I played DAoC since a month or so after launch. I heard about it thru word of mouth and didnt want to
"get sucked in to a game like evercrack"
So..... I lost the job I had around the time I started playing, and thats all she wrote from there!
Total 15 hour a day addiction to the game for 4 years.
I left because everyone seemed mad at daoc for changing the maps and making the land mass ballanced so they all went to wow. So I followed the masses. Even at its height I had better days in DAoC than any in wow, but the thought of playing back in camelot with nobody there wasnt appealing.
first 2 years on US roleplay servers which was the best experience ever, after that i joined the European servers to play with some real life friends..
I just didn't like the attitude at the european servers, it was a nich game and there was no roleplaying. I choose the wrong class in europe (Necromancer) where my heart was still in MIdgard.
AFter ToA i grew tired with the game, as i had been playing with a very tight group of real time friends, the raiding content in ToA didn't appeal to me with my Necromancer. I tried leveling another toon (Sorceror) but it was to late and i lost interest..
AFter 6 years (3 years EQ and 3 years DAoC) it was time for a little sabaticall...
I returned to MMO's with WOW and EQ2 (both in beta) soon after that tough
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
It was a very hard to level up insanly hard grinding in that day and the hybies had dungeons that didnt even drop loot or gold since it wasent even itemized yet.
Only Albion and Midgar where beter itemized and had a easier time leveling up.
Think i quited around level 50 im not so sure.
Realm vs realm was kinda a keep zerg tho, and the 2 weaker sides always joinend forces against Midgar, in my server that is.
I never bought any expansion, but I think it has changed alot since then?
Played DAOC for years.Games get stale if they are not refreshed regularly . Mythic has done a horrid job with the expansions which actually ended up driving players away from the game.Mythic has never had the ability to listen to it's player base and be able to sort out the childish ranting of some players from the intelligent comments of others.ALL get the deaf ear...and unrelenting nerfing.
I played DAoC consistently from 2002-2005 when Catacombs came out. I tried Catacombs and didn't like what the expansion did to overland groupinp, so I quit the Spring of 2005. I voted for the Classic servers, and was happy when they actually came out with them that summer. However, the Classic server didn't solve the lack of groups overland. I did learn to adapt to instance groups and played off and on since then.
I don't play now due to server population. When they release the Origins server, I will resub. By the way OP, Mythic did hold up their promise to bring PvP to all lvls of the game, just not in the time you wanted them to. You can now PvP 1-50 and never kill a PvE mob if you don't want. It'll just take longer since not all BG's are active. There is also no game mechanic stopping low levels from doing RvR. I remember RvRing with my guild early on and I shot up in levels when we got some kills. If every realm included their low levels in RvR, it'd really work out better. So it's really the communities fault for being afraid to RvR in the lower levels.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
For me it was TOA. I really enjoyed the RVR...(and later the FFA PVP) 0had 5 or 6 characters at 50 across several servers.
But then TOA came out, and forced me to go back to the PVE, or be left behind in terms of valuable PVP super-powers.
I had never raided before, and I didn't like it. (I later learned to raid in WOW, and I still don't like it). They also added in item grinding..another hateful concept which I despised. I spent a lot of time leveling up my crafting, it should have remained useful. TOA didn't totally ruin that mechanic, that came in later expansions but I was long gone by then.
So basically, they ruined a swell pvp game by forcing everyone to pve again. Hopefully WAR will never make that same mistake.
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I played DAoC about a month after release until WoW came out. Went to wow, got to 60 and found out I hated raiding. Then I came back to DAoC. I played on the Classic server and got a few different 50's on various realms.
