My Asda Story USA Guide

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I Dont know how much help itll be for EuroAsda but im hope it will be ^-^

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xXExyaMemoXx's Awesome Guide

A Wonderful guide for your GamePlay I Hope this will be a helpful guide for you to reflect on
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1. Starting Out
- a. Item Boxes
- b. Item Equipping
2. Short Keys
3. How to Level
4. Jobs
- a. Archer
- b. Mage
- c. Warrior
5. How to Skill
- a. Soul Guardians
6. NPCs
7. Maps
- a. Dungeons
-- I. Parties
8. Sowel System
9. Clans
10. Soulmates
11. Pets
12. PvP
- a. Challenging
- b. Faction Wars
13. Personal Shops
14. Player Run Events
15. Abbreviations
16. Extras
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1. STARTING OUT

A. Item Boxes
B. Item Equipping
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When first starting the game you should have already have created an account for this site, which will be your username and password to use in them game. When you reach the Asda story log in screen type in your username and password. If it doesn’t work the first time check to make sure caps lock is off and just retype. Select ok and then choose the server (only one at the moment is Tilia).



After selecting your server you will be taken to the channel select page. The number of diamonds filled means there is more people on that said channel.


NOTE: We Only Have 3 Channels (at the moment)

Usually the fullest channel is channel one and that is where most of the new players can be found. Along with a large market of Personal Shops, (Personal shops are player made shops where you can find various items at different prices there is no set price to sell items in a personal shop.)



Well now your to the Character creation page, Click ADD to start a new character.(or to select a previous one hit the arrows to the left or the right). This is where you will choose the name (NOTE: Inappropriate Names are blocked), hair style and color, eye color and emotion, also your gender (Male or Female).

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There is also a Variety of clothing to choose for beginner players which are all lvl 1 armor. As soon as you have your look and name click CREATE.

You’re then warped to Alpen, the starting city, there is a map to the top right corner and you can see yellow " ! " that means you have quests to pick up while red " ! " means you have quests to Turn In. Your first weapon is a Rubber Glove you will use it to complete your quests until level 5 (or longer if you choose)

Level 5 is when you will choose your first Job: Warrior, Archer, or Mage.

Warriors: Deal with wielding 1 handed swords (with shields), 2 handed swords, and spears.

Archers: Deal with wielding Bows, Crossbows (also known as xbows) and Ballistas.

Mages: Deal with wielding staves though the actions they perform are different there is: Hell Fire (Damage Dealers), Heavenly Light (Healers), and Flooded Land (Buffers).

To level fast in this game completing the quests are the best way to go. You can get to at least level 20 or higher in one day if you work hard and finish all the quests. Be sure to pick them all up and return them all too to get the money and experience (exp) that you will need to support yourself as you level and buy new gear/armor in the game. Some say you shouldn’t buy your gears until later because during all your questing you’ll compile a lot of your own gear from boxes that are dropped from monsters. So coming up with gear for your character isn’t hard but if you’re looking for that one missing piece check out the Market or Personal stores that resides in the Game Towns (Alpen, Silaris & Flammio).

But if there is any other help you need always consult an Asda Helper (They are players that were chosen for game experience and active time in the game along with other qualities) these are the best people to talk to when confused in the game. Usually found wearing a tall hat and riding a chariot sort of thing. Asda Helpers are here to "verbally help" not physically come and fight the monsters for you so please do not spam them about a party, for there are others who need help too.

NOTE: From level 1~20 you’re able to revive at your same location and you will not lose your experience. So level fast and have fun.
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A. Item Boxes

Item Boxes include: Armor, Weapon, and Sowel Boxes.
They have Rare, Uncommon and Common types in each box.
Your Luck is what determines your chance at a rare.

Armor boxes can be: For Just one class or for all classes.

Weapon Boxes: Usually are for all classes (shields can only be used by the warrior-type class).

Sowel Boxes: Can be Intelligence, Stamina, etc in each box.

