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You have got your Aspect Unlocked! Congratulations!
No matter if it is cheap as Poison or overpriced as Command, it will be your greatest tool for PvM and it is absolutely necessary for middle tier to end tier mobs out there!
This guide is going to explain how to make best of your Aspect Activations and how to save / store them properly.
THE REGULAR ACTIVATIONS
When you unlock your Aspect for the first time you get instantly 2 activations. On the top of your “Aspect Mastery” menu you will see that it is written “Aspect Activations Full”. This state is permanent until you “Activate Your Aspect Armor, Weapon or Spell Book”
You can only activate your weapon/spell book if you are holding a weapon/spell book in your hand.
You can only activate your armor if you are wearing the whole 6 pieces of any kinds of armor including fancy headgear like masks, blindfold, wizard’s hat etc. You need all of your armor pieces aspect activated and ON YOU for it to work.
After you activate you will see the “Activations Full” message has now turned in to a 24 hours timer. When this timer hits 00:00 you get all the activations of all the unlocked aspects to “Full” state. Even if you already have activations for your main or secondary aspects. So keep an eye on the timer before using phylacteries.
Timer does not reset:
-If you unlock another activation for your aspect
-If you unlock a new type of aspect
-If you use a phylactery to get more activations.
LOSING ASPECT
After you start leveling your aspect and you die a couple of times with it already you will notice that your char becomes almost unusable without aspect. So it is important to understand what will make you lose your activations.
Your items will lose your aspect (and don’t get back any activations ) :
-If you die to any PvM content (Bosses, mobs, trapped chests, getting poisoned while making poison pots) in dungeon or overworld.
-If you go gray/red and someone kills you
-If you die while fighting (fooling around) with a guild member or member of an allied guild.
-Put your aspect suit ANYWHERE ELSE other than 1st level of your backpack or 1st level of your bank.
-If you attack a BLUE/GRAY player FIRST and they kill you. (You can attack RED players no problem)
-If you put two same kind “Aspected Armor” pieces in the same place (two leggings both in bank or both in backpack)
-If you activate “any aspect” while there are aspected items stored in your bank. (See BANKING ASPECT)
-If your arcane essence pool hits 0.
Your items DON’T lose aspect or at least you get back activations :
-If you get PKed by a RED “AND” you give them murder counts you get back activations if you have free.
-If you get killed by a BLUE/GRAY only if THEY ATTACK FIRST AND YOU GIVE THEM COUNT.
-If you place your aspected items in the MAIN LEVEL OF YOUR BACKPACK (no two of the same type) as long as you don’t die!
-If you activate more aspect when there are already aspected items in the MAIN LEVEL OF YOUR BACKPACK. (Remember to put them in your bank before going out)
-If you place your aspected items in the MAIN LEVEL OF YOUR BANK even if you die (as long as you don’t activate again)
BANKING ASPECT ITEMS
So you survived 24h without dying and you got your activations fully restored while you still have your armor and your spellbook/weapon aspected from the day before.
If you follow these steps carefully you can save aspected items for later use!
- Go to a safe enough location. Home or a not so visited corner that you can access bank. (You can also get invisible or hide after you open your bank.
- Put all your already aspected items in your MAIN BACKPACK and not in any other bag or container.
- You cannot have two of the same type of item in the same location. For example cannot have two aspected leather cap in your backpack so wear one set on your character and put the other one in your backpack.
- Activate aspect for the item you want.
- Put all the items that you are not going to use back in the bank box. (Be sure you have put all 6 pieces of your armor)
- Go out and kill things and if you die DON’T ACTIVATE again before going to the bank.
- Keep your bank box as clean as possible. Unlocking even the cheapest aspect costs more than a small house (placed).
USING BANKED ASPECT ITEMS
So you have followed the steps from previous chapter and you have already aspected items in your bank box. Sometimes mobs or bosses can be tough and some grieving player can pull mobs on you or trick you somehow and you die. So you have lost your aspect that you were wearing.
Here are the steps to follow after that.
- So you manage to get resurrected and get back your stuff? Good! You got PKed and got back some activations? Even better! Just DON’T ACTIVATE YET
- Go to your bank box as was explained and if you don’t have any more activations. Simply put on your items from your bank and move on.
- If you have still activations AND items in the bank. The follow the steps from BANKING ASPECT ITEMS.
- Don’t forget to put back everything that you don’t need in the bank!
GETTING ACTIVATIONS OUTSIDE OF REGULAR 24h TIMER
There are three ways to get some activations BEFORE the 24h cooldown is finished and ALL the activations are restored.
- If you get PKed by a non guilded, non allied, BLUE or GRAY player that HAS ATTACKED YOU FIRST and/or a RED Player no matter who attacked first, you get your activations back AFTER you give them a Murder Count for every item THAT YOU ARE HOLDING only if you don’t have activations already.
Let’s say you have activated your spell book and armor. And your activations become 0/2 for 24h cooldown. If you die while holding both of the items you get 2 activations back.
If you activated 2 armor and put one in the bank you get only 1 activation back when you are PKed and the second armor will be still aspected when you go check your bank box.
If you have two items from two different aspects such as Command Aspect Spell Book and Fortune Aspect Armor you get back 1 activation for each.
It is a smart practice to have less then full activations all the time for two reasons: First the 24h activation cool down will be already started. Second you will be able to get back activations if you get PKed.
- If you use a Phylactery for your unlocked aspect you will get an option to either “Get back 1 activation” or “get a %100 proc chance for the next attack with book or weapon”. Same as above you cannot get extra activations if your activations are already full.
Also if you use a phylactery either for getting activations or %100 proc chance you cannot use ANY OTHER PHYLACTERY not even from another aspect for 1 hour of cool down.
So if you have died too many times and lost all your activations in the same night (DAMN YOU AEGIS MINI) and you are planning to continue playing next morning, it will be a smart move to use one phylactery before going to bed so that you can use another one when you wake up.
GENERAL WARNINGS/TIPS ABOUT ASPECT MASTERY
- When your spell book is in your backpack it can be stolen
- You cannot have duplicate armor pieces or weapons in your backpack or bank at the same time
- If you switch your char from DEXXER to MAGE or vice versa either by using ECHO or simply changing the skills and you still have an activated weapon, spell book or armor that you cannot use anymore; there is a way to take back activations.
You can create a new blue character from a different account which won’t be guilded or ally to you. Bring him in to your house (Don’t friend him to the house so he will be gray) and kill your aspected character while holding wearing the aspected items using this new character. DON’T forget to give murder count.
- It is highly suggested to use Aspect Activated Spellbooks while training magery since they give mana refund chance for Tier 1 and above. They don’t consume Aspect Essence when they are used outside of PvM situation inside your house.
- Always check your arcane essence amount before going out to PvM action. If it hits to zero you loose aspect. Some high tier mobs like deamons don’t drop enough magical items to recycle to make up for the amount of arcane essence you consume to kill them so be extra careful killing these. It is smarter to be in groups and share the damage done.
- You get the Aspect Experience only if you are wearing the items when the MOB dies. If your items loose aspect before you kill the mob you don't get experience from them.
- Fortune aspect armor bonus (increased gold drop and loot chance) is only available if you wear the fortune aspect armor at the moment of death.
So basically you can wear command/fire/eldritch... armor and hold the fortune armor in your backpack until %1 of a boss's health and switch in the last second to buff up the loot. Same goes with fortune book special effect buff. You can start with fortune book to proc once and then switch to your main book.
Take care since if you die you loose both armor's/book's aspects.
Enjoy the colorful world of aspect.
