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Perfect World
Developer(s)	Beijing Perfect World
Publisher(s)	China Beijing Perfect World NA Perfect World Entertainment EU Games-Masters Ltd.
Platform(s)	Windows
Release date(s)	China July 2005 KO October 2007 NA 2008 EU 2008
Genre(s)	MMORPG
Mode(s)	MMO
Media	Download, CD, DVD
System requirements	Minimum 800 MHz Pentium 3 CPU 256M RAM 32mb 3D Accelerator graphics card(GF2 series or VGA with similar grade) DirectX 9.0c 4.94 GB hard disk space Internet Connection Recommended 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 CPU 512M RAM 128mb 3D Accelerator graphics card DirectX 9.0c 5.00 GB hard disk space Internet Connection
Input methods	Keyboard, Mouse

Perfect World (Chinese: 完美世界, commonly abbreviated as PW and W2), is an MMORPG developed by Beijing Perfect World. It has been released in several different areas in different versions already. The Malaysian version has now been released worldwide in an English-language format. Perfect World International opened its teaser site on July 15, 2008 and launched its closed beta August 19, 2008. The open beta began on September 2, 2008. The International Version is specifically built to accommodate North America. The Multilanguage Service version 'had' aimed at the European players, closed and open beta started in 2008. Perfect World Korea began its beta test in August 2007.^[1] Open beta ran through most of September 2007.^[2]

Perfect World is heavily based on Chinese mythology, and is set in the mythical world of Pangu. The simulated day and night, and flight is a key component in exploring the game world.

Contents 1 Races and Classes 2 Features 2.1 Territory Wars 2.2 Mount System 2.3 Personalized Clothing 2.4 Guild/Faction System 2.5 Crafting System 2.6 Marriage System 2.7 Phone Lock 2.8 Genie 3 Expansions 3.1 The Lost Empire 3.2 Age of Spirits 3.3 Rising Tide 4 Major Events 4.1 Horse Racing 4.2 City Arenas 4.3 Forest Hunts/Jungle Ruins 4.4 Snake Isle Dungeon Race 5 Perfect World Money 6 Soundtrack 7 References 8 External links 9 See also

[edit] Races and Classes

Perfect World features four races, each with two exclusive classes, bringing the total of eight classes that players can choose from. Each race has unique characteristics, begin in different areas of Pangu, and undertake different quests.

Humans are the primary race in the northern realms of Pangu, with the main settlement being the city of Etherblade (Sword City). Humans have no innate abilities, but fly with the aid of magical weapons. Players choosing a Human character can pick between the melee-oriented blademaster class, or the mage-type wizard class. The human race receives a flying sword at level 30 which allows them to fly.

• Blademasters ( Wu Xia ) can use a variety of melee weapons, including swords, spears, hammers, fists and axes. Blademasters are rounded characters that are nonetheless able to perform in the role of a tank by enhancing their physical defence. Blademasters usually act as a secondary tank, backing up the Barbarian primary tank.
• Wizards ( Fa Shih ) function as nukers, using a variety of elemental spells to deal a large amount of damage. Wizards have very low physical defense but they do have a strong elemental defense.

Winged Elves Winged Elves live mainly in the southern areas of Pangu, and in their chief/capital City of Plume (Feather City). Winged Elf characters are distinguished by a small pair of wings on their heads, and all Winged Elf characters can fly from the very beginning of the game. Characters of this race can chose to be an Archer or a Cleric.

• Archers ( Yu Mang ) are ranged characters using bows, crossbows and slingshots. Archers excel at doing damage at distance, but struggle with close combat due to damage penalties and weak defense.
• Clerics ( Yu Ling ) fulfill the traditional role of party healer, providing party buffs but also have good combat abilities along with a strong elemental defense.

Untamed are human/beast hybrids living in the west of Pangu and in their chief/capital Lost City (Beast City). Untamed characters can transform into animals to increase their defences, and can use flying beasts at Level 30. The Untamed classes are Barbarian and Venomancer.

• Barbarians ( Yao Shou ) are designed to act as the party tank, with a high amount of hit points and skills that enhance their ability to absorb damage. Barbarians have a high physical defense but have an very low resistance to elemental attacks. The barbarian's avatar must be male.
• Venomancers ( Yao Jing ) use an array of element spells but very strong with poison magics. Their key ability in PvE is taming and using pets in battle, and hunting too. Especially for luring and tanking. While in PvP situations their main role is to debuff and to use high-damage pets to attack. Due to their ability to tame pets, Venomancers are able to solo better than any other class. A Venomancer is also versatile in its use with its animal form. They are characterized by a pair of animal ears and a tail. The Venomancer's avatar must be female.

Tideborn are born from the depths of the seas. They are part of the Perfect World Rising Tide expansion.