Some Boxes have Weapons and Armor for all classes in them this is where your chance and luck comes into play on what you will get at the end.

To open the boxes click your inventory tab or hit "I" and look in the general items tab of your inventory and scroll down until you find armor, weapon, or sowel boxes.

Double click the image and it will have a popup with view and start.

To see the items inside the box before you open them, click View.

After you see what’s in the box click start and it will randomly choose an item at the end which you will acquire.
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B. Item Equipping

When you get items from the boxes and it’s for your class and level and you wish to wear it click inventory tab or hit "I" and go to the Gear Tab.
Find the armor or weapon you acquired and double click it.

A popup will appear asking if you wish to Soulbound.
Clicking okay will make it untradeable.

Once equipped you can not trade or sell on the Exchange Market. Only way to get rid of the Item is to drop it out of your inventory or sell it to the Gear Guys in the various towns.

You can check to see if the item is tradeable by going to your inventory and scrolling over the item
It should say: "Becomes yours after equipping" if it’s still tradeable.

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2. Short Keys

Most short keys you can stumble on by mistake while typing or trying to figure out how to move.

To Move
~Clicking with your mouse
~W (Forward), A (Left), S (Backwards), D (Right)

NOTE: The direction keys can be edited to something better for you.
Go to the Options and then to Short Keys and scroll in each category until you find the walking short keys. Just click on it then press the letter, number, or symbol you wish to use from now on.

Some other important short keys include:

Space Bar = For quick item pick up
Tab = Faster monster select
Share Target = Must be set up through options
F1-F5 = Action bars
Q = Quests
T = Titles
I = Inventory
E = Action (Dancing, sitting, etc.)
Z = Crafting
M = Map
C = Character information
U = Soulmate (and then the tabs in that section are Clan, Friends, and Who)

~Soulmate: Shows information about your partner. Also gives the option to disband, look for a new SM, or view the info of your old SM.

~Clan: Shows the information for leaving your clan, who's in your clan, and the Notice Board for important information.

~Friends: Show where your friends are in the game (Map and Channel) also tells you if they’re logged in the game or not.

~Who: Shows people on your map that are around your level this helps in adding members to parties, etc.

Chat Short Keys:

R key to reply to a whisper or /w = Whisper (Ex: /w Username [Message] )
Ctrl + A or /a = All Channel
Ctrl + P or /p = Party
Ctrl + S or /s = Soulmate
Ctrl + B or /b = Trade
Ctrl + N or /n = Common
Ctrl + R or /r = Faction
Ctrl + Y or /y = Shout

You can create new chat tabs by right clicking on the chatbox.

Soul Guardian Short Keys:

Insert = First attack
Home = Second attack
Page Up = Third attack

NOTE: Other short keys can be personalized. Also right clicking on a character gives you many options to choose from.

Pressing "E" gives you some more options such as the ability to dance.



That shows what pressing "E" will give you and that’s a character doing a hand stand.

Pressing "I" gives you the Inventory function.



NOTE: This is only the Gear section.

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3. How to Level

To level in this game you can collect the quests. As you level you will gain more quests making it easier and giving you a purpose to go out and kill many monsters to level. The quests though eventually stop around the mid level 30's. This is when the grinding becomes more important, (going out and just killing mobs). So check out Night Valley and Forgotten Canyon to level or check out Flammio.

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4. Jobs

A. Warrior
B. Archer
C. Mage
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Jobs are changed at level 5 where you will choose the job you wish to continue with through the game.
At level 24 and level 40 you will get your net job advances in that category so you can get the higher level skills.

Must complete all parts of the job quests to get the next job!

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A. Warrior

Fighter: Get at level 5 from Gladio in Alpen.
Knight: Get at level 24 from Joel in Silaris.
Weapon Master: Get at level 40 from Joel in Silaris.

