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Once you choose Musician as your Culture Life Skill you gain the ability to 'play music' under your Life Skill Menu.

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Musician Menu

Starting playing opens a new screen with a timed mini game that is similar to Guitar Hero. Two groups of keys will be randomly generated: one group will be chosen from the letter combinations I+J, O+K and P+L and the other from A+Z, S+X and D+C (as you can see, they are keys that are vertical to each other on each side of your keyboard).

When the blue musical notes pass through these letter combinations, you must press the correct key on the keyboard and the notes will disappear; failing to do this will be counted as a mistake.

The 5 green lights at the bottom of the playing interface indicate how many times players are allowed to miss targets; when all lights are off, players will fail the mini game. These lights will turn off under 2 circumstances:

  1. missing 1 note (1 light goes off)
  2. blank shots accumulated up to a certain number, depending on the difficulty level of the tune; blank shot = pressing a wrong key or pressing a key when there are no notes. (1 light goes off)

To the right of the playing interface there is a time bar which shows the progress of the current song. The bar will fill blue as time goes on; when it is full and provided you didn't use up your miscounts, you will be successful in playing the tune.

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Music Playing - Practice Mode

There are two ways of playing music:

  • Practice Mode (large Qin): activated by clicking 'Play music' next to the tune in your music book. Once you complete playing the score you gain experience and rank points as a Musician.
  • Battle Mode (small Qin): activated by playing a tune from the shortcut bar. This adds Buffs to teammates or Debuffs to enemies but does not increase musical experience.  To add a song to your shortcut bar, drag the song icon from the music book to an empty slot on the bar.

Upon learning the skill, the player will receive the title Music Novice and can perform the Musician Daily Task. To use the life skill, the player must have a qin (more accurate guqin = ancient long chinese zither without frets and bridges) in the backpack.  The quality of the Qin will not affect the amount of XP gained from practising (or the strength of the buff/debuff), only how much durability it has (how many songs you can play before it falls to pieces).

Note: At the current time (05 June 2013) it appears that debuff songs (those that affect the enemy) do NOT work.  extensive testing within the guild (using duels, Jianghu mode PKs, guild war, and school war) has been unable to land a debuff on anyone.  This includes letting the songs play to completion.  As such, it is best to focus on songs that buff your team mates.

Abilities[]

Play Music

Identities[]

Identity Name Life Skills XP Needed
Music Novice 1
Music Apprentice 1200
Music Journeyman 4080
Music Expert 9840
Music Artisan 19440
Illustrious Musician 36600
Master Musician 65400
Grand Master Musician  113400
Legendary Musician  188400

Hint: Reaching a certain identity will activate additional effects for songs. These include:

  • stronger effect
  • play song automatically

Which identity if any will trigger these effects is dependant on the song, and is stated in the tooltip for the song (hover the mouse cursor over the song icon).

At this time, many (all?) of the skills that state the the music can be played automatically in battle, and the player may still use skills do not actually allow for the use of combat skills. The mini game must still be played to give the buff or debuff effect.

Songs and their Effects[]

