Chapter 3: Tasks

Chapter 3: Tasks

Doing tasks is one of the main aspects of the game. It is designed as the standard way of gaining XP and Blood (money). Tasks use up energy which is slowly replenished over time. The more skill points you put into energy, the more tasks you will be able to accomplish. This is the main strategy of an E-vamp. Tasks are broken down into areas. As you gain in level, you will unlock more areas (At the time of this writing, Cairo, Egypt is locked, and cannot be accessed, no matter what your level is. It is currently in development and will be unlocked once the developers of the game are ready)

Mastery:
As you do a task, a mastery bar will fill up by a set amount. Each task has it’s own amount. Some tasks will yield 20-30% mastery, so you would only have to do them a few times to get 100%. Others can be as low as 2%, and would need to be done 50 times to get to 100%. When you achieve 100% mastery in a task, you get a skill point. You need to achieve mastery in all tasks of an area before you are eligible to advance any to the next level of mastery. There are a total of 3 levels mastery for each task. You do not need to mastery all the tasks to unlock the next area. That is done by your level.

Items:
In addition to experience and blood, tasks can often yield items. Most of the items yielded by tasks are randomly dropped, so you will not get the item every time you do the tasks. The boss tasks have a set 3% drop rate, other tasks have not displayed the rates at which they drop, but experience has indicated that it is considerably higher. In addition to providing items, most tasks require one or more items to complete. Most items can be bought in the Bazaar, others can only be achieved by doing missions.

Consumable Items:
A few items (Injection: Blood Fury, Ammunition: Silver Arrows, Ammunition: Silver Nitrate Bullets, Injection: Epinephrine, and Injection: Hybridized Werewolf Blood) are used up when the appropriate mission is done. These items can only be acquired by doing other tasks. Once you are out of these items, you can only do them again if you go back and do the task that drops them a few times to replenish your stock. I have detailed many of these above in the FAQ. However, for a complete list of items, tasks, what they drop and what they require, please see my spreadsheet on google documents at : http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Amd42AzutJy_dE5RVzR0OXNHNS16X2NITDZ6bXRsdWc&hl=en )

Boss Tasks:
Each area has a boss to fight. These fights require a certain number of clan members as well as energy. After the first boss, William, each boss will require an item that has been dropped by the boss before. As these items only have a 3% drop rate, you may have to fight the boss many times in order to get the item. This is not a bug, they are designed to be difficult to get. These items are some of the most powerful in the game, and many have considerable upkeep costs (see equipment below.) As you fight the same boss, and achieve greater mastery in the task, the amount of energy required to fight the boss will increase, along with experience and blood.

Strategy:

For an e-vamp, tasks are the bread and butter of the game. There is a constant temptation to do tasks that yield the highest Experience to Energy ratio. (for this information see the spreadsheet at the link provided above) Doing this will allow you to level faster, however you will miss out on the substantial amount of skill points given for achieving mastery at all the tasks in the game. At 3 skill points per task (one for each level of Mastery) there are a total of 105 skill points that can be achieved in this fashion. In my opinion this is to substantial to ignore. It is even worthwhile to do the “Obliterate the Vampire Lord Coven” task, which is the only task in the game that yield less experience than it costs energy to do (23 xp for 26 energy) However this task is one of the easiest to master as it yields around 37% mastery each time you do it (thank you devs!)

My advice for the e-vamp then is as follows.

Proceed in a methodical fashion, doing each task to completion in order. Buy only the items required to fulfill the requirements for the next task. As you level and get skill points for mastery, invest them all in Energy. This will allow you to continue leveling up fore quite some time. You can easily get to level 10 in about an hour or so. Buy coffins (and coffins only!) with all the blood you can spare. You will need this income to cover the upkeep from the boss’ weapon drops. Be careful with your money vs. upkeep. If you start investing in coffins early, you should be ok. Once you have achieved mastery in all tasks, fight Marquis as much as you can. He yields the most experience for your energy, and has a chance of dropping the best weapon in the game (wings of darkness 35att/ 20 def). Continue doing this until you reach 500 clan. At this time you should have a substantial income. Equip your Vamp with gear listed in the equipment section and start putting your skill points into att/def and a few into stamina. Go out and kick some vampire ass for a while!

Energy packs:

Energy packs allow you to refill your energy to it’s original amount or beyond, based on the number of people that send you energy. This is another reason why having a large clan is very important. The more people in your clan, the more benefit you will get from an energy pack when you use it. Note: YOU WILL LOOSE ENERGY WHEN YOU LEVEL. This is not a bug, however, it does require some planning.

Here is my strategy for using Energy Packs:
Note: I've been e-vamping for a while, so my energy is at 350. This is enough to get me halfway up to level fighting Marquis from a new level. Then I use my e-pack. This will get me to the next level and an energy re-set (yes I lose almost 2-300 energy at this time). Fight Marquis until halfway to the new level. THEN WAIT. I need to wait for my e-pack to recharge, this will also get me quite a few energy naturally. I wait until I level with my natural energy, get the reset and repeat.

This will minimize the loss of energy, and maximize your level. I will go up 2 levels 2 or 3 times a day using this strategy.