HOPE SOCIETY PVE
Independent Community Server

 

Hello, God-SCAN here from HOPE Society:

 

I’d like to take a minute and talk about a new feature we are introducing into our world, Factions.

 

Factions

 

To begin, our players have a ton of really amazing ideas and feedback that help shape our world. We cherish the opportunity to recruit and team up with our players whom we call our, “Lore Masters”. Lore Masters help get involved in writing custom lore and development for our world. Currently we have (2) Lore Masters that we are extremely proud to work with.

 

On HOPE Society PVE Server, we recently teamed up with a player and helped realize an entire new race we call the Nightborn. We have custom built an entire village on the Isle of Spears in dedication to their origin story.

 

 

The Nightborn launch will allow players to collect lost magical energy, in the form of gems, that have been stolen or collected by the world’s inhabitants. Upon retrieving and collecting enough of these “Nightborn Gems” players will be able to trade them into the custom-made Nightborn merchants in the Nightborn Village.

 

The Nightborn offer a variety of beautiful and custom themed decorations, tools, armor, weapons, jewelry, mounts, recipes, and even custom housing blueprints!

 

 

The Nightborn are the first of (5) new Factions that we will be introducing into the HOPE Society world. Each Faction will specialize in a different crafting specialty and offer unique recipes, and decorations which will allow players to decorate like them and represent their favorite faction.

 

Each faction will have their own unique, custom currency players can collect and turn into their respective faction’s merchants for unique resources and rewards.

 

 

Factions will influence the world on a Global scale, potentially changing the landscape, invading towns, taking over dungeons, summoning world bosses, inventing new undiscovered recipes and more. These events will be Player-Driven Roleplaying Events where players are encouraged to put their role playing hat on, participate, and earn extra rewards for that faction’s story event.

 

We would like to invite you to come check out the HOPE Society PVE Community Server. We have a fast-growing population with tons of adventures waiting for you and new content being developed every single month!

 

Please check out our Nightborn Teaser Trailer here:

 

 

 

RULESET

Our Mission:

HOPE represents, “Helping Other People Everyday”.  This is the cornerstone of this server where players can connect, make friends, team up, and adventure together in the spirit of cooperation & teamwork.

 

HOPE Society is a Player vs. Environment world  (PVE):

The entire world is under a “protected-guard” status preventing players from performing negative actions against other players.  In short, players cannot be murdered or looted by other players anywhere under the world in typical circumstances.

 

Increased Danger:

Because the world is PVE, many additional monster spawns & creatures have been added throughout the world to make it feel more dangerous, but still making adventuring & exploration fun!​

 

Player vs. Player (PvP) Options:

There are still some instances of PVP available on the server which include:

  • Militia Faction PVP
  • Militia Regional Events
  • Guild Wars
  • Arena Combat​

 

Server World Chat:

To increase communication across the world, we built our own world chat and want players to be able to connect and team up even if they are in different guilds.

 

Character Skills & Stats

On the HOPE server, we strive to give players more choice & freedom to develop their characters.  Additionally, we want to create an environment where exploration and combat is not staggered by fear or failure.  As a result, we have empowered players with many different types of bonuses they can acquire so they can truly serve as the Hero’s of Celador.

 

Player Stat Maximums

  • Total stat maximum – 200
  • Single stat maximum – 60

 

Player Skill Maximums

Players can “Grand Master” in up to 10 skills per character.

  • Total Skill Maximum – 1000
  • Single Skill Maximum – 100

 

Static Weight Increase

  • Static weight increase + 200

 

Unique Armor Bonuses

On HOPE, our goal is to make different armor sets feel unique and give the player a distinct play style.  So we have created custom armor bonuses for each type of set.

 

Cloth Armor:

  • Provides a bonus to natural mana regeneration.

 

Light Armor:

  • Provides a bonuses to Attack Speed. This also compounds with Agility/Stamina attack speed bonuses.
  • Provides a static +5 overall defense bonus

 

Heavy Armor:

Provides a static +10 defense bonus

 

Enhanced Dungeons:

All dungeons have had dungeon bosses added which is recommended for a (5)-player team.  Also, each dungeon has (3) mini-bosses which are designed for the solo player.

 

Automatic loot distribution (everyone receives a loot box in their inventory)

  • +3 Dungeon Bosses each dungeon – (3-5) Man Team Recommended
  • +3 Mini Bosses – Soloable
  • Treasure Chest availability & Respawn
  • Additional spawns added into dungeons
  • Customized loot tables (more materials, more gold)
  • Enhanced AI – making dungeon monsters more dangerous
  • Size & color variations with select monster models

Armor crafting systems

On Hope we have deepen the range of how crafted gear works which includes adding magic gear crafting which provides +stat enhancements and a wider +defense range capability.

