I'm on the server Troy and have a level 7 character named zandi_of_ro (tell me if ya see me
). I'm wearing full Taoist robe, have the beginning glave, upped my fire master and hueksol spearsmanship mastery so i can do the basic fire attack and wolf-bite spear technique, and i just recently leveled my Force mastery enough to where i can self-heal. anyways, here's stuff about the game:TOTALLY FREE!
download and info at www.silkroadonline.net
gameplay very similar to WoW
you up your mastery level of the 3 basic types of weapons to learn new techniques for them and "unlock" better ones. For example, because my hueksol spearsmanship is lvl 7, i can go buy a spear and use it as effectively as a glave (glaves are spears with giant blades on them
).best graphix of a free game i have ever seen, if a pc doesn't have a decent card, or over 768 MB of RAM, running through towns can be annoying, and you'll lose some FPS.
once you hit lvl 20, you can choose to be a hunter, merchant, or thief. merchants travel from town to town and get crazy amounts of gold for their runs. thieves generally should travel in groups, and wait on the silk road between towns so they can ambush merchants (they also have badass clothes). Hunters are like bounty hunters. they can be hired by mercs to protect them, and if a thief has a bounty on their head and enters an area, each hunter in the area is alerted of the thief's presence.
the only thing i don't like is, when you register, your password is limited to 13 characters long, but in the game, you can type in more than 13 characters in the password box when you go to log in. this caused some minor frustration with me...
and my advice, is swords and blades are for tanks. you can use a shield with them, and good swordsmen don't hit very hard, but hit fast and can take damage very well if you invest in them. spears and glaves are for damage dealers. once you get some nice attacks for it, or combine a spearsmanship technique with a magic skill, you'll see how much damage they can really do. bows are tactical, like, backup from a range, or the first attack wave. when you combine cold force mastery with archery, an archer can act alone better, because the cold force mastery slows the enemy down while the archer just unloads.
and of course, each party needs someone that can rez, so don't neglect leveling your force mastery for something with immediate gratification, once you can self-heal and rez with your force mastery, you'll be glad.
[update] the server seems to be down, so you might have to wait a bit before you can download.
