not Found’, and you are sure you typed the name correctly, it is likely that the other player has been suspended or banned. Check the FallenSword Usage Agreement to make sure you understand what actions might result in getting yourself banned or suspended.

Artisanship

Blacksmith

Whenever you attack creatures, you will have a chance to sustain damage to your gear. If this happens you can just click the Quick Repair button in the World screen. However, what if you don’t have enough gold to repair all of your items? You can go to the Blacksmith screen and selectively repair your gear. If any of your equipment is currently damaged, it will show up here along with a gold amount necessary to repair it. Always repair your armor and weapons first, as this is how you resist damage and deal it to others. If you simply don’t have enough gold in-hand to repair your stuff, either withdraw it from your bank or borrow it from a guild mate or fellow player. You always need your gear to be in top shape, so do whatever is necessary to keep enough gold on your character to do necessary repairs.

Crafting

Certain items you find or purchase from shops are craftable. Craftable items have additional attribute stats which are added as a bonus in addition to the normal stats and any hell forged stats. When you obtain an item which is craftable, these bonus stats are rolled randomly, so it may be great or poor.

Any craftable items is graded automatically as one of the following: Perfect, Excellent, Very Good, Average, Poor, Very Poor. Perfect meaning the bonus stats are maxed out on the item.

The more experienced crafter you use, the higher chance of better bonus stats you have of getting. For example if you use an 'Apprentice Crafter', the stats are rolled randomly between the pre-defined ranged for the item, where as if you use a 'Master Crafter' you have a small chance of obtaining a 'Perfect' item.

Hell Forge

As it says, the Hell Forge contains the fires of Hell itself. You can conveniently use those fires to boost the stats of any item in your inventory or backpack. You can boost an item in the Hell Forge using FSPs. You can upgrade any item a maximum of five times at a cost of two FSPs and a variable amount of gold per upgrade. If the item level is under 50, the gold cost for the first upgrade will be 7,500 gold and each consecutive upgrade will be double the previous one. (So the gold cost is 7,500, 15,000, 30,000, 60,000, and 90,000). A single upgrade will add a +5 point bonus to any statistic, and for each 50 levels another 5 points are added with the 5th upgrade. So a level 150 item would receive a total of +65 points to all its stats. The stats are spread out and rounded up. For example, if you have a level 15 sword that does +20 to Attack and +10 to Damage, and you fully Hell Forge it you’ll end up with a sword that does +45 to Attack and +35 to Damage. However, if it also boosted defense, then each stat would receive +17 points. (17x3=51, remember it's rounded up.)

Many people reserve their FSPs to Hell Forge full sets of equipment, such as the Frost Dragon or Carnage sets. If you have enough FSPs, you can gain a massive bonus by Hell Forging a full nine pieces of gear rather than only one or two random pieces. You don’t get any addition to the set’s combined bonuses, but the individual pieces will gain substantial stat points through the Hell Forge.

Inventing

Inventing allows you to create potions and items from recipes. You can learn recipes from various items - obtained by completing quests, purchasing them in a shop or from creature drops.

Scavenging

PvP

Attack Player

The PvP system in FallenSword is simple. Just pick a target, decide how much of your stamina you want to commit to the fight, then attack. However, there are a few things to consider before entering into a PvP battle.

First, you may only attack a player within a +/- 5 level range of your own. In other words, if you are a level 20 you can’t attack a level 5 player, and vice versa. Generally you will be attacking players at a lower level than you to ensure a victory. From the Attack Player (PvP) screen you can either type in the name of an intended victim or you may choose from one of the five random players displayed in the Attack Recently Online Player box. Either way, you should study the other player’s profile before attacking, because just knowing their level won’t tell you what gear they are wearing and what stats they possess. The last thing you want to do is initiate a combat with another player and lose. It’s embarrassing, and besides you’ll drop in PvP ranking if you lose to another player. If you win you will take a percentage of the gold they haven’t yet deposited in their bank, plus you will cause them to lose experience points and PvP ranking.

However, you must take into account the Bounty system if you engage in PvP combat. Before the Bounty Board, you could generally attack lesser players with impunity. Since they lost to you once, it is likely they would lose again if they attacked you in retaliation. However, now all they have to do is pay for a bounty to be placed on your head and you are open to attack from anyone. Yes, the typical rules don’t apply anymore. Once you have a bounty on your head, not only can you be attacked by any player of any level, the usual attack timing restrictions are reduced from one attack per hour to one every two minutes. Also, a given bounty will usually require the bounty hunter to kill you five to ten times to collect the offered money or FSPs. If that wasn’t bad enough, you will be subject to twice the experience loss that you’d usually get. This means that if you’d normally lose 100 XP in a loss, you’ll lose 200 if you have a bounty on your head. Finally, any number of potential bounty hunters can accept the bounty until it is fulfilled, so you’ll likely suffer many more attacks than the number necessary to complete the bounty placed by your victim. If you are going to participate in PvP battles nowadays, you must choose your targets carefully. Generally, if a given target has little money or doesn’t belong to a guild they won’t likely be able to afford to bounty you, but then they’ll have less gold to steal when you defeat them. A description of the Bounty Board and Bounty process follows below.

