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Meh just hit 80. Going to re-roll cause nothing else is really going on for me. Friends have at least another month till cap. Sticking around till I at least get this city built. Not rerolling on this RP-PvP server though, boring to level might as well of been on a pve server :sleeping: there just was no pvp or at least not enough for me(as well as rp). Hitting up Tyranny or maybe Bane the culture pvp server. Hell anything thats just PvP actually
Played AoC a lot since release until a week ago. If you want to play solo and casual you wil (just about) get your moneys worth out of buying it.
They obviously based their whole launch strategy around making the game up to level 40 as smooth as possible. I enjoyed it a lot up until this level, rarely encountering any bugs. The experience from level 40 up is different and gradually gets worse. There is only one zone for each level range form then on. The end game is horribly broken.
Funcom have moved the majority of their devs onto the three other games they are developing, so the weekly patches are the worst ever for breaking more things than they fix.
The crafting system is ridiculously overpowered, making purple items redundant for everyone except tanks.
Class balance is non-existant. One of the healers (Tempest of Set) can do more damage and offer more party utility than the Mage class (Demonologist) as well as heal, rez and self rez.
Or in my case, a month.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'glo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=72663#post72663
I tried this out, took 2 classes to the 20’s, on FFA PVP.
Here’s what I think.
Short Version: It’s ok.
Longer Version:
The combat system, although a completely different direction than any other game deserves kudos, but at least I myself struggled with it. Perhaps I’m just getting old. To run after something to try to use these abilities at the same time, I’m sure people do well at it, I don’t XD. I normally did pretty well if we stood still and fought but with WASD movement engraved in to my skull I just can’t adapt .
Balance between classes are, well. There working on it. Last time I played caster were raping and pillaging the villages.
The classes I wanted to play (Tanks) pretty underpowered. Tank does so little dps, that someone could pop a heal over time pot with a small tick that would out damage the tanks dps lol. Already takes a day in a half for him to kill someone, so they just run.
Speaking of which, in this game although better than any SOE again with people getting away scout free without care or worry on a PVP server, at least some classes have enough burst to actually have someone die in PVP in this game.
Sound and Graphics are pretty decent. I just say the amount of blood and gore in this game is pleasing! You haven’t really owned someone until you slice then up and chop off their head and watch blood squirt out of their neck.
The greifing here was pretty bad. There’s spawn points. Example, I was doing a quest on my Barb, a necro jumps me while I was fighting a mob. I managed to kill the necro but died to the mob 15 seconds later. We both went to the same spawn point, he had time to regen, I didn’t. So for the next 30mins any time I spawned he;d 2 shot me and scream “owned AGAIN bitch” over and over. I had to go afk and come back to continue. That’s just a simple example. My friend had a much worse experience then I did lol.
I must say the Island when you first start out 1-20 was really cool. In fact if the rest of the game was like it, I think I’d still be playing it. Once my friend and I left the island it went downhill real fast and became boring.
I spent a great deal of time chasing after people I jumped. I hate people that run on PVP servers. I hate even more game mechanics that allow people to escape more often than not, which this game does allow. It is however still possible to burst DPS someone down before they get away.
The other thing I didn’t care for is the FFA PVP, sounds fun on paper, seeing how I love PVP and all. But I realized there is a limit and that crossed it. It sucks leveling solo and everyone is red to you. One min you’ll be working on a quest next to each other, they see you have a bad pull and take advantage of it and such. Can take hours to kill a few mobs for a quest do to the amount of PVP. Get’s old after while, least it did for me.
I felt Faction PVP servers, like the ONE they have would be perfect. However they separate it in to 3 groups of people. My friend wanted to be this class, and I wanted to be that class. Already we would have had to be different races. Only a few classes are available per race so, it’s really confusing in PVP how exactly you attack other people while grouped with the same faction.
From 1 to 10 here’s what I rate.
Graphics: 7
Sound/Music: 8
PVE Style Game play: 6
PVP style of play: 3
Class balances: 2
Quest/Lore: 9
Don't see how anyone could box this game with all the combos and such you have to use. I'm sure there will be a few out there that could pull it off. I can't.
I remember the first time I played an mmorpg, it was wow. My friends had been hammering me to play for ages and I finally went out and bought it, this would be around January 05? not sure. I created my account, created a human warrior on Tichondrius and watched the opening animation and I was thinking "is this the game ive been waiting for since I played zork back in 82?" and then there I am standing in northshire and it hits me like a sledgehammer as I look around, yes. I move forward and it's fluid, looking around is so damn fluid, the graphics are great and the control so intuitive and I'm just dumbstruck as I come to terms with the fact that this is an immersive world where there are potentially thousands of other people wandering around and the shear cohesiveness of the world and my interaction with it amazes me.
I bought AoC and it just wasn't there for me, that xfactor was missing. The difference I think is that AoC is obviously a computer game and it just feels two dimensional, it's a bit clunky. wow on the other hand is like a window onto another reality and the seamlessness of my interaction with it just isn't there with aoc. Yes I am addicted and passionate about wow lol. A week after installing it I deleted every other game and haven't played anything else since because really: what is the point?
Where aoc falls down is in part due to the graphics, they've tried to do the photorealism thing and it doesn't work imo. Wow on the other hand shelved that idea and went down the toonistic path which works very well. It's about imagination, if you create a world where the framework is toonish and just use subtle pointers to support the myth (realistic water ripples, swaying grass etc) your imagination fills in the blanks. WIth a photorealistic approach there's little room for your imagination to take control and so the sense of immersiveness is lost, plus with a photrealistic approach is has to be absolutely perfect and indistinguishable from reality so that your imagination doesn't get in the way. Unrealistic photorealism jars my senses and constantly reminds me that this isn't real.
The aoc characters move in an unrealistic way which detracts from the immersiveness, I'm not saying that toons in wow move realisticly it's just that the movement is fairly organic and is another subtle pointer supporting the imagination and enabling you to suspend disbelief.
Just my opinion.
I've been multi-boxing it since release, i'm not a fast leveler , last patch really fixed a lot of issues with /follow, no need to re-form group now upon death/zoning. If you want to multi-box i'd suggest running some type of caster combo, currently my PoM and ToS combo works quite well, run in grab 4-5 mobs, Cleanse of Fire/Storm Crown, then repulse/storm field, , Lance of Mitra/HoT , then cast repulsion on the PoM for Heal/PBAO dmg and most of the times everything is dead and i am at full health/mana on both characters. Just make sure to bunch up the mobs a bit, working great so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Bradster',index.php?page=Thread&postID=91835#post 91835