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Darkfall
Unofficial FAQ
Prestige Classes
Classes
Darkfall has sort of 2 kind of major classes, a "Free
template" and "Prestige classes". Games like UO, AC etc
that didnt have classes ended up with character templates, a determined
set of skills that players picked and later just called something. A
template or class due to lack of a better word since this is an already
well established one, I selected this to describe the no-classes class.
Free template
Free templates are character that does not have a determined set of
skills. The player can themself select whichever skill combination they
want to have and start training in them, can name your template anything
you like.
Prestige Classes
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(----): Prestige classes are special classes, like
Paladin, Assassin, Gladiator, Enchanter etc. and it’s an
optional path that you may choose for your character to
follow. Picking a prestige class will in most cases give you
a few special skills, a few special spells, and you will
have a certain status. There are limitations, tradeoffs and
restrictions playing a prestige class character. Prestige
classes may be interesting to some players, and some classes
may give you an extra reason to role-play, or maybe give you
an edge in combat or crafting. There will be many
interesting prestige classes for you to try out. Picking a
prestige class is not final - you can change class later,
with some minor penalties. The easy route would have been to
make picking a prestige class final, but we want to keep
Darkfall as open ended as possible. Some Prestigue Classes
will give you real good bonuses, others may only have minor
bonuses and a cool sounding name. A general rule however, is
that the more bonuses you get, the more tradeoffs there
are.....prohibited from certain items due to the class
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Skill cap
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(---): You will be able to pick from about 95% of the
skills, and there is no limit to how many skills you can
learn. The exact cost of learning skills is yet to be
determined (obviously a game balance issue), but we expect
to make skills cost money. Some skills will require you to
solve quests, some will only be tough to you by NPCs in
remote and hard to find places, etc. And the 5% skills you
wont be able to learn is race specific skills, and prestige
class skills. Ok I said too much already, don’t be asking
me about prestige classes please - I know we said no classes
=P
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This if could find the actual referrer, points to the fact that skills
in prestige class lines, can or might be selectable by a player but a
prestige class character can become better in it.
Note: This is very old information, from a very
old post. Can read some more here, not sure if this is still valid :
http://totalmadownage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1050
How choose a prestige class
Quests, possibly NPC's not sure if other methods exists..yet.
How many prestige classes are there?
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(Tasos):
Tasos|Dev> okay first guess how many presige classes
Gowel> 8?
viranth> 8
Tasos|Dev> more
Gowel> 12
viranth> 15
Tasos|Dev> more
Sephriel> 20
Pumpkin> 42
Tasos|Dev> more than 50
Jape> 984690008?
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Known Prestige classes and skills
Assassin
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(Thanks to Wonderbrick DF-Forums for finding this quote -
Claus): Their function is to kill people that are hard
to kill. In order for them to succeed, they have to sneak in
undetected, kill their target, and hopefully escape.
Assassins are proficient at stealth, at engaging unsuspected
targets, but they have limited defensive capabilities so
unless they drop their target fast, they’re in big
trouble.
Besides the general coolness of having the potential of
assassinating hard to get to targets, there are other uses
for assassins: Just a couple of examples: In sieges there
are these long spell casting sessions of ritual magic that
could be interrupted by the death or murder of one of the
casters. As these guys would be protected, maybe an assassin
could slip in undetected and get the job done. They could
assassinate the healer in a group, and put a damper on this
groups activities until they can get their healer back.
Don't want to say much more about assassins, other than
we're going to keep things balanced and making sense where
it comes to this prestige class.
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Druid
Druids for example may never use metal armor after they are initiated
Enchanter
No skills found
Gladiator
No skills found
Paladin
Paladins for instance, gain the ability to Lay-Hands (instant heal) once
every day.
Paladins have to give half of their earnings to their church
Extra combat skills
Handful of spells (castable penalty free while wearing armor)
Note: Well, with more then 50 prestige classes this isn't much
information to go by but better then nothing
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