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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 182.1 hrs on record (94.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: Nov 24, 2014 @ 1:47pm
Updated: Apr 5, 2015 @ 4:27pm

Lovely RPG MMO, you've got 14 skills to train (divided to gathering and crafting, 7 skills for both), up to lvl 47 each(at this moment).
Training a skill, such as Leatherworking, requires you to get animal hides and skins, then make leather. With leather, you can make Medium Armors.
Plenty of dungeons to do, skills to train, money to farm, item sets to collect etc.
Liked/always wanted to try out Runescape? Then this game is totally worth of trying out!
Really enjoyable with a group of friends, especially if you have Melee/Tank, Ranged/DPS and Healer teammates for Dungeon runs. Or PvP (CTF or TDM)
Definitely "Thumbs Up" from me, even though there's Pay to Win elements.

Pros
  • Events! Party hats! HATS!
  • You wont run out of things to do too quickly
  • Multiple "currencies", smilar to Guild Wars 2
  • 14 Skills to train
  • World feels really big. There's 5 "areas", if I remember right
  • You can pick up manure (its true)
  • Mounts and fast travelling (riding dragons, whoo!), so you dont have to go everywhere by foot!
  • You can get XP for your "overall" level without actually fighting. Just train skills, you'll get some extra XP (you wont get much, but hey, better than nothing)
  • Wont take much space on your hard drive. Barely anything, to be honest
  • Doesnt need good PC to run - Has some FPS issues though. See below
  • I almost got killed by small beetle, that was "only" 4 levels higher than me (is this good or bad thing?
  • Bosses are actually hard to solo (I am looking at you, Guild Wars 2) - assuming that you are equal/lower lvl than they are

Neutral
  • Its Runescape-like
  • "Pay to win" ? I am not totally sure about this, but yep, you can buy many useful thing from the store with real money, such as (massive) extra inventory bags, various boost potions, etc. Spend few bucks, and you dont have to farm for money that much. I guess this is the price of the Free to Play game. They must get that money from somewhere, right? However everything (expect "Premium") can be obtained, as long as you have enough of Gold to trade for Eldevin Points (Premium currency)
  • Daily quests - Both really nice and bad idea. You get Artisan Points (these are used to buy all kind of useful things) plus little cash and XP, when you complete those. The only problem is, that they're really boring and lame. Make/Get X amount of Y things. You can just run around the city, claiming your rewards from all daily tasks(once in a day, of course), if you've got those resources in your inventory
  • No Auction House - you must sell everything to stores or trade with players. However, they'll add this later though!
  • No Guilds - You'll have a hard time organizing huge player groups, since there's a player limit in Groups. However, like Auction House, they'll add this later as well
  • I found 'tutorials' a little bit weird (skilling)
  • Music - I love it, but it gets repetive, since there's not that many different tracks

Cons
  • Bots? I'd say that there's plenty of Bots in the starting place's Mine. That place is always crowded, no matter what time it is. Or prehaps everyone are just so excited about Armor/Weaponsmithing? Training enough of both (lets say, lvl 11 both of them?) takes a while, though
  • Sometimes you have to wait pretty long to do Dungeon runs. Waiting over 1h isnt fun. I cant say if this is problem only on EU server, or on other servers as well?
  • You do NOT want to do one quest at the time. Running back and forth - you'll just spend most of your time going from place A to B then. Try to do all quest in that area at once
  • You can buy in-game money(note; only the "main currency"), with real world money! - This is really stupid in my opinion, kids with their parent's credit cards/ people with extra dosh can get ridiculous amounts of in-game money, without actually doing anything. Expect "wasting" their money
  • Uh, graphics...? I am fine with them, but the character models, for example, looks pretty edgy-ish
  • Barely any graphical settings. Only Resolution, Fullscreen on/off, capped FPS on/off, View
    Distance, Texture Filter, Anisotropy and Rendering, and "Enable Low Texture Resolution" thingy
  • World is pretty empty. Too much emptiness, without real purpose
  • Random FPS drops - In City, you'll encounter FPS spikes. Mine swings between 4 and 50 FPS, which is really weird, since I can run at least Skyrim with maxed settings (and some graphics mods). This cant be so heavy game.... How to see FPS(without using any third party programs)? Just type /fps in chat
  • Clunky camera (controls) - Do NOT use WASD(movement keys) AND turn the camera at the same time. Camera randomly resets, ending you to suddenly change your direction. Hopefully they will fix this soon
  • Most of the items (equipment) that you can buy from NPCs, are really expensive. I see no reason buying any weapons/armors from NPCs. Just make your own, do some Dungeon runs or trade with players
  • During character creation, you have only few things you can change, such as face or body colour. Also, the characters are pretty ugly. But remember, this is only my opinion!

I'll give it 4,20 Smuggled Strawberries out of 5.


Extra; There was a nude gathering in the city. It was weird. They invited me in. Now I have weird friends.
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1 Comments
springacres Dec 24, 2014 @ 12:25am 
Great review - I loved how you listed all the pros and cons.

Also, weird friends are awesome. :)