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LadySinlayla · 08-16-2011, 03:00 PM

Scarlet Legacy is the new mmorpg developed by InterServ and published by OnNet USA on Games Campus.com. The OBT will open on August 18th 11.00 am PDT. I was one of the users able to play the closed beta and now I summarize my opinions about the game here below. Of course they are based on the closed beta (CBT level cap: 30).

Mirror on the wall who's the most beautiful character of them all?

Scarlet Legacy Character Creation - YouTube

The character creation in SL is not the strong point of this game. Once you have selected your class, you will be able to choose their: Name, Birth Day, Gender, Hairstyle, Face Shape, Hair Color, and Skin Color.

My ratings: 6/10
Nothing special, but all choices are in theme with the oriental style. So fans of the genre, like me, might appreciate it.

Choose your Class!

Scarlet Legacy_Class Introduction - YouTube

You can choose between 4 classes.

Warriors, the melee DPS or tank with high defense and health. Weapon types: Spear, Staff, Hammer.

Assassins, the melee DPS with high damage and speed. Weapon Types: Sword, Dual-Welding Swords, Two-handed Swords.

Monks, the melee or ranged DPS and support/healer with high health. They are able to fill multiple roles in a party. They can be healers or tanks through their many HP and adequate defense. Weapon Type: Palms, Fist Weapons, Claws.

Mystics, the ranged DPS and main DD with high MP, low defence and crowd control. Weapon Type: Flute, Lute, and Zither.

Each class has multiple playing styles depending on the player's skill selections. The Skill, Stance, and Talent systems are different ways in which players will be able to further customize their chosen character class.
The skills can be learned at Martial Arts Instructor NPC's in exchange for silver. Prices are very affordable, so players need not worry about the choice of skills.
Stances give a lot of passive bonuses and can be learned via quests and world drops of Martial Arts training books. You can take the perk experience killing mobs to reach the maximum level of each stance.
Talents unlock once a player reaches level 10 and one talent point is awarded for each level the player gains after that. They give players the ability to customize their skills, with increased power, reduced cool downs, increased critical rates and more.
Surprise! When you put a talent in the wrong tree, most martial arts trainers can reset the player's talents for silver.

My ratings: 7.5/10
The classes are few,but the different systems of skills allow you to differentiate yourself from other players that chose the same profession. Although it might disappoint the most demanding players.

Tell me your story.

Scarlet Legacy_Opening - YouTube

The story revolves around 3 kingdoms: the Heavenly Realm, The human realm and the Demon Realm.
The Immortals of the Heavenly Realm agree to a voluntary ban from descending to the world below in order to prevent their Chi from tipping the balance and threatening to destroy the human world.
Unfortunately, one day the goddess Yana from the Heavenly Realm, whom was the immortal Keeper of a Holy Relic known as the Celestial Mirror, glimpses Chao, whom was destined to become the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, through a vision and she falls helplessly in love. She disguises herself as a mortal woman and ventures to earth to join him, violating the agreement between the gods not to venture to the human realm. Moving to the remote Spring Village in the hopes of remaining hidden, Yana eventually gives birth to their daughter Princess Scarlet. When Yana is forcibly returned to the Heavenly Realm by the other Gods, she gives her daughter Scarlet the Celestial Mirror to remain linked to her family. Thinking Yana forever lost to him; Chao decides to return to the royal court with their daughter while rumors swirl around the countryside of terrible happenings and dark creatures.

When players begin their journey in Scarlet Legacy, their characters have grown up as childhood friends with the Princess in Spring Village before Scarlet and her father decide to leave the village. As they go, forces of the Demon Realm attack the caravan, and capture Scarlet in an attempt to gain the power of the Celestial Mirror to assist their coming invasion of the human world. Too young to help protect the Princess, the player is entrusted by Scarlet to keep the Mirror safe before she is taken hostage. The game's storyline unfolds through the visions of the Celestial Mirror as the player begins their quest to rescue her.
Each time a character advances in level and in certain points of progression, the story will go ahead.

My ratings: 8/10
Maybe the story will not be one of the most surprising, but it is very interesting to see how the relationship between your character and the princess advances and how they are approaching more and more, confiding their emotions and feelings each other.

Will you marry me?

