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Hello, I need a bit of help I am new to SRO and looking for someone to answer some of my questions. My first question is what is the max level in this game and does level mean a lot in SRO? Also I am into PvP in most MMOs that I have played. So my question is what level and when do you get to pvp and how does it work is it a arena like system or battle ground or a battle zone/area or duels/1v1. My second question is about PvE content like raids, dungeons, world bosses and what not. Is there any if so how many people does it take to complete the raid/dungeon. Also the difficulty and the quality of the raid/dungeon. Okay now that those questions are out of the way. What is the fastest way to level? Do I just grind or do quests or do I both? Gear how do you come
about getting the gear and the stats you want to be equipping for your character. I play a Heuksal Spearmanship I am following a build so I now were to put my points. But help is always welcome.

Any other advice is going to be really help for me and my friends to read so we can advance are play in game.

Highest level is 110 or 120.
You can pvp at level 20 using the unique jobbing system, also you can do capture the flag. Fortress wars and other serious pvp is not till the higher levels just like WoW arenas. Also their is cape pvp which is pretty much dueling outside of a town.

Do both questing and grinding, but only do the quests that are for monsters you actually get decent xp from.

dungeons are sort of fun when you first do them, but aren't very challenging once you get use to them..just like WoW heroics

Fortress Wars are really interesting, but u don't stand a chance unless u are like lvl 90+. There u have to take over a fort by destroying the gates, obstacles, defensive structures and the fortress heart and kill your enemies. The next fortess war u have to defend it from others, when u were successful taking it over the last time.

Guild wars can be done at lower lvls too, but it's better at higher lvls.

Battle Arena takes place once every day. There are different modes: Mob hunting for points(includes pvp) and Capture the flag(this ctf is without mobs). There are also different types like random matching(teams get put together randomly, 8 ppl in the team), party matching(the party leader registers the party as one team, 8 ppl in the team), guild matching(the guild master registeres 16 players form the guild as a team), job matching(u register while wearing a job suit, 32 ppl in a team, randomly put together). The map, number of mobs and flags depends on the sizes of the teams.

There are instance dungeons starting at 35. With 4 difficulties. There u can also collect talismans to get a 8/9/10 degree sun or 11 degree egyptian nova weapon.

The other stuff was basically explained already.

XMoshe Thank you for all the information you gave me. Omier44 you as well. Just one more thing where would I go to do the cape, pvp, battle arena, job, CTF and guild wars. Thanks again.

For cape pvp go to Samarkand South, it's one of the towns in the eastern parts of the map.
Battle Arena can be joined by talking to the Arena Manager in any town at the specific time.
For job you first have to join a league, then buy your jobsuit, equip it and you are good to go. Jobbing is over the whole map.
CTF is joined the same way as BA but you have to talk to So-ok at the specified times (a 10min warning is given).
Guild wars are made by being in a guild and inviting, or challenging, another guild to a war.

XMoshe Thank you for all the help you have provided. Hopefully, I will be able to repay you some day. Thanks Omier44, Iscared the words of advice did not go unread.

Also for my Character Str. 56 Int 52

Heuksal lv 12 Wolf Bite 1 Bloody Fan Storm 1 Dancing Demon Spear 1 Cheolsam Force 1
Lightning lv 12 Thunder Tiger Force 3 Must 1 Grass Walk 1 Heaven's Force 1

Fire lv 12 River Fire Force 1 Fire shield 1 Flame Devil 1

Looking at ur build u should add all points to STR.
U can stick to ur build with Heuksal/Fire/Lightning, that is a more PvE based build.
Or u can go Heuksal/Fire/Lightning 80/Cold 30, that is good in PvE and PvP(more in group PvP)

But i f u like 1on1 u can go Heuksal/Fire/Cold or Heuksal/Fire/Force. The last one is the best one for 1on1, but since u are new, i wouldn't recommend going for these 2. They will require some mastery deleveling as well.

Now about these skills. Right now i'm only talking about the masteries included in the first 2 builds i mentioned.

In Heuksal u should level the first tree(Annihilating Blade) until u get Ghost Spear Petal at lvl 19, then u don't need it any more(i still use the skill, but i have farmed about 450k sp, i'm talking about a sp friendly and u can get through without this skill).
In the next tree(Fanning Spear) u should lvl only the 1st, 3rd and 6th books(u don't need the other ones that much).
Heuksal Spear Series is a must to lvl. So is the Soul Departs Series, cos it's gonna be ur strongest skill and Ghost Spear series must be lvled as well.
The Chain Spear series is not a must, u can take them for fun or for hunting mobs, cos they aren't that good in PvP(to save sp u should skip this tree).
And Cheolsam Force must be maxed, that's where u get ur extra HP from.

In Fire u should max the first tree(Fire Force), that's gonna be ur imbue, Flame body must be lvled, Fire Protection and Flame Devil Force as well.
Fire shield, Fire Wall, Fire combustion are optional. Take Fire Shield for immunity against statuses(very helpful in PvP), but u are gonna need to carry a shield to cast the skill. Fire Wall is another thing that's very helpful in PvP and in some situations in PvE as well. Fire Combustion is just for detecting invisible Wizards and Rogues, can be detected with pots that cost quite a bit though.
U don't need the Flame Wave Series cos those are for INT chars.

In Lightning, max only Piercing Force, Grass Walk, Concentration and Heaven's Force.
U don't need the Thunder Force Series cos u already have the imbue from Fire, but u can use Light imbue for better crits in PvE, not PvP cos most players are immune or pill the statuses off fast(Fire imbue does more damage).
U don't need Lion Shout and Thunderbolt Force cos those are for INTs.

In Cold(if u choose the second build) Take only Frost Guard, Snow Shield and Cold Armor. U don't need Snow Storm, Frost Nova, Cold Wave and Cold Force. But u can take the Frost Wall Series, can be helpful in some cases, like against Warlocks, acts like Fire Wall, but for Phy Attacks.