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    Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Astrals (And More!)


    What are Astrals?

    Don't be fooled by this thread's title: getting Astrals is smart! Astrals are a crucial part of any build as they enhance your character in a variety of ways. Basically, Astrals are star-like objects that will become available for capture at level 25 and, when equipped to your character, give you various bonuses. Think of them as extra gems. However the bonuses that Astrals give can be so much more than just increase your stats. They can do that of course, but they can also give cool effects like reduce all damage you take, or give you a chance to gain HP, or even reflect damage back on an attacker!


    How do I capture Astrals?

    Getting Astrals requires nothing more than gold! 20,000 of it, in fact, as the system won't let you capture Astrals if you have less than that amount. When you click on the Astral icon, a window will pop up that shows a row of five big stars at the bottom (and a nice starry background). At first you'll only be able to click on the first star, which will be the one that's highlighted. Each of these "Father Stars" represents the maximum quality Astral you can get with the next capture. To capture an Astral, click the highlighted star. Go on, do it! If a green Astral appeared, hooray! You just got your first Astral. If an ugly grey Astral appeared then too bad, you got a Misfortune. How unfortunate. Misfortunes are useless and can be sold without hesitation (more on selling Astrals later).

    There are 4 colours of Astrals, and each colour symbolizes its rarity. In ascending order they are: Green, Blue, Purple, and Orange. The rarer the Astral the bigger the bonuses you get from them!

    Whenever you capture an Astral, the Father Star has a chance to advance to the next higher one. The better the Father Star the higher the rarity you can capture! So in order to obtain a nice shiny purple or orange Astral you'll need to advance to the higher Father Astrals. Keep in mind though that the Father Star will reset to the beginning if you don't happen to advance to the next higher one with the next capture. Also, higher level Astrals are not guaranteed at higher level Father Stars! Perseverance and a bit of luck are needed to capture the coveted oranges. But don't give up, it's worth it!


    What can I do with my Astrals?

    OK so now you have so many Astrals the game won't let you buy any more! What to do? You have 2 options for dealing with Astrals: Picking or Selling.

    Picking: Picking will move your Astral into your Astral Inventory, which you can access by clicking the Astrals button in the lower right-hand corner of the Astrals window. You can also see your Astral Inventory from the Astrals tab in your Character Window. Pressing the One-Click Collect button will transfer all non-Misfortune Astrals to your Astral Inventory.

    Selling: Selling an Astral will return to you a portion of the gold you paid to get it in the first place. Pressing the One-Click Sell button will only sell Misfortunes.

    Once you're in your Astral Inventory you can equip Astrals simply by dragging the desired Astral from your Astral Inventory to an open slot. At first you'll only have 2 slots, but more will be unlocked as you level your character.

    The Astral Inventory is also where Astrals can be leveled up. As your Astrals increase in level the bonuses they give you will increase as well.


    What is this Level Up you speak of?

    Leveling Astrals is how you make them stronger! If you hover your mouse over an equipped Astral you can see its progress to the next level. Each level will increase the bonuses the Astral gives you. In your Astral inventory you can drag and drop one Astral on top of another one. This will consume the first Astral and add experience to the Astral you dragged it onto. The amount of experience given depends on the rarity of the Astral and also how much experience is already in that Astral. So if you have, say, one blue Astral at level 3 and you capture a purple one, fear not! You can drag the blue Astral into the purple one and no experience will be lost. Your Purple Astral will have all the experience that the blue had. Astrals that have no experience in them (like ones you've just captured) will give a base amount of experience as follows:

    Green = 10xp
    Blue = 30 xp
    Purple = 50xp
    Orange = 70xp

    Rarer Astrals will require more experience to get to each level, but give more bonuses in return.

    More on Synthesis:
    Pressing the One-Click Synthesis button will automatically combine the experience from all the Astrals in your Astral Inventory into a single Astral. You can then drag that Astral into the one you want to increase experience for, and save time!

    If you don't want to accidentally consume an Astral during your frenzied leveling, you can Lock it, by using the Lock button. This prevents it from being used up when you press One-Click Synthesis.


    What are Star Points?

    Every time you capture an Astral you'll obtain Star Points. Pressing the Exchange button beside your Star Point total (in the Capture window) will open up a shop where you can cash in Star Points for Purple or Orange Astrals! But don't confuse these Star Points with the points used in Battlegrounds. They're not related at all.

    What about that Red Energine Astral?
    The Energine Astral doesn't give you any bonuses. What it does do though is it gives 500 experience to any Astral you fuse it with. So it's useful for quickly leveling another Astral.


    FAQ's

    What the heck is Floating Damage???
    The Astral that increases your floating damage effectively widens your damage range by decreasing the minimum damage you can do and increasing your maximum damage. So if the Astral says it increases your floating damage by 10%, your damage will be more unpredictable as it now has a chance of doing 10% less or 10% more than before. Your average damage output will stay the same.


    Should I sell or keep my Astrals?
    At first you'll want to keep your Astrals so you can level up the ones you have equipped. However selling every green Astral you get can be a good strategy if you're trying to capture a rarer Astral and don't care too much about leveling your equipped Astrals at the moment. You can even go all the way and sell everything to try to get an elusive orange!


    Help! I don't know which Astrals I should equip!
    There's no single way to build your character. Experiment with exotic new Astrals and see what works! Generally speaking, Astrals that boost PATK/MATK, PDEF, MDEF, and HP are solid choices as those are all important stats. But some of the best Astrals don't directly affect your stats, so ask around if you're not sure what a certain Astral does!

    If you want to see every Astral and its effect, here's a link to a great table that was made by Bachus77: http://forum.r2games.com/showthread....ral-Level-Info
    Alhana
    Server 4: Bretheran Abyss

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