Runes of Magic - Open beta

cfc · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 40 **Location:**

http://www.runesofmagic.com/en/index.html

Features
- f2p with item mall. Everything in mall can be acquired in game although may not be as good. No gear or weapons in mall.
- Player housing
- Six classes - Knight, Warrior, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Scout
- Dual class (Primary and secondary). You can choose any combination such as Knight/Scout, Mage/Priest, etc
- 600 quests. Each quest line ends in a mini boss
- Auction house
- Complex crafting. Any armor/weapon/potion/item can be made
- EU based servers. US servers will be added later. No IP blocking
- Dungeons both instanced and persistent
- End game is guild wars, server v server
- 3 English/International servers; 2 PvE, 1 PvP
- PvP on PvE servers are consensual duels. No PK
- on PvP server, PK is allowed and is similar to SRO. You get murderer status but the penalty is pretty harsh compared to SRO so there won't be much PK

I suggest you start on the PvP server because it will have the least contention for mobs. The map is small compared to SRO

Notes:
- graphics and animation are decent but not as good as SRO
- skill points are hard to get. You'll only be able to farm them at cap (lvl 50)
- not really a grindy game compared to SRO. I expect a lot of players to get to cap within a month
- avoid grinding on mobs that are lower level than you. The exp penalty is really steep. 2 lvls lower gives you half exp and 4 lvls higher gives double exp
- mini bosses aren't soloable
- most players seem to go with Priest secondary class to get self heal

Macantacht Server
nitrofreez - Eesolk

Osha Server
pipigrande - Genius

Smacht Server
takolin - Dagnarus
[SD]bizzle - Bizzness
0l3n - PinkPenguin

Krynn/Grimdal Server
Kirkaldi - Kirkaldi
_Lana_ - Rahh
dom - Divinus, Imperious
piootr - TruckNaField
Sn4ke_ - Shizuru
CrimsonNuker - Crim
bakman - Deadnought
Sharp324 - Narcissus
FireVortex - furius
Flinch1 - Sektor
cfc - Blaze
Firetruck - Firetruck
[SD]Twysta - Justice
Hostage - Hostage
-Evan - ValtheK
Toasty - Toasty

Kirkaldi · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 3083 **Location:** nyc

Definitely gonna to play this game.

piootr · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1424 **Location:**

Kirkaldi wrote:

Definitely gonna to play this game.

Same here, planning on going Warrior with a knight sub.
I like how when you sub a class you get bonus for their proficiencies, but you also can switch between the two and play the other class on the same character. Each of your two classes has its own level. So it's basically like having two chars in one. Reminds me so much of Lineage2 =P.

Kirkaldi · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 3083 **Location:** nyc

Heh, I wanna be a Rogue/Priest.

_Lana_ · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:20 pm

Finally OB is coming out.

I heard that anything with Priest as second would fail <.<
Eh i would try Mage/Warrior anyway or Mage/Scout.

Hmm the one with more Hp or dps....

cfc · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 40 **Location:**

The problem with Priest is that leveling up your Priest is really slow. Priest does really weak damage and so getting it to a high level is hard. So for most players, they would end up with a low level Priest sub which would fail.

If however, you do manage to level it up, you will find it is overpowered as a sub. The Rejuvenate skill is an overpowered HoT.

_Lana_ · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:04 pm

cfc wrote:

The problem with Priest is that leveling up your Priest is really slow. Priest does really weak damage and so getting it to a high level is hard. So for most players, they would end up with a low level Priest sub which would fail.

If however, you do manage to level it up, you will find it is overpowered as a sub. The Rejuvenate skill is an overpowered HoT.

Well basically you would be better to have priest as prim because priest sec skills suck big time.That would mean Priest with anything that doesn't use mana(Thats No for Mage and Knight as second),leaving Priest with Warrior,Scout and Rogue.
Since i think the whole "Paladin" thing won't work together that would be priest with Rogue or Scout. Priest with Rogue sounds more interesting.

Still i am sure that i won't play a priest in this game.
Now i have been thinking about what would i do for a Mage sub... Warrior or Scout ?
I think i will pick scout,never had a pure dps character in a game lol.

[SD]bizzle · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 1317 **Location:** Aion

Ganno try this game as well, almost donw downloading, any idea on servers you guys will join maybe we can pt together ^^

_Lana_ · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:27 pm

[SD]bizzle wrote:

Ganno try this game as well, almost donw downloading, any idea on servers you guys will join maybe we can pt together ^^

Since i don't really like carebear servers (PvE),i would pick PvP.
But since im new here and there is no safe zones on PvP....
SO i think i will join one of the two PvE's to start with.
Then we will see (100% sure will be playing on EU English servers)

The official site is down

The forums are still up tho.
All i can say is.... Cant wait to play it tomorrow.

[SD]bizzle · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 1317 **Location:** Aion

lol, cool am on eu severs as well, but got an idea of the name of the server? also you should be able to move you char within the same server between the pvp pve servers right? sort of like cabal

_Lana_ · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:38 pm

By the Cabal thing you mean channels like in ZuXian ?
Then i don't think so,i think it will just be servers (like sro,pw..)
Tho they will have like 10 servers and said that they will add more if really needed.

