Post by euryale on Nov 2, 2016 18:50:04 GMT
BOOK GUIDE
all credits go to Shingetsu
updated by dimechime June 2018
BOOK INTERFACE
BOOK SLOTS
BOOK STORAGE
EQUIPPING/UNEQUIPPING BOOKS
BOOK UPGRADING
BOOK FEEDING/BOOK RESETTING
OTHER FUNCTIONS
GETTING BOOKS
UNIVERSAL PAGES
BOOK PAGE EXCHANGE STORE
BREAKING BOOKS
BUYING UNIVERSAL PAGES
BOOK NICKNAMES
Hello guys! As you already know or heard one of the most important aspects of character progression is cultivation books. These books provide you with permanent stat upgrades and two different types of skills:
⦁ passive (like additional damage when hp is low)
⦁ active (health recovery for a certain amount of time)
BOOK INTERFACE
Moonlight Blade provides the player with a standalone interface for books where you can store all the books you have acquired and all the books available for you. You access this interface by pressing the Y key in game and then pressing the 心法 button as show in the image below (or by pressing Ctrl+F):
After doing this you should be able to view the book screen that looks like this:
BOOK SLOTSHere are your books slots, you have 4 books slots in total which are unlocked by leveling.
Also under each slot you can see the different skill(s) provided by the book you have equipped. An important note on this screen is the percentages shown by each slot. These percentages mean that when you slot the book at that spot you can acquire that percentage of stats from this book. These percentages are increased by leveling specific nodes in your meridians, with the max percentage shown below:
⦁ 1st slot: 100% stat usage
⦁ 2nd slot: 60% stat usage
⦁ 3rd slot: 30% stat usage
⦁ 4th slot: 10% stat usage
So, it is important to know that 3rd and 4th slot books are used often just for the effects and not so much for the stats provided. You should probably consult with other players for your build.
BOOK STORAGE
Under your book slots is your book storage where all the books you have acquired are stored. You can also preview all the books you have available (the ones in color). Books with gray icons are the ones you don't have yet.
All books give tiny bit stats for collecting/storing it. You will get this collection bonus even if you don't level a single thing. Most endgame players have slowly collected all available books.
EQUIPPING/UNEQUIPPING BOOKS
To equip a book just simply drag and drop your book from book storage to the slot you want to use it.
To unequip your book, simply right click it from your slot and it will go back to your book storage.
For Gold books, you may only equip max 2 at a time.
BOOK UPGRADING
The screen to the right of your book storage/slots is the book upgrading screen. Basically all the books you acquire have their own levels and their own nodes (just like with meridians). In order to level up a book, you need to level all the included nodes first before leveling up the book.
Take note that each node can be upgraded several times and some nodes need runes in order to be upgraded. The rune type and level you need are specified if you hover your mouse over the node as shown below.
After upgrading all the nodes, you are now ready to upgrade your book’s level. This also takes cultivation to do. Cultivation requirement for node upgrading and book level upgrade increases with each level so make sure you save your cultivation points.
To level a book you just press the button shown in the image below (it will be highlighted when all the nodes are filled in):
In addition, each book’s passive or active skill can also be upgraded but it is recommended to consult older players before doing that since you may not need it. Leveling a book’s skill also takes cultivation points! To level a book’s skill simply press the button show in the image below:
Max level for blue books is level 6, while purple and gold books is level 9. Purple and gold books must be "broken" to reach level 9 (see Book Breaking section).
BOOK FEEDING/BOOK RESETTING
Another mechanic you can use to upgrade books is that you can "feed" an identical copy of a book (or pages if book is level 9) into your current one. When you feed a book you will get "study points" to invest in additional stats.
Note that each book focuses on different stats. The one below gives more Li (+10) than the other stats (Dong is +5), others might give more Qi or Gen etc.
In case you want to change your build and decided that you don’t need a book anymore you are provided with the option to reset that book and get the cultivation and runes spent refunded. To do that you need this specific item that you get upon leveling/events/auction house. Blue pills can be bought from the "general store" NPC, while purple pills can be found in the cash shop. They both sometimes drop in events or from questing.
After you make sure you have these items you can proceed with resetting the book of your choice by pressing the button shown below:
Note that you cannot reset books that are level 9!! So before you irrevocably upgrade a book to level 9, consult with older players to avoid mistakes!
