Agreed. All the good without the bad, including no TOA!

Hey, this is probably as good as it's gonna get in terms of a "like DAoC" game. Lets try to enjoy it.

 

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Having fun gameplay for the first few hours you try it is one thing. It's quite another to keep that up for 100's and 1000's of hours. GW1 was amazing fun...for a little while. Warhammer was amazing fun...for a little while. DAoC was amazing fun...way back in the day. It means nothing to log onto the latest PvP game and say it's fun for the 10 hours you played it. Wait till the grind and repetitiveness sets in. Wait till class balance issues set in. Wait till people start exploiting to gain every little advantage. Wait till people figure everything out and it becomes hardcore or die. Almost any PvP game is fun while everything is fresh and new and you and everyone else is just farting around checking it out.

 

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My DAoC account expires in a few days.

I gave level 50 another chance with a different toon only to be severely disappointed yet again. I can spend hours online asking nicely for a group while I do the new frontier quests. Nobody answers, and if they do, they ask me if I have a "pac healer" alt. The only groups I get are with the nightly zerg, and that's not my playstyle.

My advice to mythic or whoever is programming this game. Make level 50 battlegrounds with very minimal amounts of realm points gained. This is for those of us who don't have the ideal class or spec and want to pvp but can't find a group right away. The real achievements will always be had in the frontiers. For those of us who can't find a group right away, we can join the level 50 battlegrounds for "some action."

Anyway, I'm returning to WoW. As much as I am not a fan of the small group pvp in there, at least it's accessible to anyone who queues for a BG. I can always do arena with people if a group shows up, and if not.... I'll just randonmly join a battleground for some enjoyment.

That's what DAoC lacks. If you seriously have a PvP itch and can't find a group.... good luck lol.

Hope to see you all in Mists of Pandora, Guild Wars2, or Dominus.

It only took me 3 days of playing WoW to realize why I quit in the first place. I logged on my priest to try a bit of pvp. Granted my gear is about 8 months out date, but I still have 34% damage reduction in my current outfit. I have 140k hitpoints. A feral druid sneaks up and crits me twice for over 50k damage while I'm insta healing myself for 20k max.

Moments later an elemental shaman crits me for 60k with lava burst, then crits me a few more times with his instas for over 15k each.

I can go on and on with examples like this. And from what I'm reading on the messageboards, things won't change by a lot even with the newer gear. Resilience is not keeping up with the damage out put from the new l33t PvE gear. There's that dreaded term "PvE Gear." After all these years, they still can't balance PvE gear in PvP. Truly pathetic.

What in gods name was I thinking when returning to that game?????

WoW is horrible. As someone who got to 2200 once in the rare moment I had two team mates PATIENT and CONSISTENT enough to stick it out, WoW PvP is watered down for noobs.

Position or strategy means little until you get to high rated PvP. In DAoC, position meant getting styles off and not letting your opponent get their attacks off.

WoW is all about who can use the least amount of cooldowns while saving your own. WoW is also about who happens to be the right OP class at the right time. When I played Feral druid about 1 year ago before the nerfs, I would smash nearly all classes except a Blood DK.

I honestly played WoW as a gloryseeker to get high in arena brackets and have bragging rights, etc. Getting an arena team going in that game even if you are on a PvP popular server like KT or Illidain doesn't really help your chances either. People that PvP in that game have the biggest chip on their shoulder that is largely undeserved. I have healed arena team attempts only to have DPS rage quit after they realize that I am pretty much skill capped and they are just dragging along. I have had these same players challenge me to duels only to get embarrassed in matches where I am either playing an underpowered class or equal, undergeared at times.

All this said, wish I spent my time playing Warhammer/DAoC even through the tough times instead of WoW (Lich King and on)

I have read this and WAR's board and find that there doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm for GW 2 which is a shame. Anyone who has played MMOs can appreciate the production value and design that goes behind GW 2. The diversity of every class looks versatile, encompassing of any role needed, and seemingly balanced.

I didn't play GW 1 because not being able to jump bothered the hell out of me. I came to find out that it had a strong fanbase and was quite competitive with it's PvP content having ladders and such. Will be checking out GW 2, only MMO worthwhile to checkout.

SWTOR could have done better but is pretty much a WoW clone.

THIS is really accurate.

I love daoc, loved logging in EVERY night to pvp/rvr for hours and hours, and laughed at the casual/pve types of games. The last year of daoc has really kinda burned me out, don't like Ywain and what daoc has become. As of late, it is feeling old to me.

Now I still wanna pvp/rvr, don't get me wrong, I just do not feel the need to do that and only that in a game. Now I desire a well made game, with solid population, with pve and pvp, so I can play casual mode sometimes, and play more hard core or competitive at other times. GW2 looks like it will fit my needs pretty well.

 

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