Each character has more than one stance. For example, the fighter has seventeen stances, ranging from the most defensive to the most offensive ones. Depending on what you have equipped, you can choose between several stances. Each stance becomes more powerful as you use them. As they grow stronger, you will unlock up to four special abilities which will give an edge on combat. The scout has five stances, involving both healing and daggers. If you go for healing, you will lack in damage dealt. If you choose to go for damage, you will have to be careful not dying.

To use the abilities of your characters, you will have to use the corresponding hotkey. The UI is very useful and gives you a lot of needed information. This way, you will be able to manage the fights better, with an increased chance of survival.

Because more than half of the quests involve killing certain amounts of baddies, the game comes in your help and gives you a simple solution in handling the grinding process: the orders. You have 4 combat orders and two for team formation. This way, you can tell your team to go defensive, to attack everything on site or to pick all the goods from the ground. You can issue orders for the whole team or for each member. This way, you can fight just the way you want. 

If you die, and this happens mostly if you venture alone, there is no penalty. Sort of. You won’t lose experience, no money, just time. Depending on the level of your dead character, a certain amount of time is needed until he will get back from the dead. And since the enemies travel in hordes, sometimes it will be hard to travel alone without stopping from time to time and getting rid of the enemies.

From time to time, you will have to complete some instances in order to move forward with the story. They will somehow change the story and the way things were. For example, after you manage to defeat Dios Lantem, a renegade old priest who’s hiding behind locked doors of the Al Quelt Moreza temple, you will see floating Dios who will help you exterminate some portals that spawn evil creatures. Too bad you must grind a lot in order to complete the job.
If you feel tired of killing millions of creatures, you are left with two options. PvP and crafting. 

The PvP is still in its infancy and you will have a hard time finding a challenging partner. There are arena battles, clan fights, and the struggle between the Republicans and the Royalists. But the most used mode is the family vs. family. To get into a fight with another family you don’t have to insult them, only to provoke them to a duel. If the other family agrees, you will be teleported to an arena to show who the boss is.

As for the crafters, the things are pretty simple. You don’t need a forge or a workbench, you just buy the recipe and you go with the proper recipe and the needed materials to the person who can craft the items you want.

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