In the end I ended up leaving mostly because of the cross-realming. People had mids, albs and hibs on the classic cluster and all they had to do was switch between them depending on what side was winning. It broke the whole "realm pride" and killed a good chunk of the game for me. Others realized this too and they decided to leave as well adding to the already small population which was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm looking forward to the Origins server but I still have some reservations. I'm not sure how the whole bot mechanic will work, will there be portal timers that slow the influx of people so that getting out to the battle field meant something... all that kind of stuff. Until it's released I won't know for sure if I will want to come back or not.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
I have sincere Origins reservations too. I have many toons on classic and toa servers, and honestly don't feel like levelling from 1-50 from scratch anymore. I think that people still look at the release version of DAOC with rose colored glasses and forget all the stuff that we didn't like about the game back then. The biggest problem I see is that Frontiers are not going to be all that great. There was a reason Mythic changed to NF, and it was because everybody complained about OF. The milegate camps sucked, the keeps were horribly designed and a pain to play around, the relics were rediculously difficult to get at times, blah, blah... Yeah it was fun to a degree, but it wasn't "all that." It will be interesting to see what Mythic really does though.
I played DAoC about a month after release until WoW came out. Went to wow, got to 60 and found out I hated raiding. Then I came back to DAoC. I played on the Classic server and got a few different 50's on various realms.
In the end I ended up leaving mostly because of the cross-realming. People had mids, albs and hibs on the classic cluster and all they had to do was switch between them depending on what side was winning. It broke the whole "realm pride" and killed a good chunk of the game for me. Others realized this too and they decided to leave as well adding to the already small population which was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm looking forward to the Origins server but I still have some reservations. I'm not sure how the whole bot mechanic will work, will there be portal timers that slow the influx of people so that getting out to the battle field meant something... all that kind of stuff. Until it's released I won't know for sure if I will want to come back or not.
Hi,
I don't mean to put you on the spot and you type like you have some sense, so it is not my intention to get on your bad side, however, I do have a question about what you wrote. You said that you have several 50's on all 3 realms on the Classic server. Then you complained about cross realmers and realm pride. I'm not sure when you started playing DAoC, but when I played realm pride meant, not playing other realms as well. Also, if you have 50's on other realms on the Classic server, didn't you as well go from 1 realm to the next when you fealt like it? In other words, you cross realmed instead of picking a realm and sticking with it.
Maybe you worded your post bad, but that's what I got from it. It sorta made no sense to me.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
Originally posted by JK-Kanosi Hi, I don't mean to put you on the spot and you type like you have some sense, so it is not my intention to get on your bad side, however, I do have a question about what you wrote. You said that you have several 50's on all 3 realms on the Classic server. Then you complained about cross realmers and realm pride. I'm not sure when you started playing DAoC, but when I played realm pride meant, not playing other realms as well. Also, if you have 50's on other realms on the Classic server, didn't you as well go from 1 realm to the next when you fealt like it? In other words, you cross realmed instead of picking a realm and sticking with it. Maybe you worded your post bad, but that's what I got from it. It sorta made no sense to me.
That's cool, I'm all for explaining.
I had various 50's on the various classic servers before they were clustered. Later on when they got clustered my toons stayed and I had access to them with no timer or some sort of mechanic that would keep me from then for a certain amount of time. It's one of the things I didn't like. I didn't do the realm switch after the cluster and played my Mids only. The problem was once the cluster took effect people went and made characters of different realms on the 3 different servers, having hibs on Lamorak, Mids on Ector and albs on the 3rd one that I can't remember then name (not necessarily in that order). Perhaps I'm being too harsh and they were just looking for action 100% of the time but I never did.
Hope that helps you out.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
The cross realming is just a part of DAOC life now. You either live with it, or you just leave. Personally, I tend to stick with one realm for about 3 months or so before I move back to one of the others. Interestingly though, only my hibs and mids got clustered.
I have to mention though that before clustering, the cross-realming still existed. I remember several people who had multiple accounts and used them to the same purpose. Not as prevalent, but still existed.
Originally posted by JK-Kanosi Hi, I don't mean to put you on the spot and you type like you have some sense, so it is not my intention to get on your bad side, however, I do have a question about what you wrote. You said that you have several 50's on all 3 realms on the Classic server. Then you complained about cross realmers and realm pride. I'm not sure when you started playing DAoC, but when I played realm pride meant, not playing other realms as well. Also, if you have 50's on other realms on the Classic server, didn't you as well go from 1 realm to the next when you fealt like it? In other words, you cross realmed instead of picking a realm and sticking with it. Maybe you worded your post bad, but that's what I got from it. It sorta made no sense to me.
