If I missed something or explained it not clear enough, feel free to correct me or ask about it. Aside from the higher material cost and the skillpoints spent, they don't have any drawbacks. There are 'medium quality' and 'high quality' items available at higher levels: they require a bit more materials, tend to have higher stats then their simpler counterparts and look better. Note that these don't work so good if the crafted item's quality is not divided by 10 - so a Q50 item can have better bonuses than a Q59 one. Basically, the bonus the crafter can add is +5 points per 10 levels of quality.

Not sure how equal numbers behave though.Īlso, items have requirements based off their quality and can have life, sap, stamina and focus bonuses based on their quality. The colour of the item (Only armours have colours) is defined by the majority of materials. Prime Roots materials can be used in any item. Lake materials for Tryker items, Forest for Matis and so on. Higher grade items (Choice and up) always belong to an ecosystem and can only be used for items of 'their' race. Same goes for the stanza: if the crafter can't make items above Q130, even if all the materials are Q200, the item will be Q130. I even tried on Virg and same thing with him. Even if one material out of 20 used is Q20, the resulting item will be Q20, no matter the rest of the materials are Q250. Apparently I cannot, for some reason, buy the higher Tool Crafting stanzas at the trainers. The quality of the item is capped by the lowest quality of the material used and the crafter's stanza. Note that you can't tell the exact stats of an item until you craft it - you know if it'll be high or low, but not more.Īs far as I know (Although I'm not sure), every component has an equal effect on the item - in the example of the vest above, every component offers 1/8 of the stats, so all of them are equally important. When you craft an item, it has the stats of the materials (I.e if you used materials with a high protection factor but low durability to craft armour, it will have a high protection factor but few hitpoints), altered by the quality (I've noticed it affects absorption of the armour a lot).

To craft an item, you need all the components - for example, a light vest requires 3 'clothes' components, 3 'linings', 1 'stuffing' and 1 'armour clip'. They also have a variety of stats that affect the stats of the finished item, a grade defining these stats (A fine material has higher stats than a basic one, but lower than a choice one) and a color. For example, you can use fiber for clothing or gripping material in weapons. That's pretty much game mechanics, so I'm not going to write it IC.įirst of all, every material in the game (With a few exceptions) can be used as two components. The system seems complicated at first, but it's easy once you've got the hang of it. or even get together groups to go on missions together.This is a small description of the crafting system for those of you who don't want to do it yourself, but want to be useful by providing the crafters with materials.

It's sparsely populated, but the people I've met so far are really very nice and mature.ĭon't know if people want to continue discussion here, but it could be fun to discuss tactics, equipment, reviews. It's skill-based rather than class-based, and the crafting system is apparently quite good (I don't know, because I haven't really played any other MMORPGs). The worldbuilding is pretty nice, and it has a nifty French aesthetic ('bodocs' and 'mektoubs' come to mind, and many things look like they could've been drawn by Moebius).

I wanted something with a realistic medieval feel, and its not perfect on that point - there are some weird SF elements mixed in - but otherwise, the genre style is very nice.

It works flawlessly under Linux, no Wine required, which puts it far ahead of the vast majority of MMORPGs. Once you hit level 20 in one of the top 5 categories you get to pick from more specialized skills.

Didnt have a chance to try out the stanza system yet.

I started playing the game a few days ago and I'm already pretty sure I'll subscribe. My thread about MMORPGs for Linux has kind of morphed into a discussion about Ryzom, so I thought it deserved its own thread.

Ryzom stanzas