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Culmulative and Reserved Buffs

The students under a mentor will accumulate additional experience via hunting and divide the accumulated ratio in the form of a buff. Through this buff the mentor and his student can acquire extra experience while hunting.

Cumulative Buff

When a pupil hunts the "cumulative buff icon" will appear on the top left of the screen. It will store a certain ratio of experience (Note: but will not take away from the original experience value given to him)

From 24 hours after the start of the accumulation, the buff will not store any more experience points.

Reserved Buff

When the mentor is online, the student can "transmit" the buff to his mentor. The mentor will receive 20% of the culmulative buff, and the student will receive 80% of the culmulative buff.

The reserved buff will disappear 24 hours after the "transmission" regardless of whether it has been used or not.

The accumulated experience value in the reserved buff will decrease and be added to the experience gain while hunting.

Note: This system sounds confusing enough. Here's an example.

Let's say the culmulative buff will accumulate 10% of the pupil's exp gain.
- Pupil hunts 10 mobs x 100 exp each = buff contains 1,000 exp.
- Pupil transmits the buff.
- Mentor gets 200 on his reserved buff.
- Student gets 800.

Let's say the mentor and the student will use 10% of the reserved buff while hunting.
- Mentor is hunting. For each mob he will lose 20 experience points from the reserved buff and gain 20 additional exp.
- Same with student, he will lose and gain 80 exp points.

Both is the same thing, just different names. 40- 59 restriction is for Guardian Assistant, the guy who helps Guardian.

Note: Please, insert a on the end of your post, if you think im wrong. xD

I'm a guardian assistant now, but I haven't seen any of those cumulative buffs or anything while grinding. I thought they were supposed to come up. Is there anything else I need to do to start accumulating exp?

Im not sure if the assistants also get that buff. But the way it works is you have to be grinding in the same pt as one of your apprentices (like a powerlevelling scenario). While doing so, there is a blue icon in their buff line that keeps building as they gain exp. Once you are done grinding togetner, they can left click that blue icon and transfer the cumulative to the guardian (they get 80% of the total while the guardian gets 20%). It adds about 10% exp and sp while grinding and each kill takes off 10 points from the buff.

I am a Assistant and I don't get crap.
I tried grinding in a share pt next to the guardian and I got nothing. We had an apprentice try to send there accumulated buff while the guardian was offline and I was online. Guess what? Couldn't send buff to me.

One aprentice graduated last night I think, and I don't have any honor points either.

So assistants get nothing, perhaps when I hit lvl 60 the guardian will get honor points from me, we shall see.

I am a Assistant and I don't get crap.
I tried grinding in a share pt next to the guardian and I got nothing. We had an apprentice try to send there accumulated buff while the guardian was offline and I was online. Guess what? Couldn't send buff to me.

One aprentice graduated last night I think, and I don't have any honor points either.

Assistants are supposed to get 10% of the guardian's honor points when an apprentice graduates. But if the apprentice joined the academy after lvl 30, neither guardian nor assistant get any honor points.

You don't have to be in the same party for the buffs to work. But only an apprentice can use the cumulated buff. And he or she can only share it with the guardian.

Well if I am supposed to get 10% honor points. Then why is my honor points at zero?

If a guardian gets 1 point per level then if it only took 9 levels to graduate do I get 0 honor points?
Since 10% of 9 is less than 1.

I thought someone said before that if the apprentice is higher than lvl 30, there are no honor points distributed. Correct me if I'm wrong. That would make sense though. If the apprentice comes in at lvl 30, he will graduate in 10 levels. Then 10 honor points would be given: 9 to the guardian and 1 to the assistant, or 8 to guardian and 1 to each of the 2 assistants. If there are only 9 points available, they can't be distributed evenly. So, lvl 31 and up just wouldn't give any honor points at all.

Is that how it works? So the assistants would at least get SOME honor points from apprentices that started at lvl 30 or below?

When an Apprentice starts killing stuff he gets a blue icon, the cumulated buff. This buff collects points for every monster the Apprentice kills for 24 hours.

When the 24-hour countdown has ended (or earlier if he wants) the Apprentice should left-click the icon. This will share the points with the Guardian. The Apprentice will get 80% and the Guardian will get 20% of the points. The Guardian has to be online for this to happen.

A new red icon (the accumulated buff) now appears for both the Apprentice and the Guardian. This buff gives 10% more EXP for every kill and it lasts for as long as there are points left (with a 24 hour limit). So the more points the Apprentice has collected with the blue buff, the longer the red EXP-buff lasts.

This is a continuing feature, so as soon as the blue buff is shared and becomes a red buff, a new blue buff appears for the Apprentice and starts collecting points again.

I know you can buy seal items using your points, but I see a point function in the item mall, can we use the points to buy item mall stuffs?

- Mentor is hunting. For each mob he will lose 20 experience points from the reserved buff and gain 20 additional exp.
- Same with student, he will lose and gain 80 exp points.

man, thats confusing yet.

Can anyone tell me what goods a "Junior Guardian" gets from this guardian system?