History VideoGame / PerfectWorld

** Each of the Three Orders of Morai (Luminance, Shroud, and Corona) offer Teleport Scrolls to member players who have enough Prestige, for nominal fees in Influence (Order-specific currency). These scrolls teleport players from any location on the Perfect World map to the home base of the issuing Order: Nexus of Luminance, Shrouded Temple, and Corona Sanctuary.
*** Players who complete the "Darkness of Magnier" daily quest in the GhostTown of Magnier are awarded a "Yin Yang Twin Stone" that may be exchanged for rewards. Among these rewards are high-level potions, and Teleport Scrolls that warp players either back to Magnier, or to the Western Steppes' capital city of Neverfall, from just about any map.

* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Villainous]] [[HeroicSecondWind Second Wind]]: Appears about half the time in Flowsilver Palace's new Judgment Mode, when the party is fighting [[BonusBoss Belle]] [[FlunkyBoss Leun,]] [[BadassPrincess the Mad Princess]]. Once Belle Leun is down to a third of her health, she will cry out for her husband, Tyrant Prince Mushi, to intervene on her behalf: "[[SaveThePrincess Mushi, my love! Save your princess from these intruders!]]" When Mushi re-enters the battlefield, he behaves exactly as he did in the previous fight (the throne room) in terms of battle mechanics, but only has a third of his normal HP.

** As of the ''Neverfall'' expansion, public-display-of-affection actions that may be performed with other player characters for mutual Chi gain now include "Show Affection" (pair stands or sits close together, resting their heads against each other, and initiator wraps an arm around receiver)[[note]]This action may be performed by a heterosexual pair or [[LesYay a pair of females]], but it is unknown if two males are allowed to Show Affection.[[/note]] and "Adore and Love" (pair stands hugging each other, passionately kissing).
** While all of the above PDA's are typically allowed in overworld areas but disallowed in dungeons, examples of instanced dungeons that allow PDA's for Chi gain include Quicksand Maze, Flowsilver Palace, Undercurrent Hall, Uncharted Paradise, and Dawnlight Halls. "Embrace," however, is the only action that allows the couple to move around while gaining Chi (movement direction is up to the man involved).

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Player-character gender is almost [[PurelyAestheticGender purely aesthetic]], i.e the Untamed race alone hard-wires all its men into the warrior class and all its women into the mage class (Barbarians and Venomancers, respectively). Most of the artwork (loading screens, class-trainer NPC sprites and War Avatar illustrations), however, follows this trope, depicting physical damage dealers as male and magical damage dealers as female.

** While all of the above PDA's are typically allowed in overworld areas but disallowed in dungeons, examples of instanced dungeons that allow PDA's for Chi gain include Quicksand Maze, Flowsilver Palace, Undercurrent Hall, Uncharted Paradise, and Dawnlight Halls.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The entire Morai main quest line is a fiasco of this nature, thanks to [[ShapeshiftingSeducer Chigo,]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent the Serpent Emperor]] pulling the strings so that everything you do only makes things worse. When you find the body of a murdered child, named Little Yetz, at the bottom of a lake, your attempts to identify her killer and bring him to justice [[DivideAndConquer breed discord among the Three Orders that hold power: Corona, Luminance, and Shroud]]. Those Essences of the cities in Perfect World that "Glory" called on you to bring to him so that he could "save Morai from the Wraith invasion"? Chigo, who [[KillAndReplace has murdered the real Glory and now impersonates him]], uses them to activate the Undying Dial on behalf of his boss, [[BigBad Jian'rin the Wraithlord]] in order to take over Perfect World and Morai alike. You must make several trips to Morai's Endless Universe to retrieve all the Essences after unwittingly handing them over. What's worse, he killed Little Yetz because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she was no longer useful to him]] after being the only denizen of Morai able to harvest the coveted Immortality Fruit.]]

