As I'm sure at least some of you remember, Dungeon Fighter Online is a game that has been out for a while that closed down around two years ago under Nexon management. Why? Because Nexon made it easy for bots to farm gold, which resulted in a horrible economy, while also banning legit players with an automated system, and then never updating the game.
However due to people still being interested in the game and some even playing on the Chinese DFO server, Neople the Korean company for DFO has decided to relaunch Dungeon Fighter Online to the western world with DFO:Global. So basically we ditch Nexon who has a horrible reputation and get Neople who are actually one of the better companies at managing these types of games from what has been from the Korean version of their games. The team working on DFOG is a team new to the server management of the game.
Open Beta opens: March 24th early AM(Tuesday)
Website: http://www.dfoneople.com/
Facebook(They post most of the information here currently): https://www.facebook.com/dfoglobal
For those of you who do not know what Dungeon Fighter Online is, it's a 2d side scroller action MMO. The PvP is a big focus of the game for a lot of players.
There are many classes out currently due to the game being out in South Korea, China, and Japan for years. PvE does exist in this game and you can play for that. PvE end game I believe consists of running special dungeons as a group for Chronical gear(Think tier set bonuses), and farming Hell mode dungeons for Epics. It may have had more stuff added in or changed up since I last played.
There is also a Fatigue Bar in the game that limits how long you can play one character for grinding PvE. PvP isn't touched by the FP bar. This exists because it's a counter measure against gold farming bots trying to hit max level in one day and farming dungeons for drops. This is needed because it restricts the pace of the bots and gives time to react to them before they destroy the economy. When Nexon ran DFO North America years ago, they removed the bar and instead added a blitz bar that allowed you to farm endlessly, but get less EXP compared to FP bar. This resulted in gold farmers destroying the game for anyone who didn't buy gold or play the market hard because Nexon never does much against bots.
At the start of leveling the FP bar will seem too short because it gets consumed pretty fast at low levels. This does get better on though and with so many classes out you're probably going to be wanting to try multiple ones out anyways at the start. Still if you intend to play DFO a lot and not casually you should either look into PvPing a lot or making alts. On the bright side the game does a good job at providing gear drops so you wont need to worry about funding alts while leveling them.
As for classes DFO works in a different way than most games. You start out with your base class at level 1, like a Slayer for example. At level 15 you can choose one of four paths for the Slayer to go. Not all base classes get 4 options. Thief and M. Mage(I'll explain the M. after) only have two paths, and Creator and Dark Knight have no paths because they're different. Now back to the Slayer, at 15 you would pick either the Berserker, Blade Master, Asura(Magic blind swordsman), or the Soul Bender. After that you're now stuck with what you picked for life. You will have awakenings at level 45ish I believe that unlock your ultimate movie and a passive.
Ultimate moves have longer CDs and overall flashier and higher damage if they're damage focused. Example(old video):
Now apparently there are second awakenings being released to classing. I believe M. Slayers, both Gunners, and F. Fighter have them currently. Don't know much about these besides that they tend to be a great addition to the class.
Now to explain the whole M. and F. thing. This game is gender locked. You also cannot customize your character when you create them. Instead you use avatars to customize them. These are a cash shop thing, but don't worry too much because they can be sold to other players and back before the gold bots ruined everything they were pretty easy to afford once you started focusing on making gold at high levels. They also never bind to your character so you can just sell them when you're done with that look.
So some classes have both sexes, but each sex plays differently. This can be a subtle difference like with Female and Male Gunners where they all have the same sub classes, but they have different strengths. For example F. Spitfire focuses on shooting and tossing grenades while in the air and M. Spitfire stays on the ground mostly. Then you have Female and Male Fighter. They have the same sub classes, but they play a lot differently. Female Nen is a a ranged focused class with great party support. Male Nen instead is a close ranged class that gives up some support. They both have similar skills, but the skills are balanced differently. Male Mage and Female Slayer is different in that they do not share sub classes and branch out entirely from their older versions.
Last thing I want to discuss if anyone is still reading is Dark Knight and Creator. They play vastly different from any other class in the game and that is why they have no sub class or awakening. They don't even have access to Chronical gear. Hell Creator isn't even allowed to PvP because her abilities are mouse targeted which would make them too easy to land on players. Dark Knight is a combo class that combines a bunch of M. Slayer abilities into one class. He is pretty much only there for damage, which is good to be fair. Creator has few spells, but aims them all with the mouse and gets different effects if you right or left click the spell. Her damage falls off late game and she has a more utility focused role. Really don't bother with these classes if you think you're getting something OP out of them. They're good, but not crazy.
Wrote this as things came to mind so probably looks like a mess. I'll just post a video of a solo PvE run at high level in Korea's DFO. It's on a test server so they had unlimited potions.