Knight online is a fantasy MMORPG in which players can choose to play as either Karus (Orc) or El Morad (Human). After you choose a nation It's time to choose a class. There are four different classes: Mage, Warrior, Priest and Assassin. You can however use different builds by putting your stats in certain ways to become different types of unofficial classes. Such as BattlePriest, Papermage.
The party system is simple. A maximum of 8 players can join a party and you receive more experience points the bigger party you have. The party leader can choose to disband players from his party and invite people.
Leveling is a pain in the ass in this game. Even though K2networks has continuously updated the game with new patches to make it more "Noob-friendly". The level cap is 80 (Started at 70). Leveling to lvl 60 takes about 2 weeks and was in earlier stage the highest goal for most players before they started entering the PvP zone.
Nowadays It's considered a low lvl and you can't really stand a chance in PvP unless you are lvl 70+ which takes A LOT of time. At lvl 59 you can enter a smaller PvP-area which is good but the gap between 60-70 is too big in my opinion. Especially as your experience gained gets cut in half after lvl 61.
Knight online is advertised as a free game, which it is, if you wanna play at night time (Europeans). To be able to log in to the game servers you'll need to purchase a premium. (Bronze premium $8.95, Silver Premium: $19.95 Gold Premium: $24.95, Platinum Premium $34.95) However, you can only purchase the bronze premium from the website. You'll need to be logged into the game to purchase a better premium. And as you can't login without a premium you'll have to buy a Bronze premium first and then wait 25 days to be able to buy the better premium. The whole Free2play thing is a kind of a scam but K2networks gets away with it by having a lot of hidden material in their TOS.
The PvP is the main reason why people play this game. It has features such as Comboing and sliding which makes the gameplay so perfect. The funny thing with these two awesome abilities are that they were once bugs. Both of them. K2networks was too lazy to fix these major bugs, luckily for the players. So basically, most good things in Knight Online are bugs. The other few good things are copied from other games.
Cheating has always been a huge problem in Knight Online as there are not nearly enough GM's to maintain the order. On every server there are 2-3 GM's who logs in once a week if you're lucky. When they do log in, they usually host an event for the players and then they log out again. Once a month they ban 1-2 cheaters and write it in /Notice so it shows in everyones chat bar. Just to make it look like they are working. As it is now, speedhackers are everywhere. They run 5x as fast as you and It's really frustrating to play. Also a lot of bugs has been abused to level faster and gain the best items. Even though proof of cheating has been provided, no action has been taken and the cheaters are still playing.
According to the players of Knight Online, the customer support is the worst support ever. When fielding a ticket you'll receive an automated reply within 24h hours (Well actually 48h) which makes no sense at all. My personal guess is that the staff doesn't read the tickets.
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