Cultivation
Since Age of Wushu doesn't work with the usual farm xp and level system, we've decided to take an in-depth look into the way of powering your character up to become one of the stronge wushu masters around!
Step 1: Gaining Experience
You will gain experience in AoW by doing anything.
That's Right... Anything. Every single jump you make, terrain you discover, or quest you complete gives you XP, and that's not all, there are a lot of different ways in AoW to build up your experience pool. XP is converted into Cultivation Points. Quick ways to get experience are: School spying, School Patrolling, Story Quests, doing guild escorts..
Step 3: Leveling up your skills
Method 1: Internal Cultivation
This is the basic training method. Any time you are not using the other two methods, make sure that you are using this method. This method passively cultivates your selected skill at the base rate of 45 cultivation points/15 seconds. This base rate would be increased if your character is at a sacred site relevant to your selected skill.
Method 2: Practice Martial Arts
This method requires the player to spend silver. You may spend 50 to 100 Liang of Silver Coins everyday to purchase any of the 3 pills. The more expensive the pill, the more cultivation points could be transited to your selected skill. Emphasis on the auxiliary verb could; the actual amount is random. Practice Martial Arts also can be performed with Silver Taels, with a limit of 150 liang per day. Details regarding this option are not yet clear.
Players are recommended to max out their daily Practice Martial Arts Silver Coin limit. And also, when performing Practice Martial Arts, making sure that the medallion does not stop spinning will increase the amount of skill cultivation.
Method 3: Team Practice (TP)
Of the three, this method is by far the most efficient and rewarding. There are 4 different versions of TP:
10 rounds
15 rounds
20 rounds
25 rounds
The maximum number of players in the team is 10. It is highly recommended to have 10 people, because that leads to the highest rate of cultivation. It is also highly recommended that TP be conducted at a sacred site relevant to the participants' selected skills, as doing so would result in bonus cultivation that does not count towards fatigue (continue below for a definition of fatigue). It used to be (in the CN version) that conducting TP inside a city or a school will lead to a lower cultivation rate, but that is no longer the case (pending confirmation).
Before starting, confirm that you have at least 80k cultivation points to spare, that you do not have 100% fatigue, and that you have a skill selected.
Step 2: Experience to Cultivation Points
This is the easiest step of it all; it will happen automaticly.
And it keeps happening as long as you have experience. VIPs will conver 100% of their experience to Cultivation Points, normal players will convert 70%.
There are many different ways to speed this proces up, to gather the points more quickly, so you can eventually level up your skills faster.
Examples of how to improve your cultivation rate are:
-Herbs/pills (Jackdaw Herb is one of the most common used herbs, and increases your conversion speed by 25%
-Holy grounds (Each school has it's own)
-Patrol (Being on patrol increases your cultivation rate aswell
-Divination (Asking for a prediction about your future can enhance your cultivation speed, this can be 10% to even 200%!)