On SL you will never feel alone with the Scarlet Legacy’s community systems and all the benefits that they provide. The party's system is usually to be found in other mmorpg, but let us dwell on the special features.

Swarn tab

The Sworn tab allows you to keep track of which of your friends and enemies are online and where they are, and also lets you control
who is able to speak to you. You can have up to 100 Friends on your list. When you play in a Party with someone on your friends list you will both earn friendship points, which when they reach 100 will allow you to access special rewards from Friend System NPC's in town!
Furthermore there is also the Enemy List which will automatically add players that have wrongfully killed you outside of Battlefield areas. This lets you keep track of people you want to seek revenge against in the future. Each time that player kills you outside of a Battlefield another point will be added towards their Hatred Degree so you can make your own personal Most Wanted List.

Guild tab

The guild tab allows you to see everything you need to know about your Guild! Guilds' ranking, the number of members, Guild Messages, your Guild Records, guild's emblem, Guild Level, Reputation, etc... Usual stuff.
But here's something you can appreciate: the salary!
Yes, Guild Members are able to receive an in-game salary based on their contributions towards earning Guild capital and their Guild Rank. Every seventh you get some money (GEN: money that you can use to buy items from the item mall).

Mentor tab

The Apprentice System allows a higher level player to team up with a lower level player, and provides additional benefits for both!
Players level 30 and higher are able to recruit lower level players as Apprentice students, while players below level 30 are the only ones able to be Apprentices.
Whenever the Master is online while the Student is playing, the Student will gain bonus Experience. The higher level the Master, the higher the bonus Experience the Student will receive!
The Master will receive Bonus Coins to use in the item mall whenever their student levels up! Masters also receive Bonus coins each time the Student spends a certain amount in the item mall!

Hero couples

Players can pair up in in-game relationships to gain access to special abilities, joint attack skills, and even be able to trade HP bars to save each others' lives!
Your can pair with 3 people, but marry with only a person.

My ratings: 9/10
All these systems provide very useful benefits, without having to commit a lot. In fact the only thing to do is spend time with other players, being in a party or joining a guild. So if you're players who love the company, you will appreciate these systems.

6.000 kills!!! :eek:

Now I want to talk of others 2 systems that will allow you to be the best killer of the server.

Chain kill system

If you are able to kill monsters or other players (teammates) within 30 seconds of your last kill consecutively your combo value will increase, and you will be able to earn special buffs and item rewards the higher you get.
Chain awards are divided into the following three types:
1. Single Kill Awards: Each time you kill a monster you will have a chance to gain character buff effects.
2. Consecutive Kills: Killing monsters in a continuous chain will have a chance to obtain a buff without a time limitation which can also stack up to 99 times.
3. Cumulative Kills: Cumulative kills up to certain numbers will grant a variety of randomized items rewards.

Auto assist system

Scarlet Legacy allows you to automate repetitive functions such as recasting buffs, using stat increasing potions when their time limits run out, etc.
The Auto Assist system has three categories: Status Aid, Buff Aid and Combat Aid.
This system will allow you to perform certain actions (use items, set the skills to use,etc...) when certain fighting's situations present themselves.

My ratings: ?/10
These two features can be loved so much or the opposite. This depends on the type of player you are. Auto assists is useful for casting buffs and using recovery items, but as concerns the auto fight there may be disputes. We can say that players with limited time can definitely use it well, because they will be able to gain experience even if they are at work or at a picnic with family.

PvP or PvE?

Let's start talking about the PvE.
During the closed beta you could complete the usual quests(daily, repeatable, destiny, normal, living, guild, and sworn quests). So if you love to do quests and quests, then you will be happy because you will never run without them and the rewards are more than acceptable (equipment, recorevy and buff items, upgrade items, etc...).
It is also possible to run the dungeons from the early levels and there are daily quests for them. So if you get tired of playing solo, take a ride in an istance and you can also drop some good equipment.
Last option for PvE oriented players: grind, grind, grind!
For this choice you can stay afk and use the auto assist.

And now let's start with the pvp.
During the closed beta was possible to use the arena, where you can receive rewards to the achievement of a number of killings.
So get ready to dominate the arena!
Unfortunately PvP maps were not available, so you could only attack players who had turned on the pvp mode.

