New features in Ultima Online: Age of Shadows include:
- The Paladin profession: The Paladin is a holy warrior who uses magic to aid fellow adventurers and fight against evil. This magic can heal wounds, cure disease, reverse poisonous affects, lift curses, and increase fighting prowess. Paladins can invoke powers in the heat of battle, even while carrying sword and shield.
- Paladins also have:
- 10 Paladin abilities
- The chivalry skill
- Tithing points
- The Book of Chivalry
- The Necromancer profession: The Necromancer is an evil magician who gains control over the dead. He can summon pain, pestilence, cold, and vile curses to kill hapless foes-only to animate their lifeless corpses into horrifying undead that attack any creature, dead or alive. The Necromancer does not stop with raising the dead, for he can transform himself into some of these forms, gaining both their powers and weaknesses.
- Necromancer attributes include:
- 16 evil spells
- 4 creature forms to assume
- Summon 5 different familiars
- Enhanced New Player Quests for the Necromancer and Paladin
- Customized House Design Tool (More Info)
- Place custom floors, walls, windows, stairs and other features wherever you like
- Over 1000 house design tiles to choose from
- Magic Item System
- New magic properties can be arranged in different combinations and intensities on items to produce a near infinite variety of new magic items.
- 13 New Combat Attack Moves
- New 3D Avatar and Wearable Art
- Interface Enhancements
- Floating damage numbers
- Enhanced tool tips
- 3D Graphic Enhancements: Weapon trails, environments effect, advanced visual queues
- New Landmass - Malas
- Largest land expansion in UO
- Space for an additional 40,000 house (across all shards)
- Over 40 Points of Interest
- New Dungeon - Doom
- The biggest dungeon in UO
- New rare items spawning system
- 20 New Monsters for both 2D and 3D Clients
- 3 new boss-type monsters
- Battle Focus Skill:
- Regenerate stamina and Mana more quickly than normal during battle
- 10 New Weapons