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So, for most all players new to the mainland, hours are spent hunting yubos (the sewer rats of Atys) or other low level mobs. A new player can barely leave the safety of his city's gate without encountering an aggressive animal or a pack of such. There may be some specific named creatures lurking deep within the Prime Roots, but do not expect to see them for some time.

There are no named mobs, quest mobs, or unique opponents. Then, to add insult to injury, the reward is often less than a player would get for killing a handful of low level mobs and selling their hides. Even if the entire population is wearing nametags it's a devil of a task. Imagine placing a Texan in Beijing and telling him to find the one person named Chen Xiang.

The mission may be, 'Deliver this message to Ba'caussey Dauper in Crystabell.' Finding him is like looking for a needle in twenty haystacks, because there are scores of people wandering the city and each has a name that's a close match to the recipient.

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The cities are full of people whose names all sound remarkably similar. No other info is given about the recipient and no help is provided in locating him. It's all a bunch of kill tasks designed to garner the player a bit of money and a slight increase in reputation.Įven worse are messenger missions, where the player is given a note and told to take it to a certain player in a city, or even a region. There is nothing as involved as visit NPC, journey to dungeon, kill named beast, return, take message to second NPC, receive magic cloak. Some NPCs give missions, but they are along the lines of, 'Go kill X animals,' or 'Make me X pair of quality 10 boots.' These are nothing more than tasks and they get boring quickly. In other words, a player who maxes out his harvesting skill is merely able to find better items faster and more easily than a new player.not the most driving of incentives. And while quick progression makes early leveling fun and compelling, it becomes a chore after about level 25 or so.Īs the skill trees split, there are some interesting options, but what is the goal? Kill more beasts? Sew better clothes? Heal people faster? It seems apparent that all one will attain is a quicker, better, or more efficient way to do the same thing he was doing on the newbie island. Instead of endeavoring to gain experience to get his avatar to the next level, the player is working on just one skill to get it to the next level. After a bit of play, the bloom comes off the rose of the open skill tree when one realizes that it's all just the same old level grind in a different package. The Saga of Ryzom is sorely lacking in content. Unfortunately, there's not much more, at least as of this writing. Atys feels like a real world, and much of that may be attributed to the high quality of the graphics. One look at a storm rolling in over the desert, complete with lightning flashes in the distance, will give the player a true sense of location. Nevrax certainly pulled out all the stops here. Water effects are some of the best in any MMORPG. Rolling hills and barren deserts look almost real.

The disparate environments are well presented.

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