Is there a place like www.wowpopular.com for DAOC? If not, why not, and what is the best place to find commonly used specs (not templates) for each class?

Thanks,

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The class boards here on VN.

 

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WoWPopular exists because Blizzard put accessible data up on the web, showing every character's talent specs, stats, gear, etc. Hence, it can be scraped and turned into a list of popular specs.

DAoC's website is barely functional, and even at its most functional never gave any information about how a character was specced or geared.

Only real way to find common specs is asking and reading on forums, like the class forums here.

 

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even though i have to agree that it sucks that the herald isn't working properly, i am very glad that it is not possible to see my spec/equip ingame or on some website. building a decent temp is part of playing daoc, those things need to stay private.

 

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This game comes from an era where the developer believed in letting players experiment to find the best specs and determine all the details. There are players who revel in determining the math of combat statistics etc. WOW comes from a different, and later, perspective where players are given all the details so that the game is less challenging in this regard. WOW players are not expected to rise to the challenge.

 

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I can understand how some players may want their info to be private but private or not, only the initial players ever needed to explore unknown lands and test specs. All those who follow can review the information on boards that were created to disseminate the collected info.


It may have been the initial concept of Mythic to allow the players to hunt up the info on their own but history shows that much of how things were published by Mythic, or not published, had to do with laziness. The old Herald was horrendously out of date and often described a game that did not actually exist. Even now the very new and shiny Herald is beginning to show signs of falling out of date.


I remember shortly after I started an account at WoW. There was a patch that had changed some things with a character I had not yet created but was about to create. I wondered a bit about what the character’s abilities had been prior to the patch so I went to the official WoW guide to review the old info and to my surprise the new patch info was already in the guide (on patch day the official guide(s) had been updated). I had to find a third party www site that had not yet been updated to find the old info.


I am not saying that WoW is more challenging than DAoC, not at all. I am saying that the difference in challenge is not because of the info published by the game company, because even if the game company does not publish the info the info is almost always available on third party sites. Only the first few that go though things need to go blind. Once the first few players publish the info, then it is out there for all players to have access to.


Once the info is available on third party sites it is the same two choices for everyone, (1)if they want more challenge they go blind without first checking the www sites or they (2) go to www sites and get information/maps/guides and then go out hunting. So WoW does not necessarily make it easer in that respect, they offer more features (more polish) and they give the first few players the same 2 choices that the later players have at games like DAoC.


1) go out blind and have fun figuring it all out

2) go to www sites and look up info


for the OP

as others have stated the best place to go is the VN boards for the character you are interested in

http://vnboards.ign.com/dark_age_of_camelot_boards/c5033

that is where players will be discussing character specs.


At one time there were more places to look up character specs but the game is old and the population has shrunk so not many players are compiling and publishing DAoC info.

 

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Just ask on the VN boards. May take anywhere from a day to a week to get a reply if you get one at all.

 

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I had gone through the post. It seems to me like a great tool, as specs are often very long. If any one has done this already, or knows or any information about that the files containing the text of the chapters into, and not have to include each with the help of specs that we typically get from consultants. Please provide some more attachment links regarding my requirement.

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