Academy chatting window

Once you join/create an academy, you can chat with the other academy members through the academy chatting window. By default, it is placed at the left side of your screen but you can move it anywhere you like.

The academy chatting window is seperated to 3 parts. In the first one, you can see the academy members that are currently online. In the second part, you can see the messages that are sent after you logged in and in the third part, you can write your own message.

At the top left of the window, you can see the button, which hides/shows the names of the online members.

At the top right of the window, you can see the slide, which changes the window's transparency. Drag the slide to the left to increase the transparency or to the right to decrease it.

If you want to change the size of the window, just click and drag its bottom left corner.

Graduation

When an apprentice reaches level 40, the "Leave" button next to his name in the academy window is turned into a "Graduate" button and the player is ready to graduate after pressing it. The same happens when a guardian assistant reaches level 60.

Apprentice's graduations are counted to the graduations of the academy that are listed on guardian matching window or in honor rank, but guardian assistant's graduations do not.

At the time of the apprentice's graduation, the apprentice will be asked to evaluate the guardian. If the evaluation is canceled or the window is closed, the "Satisfied" option will be counted as the answer.



After his graduation, the graduated apprentice will receive 2,000,000 XP (it's about the 50% of level 40) and he will no longer belong to the academy. Due to this fact, the cumulated and accumulated buffs he may have, will disappear.

If an apprentice reaches level 41 and he has not graduated yet, a "Graduate" button is activated in the guardian's academy window and the guardian can force this player's graduation. In this case, guardian and guardian assistants will receive their awards but the apprentice will not.

Honor points



Guardian and guardian assistants gain honor points by the apprentices' graduations; a guardian assistant receives the 10% of guardian's honor points per graduation. Honor points are used by guardians for buying honor items from storage NPCs.

The amount of the honor points that will be gained by the guardian is based on the level the apprentice was, when he entered the academy:
For players that joined the academy before level 30, the amount of honor points is the difference between the starting and graduating level.
For players that joined the academy after level 30, no honor points will be gained.
So, if a player joined the academy on level 10 and graduated on level 40, the guardian will gain 30 honor points and the guardian assistants will gain 3 honor points. But if a player joined on level 35 and graduated on level 40, neither the guardian nor the guardian assistants will gain any points.

As long as you belong to an academy, you can see the honor points you have collected at the character window (press C, by default).

Honor grade / Honor rank / Honor buffs

By the time of his graduation, an apprentice is asked to evaluate the guardian. By this way the guardian gain evaluation points.

Honor rank is based on the evaluation points a guardian gets and the top 50 guardians are included in honor rank. In case two -or more- guardians have equal points, the rank will be based on earlier points they gained.

The honor rank information can be checked from any storage NPC and it is updated every day at 00:00 (SilkRoad standard time).

The 50 guardians that are included in the honor rank, gain honor buffs according to their ranking. Two or more different types of honor buffs can be active at the same time.

Icon Name Description Rank
Honor Buff (King) Chance of obtaining berserk gage 20% increase 1-5
Honor Buff (Gold) Physical & magical damage 5% absorption
Physical & magical damage 5% increase 1-15
Honor Buff (Silver) Moving speed 20% increase 1-30
Honor Buff (Bronze) Attack rating 10% increase 1-50

Honor items



Honor items are SOS, SOM and SOSUN weapons that can be bought/used only by guardians and they can not be destroyed, dropped, traded or sold in stalls.

Unlike the normal SOx items, you don't get them as a drop, but you have to buy them from storage NPCs, paying with both gold and honor points.

8 degree SOS SOM SOSUN
Level 62 66 70
Gold 2.7m 3.6m 4.6m
Honor points 1000 1500 2500

Honor items have an "Available Number of Repair" magic option on them. When the honor item is bought this number is 5 and it is decreased every time the item is repaired. When this number reaches 0, the item can not be repaired any more.



You can raise the available number of repair by 1 by using a Honor alchemy stone. Honor alchemy stones can be bought by storage NPCs and cost 30,000 gold and 10 honor points.
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