History VideoGame / DragonNest

** Put a few Swordsmen that [[SpamAttack spam]] Cyclone Slash on the same PvP team, and watch the opposition get juggled into the air for half their HitPoints. It's no wonder Swordsmen are at the top of the Pvp CharacterTiers list.

* EscortMission: The Cleric's advancement to either a Paladin or Priest involves him going through a dungeon protecting a [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Poochum]] which represents his faith. Said [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Poochum]] is also extremely fragile, requiring constant attention. Also, the PvP mode Protect has one person on your team be designated as your team Captain. Your team loses if your Captain is killed. Everyone who isn't the Captain will respawn after a few seconds if killed. Unlike the Cleric's escort mission, the team captain has a massive health buff.

* FriendlyFireProof: Averted with the Ogres, where then can end up bashing their own Mooks around. Played straight with the character classes in dungeons and with your teammates in PvP. Otherwise, players would probably end up causing more damage to their own team than to the opponents'.

** At one point, every version had a different weapon proc-related bug that was known as Damage Transfer. Imagine a OneThousandNeedles sort of attack being launched. Now, quickly activate another far more powerful skill before your previous attack hits. When your first attack does finally hit and your weapon proc is triggered, the attack power of your second attack is transferred to the first attack, causing a single hit in that attack to inflict upwards of ''10x more damage'' than it was supposed to. Some attacks had the transfer bug work for multiple hits as opposed to only one. It was so game-breaking that bosses died much faster than intended, and some players began to take advantage of this bug against other players in Ladder PvP. It has been fixed as of early 2013.

* RazorWind: The swordsman has a skill that summons a hurricane... that is [[GameBreaker very, very painful]] in PvP. Though, it only does a few hundred damage each hit, turning hurricanes into a DeathOfAThousandCuts. It also juggles the [[CycleOfHurting targets continuously]] until it disappears. So put a few hurricane happy swordsmen together and the enemy team would probably RageQuit after a few matches.
* RecoveryAttack: All of the classes have different attacks when knocked to the ground. The Archer performs a spinning kick, the Warrior performs a quick slash, the cleric performs a GroundPound and the Sorceress fires a blast of magic. However, these attacks are often too slow in PvP, meaning the best way to escape from an attack is to roll away. Your character will eventually get to their feet if on the ground for a few moments.

* YouGetKnockedDownYouGetBackUpAgain: Averted. Both players in PvP and monsters in [[PlayerVersusEnvironment PvE]] ''will'' [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown attack your player if knocked down]]. This also leads to a CycleOfHurting as your character is never given the time to get back on their feet, due to a brief delay after every attack before your character can roll or perform a RecoveryAttack.

** After you kill his pet spider, the first boss of Volcano Nest yells "[[TheLordOfTheRings You shall not pass!]]"

** The Warrior is a melee DPS character who wields two-handed weapons. Can choose between a [[{{BFS}} Sword]] (fast but weak), a [[DropTheHammer Hammer]] (slow but powerful) and an [[AnAxeToGrind Axe]] (an average between the two). He can advance into a Swordsman or Mercenary. Advanced classes are the [[MasterSwordsman Sword Master]], who [[CaptainObvious uses swords exclusively]] and can pull off [[SwordBeam ranged energy attacks]] while rewarding a player skilled enough to get in close with short {{Cooldown}}s for improved combo ability, and the Mercenary, a [[MightyGlacier scrapper]] [[ShockwaveStomp type]] [[MakeMeWannaShout fighter]] who uses heavy blows to plow through enemies and gets stronger the more damage he takes.

** The Sorceress has one too in the form of the Elestra's Icy Shard EX (Freezing Sword EX in at least one of the versions) which creates a bunch of [[CaptainObvious frozen swords]] from the ground, ending with a huge BFS.

''[[https://us.dragonnest.com Dragon Nest]]'' is a free-to-play MMORPG developed and published by Eyedentity Games. In ''Dragon Nest'', players pick one of nine classes (which can specialize at higher levels) and fight through hordes of standard and not-so-standard fantasy nasties in a cutesy, SuperDeformed world. The game has an AlwaysOverTheShoulder camera (with the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' angle more akin to [=MMO=] fighters like ''VideoGame/S4League'' rather than the traditional position in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' -- era {{MMORPG}}s) and plays like a ThirdPersonShooter with a focus on short-to-middle-range combat and melee.

''[[http://dragonnest.com Dragon Nest]]'' is a free-to-play MMORPG developed and published by Eyedentity Games. In ''Dragon Nest'', players pick one of nine classes (which can specialize at higher levels) and fight through hordes of standard and not-so-standard fantasy nasties in a cutesy, SuperDeformed world. The game has an AlwaysOverTheShoulder camera (with the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' angle more akin to [=MMO=] fighters like ''VideoGame/S4League'' rather than the traditional position in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' -- era {{MMORPG}}s) and plays like a ThirdPersonShooter with a focus on short-to-middle-range combat and melee.