* PhlebotinumOverload: [[TheEvilPrince Tyrant Prince Mushi]], Flowsilver Palace's final boss, has a battle mechanic that will cause everyone's Chi meter to instantly fill up to its maximum capacity every 30 seconds for as long as he is on the battlefield. Players whose Chi meters are already full must "spark" (use Celestial/Demonic Eruption to consume all three Sparks and gain a measure of health, greater attack power for a few seconds, and a very brief invulnerability) or use some other Chi-costly skill before this happens, or this move will OneHitKill them. (1 Spark=100 Chi)

* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Villainous]] [[HeroicSecondWind Second Wind]]: Appears about half the time in Flowsilver Palace's new Judgment Mode, when the party is fighting [[BonusBoss Belle Leun,]] [[BadassPrincess the Mad Princess]]. Once Belle Leun is down to a third of her health, she will cry out for her husband, Tyrant Prince Mushi, to intervene on her behalf: "[[SaveThePrincess Mushi, my love! Save your princess from these intruders!]]" When Mushi re-enters the battlefield, he behaves exactly as he did in the previous fight (the throne room) in terms of battle mechanics, but only has a third of his normal HP.

* WeaponOfChoice: again, oddly handled; since you need certain stats to wield certain weapons you can find mages with giant hammers, or Barbarians with magic wands; however, classes won't be able to use their skills if they're not using weapons made for them. Blademasters in particular will find themselves switching weapons frequently for this reason.
** More traditionally handled in the later expansions: From ''Genesis'' onward, Seekers can only use swords (probably to prevent the trick of switching to fists and punching everything endgame, regardless of class, that became popular shortly after the inception of ''New Horizons'') and Mystics can only use magic implements. When the Tideborn race was introduced in ''New Horizons'', it established daggers as Assassins' WeaponOfChoice, and Soulspheres as the same for Psychics. ''Eclipse'' similarly limits Duskblades to sabers and Stormbringers to magic scythes.

* ContractualBossImmunity: Bosses in all areas of the game tend to be immune to Freeze (prevents movement), Silence (prevents attacking), Stun and Paralyze (these do both), and usually also Knockback. A handful of them either have special attacks whose channeling cannot be interrupted, or a buff that gives them the ability to use all their attacks with absolutely no channeling and thus no room for the player party to use its interrupting moves. (Fortunately the Harpy Wraith, an extremely tough overworld boss, appears thus far to be the only known example of the latter.)

* ContractualBossImmunity: Bosses in all areas of the game tend to be immune to Freeze, Paralyze (both prevent movement), Silence (prevents attacking), Stun (does both), and usually also Knockback. A handful of them either have special attacks whose channeling cannot be interrupted, or a buff that gives them the ability to use all their attacks with absolutely no channeling and thus no room for the player party to use its interrupting moves. (Fortunately the Harpy Wraith, an overworld boss, appears thus far to be the only known example of the latter.)
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Taken to the logical extreme; not only are players unfazed when standing near lava, they can [[RefugeInAudacity lie on top of it and not be harmed either]].
** Subverted in the first boss-battle room of Flowsilver Palace. Characters who fall into the lava here are killed, forcing them back to the entryway. Fortunately, nothing in this room has a knockback attack that would throw them in.

** Taken UpToEleven in the Uncharted Paradise for twice-reborn players, and then again in the Dawnlight Halls for players of Vitae level Twilight Sky I and above. With EverythingTryingToKillYou here, you're guaranteed to die multiple times within these instances no matter how powerful you are. Best stock up on Resurrection Scrolls, especially if you don't have both a Cleric and a Mystic in your squad.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Player-character gender is almost [[PurelyAestheticGender purely aesthetic]], i.e the Untamed race alone hard-wires all its men into the warrior class (Barbarians) and all its women into the mage class (Venomancers). Most of the artwork (loading screens, class-trainer NPC sprites and War Avatar illustrations), however, follows this trope, depicting physical damage dealers as male and magical damage dealers as female.

* MultiMeleeMaster: The Blademaster class. This class can wield all four types of melee weapons with proper distribution of attribute points. Listed in order of required Strength/Dexterity ratio: [[AnAxeToGrind Axe &]] [[DropTheHammer Hammer]], [[BladeOnAStick Polearm]], [[HeroesPreferSwords Blade & Sword]], and [[PowerFist Fist]] [[GoodOldFisticuffs &]] [[WolverineClaws Claw]].