PvP Arena

Bounty Board

The Bounty Board is where you’ll find a listing of all the current bounties being offered by other players. At the top of the screen you’ll find a box with two entries in it. The Bounty Champion Pot is an incentive offered to players for completing bounties. The pot increases after every 100 bounties created. Each time a player completes a bounty, they have a small chance of winning the Champion Pot on top of the bounty they’ve earned. If someone wins the Champion Pot it resets and starts building again. The Bounty Tickets entry refers to how many Bounty Tickets you have. It costs Bounty Tickets to take on a bounty, and the number depends on the difference between your level and the level of the target player. If the person is at your level or higher, it only costs 1 Bounty Ticket to claim the bounty. If the person is a lower level than you, it will cost one more Bounty Ticket per five levels difference between you and the target. In other words, if you are a level 25 and you want to accept a bounty on a level 14 target, it will cost you 3 Bounty Tickets to take the assignment. Once the bounty is completed it will disappear from the Bounty Board.

If you do decide to accept a bounty, remember that anyone that is attacked by a bounty hunter can then place a subsequent bounty on the person that attacked them. More than that, remember that if you have a bounty on your head you can be attacked every two minutes by the same person instead of once an hour. Also, you will lose twice the experience points in a loss than you would otherwise, and you’ll be subject to gold loss as well. Of course, any number of people can accept an offered bounty, and you will be attacked until the bounty is completed.

If you’ve been attacked within the past 48 hours, you can offer a new bounty here as well. Just click on Offer New Bounty and you’ll be taken to the proper screen. You’ll see your current number of Bounty Tickets, which is important because it costs 10 Bounty Tickets to offer a bounty. Anyone that has attacked you within the past 48 hours will appear in a dropdown list next to Target Player. Just pick their name and you’re almost done. Next to Reward you’ll have to offer a reward. You can offer the reward in gold or FSPs. The level of the player and how many times you want him killed will have an impact on how high of a reward you’ll have to offer. You have to offer 10 gold times the target player’s level times the number of kills you want to pay for. For example, if you want to place a 10 kill bounty on a level 25 player, it would cost you 2500 gold because you’d have to offer 10 gold per level (250) times 10 kills. Once you have successfully placed the bounty it will appear on the Bounty Board and the target player will be sent a message telling them about the bounty and who placed it. Once someone has completed the bounty you will receive a message telling you it is done and who completed it for you. Your target won’t be able to put a bounty on your head in retaliation, but the bounty hunter won’t be so lucky. If you run out of Bounty Tickets you can always buy more in the Upgrades section.

Trade

Auction House

Here is where you can sell all those items you’re picking up, or buy something you haven’t been able to find elsewhere.

The Auction House is fairly straightforward. You will see a listing of Categories on the left side of the Auction House screen, divided by type of item. You’ll see there is a category for each slot of your inventory, plus one for quest items. By clicking on any given category you can see what is available for that type of item.

However, it doesn’t do much good if you are looking specifically for level 10 items and you have to wade through everything up for sale. For that reason you can click on Search Preferences, which is near the top right of the Auction House screen, directly below the search box. In there you can specify a Minimum and Maximum level for the items to view, as well as blocking either gold auctions or FSP auctions. It is always a good idea to keep your Search Preferences in a small range around your current level. If you are a level 10, for example, you might want to be searching for items in the 9 to 11 range so you don’t miss anything relevant to your current or upcoming level.

If you are looking for a specific item, just put the name of the item in the Search box and hit the button. Now, the Auction House is very literal, so if you are looking for a ‘Broad Blade’ and type in ‘Broad Sword’ instead, you won’t get anything. It is best to put in the most minimal search term for the item or items you are looking for. If, for example, you are looking for Defender of Eribor items, it is just as effective to search for ‘Eribor’ as it is to search for ‘Defender of Eribor’, and it will save you some typing.

It is also a good idea to compare prices before you commit to buy something. If you are looking for a specific item, put in the appropriate search term and then scan the resulting items. Pay attention to current bids to get an idea of what an item is actually worth. If you see a lot of high prices and no bids, or see only one or two low bids amongst the listings, you can be certain that people are putting too high a price on their items. Sit back and wait for a reasonably priced item to be offered and get that instead of wasting your money.

After you have determined a fair price for your item and are ready to buy, pick the best item for your needs and type in a bid. Your bid has to be at least equal to the Min Bid on the item. Press Bid once you are ready to commit your gold or FSPs. If your bid equals the Buy Now price, the auction is over immediately. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until the end of the auction to see if you’ve won and to collect your item if your bid holds up. Remember that you can be outbid at any time if you don’t meet the Buy Now price. If you are overbid, you will get a log alert on the left side of the screen, so pay attention or you’ll lose your item.