* PainfullySlowProjectile: The Priests' grand cross. It's so slow that you can simply outrun it. Just make sure you don't get hit with one. It hurts. A lot. Though, it's slow speed is somewhat offset with its huge projectile size.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Well, yeah. Various dragons played major roles in both past event and the story itself. Some of them are outright villainous who appeared in raid [[TitleDrop Dragon Nests]] while others disguised as humanoid NPCs.

** The Red Dragon the fifth raid boss, is the [[spoiler:other half of Feder who returned after his defeat as the Black Dragon. Its other half remain on the original Red Dragon, Rubinart who appeared as a recurring [[=NPC=]] in the Monolith story arc.]]

* MultiMookMelee: Gobarta has you fighting, well, ThreeHundred goblins.

** Do not forget the ThreeHundred Sparta Goblins! There are Persian Goblins as well. The player fights both sides and their leaders -- which fittingly enough happens in a carnival attraction -- and the quest dialog dismisses the lot of them as raving lunatics.

** You can get mail from an [[SuperMario unknown plumber with an Italian (typing) accent]], asking why you're chopping up the mushrooms he needs to get "[[PowerUp big and-a strong]]".

Combat is similar to the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' series, where even normal attacks will (barring glitches or lag) hit everything the animation connects with and enemy attacks can be dodged on sight. Skills are huge, devastating and gorgeously animated especially for the spellcasting classes. Despite all the power at the players' disposal caution is still necessary as ''all'' enemies have at least one attack than can stagger or launch the PlayerCharacter and even {{Mooks}} have a nasty habit of [[GangUpOnTheHuman cooperating to juggle or 'stun-lock' the player to death.]] Most bosses are usually much larger than the {{Player Character}}s, much more resistant to interruption and have proportionally more massive attacks. They also have a horrifying tendency to show up in the same capacity as a DegradedBoss later on -- only ''without'' the degradation!

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The standard Nexon formula of fancy costumes that give extra stat bonuses. As with other Nexon [=MMO=]s the perks have been growing with each update but the game's demanding mechanics require skill from even the most monumentally geared players.

* CriticalHit: There's a stat to increase chances of this, then there are sharpshooter skills that give either double the critical chance.... or give a ''[[OhCrap 100% chance]]'' of critical hits for 13 seconds... and also juggles the target(s) [[CycleOfHurting with each shot.]] And then there's the sharpshooter skill that increases the whole party's critical by ''600 percent'' for a few seconds. OhCrap indeed...

** At the end of the level 32 to 40 main questline, your character will grab a heavy metal pole and swing it wildly [[spoiler: at the Sea Dragon's mouth to free Gerrant.]] Fine if you are a Warrior or Cleric, but watching a [[SquishyWizard weak Sorceress]] or [[GlassCannon Archer]] do it? Wow.

** The Engineer gets two skills; Make it rain, which a bomb is thrown into the air and the explosions rains missiles, and Chemical Missile, which is what the name implies.

* BigBadWannabe: Elena the Dark Elf Queen attacks Carderock Pass at least two times with an army of monsters, and seems to consider herself TheRival to [[ActionGirl Argenta]]. Ironically, she considers Elena little more than a nuisance. To put things in perspective, the (presumably) true BigBad has administered several {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s to both Argenta and the player character, while Elena is ultimately defeated by a [[spoiler:hobgoblin and a poochum after he mutates the former's family]].

''[[http://dragonnest.com]]'' is a free-to-play MMORPG developed and published by Eyedentity Games. In ''Dragon Nest'', players pick one of nine classes (which can specialize at higher levels) and fight through hordes of standard and not-so-standard fantasy nasties in a cutesy, SuperDeformed world. The game has an AlwaysOverTheShoulder camera (with the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' angle more akin to [=MMO=] fighters like ''VideoGame/S4League'' rather than the traditional position in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' -- era {{MMORPG}}s) and plays like a ThirdPersonShooter with a focus on short-to-middle-range combat and melee.

''[[http://dragonnest.nexon.net/ Dragon Nest]]'' is a free-to-play MMORPG by Eyedentity Games and published by {{Creator/Nexon}}. In ''Dragon Nest'', players pick one of nine classes (which can specialize at higher levels) and fight through hordes of standard and not-so-standard fantasy nasties in a cutesy, SuperDeformed world. The game has an AlwaysOverTheShoulder camera (with the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' angle more akin to [=MMO=] fighters like ''VideoGame/S4League'' rather than the traditional position in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' -- era {{MMORPG}}s) and plays like a ThirdPersonShooter with a focus on short-to-middle-range combat and melee.