Warriors have the best defense. They use force and strong attacks. You can choose one of the three weapons:
1 hand sword, 2 hand sword or Spear. Each weapons tree has different skills and powers.
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B. Archer

Archer: Got at Level 5 from Wendy in Alpen
Ranger: Got at Level 24 from Kurlan in Silaris
Master Archer: Got at Level 40 from Kurlan in Silaris

Archers are long range. Monsters have a hard time attacking archers. They have decent defense and high evasion. Their weapons include: Ballista, Bows and Crossbows (xbows).
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C. Mage

Mage: Got at Level 5 from Fhashu in Alpen
Sorcerer: Got at Level 24 from Chmella in Silaris
Arch Mage: Got at Level 40 from Chmella in Silaris

Mages wield staffs and have powerful magic skills.
Dealing with Hell Fire, Healing or Buffing:
-The Hell Fire mages control darkness and fire attributes.
-Flooded Land mages control earth and water attributes to shield and protect their party members or themselves.
-Heavenly Light mages control light/climate attributes and they can heal party members as well as themselves.

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5. How to Skill

A. Soul guardians
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When you level you earn Skill Points (2 points per level after first job advance). When you level, an arrow will appear on your screen pointing at your skills tab. You can click that or just press "K".
Depending on your job is what skill trees will appear.

When you choose the skill you want to add points too click on it and it will pop up asking if you want to add a point to that skill.

NOTE: You can click and hold the skill to move it down to your skill bar.

Using the skills:

Placing skills on the Action Bar


You have 5 Action Bars (Hitting F1-F5 to get to each)

Another set of skills are from the Soul guardians.
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A. Soul Guardians

These are large things that float above you.

NOTE: Soul guardians and other peoples Soul guardians can be turned invisible in the Options.

Soul guardians give you 3 more attacks and buffs.
To get to these attacks you can press: Insert, Home, and Page Up.

When you use skills your Soul guardian window will pop up. When you get to a certain number of circles your Soul guardian will appear at which ever level you have earned. That also unlocks attack for you too use. When you use up your Soul guardian’s energy, it disappears until you use your skills to make it reappear again. Each skill has an amount it will add to the Soul guardian window.

Each Soul Guardian is different depending on your job:

Warrior
Archer
Mage

Each job has a different Soul guardian with different buffs and skills to lend you aid in battle.
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6. NPC's (Non Player Characters)



Well you know there has to be some non players so here they are:

NOTE: They are all located in the TOWN of ALPEN

Ashley: Go to her to find game items like weapons, gear and vehicles. Also in General items she has potions, sowels and crafting items also monster eggs.

Alford: The blacksmith go to him for refining and other gear related stuff.

Cave: This is where you can also go to Disband your soulmate

Eco: Use to be the Indicator that moved you to other maps but now its where you go to save your location in Alpen.

Ella: She is the Knight Captain you go to her to reach NV (Night Valley) or FC (Forgotten Canyon) also to Create or Destroy your clan.

Ian & John: Misc Shops in Alpen

NOTE: Misc Shops: Usually Contain Arrows, Potions, Rings, Necklaces, Pet Items etc.

Fhashu: This is who you visit at lvl 5 if you wish to become a Mage Class

Gladio: This is who you visit at lvl 5 if you wish to become a Fighter Class

Wendy: This is who you visit at lvl 5 if you wish to become a Archer Class

Lua: She sells you sowels for your armor/gear. Also has Soulmate Stones which is used for one of the soulmate skills you earn.

Yuki: Is the Hair Salon but atm (or ever) can do nothing for your hair.

NOTE: To get a new hair style visit the Item Mall next to Options button.

Shuren: He is the Armory where you can buy gears and weapons also sell to him for money.

Neimi: The first person who gives you a quest when you start the game.

Rachel and Clark: Warehouse owners go to them to store up to 30 items.

Moving Crystal: Will Take you to Flammio or Silaris for a Small fee of gold.


