Genies (just in case we get them)

Genies are non-corporeal entities that players can get to help their character in many ways, not the least of which is buffs and debuffs. Genies have their own abilities and they must be leveled up, for maximum benefit. Below is information on obtaining and leveling your Genie.

You can get a Genie in one of three ways:

1. Via Quest from the Watcher of the Earth. Location near the Elder of every major city.
2. Via Production with the Watcher of the Earth.
3. Via Trade from other players.

There are four different kinds of Genies, identified by the seasons:

Longevity (Summer),
Discipline (Winter),
Zeal (Autumn),
Infliction (Spring).

Your genie will have one skill when you get them, but future skills must be gotten by leveling them and feeding them. The Skills that they can have are as follows:

Strength - STR: Determine damage out put of skills
Dexterity - DEX: Determine effect of skills -duration
Vitality - VIT: MP pool
Intellect - INT: MP Recovery and the skills learnable (each 50 INT = +1 MP recovery)

In order to use these skills, it costs stamina, which requires Chi Stones which you get from decomposing player equipment to fill it's stamina bar, which is used up whenever you use one of the genies skills. Other than that genies do not require any kind of food. So it will cost you to use your Genie.....but how you choose their skill will aid you in battle, each in a different way:

STR: Will give you more damaging (and perhaps healing) skills
DEX: Will give you more durational skills
VIT: Will allow you to use more expensive (and powerful) skills, as well as chaining them together
INT: Will allow you to use skills more frequently, and with more variety

Lucky points add extra attribute points to your genie. Genies receive 1 point per level and every 10 levels receive a bonus of up to 10 lucky points. So if you are lucky, you could double your points.

Every 10 levels your genie gets luck points, 1-10. The more your genie gets the more rare it is. If I had a level 80 genie and its points where 80/80 that's extermely rare. You can also tell by pressing bar hovering over your genie
The higher the random stats determine not only the look of your genie but the combat ability as well as rareness. It can be classified as follow:

Orange - This color indicates this genie gained 10 random stats per every 10 level. (extremely rare)
Gold - This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 61 - 99 points. (rare)
Purple - This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 51- 60 points. (uncommon)
Blue - This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 41- 50 points. (less common)
Green - This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 10 - 40 points. (common)

Genies can level up along with their masters. In addition to increasing their base stats, players can upgrade a Genie's elemental affinity, with any of the five elements: Metal, Wood, Earth, Water andFire. The elemental affinity will become important because different affinities will be the key to unlocking certain skills. Genies can have a maximum of 26 affinity points. If need be, a player can reset the Genie's affinity points at the new NPC "Elemental Ambassador" in any of the five main cities. It needs to be noted that some earth skills can be used only while on the ground, many water skills can only be used in water and some metal skills can only be used while in flight. Additionally, some skills are race specific- Hollow Fist is reserved for Venomancers only, or the skill Rainbow Blessing is only for Winged Elves. Like character skills, genie skills have levels. Sometimes you cannot open a skill without having a chain of others open first.

There are three ways of leveling your Genie:

-Using EXP stone.
-Using Character EXP
-Using Character SP, 1SP = 5 EXP points.

To level your genie skills, please see the new NPC.

You can equip your genie. Players can buy equipment for their Genies from the NPC Watcher of the Earth. Genie Equipment includes Jades, Mirrors, Orbs, and Charms. Unfortunately, the cost of these items are one and three million coins and once equipped, they cannot be unequipped, only replaced.

Affinity Points are somewhat different then attribute points, Affinity Points give you the option of placing elemental affinities: Earth, Water, Fire, Wood, Water and Metal. Where you place these points will determine what skills your genie can get. The higher the affinity points needed for a skill, the stronger that skill is going to be.

Genies start with 1 Affinity Point, and will gain an additional Affinity Point every 5 levels. When a Genie reaches Level 100, it will gain 1 Affinity Point every level. Genies can attain a maximum of 26Affinity Points. There are 5 types of Affinities: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.The number of points required to master an Affinity is 8."

Genies can be traded with other players after they have been converted into TRADE READY state. Click the Trade State button in the Genieinterface menu in order to access this feature. It will take 7 days toconvert your Genie into to TRADE READY state. By default, a Genie isset to NO-Trade state. In this state, the Genie cannot be traded, sold,or discarded.