OTHER FUNCTIONS
Via the book upgrading interface, you can also check the total stats gained from that book and also access your rune interface directly!
You can compare book builds by toggling the checkmark, which will give you a comparison between the new and old set of books.
You can also store multiple sets of books by using the tabs up top (up to 5 sets). Double click the title to rename.
GETTING BOOKS
Now you must be wondering, where do I get these books? In order to acquire a full book you first need to get the book pages required and turn them into a full book.
Blue books require 20 pages to create a full book, except for 2 starter books that require 10 pages instead.
Purple books and gold books require 50 pages to create a full book.
You can get book pages:
A) as drops from dungeons
B) drops from profession related quests
C) opening chests/maps from events
D) Gold Book only: tourney point store or events
E) Buying pages using PvE points, help points, or from the auction house
You can get the specific book page, or you can get "universal pages" which can be traded for specific book pages (see "universal pages").
UNIVERSAL PAGES
Another way to get book pages is by exchanging universal pages for specific book pages. Basically these pages can be exchanged with any page you want. These pages are obtained as dungeon drops, from events, or daily login rewards. These pages look like this:
Notes on "dungeon pages":
Gold pages are all universal pages and are semi-exclusively bought through the tourney point shop (sometimes pops up in event rewards). They can be exchanged for any of the 5 gold books.
Tourney point shop (take note of the left bar tab):
BOOK PAGE EXCHANGE STORE
To exchange your pages for a full book you need to access the book exchange store. You get there by pressing the Y key and then accessing your personal store as shown in the images below. You can also trade your universal pages for specific pages here:
Then go to the Books tab:
After gathering all the pages requires you just simply buy the book of your choice!
BREAKING BOOKSPurple and gold books must be "broken" into level 9. After filling up level 8, you can level up the book again to get "level 8.5":
When you have collected all the items needed to break the book, the items icon will no longer be red. You can then hit the level up button when you have all the nodes filled in and all the items you need.
2 blue books (灵素 and 修罗) can be broken as well; they require a purple break page to break from level 7 to 8. These are acquired through puppet dungeon, from song money shop, and from 86 and above dungeons.
Purple books require a purple break book to break from level 8.5 to 9. This can be bought in the "mystic shop". Purple break books are also occasionally given out for free in online events.
Gold books require gold break pages to break from 8.5 to 9. These uncommonly drop in dungeons (sometimes they drop unbound pages, which can be found on the auction house), RNG from selling popular goods on the sailing map, and 5 per week in guild specialty shop if your guild has them unlocked.
Keep in mind that you can also "eat" extra break pages for study points.
The mystic shop price resets weekly at 12AM, Mondays (CN time), so check weekly to see the new price.
During server merge (which happens every appox every half a year, prices in mystery shop reset, and go from 3-4k bound gold to about ~200g. Wait for server merge if you want to save gold.
BUYING UNIVERSAL PAGES
Generally you should not rely on these methods if you are a new player because you should save your points/money for gold runes instead, but this is here for reference purposes in case you are short just that one page or two. Recall that gold pages are bought in the tourney point shop (see "universal pages" section).
Tip: You can click the 心法 filter to show only book related items in the shop.
You can buy purple pages through the help point store. You can access it through your personal store interface as shown below:
Blue pages can similarly get purchased in the PvE point shop:
You can also buy break pages using boating coin:
You can also find pages in the Auction House under the 心法 tab.
BOOK NICKNAMESThe English Community has come up with some nicknames for the books; here is a chart copied from Jargon post.
all credits go to Shingetsu
updated by dimechime June 2018
BOOK INTERFACE
BOOK SLOTS
BOOK STORAGE
EQUIPPING/UNEQUIPPING BOOKS
BOOK UPGRADING
BOOK FEEDING/BOOK RESETTING
OTHER FUNCTIONS
GETTING BOOKS
UNIVERSAL PAGES
BOOK PAGE EXCHANGE STORE
BREAKING BOOKS
BUYING UNIVERSAL PAGES
BOOK NICKNAMES
Hello guys! As you already know or heard one of the most important aspects of character progression is cultivation books. These books provide you with permanent stat upgrades and two different types of skills:
⦁ passive (like additional damage when hp is low)
⦁ active (health recovery for a certain amount of time)
BOOK INTERFACE
Moonlight Blade provides the player with a standalone interface for books where you can store all the books you have acquired and all the books available for you. You access this interface by pressing the Y key in game and then pressing the 心法 button as show in the image below (or by pressing Ctrl+F):
After doing this you should be able to view the book screen that looks like this:
BOOK SLOTSHere are your books slots, you have 4 books slots in total which are unlocked by leveling.
