MMO History
Silkroad Online
Silkroad Online is a historical fantasy MMORPG from Joymax based on the history of China along the famous Silk Road. Reproducing 7th century Silk Road trading while adding fantastic elements, Silkroad Online allows players to create their own characters, complete quests, fight monsters, level up, obtain pets, craft items, engage in PvP, and more.
FEATURES
- Three Jobs | At level 20, choose from the Merchant, Hunter, and Thief jobs, and switch between all three at the expense of some experience points.
- Unique Skills and Action Battle System | Utilize Silkroad Online's unique skills and engage in action-based battles.
- Crafting and Pets | Create your own items and obtain pets to perform tasks or fight alongside you.
- PvP Modes | Participate in free PvP, Battle Arenas, guild Fortress Wars, and more.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is one of the premier subscription MMORPGs, and has helped spread the entire genre into mass markets across the globe. Players enter the world of Azeroth, a fantasy realm of swords and sorcery, exotic races, mystical creatures, world turmoil, high adventure, and war. Created by Blizzard Entertainment, and based on the Warcraft series of RTS games first released in the mid 1990s, WoW expanded on the early Warcraft single player franchise and is now a vibrant multiplayer world, where players may engage in roleplaying, PvE, PvP, dungeon instances, battlegrounds, arenas, and raids. WoW is currently into its 8th year and its third major expansion, Cataclysm, and is still going strong.
FEATURES
- Massively Multiplayer & Online | Join thousands of other players online at any given moment, creating a world that’s full of life and action.
- Roleplaying | Take a race, a class, and a set of skills, and mold them into a personality that transcends the games’ mechanics.
- Warcraft Universe | Enter into a world with a legacy of more than fifteen years of epic storytelling.
- Persistent Online Personae | Create up to fifty characters who grow with each game session. As characters advance in level, so do their skills, weapons, armor, equipment, locations discovered, monsters defeated, NPCs met, quests completed, and adventures had, all with no worry of ever reaching ‘the end’.
Aion
Aion is a MMORPG developed by NCsoft. Players step into a role of a character in a world divided between the brave and hardy Asmodians and the winged Elyos, sworn enemies in a celestial war. A third (NPC) race, the dragonlike Balaur, keep the other two races engaged in fighting when they’re not fighting each other. Adventure across the vast world of Atreia, through challenging solo and group dungeons, epic quests, and massive Legion raids, all to ultimately save your world from utter destruction!
FEATURES
•Combat | on land and in the sky! Character movement actually plays into attack and defense!
•Flight | Ascend to become a Daeva at level ten to receive wings, which play a vital role in travel, combat, quests, and crafting.
•Quests | Over 3,900 of them to be found through 6 terrain zones.
•The Abyss and PvP | Battle the Balaur and other beings of Atreia in this battleground.
•Pets | Both functional and decorative types.
•Crafting | Six professions: Alchemy, Armorsmithing, Cooking, Handicrafting, Tailoring, Weaponsmithing.
•Customizable Characters | Choose from a huge variety of clothing, weapons, armor, and accessories.
Guild Algarb - Playing together since 2006
Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 is the sequel to ArenaNet’s flagship title, Guild Wars. GW2 aims to fix a lot of what’s “wrong” in the MMO world. With reworked combat mechanics, a focus on Dynamic Events, voiced quest dialog, several new professions, fan-favorite races, and the massive open world of Tyria, Guild Wars 2 is far more epic in scope than the original… while still retaining the F2P business model. The reliance on a holy trinity of class-roles is gone too, with every profession in GW2 being able to take on several roles, including that of a healer. On top of it all, there are also several unique forms of PvP for the competitive gamer: from match-made contests that any gamer will be familiar with to massive World vs. World vs. World wars that pitch entire servers against one another. ArenaNet hopes there is something for everyone in Guild Wars 2.
FEATURES
- Dynamic Events | Aimed at making questing more interesting than killing ten rats, Dynamic Events are area-wide quests that scale based on the amount of people participating and can set in motion a chain reaction that spans an entire zone. Players will always have something new and exciting to do when they log in, from stopping a band of invading centaurs, to hunting down a massive ice wyrm with the Norns.
- Unique Combat Mechanics | Each profession has both weapons and spells to use, and each weapon has its own skills as well. Players will be able to blend their skills to create powerful interactions (fire arrows throw a wall of fire to create flaming arrows), and every class is capable of being a healer, ensuring that you’re never waiting around for a “priest” to complete content.
- Personal Story | At character creation, players will set up their personal biography for their hero, which will inform their entire story throughout the scope of GW2, maximizing replay value and ensuring that your character feels like a character, and not just an avatar with shiny armor.
- WvWvW PVP | A part of the Endgame, we don’t know much about WvWvW PVP yet, other than the fact that it will allow hundreds of players from three different servers to compete against one another in a massive battle with siege weapons and destructible environments for some pretty extreme server-wide bonuses that are bestowed upon the winner.
