Rohan Online Review and Personal Experience

Rohan Online: First Look Preview

Rohan Online: Blood Feud is a fantasy free-to-play MMORPG built atop a persistent world that is filled with hard fought battles and countless quests to embark upon. As with any modern MMORPG, you may choose to go at it alone, or journey together with friends to solidify your place among Rohan’s greatest of warriors. As you shape your identity in Rohan, you may choose to form guilds and as such, fight for the respect you and your warriors deserve. Furthermore, just last month YNK Interactive announced the addition of Township battles, which will extend the fight from PvP to guild versus guild. In addition to the in-game battles and quests, Rohan has an impressive trade center which consists of a web-based item mall and exchange market. So, let’s take a deeper look at Rohan by discussing the various classes that are available to players, the battle system, a few of the things that make Rohan an awesome MMO, and lastly we can briefly discuss the details of the Trading Center.

Rohan’s Battle System

As with any MMORPG, the warriors you command in Rohan get wiser and stronger with every monster killed and quest you complete. These individual achievements give you experience points, which are used to get your character(s) to the next level. Now, let’s talk specifically on how Rohan’s leveling system is distinct from the other MMOs you are currently familiar with.

Leveling Up

One thing that I noticed right off is how ‘informational’ Rohan is when it comes to how close/far you are from attaining the next levels for your characters. There are several indicators to inform you that your character is reaching the experience points thresholds to get you to the next level. And as you achieve new levels, your character’s health and magic power (mana) are of course raised. In addition to those accolades, you also acquire ability points and skill points. Ability points are dispensable for the generic attributes of your character’s such as strength and dexterity, whereas skill points are used to acquire much more specific powers and abilities.

Distributing Skill Points

There is certainly a method to the ‘madness’ when distributing your acquired Skill Points in Rohan. You see, every time you level up, you acquire one Skill Point. That Skill Point can be distributed on what I’ve labelled as your “Skills Matrix”, which includes all of the unique skills and abilities that your character could possibly achieve. Now depending now how you distribute those Skill Points as you acquire them will determine how well a specific skill has been mastered. On this ’skills matrix’, certain skills lead to mastering other skills which all contribute to the uniqueness of your character. As I would imagine the possibilities are almost infinite!

Before we move on to the trade center discussion, let’s briefly cover a few more distinctive characteristics of Rohan Online: Blood Feud.

What makes Rohan so different?

Modes of Transportation

From beasts, to bindstones, to portal stones, Rohan provides you with numerous ways to move around the continent. And much like sports cars, those mountable beasts certainly separate you from the pedestrianized crowd.

Companionship

Cute, cuddly, and armed with an arsenal of abilities to aid you in your quest, you can acquire pets in Rohan. This certainly puts a spin on the term “man’s best friend”, especially when they can kick in with some extra HP when you need it.

Mini Games

Tired of the old hack and slash? Well, Rohan’s got you covered with plenty of mini games to keep you interested.

Established Economy

Weapons shops, Armories, Style shops and the like are all affordable from Rohan. Want to set up a shop yourself? Put up a Kiosk and become that merchant in town with all the ‘pimped out’ gear. :)

My Personal Rohan Online experience

Well I believe me and a few of my friends started off playing Rohan Online a few months back. To be honest, we’ve kept track of the YNK website to check when the game was available for download and I believe my friend Srikanth was the first to see the ”DOWNLOAD NOW!” link on the site lol.

After, like a day, we got to play the game.. Each one of us, with A3 India online gaming experience on our heads, set to choose the perfect character to suit our gameplay style, look and feel. I’ve experienced many MMOs and I knew what exactly I wanted to play in this MMO. I wanted to break from the “tanker” shackles. Most of the MMOs I’ve played, I’ve always chosen to play a tanker lol.. Rohan was different. I chose a Dekhan. Dekhans are descendants of an ancient Dragon kin.. Their bodies are full of rage and war. Blood of the mighty dragon warriors flow inside a Dekhan. They are warriors of Rohan Online and the best “sexed” out part is that at a particular stage in the game, THEY CAN TRANSFORM INTO DRAGONS! Now that is what I call a WARRIOR.. This interested me even more apart from the looks which is what makes me choose a class :P

So, I login the game. The game kicks me out saying “Connection Lost.. Please click to Exit”. I was like “wtf?”.. I made use of Rohan’s help and support center (Amazing place.. Very good support system). I was on chat with a GM asking him what’s wrong with the game. GM Alex, a god, assured me no worries. He asked me to disable or uninstall NOD32 Antivirus on the computer and check if I could play. Well, I uninstalled the anti-virus and fired the game. It kicks me out again! Now I uninstall the game and re-install it to check if it might work (most problems are usually fixed this way).. Well, the goddamn anti-virus seemed to have gotten pissed. The dirty bastard didn’t leave my computer when I clicked the uninstall button.

In a fit of rage and with the spirit of revenge, I re-installed the whole goddamn OS. Windows XP’s fresh screen made me so fucking happy. I fired the game AND WOOHOO… I was in the game baby!

I chose my class- DEKHAN and I moved to the world.. Believe me, this game works like a dream on good machines. It seemed to perform OK on my computer. I had absolutely no complaints.

I was welcomed by a training bot and a welcome message.. wow.. the tutorial was fantastic. You can actually spend lots of time in the tutorial area. I’ve seen people stay in the tutorial zone till they touch level 15 or 16.. I wanted more action.. I set out to seek my destiny in the world of Rohan. The game system lets you be an Anonymous player (Assasin Mode) or a normal player (Peace Mode). Use Assasin mode to PK people :) . A player in the Assasin mode cannot enter a few other towns belonging to different classes. A Peace Mode Dekhan can see the world of Rohan, has no restrictions in any town.

As I progressed, What made me notice the most was the beautiful graphics and the amazing detail to everything in the game.. From weapons to Armor suits; From trees to air bubbles in the water- Simply beautiful.

The game is so addictive initially that you would definitely not find time for other things in normal life lol.. However, as you progress in-game, you know your role and you know what exactly to do.. It is just differently you do the same things that set you apart from others in-game.