For the romantic ones, males can “snuggle” or carry a lady in his arms, or ride a white tiger’s back with the lady’s permission. Intimacy goes up a notch with a function to passionately kiss the lady you carry. For the ultimate love experience, a couple (of opposite genders only) can marry. The bonus is a title above your name, revealing who you’re wed with. Bonus mall items can provide rewards such as fame, an added quest or money. Still makes you think why the tracking function isn’t available for your spouse as well?

For those who love PvP, have no fear. The game has an activateable PK function, and is automatically turned on once you hit level 30 (this one-time system-activated PK mode can be immediately turned off; the manual PK activation requires 10 hours in PK mode before the “off” function is enabled). The PK function is not without penalties, take note. For those avoiding penalties, you can challenge players to a duel by right-clicking their name or enter the city arena for some open PvP action and reap rewards from the treasure boxes that might spawn. There are also scheduled territory wars, to settle the score for a clan’s ownership of a certain land. To gain the right to participate, your clan has to bid for that chance. Sad to say, in clan wars, the richest gains the upper hand in bids. If your clan wins ownership, the taxes are yours to earn plus a few more added benefits like high-level potions, higher success rates of upgrading and so on.

To cultivate the perfect hero, quests are an integral part of your journey. NPCs will continually provide you with quests per level, and are visible with a gold-silver-gold marker above them. The quest-givers are also shown on the minimap as a differently-colored dot. The quests comprise killing monsters, gathering quest items, or delivering items from NPC A to NPC B. Some quests are petty whims of the NPCs, others are actually related to the game’s lore, which is definitely a welcome sight for story-driven gamers. Watch out for mistranslations in the text, though. A nice feature in the game is the “Find Quest” button. The function tells you who’s looking for you, along with their map coordinates. You can input these coordinates on the map, a waypoint will be set, and color-coded arrows will show up on your HUD. The marker is visible on both the small and large-scale map, and you can store up to 5 waypoints. This makes it easier for the players to find quests and saves a great amount of time. On the downside, the number of quests per level might not be enough to help you reach the next level. You are still forced to grind your way to higher levels once you’re out of quests, even repeatable ones.