World Of Warcraft

[Lord Hunter]

Hoggis, after seeing a screenshot u posted of World of Warcraft, i've been very tempted to get it, i have been looking at it before in the past, but now im real interested, so i was just wondering... if u cud tell me what the combat is like n stuff.... possibly even post a few screenies here? that goes to anybody who plays it..

[ParrishPlessis]

lol nice Okay a few screenshots in the bottom ^^
i have alot of things to say about this game so its along read =p

I started playing WoW half a year ago(i convinced 2 of my friends to play it too), i've stopped for the moment.. Thinking i'll start playing again after a few patches or an expansion pack.

The game is great, the world is fantastic. Everywhere you go the area looks very fantasy like. There is no loading when you go to another zone on the same continent (there are two continents) and the whole mood changes from zone to zone which is nice!

There are not many classes (9 i think), but unlike other games they have put alot of work and content to the ones there are. And each class has 3 skill tree's which you can put points in like in Diablo 2, so in a way each class has about 3 sub classes in it (You can be a priest that specialises in damage or healing or whatever the third tree was ). The bad thing with this is that in most classes, there is allways one build that is considered overpowered to the rest. So most players use the same build because doing otherwise would give you too many disadvantages.

The thing i really love about this game is quests. You dont kill monsters over and over untill you level, you get a quest (quests are all over the place). In a quest you're supposed to do something, like find a woman and bring her back to her cabin safely. Now you'd get xp for finding her, the thugs and animals you kill on the way, a xp reward when you've brought her back and usually a item reward.. Like a brand new magic cloak or something ^^. So you allways do quests! And its much more fun then just killing things because it gives you something to do with a purpose (And the rewards are great!).

They didn't really bring PvP(Player versus player) in to the picture untill about 3-4 months after release. I'll be frank, i don't like the PvP in this game much. Weither you are skilled or not means much less then what equipment you have and the tactics you use. You put the world's best WoW pvp'er against two newbies who know how to play their class, all same lvl's and same equipment, then the two newbies will win no contest.
And to make matters worse, this game has abit of weird server to client rutine. I tested this with a friend, we wore on a lan both with below 100 in ping. He moved to the side, and 4 seconds later he moved on my screen. But that's not the worst part, if i'm running after someone, and im right behind him i cant hit him. Because on his computer im still 4 seconds behind him. I have to be 4 seconds ahead of him to hit him, so i actually have to run through him, and a few feet infront of him to be able to hit him. And you can imagine how frustrating this is when the other player is constantly changing directions, you have to predict where he's going, and get there first.

And another thing that will make you hate PvP & People is the fact that there is PvP rewards, that ironicly calls itself the "honor system". If you kill enough players, you go up in rank and get rewards. This has made players kill enemies on sight, no matter what. If their lvl 49 and you just hit level 40 and they come across you while you fighting a beast with less then half of you health remaining, they will kill you without a thought.. And they'll be rewarded for it. This will start happening alot after you go beyond level 40.

PvP is more frustrating then it is fun. Also it works like rock, paper & scissors. Like, mages will almost allways beat warriors, rogues beat mages, druids beat rogues, paladins beat druids and so on.


But enough of that ^^
I thought the best part of this was the journey from lvl 1 to 40, because that just comes naturally and you have a great time doing that. After that it becomes more work & stress! To be able to go to the best dungeons you need a good 5 man team, willing to spend the next 3-5 hours trying to go through it. If one of those arent doing their job right or good, you'll ahve a very hard time, if one of them decides to quit the group for whatever reason, the whole team might aswell quit too, because finding someone to replace him takes time and finding someone suitable to replace him takes even longer. So if you dont, you just wasted 3-5 hours of your time gaining little if nothing and this happens alot.[/i]


I'm glad i played it, but i'm glad i stopped when i did.
I'm saying alot of bad things here, but to get to the point.

Good things!

*It's a great game (Work of art)
*You have lots of fun mostly
*You meet alot of people and make alot of friends
*Nothing is more fun then being in a good group in a dungeon ^^
*Lots of stuff to buy or sell
*Leveling is VERY easy, and i mean VERY (People who played for awhile get from lvl 1-20 in a day)
*Mounts, horses, skeleton horses, weird looking horses, other mountable animals
*PvP + PvP Games (Capture the flag & Control points currently)
*PvP rewards!
*Simple and fun crafting system ^^
*Fun combat

The bad things!
-Game ends at level 60 (Dont EVER hit level 60, if you're level 59 make a new character and start over )
-PvP
-Lack of player skill having any thing to say
-Unable to communicate to enemies in any way but gestures
-No flying mounts
-No hero classes, yet..
-Limited character generator
-Equipment that is good usually looks silly
-No player controlled ships, yet..


