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Talents!
Talents are a brand new thing, completely exclusive to Lenneth. It will be the biggest thing that sets Lenneth apart from the others. The main thing about the introduction of talents to Lenneth, is that they will make each character completely unique, while bringing out old and fun character builds.

What are they?
They are sort of like sub-skills. That is, skills that modify already existing skills. Each class will have 3 talent tree's they can specialize in. Leveling up will allow you to start putting points into your talents, and enhance certain skills and aspects of your character. A priest for example, will be able to specialize in Battle, Restoration, or Exorcism. Putting points into the Battle tree will give the priest more atk, aspd, crits, chance to stun, etc. It will turn the priest into a worthy battle priest. A build that was once popular, but used in extremely rare circumstances due to it's low power. Restoration will slightly enhance the priests healing abilities, while exorcism will make the priest better suited for hunting undead and demons. Other talent tree's include a combo tree for champions, a spear tree for paladins, a poison tree for assassins, and a traps tree for snipers. So you can see how the main focus of these new talents, is to make all possible builds evenly powerful, to create more diverse players, and more specialized players.

Won't these make some characters too powerful?
Absolutely not. Talents are used to make characters specialize in a particular tree. For instance, if a priest wanted to become a battle priest, the battle talents only work if the priest is holding a mace, and has Lv10 mace mastery (and possibly others). This means the will have less skill points for supporting, and won't have the matk bonus from rods for their holy skills. A restoration priest must also have a certain skill requirement, and only gets the talent bonuses when using a book that does not give matk. Once again giving them less points for holy skills, and no matk bonus. The exorcism tree will make priests stronger against demons and undead, and great when killing them, but will require a large amount of holy skills, and a rod.

This means the priest will miss out on a lot of buffs. All talents are like this, so players that get talents are meant to actually specialize in one aspect of their character. So now a priest with max int won't mean he is a good healer and good at killing demons, but you might have one priest with max int who is a Restoration build, better at healing than a priest in a Exorcism build, who is better at taking out demons and undead. You may also run into a Fire Wziard, Ice Wizard, or Wind Wizard, which is each better at their specific element than the other. This doesn't mean a Fire wizard is bad at wind and ice, it only means he is better with Fire, but he can still use his wind and ice skills as good as he ever could.

A preview of the Talent calculator (Work in progress)

What if I don't like this? I want to be good at everything :(
No problem, each character has 3 Talent tree's right? well each tree has 4 talents you can chose from. You can only max out 3 of them, but in order to get the better talents at the bottom, you must first need to max the one at the top, and one in the middle. But if you don't want to specialize in one thing, you can always max out one talent in each tree, and still be good at everything, since only some classes like the Priest has requirements that only let them use one tree. But if you were a wizard, you could easily max one talent from the fire, ice, and wind tree.

Update
This is going to be a really small one because I need to get to sleep, been packing all day. In a few hours, Kittie and I are getting up at 2:30am, and heading over to the airport for our exciting flight to Canada, which is going to take a whopping 25 hours.. x.x

Anyway, off to an early night sleep. I'll update everything when we arrive in Canada.
Yipee!