Monday, February 3, 2014

The Kingdom of Aura

Hands down to one of the best Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing game I've ever played,  Aura Kingdom! Its an anime inspired online role playing game, with a twist. When I say twist, the gaming experience feels slightly different than those other MMORPG's. Although its quite similar to Dragon's Nest. .
The game is still in Open Beta as of now, meaning its not the official release yet. But the players progress will not be deleted when the official game goes live, so it's not bad to start now. The problem is though, log-in issues occur, servers crashing sometimes and those things. Developers are continuously finding a way to fix such problems though.
My first experience in the game was weird, that there is this feeling that you get conscious of the game's graphics,music/sounds and specially the controls. It took me a long while to get oriented with the controls, until now. I just recently discovered that the character is able around to move using W+holding the mouse' right button, because at first it just moves the camera angle around the character and doesn't change the pathway of it. Anyways that's one of the Noob books

Aura Kingdom offers a variety of classes,The Gunslinger, Duelist, Bard, Grenadier, Sorcerer, Guardian, Wizard, Ravager and Katar(upcoming) with each special abilities and characteristics. A player, can also, choose a single subclass, by level 40. Here, the skills of the chosen subclass is added to the players skills table. Very technical isn't it?
The fun part of the game is the community, I remember running around doing quest with 50+ players with me in the same location, doing the same quest, or just flying,dancing,farming,chatting or dueling around. It's not that laggy either, yeehaw!


 The party system(Teams) is very well done. Finding a team is very easy, so as recruiting a team member. Unlike other MMO's out there, where one needs to buy an expensive Megaphone to speak in the world chat to recruit, where everyone could see it *cough*Perfect*cough*World*, in Aura Kingdom one just simply make a team, and there, all players can see it through the Party Tab. Speaking for recruitment is also free, just saying.

Aura Kingdoms currency is defined by silver, and gold. 1000silver is equals to 1gold. Silvers and gold can be earned by selling unwanted items to NPC merchants, or killing enemies in a cave or a dungeon. I find it easy to earn money so far. Rare "Yellow" weapons and armor are also, not difficult to acquire since its being sold by other players, or a common drop from dungeon monsters and bosses. Stalls are also fun! There are actually two ways, if a player wants to sell his/her unwanted items. First is, setting up a stall, literally. Like any other MMO's right there, a player can set up a stall, and sell items. BUT, players can only set a stall on the Stall Area at the main city,"Navea". Second is, you list the item on an auction NPC with a corresponding price and time(24hrs) that it will be in the auction.
Finally, there is this Eidolon sytem. Eidolons acts like pets,well more of a companion. Eidolons come in
different kinds, a Dragon, a Fairy, a Devil, an Angle, a Tiger and etc. Most of it are hard to acquire, since a player needs to collect 10 key fragments to summon a specific Eidolon. Collecting fragments is the most difficult part that I have encountered. One can obtain a very rare key, or a key fragment from a Hostile Eidolon boss, that randomly spawns from a random location at a given time. When that happens, a huge amount of player, march into the location, and hand-by-hand defeat the very though Eidolon boss for a common goal - to get the key.
All-in-all its a fun and lively game, many people play it. You can really feel the atmosphere of playing and enjoying a game. By just simply, walking around in the main city or any other places in the game, you will see people selling, chatting, dueling, doing errands, dancing, riding an ostrich, having a tour, flying, watch them gather around, cook a turkey, sit and watch the day turn noon/night and Shopping. You feel like your living in another world, a world of adventure!

In my first month playing this game, I already got to
level 53, the highest level a player can achieve as of now is level 75, and it's difficult to level up starting from level 50. I chose the class Gunslinger, and have my secondary class as a Grenaider. Im starting to increase my Aura Kingdom gaming style skills, and yeah I have at least 10kills and 5deaths in most 5 versus 5 player battles. I also found my family in the game!, well they are NOT my real family members, but I found a Guild naming Royals. My in game name is Noir_DeVoux, see you in game!

Stay Tuned, sooner or later, I'm gonna Include Game Commentaries of Aura Kingdom!
*Some pictures were taken from Google Images.

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