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Dofus News - A Newbie's Look at Dofus
Posted by Jon Wood on Aug 11, 2009 | 4 comments in our forums
MMORPG.com Correspondent Cindy George writes this look at Ankama's Dofus through the eyes of a new player.
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The suggestion to try a game called "Dofus" arrived in my inbox after exclaiming how bored I was.
Dofus?
What the heck is Dofus?
A quick click on the link took me to a page where quite honestly, my first reaction was a snarky smirk and a little scoff. Needless to say I have not held a fascination with online games, nor have I had the attention span to successfully delve into this popular pastime.
I was intrigued by the seemingly odd pairing of a game and a cartoon. With a half piqued interest, I signed up. The painless process directed me to pick a character class, those which have such varied specificities that it took a bit of additional research to understand exactly what I was choosing. However being a girl, I was tempted to pick something cute, damn that gender influence. After much deliberation and reading, I selected the Eniripsa class. Humor struck me when I realized that these guys are the "healers" within the game, and as I have noticed within Dofus, there was a sense of humor behind their name. Eniripsa, is aspirine backwards, the French spelling for aspirin, the pain reliever. The humor was not lost on me, and as I go through the worlds of Dofus, so many glaringly amusing jokes come to light. This is just one of the many reasons Dofus has endeared itself so strongly to me.
Great write up! Dofus is a really interesting experience. Just a FYI if you didn't know there is a sequel in the works called Wakfu with the same classes, but upgraded graphics, and so far it is very sandboxey with no npc's besides creatures. There is also a French cartoon, a Xbox 360 game, and a card game that coincides with Wakfu. Wakfu takes place 1000 years after Dofus.
The coolest thing is they are taking the graphics engine developed for Wakfu and applying it to Dofus which is Dofus 2.0 and it is about to be shown off Aug. 20-23rd. It will be a pretty big upgrade to Dofus!
www.wakfu.com/en
www.youtube.com/watch
Also the french version (with a lot of English) is in open beta and can be downloaded and played by clicking Telecharger on the link below and registering an account at the previous english link.
www.wakfu.com/fr/telecharger
Thanks for this, I haven't played Dofus yet but I've had my eye on it and Wakfu for a while now. Should be a lot of fun!
Dofus was my first MMO and I played it pretty intensely for a few months. It's like a cross between anime and Alice in Wonderland. After playing other MMOs, I can look back at Dofus and realize how solidly and creatively it is put together. The economy is good too, almost everything that is looted is needed by some player, for a recipe or a quest. This makes for a dynamic auctionhouse, and you could earn good kama by buying low and selling high, once you learn what items sell for. I like turn-based combat but I'm afraid that that is also one of the things that I grew tired of, since it makes for a more tedius grinding process. But every now and then some quirky aspect of the game comes back to me, and I feel nostalgic for it....
I really ejnoy playing Dofus,although Ive only been at it for a bit now. After several years of WOW and FFXI I was ready for a break and Dofus has beenjust the thing. I was wondering if anyone new of a site that might offer some help on finding npc and just general gameplay?