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The Chronicles of Spellborn: Attributes

StraddenStradden Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
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In this most recent article about The Chronicles of Spellborn, Managing Editor Jon Wood takes a look at the player attribute system.

Last time around, we talked a little bit about the classes that will be available in the upcoming MMORPG, The Chronicles of Spellborn. This time, I wanted to devote some time to the idea of player attributes.


With the help of the Spellborn team, I was able to get to the bottom of their system. You see, the player attributes are made up of three main attributes: Body, Mind and Focus. Each of those attributes, in turn, is tied to one of the three character class archetypes that were discussed in the last article: Warrior (Body), Spell Caster (Mind), and Rogue (Focus).

Again, referring back to the previous article, The Chronicles of Spellborn allows players to eventually select "specialized classes" within their archetype. Each of these specialized classes (there are three specialized classes for each of the class archetypes) is tied to a second attribute:

Read the whole article here.

Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com

Comments

  • NebulosusNebulosus Member Posts: 1
    Sounds Wicked Sweet!!!
  • CiredricCiredric Member Posts: 723
    Sounds very overly complex.  It will be wicked to balance....
  • IsaneIsane Member UncommonPosts: 2,630
    Originally posted by Ciredric

    Sounds very overly complex.  It will be wicked to balance....
    This type of system auto balances I believe !! Shame they couldn't go one step further and drop Classes and just have them associated to slkills.

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  • grndzrogrndzro Member UncommonPosts: 1,163
    Originally posted by Isane

    Originally posted by Ciredric

    Sounds very overly complex.  It will be wicked to balance....
    This type of system auto balances I believe !! Shame they couldn't go one step further and drop Classes and just have them associated to slkills.

    Um.....mabye because toons in plate mail can't backstab or cast spells effectively?

    It's either classes or choosing some skills disables others. take your pick.



  • StrangelingStrangeling Member Posts: 9
    Amazing. I don't see anything new about this system. Chronicles of Spellborn looks interesting but this did not help. This is a pure cookie-cutter RPG class system with special names. Must have been really hard to make a whole article on it. They should have merged this with the classes article. And no that will not be hard to balance. Not harder than any other typical system in my opinion. Oh well..
  • rakabilrakabil Member Posts: 11
    Does anyone know when if at all we will be able to beta test Spellborn? 
  • ravengladeravenglade Member Posts: 48
    Although this is a great system, none of this information is new to me. One of the more interesting features is that many of the skills cross-class to be available to one or more other classes (not cookie cutter there). In fact, this game is taking a more unique take than most i read about.



     I am looking forward to beta too, friend. This will happen... kinda soon (more than a few weeks). EU is getting first release, at that time (release time) US will probably get beta.
  • mutantmagnetmutantmagnet Member Posts: 274

    Originally posted by grndzro

    Um.....mabye because toons in plate mail can't backstab or cast spells effectively?
    It's either classes or choosing some skills disables others. take your pick.


    Did you forget to read the two year old memo. You can wear plate and backstab and cast spells effectively.


    I am looking forward to beta too, friend. This will happen... kinda soon (more than a few weeks). EU is getting first release, at that time (release time) US will probably get beta.

    Well the release has been pushed back to the winter so there is a greater chance for simultaneous release within the three regions (Asia with Korea as the centerpoint).

  • trubbeltrubbel Member Posts: 9
    Have you applied for the beta? I applied months ago and got accepted immediately then.
  • CrimsoCrimso Member Posts: 2
    looks nice
  • earthhawkearthhawk Member Posts: 247
    Originally posted by Strangeling

    Amazing. I don't see anything new about this system. Chronicles of Spellborn looks interesting but this did not help. This is a pure cookie-cutter RPG class system with special names. Must have been really hard to make a whole article on it. They should have merged this with the classes article. And no that will not be hard to balance. Not harder than any other typical system in my opinion. Oh well..
    I totaly agree; the more I hear about this "revolutionary" game the less impressed I become. I'll wait till after the game is released and playable before deciding to purchase. It's funny when companies strive to do things differently (not just in the world of MMOs) just to stand out, they normally fail. There is a reason why games are succesful; because they work! Stop trying to be different for different's sake! Put out a good product and I promise you the masses will come. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the final verdict will be.
  • NaazirNaazir Member Posts: 90

    Originally posted by grndzro

    Originally posted by Isane

    Originally posted by Ciredric

    Sounds very overly complex.  It will be wicked to balance....
    This type of system auto balances I believe !! Shame they couldn't go one step further and drop Classes and just have them associated to slkills.

    Um.....mabye because toons in plate mail can't backstab or cast spells effectively?

    It's either classes or choosing some skills disables others. take your pick.

     

    Plate mail is irrelevant. Armor means nothing in this game, remember? It's all just for looks. You can even change your "look" if you want. You can be a full fledged caster but "appear" to be wearing plate armor. It was one of the things people used to talk about for tricking people in PvP.

     

    (Unless they changed all that and I missed something...)

     

    -Naaz.

     

  • NaazirNaazir Member Posts: 90

    Originally posted by trubbel

    Have you applied for the beta? I applied months ago and got accepted immediately then.
    lol

    I applied for beta, got in, the download they made available was hosed, they put off that beta some, I NEVER HEARD FROM THEM AGAIN  :(

     

    -Naaz.

     

  • AtmaDarkwolfAtmaDarkwolf Member UncommonPosts: 353

    Ya... when the game first announced itself years ago, and I had a chance to read the first few things they said, I was intrested. My intrest has dipped and gone to the point that I don't trust the game to even be 1/100th as fun as most others.

     

    They have an extremly simplified attrubute system, which they somehow turned into an overcomplex mesh.

     

    Sorry, I am gonna take back my beta application for this one, doubt i have the time.

    Good luck

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