Does anyone else have this game? Good god is it addictive! I've been playing for two days, and I'm hooked. Damn Blizzard for taking more of my money.
I justify it by having WoW, I'm not buying other games and spending more money per month.
Anyway, what are people's character names, levels, classes?
I currently have two characters on the Perenolde server, a near-12th level Human Priest named Syrio and a 5th level Night Elf Warrior named Magusuwe.
Being a priest in this game is like stabbing oneself in the eye in hopes of gaining ESP. I like it, though, and it makes me valuable as a primary healer, since there are so few priests. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
There are a few people who play here...Bok for one, I think.
I won't play anything by NC SOft ever again though.
Kwea
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
I play, mostly on Silvermoon server. Have level 37 paladin (Ariusthunder), and 18 Rogue (Tagart)(plus a few I don't really play).
(Oh yeah, who's NC Soft? And what games do they make?)
[ January 22, 2005, 02:49 AM: Message edited by: Boris ]
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
They are the support for WoW aedn City of Heroes.
I bought a time card at BB for CoH, and it didn't work. They gave me a really hard time about it, to be honest, so I said screw them even though I loved CoH.
Kwea
Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
I have a level 51 troll warrior named Anzha, I play on Whisperwind.
Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
The games NCSoft is involved with include: 1. City of Heroes 2. Tabula Rasa 3. Liniage I/II 4. Guild Wars
World of Warcraft isn't one of them. Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
I have an 11 priest on Perenolde, and other mid teens characters. My priest I only play with my friend who is an 11 mage.
I could party with you with my other characters though if you want.
[ January 22, 2005, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: raventh1 ]
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
I've got a 27 Hunter and 16 Warrior on Bronzebeard, and I play *far* too often.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
If I ever get an mmorpg, it'll be this.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Sorry, I had just been to the Guild Wars home page and had NC on the brain...lol...
Although Blizzard had something to do with CoH too, so that is why I made the mistake, probably.
Kwea
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
What exactly do you do in World of Warcraft? Is it mostly combat? What's so addicting about it?
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
I don't know! Seriously, I've never played a game this addictive. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY!!!
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
HAHA, "Warcrack"! Oh I just hope that the height of wit that is putting crack into a name to indicate it's addictiveness never ends! You nerds kill me everytime with that one.
[ January 22, 2005, 07:05 PM: Message edited by: jebus202 ]
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Blizzard had nothing to do with CoH. That said, if you can play two MMORPGs, play both. It's hard to beat fast-paced comic book superhero-y goodness!
WoW is just the evolution of elf and orc RPGs, but it's a darn good one.
(I play both, though only WoW lately. Duaric on Magtheridon (PvP server))
-Bok
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
WoW is EQ 1.5, but with all the stupidity of EQ taken out--ridiculously low regen times for hp and mana, quests that mean little and/or take many levels or huge groups to complete, a skillset tree that takes forever before you get to something really useful--and most of the good stuff left in.
The thing is, is that I think I'm getting bored with the game. To a some degree, this is because right now the skilltree set within classes and the items you can get for your level are pretty minimal and straightforward. A 30th level mage is going to be pretty similiar to any other 30th level mage. Ditto warriors.
The main problem is that the world just isn't...grand enough. For instance, in a D & D type world (and I'm looking forward to that one, btw. ), you start off at first level killing peons and then in your final levels, you're in the abyss, or Dis, or a city of mindflayers. I just don't see that kind of thing in this game yet, or hint of it, and I'm getting bored going on little mini quests that have cool storylines as far as they go, but I'd like to have some kind of meta quests floating around that your character works on and hears about throughout his life, or looks forward to, as some kind of penultimate challenge.
Ah, well. I'm on a pvp server and that's amusing. It does suck that I had to upgrade to 1 gig of ram so the game wouldn't stutter around large groups of peoples. But all and all the game is fun, though not awesome. And I really think an mmorpg can be awesome if the freaking creators just put some more thought into the stories that the characters can engage themselves in.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
SS, have you tried CoH? What did you think of it if you did?
-Bok
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I think the mechanics are pretty cool, and some of the storylines started out interesting--kill nazis--but then they just stopped without any real resolution, which made Storm sad.
Plus, I found the world kind of irritating because nothing was really fleshed out, and no one, and no thing, really interconnected with anything else that I saw.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I am quite looking forward to Matrix Online right now. The game seems to be really progressing.
April 15ish release date. Can't wait. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I miss CoH.
Bok, how far have you gotten with your charcters now? How often are you playing?
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
I play a lvl 15 Night Elf Druid named "Briah" on Kel'Thuzad server
I also play a lvl 14 Night Elf Hunter named "Elowynn"
I also have a troll...but I haven't played her much at all. Anyone interested in being in a guild?
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
I'm up to level 40 with my hunter, now I'm just grinding money to buy a nice, shiney wolf.
