Dragon's Prophet is an free-to-play MMORPG developed by Runewaker Entertainment. Runewaker is the Taiwanese company that also created another MMO game called Runes of Magic. After the Dragon's Prophet open beta the game went official in September 2013. The game earns it's income from a cash shop that has real money transactions, but there is also a currency in-game that you can earn through daily quests that will allow you to purchase most of the same items offered in the cash shop. You also receive rewards for logging in daily which has an interesting tier system set to it. The longer you play and the more you log in, then your tiers increase which gives you better rewards and benefits. When the game originally launched there were servers in both Europe and North America. After two years the developers decided to close the North American servers November 16, 2015. The European servers continued on and received regular updates.
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The Game
Though Dragon's Prophet is an older game, the graphics are pretty amazing. It's very colorful and detailed plus the NPCs are made to be unique looking without the same generic repetition as with other games. This also applies to the creatures and dragons in the game. They don't reuse the same model over and over again in each area. The character creation is quite detailed. There are a variety of choices for faces and hair styles. There are also sliders for changing face and body part sizes and details. (The men can go wild with super sizing their female characters boobies and booties!) The combat and dragon taming/training system are what keep players coming back for more. The combat is action based by class. The targeting system is automatic and tab-based. You can use AOE spells on all monsters in same area without the need to target them first. Leveling and questing is very linear. The are a lot of quests in the beginning, but after you hit level 90 that drops significantly which makes leveling from 90 to 105 into a grind fest. Though there is a unique system in place that will help you level and give extra rewards. These special quests are called road quests. They even have the chance to spawn a rare dragon that you can try to tame. There are many dungeons and a few raids for farming end game gear. The main storyline quests incorporate dungeon runs as part of it's completion. For those that enjoy it there is also a pvp system in place where the housing islands are that uses a unique "frontier system". This enables alliances to hold up to 2 islands.
There are 4 combat classes to choose following the popular MMO holy trinity system (tank, healer, and dps). The 4 classes are:
Guardian- The tank class uses heavy armor and melee combat. They have a choice at using 2 handed swords, axes, or maces or 1 handed swords, axes, or maces and a shield.
Rangers- Marksman damage class that uses a bow or gunblades and a shield for ranged damage. They are able to use light armor which is midline for physical and magic defense.
Oracle- Cloth armor class that can use buffing and healing spells determined by which weapon you choose. Can also tank depending on the weapon and masteries chosen. Weapons used are either great scythe or talisman and amulet.
Sorcerer- Cloth dps class with the ability to use powerful ranged AOE and single target skills. Choose between 2 handed staff or 1 hand staff and an amulet.
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The level limit for your character is level 105. Each time your character levels you will be given 3 stat attribute points to apply to either Strength, Focus, Ferocity, Intelligence, Dragon Affinity, or Charisma. You can raise your character stats according to which stats are most important for your character's class. Each stat gives the following:
Constitution- Increases maximum health and health regeneration.
Strength- Physical Damage & Defense. This increases damage for classes that rely on physical strength like Guardian and Ranger.
Focus- Increases Physical Damage, Defense, and Armor Penetration.
Ferocity- Increases Critical Hit chance and damage. Good for dps classes.
Intelligence- Increases magical damage and defense. This is one of the main stats for sorcerer and oracles.
Dragon Affinity- Increases magic damage, penetration, and defense. One of the main stats for magic damage classes.
Charisma- Increases dragon's stats and extends the amount of time that a dragon can be summoned.
Mastery system
Each class has 2 different paths to choose from in the mastery system. You are given a limited amount of points for leveling. The path you choose determines which weapon you will use and the type of skills you can choose to fit your play style. At level 60 you will acquire a quest to be able to unlock your god skill masteries. This will give you the option of choosing very powerful skills that you will use mostly for the end game content. God skills use a resource called Dragon Soul. This is a pool of points given to everyone similar to power points(another name for mana points) which some of the basic skills use. Running out of these points means that you cannot use any skills except your basic attacks.
Dragon taming and training
Everyone loves dragons! This game allows you to fly/ride around on them, to have them as looting pets, and fighting companions. There are a few ways to be able to get dragons as pets. You can hatch one from an egg, buy an egg from the cash shop, or tame a dragon from the wilds or from a dungeon. You will be able to tame most of the dragons in game except for the doom dragons. After taming a dragon it will go into your dragon stable whoch will allow you to summon it as a mount or to fight with you. The taming process is a mini game where you have to keep the cursor as close as possible to the middle of the circle using your movement keys WASD (default). Once you own a dragon then you can take it to a lair manager and start training it. A dragon can have a max of 10 slots for skills that you can add to them through the lair manager. You can completely max a dragon's level and the level of his skills. Dragons can come with dragon soul skills. These are different skills that are controlled by your character. So you can have heals, buffs, and damage spells. Once your dragon has some training them you can start doing the dragon arena, dragon duels, and tournaments outside of fighting creatures with you. These options allow you to fight against other players and their dragons.
Housing
You can buy a property to place a house or buy an apartment which already has a small structure. There is an initial fee for purchasing the apartment or property and then a daily rent charge based on what you purchase. You can make furniture using the crafting system or buy from the furniture npc. There are endless possibilities if you love building and decorating houses like I do.
Crafting
The crafting systems in Dragon's Prophet allows you to make useful end game gear. Warning though, it takes a lot of materials to max your crafting so it's very expensive, but worth it in the end! The crafting systems are:
Weaponsmith- make swords, axes, staves, bows, gunblades, and other weapons.
Armorsmith- make player armor and clothing.
Chef- make buffs and friendship food.
Alchemy- make potions.
Carpentry- make furniture, houses, and Draconic flutes.
Tinkering- make jewelery and dragon armor.
My thoughts
I have really enjoyed my time in this game. The community is great and it's not hard to find a good guild. My favorite class is oracle. They are able to dish a lot of damage but still take damage also. Unfortunately there was not enough polishing applied to this game to make as great as it could be. I worry about the future of this great game due to the fact that the publisher's for DP have made an almost exact clone of the game called Savage Hunt. SH is almost exact to DP except everything is way more expensive and you don't have the in-game currency system that allows you to buy cash shop items. It's sad that the publishers chose to do business this way and not work with the devs to fix the game that they were already making money on. DP would have had an awesome, bright future if they had committed themselves to it like they have to their new game. The only complaints I have with DP are some of the major bugs still exist such as disappearing friend lists and that there is not enough end game content. The end game is dull and missing content because they stopped updating the game when they started working on SH. Otherwise this game would have been one of the most fun out there. I highly recommend playing Dragon's Prophet. You will find that it is worth the time and effort that it takes to download and install it. You will enjoy hours and hours of fun!
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