A few weeks back, my boyfriend introduced me to this new game called 'Dragon Nest'
Basically, it's a MMORPG game developed my Eyedentity Games, a South Korean online game developer in 2010. Unlike games like World of Warcraft and Ragnarok Online, Dragon Nest focuses more on a non-target combat system - Which actually means, you control where your character hits, instead of what your character hits (No targeting system).
I wasn't initially keen on playing MMORPG games besides WoW and RO, but I guess giving it a try doesn't hurt, since it's free after all.
Am currently playing under the South East Asia server (SEA) so the accounts are generally handled by Cherrycredits.
There are basically 6 classes released in Dragon Nest and they include:
1. Warrior
2. Archer
3. Cleric
4. Sorceress
5. Kali
6. Tinkerer
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From left:
Cleric - Tinkerer - Archer - Warrior - Kali - Sorceress |
I'll do this review from my character's POV. It's because each character may have a different storyline, but eventually all of them would converge together because it's the same story LAWL.
Anyway, my character is an archer, and I named her: 'Calenya'. ^^ Generally from the archer's POV, the hero's task is to rescue this girl named Rose (or Rosie). You start off in Ironwood Village and generally you will have side quests and of course the main quest line (DUH, any MMORPG game would have this).
In DN (Dragon Nest), you'll get to create guilds, party, go on challenging dungeons at different difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard, Master, Abyss) There are tons of items that can be looted - ranging from Normal, Magic, Rare, Epic, Unique and Legendary.
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| The Kali Class |
The currency used will be the basic Gold, Silver and Copper, and these can be used to form Heraldry, a form of enhancement that you can equip to increase stats as well as improve your skills. Besides, your equipment can be enhanced, as any MMORPG games allow their players to do and you are also able to craft new special Epic class equipments.
From the basic classes listed above, each class will be capable of advancing to a higher class at level 15 and will be required to chose from 2 choices:
The below diagram lists out the choices that each class may take:
In my case, I took an archer and I have a choice of advancing to be either a Sharpshooter (Bow Master) or an Acrobat. I chose Acrobat, which is more specialised in close ranged combat as compared to her long range counterpart, the Bowmaster. As an Acrobat, when I advance further up to Level 45, I have to choose between a Tempest or a Windwalker.
In order to summarise the chart, basically the player will start with a base class, (i.e. Warrior) and from there advance to the First class - (1-1: Swordsman, 1-2: Mercenary) at level 15 and then later to the Second class - (2-1-1: Gladiator, 2-1-2: Lunar Knight a.k.a Moonlord, 2-2-1: Barbarian, 2-2-2: Destroyer) at level 45.
Okay, that confused me a little @@
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| Archer Class |
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*ignore that gibberish part for abit*
Carrying on,
Dragon Nest overall is not bad of a game, with pleasant graphics and rather flashy set of skills for every class. Dungeon-ing with friends proved to be very much of a fun experience and players who are up for a bigger challenge can try Nesting, which is a term used when the player/party wishes to challenge a very much harder set of monsters.
(WARNING: NESTING IS DEFINITELY A NO-GO FOR SOLO PLAY)
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| 'tis essential for a priest to be around XD |
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| The Black Knight |
Besides Nesting and Dungeon-ing, there is also PvP (Player-vs-Player) and there is where players get to test their skills against other players. Each class's skills will have 2 different statistics whereby one is for PvE (Player-vs-Enemy) and the other for PvP. So before entering PvP, players do have to bear in mind the difference in stats for each skill. ^^
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| Rose |
The main storyline is not bad, I would say; something about a black knight and Rose, who apparently has the power of the ancients and you have to save her before her powers are taken. And you will bump into Argenta, the sorceress with white long hair and wears red clothing. Until now, since I'm hanging out in Calderock Village (for like forever lol), I've yet to progress through the storyline entirely but I have to say that Dragon Nest is definitely interesting and its even better when you have friends tagging along!
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| Argent |
I would give Dragon Nest pretty much...hmm...about 8/10?
GAMEPLAY:8/10
MUSIC:8/10
COMBAT:8.5/10
PLOT:7/10
GRAPHICS:7/10
The cons for this game, IMO would be that the level cap is at Level 70 (if am not wrong with the new patch). It used to be at Level 40 which turned many players away from the game. But with the new level cap, many have returned and the DN community is growing back once again (and I'm one of them!! xD). However, if the community continues to grow and this level cap stays, it might turn them off again (LOL). I mean, look at RO, the max level cap was at 99 and now it's at 150! So, I have that feeling DN might just do the same (ahahahaha), which can be good (I think?).
So for those MMORPG lovers who have not tried this, give it a try! ^^ There are lots of things to experience in this game and I would say it's fun on the long run.
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| You better run~~~~ Chase em~~ xD |
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