The immersive virtual world Godfall went live worldwide at the same time.
Of the twelve classes, eleven were so popular that players fought over them.
Shen Mo picked the last one: Shadowstrike.
Selection rate across the server: 1%.
Half the skill tree was grayed out, stealth only made you semi-transparent, and the damage barely tickled.
The forum's verdict: Anyone who picks this class is either a top player or an idiot.
Shen Mo was the former.
No one knew how Shadowstrike really worked.
No one knew that hidden beneath the grayed-out skill tree was a passive skill: [Nightfall].
No one knew that while everyone else ran out of mana after one combo, Shen Mo could keep firing off skills, building up more and more energy.
That is, until server-wide announcements began flooding the screen:
[Player "Chen Mo" gets the world's first kill on a World Boss!]
[Player "Chen Mo" clears an Abyss Dungeon solo!]
[Player "Chen Mo" claims a thousand kills in the Nation War!]
Those who had mocked him lined up to apologize.
