Hehe, thanks for the explanations,
Though I still would like to get more Guild (creation, management, limitations) explanations: I did spend nearly a day this week trying to get some detailed guides, none exists*.. only partial one. :/
Now few cool random features I really appreciate:
- Social mobs:
Well.. that's being social, it's not only the closest mobs to your target that will come to help, but all of those in the frigging area, haha! So basically, when you know that you have to atk these socials (mostly human) be sure to do it in a party, don't even try alone even when you melee 1shot them: their tactic is to literally surround you.
- Mob's special skills: nasty.
If a mob has some skills at its disposal.. expect to see him using them against you. One of the noob flying thingy for example will disarm you.. lol. Others puts you on slow, weaken your defenses or offenses, etc..
- The follow option: a jewel.
You know how work the "keep formation" option in space games? That's what it is all about here! As long as you keep the target selected, you will follow every moves it's doing.. you can even heal it and it won't break this follow command. Along with the "auto run/walk" option, this makes your live really easier while going to a hunt place... which leads to the next point.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
Except for looting, you have or can create a shortcut for everything you do in game: moving, targeting, atking, crafting, selecting, etc.. it's all there. the Numpad allows you to open many windows, closing them all ect.. pretty neat. There are even some shortcuts that open some of your windows in a weird way, a pre-designed HUD of some sort, like F4.
- Player's actions / identifications
- One little nice stuff is that every member of your party will see their name colored in purple, players in duel appears with an atk icon above their head. Oh and players are already subjects to all mind control skills in pvp: fear, sleep, ect.. though for fear for example, you won't run away, just stand still for few sec: so far no debuffs last more than 2-5 secs.. there are no debilitating 30 sec of paralyzed state, as far as I know!
- Like every mobs, when a player targets you, an eye icon appears next to his name! Imagine an encounter with an opposing faction or open pvp, and a full 9 man party targeting you and only you, in your party.. lol, death sentence?
- You totally configure what info you see above a player: name, title (the profession he wants ppl to show), clan name, HP, MP, Stamina and Focus.
- The rez system & Death penalty
To rez someone, you only need to.. heal him back: lol, again simplistic. Here's the trick: when you die, your HP bar is empty for you but for others it looks like partly full of a "semi-visible" hp... I'll refer to it as the "anti-hp".What a random guy has to do then is to simply heal this anti-hp bar: each heals will reduce it and once its down to zero.. that's it, you've been rezed and you Death Penalty (DP) doesn't apply.
You'll get a DP only if you chose to respawn in one of the available respawn location. Most of us use the Death + respawn as a cheap port locs atm.. since compared to L2, every DP are irrelevant.
- Healing and xp
Once again, simplistic yet so unexpected: when you heal/buff someone or yourself.. you gain xp!
For once, griefing is not the only "bonus" feature to be rewarded.. you can still chose to heal others or not but if you do, then you will find a benefit to it. That's a refreshing idea, I'm all for balance: reward both good and bad actions.
- The Outpost pvp system.
It's almost like L2 expect there are way more outposts, you can attack it whenever you see fit (validation period of 24 hours) and it looks to me way more balanced than L2.. though to the cost of the freedom in the battle: atks work by rounds.
*try a search "Guild guide or Guilld creation or guild management, you'll see..
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Oh I almost forgot, there's one thing I've found really funny: it's completely useless but it's the kind of touch that makes you think about how these Nevrax ppl focus on the details.
When you log in, after the character selection, during the load time (which can be long).. you'll see some funny stuff on the upper right corner! Haha, the first one I noticed was something like "If you see this line.. you need to get more memory".. "Placing Ninja Youbos" is one of my favorite!
