Finally, I had the patience to wait and finish downloading Perfect World’s huge installer. The installer is broken into four pieces each piece is more than 600mb. That’s around 2gb of disk space. Whew! It took me approximately 8 hours to download all of it. I’ve always wanted to try out Perfect World but the size of the installer always turns me away from it but having upgraded to a faster DSL connection, I gave it another shot.

Installation and patching was quick. I logged in and created my first character after that. Of course, I also created a new account by registering at My Level Up! My character’s name is Kabalyero and he is a Wu Xia. A Wu Xia is a close combat fighter. My character uses a sword and I guess the Wu Xia is like the Knight of this game. There are other races and other classes but I like to fight as a human.

Getting started wasn’t that hard specially if you have played other MMORPGs before. I just followed what the screen told me and in no time at all my character was out there killing level 1 creatures. I also checked the NPCs for available quest. NPCs that have a quest for you have a floating gold shield over their heads. Most quests are your typical kill a number of this monster kind of thing and then you’ll be rewarded afterwards with either items, money or experience. I kept doing that and in just a few hours my character was already at level 10. My character learned a few fighting and support skills and, I forgot what level, he also learned Basic Forging after following some quests from the Elder.

For character development, I was kinda focusing on building up a high CON for my character, you know, to give him a very high HP but it seems that weapons and other equipments have stats requirements. This means that I’ll have to allocate some to the other stats to be able to use higher level items but I still put in stat points to CON whenever possible. I’m not saying that what I’m doing is correct. This is more of an experiment since I’m still new to the game.

While hunting or level grinding, creatures drop gold (yuan) and items. Now, a problem I’ve encountered is that there’s too little inventory space and the storage isn’t much of a help either. I learned that those can be expanded by doing an expansion quest which involves buying some items from the item shop. ARGGHHH! After years of spending a lot of money in games like Ragnarok Online, Khan Online, Flyff and Rakion Online, I have sworn to never spend any more money on any games specially if it’s FREE TO PLAY! Call it being cheap but for me it’s just being practical. So I guess, expanding them is out of the question.

One of the things I like about Perfect World is crafting. In Voyage Century, I tried to learn all of the available crafting skills because I find crafting more challenging than doing a quest or hunting. It eats up more time and it takes a lot of patience specially if you fail a lot more than you wanted to. The gathering of materials is already an adventure on its own already. LOL! I’m still learning the whats and hows of crafting in Perfect World but I was able to forge my first weapon already. It’s a level 2 dual-wield sword. I know it’s not much of an accomplishment but seeing my character’s name on it makes me proud of it. Now, I’m looking for materials for my next weapon and I’m also trying to find out how to learn the other crafting skills because the Elder mentioned something about learning them all.

If I remember it correctly, at level 9 I accidentally learned that you can chain commands by creating Macros. I’m sure the level had nothing to do with it. I was viewing my skills when I accidentally clicked on New which was located at the bottom of the Skill box. This opened a new window with skill icon slots and a lot of icons below it. It also had the name Macro 0. I spent a few seconds thinking what it was for and then I tried dragging a skill icon into it and it went in. I dragged a few more until all the slots were filled. I then realized that the icons below were to be used as an icon for the Macro. I selected one and then saved it. How to use it came to me naturally. I just dragged the macro’s icon into an open skill slot, selected a creature, clicked on the macro’s icon and it performed the actions defined in it. This new discovery made my level grinding much easier and faster. I made a few modifications on the first macro I created and even made a new one. I did find a problem with it though. Sometimes, for reasons I’ve yet to discover, the actions would stop. It’s not a big problem because you can just repeat the macro by clicking on the icon or pressing the shortcut key of the skill or item slot you placed it on.

In my first day playing Perfect World, I have seen various types of pets, flying characters, high and low level characters, kids fighting amongst themselves through global chat, annoying duel freaks who keeps bothering you with duel requests, players begging for gold, illegal traders, etc. Anyway, with more than 2 gigabytes of content, I am quite sure that I haven’t even touched 1% of this game but what can I do, it’s just my first day playing it. LOL! I’ll try to play the game more to learn more about it and, by the way, this is not a review of Perfect World. I still need to learn a whole lot more about the game to be able to review it properly. This is just an overview of what I have learned and experienced during my first day playing Perfect World. Below are some of my screenshots from the game.