** [[spoiler:Appears to be played straighter in the Neverfall expansion, according to promotional materials. "The Midlands" is the main map with which players are already familiar, and the mostly-undeveloped expanded map boasts a huge frozen region called the "Northern Wastes," while the "Southern Reaches" appear dangerously hot (including being home to a large active volcano).]]

* SuperpoweredEvilSide / HelplessGoodSide: Borobudur Dungeon Lord has this as a battle mechanic: he will frequently challenge the player party, "Can you tell between what is good and what is evil?" as he spawns one of two adds (appropriately named "Borobudur - Good" and "Borobudur - Evil"). If the squad kills the Good add, or fails to kill the Evil add within ten seconds, Borobudur will gain more attack power. Unfortunately for the player party that all too often collectively spams its AoE skills, the Good add is significantly more vulnerable than the [[AntiMagic elemental-immune]] Evil add, due to having less HP and no immunities.

** While all of the above PDA's are typically allowed in overworld areas but disallowed in dungeons, examples of instanced dungeons that allow PDA's for Chi gain include Quicksand Maze, Flowsilver Palace, Undercurrent Hall, Uncharted Paradise, and Dawnlight Halls. Because the endgamers who run these dungeons regularly are quite reliant upon "nuking" bosses by overwhelming them with a combination of multiple debuffs and extremely high damage, and most (if not all) of every class's most useful skills for this purpose are Chi-costly, it is not uncommon to see player-characters cuddling with one another shortly before a battle begins.

** While all of the above PDA's are typically allowed in overworld areas but disallowed in dungeons, examples of instanced dungeons that allow PDA's for Chi gain include Quicksand Maze, Flowsilver Palace, Undercurrent Hall, Uncharted Paradise, and Dawnlight Halls. Because the endgamers who run these dungeons regularly are quite reliant upon "nuking" bosses by overwhelming them with a combination of multiple debuffs and extremely high damage, and most (if not all) of every class's most useful skills for this purpose are Chi-costly, it is not uncommon to see player-characters acuddling with one another shortly before a battle begins.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The entire Morai main quest line is a fiasco of this nature, thanks to [[ShapeshiftingSeducer Chigo,]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent the Serpent Emperor]] pulling the strings so that everything you do only makes things worse. When you find the body of a murdered child, named Little Yetz, at the bottom of a lake, your attempts to identify her killer and bring him to justice [[DivideAndConquer breed discord among the Three Orders that hold power: Corona, Luminance, and Shroud]]. Those Essences of the cities in Perfect World that "Glory" called on you to bring to him so that he could "save Morai from the Wraith invasion"? Chigo, who [[KillAndReplace has murdered the real Glory and now impersonates him]], uses them to activate the Undying Dial on behalf of his boss, [[BigBad Jian'rain the Wraithlord]] in order to take over Perfect World and Morai alike. You must make several trips to Morai's Endless Universe to retrieve all the Essences after unwittingly handing them over. What's worse, he killed Little Yetz because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she was no longer useful to him]] after being the only denizen of Morai able to harvest the coveted Immortality Fruit.]]

* TheArtifact: Originally, the game had a monthly fee. For some reason, when they switched to the cash shop model, [=NPCs=] who sold boutique items were left in the game, just without a shop.

** In terms of NPCs, the only ones that can communicate with player characters while underwater, indicating either ability to breathe underwater or lack of any need to breathe, are sentient ghosts and Tideborn.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The three allied NPCs that assist adventuring player squads in fighting three powerful Wraith Emperors, one of whom (randomly determined at instance start) will stand in the players' way of fighting their commander, [[BigBad Aurogon the Dragon Emperor]], in the Advanced Endless Universe.

** Taken UpToEleven in the Uncharted Paradise for twice-reborn players. With EverythingTryingToKillYou here, you're guaranteed to die multiple times within this instance no matter how powerful you are. Best stock up on Resurrection Scrolls, especially if you don't have both a Cleric and a Mystic in your squad.