That's cool, I'm all for explaining.
I had various 50's on the various classic servers before they were clustered. Later on when they got clustered my toons stayed and I had access to them with no timer or some sort of mechanic that would keep me from then for a certain amount of time. It's one of the things I didn't like. I didn't do the realm switch after the cluster and played my Mids only. The problem was once the cluster took effect people went and made characters of different realms on the 3 different servers, having hibs on Lamorak, Mids on Ector and albs on the 3rd one that I can't remember then name (not necessarily in that order). Perhaps I'm being too harsh and they were just looking for action 100% of the time but I never did.
Hope that helps you out.
Thank you for explaining. Yeah, I know what cross-realming is and I don't like it either. I read what the poster said below you and I can agree and disagree with him.
You see, I can understand a person switching realms after getting tired of playing one for several months. I think when people refer to cross-realming, they are referring to those who switch to whichever realm is winning at the time. That is actually poor sportsmanship and is a attribute that would drive gamers away.
I'm glad that there will only be one server for Origins, which will return DAoC to a game it should be.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
The cross realming is just a part of DAOC life now. You either live with it, or you just leave.
That's exactly the kind of attitude that the community in the game doesn't need. Sure, force the remaining few thousand of subscribers away, so you only have several hundred to play with. I bet that will make for some fun RvR battles. To each their own though. I left a few years ago, and I will only return when Origins comes back. But even then, I've realized that the community I played with years ago, no longer plays or they have changed so much, I don't even recognize them anymore.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
I floated through this and though haven't posted much over the years, I figured I would go ahead and jump in. I started Daoc from launch, the game just felt incomplete so I left around level 30 . A friend of mine got me back in with the first expansion where I made a reaver and fell in love with the game. When TOA hit , I became a complete addict, well it helped that right at the time I got laid off for 2 months and had massive amounts of playtime. It was nothing to do the ML's and artifacts non-stop. Unfortunately as soon as New Frontiers hit I was completely letdown, for I hated that change. Tried to come back a few times but just couldn't get back into it.
With Origins around the corner I thought of coming back, but then again, I'm afraid it just might seem to dated. Maybe the huge population that will congregate to the server right away will make me ignore how dated the game is.
All in all, was right up there with Eq1 for me..........nothing has gripped me like those 2 games since.
I was in Thidranki (lvl 20-24 battleground) and was playing my warrior at the time. We were attempting to take the center keep and as soon as we started blowing holes in the wall and the hibs started coming in to defend. They started doing a good job of it and we got pushed out of the keep before we could drop the inner door. As soon as we got pushed outside about 20 mids logged off and about 2 minutes later about the same amount of hibs showed up. The worst part is their names had only a slight variation compared to their mid toons. Sometimes only adding an X to the end of their name or what not.
Really bothered me at that point and the more I saw it happen the less I wanted to play until I just quit. Having a scout who you just killed on Agramon near the mid entrance to the labyrinth log on to his mid hunter and say "wow you really owned me good on my scout, you wanna grp and go kill some others?" kinda takes away from it all.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
The cross realming is just a part of DAOC life now. You either live with it, or you just leave.
That's exactly the kind of attitude that the community in the game doesn't need. Sure, force the remaining few thousand of subscribers away, so you only have several hundred to play with. I bet that will make for some fun RvR battles. To each their own though. I left a few years ago, and I will only return when Origins comes back. But even then, I've realized that the community I played with years ago, no longer plays or they have changed so much, I don't even recognize them anymore.
Thank you for explaining. Yeah, I know what cross-realming is and I don't like it either. I read what the poster said below you and I can agree and disagree with him. You see, I can understand a person switching realms after getting tired of playing one for several months. I think when people refer to cross-realming, they are referring to those who switch to whichever realm is winning at the time. That is actually poor sportsmanship and is a attribute that would drive gamers away. I'm glad that there will only be one server for Origins, which will return DAoC to a game it should be.
I think you will be disappointed. People will still cross-realm, they are too used to it. There are entire guilds set up to cross-realm and they will ruin Origins just like they ruin the other servers. Anyhow, my guildies don't plan on moving over so I probably won't.
