I have been seeing many many more posts on COMPOSING. Hopefully, this will clear most, if not all doubts. Please post questions HERE on THIS thread.

Firstly, what is composition? No, not the kind you write in school for a bunch of fat, lazy teachers to pass time, but what you do to give your already godly weapons extra power. NOTE: This is not intended to slam teachers in any way. =P

Composing, in CO, is the art of giving your item / weapon a funny number at the end. Ever see GreatBacksword(+2) and wonder what it means? I'm here to tell you.

The number denotes the additional level that has been composed into the item in question. For example, if you see UnitClub(+4), it means that the person has spent enough time to upgrade his club with 4 additional compositional levels, which would grant him increased accuracy and damage.

Are we clear on exactly what composing is yet? Good. In case you are wondering exactly what giving your item additional levels will do, check here. It gives a full list of what upgrading your items will do. Now, are we excited yet? Do I hear a HELL YEA? (*background* HELL YEA!) OK! Wanna know how to do this leet thing? I'm just about to tell you, so don't crap in your pants.

No doubt in the course of your hunting or shopping in Market, you would have seen various normal items sold for exorbitant prices, or normal items with funny purple texting. These are what we shall call Aux Items (AI). They are basically normal +1 items that we shall use for upgrading. And now, you have that Elite/Super item that you will want to upgrade. This is called the Main Item (MI).

First off, to upgrade your MI to +x, you will have to have 2 AIs of additional levels +(x-1). For example, to upgrade your Elite +2 Earring to Elite +3, you will need 2 +2 Earrings of any grade. To upgrade +0(normal) to +1, you will need 2 +1 items. Its a simple formula.

Yes, I hear the question. How are you gonna get 2 +2 Earrings in the example above. Well, simple way would be to simply get 2 normal +1 Earrings and upgrade them both to normal +2 Earrings. Then use these normal +2 to upgrade your MI.

Are we clear? Its that simple! Now you wonder why there are so many questions of the boards. Now, a few things to make clear. There are several classes of items. For example, you cannot upgrade your BackSword with Tao Hats and etc. As a general rule, you can only upgrade with items of that particular type. Earrings with Earrings, BackSwords with BackSwords and so on and so forth. The only exception to this rule is this. All 1h and 2h weapons are clustered under the same category. Yes, you CAN upgrade your Club with a Hammer and a Hook. Yes, you CAN upgrade your PoleAxe with your Glaive and Spear. This weapons category does NOT include BackSwords and Bows, however. Don't cry.

Another thing you have to know is that when upgrading from +5 to +6, in addition to 2 +5 items, you will need 2 gems for weapons or 1 gem for armor. Any gem of any quality will do. Settle for Kylin.

Lastly, L120 items can ONLY BE COMPOSED WITH L120 items. Don't ask why, this is just the case. As I'm not L120 as yet, I don't know if you can cross the boundary. I would appreciate any information you can give ^^

Well, thats it for my COMPOSING in-depth FAQ. And to close, I'll provide you lazy bums out there a list of how many items you will need to make your items the desired +# level you want.

+0 > +1 : 2
+1 > +2 : 2
+2 > +3 : 6
+3 > +4 : 18
+4 > +5 : 54
+5 > +6 : 162
+6 > +7 : 486
+7 > +8 : 1458
+8 > +9 : 4374
+9 > +10 : You would be dead by now.

I was made aware that the previous posted number of +1s needed to upgrade to the next level was WRONG. I apologise to any and all who have gotten their hopes up of making a +9 easily based on my figures. A DB to each of you. -Crosses Fingers =P- Once again, my most sincere apologies. Now, the correct set of figures have been provided by Monk4Life. Although they have not been checked by me, his formula does seem correct. This formula has been provided below. Thanks to Monk4Life for the correction.

Items Needed = [3^(X-2)] x 2

Where X is the level you want it to go to. E.G. +2 = 3^(2-2) x 2
= 3^0 x 2
= 1 x 2
= 2 Items needed.

This formula does not apply to making +0 to +1. 2 +1 Items are needed for that.

Intro

Hello again!
Finally I got time to update my FAQ. I will try to be a bit more explicative and give some hints to newbies.
Please don't PM me at forums, reply on the thread and I will reply as soon as possible or just make a thread at Newcomer section, I am usually there.

* Now I decided to fix some grammar errors and put some images :D
* For who want to know how to escape from MeteorZone without use bugs, just skip to 4.0.

Thanks for all and see you in my next FAQ.

necromancer

1) Where is the meteorzone?!
Your server should have a GC near metzone, if don't, follow these steps:* Go to Desert City
* Use conductress to go to Mystic Castle
* Walk to Top Left and start walk down. You will see a Teleporter
* Walk to Top Right and talk with the NPC.
* Walk to Top Left
* Walk to Top Left
* Walk to Top Left
* Walk to Top Left
* Walk to Top Left
* You Are at MeteorZone

2) Monsters
At meteorzone we have 2 kinds of monsters.
TreasureBird (Normal)

TreasureBird (King)

After you find the king, zap it but...oops! This stupid king have too many HP, give a STRONGER magic attack and have a HUGE magic defense and a GOOD physic defense.

3) Good levels to metzone

4) Guards
JEEZ! NO! NEVER, I said NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use the Guards to kill the birds. Cause if the bird was guard-killed will take AGES to spawn again. Play clean! If you can't, dont go. Hopefully someday guards will be removed and everybody will be more happy :)

5) Exiting metzone
I will teach how to escape from metzone by the normal way. You will need to cross waterdevils that don't do big damage at first islands but deal a ULTRA-BIG damage at last ones. Then you only will be able to do that if you are a archer or water tao I think. Just go to PINK points and enter at the following portals. Good luck :D

(main area of metzone)

(after main area you will be there. EvilGhosts and NightDevils)

After you enter at NightDevils portal you will enter at these islands. No, thats not bird island, but Ishowed the correct way. Pay attention at last island, the magic damage is enough to kill a good DivineHare. At last island, I recommend you to walk by the edges. When you reach at last island you need to talk with the NPC and he will teleport you to more islands, at these new islands (these are the same as before, but now we have long-physical damage monsters). Then, better you use DivineHare or Fly to escape (these Water Devils are stronger enough to kill a good lvl 120 trojan in 3 hits).

When you do the whole way, you will see the BoatMan. Just talk with him and you will end at new desert.

6) Metzone mine cave
Its a good mine and many gems types can be found there, I usually play there :D

7) Hints
* Go teammed with a water tao.
* Setup > Show Names X (mark on).
* Don't let people lure to guard and don't lure too.

8) Some Answers and Replies

8.1) I cant see a boss bird!
Maybe someone killed'em'all or lures to guard, if someone just killed, wait about 5/10 mins then other bird should spawn, if someone lures, better you play some TicTacToe :P and wait 45-60mins

8.2) Im a lvl 20 archer and can't kill the bird.. I will lure to guards!
If you are a level 20 you arent supposed to be here, if you lure to guards other players will get mad with you and you could be pked.

8.3) But im broke, level 20 and need money.
Nothing comes free, go hunt in other place.

Conclusions:
* Don't go to metzone before a good level.
* Don't lure to guards.