My ratings: 7/10
The vote is on PvE, mainly because all the features for pvp were not available in closed. We will see in open beta!
All the features for PvE are more than enough, but obviously are not new. So nothing surprising.

Your pet is so cute!

Scarlet Legacy - Mount Preview - YouTube

Pets are able to be customized and upgraded to change the benefits they give your character, including actively attacking enemies with skills, applying passive bonuses, carry items, and even be evolved into mounts that you can ride!

Players will be able to get conventional mounts which allow one character to ride and there are also larger mounts like War Elephants which allow parties and guilds to ride on together.

My ratings: 6/10
I must say that the pets in CBT were not particularly decisive in battle. I have not even found them particularly amazing aesthetically.
However, it can always be a pleasure to care for a small pet.
About mounts I can say that some are really cute and funny, although I did not really like the scooter because it is misplaced with the world of SL. But this is only my personal preference.

Passion for business

In SL the economy seems mainly driven player: best business will be between player and player. This is because the drop rate is not high and the merchants are not selling items of a certain level.
So how can I have a good equipment and recovery items suitable to my level? Simple by crafting.
you can choose between 10 professions: Weapons Crafting, Blacksmithing, Cooking, First Aid, Alchemy, Jewelcrafting, Engineering, Herbalism, Mining and Hunting to progress in your journey!
Herbalism, mining and hunting are automated, this means that you can increase your skills being away from your computer.
These 3 skills are the basics of crafting and these are useful to get the raw materials to create good equipments, recorevy items, etc...
All professions Could Also be beneficial to earnings in money in auction houses.

My ratings: 7/10
Gathering system will always be appreciated by those who do not have much time to play and will be cursed by those who love to go around looking for materials.
It is automated, but to increase your skills it will take some time. It can be considered an equivalent exchange.

My general ratings: 7/10
It is a MMORPG that can please to different players who like to play alone and for those who like to play in the company, for PvE oriented players and for those pvp oriented. It has not new and surprising features, but the developers have put together features that are not bad at all if you look at the whole game. But I must say that the most discerning players probably will be disappointed. To conclude I would say try it does not cost anything and maybe trying it you discover that you like it.

