I never had the time to post about me having a beta key
because I was too busy having fun with the game! … Ok the real reason is that I
was either,
A.) Too lazy
Or
B.) Getting ready for the school year/marching band.
But having fun with the game is definitely C.)
Plus all I would have told you is that it was awesome and…
well that’s it. So no point right? Well now there is a point! The NDA was
officially lifted a couple days ago and today there were some updates today. So
there are some shiny new things for us beta testers to… well test. But I took
the time to take some screen shots so I could post them for the people who just
devour any information about Pirate that they can and don’t care if something
gets spoiled. But I promise you I didn’t take anything that I found a spoiler. I
believe a spoiler would include someone telling the entire plot of your pirate’s
adventure. The story in my opinion is a large part of what makes the game fun.
So no spoilers. Before I got my beta key a lot of mystery that I wanted cleared
up before I started the game was surrounding the companions and ship vs. ship
battles.
Today I’m going to clear up the companions. There a lot of
people explaining the companions now so if you still don’t get something I’m
sure if you do some digging you will find a nice article someone wrote
somewhere. Really I didn’t have too many questions but the ones I did have
drove me nuts.
(Question one ended up being longer than anticipated so I will
post question two either later today or tomorrow)
1.) Do I train my companions?
Yes! You level them up just like you level up. Only instead of them getting xp from quests you give
them something called training tombs.
This is a picture of your basic Companion Management window.
It shows a list of your companions and what level they are. See the white
number in the lower right corner of each companion’s picture? That’s their
level! See the percentages underneath that?
As far as I understand that’s the percentage that that companion will enter a
battle with you. Those symbols to the left of that? That tells you what school
your companion is from. The red knife is buccaneer. The purple rose is
swashbuckler. The green mask is witchdoctor. And the orange gun is musketeer. I
don’t have a privateer yet but my best guess would be a spyglass with the color
of blue or yellow. But I have no idea at this point in time.
The blue/black bar at the bottom right of the window shows
you how close your companion is to leveling up. When you press the green train
button it will fill the bar up some more. To the left of the train button is
the number of training tombs you have left. I have three right now and you get
more training tombs each time you level up. You can also buy tombs from a
vendor.
This is another picture of the Companion Management screen only
now I have my mouse hovered over one of my companion’s pictures. This shows you
some things I just told you about. It also shows you their name and their
stats. If you want to see their talents and powers (the Pirate101 equivalent of
Wizard101’s spells) you click on what looks like a little brown piece of wood
with an arrow at the bottom of the picture of the companion you have clicked on.
It will show you stats again as well.
I’m sure there’s more that I forgot but I don’t want to try
to spell out everything.
I will leave you with a picture of Silent Belle Quincy, the
first pirate I ever created. She is a level eleven Swashbuckler. :)
See ya in the game!