** Encountered ''very'' often in the overworld throughout the Neverfall expansion's Western Steppes.

* FiveRaces: Played with. The game's universe appears to cast Humans as the [[HumansAreAverage Mundane]], [[PettingZooPeople Untamed]] as the Stout, [[OurElvesAreDifferent Winged Elves]] as the Fairy, and [[NatureHero Earthguard]] as the High Men. No race really fits into the "Cute" category, although the [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk Tideborn]] seem to be a cross between High Men and Fairy, given their finesse-based fighting styles.
** The Eclipse expansion has since introduced the [[SixthRanger Nightshade]] race as a different breed of High Men. FlavorText describes them thus: "Created by the son of Pan Gu, the Reapers once guarded the Celestial Vale. Bound to the life of the Divine Child, they defended him until he was mortally wounded in battle. With the last of his strength, the Divine Child freed the Reapers from his service and sent them to Perfect World. Now known as the Nightshades, they draw upon the power of the moon to battle evil in all its forms." Nightshade melee fighters are called Duskblades and wield sabers, while casters are called Stormbringers and channel Water- and Metal-based elemental attacks through magic scythes.

** Blademasters are best equipped to survive this maneuver, as their four skill-tree branches give them the widest array of Chi-costly moves, including three debuffs and an elemental attack that cost two Sparks each. Wizards come in a close second in this regard: they have three elemental skill-tree branches (Fire, Water, and Earth), each with one two-Spark-costly skill.

** Teleport Stones teleport players from anywhere on any map (except the Western Steppes) to a selected active waypoint on the Perfect World Midlands map. These cannot be used while a player is in combat.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide / HelplessGoodSide: Borobudur Dungeon Lord has this as a battle mechanic: he will frequently challenge the player party, "Can you tell between what is good and what is evil?" as he spawns one of two adds (appropriately named "Borobudur - Good" and "Borobudur - Evil"). If the squad kills the Good add, or fails to kill the Evil add within ten seconds, Borobudur will gain more attack power. Unfortunately for the player party that all too often collectively spams its AoE skills, the Good add is significantly more vulnerable than the [[AntiMagic elemental-immune]] Evil add, due to having less HP.

** More traditionally handled in the later expansions: From ''Genesis'' onward, Seekers can only use swords (probably to prevent the standard trick of switching to fists and punching everything endgame, regardless of class) and Mystics can only use magic implements (for some reason). When the Tideborn race was introduced in ''New Horizons'', it established daggers as Assassins' WeaponOfChoice, and Soulspheres as the same for Psychics. ''Eclipse'' similarly limits Duskblades to sabers and Stormbringers to magic scythes.

*** Everyone except Seekers (And possibly Mystics as well) that is. Seekers can use swords and only swords, probably as an attempt to save the weapon class from disuse.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: There aren't very many different NPC models. The mob models are also somewhat reused, but there is still a lot of variety, both in number of "base models" as well as variations to them. For example, there's many different versions of those Skelrelic creatures - Geisha, Ossein, Skeleranc, ect. Geishas have red scarves and carry swords, and have brownish skin. Osseins and Skelerancs can be either archers, swordsmen, or casters and have a more greenish coloring. Some models are reused more often, but it tends to make sense - there might be like 20 different kinds of wolves but they are all the same "family" of creatures. This seems to affect aggro mechanics as well - creatures sharing the same base model tend to aggro in a group no matter whether they are all the same creature or different ones. One of the low level dungeons has 3 different bosses, all surrounded by mobs. With 2 of them, it's perfectly possible to aggro the group to leave the boss standing (but not vice versa unless special tricks are used), while with the remaining one is difficult to pull out even with tricks. It shares the model with its adds. So does one of the other bosses, but that seems to be an exception to the rule.

