Try, try, try again
I dug deep into my bag of free MMOs to dig out Conquer Online. It's a Chinese based MMORPG that's heavy on the action, but extremely light on the roleplaying. It's a low-rez, almost isometric game, with an outdated color palate. However, the game recently (a month or 2 ago) went from version 1.0 to 2.0. What changes did it bring?
To be honest, nothing that I can tell, other than an easier to read GUI. Perhaps more of the changes are geared towards the end game, as I've failed to reach that part yet. So far, I've brought 3 different characters to level 30+; an archer, a taoist, and a warrior. Playing them again for the first time in about 6 months really didn't feel any different than it used to be though.
The classes are varied, but there's a lot of overlapping. Warriors and Trojans for example share most of the same special moves. Warriors are trained to use a shield however, and Trojans use 2 weapons. Taoists at level 40 can become water taoists or fire. Water focusing on curing and transportation, fire on destruction. It's REALLY hard to reach that point without being powerleveled though, and if you get powerleveled, your magic is too weak to solo afterwards.
Archers however don't share much in common with anyone. By my estimates, at least 1 in 3 (most likely greater) characters are archers, for 1 main reason. A skill called "Scatter". Basically when you use the skill, it allows you to fire an arrow, with a slight damage and experience penalty, at EVERY ENEMY within a certain area in front of you. And let me tell you that it's about 140 degrees or higher. Massive leveling in REALLY fast times happens, provided you reach level 23 for the skill, then keep supplied in arrows and top notch gear.
All in all, for a free game, it's pretty good. You can even go mine for ores, swap the ores for timber, and use ore and timber to build yourself a house. You also find gems to put into your equipment from mining. Also, if you want better gear, you can pay them a set price for some "dragonballs" to use to upgrade your equipment. Worth it if you intend on being a "1337" PKer, as the game has a HORRIBLE PK system (even when your PK is set to off, you can be attacked).
All in all, I say give the game a shot. However, if you DON'T like PK, don't even bother, as that's what the end game consists of (after you've reached the max level, reincarnated, and reached the max level again).
To be honest, nothing that I can tell, other than an easier to read GUI. Perhaps more of the changes are geared towards the end game, as I've failed to reach that part yet. So far, I've brought 3 different characters to level 30+; an archer, a taoist, and a warrior. Playing them again for the first time in about 6 months really didn't feel any different than it used to be though.
The classes are varied, but there's a lot of overlapping. Warriors and Trojans for example share most of the same special moves. Warriors are trained to use a shield however, and Trojans use 2 weapons. Taoists at level 40 can become water taoists or fire. Water focusing on curing and transportation, fire on destruction. It's REALLY hard to reach that point without being powerleveled though, and if you get powerleveled, your magic is too weak to solo afterwards.
Archers however don't share much in common with anyone. By my estimates, at least 1 in 3 (most likely greater) characters are archers, for 1 main reason. A skill called "Scatter". Basically when you use the skill, it allows you to fire an arrow, with a slight damage and experience penalty, at EVERY ENEMY within a certain area in front of you. And let me tell you that it's about 140 degrees or higher. Massive leveling in REALLY fast times happens, provided you reach level 23 for the skill, then keep supplied in arrows and top notch gear.
All in all, for a free game, it's pretty good. You can even go mine for ores, swap the ores for timber, and use ore and timber to build yourself a house. You also find gems to put into your equipment from mining. Also, if you want better gear, you can pay them a set price for some "dragonballs" to use to upgrade your equipment. Worth it if you intend on being a "1337" PKer, as the game has a HORRIBLE PK system (even when your PK is set to off, you can be attacked).
All in all, I say give the game a shot. However, if you DON'T like PK, don't even bother, as that's what the end game consists of (after you've reached the max level, reincarnated, and reached the max level again).
posted by trindras at 7:10 PM
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