A unique phenomenon that makes DarkFall Online stand out from other MMOs is that the skill of players plays a greater role in player to player combat. For example, since worn items can be lost, one pays careful attention to their gear. If you don’t have enough gold to replace your equipment, don’t fight other players. But what’s to keep other players from fighting you? – That’s where numbers first come in.
Now for the uniqueness.. In Darkfall Online, small groups of players often defeat much larger groups. What makes this possible is targeting difficulty, organization, and… math!
The quickest way to explain this is with a scenario. A group of 6 skillful players being attacked by a group of 9 players with less skill.
If the group of 9 players is imbalanced between offensive and defensive (healer) characters, they might be able to deal out a lot of damage, but not take much. At the same time, they will have a tendency to crowd the smaller group, talk at the same time, give conflicting commands, and lose track of each other as well as lose track of their targets which may weave through them… In DarkFall Online, it is even possible to suffer damage from friendly fire!
Careful where you click, watch your allies, have centralized leadership, and watch out for smaller groups of players that play conspicuously well. They may very well be waiting for a larger group to engage them so that they can win the encounter, and then loot gear from other players to sell for darkfall online gold.
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