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

So it is the end of the year my girlfriend is very happy, and hence I'm happy. Based on the games I played this year I'm going to make a MMORPG blender to see what comes out.

What are my evil plans? Well I'm going to take what I liked from the MMO's I played and blend it and see what comes out.

Well since you are my guest, and I certainly could not have played every single game that came out in 2007, I invite you to collaborate,if you found a certain feature from a game you think we should add to the blender then feel free to pm me, leave a comment, or email to me. I will gladly add it and show what you found.

Character Customization:

This feature I will take from Perfect World, because you can model you character in a wide range of options, some of them are:

• Skin color (Full color palettes)
• Eye Color
• Hair color
• Eye shape
• Body Shape
• Nose Shape
• And more facial customization…

Race

The Blood Elfs from World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, what can I say, they look very stylish. Male elves look really regal and tough, hair styles are very cool. And the female elves are very sexy, they are not half naked as in most of the MMORPGs but I liked them the most.

Character Image

Sword of the New Worl

Wait a minute, I'm a very smart person and I like games, I don't need CesarSuki to tell me how to choose my own freakin' games!. Well yes you are right, but MMORPGs are a big deal, and don't worry nobody is going to know that you read this.




This is not a fool-proof guide on selecting a MMO but hopefully it might help you learn a few pointers you must watch out for.

Theme

So what do you want to be? A quiet elf living in a mythical world? A brave knight that fights humongous monsters? how about a captain of a space ship?




There are a wide variety of themes to choose, and usually plenty of games in every category. There are also games specifically for a more mature audience like 2Moons where chat is not filtered and you can curse until your fingers hurt (the NPCs will treat you like trash, but anyway....).





Even if you are looking for a game for your child, beware that childish looking games have plenty of older, even senior, players in it. So follow the steps below to make sure your child doesn't get bullied or other bad stuff.





Consider your theme to be the starting point of your quest to find your MMORPG.




PC Requirements




Video

Many games require you to have

MMORPG's Suggestion Forums

These days, going through several mmorpg's official forums, I've come across several "Suggestion" sections. While reading, I have been bewildered by the amount of input players post, I suddenly became interested in this suggestion areas, and then started scouting them more objectively.

Do you want to know what a game is lacking?, then head to the suggestion box.Here I list the 3 main categories I could recognize in the posts, I'm sorry if you are offended, please take it with good humor.

The Designers

From proposing new maps, to transcoding the fantasy game into a Sci-Fi, everything needs a makeover, their main focus is more graphical content because they are bored sick of the same graphics over and over again. The dead end comes when they are playing a game that is no longer under development, usually it's because it is another Korean/Chinese mmorpg that was released a year ago or more.

The Overriders

These guys fire an underwater torpedo to override some game restriction that prevent them for being more powerful, having a better guild or anything of the sort. Moreover, to acquire some virtual good for free that the game is selling for real money.