* AntiPoopsocking: At some point shortly before the ''Eclipse'' expansion, an Earning Time system was implemented to this effect wherein any one player-character may be active for a maximum of eight hours, after which they stop earning item/coin drops, EXP, and Spirit (used to improve skills). Overworld areas and most low-level instanced dungeons deduct Earning Time only while the player is in combat, while some instanced dungeons deduct Earning Time for any and all movement throughout the dungeon in question. The Endless Universe appears to be the only instanced dungeon that does not deduct Earning Time for player movement or combat with enemies.

* IntimateHealing: Apart from HP and MP, characters also have Chi, which basic attacks and some skills generate and other skills consume. The "Embrace" function, which may be performed by any two opposite-sex player characters and is represented on-screen by the man involved holding the woman in a BridalCarry, allows both parties to gain Chi over a period of time.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The entire Morai main quest line is a clusterfuck of this nature, thanks to [[ShapeshiftingSeducer Chigo,]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent the Serpent Emperor]] pulling the strings so that everything you do only makes things worse. When you find the body of a murdered child, named Little Yetz, at the bottom of a lake, your attempts to identify her killer and bring him to justice [[DivideAndConquer breed discord among the Three Orders that hold power: Corona, Luminance, and Shroud]]. Those Essences of the cities in Perfect World that "Glory" called on you to bring to him so that he could "save Morai from the Wraith invasion"? Chigo, who [[KillAndReplace has murdered the real Glory and now impersonates him]], uses them to activate the Undying Dial on behalf of his boss, [[BigBad Jian'rain the Wraithlord]] in order to take over Perfect World and Morai alike. You must make several trips to Morai's Endless Universe to retrieve all the Essences after unwittingly handing them over. What's worse, he killed Little Yetz because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she was no longer useful to him]] after being the only denizen of Morai able to harvest the coveted Immortality Fruit.]]

** [[spoiler:Appears to be played straighter in the Neverfall expansion, according to promotional materials. "The Midlands" is the main map with which players are already familiar, and the expanded map boasts a huge frozen region called the "Northern Wastes," while the "Southern Reaches" appear dangerously hot (including being home to a large active volcano).]]

* PhlebotinumOverload: [[TheEvilPrince Tyrant Prince Mushi]], Flowsilver Palace's final boss, has a battle mechanic that will cause everyone's Chi meter to instantly fill up to its maximum capacity every 30 seconds for as long as he is on the field. Players whose Chi meters are already full must "spark" (use Celestial/Demonic Eruption to consume all three Sparks and gain a measure of health, greater attack power for a few seconds, and a very brief invulnerability) or use some other Chi-costly skill before this happens, or this move will kill them in a single strike. (1 Spark=100 Chi)

* PortalNetwork: Perfect World proper, [[GreenHillZone the Celestial Vale starter zone]], Morai, and the Primal World (and to lesser degrees Lothranis, Momaganon, and Old Heaven's Tear) each have a separate one, operated by aptly-named Teleport Masters for fees ranging from 200 to 8,000 coins per teleport, with fees increasing if one wishes to go to a location that requires multiple teleports due to the Teleport Masters' limited knowledge. Originally, to be able to access the teleport service, players had to enter a town on foot for the first time and speak to the local Teleport Master. No later than Level 30, however, players are issued a "Geographic Map" that instantly unlocks every available teleport waypoint. (Players can also buy this item from the boutique for their lower-leveled characters.) In addition, players may carry and use a few types of single-use teleportation tools:

** Teleport Stones teleport players from anywhere on any map to a selected active waypoint on the Perfect World map. These cannot be used while a player is in combat.

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: One of the tasks required to increase your Spiritual Cultivation (increasing it unlocks new abilities for your class) has you meeting with a ghost spirit, but before you can do so, you have to die. Luckily [[AllThereInTheManual the website's guide]] advises to do this portion immediately after leveling up for less EXP loss.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: All characters are able to remain underwater indefinitely and take damage only when attacked. Strictly speaking, only Psychics and Assassins (members of the Tideborn race) should have this ability.
** All ''player'' characters, that is. In terms of NPCs, the only ones that can communicate with player characters while underwater are sentient ghosts and Tideborn.

