I just joined and have a few questions...

[zeroace]

1. Are there any thief or rogue type skills that I can pursue with my character? I enjoyed being a thief/assassin type character in the old Ultima Online, and was looking for a game that would allow me to take up something similar to that.

2. Is the PvP universal in this game, can it happen anywhere and to anyone?

[roninpvp]

1. Are there any thief or rogue type skills that I can pursue with my character? I enjoyed being a thief/assassin type character in the old Ultima Online, and was looking for a game that would allow me to take up something similar to that.

2. Is the PvP universal in this game, can it happen anywhere and to anyone?

1. No such thief/rogue characters. But then again this game is an open skill system letting you do anything you want. If you want to run around with daggers stabbing everything you can. Be careful of ninjalooting tho people are very perceptive and you may suddently find yourself alone


The Four main areas are Fighting (mele type skills), Magic, crafting, and harvesting (gathering materials).

2. PvP is in zones. So if your walking in these non zones you are safe; Unless you accept someone's challange to a duel nobody can attack another player outside of these zones (Nexus, Umbra, Arena Knoll of Dissent).

[silver84]

Hello, and welcome to Atys,

1. U have 4 main skills melee, magic, harvest and craft. Every skill will split up as u get higher lvled. So u can decide which form(s) u like and want to lvl.
However u can roleplay every kind of character u want to be.

2. PvP is not universal in this game. Some parts of Atys are PvP or FvF (faction v faction (kami v karavan)).
U can also ask somebody to duel u.

Enjoy ur stay on Atys

[trenker]

1. Are there any thief or rogue type skills that I can pursue with my character? I enjoyed being a thief/assassin type character in the old Ultima Online, and was looking for a game that would allow me to take up something similar to that.

2. Is the PvP universal in this game, can it happen anywhere and to anyone?

1) When you look at the variety of skills available to characters in most other games, you will be dissapointed at the low number and unimaginative skills in Ryzom. You can only really 'role play' a rogue. However, the skills we do have can be mixed a bit, although this is primarily only to reduce their cost.

2) PvP only happens in certain zones which you will find very hard to survive in until you have at least 100 levels under yer belt (I recomend 200). However, the population is so low in these areas that most of the time you will be lucky to find more than 4 or 5 people in them. But the good news is it can happen to anyone in those areas at the moment, although there is some fame and faction changes in progress.

[magick1]

For some reason previous posters have forgotten about ranged combat, which is part of the fighter branch.

And as said, rogue is only available through roleplay. Homins will happyly slaughter or poison each other (well, a few of them). But steal and backstab is a complete unknown.