Sinlayla

08-16-2011, 03:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
LadySinlayla Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 0 Reputation: 10	Scarlet Legacy Review - 18/08/2011 OBT start (by Sinlayla) Scarlet Legacy is the new mmorpg developed by InterServ and published by OnNet USA on Games Campus.com. The OBT will open on August 18th 11.00 am PDT. I was one of the users able to play the closed beta and now I summarize my opinions about the game here below. Of course they are based on the closed beta (CBT level cap: 30). Mirror on the wall who's the most beautiful character of them all? Scarlet Legacy Character Creation - YouTube The character creation in SL is not the strong point of this game. Once you have selected your class, you will be able to choose their: Name, Birth Day, Gender, Hairstyle, Face Shape, Hair Color, and Skin Color. My ratings: 6/10 Nothing special, but all choices are in theme with the oriental style. So fans of the genre, like me, might appreciate it. Choose your Class! Scarlet Legacy_Class Introduction - YouTube You can choose between 4 classes. Warriors, the melee DPS or tank with high defense and health. Weapon types: Spear, Staff, Hammer. Assassins, the melee DPS with high damage and speed. Weapon Types: Sword, Dual-Welding Swords, Two-handed Swords. Monks, the melee or ranged DPS and support/healer with high health. They are able to fill multiple roles in a party. They can be healers or tanks through their many HP and adequate defense. Weapon Type: Palms, Fist Weapons, Claws. Mystics, the ranged DPS and main DD with high MP, low defence and crowd control. Weapon Type: Flute, Lute, and Zither. Each class has multiple playing styles depending on the player's skill selections. The Skill, Stance, and Talent systems are different ways in which players will be able to further customize their chosen character class. The skills can be learned at Martial Arts Instructor NPC's in exchange for silver. Prices are very affordable, so players need not worry about the choice of skills. Stances give a lot of passive bonuses and can be learned via quests and world drops of Martial Arts training books. You can take the perk experience killing mobs to reach the maximum level of each stance. Talents unlock once a player reaches level 10 and one talent point is awarded for each level the player gains after that. They give players the ability to customize their skills, with increased power, reduced cool downs, increased critical rates and more. Surprise! When you put a talent in the wrong tree, most martial arts trainers can reset the player's talents for silver. My ratings: 7.5/10 The classes are few,but the different systems of skills allow you to differentiate yourself from other players that chose the same profession. Although it might disappoint the most demanding players. Tell me your story. Scarlet Legacy_Opening - YouTube The story revolves around 3 kingdoms: the Heavenly Realm, The human realm and the Demon Realm. The Immortals of the Heavenly Realm agree to a voluntary ban from descending to the world below in order to prevent their Chi from tipping the balance and threatening to destroy the human world. Unfortunately, one day the goddess Yana from the Heavenly Realm, whom was the immortal Keeper of a Holy Relic known as the Celestial Mirror, glimpses Chao, whom was destined to become the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, through a vision and she falls helplessly in love. She disguises herself as a mortal woman and ventures to earth to join him, violating the agreement between the gods not to venture to the human realm. Moving to the remote Spring Village in the hopes of remaining hidden, Yana eventually gives birth to their daughter Princess Scarlet. When Yana is forcibly returned to the Heavenly Realm by the other Gods, she gives her daughter Scarlet the Celestial Mirror to remain linked to her family. Thinking Yana forever lost to him; Chao decides to return to the royal court with their daughter while rumors swirl around the countryside of terrible happenings and dark creatures. When players begin their journey in Scarlet Legacy, their characters have grown up as childhood friends with the Princess in Spring Village before Scarlet and her father decide to leave the village. As they go, forces of the Demon Realm attack the caravan, and capture Scarlet in an attempt to gain the power of the Celestial Mirror to assist their coming invasion of the human world. Too young to help protect the Princess, the player is entrusted by Scarlet to keep the Mirror safe before she is taken hostage. The game's storyline unfolds through the visions of the Celestial Mirror as the player begins their quest to rescue her. Each time a character advances in level and in certain points of progression, the story will go ahead. My ratings: 8/10 Maybe the story will not be one of the most surprising, but it is very interesting to see how the relationship between your character and the princess advances and how they are approaching more and more, confiding their emotions and feelings each other. Will you marry me? On SL you will never feel alone with the Scarlet Legacy’s community systems and all the benefits that they provide. The party's system is usually to be found in other mmorpg, but let us dwell on the special features. Swarn tab The Sworn tab allows you to keep track of which of your friends and enemies are online and where they are, and also lets you control who is able to speak to you. You can have up to 100 Friends on your list. When you play in a Party with someone on your friends list you will both earn friendship points, which when they reach 100 will allow you to access special rewards from Friend System NPC's in town! Furthermore there is also the Enemy List which will automatically add players that have wrongfully killed you outside of Battlefield areas. This lets you keep track of people you want to seek revenge against in the future. Each time that player kills you outside of a Battlefield another point will be added towards their Hatred Degree so you can make your own personal Most Wanted List. Guild tab The guild tab allows you to see everything you need to know about your Guild! Guilds' ranking, the number of members, Guild Messages, your Guild Records, guild's emblem, Guild Level, Reputation, etc... Usual stuff. But here's something you can appreciate: the salary! Yes, Guild Members are able to receive an in-game salary based on their contributions towards earning Guild capital and their Guild Rank. Every seventh you get some money (GEN: money that you can use to buy items from the item mall). Mentor tab