Runes of Magic (now in Open Beta)

[Draegan]

The game is very well done for a free WOW clone. I'm impressed.

Apparently there is a full script language for skills makes it easy mode. With my priest/knight I have a skill that applies a debuff and another skill that does damage per stacked debuff.

Macro:
/cast Holy Strike
/wait 1
/cast Holy Strike
/wait 1
/cast Punishment

That thing executes every time. It's awesome. The animations are good, the UI is clean but it also allows addons just like WOW, just check out Curse.

It is generic land though. The classes are basic Priest/Warrior/Knight/Rogue/Scout/Mage. I believe you do use energy/rage/mana just like WOW. I haven't really explored much of the game yet but it held my attention for a while.

One interesting thing is that you can "dismantle" items into runes for what was mentioned already.

Best free MMO I've ever played and I think it's more feature complete and less buggy than any MMOG released in the last year or so.  I just hate cash shops, but I havn't really looked at what they offer yet.

[Mrbloodworth]

'arcane transmutor'

I have not found out how to use this yet, is it a level requirement or something?

[Draegan]

It might not be activated yet in the game. 

[Mrbloodworth]

It might not be activated yet in the game. 

You on the PvP server? This is the game my group has chosen for now for out Thursday LAN party's. We should hook up (If you are on the PvP server).

[Draegan]

Yeah I'm on the PVP server, I'm playing with the same name.

[Mrbloodworth]

Sweet, yeah we should hook up, right now i got 2 others for a nice group of 3, 4 would be just that much better.  I think we are all around level 12-13. We only play on Thursdays.

[Nonentity]

I got bored of it pretty fast.

Being able to dual class is pretty hilarious, though. For good times, go warrior primary, rogue secondary. You don't get stealth, but you get dual wield, and the ability to basically blink behind your target to start meleeing.

The breaking down items thing is pretty sweet, though. If you find a sword with +10 strength, you break it down, and you get a rune that allows you to give +10 strength to an item.

If you played Too Human, it kind of works along that line - the amount of stars that are on the item determine how many modifiers that item will have.

[Xuri]

Surprised no one has mentioned that you get a FREE!1! house not long after you've started playing (I got mine at level 6 or some such), and it seems you can furnish it yourself. I got a huge chest I could move around and rotate and stuff inside said house. For some reason, though, instanced houses doesn't seem to give me the feeling of ownership that houses in UO did. :/

Edit: Yeah, this game is out now.

[Mrbloodworth]

Frogster secures further territories for Runes of Magic

PDF on the game

[Malakili]

Going to download this today, will make a character on the PvP server whenever I get it up and running.

Hey its free, might as well give it a shot.

[Azuredream]

'arcane transmutor'

I have not found out how to use this yet, is it a level requirement or something?

No level requirement. In your inventory (bag) button there should be a button that you click to open the interface - you start out with a few charges (10 I think); every time you use the transmutor you use a charge. You can buy more charges with the daily quest tokens and you get some in a couple of the leveling bags. I think they give you a (very) brief intro on the transmutor once you hit level 10 and go to the city. The official forums have a lot of good info on the intricacies and what you can do with it.

[Mrbloodworth]

'arcane transmutor'

I have not found out how to use this yet, is it a level requirement or something?

No level requirement. In your inventory (bag) button there should be a button that you click to open the interface - you start out with a few charges (10 I think); every time you use the transmutor you use a charge. You can buy more charges with the daily quest tokens and you get some in a couple of the leveling bags. I think they give you a (very) brief intro on the transmutor once you hit level 10 and go to the city. The official forums have a lot of good info on the intricacies and what you can do with it.

Yeah, level 10...or rather going to that main town, was my issue i found out. I got to 16-17 before dual classing and stuff.

[Signe]

You play everything, Mr B.  Are you a house husband?  (not that there's anything wrong with that!)

[Mrbloodworth]

You play everything, Mr B.  Are you a house husband?  (not that there's anything wrong with that!)

Don't i wish.

[Malakili]

I downloaded the install for this and it kept saying it was corrupt.  Don't feel like sitting through the download again unless I know it will work.  Anyone have suggestions?

[Draegan]

I downloaded the game off one of the shells, not the download tool.  One of them was a British server and I was getting 300-500kb/s off of it from the US.

You could try torrenting the Open Beta Client and patch from there, that still works.

[Lounge]

I downloaded the install for this and it kept saying it was corrupt.  Don't feel like sitting through the download again unless I know it will work.  Anyone have suggestions?

I had the same problem, turns out the download tool will call it finished early sometimes.  Make sure that your downloaded vs remaining looks good.

[nurtsi]

I downloaded a torrent and patched from there. Their own software was slow as hell.

