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Welcome to Enarian!

Dive into a rich, text-based ARPG MUD experience that fuses classic adventure mechanics with modern action-packed gameplay. Inspired by legends like Diablo and Path of Exile, Enarian's world is ever-changing, ensuring that every expedition is a new challenge. Whether you are a veteran of text-based MUDs or a newcomer eager for a dynamic adventure, this guide will help you navigate your journey through Enarian.

Game Overview

In Enarian, you will find a vast array of weapons, armour, accessories and equipment sets to collect and experiment with. Every area beyond the main hub is procedurally generated—from landscapes to the monsters that roam them—offering a unique experience every time you play. Enjoy familiar commands with exciting twists that evolve traditional MUD mechanics by integrating modern ARPG features.

Dynamic Combat & Customization

Say goodbye to slow, manual ability casting. Enarian's combat is fast-paced, with every gear piece empowering your character through unique abilities:

Use the forge to reassign abilities or swap equipment, allowing you to tailor your custom build for both offense and defence. This streamlined system ensures that your abilities can trigger automatically during combat, keeping the action fluid and engaging.

Jump straight into the action:

  • > Enter Portal: Begin your journey and start hunting, looting and leveling up.

Attacking monsters:

  • > Kill <monster name>
  • > Kill All (to clear rooms of all foes)

Weapon Details & Forge

Weapon Details

Dual Wielding

Rogues are the only class allowed to dual wield two one-handed weapons, increasing their damage and adding an additional weapon-based ability.

Using the Forge

Using the reforge command allows you to change the assigned ability and its rank on any weapon and armour.

> Reforge <item name> with <ability name> rank <1-5>

The cost to do so starts at 2000 gold for rank 1 abilities. This can only be done when you are at the forge in the training room.

Skills and Abilities

Mage Abilities

Ability Description
Frostbolt Deals damage to a target based on your weapon's base stat, scaled by the average of your strength, intelligence, and dexterity, with a 20% boost per rank.
Fireball Deals heavy fire damage to a single target and 25% splash damage to nearby foes, scaled by your effective intelligence.
Summon Ice Elemental Summons a fragile ice elemental pet with low hitpoints but high damage. Only one may be active.
Summon Fire Elemental Summons a fiery elemental pet with high hitpoints and moderate damage; it takes self-inflicted damage over time until it burns out.
Summon Earth Elemental Summons an earth elemental pet with very high hitpoints but low damage. Only one may be active.

Rogue Abilities

Ability Description
Viper Strikes Unleashes a rapid flurry of up to three strikes, each scaled by your dexterity and weapon's base stat with slight random variation and a 20% boost per rank.
Poison Strike Deals immediate poison damage and applies a damage-over-time effect based on your weapon's base stat and effective dexterity.
Envenom Applies a potent poison to your weapon, causing subsequent attacks to deal an extra 10% poison damage for 60 seconds.
Fade Blends you into the shadows, increasing your dodge chance by 15 percentage points for 60 seconds.
Backstab Prepares a devastating attack that guarantees a critical hit (2.5× damage) on your next successful attack; lasts 30 seconds if unused.

Paladin Abilities

Ability Description
Holy Nova Releases a burst of holy energy that damages all foes in combat, scaled with your strength, wisdom, and rank.
Holy Lance Delivers a piercing holy strike with damage based on your weapon's base stat and boosted by your strength and wisdom.
Greater Healing Restores a significant amount of HP when below maximum, scaling exponentially with rank.
Divine Shield Grants a radiant shield that absorbs damage based on your effective wisdom and rank.
Healing Winds Summons rejuvenating winds that heal you every 5 seconds for 60 seconds, restoring 2% of your maximum HP per tick.

Warrior Abilities

Ability Description
Warcry Unleashes a fearsome cry that reduces an enemy’s damage by 25% for 30 seconds.
Battlecry Empowers your attacks, increasing your damage output by 15% for 30 seconds.
Heroic Strike Summons all your strength for a powerful blow based on your weapon's base stat and effective strength.
Leaping Strike Leaps toward your target and deals a mighty strike, with 25% of the primary damage applied as splash damage to nearby foes.
Hone Meticulously hones your weapon, increasing your attack speed by 15% for 5 minutes.