The Apprentice System allows a higher level player to team up with a lower level player, and provides additional benefits for both! Players level 30 and higher are able to recruit lower level players as Apprentice students, while players below level 30 are the only ones able to be Apprentices. Whenever the Master is online while the Student is playing, the Student will gain bonus Experience. The higher level the Master, the higher the bonus Experience the Student will receive! The Master will receive Bonus Coins to use in the item mall whenever their student levels up! Masters also receive Bonus coins each time the Student spends a certain amount in the item mall! Hero couples Players can pair up in in-game relationships to gain access to special abilities, joint attack skills, and even be able to trade HP bars to save each others' lives! Your can pair with 3 people, but marry with only a person. My ratings: 9/10 All these systems provide very useful benefits, without having to commit a lot. In fact the only thing to do is spend time with other players, being in a party or joining a guild. So if you're players who love the company, you will appreciate these systems. 6.000 kills!!! :eek: Now I want to talk of others 2 systems that will allow you to be the best killer of the server. Chain kill system If you are able to kill monsters or other players (teammates) within 30 seconds of your last kill consecutively your combo value will increase, and you will be able to earn special buffs and item rewards the higher you get. Chain awards are divided into the following three types: 1. Single Kill Awards: Each time you kill a monster you will have a chance to gain character buff effects. 2. Consecutive Kills: Killing monsters in a continuous chain will have a chance to obtain a buff without a time limitation which can also stack up to 99 times. 3. Cumulative Kills: Cumulative kills up to certain numbers will grant a variety of randomized items rewards. Auto assist system Scarlet Legacy allows you to automate repetitive functions such as recasting buffs, using stat increasing potions when their time limits run out, etc. The Auto Assist system has three categories: Status Aid, Buff Aid and Combat Aid. This system will allow you to perform certain actions (use items, set the skills to use,etc...) when certain fighting's situations present themselves. My ratings: ?/10 These two features can be loved so much or the opposite. This depends on the type of player you are. Auto assists is useful for casting buffs and using recovery items, but as concerns the auto fight there may be disputes. We can say that players with limited time can definitely use it well, because they will be able to gain experience even if they are at work or at a picnic with family. PvP or PvE? Let's start talking about the PvE. During the closed beta you could complete the usual quests(daily, repeatable, destiny, normal, living, guild, and sworn quests). So if you love to do quests and quests, then you will be happy because you will never run without them and the rewards are more than acceptable (equipment, recorevy and buff items, upgrade items, etc...). It is also possible to run the dungeons from the early levels and there are daily quests for them. So if you get tired of playing solo, take a ride in an istance and you can also drop some good equipment. Last option for PvE oriented players: grind, grind, grind! For this choice you can stay afk and use the auto assist. And now let's start with the pvp. During the closed beta was possible to use the arena, where you can receive rewards to the achievement of a number of killings. So get ready to dominate the arena! Unfortunately PvP maps were not available, so you could only attack players who had turned on the pvp mode. My ratings: 7/10 The vote is on PvE, mainly because all the features for pvp were not available in closed. We will see in open beta! All the features for PvE are more than enough, but obviously are not new. So nothing surprising. Your pet is so cute! Scarlet Legacy - Mount Preview - YouTube Pets are able to be customized and upgraded to change the benefits they give your character, including actively attacking enemies with skills, applying passive bonuses, carry items, and even be evolved into mounts that you can ride! Players will be able to get conventional mounts which allow one character to ride and there are also larger mounts like War Elephants which allow parties and guilds to ride on together. My ratings: 6/10 I must say that the pets in CBT were not particularly decisive in battle. I have not even found them particularly amazing aesthetically. However, it can always be a pleasure to care for a small pet. About mounts I can say that some are really cute and funny, although I did not really like the scooter because it is misplaced with the world of SL. But this is only my personal preference. Passion for business In SL the economy seems mainly driven player: best business will be between player and player. This is because the drop rate is not high and the merchants are not selling items of a certain level. So how can I have a good equipment and recovery items suitable to my level? Simple by crafting. you can choose between 10 professions: Weapons Crafting, Blacksmithing, Cooking, First Aid, Alchemy, Jewelcrafting, Engineering, Herbalism, Mining and Hunting to progress in your journey! Herbalism, mining and hunting are automated, this means that you can increase your skills being away from your computer. These 3 skills are the basics of crafting and these are useful to get the raw materials to create good equipments, recorevy items, etc... All professions Could Also be beneficial to earnings in money in auction houses. My ratings: 7/10 Gathering system will always be appreciated by those who do not have much time to play and will be cursed by those who love to go around looking for materials. It is automated, but to increase your skills it will take some time. It can be considered an equivalent exchange. My general ratings: 7/10 It is a MMORPG that can please to different players who like to play alone and for those who like to play in the company, for PvE oriented players and for those pvp oriented. It has not new and surprising features, but the developers have put together features that are not bad at all if you look at the whole game. But I must say that the most discerning players probably will be disappointed. To conclude I would say try it does not cost anything and maybe trying it you discover that you like it. Sinlayla Last edited by LadySinlayla; 08-16-2011 at 06:05 PM.

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