Knight

General description

The knight is a simple class for simple men, they are unbreakable walls who run at their enemies, weapons in hand, without a shred of fear, using their endless health pools to protect their allies in battle.

Unique mechanic(s)

Almost every single knight ability has the same objective of making you survive longer. A knight’s natural affinity with heavy armor and skills make him almost unkillable as long as the enemy doesn’t have a major source of piercing damage.

Recommended builds

Knights should usually focus on increasing their strength to be able to wear and use heavy armor and weapons, and their intimidation to be able to force enemies to attack them and to not fear their role as the meat shield. Heavy armor is a must.

Note

You can start off as a “Dark Knight”. Dark Knights are knights that have broken their oath, they are feared and hunted down, but they start at level 10, they have 70 bonus stats to distribute, and they have twice the normal amount of item points.

Social status

Starting items

Budget : 100 pts (200 pts for dark knights)

• 25 pts Claymore 1d4/2 * (8 * STR + LVL * 20) (Takes two turns to swing) (Takes two hands to use)

• 25 pts Mace 1d4/2 * (6 * STR + LVL * 20) (Armor health is doubled against it)

• 25 pts Sword 1d4/2 * (5 * STR + LVL * 20)

• 25 pts Short sword 1d4/2 * (4 * STR + LVL * 25)

• 25 pts Lance

  • when two-handed 1d4/2 * (4 * STR + LVL * 20) (50% pierce) (Accuracy is reduced when in extreme close quarters)
  • when one-handed 1d4/2 * (4 * AGI + LVL * 20) (Accuracy is reduced when in extreme close quarters)

• 25 pts Bow 1d4/2 * (4 * AGI + LVL * 20) (75% accuracy) (Takes two hands to use)

• 5 pts Iron arrows (x10) (Increase a bow’s statistical multiplier by 1 when used)

• 50 pts Aegis (Two-handed shield) (200 defense)

• 25 pts Bulkwark (Shield) (150 defense)

• 10 pts Greatshield (Shield) (100 defense)

• 20 pts Iron plate helm¹ (100 defense)

• 20 pts Iron plate chest piece¹ (150 defense)

• 20 pts Iron plate leggings¹ (100 defense)

• 10 pts Chainmail hood (50 defense)

• 10 pts Chainmail body armor (100 defense)

• 10 pts Chainmail leggings (50 defense)

• 5 pts Head padding²

• 5 pts Body padding³

• 5 pts Legs padding⁴

• 5 pts Leather hood (50 defense)

• 5 pts Leather body armor (50 defense)

• 5 pts Leather pants (50 defense)

• 5 pts Bandages (stops bleeding, heals for 200 HP)

• 1 pts Coins (x2)

Multi-classing

Criterions

• Having your main reputation be either found in the lawful or good sectors.
• Having experience as a front-line fighter.
• Having strength be amongst your 3 highest stats.
• Having intimidation be amongst your 6 highest stats.

Process

• Spending at least 40 semi-consecutive⁵ turns under the tutelage of a proper knight.
• To gain access to the social skills related to being a knight (and also 250 reputation), reciting a knight’s oath in a public place while having the public’s attention. The oath asks you to promise to always protect others before yourself, except if that person puts other lives at risk, to embody the principles of courage, justice, honor, honesty, morality, and selflessness⁶, to never harm someone without reason or provocation, and to uphold the knight’s order’s reputation.

1. Be warned that this piece of equipment will have excessively high weight for a level 1 player and a full set of it will probably crush you to death. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

2. Useful to protect your head from hitting rigid metal helmets too hard, causing you to faint or become dizzy. ↩

3. Extra thick shirt to cushion the energy transfer from your armor to your body when hit. ↩

4. Extra thick pants to cushion the energy transfer from your armor to your body when hit. ↩

5. As long as you generally don’t separate from your master, or don’t purposefully do so, this criteria will be met. This means that while things like your master dying, one of you two being knocked unconscious, or separating for half a day for some reason wouldn’t reset the 40 turns timer (though it would stop going down during this time), things like parting ways with your master, leaving them, or them leaving would reset the timer. ↩

6. Though the definition of those principles can be stretched quite a bit and depends on each character’s perception of them. ↩