We're up to about half a dozen people who caught the Salamander Army reference for our guild name (and actually commented on it). Those people go on our guild no-kill list, at least for awhile.
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Have you been taking ironicrack today, Jebus? Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I've heard mixed reviews of WoW... I understand it's too easy to level most of all. On the other hand, most people I know who have left EQ2 have not come back. (but then, it's hard to come back to an MMORPG once you've left...)
CoH gets really dull in later levels. the missions are all pretty much the same... it's one of the few MMORPGs I haven't made it to max level on before quitting. (Lineage II is the other one. YAWN!)
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
psst Morbo... That was like two or three weeks ago...
The horrid side effects of ironicrack should have worn off by now.
Feyd Baron, DoC
EDIT: To add, Pixiest. I don't find the leveling too easy. I've been playing since it came out as a casual gamer, and am about halfway up the XP and level ladder for the current level max. Most the complaints I have heard about leveling have been in contrast with other MMORPGs, and there's no guarentee that a level in one is equal to a level in another. WoW's problems that I've read and lived through deals with the occasional problem with lag, and the frustratingly slow pace of content patches and hotfixes.
[ February 10, 2005, 06:23 PM: Message edited by: Architraz Warden ]
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Arch: I'm a hard core old school MMORPGer. I still judge everything by EQ1. (Before it became Monty Haul.)
2 weeks of daily playing to level = a hard level.
1 level/day = too easy
2-4 days/level = about right.
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
If I have a hefty rest bonus, eight straight hours, and a full quest log, then gaining a level in a day is possible.
As it is right now I get about 2 levels a week, 3 if I've decided to indulge the sin of sloth on the weekend.
I like that pace, if only because it means that someday I will get to see the end-game content.
I should add that before lvl 20, it's possible to get several levels in a day. Between lvl 20 and 40 one day is possible, but gets tough. 40 to 60, the leveling hits the breaks. We have some near hardcore gamers in our guild, and they're at about a week between levels.
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Yeah, most games start fast and slow down. Here's my EQ2 leveling history
Notice I got the first 10 levels in 1 day and then slowed down. I play pretty much from when I get home at night till I go to bed and almost all of the weekend (I'm a junky)
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
To be truly hard core old school, You need to be an ex-GemStone III player
I myself go back to UO (and a couple MUDs before that). EQ is a Johnny-Come-Lately
-Bok
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
EQ and WoW are just diku version 2.x muds, when you get right down to it.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Dikus are LPmud rip offs which were abermud rip offs.
How far ya wanan go back?
And yes, I played Dikus, LPs and abers.
And single player games like zork (though not very much), moria and larn.
Heck, I had a colecovision that had 3 versions of Pong on it so don't talk to me about old school.
Bok, who were you on UO? I was Sariah Windwhisper on Napa Valley (I had the first house on the server less than a day after it came up. woo!)
[ February 11, 2005, 11:46 AM: Message edited by: The Pixiest ]
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Pong? Oh yeah, well I ...wait, you can't trump Pong. No fair.
quote: The happiness became terror on the first day," said Mr. Sams[Blizzard's senior vice president for business operations], adding that the company surpassed its one-year subscriber targets in less than a week. ... "I keep asking: 'When is this going to slow down? When can I reduce the number of e-mails in my in-box below 2,800?' "
Talk about success becoming a nightmare!
Posted by Marlozhan (Member # 2422) on :
Im a level 31 dwarf warrior and a level 17 elf druid. I'm also in a guild of 35 members called 'Warriors of Cumorah' for all you LDS people out there. If you want to join the guild, contact Jakobus or Jorja on the Kel-thuzad server. We're currently alliance characters.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
quote: Dikus are LPmud rip offs which were abermud rip offs.
Is this accurate? I believe diku refers to fighting and killing stuff type muds, while LPmud and abermud are code types used to build muds.
And I was playing Adventure on my mom's boyfriend's microcomputer back in 197something, which really means nothing in terms of the point that I was trying to make. If you've played diku muds, zork, etc., you know that in almost every respect, mmorpgs are in many ways exact duplicates of diku muds in terms of how they do things.
What I'm looking forward to in some respects are the MUSHes and MOOs, the social muds where people role play in a specific world. And in an odd bit of synchronicity, Mr. Card's world just happens to be the first social mud/mmorpg that's coming out on the market.
I've never played social muds before, but I wonder how much the Hatrack mmorpg's conventions are going to borrow from them?
[ February 11, 2005, 05:13 PM: Message edited by: Storm Saxon ]
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
MUSHes MUCKs TinyMUDs and MOOs are building/social muds. I played them quite a bit in the late 80s/early 90s.
You COULD build in LPs if the operator let you. (usually by reaching max level and having another "Wizard" sponcer you.)
I don't believe you build build in abers.
There were not a lot of differences between early dikus and LPs in terms of play style.
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