• Assassins primarily focus on close quarter physical damage, they wear light armor, and are more agile than Blademasters and Barbarians. Masters of daggers, their attacks are quick and efficient. Being scholars of anatomy, these soldiers always aim for vital points, focusing on inflicting critical damage.

This race has two paths: Shadow Shroud and Blood Bath

• Psychics wear magical robes, and use soul spheres as their weapons. It is said that soul spheres are formed by absorbing energy from defeated spirits

This race has two paths: Soul Force and Chain of Souls.

[edit] Features

[edit] Territory Wars

When trying to take the area from another faction you will have to partake in battles up to 180 vs. 180. Territory battles are very similar to DotA (Defense of the Ancients) in that there are two bases and two guilds. When you want to take over an area, your guild will have to bid on the area, the guild with the highest bid will fight the current owners for ownership.

When attempting to take a previously unowned land, your guild must bid on the territory. In the case of multiple bids, the guild with the highest bid will win. The guild that wins bidding will then have to clear the entire territory war map of monsters, including a boss located in the opposite base, within 1 hour.

[edit] Mount System

The mount system in Perfect World allows players to ride a pet mount as a means of quickly traveling across the world. Available mounts common to all servers are regular horses, panthers, leopards, raptors, and elephants. There are rare mounts obtained through the Dragon Seeker Quest. Mounts can also be purchased at the Item Mall by converting real money into in-game zen. Upon reaching level 30, players can obtain a free class flying mount from a quest. Humans receive a Gilding Heavens Sword, Winged Elves get Eagle Wings, Untamed obtain Wave Pacer and Tideborns are given Spectral Hazes.

[edit] Personalized Clothing

Players have the ability to express themselves through their in-game characters by dyeing clothing. These clothes can be bought from the item mall or from other players.

[edit] Guild/Faction System

Guilds in Perfect World are known as factions and enable chat between members, creation of faction emblems (16x16 jpeg or gif files), faction versus faction battles, and control of cities.

Members also can be assigned certain jobs within the faction structure. The Leader and Director can create and alter rules and slogans of the faction, member ranks, and dismiss or invite members. Marshals can invite and promote members. Executors can invite members. There can only be 1 Leader and Director, up to 4 Marshals, and up to 12 Executors.

There are three levels a faction can be:

Level 1 - The cost for starting a level one faction is 100,000 in game coins. This is the starting level for factions, it has a player cap of 50 and the faction can be disbanded by the Leader.

Level 2 - This costs 2 million in game coins, the major changes are an increase in the player cap to 100 and it is no longer possible to disband the faction.

Level 3 - This is the final level a faction can reach, it costs an extra 10 million to move from level 2 to 3, the change this time is an increase to 200 player cap and the ability to change the faction symbol on the PWI website.

[edit] Crafting System

Players can select and raise four different crafting skills. Blacksmithing (creates weapons), Tailoring (creates armor), Crafting (creates various jewelry and arrows), and Apothecary (creates potions and hierograms). Players will need materials for items they need to make. Crafted items will have the player's name adorned on them for the purpose of credit.

[edit] Marriage System

Perfect World has a complete marriage system. Both players will have an online notice, have a wife/husband title, have 2 special marriage-related skills, lover's clothes, and driving pets. Marriage requires two items for the bride and groom from the Cash Shop which are $30 each (30 gold in game) in Perfect World item shop currency. It is possible to divorce your spouse at the cost of 2 million in game coins to the person who initiates it. There is set to be quests unique only to married couples that will be released in the Tideborn expansion of Winter, 2009.

[edit] Phone Lock

As a prevention system against account hackers, Perfect World has a Phone Lock feature^[3] for those who wish to use it. The Phone Lock, when activated, will freeze an account until the player of that account dials in using the registered phone number. Once the number is recognized, the account is temporarily activated for login. The player must login within 10 minutes of activation before the account login is frozen again. The player may continue to play despite the freeze. If the player logs out after the 10 minutes are up, that player must once again dial in to temporarily deactivate the Phone Lock.

[edit] Genie

Genie skills - Skill are attained via the Watcher of the Earth. Once your Genie meets the required Affinity Points, speak with the Watcher of the Earth and select “Learn Genie Skills”. Learning skills will require a combination of Spirit and coins. By default, a Genie can learn a maximum of 4 skills. You can increase the maximum number of skills your Genie can learn by gaining enough Lucky Points (a random 1 to 10 Lucky Points are gained every 10 Genie levels).^[4] Genie abilities will consume your Genie's Energy and Stamina. Genie's can forget skills via the Watcher of the Earth at no cost.

Genie Trade - A genie can be traded amongst players after they have been converted into TRADE READY state. Click the Trade State button in the Genie interface menu in order to access this feature. It will take 7 days to convert your Genie into to TRADE READY state. By default, a Genie is set to NO-Trade state. In this state, the Genie cannot be traded, sold, or discarded.

