First Ten Levels

Now that you’ve com­pleted your first quest you should already be at level 1, and your exper­i­ence bar (the col­oured bar above the short-​cut keys at the bot­tom of your screen) should already be about half-​way to level 2. For the first 10 levels you don’t need to worry about lev­el­ling up — it hap­pens auto­mat­ic­ally — so for now, you can focus on reach­ing level 10 and achiev­ing your first big milestone.

On com­plet­ing your ini­tial quest ‘First Weapon’, your next quest will be given to you by War­rior Po [217, 134], and is called ‘Res­taur­ant Deliv­ery’. War­rior Po needs you to deliver kit­ch­en­ware to Soar­ing Du [110, 159]. If you access your Invent­ory (press ‘Alt+A’ on your key­board, or use the Invent­ory but­ton in the lower right corner) you’ll notice that you have a ‘Quest’ items tab. If you look in that sec­tion you’ll see the kit­ch­en­ware that War­rior Po [217, 134] has given you.

By using Auto Path, or click­ing on the coordin­ates in the Quest win­dow, you should be able to find Soar­ing Du [110, 159] fairly eas­ily. Once you find Soar­ing Du and give him his kit­ch­en­ware, you will receive your first intro­duc­tion to Life Skills.

Once you accept Soar­ing Du’s quest, open your Skills menu by using the short­cut keys ‘Alt+S’ or click­ing on the Skills but­ton in the lower left of the screen. In the Skills menu select the ‘Life’ tab to view your cur­rent Life Skills.

You should only have ‘Cook­ing’ avail­able, so click the ‘Make’ but­ton to view the list of food you are able to pre­pare. For most recipes, there are set ingredi­ents that are required in order for you to make them. In this case, the steamed bread neces­sary for the quest doesn’t require any ingredi­ents. Cre­ate the bread to com­plete the quest!

Your next quest is assigned by Soar­ing Du [110, 159], and it’s called ‘Medi­cine’. He wants you to go talk to Phar­macist San­chi Lu [103, 132]. The phar­macist will give you a heal­ing item when you talk to him. You can return to the phar­macist whenever you need to pur­chase heal­ing aids.

When you speak with Phar­macist San­chi Lu [103, 132], he will give you a quest called ‘1st Recom­mend­a­tion’. He wants you to go back to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] to receive your first Recom­mend­a­tion Notice. With these notices, you will be able to acquire new skills to use in com­bat. Each time you receive a new notice, open your Invent­ory (Alt+A) and select the ‘Quest’ tab. Under that tab, you’ll see the notices you’ve accrued, and upon inspec­tion of the notices, you’ll find that they each have coordin­ates lis­ted for train­ers that will give you new skills.

After you choose your new skill, return to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] to receive your next quest entitled ‘New Friends’. He will send you to Dragon Chien [145, 139] who will give you a very brief quiz that you must answer cor­rectly. Once you com­plete this, you can return to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] for another Recom­mend­a­tion Notice!

After you have chosen your next skill, return to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] to receive the quest ‘Assist Mr. Sun’. Travel to Mr. Sun [173, 146] and he will give you fire­works to det­on­ate in town. Go to the tar­get loc­a­tion, open up your Invent­ory (Alt+A), and activ­ate the ‘Sig­nal Fire­works’ to com­plete the quest.

Upon return­ing to Mr. Sun [173, 146] you will be sent to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] to receive your third Recom­mend­a­tion Notice for a new skill.

After you choose your third skill, return to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] to receive your first combat-​oriented quest called ‘First Fight’. You are given the task of killing 8 Flat­lands White Apes in the Wild Plains, to the west of Da Li. If you press your TAB key, you will be given a map of your cur­rent area. Left-​click the name ‘Wild Plains’ on the left side of the Da Li map to make your way towards the exit that leads to the Wild Plains. You’ll also notice that if you’re not in the same zone as your quest object­ive, you will not have the abil­ity to use the Auto Path func­tion. Once you arrive in Wild Plains, you will notice the Flat­land White Apes are very close by. Make sure your weapon is equipped and when you’re ready, left-​click on the enemy you’d like to attack.

After slay­ing 8 Flat­land White Apes, return to Mas­ter Zhao [160,157] to receive your reward and your next quest, ‘First Pet’.

Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] instructs you to head into the east­ern quarter of Da Li to speak with the pet vendor, Lily White [265, 129]. Lily will give you a quest called, ‘Level Up Pet’ that requires you to head back to the Wild Plains or go to Mt. Infin­ity to famil­i­ar­ize your­self with the Pet Sys­tem in TLBB. Once you’re in Wild Plains or Mt. Infin­ity, open your pet win­dow (Alt+X) and select the ‘sum­mon’ com­mand. Now that your pet has been summoned, you’ll notice that whenever you attack an enemy, your pet will attack it as well. Your pet’s health and exper­i­ence are dis­played under your own, so make sure you keep a close eye on its health.

When you’ve defeated enough enemies to get your pet to level 2, return to Lily White [265, 129]. She will send you to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] so that you can receive yet another Recom­mend­a­tion Notice.

Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] will give you a quest that is sim­ilar to your ‘First Fight’ quest, except this one sends you to the east. This quest is called ‘Deadly Blue Spiders’. You will need to travel east of Da Li to Mt. Infin­ity to kill 8 Blue Spiders. Once you’ve slain 8 spiders, return to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] for your reward and next quest.

‘How to Catch a Pet’ is a quest that intro­duces you to cap­tur­ing anim­als in the wild in order to claim them as your allies. Find Lily White [265, 129] again and she will tell you how to cap­ture a pet for your­self. After you read her instruc­tions and accept her quest, pro­ceed to Ser­i­ous Wong [275, 49] who will give you entry into the Back Garden so that you can cap­ture a pet of your own!

When you are done cap­tur­ing your brand new pet duck, return to Lily to com­plete the quest. If you ever need any sup­plies for your duck, or any of your other pets, you can return to Lily at any time. Return to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] for your reward and your next quest which involves in-​game announcements.

Your new quest is titled, ‘Check Bul­letin Board’ and it’s an intro­duc­tion to aware­ness around in-​game announce­ments. There are many announce­ments in the game that will appear auto­mat­ic­ally on your screen, but there are some that will be pos­ted exclus­ively on the bul­letin boards of the main cities.

Pro­ceed to the bul­letin board in Da Li [148, 40], inspect it, and return to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157].

From here, Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] will give you a quest called, ‘Cruel Tuan’ where your task is to speak with one of the most wicked men in Da Li, Cruel Tuan [215, 284]. After talk­ing with Cruel Tuan, he will give you a quest titled, ‘Help Little Beg­gar’ where you must make steamed bread with your cook­ing skill and then give it to the Little Beg­gar [199, 255]. Once you com­plete this object­ive, return to Tuan to receive your next task from him. Tuan will inform you that the Little Beg­gar [199, 255] is now in need of cloth­ing, so he sends you to Leni­ent Wong [238, 172] to pur­chase the neces­sary gar­ments. Click on the Quest log to find Leni­ent Wong’s coordinates.

After you have pur­chased the clothes, give them to the Little Beg­gar [199, 255] and return to Cruel Tuan [215, 284] to com­plete ‘help Beg­gar a 3rd time’. Cruel Tuan’s final task for you involves buy­ing a tool for the Little Beg­gar to use. Travel to Deep-​Pockets Gao [58, 133] and pur­chase a Pick­axe for the Little Beg­gar. Click on the Quest log to find Deep-​Pocket Gao’s coordinates.

Give the Pick­axe to the Little Beg­gar [199, 255] and return to Cruel Tuan to com­plete the quest. Cruel Tuan will send you back to Mas­ter Zhao [160, 157] so you can receive your next quest. You will now get an intro­duc­tion to instanced events through the quest called, ‘Seek Out Pup­pet Alley’. Travel to Ser­i­ous Wong [275, 49] and speak to him about the infest­a­tion. Ser­i­ous Wong will then give you the task of killing 5 pup­pets for the quest called, ‘Fight in Pup­pet Alley’. Wong will trans­port you into the alley so that you can slay 5 pup­pets to com­plete the quest. Once you fin­ish, return to him for your reward.

At this point, you should have reached level 10. If how­ever for some reason you find you are not yet at level 10, we advise you to per­haps return to Mt. Infin­ity and slay some more Blue Spiders, or altern­at­ively, find some more low level quests.

Return to Mas­ter Zhao [160,157] to com­plete your quest titled, ‘Mas­ter Zhao’s Goal’ and accept ‘Ask About the Nine Classes’. Now when you speak to Mas­ter Zhao [160,157], he’ll give you detailed descrip­tions of the 9 classes so that you have an easier time decid­ing which you’d like to join. As soon as you’re ready to join a class, you can let Mas­ter Zhao [160,157] know which one you’ve chosen and he will dir­ect you on your path to enrolment.

For more inform­a­tion please read Join­ing a Class.