Necromancer Abilities

Ability Description
Lifetap Deals damage to a foe and heals you for half that damage, scaled by your effective intelligence.
Poison Cloud Engulfs all foes in a toxic cloud, dealing initial damage and additional poison damage over 15 seconds.
Skeletal Warrior Summons a skeletal warrior pet with enhanced stats. Only one may be active at a time.
Skeletal Rogue Summons a skeletal rogue pet that can inflict bleeding; only one may be active.
Summon Skeletal Mage Summons a skeletal mage pet that channels arcane energy. It has moderate HP and low strength; only one may be active.

Aura Abilities

Ability Description
Crit Chance Aura Activates an aura that increases your critical hit chance.
Crit Damage Aura Activates an aura that boosts your critical damage.
Dodge Chance Aura Activates an aura that enhances your dodge chance.
Parry Chance Aura Activates an aura that improves your parry chance.

General Abilities

Ability Description
Regrowth Increases your base HP regeneration by 25% per rank for 30 seconds.
Thorns For 30 seconds, retaliates against attackers by dealing damage back to them.

Managing Your Inventory

Your success in Enarian depends on effective item management. Use these commands to organize and equip your gear:

  • Inventory/Inv/I: Display your current items.
  • > Get <item name>: Pick up an item from your surroundings.
  • > Drop <item name>: Leave an item on the ground.

Gear Management:

  • > Equip/Wear/Hold <item name>: Equip an item into the appropriate slot, instantly assigning its special ability to your skills list.
  • > Skills: See a list of your currently assigned skills and their ranks.
  • > Remove <item name>: Unequip an item, returning it to your inventory.

Please note you can only equip items with an ilvl up to 2 levels above your character's own level.

Health, Mana & Ultimate Abilities

Recovery During Battles

  • > Heal: Use your healing ability to restore lost health.
  • > Mana: Replenish your mana for continuous ability use.

You also have charge-based flasks that automatically regenerate health and mana as you defeat enemies and progress through battles.

Ultimate Abilities

  • > Ultimate: Activate your charged ultimate ability to turn the tide of battle.

Monsters, Loot, and Progression

Diverse Enemies

Epic Loot and Item Sets

Exploring and Advancing Through Maps

Your adventure begins with a portal that generates a new map teeming with monsters and dynamic events.

  • > Enter Portal: Start your journey. Each entry creates a fresh map filled with challenges, such as arenas and prisoner camps, that offer enhanced rewards and experience.
  • > Map: View your current map layout, including waystone bonuses and overall completion percentage.

Defeat at least 75% of the monsters to complete the map. The next time you enter the portal, the map will increase in difficulty, ensuring a continuous challenge as you progress.

  • > Return: Summon a portal to head back home. You can also use return from the portal room, summoning a portal to your last known location—useful if you need to sell unwanted loot and manage your equipment, keeping in mind that backpack space is limited.

The Player Shop

  • > List (or List weapons/armour/jewellery): Browse available items.
  • > Sell <item name>: Convert unwanted items into gold coins.
  • > Buy <item name> or quick code (e.g., UY): Purchase new equipment or gear enhancements.

Enhancing Maps with Ancient Waystones

Ancient Waystones drop from monsters and offer unique enhancements:

  • Activate <waystone>: Use these special items in the portal room to boost your next map. Benefits include:
    • Increasing the level of monsters.
    • Raising the appearance rate of rare monsters.
    • Enhancing experience gains.
    • Improving loot drop chances.

Additional Commands

Viewing Your Character Details

  • > Score: Check your level, stats, and other key details about your character's progression.

Storage Solutions

  • > Storage: List items saved in your storage chest.
  • > Deposit <item name>: Store an item.
  • > Retrieve <item name>: Fetch an item when needed.

Inspecting Your Surroundings

  • > Look <item name> / <player name> / <monster name>: Get visual descriptions and further details about objects, players, or creatures.

Tidying Up: Handling Unwanted Items

  • > Bury <item name> / All: Permanently set aside unwanted items.
  • > Digup/Recover <item name> / All: Retrieve previously buried items if you change your mind.

Embrace the ever-evolving world of Enarian. Each play session promises fresh challenges and the thrill of crafting your own unique adventure. Prepare, explore, and conquer—your epic journey awaits!