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Priston Tale
PC Version
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Survive or Die In-Depth Guide v1.02
by Rodrigo Ishizaka Ciarlini



This document is Copyright 2004 Rodrigo Ishizaka Ciarlini

This guide should not be altered in any form, nor it should be used for
anything other than private and personal use. It's free and should be
redistributed only with my express written permission.
Anyone interested in using this guide for anything other than just reading
should contact me, Rodrigo Ishizaka Ciarlini , by
e-mail.

Priston Tale is Copyright @ 2000-2004 TRIGLOW PICTURES Ltd. All rights Reserved



-= INDEX =-

UPDATE INFO.............................. 0.0

INTRODUCTION............................. 1.0

SOD BASICS............................... 2.0

SOD RULES................................ 3.0

IN-DEPTH SOD............................. 4.0
SoD Duration........................ 4.1
SoD Monsters........................ 4.2
SoD Ranking......................... 4.3

SOD STRATEGIES........................... 5.0
Solo Strategies..................... 5.1
Strategies With Extra People Around. 5.2
Party Strategies.................... 5.3

EXTRAS................................... 6.0
Terminology Dictionary.............. 6.1
Hints and tips...................... 6.2
Links to useful sites............... 6.3
Special Thanks...................... 6.4



-= 0.0: UPDATE INFO =-

2004-03-27 v0.9 released.
2004-04-02 v1.0 - Updated with the now complete list of monsters, along with
some new info.
2004-04-05 v1.01 - Minor fixes
2004-05-03 v1.02 - Forgot to add Hulk in Bloody Rose round - now fixed :P




-= 1.0: INTRODUCTION =-

This FAQ will be mostly based on my experience of Survival or Die in
Thailand Priston Tale. It's currently on version 2.9.0, so no Tier 3 Skills.
In Korean version, there are extra monsters in there, and there might be
some further differences. As CaringAngelEX pointed me out, Minigue Silver
appear in Round 5, and that's only one of the news there.



-= 2.0: SOD BASICS =-

Survive or Die (aka SoD) is an event held at Navisko. But unless admins have
it open, it'll be always closed, as it is in EPT so far. In TPT, it's open
only during specific times, mostly from 6:00~18:00 by GMT (+0), but seems to
be open all day in weekends.
If it isn't open, be it permanently or temporarily, you won't be able to
take part of it, and the SoD NPC will probably tell some random phrase.
If it's open, then you need to talk to the SoD NPC (the guy on Booma or
Hobgoblin costume on top of the stairs) as soon as the day dawns (either
empty or with only one step in the time bar) and he'll expain the rules,
then you need to click Ok, and a window with a entrance will be shown, and
you need to click Ok and pay for it. Once that's done, you're in. The value
will be (300 gold x character level), so if your character is at level 50,
you'll pay 15000 to enter. The minimum level required to enter is 10, but
since there's little you can do if you cannot solo at a hellspawn in Oasis,
I wouldn't recomend to go, unless you want to see it just out of curiosity
or steal loot from the other characters.
You cannot go in, even if that's done if it's already full. Also, there's a
limit of 500 total character levels, which means that people can enter as
long as that limit isn't exceeded.



-= 3.0: SOD RULES =-

The basic rule is pretty simple: either survive or die. One you're in, those
are basically the two ways to go out. When you're in SoD, you'll be in a big
arena which you won't be able to exit easily. Ether Cores of any type won't
work (altough it'll be wasted if you use it), nor a Union Core can bring you
into SoD. Aside from dying or surviving, another way to exit is to quit the
game. This hint might be handy if you need to go away from keyboard, since
staying in there without doing a thing will mostly probably result in death
in later rounds.
The basic purpose of SoD is to score points. Each monster you kill, you'll
get some points, and tougher the monster is, more points it'll give. If you
survive until the end, those points will be converted in gold. Also, you
keep any item monsters drop and you pick-up, so you may end up with a nice
upgrade and/or more money from its sale as well. Each monster will award an
ammount of points equal to 10% of monster XP (total, not discounted even if
you have more than 10 levels of difference to the monster, so, if you kill a
Rabie, even at level 62 you'll get 11 points as everyone else would).
SoD consists in 7 rounds, plus an extra 8th round if someone is currently
with 50000 points or more by the end of 7th round. A window will pop-up when
each new round begins.
As soon as round 1 begins, you may try killing monsters to sum up points.
The current ammount you have will be shown every time you kill a monster.
Monsters will award regular XP, so this is a valid method for levelling up,
altough not a very good one since you either can kill everything and will be
just losing time in the first rounds, or you'll be unable to kill a thing at
later rounds and will be just running at that time, or worst, die and lose
what you'd usually do in a regular death.
You may party up within SoD as you'd do in any other place, but this won't
affect your score, just XP and other party benefits.
Also, you can use Monster Crystals as well, but you won't award any points
for its kills, just the usual 50% XP.
Finally, but worth mention, is that monsters won't drop any potions. So,
pack up at Merchant first, or you may regret later.



-= 4.0: IN-DEPTH SOD =-

Knowing SoD better is a good way to increase your score and success rate.


