Professions

Strengths:

• Mages are the purest of the spell casting professions.
• Focus mainly on offensive spells and have the most damaging spells of any of the professions.
• Higher-level mages can do fantastic things like teleport around the mud or wreck an opponent's mind.
• Can defend themselves by going invisible or by blinking to avoid hits.

Weaknesses:

• Mages lack the potential to deal good physical damage with weapons.

Prime Requisite: Intelligence

Skills & Spells of the Mage:

Strengths:

• Warlocks are spell casters who have delved into the darker magical arts.
• Do not have the sheer power of those of the mage profession, but make up for this with slightly better fighting skills.
• Can cause a weapon to burst into flames, create a barrier of flames around themselves, or drain the very life-force out of an opponent adding it to their own.
• High-level warlocks can cast very unique spells with other dangerous effects.

Weaknesses:

• Being both mage and warrior, warlocks do not have the best abilities of either of those classes.
• They improve rather slowly at first, and their spells are not geared towards dealing large amounts of damage directly to their opponents.

Prime Requisites: Intelligence and Strength

Skills & Spells of the Warlock:

Strengths:

• Warriors are the masters of weaponry.
• Have the most potential of all the professions to deal devastating physical damage in a melee.
• Masters of swordplay, and can use their weapon to parry or disarm their opponents.
• Can repair weapons and armor that have been damaged, and they can make weapons more effective by sharpening them.
• Warriors have the ability to bash their opponents, making them temporarily unable to flee.

Weaknesses:

• Warriors lack the potential to deal good damage with spells.

Prime Requisites: Strength and Dexterity

Skills of the Warrior:

Strengths:

• Clerics are the masters of the art of healing and protection.
• Can heal others much quicker and better than any other profession.
• Can soften opponents blows through the sanctuary and stone skin spells.
• Can cast spells that harm creatures and players of an opposing alignment.
• Can deal out large amounts of damage to undead creatures.

Weaknesses:

• Clerics don't have the potential to deal as much damage with either weapons or spells as the other professions.

Prime Requisite: Wisdom

Skills & Spells of the Cleric:

Strengths:

• Thieves are the masters of the art of poisons.
• Can poison their weapons, causing their opponents great pain and distress.
• Very stealthy and can hide, sneak, and cover up tracks (including an entire group's).
• Adept at avoiding opponent's attacks, and can cause large amounts of damage through backstabbing and circling their opponents.
• Their ability to haggle gives them the ability to accumulate more gold than the other professions.

Weaknesses:

• Thieves must spend a good deal of time collecting the ingredients to create their poisons.
• Can't deal a large amount of damage outright in melee combat or with spells.
• Must resort to good planning and good timing in order to damage their opponents.

Prime Requisite: Dexterity

Skills of the Thief:

Strengths:

• Templars are the masters of the art of tactics.
• Essentially religious warriors who follow and report to a higher power.
• Have a combination of warrior and clerical powers, though not as specialized in either aspect.
• Can lead the largest groups through their leadership abilities.
• Can improve a group's effectiveness in dealing damage in a melee through their greater battle tactics.
• Capable of protecting and guarding a single individual from being targeted in combat.

Weaknesses:

• Being both cleric and warrior, templars do not have the best abilities of either of those classes.
• They improve rather slowly at first, and require both high strength and wisdom to effectively use all their spells and skills.

Prime Requisites: Strength, Wisdom and Dexterity

Skills & Spells of the Templar:

Strengths:

• Monks are a special type of warrior who have conditioned their bodies and minds to the point where they can focus their thoughts into physical and mental attacks.
• Do not need to wield weapons to damage their foes; in fact they deal the most damage with their bare fists.
• Can prevent damage to themselves out of sheer will, and can purge their bodies of all impurities.
• Monks have the ability to stun their opponents, making them temporarily unable to flee.

Weaknesses:

• Monks require very good strength, dexterity, and intelligence to effectively use all of their skills and spells.
• They improve rather slowly at first, and do not deal as much physical damage with their fists as a warrior could with a weapon.

Prime Requisites: Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence

Skills & Spells of the Monk:

Strengths:

• Alchemists are specialized mages who have dedicated much of their lives to the more intellectual aspects of magic such as potion creation, item lore, and enchantment of armor and weapons.
• Their potions are extraordinarily powerful when spread out and used by other group members, especially group members of other professions.
• A battle can easily be won by quaffing a few of the correct potions before or during the melee.

Weaknesses:

• Possibly one of the most difficult professions to play.
• Alchemists do not have the powers to deal outright damage as the mage profession.
• Their potions are only moderately useful to themselves, and they must spend hours collecting the correct ingredients to mix their potions.

Prime Requisite: Intelligence

Skills & Spells of the Alchemist:

Strengths:

• Ninjas are the masters of the art of assassination.
• Have the greatest potential to deal large amounts of damage using the backstab and circle skills.
• Have mastered other dark-art skills to render their opponents blind or unable to cast spells.
• Very stealthy and can hide, sneak, and cover up their own tracks.
• Very good at targeting an individual, even one who is being guarded by a templar.
• Can retreat out of battle easier than other professions.

Weaknesses:

• Can't deal a large amount of damage in a melee combat or with spells.
• Must resort to good planning and good timing in order to damage their opponents.
• They also improve rather slowly at first, and have to rely on pure skill instead of poisons to do damage with their backstabs and circles.

Prime Requisite: Dexterity

Skills of the Ninja:

Strengths:

• Druids are the guardians of the natural world, drawing their power from the earth, wind, and water.
• Capable secondary healers, able to heal critical wounds and restore the vitality of their group.
• Command a versatile arsenal of nature-based offensive spells, calling upon storms, insects, and raw elemental fury to strike their enemies.
• Unique spells allow them to protect themselves with bark and thorns, heal wounds over time, and at the highest levels summon creeping doom and grow living trees that bear enchanted fruit.

Weaknesses:

• Druids lack the potent divine protections of the Cleric, such as Sanctuary and Stone Skin.
• Their individual heals are weaker than a Cleric's at the highest levels, and they have no ability to harm undead or exploit alignment weaknesses.

Prime Requisites: Wisdom and Intelligence

Skills & Spells of the Druid:

These are the spells available to everyone, no matter what profession.

These are the skills that everyone can learn, no matter what profession.