On September 28, 2016, Nexon will no longer publish the NA server of Dragon Nest, instead handing control over to Eyedentity, the developers themselves.

[[caption-width-right:240:The four starting classes. From left to right: The Cleric, the Warrior, The Sorceress, and the Archer. The Tinkerer, the Kali, the Assassin, the Lencea, and the Machina do not appear.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: There are quite a ''lot'' of {{NPC}}s who are rude and unpleasant to the player character, (mainly all of the Sorceresses, except for [[NiceGirl Stella (though she's a downplayed example) and Tara]]) and most of them [[UngratefulBastard aren't too grateful for you helping them.]]
** One of the airship ticket handlers, Sorenne, is ''very'' unpleasant to everyone she meets. Justified, however, as she's poor and she needs the money for her family, but they no longer let her charge for tickets.

** One of the quests is called [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} Ghosts]]: [[Series/{{Mythbusters}} Busted]].

[[caption-width-right:240:The four starting classes. From left to right: The Cleric, the Warrior, The Sorceress, and the Archer. The Tinkerer, the Kali, the Assassin, and the Lencea do not appear.]]

''[[http://dragonnest.nexon.net/ Dragon Nest]]'' is a free-to-play MMORPG by Eyedentity Games and published by {{Creator/Nexon}}. In ''Dragon Nest'', players pick one of eight classes (which can specialize at higher levels) and fight through hordes of standard and not-so-standard fantasy nasties in a cutesy, SuperDeformed world. The game has an AlwaysOverTheShoulder camera (with the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' angle more akin to [=MMO=] fighters like ''VideoGame/S4League'' rather than the traditional position in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' -- era {{MMORPG}}s) and plays like a ThirdPersonShooter with a focus on short-to-middle-range combat and melee.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: If you try to pick something up as a ghost, you'll be given an animation of your ghost attempting to pick it up, with his/her arms' going through the object in question. This continues until you move or revive.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Mostly played straight, especially with the four original base classes (Warrior, Archer, Sorceress, Cleric). The Warrior, Cleric, and Assassin are the male melee fighters, and the Archer, Sorceress, and Tinkerer are the female ranged attackers. Their later-earned specialized classes allow this to be averted somewhat. On the flip side, the Kali is a female hybrid of melee and ranged combat, while the other female class, the Lencea, is a spear-wielding melee specialist.

* HeyItsThatVoice: An impressive gathering of well-known anime voice talent was obtained for a lot of the [=NPCs=]. For example, May can't be anyone but [[Manga/TsubasaChronicle Sakura]] unless that VA is a damn good impressionist.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://www.dragonnestwiki.com As with most video games.]] It's pretty small at this point, feel free to help out! Another can be found [[http://dnarmory.com/ here]].

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Mostly played straight. The Warrior and Cleric are the male melee fighters, and the Archer and Sorceress are the female ranged attackers. Later on, though, specialized classes allow this to be averted somewhat.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: If you try to pick something up as a ghost, you'll be given an animation of your ghost attempting to pick it up, with his/her arms' going through the object in question. This continues until you move or revive.

* LadyInRed: Argenta. Amusingly, one of the [=GMs=] in the NA version was dared to go through a day at work [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDHDVQSJvzE dressed up as her.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: There are quite a ''lot'' of {{NPC}}s who are rude and unpleasant to the player character, (mainly all of the Sorceresses, except for [[NiceGirl Stella and Tara]]) and most of them [[UngratefulBastard aren't too grateful for you helping them.]]

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Played straight. Players and monsters alike will continue attacking your character when knocked down. All of the classes even get attacks that are made to perform this. The Warrior performs an elbow drop, the Cleric stomps twice and kicks the target away, the Archer performs a spin kick that is capable of chaining into another kick, the Sorceress simply stomps on the target several times, the Academic [[SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass whips out an oversized magnifying glass to burn the monster]], the Kali does a backflip kick, and the Assassin repeatedly stabs the enemy on the ground.

* DisappearedDad: The Warrior PC's father, Lambert.

* ShockandAwe: The priest class can specialize in lightning and electrocution based attacks such as ChainLighting to even summoning an actual lightning bolt to fry enemies in front of you

* AbsoluteCleavage: Every single Sorceress, as well as all Dark Elves.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Velskud/The Black Knight was one of the six heroes who defeated the Black Dragon 50 years ago, and then took the Dragon's lustre for its power and is now the new Black Dragon.]]
** [[spoiler:And according to the Tinkerer storyline, he makes a HeelFaceTurn at some point in the next 50 years.]]

* FlashStep: The Sorceress Class's Blink spell, but the Force User Class takes this UpToEleven with her [[TeleportersAndTransporters Teleport]] spell which is reminiscent of the {{Doraemon}} Anywhere Door.