EU German:
(PvE) Laoch - Hero, warrior, champion. [Scottish Gaelic]
(PvE) Aontacht - Unity
(PvP) Cogadh - War, warfare [Irish]

EU English:
(PvE) Siochain - Peace
(PvE) Macantacht - Honesty
(PvP) Smacht - Discipline

North America (English)
* US (PvE) Artemis
* US (PvE) Govinda
* US (PvE) Osha
* US (PvP) Krynn

I will be playing on Siochain (Peace),more easy to remember then Mecatochamon w/e...

piootr · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1424 **Location:**

this isn't the US release yet right? Well anyway, are the second words part of the name? or the status? Like you're playing on "Peace", does that mean pve?

bakman · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 449 **Location:**

where are u guys downloading it from?

Kirkaldi · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 3083 **Location:** nyc

bakman wrote:

where are u guys downloading it from?

Gamershell

piootr · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1424 **Location:**

bakman wrote:

where are u guys downloading it from?

Atomic gamer is the only decent one.

dom · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:27 am

I'll play if someone names me a server.

piootr · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1424 **Location:**

EDIT: i'm going on Smacht

cfc · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 40 **Location:**

_Lana_ wrote:

Well basically you would be better to have priest as prim because priest sec skills suck big time.That would mean Priest with anything that doesn't use mana(Thats No for Mage and Knight as second),leaving Priest with Warrior,Scout and Rogue.
Since i think the whole "Paladin" thing won't work together that would be priest with Rogue or Scout. Priest with Rogue sounds more interesting.

Still i am sure that i won't play a priest in this game.
Now i have been thinking about what would i do for a Mage sub... Warrior or Scout ?
I think i will pick scout,never had a pure dps character in a game lol.

Mana on Mage/Priest is fine because it is an Int build. Knight/Priest is harder because it is a Str build and has a lot less mana. But I played both in CB and had no issues with mana because the pots keep it topped up.

Also, whatever two classes you choose, you will play them both equally. So one session you will play Mage/Priest to level up Mage and next, you will switch to play Priest/Mage to level up Priest.

I tried all classes in CB and I found Scout to be the worst in terms of gameplay. Scouts use bow and damage is weak. Everyone who tried Scout complained so the devs may have adjusted the Scout skills to improve it. We'll have to see. Rogue was overpowered in CB.

Kirkaldi · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 3083 **Location:** nyc

dom wrote:

I'll play if someone names me a server.

Krynn, that's where I'll be playing. PvP Server btw.

cfc · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 40 **Location:**

Go to Krynn. I wouldn't worry about PK since it can only happen once you get past lvl 15. Towns are safe because PKers will get killed by the guards. Also, the PK penalty is harsh so not many will risk going murderer status. In CB, all those who PKed and got murderer status lost all their gear. Murderers drop gear whenever they are killed.

Edit: Actually, I'm going to Smacht. The US servers won't be up in time.

[SD]Kratos · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4787 **Location:**

3.4GB download with a 60kbps speed.

No.

_Lana_ · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:15 am

cfc wrote:

_Lana_ wrote:

Well basically you would be better to have priest as prim because priest sec skills suck big time.That would mean Priest with anything that doesn't use mana(Thats No for Mage and Knight as second),leaving Priest with Warrior,Scout and Rogue.
Since i think the whole "Paladin" thing won't work together that would be priest with Rogue or Scout. Priest with Rogue sounds more interesting.

Still i am sure that i won't play a priest in this game.
Now i have been thinking about what would i do for a Mage sub... Warrior or Scout ?
I think i will pick scout,never had a pure dps character in a game lol.

Mana on Mage/Priest is fine because it is an Int build. Knight/Priest is harder because it is a Str build and has a lot less mana. But I played both in CB and had no issues with mana because the pots keep it topped up.

Also, whatever two classes you choose, you will play them both equally. So one session you will play Mage/Priest to level up Mage and next, you will switch to play Priest/Mage to level up Priest.

I tried all classes in CB and I found Scout to be the worst in terms of gameplay. Scouts use bow and damage is weak. Everyone who tried Scout complained so the devs may have adjusted the Scout skills to improve it. We'll have to see. Rogue was overpowered in CB.

That sounds logical,but why the uglier ones are overpowered ._.
Guess thats why rogues have most of the votes on the poll.

nitrofreez · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 313 **Location:**

I'll be playing as a Knight/Warrior on Macantacht server. IGN Eesolk

dom · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:36 am

Download hit 99% but now the download manager's screen is blank... I hope it doesn't freeze up and close. I'll be pissed.

edit: done downloading but now it asks me for a key to register an account?

cfc · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 40 **Location:**

dom wrote:

Download hit 99% but now the download manager's screen is blank... I hope it doesn't freeze up and close. I'll be pissed.

edit: done downloading but now it asks me for a key to register an account?

That's just there because in CB, you needed a key and they haven't updated the page. Leave it blank.

dom · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:14 am

Everything is installed but its not letting me log in. Has the beta started yet? It's 3:14am EST on Monday =/

cfc · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 40 **Location:**

dom wrote:

Everything is installed but its not letting me log in. Has the beta started yet? It's 3:14am EST on Monday =/

They haven't announced a time yet.

cfc · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 40 **Location:**

http://romstatus.servegame.com/

Lol. A Rev6 equivalent for RoM. He will change the name to Rev8. He says he is against bots. We'll see

dom · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:22 am

Quote:

Hello,

Regarding to our plans the US servers will be online on Monday Dec. 15th 2008 at about 6pm Pacific Time (GMT -8). The forum will be online at about 8am same day.

http://us-forum.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=7

takolin · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4238 **Location:** Life

I'll start with a mage/priest when I finished DL'ing the game.

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