 

Magic Armor Crafting

We have designed (4) Tiers of armor throughout the world and have added dozens of magic-crafted items that come pre-enchanted.

  • T1 – Default Armor Crafting
  • T2 – Dungeon Gear
  • T3 – Magic Crafted Gear
  • T4 – Faction Gear

 

Armor crafting by Materials

Maximum Defense Bonus per material, Per Item:

  • +2 Defense – Iron
  • +3 Defense – Copper
  • +4 Defense – Gold
  • +5 Defense – Cobalt
  • +6 Defense – Obsidian

 

Armor Defense Bonus Maximum

  • +10 Defense – rare craft maximum Cap

 

​Jewelcrafting

That’s right!  We built it!  Use gems and rare ingredients to create magic and powerful jewelry!

  • Jewelcrafting is accessed through the Alchemy profession & alchemist’s table
  • Create magic necklaces
  • Create magic rings

 

 

Food & Cooking Benefits:

On HOPE, we have improved & enhanced the benefits provided by food and help players achieve difficult tasks early  & late into the game.  Food provides a 30 minute buff on the character that increases the following stats:

 

+ Maximum Health

  • Tier 1 – 35
  • Tier 2 – 75
  • Tier 3 – 100

 

+ Maximum Mana

  • Tier 1 – 24
  • Tier 2 – 35
  • Tier 3 – 50
  • Tier 4 – 100

 

+ Maximum Stamina

  • Tier 1 – 24
  • Tier 2 – 35
  • Tier 3 – 50
  • Tier 4 – 100

 

+ Maximum Weight

  • Tier 1 – 35
  • Tier 2 – 50
  • Tier 3 – 100

 

 

Treasure Hunting Systems

Treasure hunting is literally defines a segment of wilderness adventuring and exploration in our game.  We love treasure chests on Hope Society and the excitement of opening them.  We have made a significant effort to improve the treasure hunting experience.

 

Treasure Hunting

This system by default did not feel rewarding as we would have liked and was overly difficult for most players to solo.  We added our own touch to these systems:

  • Treasure chests only spawn (1) guardian instead of 3-4
  • (5) Different tiers of treasure chests
  • Treasure chest loot tables have been completely redesigned
  • Obtain lots of rare furniture items with each tier having it’s own theme of rare furniture.
  • Collect rare crafting ingredients
  • Collect and complete our new Inscription Lost Cache Maps
  • Lost Inscription Materials Cache
  • Lost Alchemy Materials Cache
  • Lost Magic Ingredients Cache

 

 Treasure Hunting Armor Sets

  • (T1) Treasure Hunter’s Armor Set & Cloak
  • (T2) Ranger’s Armor set & cloak
  • (T3) Crusader’s Armor set, cloak & hammer
  • (T4) Conjurer’s Armor set & cloak
  • Required Skill – Treasure Hunting
  • Required Tool – Shovel

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Sunken Treasure Hunting

A fan favorite ability to fish up sunken treasure chests from lakes & oceans.  We have redesigned the loot tables on each treasure chest to give each level of sunken chest its own theme.

  • Tier 1 – Carpenter’s Chest
  • Tier 2 – Blacksmith’s Chest
  • Tier 3 – Tailor’s Chest
  • Tier 4 – Alchemist & Scribe’s Chest
  • Tier 5 – Decorative Items, magic armor & Jewelry.
  • Required Skills – Fishing & Lockpicking
  • Required Tool – Fishing Pole & Lock Pick

 

Wilderness Locations & Lockpicking

Have you ever traveled to a camp full of bad guys and said, “Where is all the loot”!? Well its on HOPE server!

We want the world to feel open and interesting to explore, so we have added over 50 custom, discoverable locations with some nicely designed bad-guy camps for you!  We have also added treasure chests all over the world and to virtually every monster camp in each region.

  • Required Skill – Lockpicking
  • Required Tool – Lock Pick

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HOPE City

The HOPE Guild (Founding Server Guild) welcomes all players into it’s fold.  The guild has established a large player economy and town south of Eldier, near the city of trinit.  Members of the HOPE Guild are extremely proud to call this place home.  The admin team has created HOPE City as a core-destination on every Region Gate.

  • Excellent place for players to find important resources, armor, and merchant items.
  • City has direct access to the Celador gate network
  • HOPE City is the location of our Patreon Merchant Services NPC
  • Contains virtually every type of NPC in a small area that a player would need to interact with
  • Public portal house with portals to every city Bank & dungeon for quick travel to those locations
  • Specialized PVE Arena with non-aggressive monster spawns for weapon practice or combat leveling
  • City is surrounded with enemies and has it’s own bandit camp nearby

Do you have an event, story, community-run server, fan fiction, or community-related news that you’d like to see featured on our community page? Contact us at community@citadelstudios.net.