I really like the openness of Ryzom (there are no classes) so all restrictions stem from your individual choices.
If I want to play a barbaric fighter I'd chose to play a Fyros and level only Fist fight and maces of all kinds.
For a hunter it could be any race but most likely spear or pike would be skills to be leveled and of course the art of creating light armor and the needed weapons - maybe level some ranged fight and build bow pistols or rifles.
So you just have to define what makes out the "class" you want to play and act in accordance to it.
You could even try to only become an artisan of a specific kind - this will be hard though as a normal artisan will neither be skilled in fight nor in magic - so you'll need protection and help from others to gather the materials needed for your craftsmanship - this will also involve the personal skills which can't be seen by stats directly and only on the goods you create like sneaking and testing and finding different recipes.
An other part of Ryzom is the feeling of the landscape - it has a huge impact when you watch the Gingos hunting and killing a Yubo or the Bodocs moving from the food spot to the sleeping spot depending on the time. Or just watching the sky change with the weather and time is really calming as well.
All these things led to the rich RP we've got here - it's not about getting this or that specific skill to get that item which is uber. Here you can be well known all over the place even if you're just level 1 in close to everything - you just have to give the people a reason to like or hate you. You may be a bandit that's ravaging everything he can. Or a crafter who's very skilled or even just a bard trekking through the cities and telling awesome stories. It's YOUR choice. (or mine in my case)
I decided in the beginning that I'd play a Fyros and only use Fyros things (or ones that are race independent) so I've never learned how to craft Matis, Tryker or Zorai Armour but can build all kinds of Fyros Armor; the same goes for magic - I've never learned the shockwave, poison or electro spells - only fire. That's the case even though I've got more than enough skill point to learn the respective skills.
On an other hand I've collected all the parts of bosses and nameds I could get my hands on so I've got at least one part of every part I ever got from slaying bosses and nameds in my apartment (having all those eyes, bones, ligaments, ... lying around in your real apartment would seem really sic wouldn't it? But here it's totally fine it's just like collecting stamps or something like that. (In secret I'd really like to see those things in the apartment instead of just in the inventory - but at the same time I fear that thought as it would be a very disgusting outlook on all those eyes I've got in there)
And as I'm playing a Fyros I'm really used to the heat in the desert so I'm not really "feeling" well if I go to those "icy" other regions on the surface - especially when it's winter. In addition to that I decided to become a Fyros-Patriot so "I" don't really like the Matis that's why I'm avoiding their country as much as possible. (privately I'm friends with Matis as well but my character is not - even though the game mechanics wouldn't hinder me in going against my characters believes I'm still acting grumpy, sometimes even aggressive, when talking to a Matis in public - while having fun in tell with him or her)
Oops I drifted around a bit while writing here - hope you don't mind.
If I want to play a barbaric fighter I'd chose to play a Fyros and level only Fist fight and maces of all kinds.
For a hunter it could be any race but most likely spear or pike would be skills to be leveled and of course the art of creating light armor and the needed weapons - maybe level some ranged fight and build bow pistols or rifles.
So you just have to define what makes out the "class" you want to play and act in accordance to it.
You could even try to only become an artisan of a specific kind - this will be hard though as a normal artisan will neither be skilled in fight nor in magic - so you'll need protection and help from others to gather the materials needed for your craftsmanship - this will also involve the personal skills which can't be seen by stats directly and only on the goods you create like sneaking and testing and finding different recipes.
An other part of Ryzom is the feeling of the landscape - it has a huge impact when you watch the Gingos hunting and killing a Yubo or the Bodocs moving from the food spot to the sleeping spot depending on the time. Or just watching the sky change with the weather and time is really calming as well.
All these things led to the rich RP we've got here - it's not about getting this or that specific skill to get that item which is uber. Here you can be well known all over the place even if you're just level 1 in close to everything - you just have to give the people a reason to like or hate you. You may be a bandit that's ravaging everything he can. Or a crafter who's very skilled or even just a bard trekking through the cities and telling awesome stories. It's YOUR choice. (or mine in my case)
I decided in the beginning that I'd play a Fyros and only use Fyros things (or ones that are race independent) so I've never learned how to craft Matis, Tryker or Zorai Armour but can build all kinds of Fyros Armor; the same goes for magic - I've never learned the shockwave, poison or electro spells - only fire. That's the case even though I've got more than enough skill point to learn the respective skills.
On an other hand I've collected all the parts of bosses and nameds I could get my hands on so I've got at least one part of every part I ever got from slaying bosses and nameds in my apartment (having all those eyes, bones, ligaments, ... lying around in your real apartment would seem really sic wouldn't it? But here it's totally fine it's just like collecting stamps or something like that. (In secret I'd really like to see those things in the apartment instead of just in the inventory - but at the same time I fear that thought as it would be a very disgusting outlook on all those eyes I've got in there)
And as I'm playing a Fyros I'm really used to the heat in the desert so I'm not really "feeling" well if I go to those "icy" other regions on the surface - especially when it's winter. In addition to that I decided to become a Fyros-Patriot so "I" don't really like the Matis that's why I'm avoiding their country as much as possible. (privately I'm friends with Matis as well but my character is not - even though the game mechanics wouldn't hinder me in going against my characters believes I'm still acting grumpy, sometimes even aggressive, when talking to a Matis in public - while having fun in tell with him or her)
Oops I drifted around a bit while writing here - hope you don't mind.
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