Also under each slot you can see the different skill(s) provided by the book you have equipped. An important note on this screen is the percentages shown by each slot. These percentages mean that when you slot the book at that spot you can acquire that percentage of stats from this book. These percentages are increased by leveling specific nodes in your meridians, with the max percentage shown below:
⦁ 1st slot: 100% stat usage
⦁ 2nd slot: 60% stat usage
⦁ 3rd slot: 30% stat usage
⦁ 4th slot: 10% stat usage
So, it is important to know that 3rd and 4th slot books are used often just for the effects and not so much for the stats provided. You should probably consult with other players for your build.
BOOK STORAGE
Under your book slots is your book storage where all the books you have acquired are stored. You can also preview all the books you have available (the ones in color). Books with gray icons are the ones you don't have yet.
All books give tiny bit stats for collecting/storing it. You will get this collection bonus even if you don't level a single thing. Most endgame players have slowly collected all available books.
EQUIPPING/UNEQUIPPING BOOKS
To equip a book just simply drag and drop your book from book storage to the slot you want to use it.
To unequip your book, simply right click it from your slot and it will go back to your book storage.
For Gold books, you may only equip max 2 at a time.
BOOK UPGRADING
The screen to the right of your book storage/slots is the book upgrading screen. Basically all the books you acquire have their own levels and their own nodes (just like with meridians). In order to level up a book, you need to level all the included nodes first before leveling up the book.
Take note that each node can be upgraded several times and some nodes need runes in order to be upgraded. The rune type and level you need are specified if you hover your mouse over the node as shown below.
Rune Stone Node | Standard Node |
After upgrading all the nodes, you are now ready to upgrade your book’s level. This also takes cultivation to do. Cultivation requirement for node upgrading and book level upgrade increases with each level so make sure you save your cultivation points.
To level a book you just press the button shown in the image below (it will be highlighted when all the nodes are filled in):
In addition, each book’s passive or active skill can also be upgraded but it is recommended to consult older players before doing that since you may not need it. Leveling a book’s skill also takes cultivation points! To level a book’s skill simply press the button show in the image below:
Max level for blue books is level 6, while purple and gold books is level 9. Purple and gold books must be "broken" to reach level 9 (see Book Breaking section).
BOOK FEEDING/BOOK RESETTING
Another mechanic you can use to upgrade books is that you can "feed" an identical copy of a book (or pages if book is level 9) into your current one. When you feed a book you will get "study points" to invest in additional stats.
Note that each book focuses on different stats. The one below gives more Li (+10) than the other stats (Dong is +5), others might give more Qi or Gen etc.
In case you want to change your build and decided that you don’t need a book anymore you are provided with the option to reset that book and get the cultivation and runes spent refunded. To do that you need this specific item that you get upon leveling/events/auction house. Blue pills can be bought from the "general store" NPC, while purple pills can be found in the cash shop. They both sometimes drop in events or from questing.
Blue Book reset pill | Purple Book reset pill |
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After you make sure you have these items you can proceed with resetting the book of your choice by pressing the button shown below:
Note that you cannot reset books that are level 9!! So before you irrevocably upgrade a book to level 9, consult with older players to avoid mistakes!
OTHER FUNCTIONS
Via the book upgrading interface, you can also check the total stats gained from that book and also access your rune interface directly!
You can compare book builds by toggling the checkmark, which will give you a comparison between the new and old set of books.
You can also store multiple sets of books by using the tabs up top (up to 5 sets). Double click the title to rename.
GETTING BOOKS
Now you must be wondering, where do I get these books? In order to acquire a full book you first need to get the book pages required and turn them into a full book.
Blue books require 20 pages to create a full book, except for 2 starter books that require 10 pages instead.
