At the end of the season, your character is converted to normal, and you keep your gear and everything you've earned. You also get to convert one of your tuvala pen pieces to a boss tet armor or weapon. The end of season reward is really good too, you can pickup a pen capotia ring, earring (these options were the summer season reward) or belt (this season reward) which is equal to tet crescent/narc/basilisk. The fall reward wasn't very good so choose one of the capotias. There's no reason not to play a season character, even for older players who might want the rewards or to play the new class. Also all your nodes, horses, storage, map exploration and energy is account wide. Each character will have their own inventory and lifeskills though. At the end of a season if you pen'd all your tuvala gear, finish the adventure logs that give AP/DP and get the season reward, I think you'll be about 252 AP / 310 DP which is a nice start. From there you'd work towards 269 AP / 347 DP or around there and you can be competitive in pvp too.
Seasonal gear at PEN will have you at: 239/241/303. The AP/DP from Adventure Journals do not count towards any quest requirements that might pop (like in the post graduation quest chain this past season). Still really nice and makes the majority of grind spots viable, and even more depending on class.
Some additions to
Uriel
post about Seasons.
A Season character has access to the Season Server(s), which have the following benefits:
- No PvP (unless its Guild vs. Guild)
- 100% / 50% XP / SP
- Tuvala Material Drops
- Seasonal Arsha Server (pvp all the time, 50% bonus to drops)
A Seasonal character can play on any Server they wish too, but Tuvala materials only drop on Season Server. A Season character can only use Quest gear, Naru gear and Tuvala gear. The quest gear can be obtained as rewards from doing the MSQ for each region and will get you items for every slot, so if you have everything you can start off at around 177/188 AP/DP. So you can breeze through all content til you need your Tuvala.
Doing the MSQ will give you a set of Naru gear (worse then quest gear) and more than enough of the special stones needed to enhance it. Enhancing Naru gear it super easy, and you'll need to get the Armors and Weapons to PEN. At the end of the Mediah MS you'll be able to convert the Naru armor / weapons into PRI Tuvala. This is when you'll start to get Tuvala enhancement materials: Time Filled Stones, Refined Stones and Tuvala Ore. The Time filled stones are used for enhancement, the Refined Stones can be used to 100% a Tuvala to PRI, DUO or TRI (10, 20, 30) at the cost of durability. The Tuvala Ore is used to exchange for Tuvala Armor, Weapons and Accessories (1, 1, 5 per). These materials are dropped at various grind spots, but each grind spot ONLY drops a certain type of material; Fogans drop Time Filled, Sulfur Mines drop Refined, etc. Note, the Refined Stones and Ore are fairly rare drops, while Time filled stones are pretty common.
The Tuvala gear is like Boss gear, just a lower tier. The Armor / Weapons at PEN are equal to TET Boss gear, while the Accessories at PEN are equal to TRI Boss (without special stats). At the end of the Season you can convert each piece of Tuvala into non Season versions which become Family bound, cannot be sold or have Caphra added to them. You can also pick one Tuvala piece and convert it into an actual Boss gear item that is Family bound, can be enhanced, but cannot be sold. Lots of people do a Season for this one piece so that can safely try for a PEN. This past season they added a post graduation quest chain (around 44 quests) which had you do all kinds of stuff, for a new player, finishing this quest chain could take awhile since it one quest requires 700m worth of gold bars. When completed though, you get another Boss converstion scroll that you can use on a piece of Tuvala gear.
Each Season also has a Milestone path for you to work on, you can also buy a Black Spirit Pass which gives additional rewards for each Milestone (this Seasons BSP is bad, skip it). Plus you get Seasonal Leveling event that gives you even more rewards for hitting various levels.
If anyone has questions ingame, feel free to ask me, family name is: Eiro.
