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One of the unique features of Project Gorgon is that is allows players to choose to play as an animal. The animal forms like Cow and Spider are were originalle intended as curses, but they each have their own play stylesplaystyles, so some players enjoy playing as animals full time.
==General Characterisation=Unique Opportunities= [[Cow]] and [[Deer]] are both built as Tanks, Cow as more of your traditional tank archetype, while Deer can be considered an Off-Tank. With Cow your Tankiness/Tank-like Abilities come inherently from your skills. While with Deer, your tank-like abilities come from having the right mods on your gear. [[Spider]]s would be similar to your dps/assassin types most of their skill is set on using Infinite Legs, or Poison abilities to quickly kill the enemy. The same can be said about [[Wolf|Wolves]] and [[Giant Bat]]s, they're both known for their damage and their ability to keep the pressure on. [[Pig]]s are your support build, they can solo decently, but they are better of in groups, as a healer or a buff build with use of Mudbath, Frenzy, Porcine Alertness. === Advantages === There With [[Cow]]s your advantages are unique opportunities for animal playersyou are a tank, so you have high survivability. For instanceCows also have a nice sprint skill called Moo of Determination, and they have the ability to produce their own milk, if which helps in crafting skills such as Cheesemaking, or Cooking. If you're playing as are a vegetarian Cowyou have the ability to produce milk every 3 or 4 minutes, while if your a non-vegetarian you can only produce it every 5 minutes. Players can also milk other Player Cows every 15 minutes. Both are considerably better than waiting an hour to milk a specific cow. [[Deer]]s have the ability to jump faster/higher, or Pigthey also have AoE Taunts, seek while Cow only has single target taunts. They have the ability also to summon another Deer Pet to help out the in battle. [[Suspicious CowSpider]]s have the ability to use Insidious Illusion to talk to Animal Hating NPCs, an NPC cow in it uses up a Moonstone. They also have the fields of Eltibuleability at lvl 50 to produce their own Spiderweb, which does help with crafting such as Tailoring, especially if they want to make their own Spider Carapace Armor. She can sell you some '''animal-specific [[Pig]]s have two sidebar abilities'''Terror Dash, which gives them a sprint bonus, and even has Truffle Sniff which allows them to sniff for mushrooms, I believe the higher the Truffle Sniff the higher lvl Mushroom you are likely to get, or the higher the chances you are of getting a unique dye recipe that is otherwise unobtainable mushroom. [[Giant Bat]]s have the ability of Echolocation which allows them to see in the dark, such as dungeons ("drab grass green"especially helpful with Claudia), and they do have the ability to Fly, they also have the ability to turn players into Bats, so be careful when facing them in PvP. She [[Wolf|Wolves]] have the ability to switch in and out of wolf form(except during Full Moon, when they are stuck for 3 days), they also sells belts have specific Wolf-Altar/Wolf benefits, the altar can unlock higher lvl abilities, has the option of being a storage space, and by completing quests for each of those animal formsthe Altar you can get bonuses like Extra Armor, Power, Health, Damage Mitigation, Bonus Attack %, or a Sprint Speed bonus. Werewolves should look === Disadvantages ===<B>Becoming a [[Wolf]] / choosing for [[SanjaLycanthropy]] is a PERMANENT CHOICE. It has some impactful consequences when doing that. It CANNOT be reversed.</B> One of the wolf, disadvantages of being an animal is [[Beast Speech]]. While typing in chat certain words can be changed to a sound-representation. <br>Example: a Cow might type "I'll wait for you near the forests off Serbule well". But after pressing Enter the coast of Kursentence may read as "I'll wait moo you near the Moooooo mooo". The words that will be replaced will be random. And every animal player Certain NPCs will find it helpful not speak to talk you while you are an animal. Especially the ones in [[Serbule]]. But to counter that there are Animal NPCs in [[FliaAnimal Town]] which is in [[Sun Vale]], a fairy who will speak to you, but only after you have been an Animal for 3 in game hours. Another disadvantage is your inability to use skills that require hands, such as Sword, Fire/Ice Magic, Shield, and your inability to cut/gather wood, since skills that require the wilds use of SerbuleHands do not work, since animals do not have hands (or thumbs).
====Crafting Gear for Animal WoesForms====
Observant players have noticed that it's hard to craft gear for animal-cursed players. There's only one [[Gems|gem]] that covers all animal curses, so you often craft Deer gear when you really want Spider gear, and so on.
In the next update (edit me), there will be a way to inscribe [[Sigil Scripting|runes]] into those gems, so that you can attune the gem to one specific animal curse. You'll want to get your [[Sigil Scripting]] skill to level 25 to be able to use those techniques.
=== General tips regarding playing in an Animal Form ===For general advice, avoid playing as an animal unless absolutely certain, and after you have explored zones such as Serbule and Etilbule as a human, and gotten at least some storage space, NPC favors done, and gotten used to the general feel of the game. Because starting off as an Animal can be hard or trying for a new player. Be aware that the Animal Forms stack. If you are a cow, and drink a [[Deer Juice]] potion, you will appear to be a Deer. However you are also still cursed as a Cow. So after drinking an Un-Deer Juice, you will not be in human form, but will be a Cow again. - When just starting animal say something in nearby chat every 5 min or so. That way you will get exp in your [[Beast Speech]], and won't bother people in global. - 3-sylabe word of powers include ones that will grant you illusion, making you look like elf for 2 min. can be helpfull when talking to npcs You definately should start working on favor in [[Animal Town]] asap, especialy if you are full time animal (eg - not wolf) ====Seek out special NPC's====There are unique opportunities for animal players. For instance, if you're playing as a Cow, Deer, or Pig, seek out the [[Suspicious Cow]], an NPC cow in the fields of Eltibule. She can sell you some '''animal-specific abilities''', and even has a unique dye recipe that is otherwise unobtainable ("drab grass green"). She also sells belts for each of those animal forms. Werewolves should look for [[Sanja]] the wolf, in the forests off the coast of Kur. And every animal player will find it helpful to talk to [[Flia]], a fairy in the wilds of Serbule. ====Returning to Human Form (temporarily)====
In order to make "being an animal" a viable path through the entire game, the next update (Sept 2014) adds some high-level [[Words of Power]] that can help. These Words apply an illusion to you that makes you look like a human for a minute or so -- just long enough to talk to NPCs that ignore animals!
Completing quests this way is a fairly laborious process, because you have to research the Words and each Word is usable only once. It is intended that being an animal is a hard play style. The "human form" Words of Power just ensure that animals can access important skills and equipment that they will need at higher level, even though it will be a bit of a pain.
==Sources==
* [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1045484633/project-gorgon-a-new-approach-to-mmos/posts/985932 Making Armor Pt 2]
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