Aether Online - A VMMORPG RP inspired by Log Horizon, SAO, and Overlord

[cloudystar]

I am planning to have some controlling abilities in my character build. Like an impaling arrow, which is a bind-attack, binding the enemy to the ground... by impaling him with an arrow... if that isn't too much (?)

@PyroDash888

err...might be actually at level one...cuz that can be extremely useful in a lot of situations...could go with a slow arrow at level one to make it simpler and get that sooner than later the impaling one

[Gowi]

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Get outta here ya bruiser! It is known that dodge is synonymous with cowardice, aka not a tank!

@NarcissisticPotato

Rogue Tank. We use our tenacity and cunning to generate threat. We aren't stupid like Fighter Tank's who actually get hit.

[cloudystar]

ouch...

[Assallya]

also, utility --> tinkers right? if not im cooking...just need a potion brewer and a smithy person

@cloudystar

From what I understand is that a Tinker is something more of an "origin" than a class. You could have tinker fighter with a clockwork swordstaff and spring boots as easily as a magician that summons clockwork automatons to fight for him.

A utility person is someone with little combative ability and instead crafts things for his or her team.

The general MMORPG roles I know are:

• Tank: Walking block of hit points and defenses that occupies opponents and defends allies
• Strikers: Low Defense but high damage
• Healers: Pretty Obvious here, usually also has counter spells for petrification, disease, burning and other ongoing effects
• Buffer/Debuffer: Buffers boost the part in some way. Debuffers, which are less common, use their abilities against enemies. Buffers are more common because sometimes enemies are immune or resistant to debuffs. You allies, however, always accept your buffs making your abilities 100% effective.
• Controllers: By erecting walls, slowing opponents and otherwise affecting the overall battlefield these characters, usually mages, can bottleneck the enemy allowing the group to deal with smaller numbers and prevent them from getting overwhelmed
• Utility: Crafters and Brewers. They make items for others to use.

[Gowi]

Utility as a terminology can also be synonymous with Buffer/Debuffer as they provide "utility" to group defense and offense with their techniques, spells, and professions.
- Source: I'm a MMO player since 2003.

[McHaggis]

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[NarcissisticPotato]

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Rogue Tank. We use our tenacity and cunning to generate threat. We aren't stupid like Fighter Tank's who actually get hit.

@Gowi

Talk shit, get hit Gowi!



1v1 me m8

[cloudystar]

@McHaggis
going to have to agree with Gowi cuz the Utility = Bard Class --> only D&D and board games that applies to, in MMO's, very different

[cloudystar]

@NarcissisticPotato
lol yay go fight for our tanky pride
*secretly plays DEX rogue classes most of the time but just wanted to change things up*

oh and if anyone RPs as a Kirito or something...ugh...will start cringing every time i see it

[Gowi]

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Talk shit, get hit Gowi!



1v1 me m8

@NarcissisticPotato

'les go.

[NarcissisticPotato]

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'les go.

@Gowi

Ya 'dun goofed kid

[Assallya]

*grins *

My first MMO was text based. We didn't have no stinking graphics!

It's also where the word pwned comes from. One of the key tags for a prop item was ownership. If something was p-owned it belonged to a player and could not be deleted except by an admin.

If you beat sometime in game very badly you figuratively p-owned them, or as we wrote it back then "pwned". You didn't actually apply the data to his character or anything. It was the mmorpg equivalent of saying, "I made him my bitch"

Honestly though specific nomenclature isn't really that important. The concepts are. We used to call tanks "bricks" for example.

[Gowi]

Ya 'dun goofed kid

@NarcissisticPotato

'tis you who goofed.

[cloudystar]

@Assallya
so what is a "brick house" equivalent to?

[Gowi]

@Assallya
so what is a "brick house" equivalent to?

@cloudystar

A Commodores' song.

[cloudystar]

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A Commodore's song.

@Gowi

thank you XD

[NarcissisticPotato]

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'tis you who goofed.

@Gowi

2moe5u

[cloudystar]

just want to give a shoutout to Jabber about the big pile of crack he has to go through later when he reads this

[Apokalipse]

okay, i just need to write up a writing sample then i'll be done-o

EDIT: also, im making a rogue

[McHaggis]

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