Thank you for explaining. Yeah, I know what cross-realming is and I don't like it either. I read what the poster said below you and I can agree and disagree with him. You see, I can understand a person switching realms after getting tired of playing one for several months. I think when people refer to cross-realming, they are referring to those who switch to whichever realm is winning at the time. That is actually poor sportsmanship and is a attribute that would drive gamers away. I'm glad that there will only be one server for Origins, which will return DAoC to a game it should be.
I think you will be disappointed. People will still cross-realm, they are too used to it. There are entire guilds set up to cross-realm and they will ruin Origins just like they ruin the other servers. Anyhow, my guildies don't plan on moving over so I probably won't.
How can you cross-realm when there is only going to be one server?...Unless they delete and re-lvl really quickly
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How can you cross-realm when there is only going to be one server?...Unless they delete and re-lvl really quickly
Cross-realmers are min-maxers, which means there is a pretty high probability they also have bot accounts. With Mythic putting NPC buffs in the frontiers, what do you think people are going to do with their bot accounts? Some will cancel, but some will also take that second account and use it to cross-realm. I know I'm not going to cancel my bot account just because I want to continue to play on ToA.
I know a lot of people run classic, but that doesn't mean they don't have bots too. I know I ran a bot in classic, either for speed, endurance, buffs, heals, etc.
I began about a year after it's initial release. Made a full spec Dark RM and played for 2 solid years.
Unlike several, I rather enjoyed TOA. It seemed like a pleasant deviation from rvr day in and day out, and besides rvr wasn't much fun until Primetime when everyone was out, so in between that I would do some pve in TOA.
After my first year, I made red spec troll shammy to ride w/ me. rm speed + perma end = about 98% skald speed. Then just followed groups around when I was feeling saucey. Stop short of the enemy with the other group in front of me, stand within my troll shammy (I was a wee kobold), to hide myself then disbanded my bot. The Realm Points FLEW.
Then the nerf came short of Frontiers (I believe it was), my casting speed and dps were cut 30% literally overnight. Furthermore, MoC was gutted. That sucked. My will was sapped at that moment and I never relogged back in.
I played for roughly two years, left after a month or so of TOA. I just didn't like the direction the game was heading in, would rather have seen them concentrate on fixes, balacing and frontiers than going down the loot whoring/raiding route. Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed my time playing, haven't played a game that comes close the enjoyment that RvR and keep sieges/defence provide. I tried to play again on the classic servers a few months back but couldn't get into it, probably because all my friends and guild had gone. It's like an old ex-girlfriend, you had an amazing time together, you split up, then bumped into each other again after a few years, decide to try again... only to discover that things will never feel the same.
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Played from release till they released NF which destroyed any last semblance of the great game around release that *I* remembered as Daoc.
I played DAoC since a month or so after launch. I heard about it thru word of mouth and didnt want to
"get sucked in to a game like evercrack"
So..... I lost the job I had around the time I started playing, and thats all she wrote from there!
Total 15 hour a day addiction to the game for 4 years.
I left because everyone seemed mad at daoc for changing the maps and making the land mass ballanced so they all went to wow. So I followed the masses. Even at its height I had better days in DAoC than any in wow, but the thought of playing back in camelot with nobody there wasnt appealing.
I did play for ovwer 3 years..
first 2 years on US roleplay servers which was the best experience ever, after that i joined the European servers to play with some real life friends..
I just didn't like the attitude at the european servers, it was a nich game and there was no roleplaying. I choose the wrong class in europe (Necromancer) where my heart was still in MIdgard.
AFter ToA i grew tired with the game, as i had been playing with a very tight group of real time friends, the raiding content in ToA didn't appeal to me with my Necromancer. I tried leveling another toon (Sorceror) but it was to late and i lost interest..
AFter 6 years (3 years EQ and 3 years DAoC) it was time for a little sabaticall...
I returned to MMO's with WOW and EQ2 (both in beta) soon after that tough
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
I played DaOC when it was open beta in europe.
