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I have waited so long to give Mabinogi a try. I watched all of the trailers and read all of Hyuk's guides. I've tried to distract myself with other MMOs but mehh, who am I kidding?I want to play it soo badly.

   So after being very patient today I downloaded the client, I had already registered my account and I a proceeded to the routine struggle with gameguard to make the game work. I think gameguard is a device that guards you from running the game in your first attempt. But oh well, I'll save my bullets for gameguard, because they need a post of their own.

   Long story short, FilePlanet made a deal with Nexon and got the first 24 hours of the game exclusively for "North American" members of their Free MMO Club in their words: "Free-To-Play Online Games with Bonus content for Suscribers". It doesn't even sound good…Anyway, I was just desperate to try this game, so I signed up for an account with my "Spam me,I don't check it anyway"-email and click through the activations like fire to get my open beta key.

That was when the ordeal begun, this is what I got:

   In case you haven't read my About Page, I am from Mexico and we are a part of N

Welcome to the second part of Surviving your First MMORPG, the first part was The Basics. If you haven't chosen your MMORPG yet, please read How to Choose a MMORPG.

Careers

Every game has their own career selection, they can be called careers or classes, maybe even jobs. This is a quick generalized guide and it doesn’t apply to every game out there. Here are some of the most common types:

Archer(Ranged)

It can use a bow or not, usually their defense is not very high, but they rely on high damage level to kill their mob before they mob reaches them. They work really well at dealing quick damage when they have as warrior to tank for them.

Mage/Enchanter

This type of character might use a book or a staff and like the archer has low defense but has very high damaging attacks. If you fight a mage, they are going to use several powers to stun you and even turn your character into an animal (It happened to me, and it was not cool-_- )

I think Elementalists would also fall in the mage category, they are called that because they use Fire, Ice, Water, and/or Earth based attacks.

Summoner

This players are similar to the mage class, they can cast spells as well; but, as their name describes, th

Nowadays role players in online games are starting to become more and more rare. The virtual worlds are thriving in people hungry to level up and acquire power than fromplayers who are actually enjoying the game content. It is for example like the cell phone industry, now teenagers care more about how much luxury their cell phone provides than what important things are they going to talk about when using it.

But don't I care about new ground breaking in-game options? Of course I do, I just care if they have a real meaningful purpose. Some games that I have played or that I have talked about with my friends have a recurring trend. They have the game story as their weak point, either it is meaningless to the game, or it just doesn’t make sense at all.

Some History

Some of the first role playing games were pen and paper based, and for the horror of graphic lovers even computer text based. Then what happened? at what point in time we stopped caring about role playing and became obsessed with leveling?.I believe some of this questions are age based. At first older generations like generation X and previous generations were the pioneers of role playing. They played Dungeons and Dr