Creatures

Creatures

The Time of dumb beasts is over. Age and experience have made the creatures of Dura more cunning and more vile. Years have taught them new ways of shield and steel, fortification and destruction. They have learned from each other, some banding together. Never more deadly -- a new hero is needed.

Our Monster System is one of our most core and central Changes. The monsters of Dura are far more sophisticated and threatening. Each given monster, upon spawn, draws at random from a ranged pool of stats and abilities pre-set for that Creature. This means that each individual fight or confrontation will be different and unpredictable, and thus challenging, meaning fun. However we've done more than just that, we've also slightly altered the spawns to make them more varied and 'multi-colored' engendering a many-headed challenge. In a phrase you'll never ever really know what's around the corner. Our goal was to push the game away from the mastered mechanics and knowledge bases we all completed long ago, the spirit-crushing and mind-numbing grinding, to something that constantly demands you to think on your feet, employ circumstantial strategy, and tests your talents -- all using native 7.4 knowledge and skills. So spawns (types of monsters in a given area) themselves will be different, but then so will the monsters themselves who inhabit them; in the hope of multi-layered unpredictability, and that doesn't include the other parts of the Monster System we cannot reveal due to spoiling the gameplay experience (what we can say is a spawn may be different from one day or hour to the next). But please don't think we became carried away.

The Monster System, as with all of Dura itself, keeps the game in the 7.4 Spirit and Atmosphere: In explanation the spawns do not differ in essence from what you expect -- not just by Power-Level but also Aesthetic; and the monsters themselves, their abilities and stats are in keeping with what their core characteristics are. We've woven and layered nuanced changes but in terms of feel, which we strove very hard never to depart from, it's just as any other time you've entered a Dungeon in 7.4.

Elite Monsters

• In Rare instances a monster instead of spawning normally will spawn an Elite Version of itself. A much greater rate of HP, EXP, and Loot; and it is possible other differences as well.


• In Semi-Rare instances, when you are in a Party, instead of spawning normally a monster will also spawn an Elite Version of itself. It also will have a greater rate of HP, EXP, Loot and other differences possibly.


• In Extremely Rare instances a monster, if one is in a party both Elite-Versions will combine to form an incredibly powerful version of itself with equally good rewards.

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Beholders

Beholders are members of an ancient race that once ruled vast parts of the world. The days of this ancient glory are long gone but unlike other races of the past, the Beholders managed to survive the decline of their power. Parts of their former power exist along with small groups or loners who took refuge in some ruins or caves. Some reluctantly allied themselves with other races or enslaved weaker creatures to do their bidding. Using bribes or threats, some overlords managed to hire Beholders into their rank. Such 'labour contracts' are only temporary at best and chances are that a Beholder is more concerned about plotting revenge or betrayal on its 'master' than to do his bidding.
Beholders are accomplished magicians of great intellect. The latter is rather alien to human standards and it is not easy to understand a Beholder's motivations and philosophy. With their natural affinity to the necromantic arts, the Beholders still claim some areas of land as their own and guard them with the help of their undead minions. They are hostile to most other races which they consider as upstarts and primitive. They fiercely defend their realms or places they claim for their own, and their interest in fresh corpses for their necromantic studies makes them a threat for each human community. Since their population grows only slowly, they envy and hate the more fertile races which, in their eyes, stole the power that rightfully belonged to the Beholders. Seeing themselves as a superior 'conqueror race', they gather their undead forces and pursue their studies aiming at the day on which they will raise an unstoppable army of powerful undead creatures to lead them to another war to conquer the world.

Beholders have 260 hitpoints and yield 170 experience points. They carry books where they keep their incantations, as well as some stolen weaponry.

A player becomes overexperienced battling this creature at level 95.
Legendary items will consider this foe worthy if the player wielding them is under level 37.
Slaying this creature is heroic until a player has reached level 33.