What is the Eight Diagram Tactics?
Ba
Zhen Tou - Also known as the "Eight kinds of Battle Array". It is the
earliest military science in China and is a kind of battle formation
and troops disposition in ancient battle. It is composed of eight
battle arrays such as sky, ground, wind, cloudy, dragon, tiger, bird,
snake. There are many records about Ba Zhen Tou, especially Zhuge
Liang's "San Guo Yan Yi" is almost known by everybody. However, The
origin of Ba Zhen Tou in the history is almost unknown.
Legend
of Condor Heroes - First of Jinyong's Condor Trilogy. In the novel the
Eight Diagram Tactics is a strategic area of Peach Blossom Island and
it is a maze like area full of traps. The island is well known and
secluded because of the Eight Diagram Tactics and the islands master
Huang Yaoshi (one of 5 supreme martial artists) prohibits people in
entering the island. In the story an old man (Zhou Botong) was trapped
inside the island's cavern for 20 years because he cant figure out how
to get out of the tactics. Eventually he was found by Guo Jing who is
in search of food by following a tortoise. An exact duplicate of the
Eight Diagram Tactics was also found in Lu Chengfeng's manor who is one
of the six disciples of Huang Yaoshi. Yang Kang (Yang Guo's father) was
imprisoned inside Lu Manor's Eight Diagram Tactics.
Moonbox
Quest - In Conquer Online the Eight-Diagram Tactics is also known as
the Moonbox Quest. The quest is a challenge for players and it consists
of 8 areas which is Peace, Calmed, Disturbed, Deserted, Chaos,
Prosperous, Death, and Life. Only level 70+ can enter and challenge the
tactics and a reward will be given upon completing the quest. This will
be the main topic of this guide.
Understanding the Quest
You
must remember that the tactics are changeable. The teleporter will be
randomly teleporting you to 7 possible locations; they are Peace,
Calmed, Disturbed, Deserted, Chaos, Prosperous, and lastly is Death
Tactic. In order to complete the quest you will need to have a complete
set of tokens. A complete set consists of 6 tokens, one token per
tactic (Peace, Calmed, Disturbed, Deserted, Chaos, & Prosperous).
You can only get out from a tactic by showing a certain token of the
tactic to the guardian ghost, no tokens will be dropped in Death
tactic, so if you happen to teleport here without a complete set the
only way out is by dieing. Also, all of the tokens and areas will look
the same so you have to know or devise a strategy on how to sort or
distinguish your tactics/tokens so you wont have problems in
identifying or mixing them up.
Walkthrough
1. Find
Fortuneteller. If you are level 70+ and want to challenge the tactics,
he will teleport you to the entrance of Eight-Diagram Tactics.
2.
Talk to Maggie at the entrance to know the stories. And she'll teleport
you into one of the eight tactics randomly, but except for Life Tactic.
There are Peace, Chaos, Deserted, Prosperous, Disturbed, Calmed, Death
and Life Tactic.
3. After you enter a tactic, you do not know
which one you have been at. You must kill the monsters in the tactic to
get a token. With it, you talk to Guardian God, and he will tell you
the name of the tactic you have entered, and the name of the token.
4.
Take down the name and ask Ghost to teleport your out of here. After
you talk to Maggie again, she will teleport you to another tactic
randomly.
5. In this way, you gather the token of Peace, Chaos, Deserted, Prosperous, Disturbed, Calmed (the six tokens).
6.
If you happen to be teleported to Death tactic, you will be told by
Guardian God and Ghost that you enter Death tactic. If you do not have
the six tokens, you cannot leave here until you die (you will lose
items if you die, and if you log off, you will re-spawn at the same
spot).
7. After you've collected all the six tokens, Maggie may
teleport you to Death Tactic. Talk to the Ghost. He can make a Soul
Jade out of your tokens and teleport you to Life Tactic.
8. Find
lonely Ghost in this tactic. If you agree to help him get reborn, he
will give you three meteors or a Moon Box. It is up to you. If you
refuse to help him, he'll take away your Soul Jade, teleport you out
and give you nothing. Be very careful
Strategy
In order
to make things easier when making moonbox, you must first need a
character that is strong enough to survive the tactics. A character
with a very low defense wont be able to survive in this quest for long.
Warriors and Trojans are good for this quest and reborn taos and
archers with good physical defense can also do the quest if going
melee. Having a high physical attack will speed up the process of
getting tokens. Most 130 chars with dragon gems in their equipments
make this quest with ease because they can kill the monsters fast but
still its luck which determines how long a monster will drop a token or
where you will be teleported to. Good luck!