Then i finaly played as a Hibernia tree hugers,
It was a very hard to level up insanly hard grinding in that day and the hybies had dungeons that didnt even drop loot or gold since it wasent even itemized yet.
Only Albion and Midgar where beter itemized and had a easier time leveling up.
Think i quited around level 50 im not so sure.
Realm vs realm was kinda a keep zerg tho, and the 2 weaker sides always joinend forces against Midgar, in my server that is.
I never bought any expansion, but I think it has changed alot since then?
Played DAOC for years.Games get stale if they are not refreshed regularly . Mythic has done a horrid job with the expansions which actually ended up driving players away from the game.Mythic has never had the ability to listen to it's player base and be able to sort out the childish ranting of some players from the intelligent comments of others.ALL get the deaf ear...and unrelenting nerfing.
I played DAoC consistently from 2002-2005 when Catacombs came out. I tried Catacombs and didn't like what the expansion did to overland groupinp, so I quit the Spring of 2005. I voted for the Classic servers, and was happy when they actually came out with them that summer. However, the Classic server didn't solve the lack of groups overland. I did learn to adapt to instance groups and played off and on since then.
I don't play now due to server population. When they release the Origins server, I will resub. By the way OP, Mythic did hold up their promise to bring PvP to all lvls of the game, just not in the time you wanted them to. You can now PvP 1-50 and never kill a PvE mob if you don't want. It'll just take longer since not all BG's are active. There is also no game mechanic stopping low levels from doing RvR. I remember RvRing with my guild early on and I shot up in levels when we got some kills. If every realm included their low levels in RvR, it'd really work out better. So it's really the communities fault for being afraid to RvR in the lower levels.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
For me it was TOA. I really enjoyed the RVR...(and later the FFA PVP) 0had 5 or 6 characters at 50 across several servers.
But then TOA came out, and forced me to go back to the PVE, or be left behind in terms of valuable PVP super-powers.
I had never raided before, and I didn't like it. (I later learned to raid in WOW, and I still don't like it). They also added in item grinding..another hateful concept which I despised. I spent a lot of time leveling up my crafting, it should have remained useful. TOA didn't totally ruin that mechanic, that came in later expansions but I was long gone by then.
So basically, they ruined a swell pvp game by forcing everyone to pve again. Hopefully WAR will never make that same mistake.
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Post #34 made my brain hurt.
Trammies need to stop polluting the MMORPG landscape. They already have enough games in which to emote hugs and sell garbage by the banks.
No kidding.
I played DAoC about a month after release until WoW came out. Went to wow, got to 60 and found out I hated raiding. Then I came back to DAoC. I played on the Classic server and got a few different 50's on various realms.
In the end I ended up leaving mostly because of the cross-realming. People had mids, albs and hibs on the classic cluster and all they had to do was switch between them depending on what side was winning. It broke the whole "realm pride" and killed a good chunk of the game for me. Others realized this too and they decided to leave as well adding to the already small population which was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm looking forward to the Origins server but I still have some reservations. I'm not sure how the whole bot mechanic will work, will there be portal timers that slow the influx of people so that getting out to the battle field meant something... all that kind of stuff. Until it's released I won't know for sure if I will want to come back or not.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
I have sincere Origins reservations too. I have many toons on classic and toa servers, and honestly don't feel like levelling from 1-50 from scratch anymore. I think that people still look at the release version of DAOC with rose colored glasses and forget all the stuff that we didn't like about the game back then. The biggest problem I see is that Frontiers are not going to be all that great. There was a reason Mythic changed to NF, and it was because everybody complained about OF. The milegate camps sucked, the keeps were horribly designed and a pain to play around, the relics were rediculously difficult to get at times, blah, blah... Yeah it was fun to a degree, but it wasn't "all that." It will be interesting to see what Mythic really does though.
No kidding.
I played DAoC about a month after release until WoW came out. Went to wow, got to 60 and found out I hated raiding. Then I came back to DAoC. I played on the Classic server and got a few different 50's on various realms.
