Magic World Online Review

If you frequent game related websites, you might have come across an ad for a free MMORPG named Magic World Online. I know I did, and not only that, I’ve played it! So those of you who is a bit curious on how good the game is, here is the Squared review of MWO.

To start off, let me just say that their choice of game title sucks. Magic World Online? Who are they trying to entice, kindergartens? But hey, since I’m stuck with this ancient computer, might as well play a free MMO that it can run. So I visited their website at http://mwo.enjoymmo.com/index.php
You can register an account for free and download the entire installer. I would recommend using the torrent download as it is a much faster way in my experience.

And so I registered, I downloaded, I installed, and I played, and here is what I can say about the game.
First off, I was surprised that my generic forum password was given a weak password rank by the registration form. So I tried my generic NT password which includes capital letters, small letters, numbers and !@#$%^&*(). It was given a strong password grade. So after the slight problem with registration, I am now able to play.

There are currently four servers available: Odyssey, Aurora, Genesis, and Daedalus. Of course, if you have been following my personal blog, there is no question on which server I would join. After choosing your server, you would then pick on which side are you on, Dynasty or Empire; I chose Empire. After that is the creation of characters.

Character Selection

There are four classes for MWO, Warrior, Archer, Summoner, and Mage with male and female variants (I picked a male Warrior). You will then be transported to a novice town where you will be given instructions on how to play the game. Different classes transports you to a different location so as different allegiance.

World Map

Empire allies as far as I know are in the southern part of the map, Dynasty is in the northern part. Leveling up like most MMO, is a grind. You kill and kill until you gain a level then the amount of experience needed increases and you’ll just have to kill more monsters. MWO, though, provides two more ways to speed up or lessen the grind for you to level up. The NPCs provides a number of quests which can gain you a lot of experience. Some quests gave me 10% to level up not counting the experience that I got while performing the task.

Bot Setup

The other one is that MWO provides a built-in bot that you can setup to do the leveling for you. Though not as customizable as the popular Ragnarok Online bot, Openkore or the GE crazy of Granado Espada, this bot, with the proper setup, can help you gain level while sleeping.

Gameplay

Much of the game is like Diablo 2. You cannot rotate the camera, there is an inventory and a personal stash (which you would not be able to use to give items to your other characters), and weapon/armor durability. Sockets and forging are also present in the game as well as pets which can grow into mounts.

The feature that I liked about the game is the Growing Weapon. At a certain point of your adventure, you would be given a quest for a growing weapon. You can imbue this to a weapon that you have, and the weapon becomes a growing one. The growing weapon can now ‘eat’ another weapon of the same kind to merge their abilities and increase the damage that the weapon can give. Take note though that the merging can only be done safely for a number of times, after which, there would be an increasing chance of breaking per eating. The game also features several job changes. Right now, I’m a level 33 Templar Knight.