** [[GeniusBruiser Steel-Eyed Shakti]] marks [[KillItWithFire Flame Emperor Locen]] as her nemesis, outsmarting him from the shadows.

** Celestone Fragments were once used to trade for Mirage Celestones at 25 fragments a piece. At some point, the ability to trade the fragments was removed, rendering them functionally useless. However, the item itself has remained in the game, and often appears as an additional reward from quests despite their empty value (compared to Celestones of Earth, Heaven, and Human which _can_ still be traded for Mirages), much to the [[DudeWheresMyReward irritation of many players]]. They don't even serve as VendorTrash anymore, as each fragment sells for a grand total of one coin.

** Celestone Fragments were once used to trade for Mirage Celestones at 25 fragments a piece. At some point, the ability to trade the fragments was removed, rendering them functionally useless. However, the item itself has remained in the game, and often appears as an additional reward from quests despite their empty value (compared to Celestones of Earth, Heaven, and Human which _can_ still be traded for Mirages), much to the [[DudeWhere'sMyReward irritation of many players]]. They don't even serve as VenderTrash anymore, as each fragment sells for a grand total of one coin.

Perfect World is a Chinese {{MMORPG}}, developed by Perfect World, Inc. If you're looking at this page, chances are you're seeing ads for one of their other two [=MMORPG=].

Perfect World is a Korean {{MMORPG}}, developed by Perfect World, Inc. If you're looking at this page, chances are you're seeing ads for one of their other two [=MMORPG=].

*** The puppet players are also the most egregious example of TheComputerIsACheatingBastard, as they ignore the costs and cooldown times of their classes' more Chi-costly signature moves.

* FiveRaces: Played with. The game's universe appears to cast Humans as the Mundane, [[PettingZooPeople Untamed]] as the Stout, [[OurElvesAreDifferent Winged Elves]] as the Fairy, and [[NatureHero Earthguard]] as the High Men. No race really fits into the "Cute" category, although the [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk Tideborn]] seem to be a cross between High Men and Fairy, given their finesse-based fighting styles.

** Blademasters are best equipped to survive this maneuver, as their four skill-tree branches give them the widest array of Chi-costly moves, including three debuffs and an elemental attack that cost two Sparks each.

** The Blademaster's Drake Ray, as well.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The entire Morai main quest line is a clusterfuck of this nature, thanks to [[ShapeshiftingSeducer Chigo,]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent the Serpent Emperor]] pulling the strings. When you find the body of a murdered child, named Little Yetz, at the bottom of a lake, your attempts to identify her killer and bring him to justice [[DivideAndConquer breed discord among the Three Orders that hold power: Corona, Luminance, and Shroud]]. Those Essences of the cities in Perfect World that "Glory" called on you to bring to him so that he could "save Morai from the Wraith invasion"? Chigo, who [[KillAndReplace has murdered the real Glory and now impersonates him]], uses them to activate the Undying Dial on behalf of his boss, [[BigBad Jian'rain the Wraithlord]] in order to take over Perfect World and Morai alike. You must make several trips to Morai's Endless Universe to retrieve all the Essences after unwittingly handing them over. What's worse, he killed Little Yetz because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she was no longer useful to him]] after being the only denizen of Morai able to harvest the coveted Immortality Fruit.]]

* PortalNetwork: Perfect World proper, the Celestial Vale (starter zone) Morai, and the Primal World (and to lesser degrees Lothranis, Momaganon, and Old Heaven's Tear) each have a separate one, operated by aptly-named Teleport Masters for fees ranging from 200 to 8,000 coins per teleport, with fees increasing if one wishes to go to a location that requires multiple teleports due to the Teleport Masters' limited knowledge. Originally, to be able to access the teleport service, players had to enter a town on foot for the first time and speak to the local Teleport Master. No later than Level 30, however, players are issued a "Geographic Map" that instantly unlocks every available teleport waypoint. (Players can also buy this item from the boutique for their lower-leveled characters.) In addition, players may carry and use a few types of single-use teleportation tools:
** Teleport Incense functions in the same manner as the inherent Town Portal skill: as an EscapeRope from any overworld area or instanced dungeon to the nearest village or other Safe Zone. These take a few seconds to activate, but may be used in combat unless the enemy uses an attack that interrupts skill channeling.

