Summary Dragon Nest is a free-of-charge massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by EYEDENTITY GAMES. It uses a non-targeting combat system ensuring that players have complete control over every single one of their character's movements. Dragon Nest requires users to advance their characters by teaming up and traveling into instanced dungeons. These dungeons have randomly placed enemies, traps, paths, etc. so every dungeon run is different.
Character classes
Warrior (Male) - Standard frontal assault class and the only class that can dash. Specializes in melee combat, accompanied by a wide variety of offensive spells to maintain high damage and combo ability. They wield two-handed weapons and can use swords, maces and axes. Archer (Female) - Ranged attack class. Specializes in long range damage and spells. Uses crossbow, short bow and long bow. Sorceress (Female) - The typical mage class that uses magic to deal heavy damage. Has access to fire, ice, poison and force spells initially. Uses staffs as their weapons along with a book (standard kick), puppet (summons a demon that punches monsters) or an orb (360° degree short range attack) that provides a different alternate attack. Cleric (Male) - A hybrid class that functions as a melee fighter, but has access to ranged magic attacks and defensive spells. Uses maces, flails or wands. 2nd Job Advancement
Each primary class can advance to their second job, which is available at level 15 and branch to two different paths:
Warrior:
Sword Master - Uses speed, agility and ranged attacks to muster up high damaging combos.
Mercenary - High defense and slow, but powerful attacks. They use howls or battle cries to buff party members or weaken enemies.
Archer:
Bow Master - Focuses on a large selection deadly ranged attacks.
Acrobat - A close range archer sub-class that use lightening fast kicks and agile maneuvers to dish out combos and damage.
Sorceress:
Elemental Lord - Primarily uses the elements of fire and ice to deal heavy damage to groups of monsters.
Force User - Uses energy and dark magic to summon orbs of varying sizes that suck in enemies, explode or shoot energy beams. Also controls the elements of time and space to reduce cooldown of spells or stop enemies.
Cleric:
Paladin - Specializes in defensive and shield spells making him the primary tanking class. Low damage output, but high survivability. His defensive moves also have offensive capability, however.
Priest - A utility class that can fill a variety of roles in parties, but lack the true capability compared to other classes it competes. They are capable of increasing attack or defense of party members, summoning support relics to attack, heal, buff or freeze monsters, and can focus solely on ranged electrical attacks if desired.
Storyline
The Goddess Altea, creator of the land of Lagendia, is poisoned by her evil sister Vestinel. The poison can only be cured using an antidote made using the source of the poison itself, Vestinel's magic grail, which has disappeared somewhere within Lagendia. The players as heroes of Lagendia must comb the land fighting evil dragons in order to find power stones that enable them to communicate with the sleeping goddess in order to find the grail, wake her and save the world.
Release date
This game is set to release in early 2011.