If you've taken on a disciple or become one you'll start to get a series of quests as you produce contribution points. I'm not sure what level the disciples get them but the first quest for a master comes when the disciples have produced 1000 contribution points. Of course, the quest is bugged. Well done Acclaim/Indy21.

You get these quests from Sima, the new NPC in charge of this Master and Disciple system in Hefei. As Acclaim/Indy21 get the bugs sorted out we will document the quests here, for both the masters and the disciples. Hopefully this wont take forever to get sorted out.

Acclaim and Indy21 have reached a new high in utter incompetence with this new patch. There are some nice ideas here, but actually keeping the game working is just not going well.

Master's Quests

To gain the 4th level of Mastership you have to carry a package to Xinnan on the Shi Zhang map. You deliver that package to the quest marked NPC, and then you speak to a character named Ye Xiaoqing at the entrance to that village. He isn't there at the moment. That is the bug.

As a Master you can only collect 1000 contribution points at level 5. I've been spending mine as they come on gifts for my new slave-noobs. I only have 1 of them active at the moment and he's producing contribution points almost as fast as I can spend them.

Disciples Quests

The first disciple quests for BoT players comes when you have contributed 1000 points and you are sent to kill "30 Leaders of White Shadows" on the clan map. You receive 2000 gold for completing this quest. Other clans will probably have similar quests on their clan map and I would love to hear from you if you've done one of those quests.

A Disciple starts as a 3rd class disciple and levels up to 2nd class when he has produced 5000 contribution points. At 20000 contribution a disciple becomes a 1st Class disciple but it is unclear if there is any other bonus.

Other Information

Every 50th mob you kill either as master or disciple will give you a random experience bonus. In combination with an xp event that can be a really big bonus from one mob. If the class is "in session" and everyone is grinding, those bonuses come often because every kill from every player counts.

The disciple buff is worth damage, hit points and vital energy but the disciple only gets that buff if the master is online. The bonus buff increases in value for every mob killed by the disciple. When the master comes back online the bonus buff is restored as it previously was and does not start over. Choose carefully which character you want to play as a master. Your disciples will want that character to be online an awful lot of the time.

I haven't tried it yet, but I understand that a black clan master can take disciples from all three clans plus vagabonds, and a white clan master can take disciples from all white clans plus vagabonds. I would bet a Vagabond Master can accept from all 6 clans, as long as they get the disciple as a Vagabond, before they choose a clan. I will continue to take only Brotherhood of Thieves members as disciples because those are the characters I know best.

The prizes from the NPC sellers are damned impressive, particularly for the level 1 masters. There is a permanent HP Plate that is worth 5/1000 hp return and has no karma requirement. The level 2 decos will also be popular. They are worth various combinations of damage or defense or speed. There is a level 1 deco as well, with no information as to what it does.

Feel free to add to this list.

- SpearDriver