Tales of Pirates
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| Developer(s) | MOLI |
| Publisher(s) | I Game Games |
| Platform(s) | Windows(Windows NT/98/ME/2K/XP/Vista/W7) |
| Release | (Global) March 15, 2007(Closed Beta) (Global) March 30, 2007 (Open Beta) |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game |
| Mode(s) | MMORPG |
Tales of Pirates Online is a 3D Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game developed by the Chinese company MOLI. Tales of Pirates Online is published by IGG (I Got Games), who have also published four other games, Voyage Century Online, WonderLand Online, Myth War Online and 2029 Online. Several versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions such as an older version Pirate King Online.
Overview
Introduction
Skills
The game has a variety of skills; both passive skills that modify the character attributes and active skills that help the character in combat.
Classes
The game has a variety of playable character classes, some of which are for certain race playable characters only.
Newbie Class
The newbie class is the basic class of the game that is given to character immediately after its creation via character creation menu.
Primary Classes
The primary classes are the classes a Newbie can turn to once reached level 10 and done a certain quest.
Swordsman
The Swordsman is a class that the characters Lance,Carsise and phyllis can become once they reach level 10 and have done the quest leading to this class advancement. This class has a variety of skills, but the main attribute is that he is the melee damage dealer of a party. Swordsmen can use multiple different fighting styles which are: Single handed sword, two single handed swords, a Double handed sword, or a single handed sword and a shield. Once a Lance swordsman reaches level 40, he may then do the 2nd class advancement and become a Crusader. If a Carsise does the same, he will become a Champion.
Explorer
Hunter
Herbalist
Advanced Classes
Those are the classes that can be chosen at Level 40. In V.2.0, The Crusader class is also available for the Phyllis character.
Crusaders
Champions
Sharpshooters
Seal Master
Cleric
Features
New V 2.0
Fairy Pets
Upon character creation the player starts with a level zero pet, they can also be obtained from other players, or from the item mall. The pets are fairies of various appearances, and their uses include giving the character extra stat points and learning special skills to help their masters in battle. Fairies are also necessary for some life skills like manufacturing. Other skills such as possession can double the pets benefits however drains the stamina of the pet by intervals of X6(novice possession), X4(standard possession), X2(Expert possession).
Guilds
Guilds in Tales of Pirates are groups of players allied together to benefit everyone, similar to many other games. To create a guild a Lv40 character, a Stone of Oath item, and one hundred thousand gold are needed. To join a guild, the player must be at least Lv25 and he/ she can apply for the guild at specific NPCs, and wait for the approval from the guild leader.
Item Mall Points
Although Tales of Pirates is free it also has a second in game currency known as item mall points. You can only obtain points by charging your account with real money via a number of payment methods such as Paypal, Google Checkout, Wallie Card or Western Union. Players can use the points to purchase a number of character bonuses, armour upgrades or apparel (to customize their characters appearance). Or sell item mall points for ingame currency. These sort of people are called mallers they are usually rich.
Mazes
The game also contains many dungeon-like areas called mazes. The three main mazes, Forsaken City, Dark Swamp and Demonic World open in rotations of 3 hours each, and each maze has its own ranged level requirements. Generally, despite that the levels of the monsters in the mazes are not difficult relative to the player level range, the monsters are much stronger than normal monsters. The mazes are also one of the few PvP areas in the game, enabling players to fight not only the monsters in the maze, but each other as well.
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