The wife and I were thinking about coming back to DAOC. We have not played in like three years. How hard would it be to come back? I think the most recent version I have is DAOC Catacombs, would it even work? I haven't kept up with the new stuff so I have old characters on old servers. Can they be moved to the new cluster? I used to have characters on Midgard Igraine and Midgard Gareth.

Yes characters can be 'moved' - basically all there is now is one grouping of all the old servers (less Mordred).


And nothing has changed; in fact if you collect and read all the patch notes for the last three years you will see that - for all intents and purposes - nothing has changed (except the lag is worse for some people).


Three years; maybe you left for WAR but in case you didn't you could try WAR's (endless) free trial.

Don't forget about Gaheris!


Yes, all non Mordred/Gaheris characters have to be moved to the new Ywain cluster.


All expansions are free now, including LoTM, so there is no need to buy new expansions or anything. However, you'll probably need to get the new installer (here).

 

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Three years; maybe you left for WAR but in case you didn't you could try WAR's (endless) free trial.

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As someone who recently came back after an absence of 3-4 years, I couldn't disagree more, DAOC has changed a lot. TOA has been nerfed to the point where you can get ml10 + lvl artis entirely solo if you want, numerous classes have changed (buffed/nerfed) significantly, rvr metagame has changed greatly, your old template is now close to worthless, and ywain actually has a pretty decent pop going (as opposed to 3-4 years ago clusters were close to ghost towns). Also because of the age of the game, there are a lot more rr10+ around than there used to be. You can also realm hop at will, there is no timer and no restriction on having chars in all 3 realms on the same server.

On the downside: the UI still sucks, the herald is way out of date (download charplan for up to date spells/styles), and there is quite bit of price inflation for coveted items, so if you want a top tier template it's going to cost you. seems to me like the PVPVE pop balance has shifted slightly more toward the PVE side, which i didn't expect -- i could be wrong about that though cause currently am doing (read: forced to do) PVE atm.

that's all i can think of atm.

 

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Yeah I actually tried WAR and had a character to level 32 or something and I hated it. XP was so slow it would take like an entire week to get one level. So I cancelled my account and haven't been online in like 3 - 4 years. Thanks for the tip about the new UI download. I tried the old catacombs disks out and couldn't connect to the update server. So will the new UI have all of the expansions in it?


thanks


-Teske

you can download the game now directly and catacombs is indeed a little out of date

Check this thread here on how to reinstall

 

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Thanks I got it reinstalled and I even managed to transfer a few characters to ywain5

I came back also about a month ago... I was so lost it wasnt even funny. I got lucky and found this guild call Exiled... Great guild, people are so helpful there is like 200 members. My char name is Maplebun-ywain5 Shoot me a msg if you need anything

XPing in War is faster now from a PvE standpoint, All the RvR zones in the lower tiers and such have these Rat spawns that are none stop spawns of mobs. i got my Zealot from level 19 to 25 in a matter of hours.


-Drak

 

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