Crafting a Dekonstruer 3

The game that I'll do my final Dekonstruer on is a game that has been released for quite awhile and during it's release it was an uncommon game during its time. It is an Action MMORPG that goes by the name Vindictus. Most MMORPGs (at least what I've played) had the same play style where you click on an enemy any just spam the skill buttons on your keyboard, which I got really bored of and almost every MMORPG was like this until I started to play Vindictus which combines a regular MMORPG with action hack and slash elements. Just by making it hack and slash kept me playing the game for many years.

Objectives and Goals
Just like most MMOs the main objective is to complete the main quest and progress through the story line. In Vindictus, players can set their own objectives within the game such as crafting a set of high level gear, or becoming the strongest player in PvP, or be part of the most dominating guild in the game. The game is still active, so every few months a new "chapter" for their story is release and along with that comes new content and features. This gives the players more objectives to complete if they so wish to do so.

Characters
There are currently six characters the player can choose at the beginning of the game. Some characters have unique play styles and every character has 2 weapons that can alternate their play styles. Even though there are classes such as a mage or warrior class, Vindictus doesn't name their characters this way. The class names are their character names and each character has their own back story.

Lann - A dual wield class that can use either two sword, or two spears. The difference between the weapons is that swords offer more survivalbility (they have a mechanic called invincibility frame that will be explained later) because they are more mobile, and spears deal a lot more damage but has a higher risk of taking damage.
Fiona - A defender class that uses a shield in one hand, and either a sword or hammer in the other hand. When using a sword they are quicker with their attacks, and with a hammer, their attacks are much more powerful but lack the speed that a sword has.
Evie - A mage class that uses either a staff or a scythe. When using a staff, Evie has the lowest survivalbility and mobility, compared to the other classes, but she can cast powerful spells from a distance as well as the provide crowd control abilities such as freezing enemies and she is the only class that can heal other players. When using a scythe, she is much more mobile because she gains the ability to blink. She can no longer use any of her spells but she becomes a melee fighter when using a scythe.
Karok - Another defender or tank class that uses either a giant pillar to fight or a claw arm called a Cestus. Using a pillar has more damage than using a Cestus, but a cestus is much quicker but also gives Karok the ability to use some ranged attacks when fighting.
Kai - A archer class that uses a bow or a crossgun (combination of a crossbow and assault rifle). A bow provides more utility by giving the player the ability to knock back enemies even bosses. Crossgun has a ammo system and has less range than the bow but deals a lot more damage over time.
Vella - Vella is similar to a Lann because shes a female dual wielder. She either uses dual swords or dual chain blades. Swords have a longer combo chain and is more mobile. Chain blades are mid ranged Chakrams that can be thrown at enemies can can be used as a grappling hook. They can pull non boss monster to the player, or pull the player towards the enemy.

Mechanics
Vindictus' main mechanic is their invincibility frame which is that when a character does a certain action, they take no damage for a short amount of time. This creates a skill cap where players utilize this feature to avoid enemy attacks. Why this doesn't make the game unbalanced is because most of the bosses have a large hit box range and as a melee character, players will just take to much damage without being able to dodge the attacks. Invincibility frames are really quick as well. The longest invincibility frames are from sword Lanns and sword Vellas with a 0.5 seconds invincibility frame, the the shortest is 0.2 seconds from spear Lanns and Fionas.
Vindictus is an instance base game which means that there is no open world, instead players can queue up with each other on the boat (a lobby for the instance) or in town. In these instances, maps are either linear or semi-linear. Linear maps generally have a single boss a player can fight whereas semi-linear instances can have multiple bosses in certain areas of the level.

Crafting
Vindictus has its own crafting system that the player can use to make equipment. The crafting system in broken into 5 categories.

Armoursmithing - Players can craft light and heavy armours
Platesmithing - Players can craft shields and plate armours
Weaponsmithing - Players can craft swords, hammers, pillars, cestus' and chain blades
Tailoring - Players can craft cloth armour
Goldsmithing - Players can craft accessories, staves, scythes, bows and crossguns

A player can choose to specialize into one of these categories. As they level up their crafting level they can make higher level equipment.

Resources
Like in most games, the main resource in Vindictus is money. Money is a valuable resource that is used to purchase items from NPCs, other players use for certain crafting, opening guilds and repairing equipment. Money is the only way to obtain items from other players, since Vindictus has no player to player trading system. Players put their items they wish to sell on a market place and other players purchases it. Money isn't the only resource in the game, there are materials that can only be obtained through combat. Certain bosses drop certain materials that can be used to craft or upgrade equipment.

Combat

Even though there is a PvP element to the game, Vindictus is more a PvE game where players would team up together to take down a large and powerful boss monster. The game was design initially as PvE so that is pretty balanced, but in PvP there are certain characters that are stronger than other characters making some people avoid PvP all together. In the PvE aspects of the game, players must fight through a bunch of enemies to make it to the boss map, where they will have to fight the boss. Pretty simple and straight forward. There are some maps where the players are given extra weaponry such as the ballista, a giant crossbow turret that can to lock down bosses from moving. This makes fighting a lot easier and also requires teamwork and team coordination to effectively do.