SilkRoad Online [best game ever made, ever.] 56k-warn

[Eaglestrike]

Downloaded/installed, reminds me a lot of Knight Online if anyone's played that. Graphics are pretty good, at least for freeware. Lag isn't as bad as I thought it would be, even in the overcrowded starting town.

Pretty good so far really, I'm a little overwhelmed by the Skill/Magic system when you level up as I got no clue what to put where.

Yeah, I figured it out after a bit, at least I think so.

You get 3 points per level (at least at low level) to put into STR or INT. STR is all physical stats, INT is all magical stats.

For skills you have your melee and your magic. All these points are combined. First you train in a skill, these are the 3 kinds of melee (sword/shield, spear, bow) and 4 magic (fire, ice, lightning, healing). You can only advance in level of a skill as high as your characters level. At certain levels you'll start to see abilities pop up in the bottom section of each skill. These are your ws's/spells (FFXI is my only MMO so...) Ws's and spells both use mp to use, as you advance in level and skill level, you can rank up your ws's and spells so they use more mp and do more damage/heal more, new spells/ws's will also be unlocked. Currently at level 11 I can almost keep up with 1 melee and 1 magic skill if I only keep level ups and 1 skill/spell ranked up per. So there is a lot of specialization it seems.

They give you items that grant you bonus exp to start (much like empress bands) but actually I don't think they're that great, because they don't give you extra skill points (at least not that I know of) and so I'm lvling faster than I can keep my skills up. Currently I'm trying to stick to doing the quests that grant both exp and skill exp.

Edit: Boo to you Drinhkinn, I need some people to play with and go do something other than spam kill EP's like I do in FFXI.

[Drinhkinn]

After reading a few silkroad forums overnight at work, if you wanna get more skillpoint, you need to keep a gap between your current xp level and your maximum skill mastery level.

your mastery cant go higher than your xp level, so you need to keep the mastery lower. At level 4 killing mangyangs with zero mastery leveled so far, I'm getting 35 skill point and 14 xp per kill. they say the biggest gap you can have is 9 level, more than that there is no difference.

So basicly, don't level your mastery right away if you want to rake up the skill points. And keeping a high mastery will give ALOT of xp, but alot less skillpoint.

[Lbelle]

eh, now whenever I alt tab out of the game my computer freezes. It only happens with SRO too, so, that's that. I'm not dealing with it lol.

[Mekami]

Belle, you probably didn't download the extra driver shit they have on their site.
If you did, I'm wrong, but maybe that'll fix your problem.

[Lbelle]

Belle, you probably didn't download the extra driver shit they have on their site.
If you did, I'm wrong, but maybe that'll fix your problem.

I'll try this, thanks.

[Eaglestrike]

After reading a few silkroad forums overnight at work, if you wanna get more skillpoint, you need to keep a gap between your current xp level and your maximum skill mastery level.

your mastery cant go higher than your xp level, so you need to keep the mastery lower. At level 4 killing mangyangs with zero mastery leveled so far, I'm getting 35 skill point and 14 xp per kill. they say the biggest gap you can have is 9 level, more than that there is no difference.

So basicly, don't level your mastery right away if you want to rake up the skill points. And keeping a high mastery will give ALOT of xp, but alot less skillpoint.

Just tested this out and it's true. I leveled up, was getting 347exp/150skill, leveled my Bicheon skill up to par with my master and now I earn 387/135, numbers may be off by a few points but that's the basic idea. You earn more exp with capped skills and less skill points with them.

[Lockecole]

I'm also on Troy server, Lockecole is the name. Level 8 atm, going for a Sword/Lightning build atm. I'll take into account the skill/experience difference when holding your skill points. Seems like a lame way to implement skill point increases, but I guess its a means of holding people back from grinding as quickly as possible.

We should make a compilation of FFXI players.

So far:

Lockecole
CuteTaru (who I've talked to a little last night)
EagleStrike
Naerie

I have more on the way, probably a couple of my LS members also.

[Zalius]

I'm also on Troy server, Lockecole is the name. Level 8 atm, going for a Sword/Lightning build atm. I'll take into account the skill/experience difference when holding your skill points. Seems like a lame way to implement skill point increases, but I guess its a means of holding people back from grinding as quickly as possible.

We should make a compilation of FFXI players.

So far:

Lockecole
CuteTaru (who I've talked to a little last night)
EagleStrike
Naerie

I have more on the way, probably a couple of my LS members also.

BTW, seriously, Berserking is godly, i didnt know how to do it til i was like level 18. Anyways, when the 5 little symbol things fill up around your chars face, click it and you go berserk and do like a bajillion dmg, really nice when a champion fucks with you

I was on Alexander though =/ (or was it venice) Idk, if popularity of it goes up ill go, but endgame is kinda lackluster

[BRP]

I've been pretty busy in rl to have enough time in FFXI, but I will probably look into this game after a few more torrents finish downloading.

[Lbelle]

Add me to the list, Xian server. Mekami hit the nail on the head with the driver thing being my problem, too.

[Ksandra]

hmmmm troy eh? maybe I'll make a toon there instead. Only got to lvl 5 on like greece so far.

[Lockecole]

Everyone get on Troy server! Fuck these other servers.

[Unklemonkey]

I'll be up and running soon, Unklemonkey will be my name and I'll be on troy as well

[Mekami]

Add me to the list, Xian server. Mekami hit the nail on the head with the driver thing being my problem, too.

Yay!

[Eaglestrike]

Everyone get on Troy server! Fuck these other servers.

[Mekami]

What is required to make a guild? We need to make an Order of the Blue Gartr guild on troy.

[Eaglestrike]

What is required to make a guild? We need to make an Order of the Blue Gartr guild on troy.

No idea, I know where the NPC is though...

I already did my first fake d/c of the game, so staying off for a bit. Guy invites me to pt (zomg blind invite...lol) then is like "Would you be my friend?" and then goes on "In one month you can join my guild, but it's going to take some time" He was only 5 levels higher than me and I started playing less than 12 hours ago lol FFXI has broken my tolerance of people <.<

You guys need to sign on sometime though, will make the game more fun. Last I checked Locke and Cutetaru weren't online, didn't check anyone else.

Edit: Also, if it takes some gold to make a guild I've got a little bit stocked up, nothing compared to high levels but you know how Linkshells are 8k and expensive for n00bs!

[Ksandra]

kk I made a ksandra on troy look me up gonna try and get some lvls/quests in.

[edit] on a side note we should figure out if we wanna be like a theives/trader/hunter guild.

Be awesome if we were like a group of theives to attack the caravans XD though I haven't gotten that high so don't know how indepth it all is.

[Eaglestrike]

kk I made a ksandra on troy look me up gonna try and get some lvls/quests in.

[edit] on a side note we should figure out if we wanna be like a theives/trader/hunter guild.

Be awesome if we were like a group of theives to attack the caravans XD though I haven't gotten that high so don't know how indepth it all is.

Group setting on that stuff sounds hardcore. I'm not sure if I want to be a Hunter or a Thief, I'd be game with whatever the group decides.

[Zalius]

Zaliuss on troy (' - ')b