If they had classic servers I would do in a heartbeat.

But I dont know if i want to deal with mastery/champion leveling/abilities.


Also, Curious how buffs are handled now?? ranged or do people have bots parked at the castle giving unlimited range on conc buffs??


I wish the game was simpler.....no toa/champion stuff, no crafting or spellcrafting...only quest items or random items from drops.

champion levels are really easy... you can start them at... 50, and you dont need to do the quests, anything that gains XP will count as CL XP.

Master Levels are nothing now since you can buy them with Atlantis glass (farm it or buy it off the CMs for not much plat...)

Buffbots are still in the game there are no range limits so they sit at the border keeps.

Spell crafting isnt hard either.. lol, this game has been nerf'ed to easy mode in comparison to what it use to be.


Yeah you wont be 50 and pimped out in a day, but why would you want that in an MMO anyways? lol

 

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Cause the real game starts when your 50 and pimped out.

 

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A few friends of mine started hib. Went 1-50, ML10, Templated in about 3 days /played. This was from scratch, with little or no help from my 50 (they did farm rassa though).


The game is ridiculously easy now.

The hard part for me has always been getting a group.

Sitting at DL going rr11 Eld LFG for 2 hours before getting a god awful pug just isn't that fun.

That's one of the problems with DAoC in my opinions. Most guilds, or set groups don't like to stray away from their set players. They would rather not play, over playing with anyone to get a group going. Which leads to alot of old time players coming back, or new players not really enjoying the most out of groupvgroup fighting because they have to zerg surf to get RPs.


-Drak

 

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I would agree that grouping has become if not the biggest than certainly one of the biggest remaining problems in DAoC. And the reality is that since there is no 1 right way to play that the pug that Fanglo joins for example may think his play is godawful because he does X instead of Y or wants to do A instead of B. Now of course it's likely in his case he knows well what he's doing but at the same time at this point most of the people still playing have a decent idea what they are doing also. So what is right and wrong/good and bad really comes down to the content that it's applied to.

However, the game doesn't provide much content that showcases player skill and/or strategy so players make it up as they go. Essentially RvR becomes about who has the biggest zerg and the most play time which turns the MMO player -you know the one who is willing to grind up his toon for weeks or months, that player is turned into a wholly insignificant blob in the middle of a zerg. That kind of mindless, faceless, soulless zerg style pvp would work much better in some kind of insta-spawn game it just doesn't suit the time and energy that people put into their characters or a game that wants to charge 15$ a month to maintain your characters.

To an extent that time and energy in characters used to also be applied to guilds and by extension alliances. But Mythic missed the boat and instead of fostering and designing RvR content around characters, guilds and alliances they implemented things like /region .

 

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Good to see your still around Vyx, was thinking about going hib and rerolling my Vamp sense mythic won't let me transfer my main one from mordred. You should hook it up with a guild and/or leveling session friend


-Drak

 

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I've spent more time on VN then in game for the last couple years . Prolly won't fire up to play except possibly over turkey day until xmas.. just too busy and as Fanglo alluded to there's just nothing much you can do in an hour here or an hour there.

The ironic part is that just about every time I do fire up the old Elf I'll get several tells from people asking for advice or talking themselves about coming back.

 

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I miss the game alot to be honest, every aspect. Main thing keeping me away has been grouping(or lack there of) and last couple of years i was playing i played mordred till it died. Can't do anything with my vamp on dred which blows. love that toon.


-Drak

 

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