I talk too much, now you know not to ask me again

[Lord Hunter]

Wow ! the Description you have just gave me is Fantastic, im Definatley Persuaded to buy it now !! just gotta sort out my credit card troubles first (somebody hacked em and stole £1200 ) but once thats all sorted, im DEFINATLEY buying it, i'll give Matrix Online a rest and play WoW,

The Screenshots there are Great ! if u find you have some spare time, think you can post some more? along with more info? like in depth about the combat like... if its fast paced button bashing, turn based tactical combat etc- thx in advance that wud be great

But all in all, im convinced, i dont doubt they have loads of servers like other games, what one did you Join? ill make sure i join the same 1

[Sneaky]

Just bought WoW, it is very fun indeed. Highly recommended.

[Meist]

So fun that he's spent 49 hours over the past 7 days playing it! that's more than two whole days!

[{BG}Jirec]

Ohh God Dammit!! Hand me a Grafic-card!!!

[Sneaky]

So fun that he's spent 49 hours over the past 7 days playing it! that's more than two whole days!

Shut up .

[ParrishPlessis]

lordhunter said:

Wow ! the Description you have just gave me is Fantastic, im Definatley Persuaded to buy it now !! just gotta sort out my credit card troubles first (somebody hacked em and stole £1200 ) but once thats all sorted, im DEFINATLEY buying it, i'll give Matrix Online a rest and play WoW,

The Screenshots there are Great ! if u find you have some spare time, think you can post some more? along with more info? like in depth about the combat like... if its fast paced button bashing, turn based tactical combat etc- thx in advance that wud be great

But all in all, im convinced, i dont doubt they have loads of servers like other games, what one did you Join? ill make sure i join the same 1

:>
The combat is very different depending on what class you play as, in my opinion the mage is the most robotic of the classes when it comes to combat.

But in general, the game is not round based like SWG. All of the abilities you use have a cooldown on them, and whenever you use one ability all your abilities get a 1 second cooldown before you can use another.

As a warrior, if your sword has a weapon speed of 2.56 seconds, you can hit once every 2.56 seconds. A warrior uses rage to use most of his ability, its a bar that builds up from 0-100 that slowly goes away when not in combat. You get rage by hitting someone or getting hit by someone (There are other ways of getting rage though). The warrior is one of the more slower paced classes, you press less buttons over time, but what buttons you press matters more. You have 3 stances... battle stance, defensive stance and berserker stance. You have unique abilities for each stance but basicly, battle stance is the normal stance (between defensive and berserker stance), defensive stance is for tanking, and berserker stance is for dealing damage.

The rogue works differently, you have energy points that allways regenerate to 100. Using a normal attack ability costs around 40-50 energy (depending on build) and attacks instantly unlike the warrior. I thin 20 energy regenerates every 2-3 seconds or so. After attacking the enemy you will allways keep hitting him untill you stop attacking for normal damage and this costs no energy points. You do alot of damage in a short amount of time but you cant take much punishment. But you have alot of fun abilities like stealth, vanish, backstab, blinding power, alot of stun abilities to keep enemies from hitting you and do alot of damage. You also have finishing moves, whenever you use an ability you usually get a combo point. You can get a maximum of 5 combo points and then you can do a finishing move, where the more combo points you have the more damage you will do, or the longer you will stun them (depending on what finishing move you use).



My favorite class was druid. They have abit of all the basic classes in them. We can turn into a bear and be a limited version of a warrior(But we have frenzied regeneration ^^), turn into cat form and be a limited version of a rogue (With stealth!). We have a travel form, and even a underwater form. We heal almost as good as priests and have alot of different spells in our normal form. But they deal out little damage in general. Druids win mostly by outlasting their enemies. Druids can do alittle of everything but can never be best at any of it. A nice thing about druids is that they use Mana, Rage and energy. If we go low on Mana we can turn into bear form while our mana regenerates ^^


Edit:
Oh i played on shadowmoon and used to play on another server i cant remember the name of

I recommend the Hunter or Druid if you're new. They're fun to play and simple ^^ But nobody really likes hunters and they're not wanted in groups alot.. :<
And druids are loved by everyone and weirdly enough often enemies too :>

With my druid alot of times if i stumble across a group of player enemies, they would often just go past me, sometimes even 'bowing' and then leaving.. Because im a druid and they 'respected' that

[Lord Hunter]

I just looked at Lineage 2 website, looks quite good, tempting to get, anybody know if that game is any good? it better than World of Warcraft?

[ParrishPlessis]

Back in Korea i played Lineage 1. It's fun and simple.
Never tried Lineage 2 but i assume it's like the first, where the only things you did was kill things untill you level up & buy the same but slightly better equipment over and over again

Most asian mmorpg's work like that
People there like doing the same thing all day long

[Lord Hunter]

Oh, in that case, sounds like World of Warcraft it iz for me

I get Bored easily you see... so constant doing the same thing on Lineage 2 would bore me very easily.... I like Variety... for example MB has a nice Variety of Classes, skills to choose maps etc, and keeps me glued, i hope World of Warcraft does the same , im just Saving up some Cash, in the mean time im going to look at Other MMO's to see if any interest me , but World of Warcraft seems to be a definate thus far