[Malakili]

I downloaded the install for this and it kept saying it was corrupt.  Don't feel like sitting through the download again unless I know it will work.  Anyone have suggestions?

I had the same problem, turns out the download tool will call it finished early sometimes.  Make sure that your downloaded vs remaining looks good.

Ah...

I'll let it go overnight tonight and try it in the morning.  Thanks for the tip.

[Nija]

Download the game off usenet if you have a good provider.

[schild]

Why would anyone bother downloading this at all? Just wondering.

[Signe]

I downloaded it a while back and played briefly.  I found it to be aggressively unremarkable.

[squirrel]

Meh it's free, has interesting multi classing and semi fun PvP at low levels. It's worth a download. Not worth much more time for me - i lasted about 5 weeks, but it wasn't horrid. The gem system and multi-classing are things better games should steal. But yeah, it's not remarkable, but it's not horrid.

[Draegan]

Why would anyone bother downloading this at all? Just wondering.

It's fun and easy to play, and it's free.  But I like DIKU stuff.

[Nija]

It has some interesting class combos. Scout/Mage gives you like 3 different snare/roots and about 6 insta cast ranged abilities. Priest/* seems wildly overpowered.

I've not really had much time to get into it yet. Then again, that's the point of a free mmo. No pressure to do anything.

[Xanthippe]

There's a horadric cube-esque crafting device called the 'arcane transmutor' that I really enjoyed. There are power stones you can buy (or drop from monsters) with +stat modifiers that you can combine with gear to transfer the item modifiers onto the power stone to make a mana stone, then mana stones three at a time to transfer all the +stat modifiers on the mana stones onto to the item. You only have a limited amount of 'stat slots' on the item and no stat can appear twice on the same item, so you have some control over what stats transfer over to the item. You can also combine 'runes' in the transmutor to make better runes which are used in the item sockets. It's a little confusing but once you try it firsthand you can see how it all fits together. It's good fun to see what kind of items you can make with it and it's much more fun than the  crafting system they have in place.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

That alone makes me want to play.

[Signe]

Unfortunately, that one thing doesn't help me maintain an interest.  The game might looks WoWish but it's as mundane as can be.  Couple that with item mall mentality and it ended up to be a brief, vanilla distraction.  There are a lot of games, even free ones, with some clever bits but, like this one, the over all effect works like Seconal on me.

[Azuredream]

Unfortunately, that one thing doesn't help me maintain an interest.  The game might looks WoWish but it's as mundane as can be.  Couple that with item mall mentality and it ended up to be a brief, vanilla distraction.  There are a lot of games, even free ones, with some clever bits but, like this one, the over all effect works like Seconal on me.

^

It's more of a time-killer than a game you can really immerse yourself in.

[AcidCat]

It's more of a time-killer than a game you can really immerse yourself in.

Hmmm. You know I'm realizing I have no place in my life anymore for this kind of game. Because I'm never just sititng around bored looking for something to do, I have to actively struggle against the tide of wife and children for every precious hour of gaming I get, so the experience better be worthwhile and not just a time filler.

Which I guess is why I haven't bothered to download this game.

[Malakili]

I got around to trying this out today.  Its actually not that bad.  The game, from what I have seen, low level only, is really quite polished and plays well.  I don't know if it has enough content or depth to keep me interested long term, but it'll definitely end up in my play it for a bit pile and we'll go from there. 

[Trippy]

Anybody know if this game includes a separate "anti-cheat" program that Asian MMOs are so fond of including? I stopped playing Granado Espada cause I got tired of having to reboot my computer every time I finished playing cause its anti-cheat program would fuck up my computer even when the game wasn't running.

[Draegan]

I've noticed no secondary software at all.

[Hawkbit]

It's not half bad. 

Actually, it was a great experience, for other reasons.  I played for an hour or two before I logged and uninstalled.  It finally made me come to the conclusion that RMT games are not for me.  By there being no monthly fee, there's nothing holding me to the world.  And because there's an unlimited supply of dumb shit I can spend my money on while drunk, I'm much better off not playing the game. 

It's one thing to lose a lvl 50ish D2 Barbarian's gear on Bnet because I was drunk, died and forgot to loot my corpse before I logged.  It's an entirely different thing to get drunk and buy a couple hundred dollars of 1s and 0s. 

[Draegan]

The only thing thats really necessary to buy in this game is a mount, though you can get them in game too on a limited basis.  The rest is all enchants for weapons and shit you can get in game.

Also you can buy diamonds with in game stuff from other players.  You can put up gear for diamonds etc in the AH.

[tazelbain]

> By there being no monthly fee, there's nothing holding me to the world.
You only have a car for a car payment?