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In exchange, you get to have loading times! What fun! #warhammeronline
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The only other MMO I've paid for is EVE, but that's in its own league and can actually be more of a time sink than WoW once you want to do the cool things or participate in pirating (so I quit after about a month). #warhammeronline
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I'm pretty burned out from WoW raiding, that I'm not sure I can ever get back into it. Sure, I'm looking forward to seeing how SWTOR turns out next year, but what I would love to see is a polished console MMO (an RPG or give me Borderlands:WoW since we already have BL:Diablo). #warhammeronline
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09/29/09
Also "only the computers it is played on will be slightly more expensive and prettier to look at."
Burn!
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09/28/09
Player-run shards are the only way to fly.
09/28/09
That was the main thing that convinced me to check this out. Well played.
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08/13/09
Could some folks maybe give a mini-review of it? Is there stuff to solo? Do groups require the "Holy Trinity" (tank, healer, debuff/crowd control) to function? How heavy-handed is the PvP? Can I avoid it 100% and still have fun (not to say I will, but my wife dislike PvP in all forms.) What sorts of crafting are there, and are they fun or at least profitable before maxing them?
Basically, how is it similar to MMOs I may've played, and how is it different?
08/13/09
PvP is avoidable, I tended to stay away from it as I played on a server where the Albs tended to be totally disorganized and outnumbers/steamrolled by more coherent groups.
Crafting was a money sink with little return.
Things have changed, I played it some awhile back and the newbie experience was greatly improved compared to where it was in 2002. If you want to check it out you'll find it a bit more welcoming/hospitable than an old school MMO.
08/13/09
It was the scale of the PvP that nothing has matched. If you check YouTube you'll probably see some ridiculously large battles and the sieges could rage on for several evenings. Because the PvP space was so large, with so much to do (12 continuous zones of non-instanced fun) you had a ton of options from sieges, surfing with zergs, looking for 1v1s, small skirmishes and solid 8v8 fights, which were all different. My favourite was to take a guild group and capture a tower in enemy lands for our own little L4D Survival experience and see how long we could last out.
There was a high skill ceiling compared to most MMO's PvP and coordinated groups could really tease apart massive zergs, or in some cases, catch them by surprise and annihilate dozens of players.
Some of the higher end PvE encounters were wonderfully imaginative but you wouldn't pick it up for the PvE. The UI is too clumsy by today's standards for anyone to just pick up and enjoy.
08/13/09
I had figured Everquest would be, since the game began in the dialup days, but I guess the network code's bloated over the years...
Looking for something to ease my MMO fix while I'm stuck out here in the boonies ;)
08/13/09
Do people group up during the early to mid levels these days? I'm honestly kinda tired of being forced to solo all the time in modern MMOs because it's more profitable or whatever. I enjoy meeting people and having fun with them. Not just solo grinding to max level before any meaningful grouping happens.
08/13/09
Soloing in DAOC is very easy for leveling, I don't think even my Healer required a group to get to 50. Lots of things to kill, and most players can point you toward the best areas to hunt in. Some classes are harder, but anything with magic is a cakewalk. Groups don't really need the "holy trinity" depending on what you're doing. Done fine even in PvP with no healing classes (though obviously they make everything easier). Dragons and dedicated RvR groups need a good mix but that isn't hard to find.
Crafting is pretty much exactly the same as I've seen it everywhere else. Buy parts, click button, watch bar go across screen, repeat. Later levels need drops of monsters. Doesn't actually take too much cash to skill up, and once you hit Legendary Crafter you make a lot of money off people who need crafted armor and such. Lower level crafts still useful for making things for battlegrounds (below). In all, you can craft armor, weapons, potions, and gems to enchant said weapons/armor to customize them with just the abilities you want.
The only "sticking point" I have with the game is that the PvP is not very forgiving. Short of playing a Bonedancer/Warlock/Vampiir, you have to work at it to catch up to the hardcore players. You will die, repeatedly, and often with no chance of fighting back. Thankfully the battlegrounds offer some toned down PvP (lower levels, limited endgame abilities) that evens it up a little bit. I almost never play the "real" PvP anymore, just battlegrounds. To Mythic's credit, it really does emphasize teamwork by not making each person nigh-unto God (see: WoW) but rather keeping the balance and not giving every class everything they want.
You don't have to RvR in order to enjoy DAOC, there are plenty of things to do without ever fighting another player. Lots of zones to explore, lots of interesting things to see. Atlantis in particular had a lot of interesting things I'm still surprised at now and then. I don't RvR much anymore, mostly just wander and explore all the areas I'd neglected running through the same RvR zones over and over.
Hope that helped, assuming this comment goes through. Sorry about it being so long, but you asked a big question : P
08/13/09
Nowadays the leveling is a non-issue as they changed the XP rates. It practically levels itself. The most fun would be to level off the PvP in the battlegrounds. They are full of people and non-instanced, so they act like a small scale introduction to the end-game.
They are soon merging all existing servers into one server so I'm guessing there will be a surge of new players at lower levels soon.
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08/12/09
Oh, and...
This game is still alive?
08/12/09
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08/12/09
I don't even remember there being actual quests when I played :P I do, however, remember my log cabin out in the forests of Minoc on the Catskills 'shard'. ;_;
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08/12/09
I miss my house outside Britannia on Great Lakes :( I'm sure it decayed after I stopped playing about 10 years ago, but I remember all the time I spent looking for a spot that had enough space for it.
08/12/09
*reminisces*
Dammit, I want to play now. hehe