NOTE: These are only NPCs for the Town of Alpen Names and Locations of All NPCs Change With each New Town You visit.
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7. MAPS

A.Dungeons
>I.Parties
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The maps in this game are different and are fun when you know what to do and where to go x3
some of the maps that Asda Story has are:

Alpeon:

~Alpen
~Rein River
~Silaris
~Sunny Coast
~Conquest Land

Inferno:

~Flammio
~Mt. Flammio
~Flabis
~FireWay Forest

To change to Other Maps You can either open your map by Pressing "M" and looking for entrances to other maps and then walk there. Or Find a Moving Crystal in towns and fields and see if they give the option to move to that map.

The Moving Crystal costs Gold so have some on you. Usually 5k gold to 1k gold.

The Mini Map



Contains:

Coordinates: at the bottom of the map (x,y)
Map Name: Top Right Corner
Channel Changer: Above the Map (gives you the option to leave that channel to change to another)
Arrow: to expand and make the map larger
Plus Sign (+): To Zoom In on the map
M: To Open the largest Map

Dot Colors:



Pink: Soulmate
Green: Party Members
Arrow: You
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A. DUNGEONS

Dungeons are on different maps The Current Dungeons in Asda Story are:

Queens Palace (QP): Located in Rein River (RR) near the Alpen/Rein River Entrance.

Castle of Chess (CoC): Located in Silaris at the Top Right Corner of the Map

Distorted Queens Palace (DQP): Located in Conquest Land (CL) located Bottom Right corner of the map

Distorted Castle of Chess (DCoC): Located In Sunny Coast (SC) its at near bottom of the map.

Stagnant Desert (SD): Located in Flabis far left of the Map.


Dungeons are different each time by looks, Levels and Monsters
So dont go to a Dungeon That is over your level and most dungeon levels can be determined by the maps level its usually a few levels or more above the fields level
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I. PARTIES

Joining Parties are simple. You can either wait til someone invites you OR right click thier character and select party invite. Or if you press "E" there is a party invite option you can add to your action bar and click the character (you wish to invite) and hit that slot number.

You can only have 6 people per party



This Shows the 5 other members of your party.

The Star: is the Captain/Leader of the party they have the power to Invite and Exile/Kick Party Members.

The Sword: is the Share Target symbol when you Right click thier name in the party area it shows 2 options. Follow or share target click share target then the set share target button you can hit that and it will show the monster the person your targeting is hitting at that moment.
NOTE: Hit the button often to stay targeted to the same monster.

Leave: This is a function for you to leave the party

Exile: Though it shows on your side too Only the Party Leader can Kick Party Members


NOTE: When the party leader leaves a new one is selected randomly

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8. SOWELS SYSTEM[/b]

Sowels come in two sections: Basic or Optional

Basic Sowels deal with defense for your armor its always the middle sowel in your gear.

Optional sowels go on either the Right or the left of the Basic sowel. They add additional stats to your gear. You can add Stamina, Intelligence, Dexterity etc...

You can buy sowels for your level of armor in the EM (Exchange Market) under the General Items and click the Sowels tab.

Gear from an NPC will have less sowel spots than Gear collected from a map.
Any gear over lvl 40 will have 3 spots for sowels while all gear below that will have 2 spots for sowels or less.

Depending on your type of job depends on which type of sowel you should equip. Some make your defense higher others your attack. Some are great for healers others better for Tanks. So select your sowels carefully and dont waste your money.
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9. CLANS[/b]

To Create a clan you must complete the "Create a Clan Quest" which is rewarded to you by Knight Ella. When you click her at lvl 10 you can choose Clan Establishment.


NOTE: Inappropriate Names will be blocked. Some names which are not inappropriate may be blocked also and you can send in a DQA about a name change.(DQA is located on the main page for asdastory go to support after you log in and click the DQA tab which is under FQAs)


All new clans start out at lvl 1 the highest lvl for a clan is lvl 5. There is no current way to level your clan to level 5 when you create it.
Thier can be only 1 leader and up to 5 Vice Leaders.
You Can have as many Special Members, Regular Members or Associate Members as you like as you can choose the rank for each person.

