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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 [[Lycanthropy|Werewolves]] 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. [[Rabbit]]s offer a stealthy playstyle. [[Druid]]s by themselves should NOT be classified as a Beast Form. However Druids are given spells that will allow them to assume certain beast appearances like [[Deer]], [[Raven]] and [[Mallard]]. === Advantages ===There With [[Cow]]s your advantages are you are unique opportunities for animal playersa tank, so you have high survivability. Cows also have a nice sprint skill called Moo of Determination, and they have the ability to produce their own milk, which helps in crafting skills such as Cheesemaking, or Cooking. For instanceIf you are a vegetarian Cow you have the ability to produce milk every 3 or 4 minutes, while if your a non-vegetarian you're playing as 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, they also have AoE Taunts, while Cowonly has single target taunts. They have the ability also to summon another Deer Pet to help out in battle. [[Spider]]s have the ability to use Insidious Illusion to talk to Animal Hating NPCs, it uses up a Moonstone. They also have the ability at lvl 50 to produce their own Spiderweb, Deerwhich does help with crafting such as Tailoring, or especially if they want to make their own Spider Carapace Armor. [[Pig]]s have two sidebar abilities Terror Dash, seek out which gives them a sprint bonus, and 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 mushroom. [[Rabbit]]s are the only Beast Form capable of using [[Ice Magic]] by equipping a special headgear item. [[Suspicious CowGiant Bat]]s have the ability of Echolocation which allows them to see in the dark, such as dungeons (especially helpful with Claudia), and they do have the ability to Fly, an NPC cow they also have the ability to turn players into Bats, so be careful when facing them in PvP. [[Lycanthropy|Wolves]] have the fields ability to switch in and out of Eltibule. She wolf form(except during Full Moon, when they are stuck for 3 days), they also have specific Wolf-Altar/Wolf benefits, the altar can sell you some '''animal-specific unlock higher lvl abilities''', has the option of being a storage space, and even by completing quests for the Altar you can get bonuses like Extra Armor, Power, Health, Damage Mitigation, Bonus Attack %, or a Sprint Speed bonus. === Disadvantages ===<B>Becoming a Werewolf / choosing for [[Lycanthropy]] is a PERMANENT CHOICE. It has a unique dye recipe some impactful consequences when doing that . It CANNOT be reversed.</B> One of the disadvantages of being an animal is otherwise unobtainable ([[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 Serbule well". But after pressing Enter the sentence may read as "drab grass greenI'll wait moo you near the Moooooo mooo"). She also sells belts for each of those The words that will be replaced will be random. Certain NPCs will not speak to you while you are an animal forms. Werewolves should look for Especially the ones in [[SanjaSerbule]] . (Note: This also has the consequence that the wolfstorage for Joeh, Marna, Ivyn and Tadion may not be available. At the moment those storages are available to animals through the Serbule central storage closet in the forests off the coast of Kurroom between Hulon and Marna). And every animal player will find it helpful to talk But to counter that there are Animal NPCs in [[Animal Town]] which is in [[FliaSun 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.
====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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