Genie Equipment - Players can buy equipment for their Genies from the Watcher of the Earth. Genie Equipment includes Jades, Mirrors, Orbs, and Charms. Once equipped, Genie equipment can no longer be de-equipped; it can only be destroyed or replaced. Destroying and replacing Genie equipment is also done through the Watcher of the Earth.

[edit] Expansions

[edit] The Lost Empire

• Chain Quests
• New Skills
• Legendary Pets Baby Hercules and Baby Blazing Phoenix are now obtainable

[edit] Age of Spirits

• New Quest System
• New NPC
• New Bank Structure
• Genie System Introduced

[edit] Rising Tide

• New Race: Tideborn
• New Classes: Psychic and Assassin
• More than 200 new quests
• New Re-casting system
• Account bank
• Map expansion
• New territories
• New Weapons
• Key Binding

[edit] Major Events

[edit] Horse Racing

Players level 40 and above (or so in MY-EN) can participate in this event, and a mount is not required. However, you are unable to fly. The course of the race is spread over a large variety of terrain. Every one who finishes the race is awarded EXP and SP in addition to a badge of speed. The 5 participants who finish the race and are the quickest to open a prize chest will receive in addition a ticket to allow them to take part in the monthly horse race. Note that the monthly horse race has been disabled since January 2008.

[edit] City Arenas

All players are able to participate in this event; there are four different locations where this event can take place. Players who wish to participate will need to enter the major cities' battle dome (arena) and open up the treasure chest. Each chest can only be opened by one player and the player who does so is vulnerable to attacks. Surprises are released when a chest is opened. For example, an ancient monster might appear, or a few potions. The city arenas have been closed down since late 2008. The arena might have been banned due to circumstances, and might not be back for a period of time, the time that the arena will be released again is unknown.

[edit] Forest Hunts/Jungle Ruins

Participants are transported into an area containing invincible monsters. Players are required to run from room to room, avoiding the monsters, which can kill players with one hit. The objective is to make it to the last room as quickly as possible. Players who succeed in doing so will be rewarded a great amount of EXP and SP. There is a time limit of 3 hours. As time passes the EXP and SP value of the reward will decrease. There is no penalty for death. Perfect World removed the Forest Hunts and Jungle Ruins expeditions from the game in December 2007 due to player exploits.

[edit] Snake Isle Dungeon Race

This event happens every day, like the horse racing, this will give EXP as well as Spirit. Level 40 can enter this. No mount is required, if you are able to finish the race in the designed time, you'll receive a Badge of Speed, 5000 EXP and 1000 Spirit, But if you want to be in the top 5 winners, you must have a high speed mount if you want more rewards. But still, you can use bare foot if you want. The top 5 racers also have a chance to win a monthly race qualifier. For more information of when you should start, visit the Khatru Pup in every Major cities.(now referred to "Coyote" after the TideBorn Expansion during december 2009.)

[edit] Perfect World Money

While Perfect World is free to play, the game relies on items sold in an in-game cash shop to make profits. Use of the cash shop is optional, but some items found there can improve the player's gameplay, while others have only cosmetic functions.

Currency used in the cash shop can be bought from the respective websites of each company running a version of the game. Alternatively, cash shop currency can be bought in the auction house from other players in exchange for in-game coin.

Perfect World International offers pre-charged cards can be bought from 7-11, Target, and GameStop locations.^[5] These cards are designed to allow players who, due to age or other factors, do not have a credit card.

[edit] Soundtrack

• Perfect World has its own theme song. However, versions of the song differ on each client. The song is played while in the log in screen and in selected areas in-game.

• Perfect World China, Korea: "Fly with Me" by Shui Mu Nian Hua.

• Perfect World Vietnam: "The gioi hoan my (Perfect World)" by Dan Truong.

• Perfect World Malaysian: "Perfect World" by Henley.

• Perfect World Philippines: "Perfect World (Fly with Me)" by Toni Gonzaga.

• Perfect World Taiwan: "Wan Mei Shi Jie" by Yang Pei An.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Perfect World International - Official Perfect World International Website
• Perfect World Multi-Language Server - Official Multi-Language (English, German, Spanish and Turkish) Perfect World Website
• Perfect World Europe, English Server - Official European Perfect World Website
• Perfect World Russia - Offiacial Russian Server (CIS)
• Perfect World Vietnam - Official Vietnamese World Website
• Perfect World Brazil - Official server PT-BR
• Perfect World Korea - Official Korean Perfect World Website
• Perfect World Malaysia - Official Malaysian Perfect World Website
• Perfect World Philippines - Official Philippine Perfect World Website
• Perfect World China - Official Chinese Perfect World Website(Alternative Link)

[edit] See also

• List of free MMOGs