Iris
The World

Features

What makes Iris: The World unique.

I

Tarot

  • ✦A deck of 22 Major and 56 Minor Arcana.
  • ✦Open a tarot fortune-telling stall (/fortune) to read other players' fortunes and grant them status effects based on the reading.
  • ✦Cards power monster transformation, change your character's size and enhance items.
  • ✦Equip cards in special card slots (/install) — different arrangements grant different powers.
II

Monster Transformation

  • ✦Transformation cards come from monster drops or NPC shops.
  • ✦Take on the monster's movement and attack speed, with 3 of its skills on keys 1–3.
  • ✦Keep your own stats plus the transformation's bonus effects.
  • ✦You can still trade and run stalls while transformed.
III

Theme Dungeons

  • ✦Instanced dungeons that begin and end with a tarot card.
  • ✦Tougher, smarter monsters and bosses.
  • ✦Rare rewards found nowhere else.
IV

Deathmatch PvP

  • ✦Survival and Capture the Flag battlefields.
  • ✦Win or lose, earn battlefield points, NPC affinity, EXP and SXP (skill experience).
  • ✦Spend battlefield points at the battlefield vendor on equipment and recipes.

Game systems

Enhancement & Disassembly

Enhance gear with the matching enhancement card (/enhance). Success is chance-based, and a failure can lower the level or break the item; high levels add visual effects. Disassemble gear at Dick Beyakaf in Terminus for other materials.

Titles

Earned as proof items from monsters, quests or gathering, and managed in the title window (/title).

Duels

Right-click a player or type /duel name. Both HP/MP bars enlarge on screen, and the winner and loser get different buffs.

Mounts

Found in shops, quests or monster drops. Mounts give faster movement and extra effects — double-click to ride.

Social systems

Guilds

Founded at Chester Douglas in Terminus (level 10+ and 10,000 gold). Ranks, invites and a custom 24×24 emblem via mark.bmp in the GuildMark folder.

Trading

Trade directly with other players using /trade.

Personal Shops

Open your own stall with /stall.

Sales Agent

The auction house at Camos Odin in Terminus. Search by keyword, level, enhancement and type; proceeds arrive by mail.

Mail

Send mail with attachments, kept for 14 days.

Friends

Keep a friends list to invite to parties and whisper.