In the end I ended up leaving mostly because of the cross-realming. People had mids, albs and hibs on the classic cluster and all they had to do was switch between them depending on what side was winning. It broke the whole "realm pride" and killed a good chunk of the game for me. Others realized this too and they decided to leave as well adding to the already small population which was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm looking forward to the Origins server but I still have some reservations. I'm not sure how the whole bot mechanic will work, will there be portal timers that slow the influx of people so that getting out to the battle field meant something... all that kind of stuff. Until it's released I won't know for sure if I will want to come back or not.
Hi,
I don't mean to put you on the spot and you type like you have some sense, so it is not my intention to get on your bad side, however, I do have a question about what you wrote. You said that you have several 50's on all 3 realms on the Classic server. Then you complained about cross realmers and realm pride. I'm not sure when you started playing DAoC, but when I played realm pride meant, not playing other realms as well. Also, if you have 50's on other realms on the Classic server, didn't you as well go from 1 realm to the next when you fealt like it? In other words, you cross realmed instead of picking a realm and sticking with it.
Maybe you worded your post bad, but that's what I got from it. It sorta made no sense to me.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
That's cool, I'm all for explaining.
I had various 50's on the various classic servers before they were clustered. Later on when they got clustered my toons stayed and I had access to them with no timer or some sort of mechanic that would keep me from then for a certain amount of time. It's one of the things I didn't like. I didn't do the realm switch after the cluster and played my Mids only. The problem was once the cluster took effect people went and made characters of different realms on the 3 different servers, having hibs on Lamorak, Mids on Ector and albs on the 3rd one that I can't remember then name (not necessarily in that order). Perhaps I'm being too harsh and they were just looking for action 100% of the time but I never did.
Hope that helps you out.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Gareth is the other classic server.
The cross realming is just a part of DAOC life now. You either live with it, or you just leave. Personally, I tend to stick with one realm for about 3 months or so before I move back to one of the others. Interestingly though, only my hibs and mids got clustered.
I have to mention though that before clustering, the cross-realming still existed. I remember several people who had multiple accounts and used them to the same purpose. Not as prevalent, but still existed.
That's cool, I'm all for explaining.
I had various 50's on the various classic servers before they were clustered. Later on when they got clustered my toons stayed and I had access to them with no timer or some sort of mechanic that would keep me from then for a certain amount of time. It's one of the things I didn't like. I didn't do the realm switch after the cluster and played my Mids only. The problem was once the cluster took effect people went and made characters of different realms on the 3 different servers, having hibs on Lamorak, Mids on Ector and albs on the 3rd one that I can't remember then name (not necessarily in that order). Perhaps I'm being too harsh and they were just looking for action 100% of the time but I never did.
Hope that helps you out.
Thank you for explaining. Yeah, I know what cross-realming is and I don't like it either. I read what the poster said below you and I can agree and disagree with him.
You see, I can understand a person switching realms after getting tired of playing one for several months. I think when people refer to cross-realming, they are referring to those who switch to whichever realm is winning at the time. That is actually poor sportsmanship and is a attribute that would drive gamers away.
I'm glad that there will only be one server for Origins, which will return DAoC to a game it should be.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
That's exactly the kind of attitude that the community in the game doesn't need. Sure, force the remaining few thousand of subscribers away, so you only have several hundred to play with. I bet that will make for some fun RvR battles. To each their own though. I left a few years ago, and I will only return when Origins comes back. But even then, I've realized that the community I played with years ago, no longer plays or they have changed so much, I don't even recognize them anymore.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
I floated through this and though haven't posted much over the years, I figured I would go ahead and jump in. I started Daoc from launch, the game just felt incomplete so I left around level 30 . A friend of mine got me back in with the first expansion where I made a reaver and fell in love with the game. When TOA hit , I became a complete addict, well it helped that right at the time I got laid off for 2 months and had massive amounts of playtime. It was nothing to do the ML's and artifacts non-stop. Unfortunately as soon as New Frontiers hit I was completely letdown, for I hated that change. Tried to come back a few times but just couldn't get back into it.
With Origins around the corner I thought of coming back, but then again, I'm afraid it just might seem to dated. Maybe the huge population that will congregate to the server right away will make me ignore how dated the game is.
