Fung Wan Online was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

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 based on the Chinese comic

Manhua

Manhua are Chinese comics originally produced in China. Possibly due to their greater degree of artistic freedom of expression and closer international ties with Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been the places of publication of most manhua thus far, often including Chinese translations of...

 Fung Wan

Fung Wan

Fung Wan is a Hong Kong wuxia manhua series. It is the first manhua released by Ma Wing-shing in 1989 with the help of his assistant Siu Kit under his own company, Jonesky Publishing. The title translates to "Wind and Cloud"...

, also known as The Storm Riders

The Storm Riders

The Storm Riders is a 1998 Hong Kong film based on the manhua series Fung Wan by artist Ma Wing-shing. Directed by Andrew Lau, it starred Ekin Cheng as Wind and Aaron Kwok as Cloud. The plot involves two children, Whispering Wind and Striding Cloud, who become powerful warriors under the evil Lord...

. It was developed by Phoenix Games Studio and was operated by CiB Net Station last, it is now defunct and ceases to operate. The game was available in a free version and a pay-to-play version. It is available in three languages: English, Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....

 and Malay

Malay language

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.

Stances

Fung Wan Online offers the player a choice between five character classes known as "Stances". Mixing of stances determines the strengths or weaknesses of a character.

Powers

FWO's powers are divided into several elements, consisting of lightning, fire, ice, poison and physical. Powers can be either offensive or defensive. Offensive powers inflict damage and debuffs while defensive powers heals or buffs. There are also powers that can affect more than one player at a time, commonly called area of effect powers

Area of effect

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 in the game. Some powers must be obtained through high level quests and are called Legendary Powers (LP). All powers require a sufficient amount of chi to perform.
There are chain powers for faster execution working both for buffs and offensive powers.

Skills

Skills allow the player to perform certain special actions. A skill can have a maximum rank of 100 and some require chi to be activated.

Clans

There are five clans

Clan (computer gaming)

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in the game that can be controlled by players. One clan can only have one clan leader, 10 clan ministers, 20 clan masters, 165 clan seniors and 5,302 clan members. Players holding a higher rank will receive more benefits depends on the nature of the clan and relics and towns that the clan possess. Members and seniors can receive additional minister buffs and/or leader buffs if the minister or leader is standing beside them.