Vice Leader and Special Members can have the Options of Recruiting and Writing on the Notice Board.

You can view your members, read notice boards and leave a Memo beside your name for ppl to read.

Only Leaders can: Edit ur Clan Rank, Write a Notice or Recruit for clan (Unless permission given to Vice and Special members). Leaders can also see the last time your character has logged in the game and can Ban you for any reason.

Stay active and Have fun

NOTE: Clan Crests can be created by the leader with a special item that you can uptain from the Item Mall. Clan Crests will appear on the back of your Vehicles and Next to your name when you click on yourself.

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10. SOULMATES[/b]



SM LvL: Is located to the Top Right Corner
SM Exp: Is located below that its a long bar with blue bar going across
SM Health: Is the Red bar
SM Mana: Is the Blue bar
SM's Lvl: Is Located to the right of the Health and Mana of your SM.
The attachment on the side is called a SoulMate apple while your questing you and your soulmate grow this apple til it turns gold. When that happens you will have gathered Experience points. I suggest you take turns with the apple unless your Sm insists its yours. Only polite you know.

As you Sm lvl together you will earn special skills that you can use to make partying easier for both of you. The Max level you can reach with your Sm is lvl 30 along the way youll get special titles.

NOTE: If you disband your Sm you will not lose your SM level with that person until a LONG time has passed. So if you disband on accident or anger or temping youll be able to start back with your SM at the same lvl you left them.

Example of Soulmate Heal:



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11. PETS[/b]

When starting the game your killing wolves and you get this object called a field wolf egg.
Now the question in your mind is "How do i hatch it?" Well that is a good Question because most beginners to the game have yet to explore the town and get to know the NPCs. So take a walk down those stairs to your right and enter the town youll see a large tree and a huge Crystal (Moving Crystal) on the other side of town is a NPC (Non Player Character) Named: Misc John. He has in his shop a variety of items but the one your after is the Incubator (costs: 10,000 gold). Though most beginners do not have the Gold (since u start out with 1 gold) to purchase such a item.
So you must wait til you can gather that amount by doing your quests and selling items. But when you finally gather that much gold your pet will still need to hatch. There is a 30% chance that hatching will Succeed. So lets say it hatchs you watch its health bar drop the Orange bar. What do i do. You need to buy food for your pet.

Now each pet eats different types you can check what your pet eats by hitting "I" and going to the pet icon near the bottom of the window. Click on that then click your desired pet to read its information on the Right of the window. After finding out its type of food you can choose Lettuce, Meat or Oil to fill your pets health bar. So say you cant feed your pet and it dies.
Well there is something called a recovery pill so no worries. Just open your Crafting and go to Misc tab. Under there should tell you the items you need to create one of those pills to revive your pet.

Your pet does not disappear unless you delete it yourself so no worries. ^_^
The other item that youll earn for your pet during your travels is Pet Exp.
As you use these your pet will gain exp and help it along to lvling and increasing the stat it boosts. The other way for your pet to lvl is to have it summoned (where it follows you around) while you fight or just afk. Just remember to watch its health.
The final item is the Pet Limit Break this is a 500k item and is used to make your pet lvl go over the set limit. The limit break stops at lvl 10. You gain 1% or so each time your successful. If it should fail you chance losing a pet lvl.

Pets can not fight but do boost certain stats.
So choose the best pet for your job
There are also pets in the Item Mall that will hatch first time and you can lvl.
Tiga, Bunny, Dogi are the rare item mall pets.
Metal Head Slime (Slime), Gangtoss, Vesper, Pawn, PatchCat, PunchRat, FieldWolf, Pickle, WoodFolk, FireGolem. Are the others.

Pet Chart[/img]

NOTE: Only one pet can be out at a Time.

