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lvl 20 cleric lvl 20 berserker review of raiderz's alpha
first of all i gonna give 3/5 stars at the current state of the alpha - in all honest i soooo want to give a 4 but in the end i couldn't
graphics - for a free to play game the graphics here is amazing. the only problem i ever had was a slight tearing in some house's hallways. other than that it looks great on high settings or low settings you will enjoy the graphics in this game.
ui - pretty standard nothing special or spectacular just pretty normal.
quests - like any free to play game that wants you to spend lots of time there 90% is kill x amount of mobs or get x amount of y from this mob. although there is a few things like deliver this to x person or kill this small boss.
mobs dont drop armor and weapons EVER. they drop items you use to make them. special boss mobs drop special items that you can use yo upgrade your gear. so alot of the time you will be spending grinding rare drops from normal boss for your gear.
the unique thing that everyone is hyping about is the manual block and dodge. when you press shift and move u dodge that way. if you hold right click you block. lets start with dodge at first you test it out omg AMAZING! after a few times you find it buggy as you were sure you got out and didnt see yourself get hit but you got hit anyways. blocking is great for counter attacking after a block but cant block special abilities. there is a huge flaw in this in that lets say you attack a mob during your attack animation on your second attack you will prolly get countered and when you try to cancel and dodge or block its already too late. HUGE FLAW
this is not your average tank healer dps game. i played a cleric to lvl 20 one heal doesnt even account for the weakest mob of your lvl's normal white attack. all other heals blow soooooo hard. you find yourself harming your party more than healing or supporting. watching defenders tank is um doesnt exist because despite the really crappy healing i do mobs find me attractive. so what this game comes down to is not tank and spank but kite and spank. whoever has agro run around til the next person gets agro rinse and repeat. and you should just run and not try to fight back cause on boss mobs.....normal attacks hit you for 30% of your hp and specials hit anyhere from 50% - 70% of your hp. pots will heal for about 6% of your (30-45s cd) a cleric with his 2 awesome heals will heal you for average 9% of your hp every 8s. so if you get hit.....auto regen bro.
i recommend going dps class for this game because at least in normal mob fights you can fight 5 mobs at a time why? cause all you do is knock em down smack em repeat almost never take damage. clerics cant even heal through 2 mobs of the same lvl for over 20s lol?
gathering in this game well....not too useful so far since most of the stuff you get from doing quests and killing mobs anyways and they are pretty hard to find
you get your mount at around lvl 14ish depending when you hit the 3rd zone but it feels sloooowwwwwww like you feel you are faster running.
world boss mobs are on a first tag first get system meaning if your group doesnt tag it on the first hit you will not get exp quest credit or any loot. first zone has 3 channels but the other 2 channels have slower respawn rate and first channel has like 30 ppl together camping one monster for the quest or their item to make gear um ya....dont get tag = waste of time. by your 3rd world boss that you HAVE to kill to continue to quest chain you are in a 1 channel zone against fighting with 6 other groups of 5 for a boss that takes over 10 mins to kill. wow.....so uh what now?
overall - first 10 levels they did absolutely a wonderful job on the game however as you progress you see huge flaws in this game that they seriously nees to be fixed. you have a class that has support/healing/dps trees but that class cant do either of the 3. this game has so much potential. i went from amazed to disappointed pretty quickly
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I can't comment one way or the other on a lot of your review, as I've only played til about lvl 10 with a Defender, but as far as I know the boss mobs are only "tagged" by others when it comes to loot. You still get quest credit even if you come in the fight when it's half over, as long as you attack the boss. I've gotten a couple quests done that way.
I enjoyed the read though, I'm curious to find out more about healers and everything else you mentioned.
I enjoy the game itself so far, i just don't like any of the classes. I'd kill for an archer class.
the first 2 star mob you have to fight after you get out of the noobie area you have to fight everyone for it. and since it respawns instantly after it dies and you cant invite when in combat many people doesnt take the time to party and just hope for the best. The crafting system...well...everybody HAS to do it cause theres no other way to get gear....you might think the combat is fun omg you can dodge roll it gets repetitive cause t hats ALL you do you hit watch for the boss'es animation dodge hit again repeat for every boss. i don't understand why people say the quest system is the bomb in this game its the same few repeats - kill x amount of this , gather x amount of this, go to this guy rofl come up with anything new?
well some of his reviews have good points but i think he needs to understand meaning of alpha O.o there will be bugs and exploits and right now since its last day all theses bugs and issue have been fixed for most part
it does have you Kill x this quest style but way it does it feels lot less grind then most MMOs out right now the dodge is buged but thats allso to be expected wait till it goes to beta and you will see lot of change in terms of this