MMORPGs, DAOC:SI, Catacombs, Asheron's Call 2, etc..etc..

[Czar]

Originally posted by: everman
*waiting on WoW and EQ2*

Seems like everyone except me got in the WoW beta, is there any way to check if you got in? At least I can try the stress test I guess...whenever that starts.

same here, I registered for the european beta for wow more than a month ago, havent heard a thing

 

[Bulldog13]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: Nebor
I said it when the game was released, and I'll say it again: Eve is the worst game I have ever played. I've never played an internet flash game that was worse than Eve. The game is just.... awful. I bought it for $55 within the first month it was released, wanting to get into a new MMORPG. I sold it at the end of that week for $5. A truly awful experience. The beginning of the game REQUIRES you to mine. For weeks. In hopes that someday you'll be powerful enough to mine in more dangerous places. Woopee!! It seemed like there was more depth to it further in, with player owned factories, and a player based economy that was EXTREMELY complex. But all of that was so far out of reach of a new player, it's not even funny.

Hey, if you love mining, you'll LOVE Eve!

In WoW, I'm a miner. It's fun! I get to smelt... did you hear me? SMELT!

In UO you could have run the smelting black market, with your uniform to boot.

Mining in UO was sweet though.... The risk of being PKed, the risk of someone jacking your ore, selling your ingots, or being a blacksmith yourself.... Man, I wish that game still had the cocaine style affect it once had on me. Trammel was the death blow.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

:: shudders :: ninja expansion :: shudders ::

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: Genx87

. I played midgard and they are seriously underpopulated right now at least. I tried to rvr with my non-ToA geared chars and got bitch slapped hardcore

Population issues are their main problem atm. But being non-toa geared is not an issue if you get a decent group and play your character correctly. I grow tired of the non-stop whining about not being in TOA gear. My dark SM has 1 artifact that is lvl 0 atm. She has zero problems knocking around people provided she doesnt do something stupid like try to take on tanks.

Hell just the other night this ML10\RR10 fire wizard got into my sites and dropped him in 3 casts. All I have is player made gear and merchant bought items with no master levels and 1 artifact.

All I know is I got nuked real hard, real fast and my RR4 warrior with 2400 hits and maxed resists (well they used to be maxed) died at a keep to a single caster in what semed like 5 seconds. I asked my group how it was possible and they said something about a toa'd caster nuking every .8 second or some crazy number. That only happened once though, the rest of the time the alb zerg of 8 groups rolled our pathetic defense or 2.5 groups which was all the realm could muster with 182 mids online (server pop was 1100 I believe....).

And if that wizzy had seen you you would have been toast but nukers can always drop casters fast anyway...

The sadest part of my recent experience was seeing how depleted our realm was. Once great guilds all but vanished. My guild was a thriving mid-sized guild when I quit and when I started up again last week there were 2 people left in it, neither of which were in it when I was. There were 2 of my friends still playing and we talked for a while. They told me they were both planning to quit soon too, one was gonna try alb though.

You are definitely right though, population is a huge issue. I'm sure good groups still negate toa junk (have they fixed the cat group crap yet?) but I've always been a small group/pickup group person, only had about 5 of us in my guild interested in rvr so we stuck together but usually took whoever else was lfg.

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: Czar
you can try a free trial of eve online, 14 days

they will be releaseing a free update 3rd nov called Shiva, no other game does that for free
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://eve.is/features/shiva/
">http://eve.is/features/shiva/
</a>
here you can read about the new features

How do you access the free trial? I downloaded the game but it says you have to pay a 20$ account fee for the first month...

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Dman877

Originally posted by: Czar
you can try a free trial of eve online, 14 days

they will be releaseing a free update 3rd nov called Shiva, no other game does that for free
http://eve.is/features/shiva/
</a>
here you can read about the new features

How do you access the free trial? I downloaded the game but it says you have to pay a 20$ account fee for the first month...

pm me with your email and I'll sign you up

 

[Genx87]

All I know is I got nuked real hard, real fast and my RR4 warrior with 2400 hits and maxed resists (well they used to be maxed) died at a keep to a single caster in what semed like 5 seconds. I asked my group how it was possible and they said something about a toa'd caster nuking every .8 second or some crazy number. That only happened once though, the rest of the time the alb zerg of 8 groups rolled our pathetic defense or 2.5 groups which was all the realm could muster with 182 mids online (server pop was 1100 I believe....).

Heh well the max casting speed decrease one can get in around 60%. .8 seconds is a little low but a wizard with their 2.5 second bolt could probably hit you about every 1.05 seconds with thier spec and baseline bolt. Then about 1.2 seconds with their DDs. But remember bolts are a high damage cast on a timer. Chances are what happened was the wizzie was high RR and had wild power ra which ups his chance to crit. Bolts will typically hit for 800 or more depending on resists and their ras. With a crit that can push it well over 1000 or more. With 2400 hp and two casts of 1000 you can see it doesnt take long to die.

I still remember a RR10 mentalist who with his DDs would hit my maxed resist warrior for about 700-800 every second. Lucky for me my group had RR6+ healers who kept me alive while I got out of his los.

And if that wizzy had seen you you would have been toast but nukers can always drop casters fast anyway...

You live and die. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. For some reason the enemy casters seem to ignore me. Probably because they see Spiritmaster and think manabomb. Meaning if I am not on them then I am little threat atm. Of course that changes when I start firing off 400-500 damage lifetaps at them every 1.1 seconds and they drop in 3 seconds

The sadest part of my recent experience was seeing how depleted our realm was. Once great guilds all but vanished. My guild was a thriving mid-sized guild when I quit and when I started up again last week there were 2 people left in it, neither of which were in it when I was. There were 2 of my friends still playing and we talked for a while. They told me they were both planning to quit soon too, one was gonna try alb though.

Games evolve, guilds die, new guilds are formed. The gank guild I was part of has like 1 active member now. Heck, the biggest, most influential guild on the pvp server was gutted last week and died. Tis the nature of a perpetual online MMORPG

You are definitely right though, population is a huge issue. I'm sure good groups still negate toa junk (have they fixed the cat group crap yet?) but I've always been a small group/pickup group person, only had about 5 of us in my guild interested in rvr so we stuck together but usually took whoever else was lfg.

Population is the biggest issue atm. Class imbalances are dwarfed by the fact one realm can field 20,30,50, or 100 more on the field of battle.

Mythic has a serious problem on their hands. The only way I think they can fix it is if they put hard caps on population. This means nobody can join Albion until the other two realms are brought back up in population.

The funny part about all of the imbalances is that IMO the other two realms (Hibernia, Midgard) are the more powerful realms when it comes to class utility and ability. Most people I knew in mid were transplants from Albion. Once they learned the game they decided mid was the better place to be.
But that is a slow process and Mythic cant wait for it to happen on its own. Hopefully they come up with some more viable solutions.

 

[flexy]

hi, nice thread...very informative

after reading around and seeing that i really idnt like AC2 i got me DAoC platinum again and i am playing again after a two years break.

I am only a lvl 10 armsman (albion)....and i have some quests and the Mithra fights behind me....and now i am at a point (especially with all the news in TOA/SI etc.) that i dont know what should i do next ?

I am still hanging out in the camelot area....i just read the manual for the platinum edition..what's this 'darkness falls' dungeon like ? I will check that out in a few mins..they say its a RvR dungeon.
Can i now play RvR/PvP with only a level 10 armsman ?

What would be a good strategy to do next, should i go to shrouded islands..or fight RvR...etc..etc.. ? What interesting things can i do now as lvl 10 tank...where should i go ?

Thanks !