Name Effect Experience Length
Gong, Shang, Jue, Zhi, Yu Increase teammates' Brawn by 13 32 0:43
Qing Yue Increase teammates' Balance by 13 32 0:43
Grace and Joy Increase teammates' Breath by 13 32 0:43
Yan Music Increase teammates' Spirit by 13 32 0:42
Pound The Clothes - Prelusion Increase teammates' Stamina by 13 42 1:52
Pound The Clothes - Interval Increase teammates' Internal skill defense by 400 42 1:51
Pound The Clothes - Postlude Increase teammates' External skill defense by 1400 42 1:52
Dialog between Fisherman and Woodcutter - Prelude Increase teammates' Movement speed by 20% 42 2:06
Dialog between Fisherman and Woodcutter - Interlude Increase teammates' Hit Rate by 15% 42 2:06
Dialog between Fisherman and Woodcutter - Coda Increase teammates' Dodge Rate by 11% 42 2:07
Liezi Controls The Wind - Prelude Increase teammates' Critical Hit Rate by 9% 42
Liezi Controls The Wind - Interlude teammates' HP recovered by 20 per second 42
Liezi Controls The Wind - Coda teammates' Internal force recovered by 14 per second 42
The Seagull Forgets Deception - Prelude Increase teammates' basic HP Max by 400 57
The Seagull Forgets Deception - Interlude Increase teammates' basic Internal force Max by 200 57
The Seagull Forgets Deception - Coda decrease enemy's Brawn by 10 57 1:22
Pei Lan - Prelude decrease enemy's Balance by 10 57
Pei Lan - Interlude decrease enemy's Breath by 10 57
Pei Lan - Coda decrease enemy's Spirit by 10 57
Song of Chu - Prelude decrease enemy's Stamine by 10 65
Song of Chu - Coda decrease enemy's Internal skill defense by 500 65
Huaxuyin decrease enemy's External skill defense by 1100 65 2:07
The Song of Kan - Prelude decrease enemy's Movement speed by 16% 65
The Song of Kan - Interlude decrease enemy's Hit Rate by 10% 65
The Song of Kan - Coda decrease enemy's Dodge Rate by 7% 65
Deer Calling - Prelude decrease enemy's Critical Hit Rate by 6% 65
Deer Calling - Coda decrease enemy's Internal force by 14 every 3 seconds 65
Fall of The Plum-Blossom - Prelude Increase teammates' basic HP Max by 300, Stamina by 8 87
Fall of The Plum-Blossom - Coda Increase teammates' basic Internal force Max by 150, Breath by 8 87 1:45
Autumn Song - Prelude Increase teammates' basic HP Max by 300, HP recovered by 16 per second 87
Autumn Song - Interlude Increase teammates' basic Internal force Max by 150, Internal force recovered by 13 per second 87
Autumn Song - Coda Increase teammates' Movement speed by 15%, Dodge Rate by 10% 87
Plant Leaves In Autumn Wind - Prelude Increase teammates' Brawn by 8, Critical hit rate by 7% 87
Plant Leaves In Autumn Wind - Code Increase teammates' Balance by 8, Hit rate rate by 12% 87
Xiaoxing Water And Cloud - Prelude Increase teammates' Spirit by 8, Energy by 13 per second 10
Xiaoxing Water And Cloud - Interlude Increase teammates' External Parry by 1100, HP by 16 per second ?? ??
Xiaoxing Water And Cloud - Coda Increase teammates' Brawn by 8, Balance by 8 110
Returning Home - Prelude Increase teammates' Balance by 8, Stamina by 8 110
Returning Home - Interlude Increase teammates' Stamina by 8, Brawn by 8 110
Returning Home - Coda Increase teammates' Breath by 8, Spirit by 8 110
Solitary Orchid In Stone Tablet Mode - Prelude decrease enemy's basic HP Max by 130, Stamina by 7 132 2:07
Solitary Orchid In Stone Tablet Mode - Interlude decrease enemy's basic Internal force Max by 65, Breath by 7 132
Solitary Orchid In Stone Tablet Mode - Coda decrease enemy's basic Internal force Max by 65, Internal force by 11 every 3 seconds 132
Mania decrease enemy's Movement speed by 13%, Evasion rate by 9% 132
The Song of Flying Dragon - Prelude decrease enemy's Brawn by 7, Critical Hit Rate by 6% 155
The Song of Flying Dragon - Interlude decrease enemy's Balance by 7, Hit Rate by 10% 155 1:42
The Song of Flying Dragon - Coda decrease enemy's basic Spirit by 7, Internal force by 11 every 3 seconds 155 2:04
Midnight Crow - Prelude decrease enemy's Brawn by 7, Balance by 7 155
Midnight Crow - Interlude decrease enemy's Stamina by 7, Hit Rate by 10% 155
Midnight Crow - Coda decrease enemy's Brawn by 7, Stamina by 7 155
Early Spring - Prelude Increase teammates' basic HP Max by 240, External skill defense by 1000, Dodge Rate by 9% 185
Early Spring - Interlude Increase teammates' basic Internal force Max by 120, Hit Rate by 11%, Critical Hit Rate by 6% 185 2:08
Early Spring - Coda decrease enemy's all basic attributes by 5, Brawn by 7 185
A Parting Tune With A Thrice Repeated Refrain - Prelude decrease enemy's Internal force by 2% every 3 seconds 185
A Parting Tune With A Thrice Repeated Refrain - Interlude decrease enemy's basic HP Max by 100, External skill defense by 800, Dodge Rate by 7% 200
2:27
Yangguan Sandie End Song decrease enemy's basic Internal force Max by 50, Hit Rate by 9%, Critical Hit Rate by 4% 200 1:53
Mo-Tse's Sadness - Coda (should be Prelude) Increase teammates' all basic attributes by 7 185 ??
Mo-Tse's Sadness - Interlude Recover teammates' HP 2% every 2 seconds 185 ??
Mo-Tse's Sadness - Coda Recover teammates'Energy 2% every 3 seconds 185
Tall Mounts And Flowing River - Prelude Recover teammates' HP by 25/second, Energy by 15/second 200 1:57
Tall Mounts And Flowing River - Interlude Increase teammates' HP Max by 360, Energy Max by 180 200
Tall Mounts And Flowing River - (3) Increase teammates' all basic attributes by 10 200
Imperial Concubine Xiang's  Sadness Decrease enemy's Breath by 7, Spirit by 7 ?? ??
Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water - Prelude Recover teammates' HP 25 each second, recover Energy by 15 each second. 200 2:45
Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water - Interlude Increase teammates' HP Max by 360, Energy by 180 200

2:20

Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water - (3) Increase teammates' all attributes by 10 200 2:35

Daily Tasks[]

Note: "Pound the Clothes - Postlude" and "Dialog Between Fisherman And Woodcutter - Prelude" can be bought at Musician shifu at Scholars (532,448).

Identity Song to play (once) Reward Life Skill Experience
Music Novice Gong, Shang, Jue, Zhi, Yu Musician's Letter 1 150
Music Apprentice Qing Yue Musician's Letter 2 180
Music Journeyman Grace and Joy - 'Yale' in Task Tracker Musician's Letter 3 240
Music Expert Yan Music - 'Yanle' in Task Tracker Musician's Letter 4 300
Music Artisan Pound the Clothes - Prelusion Musician's Letter 5 390
Illustrious Musician Pound the Clothes - Interval Musician's Letter 6 480
Master Musician Pound the Clothes - Postlude Musician's Letter 7 600
Grand Master Musician

Dialog Between Fisherman And Woodcutter - Prelude

Musician's Letter 8 750
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