Eternal Lands

Eternal Lands is a FREE MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) currently under development. The game is now in Beta stage, but that doesn't mean it's incomplete. It's currently fully playable and we are constantly working on adding more things to do, more items to make, monsters to fight, and also improving the current systems. If you want to help us in any way, take a look in our forums and there you can post your ideas/suggestions, or perhaps even get involved with programming or mapmaking which we can always use help with!

Official Site: http://www.eternal-lands.com/

• Fighting: You can fight monsters and other players, hunt animals, or join with a group of friends and take them on together!

• Harvest & Manufacture: Mine ores that you turn into bars of iron, steel, titanium and make various armor and weapons. Or pick flowers and herbs that you mix together to create potions or magical essences.

• Summoning & Magic: Summon an animal or monster to follow and fight for you! Or Become a Mage and cast deadly spells on opponents, or heal your companions.

• Roleplay with friends! There's always someone new to talk to, global or private channels, guilds to join, places to explore, all with an easy to use chat interface.

Eternal Lands has no fixed classes or professions, so you can always do new things and develop new skills without having to create a new character!
The setting is a medieval fantasy world, with both historic elements such as medieval architecture and weaponry as well as fictional elements such as other humanoid races, and magic. It is currently made of up two main continents: Seridia and Irilion in the world of Draia. Seridia is the first continent, and the place in which new players spawn. It consists of 14 main maps, 7 storages, 2 main PK maps, and the only spot to find the Wraith. Irillion is directed towards experienced players.

• Character building

Players begin play by selecting the race, name and appearance of their character. Skills, abilities and alignments are automatically given their initial values. There are six races available; Humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, orchans (half-orcs) and Draegoni (dragon-men). The latter three races are pay-to-play races; in order to play a character which is one of these races, you have to donate money to the game.

Eternal Lands does not have fixed character classes, and it is possible for any player to improve any of the 12 skills in game.

• In-game activities

In-game activities include exploring the 39 different outside maps (plus numerous insides and caves), questing, worshiping gods, socializing with the other players, player killing, and improving skills by fighting, gathering resources and creating items. All skills increase the "overall" experience, rewarding you with "pickpoints", with which you can further build your character.

• Productive skills

The productive skills are called alchemy, crafting, engineering, manufacturing, potion making and tailoring. The items can be created by inserting certain materials into the manufacturing window and attempting to mix them. If you fail mixing, you might lose the materials. Success chance is defined by your skill level and the item's level. If you succeed, the item appears into your inventory and you receive experience.

It is also possible to mix in certain schools in which you will receive extra experience but not the item. You lose the materials though.

• Harvesting

Harvesting is the skill in which you gather the resources, such as flowers, minerals and ores. These items can be used for creating items or be sold to NPC or other players. Harvesting some materials requires different tools.

• Combat

Fighting is broken into attack and defense skills, which you can improve by fighting monsters or players. For every successful hit landed on your opponent you receive attack experience, and dodging a hit gives defense experience. The amount of experience is determined by the level differences between you and the opponent.

It is also possible to fight with the magic, ranging and summoning skills. Ranging experience is obtained by hitting opponent with an arrow or bolt shot with one of the five different bows or crossbows. Summoning experience is obtained by successfully summoning a creature and magic experience by casting spells. Both summons and spells require certain materials.

• Player killing

On the main Eternal Lands server, there are only a few select areas where players can attack one another, so that players don't have to engage in player versus player combat if they don't want to. However, there is also a pay-to-play PK server[5] which allows for players to fight each other nearly anywhere. It has been out for quite some time now but is still not very populated.