⚔️ Professions of RoP ⚔️

Strengths:

• Mages are the purest of the spell casting professions.
• Focus mainly on offensive spells and have the most damaging spells of any of the professions.
• Higher-level mages can do fantastic things like teleport around the mud or wreck an opponent's mind.
• Can defend themselves by going invisible or by blinking to avoid hits.

Weaknesses:

• Mages lack the potential to deal good physical damage with weapons.

Prime Requisite: Intelligence

Skills & Spells of the Mage:

Strengths:

• Warlocks are spell casters who have delved into the darker magical arts.
• Do not have the sheer power of those of the mage profession, but make up for this with slightly better fighting skills.
• Can cause a weapon to burst into flames, create a barrier of flames around themselves, or drain the very life-force out of an opponent adding it to their own.
• High-level warlocks can cast very unique spells with other dangerous effects.

Weaknesses:

• Being both mage and warrior, warlocks do not have the best abilities of either of those classes.
• They improve rather slowly at first, and their spells are not geared towards dealing large amounts of damage directly to their opponents.

Prime Requisites: Intelligence and Strength

Skills & Spells of the Warlock:

Strengths:

• Warriors are the masters of weaponry.
• Have the most potential of all the professions to deal devastating physical damage in a melee.
• Masters of swordplay, and can use their weapon to parry or disarm their opponents.
• Can repair weapons and armor that have been damaged, and they can make weapons more effective by sharpening them.
• Warriors have the ability to bash their opponents, making them temporarily unable to flee.

Weaknesses:

• Warriors lack the potential to deal good damage with spells.

Prime Requisites: Strength and Dexterity

Skills of the Warrior:

Strengths:

• Clerics are the masters of the art of healing and protection.
• Can heal others much quicker and better than any other profession.
• Can soften opponents blows through the sanctuary and stone skin spells.
• Can cast spells that harm creatures and players of an opposing alignment.
• Can deal out large amounts of damage to undead creatures.

Weaknesses:

• Clerics don't have the potential to deal as much damage with either weapons or spells as the other professions.

Prime Requisite: Wisdom

Skills & Spells of the Cleric:

Strengths:

• Thieves are the masters of the art of poisons.
• Can poison their weapons, causing their opponents great pain and distress.
• Very stealthy and can hide, sneak, and cover up tracks (including an entire group's).
• Adept at avoiding opponent's attacks, and can cause large amounts of damage through backstabbing and circling their opponents.
• Their ability to haggle gives them the ability to accumulate more gold than the other professions.

Weaknesses:

• Thieves must spend a good deal of time collecting the ingredients to create their poisons.
• Can't deal a large amount of damage outright in melee combat or with spells.
• Must resort to good planning and good timing in order to damage their opponents.

Prime Requisite: Dexterity

Skills of the Thief:

Strengths:

• Templars are the masters of the art of tactics.
• Essentially religious warriors who follow and report to a higher power.
• Have a combination of warrior and clerical powers, though not as specialized in either aspect.
• Can lead the largest groups through their leadership abilities.
• Can improve a group's effectiveness in dealing damage in a melee through their greater battle tactics.
• Capable of protecting and guarding a single individual from being targeted in combat.

Weaknesses:

• Being both cleric and warrior, templars do not have the best abilities of either of those classes.
• They improve rather slowly at first, and require both high strength and wisdom to effectively use all their spells and skills.

Prime Requisites: Strength, Wisdom and Dexterity

Skills & Spells of the Templar:

Strengths:

• Monks are a special type of warrior who have conditioned their bodies and minds to the point where they can focus their thoughts into physical and mental attacks.
• Do not need to wield weapons to damage their foes; in fact they deal the most damage with their bare fists.
• Can prevent damage to themselves out of sheer will, and can purge their bodies of all impurities.
• Monks have the ability to stun their opponents, making them temporarily unable to flee.

Weaknesses:

• Monks require very good strength, dexterity, and intelligence to effectively use all of their skills and spells.
• They improve rather slowly at first, and do not deal as much physical damage with their fists as a warrior could with a weapon.

Prime Requisites: Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence

Skills & Spells of the Monk:

Strengths:

• Alchemists are specialized mages who have dedicated much of their lives to the more intellectual aspects of magic such as potion creation, item lore, and enchantment of armor and weapons.
• Their potions are extraordinarily powerful when spread out and used by other group members, especially group members of other professions.
• A battle can easily be won by quaffing a few of the correct potions before or during the melee.

Weaknesses:

• Possibly one of the most difficult professions to play.
• Alchemists do not have the powers to deal outright damage as the mage profession.
• Their potions are only moderately useful to themselves, and they must spend hours collecting the correct ingredients to mix their potions.

Prime Requisite: Intelligence

Skills & Spells of the Alchemist:

Strengths:

• Ninjas are the masters of the art of assassination.
• Have the greatest potential to deal large amounts of damage using the backstab and circle skills.
• Have mastered other dark-art skills to render their opponents blind or unable to cast spells.
• Very stealthy and can hide, sneak, and cover up their own tracks.
• Very good at targeting an individual, even one who is being guarded by a templar.
• Can retreat out of battle easier than other professions.

Weaknesses:

• Can't deal a large amount of damage in a melee combat or with spells.
• Must resort to good planning and good timing in order to damage their opponents.
• They also improve rather slowly at first, and have to rely on pure skill instead of poisons to do damage with their backstabs and circles.

Prime Requisite: Dexterity

Skills of the Ninja:

These are the spells available to everyone, no matter what profession.

These are the skills that everyone can learn, no matter what profession.