* PrincessesRule: [[spoiler:Princess Moonhowler of Luneska, though she's [[RareFemaleExample a rare example of]] [[TheEvilPrince an evil princess]]. Fortunately, as an overworld boss, [[FauxActionGirl she's not a threat to most players]] by the time one must fight her.]]

* TheSavageSouth: Personified in Flame Emperor Locen, a denizen of the Advanced Endless Universe [[GoddamnedBoss particularly despised among the player-base]]. War Avatar flavor-text describes Locen thus: "The bloodthirsty South Sovereign of Morai. To him, there is no greater pleasure than in [[RapePillageAndBurn killing and pillaging]]. [[WalkingWasteland Leaving fire and destruction in his wake]], Locen truly is a monster."

** [[LightEmUp Lightbringer Helios]] leads his band of apprentices and the player party in fighting Dark Emperor Aohe.
** [[GenderBlenderName Luminous Jade]] calls up the powers of both Light and Darkness against Serpent Emperor Chigo.
** [[GeniusBruiser Steel-Eyed Shakti]] marks Flame Emperor Locen as her nemesis, outsmarting him from the shadows.

** Alternately, when Belle Leun realizes she's in over her head, she may yell "Lord of Lava! Help me vanquish my enemies!" to summon Skyscreamer, a nerfed version of a [[DummiedOut now-extinct boss]] called Yelling to the Sky. In either case, while the Mad Princess's chosen interceder is on the field, Belle Leun herself is immune to all damage until the intervening mini-boss is defeated.

* PhlebotinumOverload: [[TheEvilPrince Tyrant Prince Mushi]], Flowsilver Palace's final boss, has a battle mechanic that will cause everyone's Chi meter to instantly fill up to its maximum capacity every 30 seconds for as long as he is active. Players whose Chi meters are already full must "spark" (use Celestial/Demonic Eruption to consume all three Sparks and gain a measure of health, greater attack power for a few seconds, and a very brief invulnerability) or use some other Chi-costly skill before this happens, or this move will kill them in a single strike. (1 Spark=100 Chi)

** More traditionally handled in the Genesis expansion: Seekers can only use swords (probably to prevent the standard trick of switching to fists and punching everything endgame, regardless of class) and Mystics can only use magic implements (for some reason). Also handled more traditionally in the Eclipse expansion, which limits Duskblades to sabers and Stormbringers to magic scythes.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Player-character gender is almost [[PurelyAestheticGender purely aesthetic]] i.e the Untamed race alone hard-wires all its men into the warrior class (Barbarians) and all its women into the mage class (Venomancers). Most of the artwork (loading screens, class-trainer NPC sprites and War Avatar illustrations), however, follows this trope, depicting physical damage dealers as male and magical damage dealers as female.

** In addition, until the Eclipse expansion, players who wanted to level-up their combat skills needed to visit trainers for their respective classes. As such, class trainers existed in the home cities of their respective races: Blademaster and Wizard in Etherblade, Barbarian and Venomancer in the City of the Lost, Archer and Cleric in the City of the Plume, Seeker and Mystic in Tellus City, Assassin and Psychic in the City of Raging Tides, and (most recently) Duskblade and Stormbringer in Dawnglory. In addition, there were once whole "teachers' districts" in northern and southern Archosaur, Silver Pool, Dreamweaver Port, Sanctuary, and the City of a Thousand Streams. Nowadays visiting a class trainer is not necessary to level-up most combat skills. For sentimental reasons, however, the home-city class trainers remain where they are.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Player-character gender is almost [[PurelyAestheticGender purely aesthetic]] (the Untamed race is the only one to hard-wire all its men into the warrior class of Barbarians and all its women into the mage class of Venomancers). Most of the artwork (loading screens, class-trainer NPC sprites and War Avatar illustrations), however, follows this trope, depicting physical damage dealers as male and magical damage dealers as female.