4.1: SoD Duration

First basic of knowing SoD is how much it lasts. If you don't clock it, the
round 7 will end when it's already night. If you go thru round 8, it'll end
just some seconds before dawn.
An interesting thing I noticed is that round duration is not equal nor
fixed. The info below can be a bit off, but it's kind of (in
minutes:seconds) :
- Round 1: From 0:00 to 1:25~1:40
- Round 2: Ends at 3:05~3:20 (of course, it begins when the previous round end
:P)
- Round 3: Ends at 4:40~4:50
- Round 4: Ends at 7:10 (from here the endtime will be fixed)
- Round 5: Ends at 9:30
- Round 6: Ends at 11:55
- Round 7: Ends at 14:20
- Round 8: Ends at 17:00

A good way to keep track of it is use a stopwatch as soon as Round 1 begins.
You can also program your music player with musics that have that duration
(a bit misleading for the first 3 rounds, but those are easy rounds anyway)
and put it to play as soon as it begins, so each track ending will means
that the round is ending too.


4.2: SoD Monsters

Well, this is, obvisiouly important. If you can know beforehand what you'll
face, you can prepare better for each round, or plainly avoid SoD until you
know you can take care of those.
As soon as a round begins, monsters will spawn non-stop. There's a maximum
ammount of 35 them at a single time (total monsters, not per each type), but
as you kill them, more appear. After the round ends, all its monsters will
instantly die (but not summing points for anyone, of course), so there'll be
no left-overs for the next round.
Just for info completion sake, as mostly will already figure this even
before entering SoD, each new round will bring tougher monsters. Each round
will bring a new batch of monsters, but there are only 3 variants, and
simply observing which monsters came on Round 1, you can tell what will come
on the next rounds. I'll list them in a way that you'll know that if
monsters of the first group (first line of the Round 1 listings) came on
round 1 (Doral, Imp and Minigue), on round 2 will have monsters from the
first group (first line of the Round 2 listings) again (Plant, Skeleton and
Mephit).
Anyway, here's the list:

- Round 1: [Doral, Imp, Minigue],
[North Goblin, Egan, Rabie],
[Hobgoblin, Imp, Mutant Plant]

- Round 2: [Plant, Skeleton, Mephit],
[Bee Dog, Corrupt, Mutant Rabbit],
[Planty, Skeleton, Mephit]

- Round 3: [Scorpion, Cockrice, Zombie],
[Devilish Tree, Zombie, Mephit],
[Ghoul, Cockrice, Scorpion]

- Round 4: [Mutant Tree, Cyclops, Skeleton Archer, Decoy],
[Bargon, Leech, Skeleton Archer, Cyclops],
[Mighty Goblin, Skeleton Archer, Cyclops, Decoy]

- Round 5: [Crypt, Buma, Bargon, Mighty Goblin],
[Skeleton Warrior, Buma, Decoy, Sandlam, Bargon],
[Griven, Bargon, Buma, Cyclops Knight]

- Round 6: [Griven, Skeleton Ranger, Bargon, Head Cutter, Sandlam],
[Avelisk-S, Skeleton Ranger, Titan, Mighty Goblin],
[Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Ranger, Titan, Bargon]

- Round 7: [Slaughter, Figon, Stone Giant, Sliver],
[Dawlin, Head Cutter, Avelisk Lord, Web],
[Skeleton Knight, Web, Illusion Knight, Naz]

- Round 8: [Hellsing, Mummy, Dawlin, Web, Head Cutter, King Hopy],
[Bloody Rose, Hulk, Illusion Knight, Naz, King Hopy]
[Vermum Actarun, Figon, Avelisk-S, Avelisk-L]


4.3: SoD Ranking

It's possible that ranking on SoD is enabled at PT website. If so, you can
see a lot of info on how well people do in SoD.
You can see people with the top 100 highest scores, average scores, monster
kills, percentage of kills. And with clan enabled you can also see the top
100 clans in highest points and accumulated points, and you can see the
"clan heroes" (either all the clan members that were in the highest score or
the top 5 people with more accumulated points).
Highest Scores is pretty simple, it shows the highest score attained in
ammount of points for each character (so, no character will be listed twice).
Average Scores will show the average points of all your successful SoDs.
Monster Kills is simply how many monsters you killed at in a given SoD and
works pretty much like Highest Scores.
Percentage of Kills is a comparative between a character and everyone else
who was in that SoD. If one goes alone, it'll get a 100% score, but if I go
in together with 4 more people and kill 150 monsters while the total sum of
all the rest was 50, I'll score 300%. Based on that, the list will display
only the best score for each character, like in Highest Scores.
Highest Clan Score will simply give the best sum of points in a single SoD
for a clan (you need to have at least 3 clan members surviving to get a
score). If 10 characters of the same clan go in and each score 30000 points,
total score will be 300000. Only the best score for each clan will be listed.
Finally, Accumulated Points will show how many points all the clan members
have accumulated so far. Those will take in account only points scored for
someone who was in the clan when went in SoD, so if someone leaves or join
the clan, it won't lose or gain points.
The cool thing is that there are some options to filter around. The default
is to include characters from all classes, levels and servers, but you can
filter it in a way so you can see only the scores for lv6X Atalantas that
play in a particular server. But in clan rankings you can only filter by
server. All the rankings are monthly, and you can see how it was in each
month. Of course, at each new month, the rankings will begin from the zero.