Races, Classes and Stats

[Arkhon Online]

Dev Diary #2: Races, Classes and Stats

Human, Orc and Elf: how a system works where your race decides your look and your castle, and your class decides your power.

When you create a character in Arkhon Online you make two choices: your race and your class. They do completely different jobs.

Race: look and side

• There are three races: Human, Orc and Elf.
  
• Your race decides your character's look, the castle you start in and which side you fight for.
  
• Race has no effect on stats or skills. An Orc Warrior and an Elf Warrior are mechanically identical.
  
• Items have no race lock, only a class lock.
  

Classes

• Warrior: a tough front-line melee fighter.
  
• Assassin: an agile class played either up close with daggers or from range as an archer with a bow.
  
• Mage: area damage with fire, ice and lightning spells.
  
• Priest: healing and support, plus punishing spells.
  

Every race can pick every class.

Assassin: daggers or bow?

The Assassin brings two play styles together in one class:

• With daggers: a killer who gets close, strikes fast and deadly, and hides in the shadows. The Assassination and Shadow branches build this style.
  
• With a bow: an archer who rains arrows from a distance. The Archery branch holds the archer's skills.
  

You choose your path as you spend skill points, so four classes give five different ways to play.

Stat and skill points

• You get 3 stat points per level. A single stat caps at 255.
  
• Skill points start at level 10, 2 per level.
  
• The level cap is currently 80.
  
• Resetting stats and skills is free up to level 30. After that the price grows with your level, so new players can experiment freely.
  

Note: the game is in development; values may change during beta testing.

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