Once you’ve won an item and the Auction House processes all the currently ended auctions, which can take up to 10 minutes, you’ll receive a log notice that you’ve won and you’ll get a message that you have items waiting in your Item Mailbox. Both of these notices will appear on the left hand side of your screen. It is very important to remember that you only have twelve hours to collect your item from your Mailbox or it will disappear forever. Schedule your auction activities for when you’ll be online or within twelve hours of your next planned gaming session, because you don’t want to spend your hard-won gold or FSPs on something you won’t get to use.

Of course, you can also sell items on the Auction House. To do this your item has to be in your Backpack. You can’t sell things directly from your Inventory. Once you are ready to sell an item, click on Create New Auction to get started. The first screen you’ll see is the Create Auction (Step 1 / 2) screen. Here’s where you choose the item you want to sell. Just click on it once and you’ll be taken to the next screen. This next screen is where you choose the duration of the auction, whether you want to sell your item for gold or FSPs, and what your minimum and buy now bid will be. Do your homework before getting this far. You’ll want to go through the same research process you completed for buying an item before you decide to sell one. It will do you no good to place an item for sale for 1000 gold if the typical selling price is 100. You’ll just be taking up an auction slot. A good rule of thumb is to find out the typical selling range of an item, then set your minimum bid somewhere within that range and your buy now bid somewhat higher. This allows the item to sell within the normal range of bids while allowing someone that is in a hurry to buy it immediately for a premium price. If you aren’t in a hurry to sell an item or aren’t concerned with the selling price just set a lower minimum bid and leave the buy now bid empty and let the purchaser set the price. The MOST IMPORTANT thing to remember when placing an auction is to double-check all of the information on this screen. If you are intending to sell an item for FSPs and forget to set the Auction Currency field correctly, you’ll probably end up selling your item for two or three gold. Also, you don’t want to run a 48 hour auction when you meant to do a one hour auction and take up one of your auction spaces for two days. Always check the Min Bid and Buy Now fields as well to make sure you didn’t omit a number or add a zero at the end. Once you are sure you are ready to place the auction, hit the Confirm Auction button and your item is up for sale. You will get no other confirmation.

Now you have the basics for using the Auction House. Read the article ‘How to Use the Auction House’ at the bottom of the tutorial for more in-depth information on profiting from the Auction House and how to find good items to sell.

Marketplace

Send to Player

Any time you need to send a fellow player gold, FSPs, or items, here is the place to do it. This page is intended for you to give things to another player. If you want to set up an actual trade outside the Auction House, be sure to use the Secure Trade option instead. Here you will choose whether you want to send gold, FSPs, or items, then you will just type in the name of the character and what you want to send them and hit the Send button. They will get a log entry that tells them you sent them the item, and you will have an entry in your log as well. Make sure you enter the other person’s name correctly, because if you type in the wrong player’s name there is no way to take back your action. To be 100% safe, you can go to the other player’s profile and send items or gold directly without fear of mis-typing their name. Look under Find Player for information on using player profiles.

Secure Trade

If you are trying to set up a trade with another player, here’s where you need to do it to be completely secure in your transaction. Click on Create New Secure Trade to start the process. Type in the name of your target player in the appropriate spot, and then decide what you are going to offer them. You can sell them gold, FSPs, or items, and you can specify exactly what you want in return. After you’ve decided what you want to sell, type in the gold or FSPs you are expecting in return and hit Send Secure Trade Offer. You and they will receive a notice that the secure trade is in effect, and it will stay in effect until they accept or deny it or you cancel the trade. Assuming the trade is accepted, it will occur immediately and you will receive your payment and your offered item will disappear. If you are selling an item, you will have to have it in your backpack until the trade is accepted; otherwise it will cancel the trade automatically. Any outgoing trades will be listed in the Secure Trade window and you can cancel any trade at any time prior to the other party accepting it.

If someone sends you a secure trade, you will receive a log notice on the left side of the screen and you’ll be able to see the details of the trade here. Incoming trades will be at the top of the list, and you can click the eye icon next to the trade to see what the details are. From there you’ll be able to accept or reject the trade. Remember that if you are buying an item you’ll have to have room in your Backpack for it or the trade won’t complete.

Bank

Here is where you’ll do all of your personal banking. Starting out you’ll have one deposit per day, and you can deposit 25% of your gold at one time. If you belong to a guild you’ll have to decide whether to use your single daily deposit here or in the guild. If you decide that you need more deposits, you can upgrade your daily deposit limit in the Upgrades section using FallenSword Points.

The Bank Details box will tell you how much you’ve already got in the bank, whether you have a deposit available, and what your maximum deposit is currently. Keep in mind that it will show a Current Max Deposit whether or not you have a deposit available, so don’t get frustrated if you can’t make a deposit right now. If you’ve already used your deposit for the day you’ll get another one at midnight GMT. You’ll know it is after that time when you get a News Update showing the winners of the Daily Lottery on the Home screen.

You’ll come here to withdraw money as well, if you’ve got some in the Bank already. If you are going to fix your equipment at the Blacksmith or bid on an item in the Auction House you’ll have to withdraw your money first.

Draws

Temple

FSP Draw

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