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There are eleven playable races include Dragons in addition to the more conventional biped Human, Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, and Half-giant races. Other races are less familiar, but typical of fantasy games: Dryads, Satyrs, Fiends, Saris (a cat-like anthropomorphic humanoid), and Sslik (an asexual non-anthropomorphic reptilian humanoid). There are 28 adventure and 20 trade schools a biped can chose from. The special feature for the bipeds is to be able to learn any amount of schools. Only one trade and adventure school can be active at a time. Each adventure class adds masterable abilities to the character which can be used in all other adventure schools, adding additional powers to the character. It can be changed between the schools as often it is necessary without disadvantages. The adventure schools split up in heal, mage and warrior classes and mixtures of them.

Dragons have one adventure school and three trade schools and are totally different from bipeds. A dragon starts as a flightless hatchling, in an epic quest they grow up to an adult dragon able to fly. In another epic quest series, dragons become older, reaching the point of ancient dragon with a lot more abilities as well. During the quest to adulthood dragons need to decide between two different factions called Helian and Lunus. Helians prefer to magic in combat and are more friendly minded to bipeds. The Lunus prefer to use melee tactic during fights and are very sceptic to bipeds. The gift of flight is reserved to the dragons in Istaria. Istaria Chronicles of the Gifted Game free Download Full Version.

The tradeskill system is of a very high grade of complexity. The three dragon trade schools are used to build lairs, scales, spells and crystals. The biped trade school splits up in schools to produce usable items: clothes, armors, weapons, jewelry, scrolls, potions, food, tools, spells and trade schools to build structures like: houses, guild houses, walls, workshops, silos, and consigners. There are about 150 different resources to gather from ore, wood, plants and animals, similar to Ultima Online. With higher levels higher tiered resources could be gathered, for example metal used for weapons and armors: Tier I: Copper and Tin, Tier II: Iron, Tier III: Steel, Tier IV: Cobalt, Tier V: Mithril and Tier VI: Adamantium. The resources are refined using tools and machines to be crafted into final products. During assembly of the final products the craftsmen can apply techniques to color and for improved quality and attributes. For the production techniques and formulas need to be collected and bought over time. The craftable equipment, which can be of epic quality, is the base of any adventurer or craftsmen and is a huge difference to a lot of other MMORPGs where trade skills often play a subordinate role. There are over 2000 formulas and techniques a jack of all trades, Grand Master Crafter, can register in their knowledge book.

Development

The core concepts behind Horizons before release were as follows: to create a zoneless, constantly changing environment in which players would cooperate to hold back a seemingly unstoppable enemy: the Withered Aegis. This enemy would consist of a few individuals from the Living Races (races that the Players belong to) in an unholy alliance with groups of Devils and Demons from another existence called the Realm of Blight. The twisted Blighted magic would include necromancy, the ability to create zombies from corpses and even reanimate skeletal remains into fierce warriors. Due to the co-op nature of the game The Aegis would be entirely AI controlled. According to David Bowman in 2002, «Horizons will not ship with player versus player conflict. Rather Artifact has chosen to put its full attention to making the player versus environment gameplay the best it can be.» Istaria Chronicles of the Gifted game free Download for PC Full Version.

This enemy was originally supposed to be dynamic in nature, launching automatic attacks on player held positions and blighting (capturing) the ground with its evil magic. This proved to be difficult to implement properly in practice, and the battlefront was eventually scaled back into static regions of Player and Blight held areas. However, in the years after Horizons launched «World Events» would be held that would allow players to make a permanent mark on the world. While not as cost effective to maintain as an automated system, this allowed Artifact, and Tulga, to keep their promise of a changing, interactive world.

After several years of stagnation, at Istaria there were no land and lairs to purchase anymore. Only through Plot Reclamations, involved by Virtrium 2008, came areas owned by the players available again which no longer had a paid account. The Plot Reclamations have since been carried out monthly. With the various continuously updates new content has been added since 2007. Updates the client has taken in recent years since Virtrium does the development and thanks to the more powerful computers today days, the lags have reduced significantly and the game runs smoother and more stable as it was previously the case. Istaria Chronicles of the Gifted Free Download Torrent.