* IntimateHealing: Apart from HP and MP, characters also have Chi, which basic attacks and some skills generate and other skills consume. The "Embrace" function, which may be performed by any two opposite-sex player characters and is represented on-screen by the man involved holding the woman in a BridalCarry, allows both of the embracing PCs to gain Chi over a period of time.
* ItemCrafting: Arguably the best way to get good equipment, or you can search at the auction for items 'other' people have crafted.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The entire Morai main quest line is a clusterfuck of this nature, thanks to [[ShapeshiftingSeducer Chigo,]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent the Serpent Emperor]]. When you find the body of a murdered child, named Little Yetz, at the bottom of a lake, your attempts to identify her killer and bring him to justice [[DivideAndConquer breed discord among the Three Orders that hold power: Corona, Luminance, and Shroud]]. Those Essences of the cities in Perfect World that "Glory" called on you to bring to him so that he could "save Morai from the Wraith invasion"? Chigo, who [[KillAndReplace has murdered the real Glory and now impersonates him]], uses them to activate the Undying Dial on behalf of his boss, [[BigBad Jian'rain the Wraithlord]] in order to take over Perfect World and Morai alike. You must make several trips to Morai's Endless Universe to retrieve all the Essences after unwittingly handing them over. What's worse, he killed Little Yetz because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she was no longer useful to him]] after being the only denizen of Morai able to harvest the coveted Immortality Fruit.]]

** One of the alternate planes which high-level players visit, called Morai, appears distinctly warmer overall than the main overworld. There is a LethalLavaLand [[ConvectionSchmonvection (per se)]] crevice, called Burning Scar, in the center of the Morai map, and much of Morai is covered with either desert, jungle, or subtropical forest, with no distinct cold region notable.

* PentUpPowerPeril / PhlebotinumOverload: [[TheEvilPrince Tyrant Prince Mushi]], Flowsilver Palace's final boss, has a battle mechanic that will cause everyone's Chi meter to instantly fill up to its maximum capacity every 30 seconds for as long as he is on the field. Players whose Chi meters are already full must "spark" (use Celestial/Demonic Eruption to consume all three Sparks and gain a measure of health, greater attack power for a few seconds, and a very brief invulnerability) or use some other Chi-costly skill before this happens, or this move will kill them in a single strike. (1 Spark=100 Chi)

* TheSavageSouth: Personified in Flame Emperor Locen, a denizen of the Advanced Endless Universe particularly despised among the player-base. War Avatar flavor-text describes Locen thus: "The bloodthirsty South Sovereign of Morai. To him, there is no greater pleasure than in [[RapePillageAndBurn killing and pillaging]]. [[WalkingWasteland Leaving fire and destruction in his wake]], Locen truly is a monster."

* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Villainous]] [[HeroicSecondWind Second Wind]]: Appears about half the time in Flowsilver Palace's new Judgment Mode, when the party is fighting [[BonusBoss Belle Leun,]] [[BadassPrincess the Mad Princess]]. Once Belle Leun is down to a third of her health, she will cry out for her husband, Tyrant Prince Mushi, to intervene on her behalf: "[[SaveThePrincess Mushi, my love! Save your princess from these intruders!]]" When Mushi re-enters the fray, he behaves exactly as he did in the previous fight (the throne room) in terms of battle mechanics, but only has a third of his normal HP.
** Alternately, when Belle Leun realizes she's in over her head, she may yell out "Lord of Lava! Help me vanquish my enemies!" to summon Skyscreamer, a nerfed version of a [[DummiedOut now-extinct boss]] called Yelling to the Sky. In either case, while the Mad Princess's chosen interceder is on the field, Belle Leun herself is immune to all damage until the intervening mini-boss is defeated.

** More traditionally handled in the Genesis expansion: Seekers can only use swords (probably to prevent the standard trick of switching to fists and punching everything endgame, regardless of class) and Mystics can only use magic implements (for some reason). Also handled more traditionally in the Eclipse expansion, which limits Duskblades to wielding sabers and Stormbringers to magic scythes.