The Legend of Ares Q&A

[GameBanshee News]

MMORPG.com is offering up a short Q&A with MGame's June Lee about the company's recently announced MMORPG, The Legend of Ares. A bit of what they talked about:

Q: This game is said to have an interesting item enchanting system. What can you tell us about that?

A: There will be three different types of items/equipments in the game: regular items, magic items, and enchantable items. Regular items will have their names in white text, and are….well, regular; they will have no extra ability save their basic statistics. Magic items will have their name in blue text and are items imbued with innate special abilities or bonuses. While magic items may be more powerful than their regular counterparts, new abilities cannot be added to them. Enchantable items have their names in purple text and are items that have no innate special ability BUT are capable of being enchanted by the user. Throughout the game, players will find special rocks from killing monsters and will be able to infuse them into weapons and items with help from enchanting NPC’s.

In addition to this, there will be scrolls of blessing (scroll of protection and scroll of destruction) available to increase items’ basic stats. A scroll of protection will increase an item’s basic defensive capability and a scroll of destruction will increase an item’s attack power. Unlike the enchant system, scrolls of blessing can be used on any wearable item and will be displayed as “+” modifiers. For instance, an item that has been blessed with four scrolls of destruction will have a “+4” modifier in front of the name. As a general rule, after “+4”, an item becomes harder and harder to bless, and if a blessing fails, the item will be destroyed. There is, however, a way to restore a destroyed item, but that’s a whole other system.