Purple books and gold books require 50 pages to create a full book.
You can get book pages:
A) as drops from dungeons
B) drops from profession related quests
C) opening chests/maps from events
D) Gold Book only: tourney point store or events
E) Buying pages using PvE points, help points, or from the auction house
You can get the specific book page, or you can get "universal pages" which can be traded for specific book pages (see "universal pages").
UNIVERSAL PAGES
Another way to get book pages is by exchanging universal pages for specific book pages. Basically these pages can be exchanged with any page you want. These pages are obtained as dungeon drops, from events, or daily login rewards. These pages look like this:
blue universal pages | purple universal pages | dungeon pages (aka brown universal pages) |
Notes on "dungeon pages":
- dungeon pages come in 2 flavors, ones that expire and ones that don't. If your pages have the red text like in the one above, this means they will expire at the end of the week (12 AM on Mondays, CN server time). Be sure to trade your pages before then.
- dungeon pages can only be traded for 4 specific book pages: 悲回风, 淬火·流毒, 罗睺诀, and 杀菩提 and you can only buy each page 15 times a week (same reset as when the pages disappear).
Gold pages are all universal pages and are semi-exclusively bought through the tourney point shop (sometimes pops up in event rewards). They can be exchanged for any of the 5 gold books.
Tourney point shop (take note of the left bar tab):
BOOK PAGE EXCHANGE STORE
To exchange your pages for a full book you need to access the book exchange store. You get there by pressing the Y key and then accessing your personal store as shown in the images below. You can also trade your universal pages for specific pages here:
Then go to the Books tab:
After gathering all the pages requires you just simply buy the book of your choice!
BREAKING BOOKSPurple and gold books must be "broken" into level 9. After filling up level 8, you can level up the book again to get "level 8.5":
When you have collected all the items needed to break the book, the items icon will no longer be red. You can then hit the level up button when you have all the nodes filled in and all the items you need.
2 blue books (灵素 and 修罗) can be broken as well; they require a purple break page to break from level 7 to 8. These are acquired through puppet dungeon, from song money shop, and from 86 and above dungeons.
Purple books require a purple break book to break from level 8.5 to 9. This can be bought in the "mystic shop". Purple break books are also occasionally given out for free in online events.
Gold books require gold break pages to break from 8.5 to 9. These uncommonly drop in dungeons (sometimes they drop unbound pages, which can be found on the auction house), RNG from selling popular goods on the sailing map, and 5 per week in guild specialty shop if your guild has them unlocked.
purple break page (for blue books) | purple break book (for purple books) | gold break page (for gold books) |
Keep in mind that you can also "eat" extra break pages for study points.
The mystic shop price resets weekly at 12AM, Mondays (CN time), so check weekly to see the new price.
During server merge (which happens every appox every half a year, prices in mystery shop reset, and go from 3-4k bound gold to about ~200g. Wait for server merge if you want to save gold.
BUYING UNIVERSAL PAGES
Generally you should not rely on these methods if you are a new player because you should save your points/money for gold runes instead, but this is here for reference purposes in case you are short just that one page or two. Recall that gold pages are bought in the tourney point shop (see "universal pages" section).
Tip: You can click the 心法 filter to show only book related items in the shop.
You can buy purple pages through the help point store. You can access it through your personal store interface as shown below:
Blue pages can similarly get purchased in the PvE point shop:
You can also buy break pages using boating coin:
You can also find pages in the Auction House under the 心法 tab.
BOOK NICKNAMESThe English Community has come up with some nicknames for the books; here is a chart copied from Jargon post.
purple books:
blue books:
45 (beihuifeng) | 悲回风 | |
60 (luohoujue) | 罗睺诀 | |
75/dart book | 淬火·流毒 | |
80 (shaluoti) | 杀菩提 | |
81 (fenghua yusui) | 风华·玉碎 | |
block book (xiaotian zhenyue) | 啸天·镇岳 | |
shield book (xingtian canghai) | 刑天·沧海 | |
SW book (liefeng chenzhou) | 猎风·沉舟 | |
bingxin/TX book | 拜月·冰心 |
blue books:
crit book | 修罗 | |
rage book/susheng | 速生 | |
jueming | 绝命 |