If you do not know, Korean developer, Liveplex, which recently announced 2 new upcoming MMOs, actually has an English MMO portal. The portal is located in The Philippines, known as Game Club. The English version of Dragona has been announced for 2011, so I thought I should do a full introduction, even if I did a brief one a few months back. Do note that information here is translated from the Korean and upcoming Taiwanese version, hence information might change in the English one.
Dragona’s storyline is based on the Book of Creation, where the world is created by the Goddess of Light and the 5 leaders of the Dragon Tribes. However, in the course of creation, all the negatives, including jealousy, despair and death, gave birth to a Dark Dragon (I am refraining from translating their original names as they will sound weird). The Dark Dragon eventually launched a full scale attack, but was defeated. Seen as an immense threat, it was sealed by the Goddess and her 5 dragons in the Land of Death, Bartan.
Artwork of the Dark Dragon
The Dark Dragon, although sealed, left his evil aura and curses throughout the world. The Goddess of Light, exhausted by the prolonged fight, ordered the Dragon Summoners (which I presume will be the players), to go on an expedition to Bartan and get rid of the Dark Dragon once and for all. However, throughout their journey, the Dragon Summoners found out that not all recorded in the Book of Creation was true..
Artwork of the Dark Dragon
Ok, let us now move on to the main feature, the races, classes and transformations. All races currently have 2 classes, except the newly introduced Catcha race. This race has been teased (can’t find any screenshots of it) just recently in the Korean server, and 1 more class is due soon. Being a lazy ass, here are the introduction images for the initial 3 races found on the temporary English teaser website (now closed) I posted before.
Here is an introduction to the 2 classes available to each of the races, including a 3D model of their Dragon forms. An interesting note, there is no Human warrior! Lol… The classes are pretty much self-explanatory, maybe except for Gunner and Guardian. Gunner basically is still the “tank”, trading a sword or mace for a heavy gun instead, with a shorter range than magic spells of course. The class still has the highest of defense in the game. Guardian is a magic-melee user, sort of like a Magic Swordsman. This class has various dark and debuff spells at its disposal.
Here is a preview of the humanoid beast race, the Catcha, with its only class for now, Shaman. Below is its Dragonoid form… Doesn’t look like one =X.
So how do players change into their Dragon forms? Well, just gather enough Dragon Souls by slaying monsters! It is like a overdrive mode, you will be familiar with it if you played Silkroad Online before. Some awesome screenshots of the Dragon forms.
Well, for now, the other main features will include auto-tracking, thousands of quests, quests can be completed without returning to the NPCs, instances, pretty graphics for the skills and…. a really, really pretty world for players to explore. Ok, I know the features are not much for now, I am just happy with the eye-candy so far. The Taiwanese server, which I am damn sure gonna try, will go into Beta in early 2011. Here are 2 videos from the Taiwanese server, showing the skills and transformations.