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12. PLAYER VS PLAYER

A. Faction Wars
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Outside of war is a special feature called PVP
its where you can challenge another player to a One on One battle.

The Winner will get to watch you beg for your life.

This is a fun way to train for FW (faction wars)
Test your skills and have fun.
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A. FACTION WARS[/b]

There are 3 teams: Light, Darkness and Chaos

Each Team has its Color and Flag:

Light: Blue
Darkness: Red
Chaos: Green

The Most People Allowed Per War is 300 so try not to log out and come back. You'll lose your spot and will not get the reward at the end.

You can start to sign up for wars at lvl 24.
To Go to a war warp to Alpen and be on any of the channels. Walk over to Ella there is a Knight near her. Click that Knight to Select your Team, to Participate in War or Enter the Battle.




The Wars are set at Certain Times During the Day following the Servers Clocks which is PST.
The wars are 50minutes long and at the end everyone gets Honor Coin which will soon be used at the Honorary Jewler.

You can Talk in Faction Chat in the war which is /r
also to get into Common Chat is Control + N

Party Mode and Vehicles are still available during the wars.

The Objective of war is to get the most bases full of your team color. Though during this time you will be fighting off other teams who wish to kill you and steal your base. At the end the winning team will get a reward and it will get less for each team next in the line. The winning Percentage changes as Your Team Wins.

Base Map:



NOTE: Objective is to get the bases so dont get in a useless fight

Team Points:



Faction War Map:



NOTE: You can leave war but you will not get credit at the end. Nothing is different from the normal maps x3
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13. PERSONAL STORE[/b]

Personal Shops are perfect for those Afkers just select any item that is TRADEABLE (worn armor is not tradeable or sellable in a personal shop or in normal trade situations)

NOTE: Must Be At least Level 10 to start a Store

Input the items some items come with a set price you can change the price by clicking the arrows or just erasing the whole thing and inputting your own price.

Learning the game prices will help you sell items faster. Some items are super cheap because they are common. Others high in the millions because of its rarity in the game. You can change your shops name to attract attention and when you sell something hit the Change button to add something new so ur shop is always full.

Click Pers. Store to set up a shop then:

A. Create a name for your store.
B. Drag Items that you wish to put up for sale.
C. Select a price and quantity.
D. Click Confirm.

To Enter someones store Just click thier Stores Name to enter and to Exit thier store hit Cancel
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14. PLAYER RAN EVENTS

Player ran events are when Asda Story players plan, supply and organize the events.
Sometimes player events can earn you CC items or just a really good time
Some Pictures of Player Events.

The Noob Dragon Lair Run xD



The Costume Contest
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There is Many events that are held by the Player base. Sometimes the GM's give them event boxes to hand out so watch the forums for some random fun.
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15. ABBREVIATIONS[/b]

NOTE: This is just a few i thought would be a NEED To KNOW others you can learn as you lvl and party with people.

NV = Night Valley
FC = Forgotten Canyon
CC = Channel Change or Campus Cash
~(Just read the sentence To understand Meaning)

Pty= Party
lvl= Level
Tnl= Til Next Level
wc = Wrong Chat
QP = Queens Palace
CoC= Castle of Chess
DQP= Distorted Queens Palace
DCoC= Distorted Castle of Chess
% = Experience Percent
B> = Buying
S> = Selling
T> = Trading
FW = Faction War
WH = WareHouse
Exp= Experience
EM = Exchange Market
IM = Item Mall
SD = Stagnant Desert
FF = FireWay Forest
CL = Conquest Land
SC = Sunny Coast
RR = Rein River
PvP= Player Vs Player
PvE= Player Vs (Monsters)
AM = ArchMage (Highest Current Job for Mages)
WM = Weapon Master (Highest Current Job for Warriors)
MA = Master Archer (Highest Current Job for Archers)

Those are just a few of the many Abbreviations you'll see.
Being on the game will help you learn more of the ones youll see as you advance in the game.

NOTE: If you want to know what one means Ask