This is the key that
I have created when I started making moonbox 3 years ago. Its up to you
if you want to do the same or devise your own strategy.
1. Plan
where you will put your tokens and keep it on a certain warehouse. It
is important to go out of the quest and return to town after collecting
tokens from a tactic. This is to protect your tokens from dropping in
case you be teleported to death tactic. You wont drop any because the
tokens are not with you as it is kept in your warehouse. Also it helps
you to identify which token is which, especially if you know what
tokens are in a certain warehouse. You will be able to identify an
unidentified token if you have planned it this way.
Example of where to put tokens:
Average Moonbox Maker (limited to 20 tokens per warehouse)
Twin City WH - Peace Tactic Tokens
Phoenix City WH - Calmed Tactic Tokens
Ape City WH - Disturbed Tactic Tokens
Deserted City WH - Deserted Tactic Tokens
Bird City WH - Chaos Tactic Tokens
Market WH - Prosperous Tactic Tokens
Pro Moonbox Maker (has 6 accounts just for token storage. Up to 140 tokens per account)
Name your token holders with the name of the tactic so you know what token a character is holding.
2.
You must know what tactic you are into. The best way to know a tactic
is by getting a token from a Toughhorn and to show to the guardian
ghost, but there are also times when its taking so long for a monster
to drop a token. There is another way to identify a tactic without a
need of token. You can ask a person who is also inside the same tactic
with you or know what kind of pots the monster from the tactic drops.
Peace Tactic - Panacea, Pearl Ointment
Calmed Tactic - Panacea, Soul Pill
Disturbed Tactic - Ginseng, Soul Pill (same with deserted)
Deserted Tactic - Ginseng Soul Pill (same with disturbed)
Chaos Tactic - Ginseng, Recovery Pill
Prosperous Tactic - Vanilla, Pearl Ointment
Death Tactic - Vanilla, Refreshing Pill (You dont need pots to figure this one out)
If
you can notice the pots that are dropped in Disturbed Tactic and
Deserted Tactic are just the same. You have no choice but to wait for a
token to be dropped if you wanna figure out the what tactic you are in.
Disturbed tactic has slow token drop rate so figuring it out might take
some time.
If you seem to be in a tactic where you already
collected many tokens then you can just let the monsters kill you if
you want to save time. Use water elf, divine hare, or night devil if
you have so the monsters can kill you. Only non reborn warriors without
night devil has the problem in killing themselves. They mostly unequip
one of their items either headgear, necklace, or armor. This is very
dangerous especially in death tactic and you might drop your unequipped
item. There is no guarantee you will get it back after dropping it.
3.
Make a list of where you put and how many your tokens is and update it
everytime you collect new tokens. You can also assign a definite key
slot for certain token when exchanging tokens to moonbox. This way you
can keep track of your tokens that even if you messed your tokens up
you will not be so confused on sorting it.
4. Learn to use a set
in search of a certain tactic. Since you can go anywhere when you have
a complete set, try to look for a tactic where you need tokens most and
get some of it before you exchange your set for moonbox.
5. If
you have 2 strong characters like trojan or warrior try to have them
both enter a different tactic. This is only if you can multitask
between your 2 chars. This will save you time in getting the other
tokens you need. You can also put a water tao reviver and token keeper
inside of each tactic. This is just a security in case you get pkd
inside and will also serve as a storage for your tokens inside the
tactic this way you can get more tokens on the tactic you are in to.
6.
Know the drop rates. This is from easiest to hardest (top to bottom).
This is just my opinion from my experience. (After the lotto patch
looks like the drop rates have changed. I hope someone can help me
clarify this.)
Peace Tactic
Calmed Tactic
Prosperous Tactic
Deserted Tactic
Chaos Tactic
Disturbed Tactic
7.
Use a reborn with divine hare if you have for exchanging tokens into
moonbox. This will cut off travel time in search of death tactic.
Awards on obtaining a Monbox
1. You can sell it for cash depending on its price on your server
2. It will give you things at random when you open it. These are the things that you can get from a moonbox.
- refined socketed necklace/bag/ring/bracelet/boots (rare)
- meteor and refined necklace/bag/ring/bracelet/boots
- unique necklace/bag/ring/bracelet/boots
- elite necklace/bag/ring/bracelet/boots
- three meteors
ty ZEBB
i will upgrade quest with pics and rest other time
Go TC near Pharmacist and talk with General Chen
Go Ape City and talk with Soldier:
Go PC and find General Wu ( where u see yellow buttons on map that i post first)
Back in TC and talk again with General Chen
Finish
I know its Borring ,but its help alot for thouse from new servers.