All in all, was right up there with Eq1 for me..........nothing has gripped me like those 2 games since.
The best example of this I can give you is this:
I was in Thidranki (lvl 20-24 battleground) and was playing my warrior at the time. We were attempting to take the center keep and as soon as we started blowing holes in the wall and the hibs started coming in to defend. They started doing a good job of it and we got pushed out of the keep before we could drop the inner door. As soon as we got pushed outside about 20 mids logged off and about 2 minutes later about the same amount of hibs showed up. The worst part is their names had only a slight variation compared to their mid toons. Sometimes only adding an X to the end of their name or what not.
Really bothered me at that point and the more I saw it happen the less I wanted to play until I just quit. Having a scout who you just killed on Agramon near the mid entrance to the labyrinth log on to his mid hunter and say "wow you really owned me good on my scout, you wanna grp and go kill some others?" kinda takes away from it all.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
That's exactly the kind of attitude that the community in the game doesn't need. Sure, force the remaining few thousand of subscribers away, so you only have several hundred to play with. I bet that will make for some fun RvR battles. To each their own though. I left a few years ago, and I will only return when Origins comes back. But even then, I've realized that the community I played with years ago, no longer plays or they have changed so much, I don't even recognize them anymore.
You completely misunderstood me but whatever.
I think you will be disappointed. People will still cross-realm, they are too used to it. There are entire guilds set up to cross-realm and they will ruin Origins just like they ruin the other servers. Anyhow, my guildies don't plan on moving over so I probably won't.
I played and quit because it was a clunky engine with dated graphics, and I wanted to play things that took advantage of my hardware
It was quite fun though.. If someone had a modern version that was smoother.. that'd be great
I think you will be disappointed. People will still cross-realm, they are too used to it. There are entire guilds set up to cross-realm and they will ruin Origins just like they ruin the other servers. Anyhow, my guildies don't plan on moving over so I probably won't.
How can you cross-realm when there is only going to be one server?...Unless they delete and re-lvl really quickly
currently playing: FFXI
Waiting for FFXIV to be updated more.
Cross-realmers are min-maxers, which means there is a pretty high probability they also have bot accounts. With Mythic putting NPC buffs in the frontiers, what do you think people are going to do with their bot accounts? Some will cancel, but some will also take that second account and use it to cross-realm. I know I'm not going to cancel my bot account just because I want to continue to play on ToA.
I know a lot of people run classic, but that doesn't mean they don't have bots too. I know I ran a bot in classic, either for speed, endurance, buffs, heals, etc.
I began about a year after it's initial release. Made a full spec Dark RM and played for 2 solid years.
Unlike several, I rather enjoyed TOA. It seemed like a pleasant deviation from rvr day in and day out, and besides rvr wasn't much fun until Primetime when everyone was out, so in between that I would do some pve in TOA.
After my first year, I made red spec troll shammy to ride w/ me. rm speed + perma end = about 98% skald speed. Then just followed groups around when I was feeling saucey. Stop short of the enemy with the other group in front of me, stand within my troll shammy (I was a wee kobold), to hide myself then disbanded my bot. The Realm Points FLEW.
Then the nerf came short of Frontiers (I believe it was), my casting speed and dps were cut 30% literally overnight. Furthermore, MoC was gutted. That sucked. My will was sapped at that moment and I never relogged back in.
I played for roughly two years, left after a month or so of TOA. I just didn't like the direction the game was heading in, would rather have seen them concentrate on fixes, balacing and frontiers than going down the loot whoring/raiding route. Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed my time playing, haven't played a game that comes close the enjoyment that RvR and keep sieges/defence provide. I tried to play again on the classic servers a few months back but couldn't get into it, probably because all my friends and guild had gone. It's like an old ex-girlfriend, you had an amazing time together, you split up, then bumped into each other again after a few years, decide to try again... only to discover that things will never feel the same.
Playing: Nothing
Retired: Runescape, DAoC, SWG, Planetside, Guild Wars, WoW, EVE, Battleground Europe, LOTRO, AoC, WAR.
Tried: Pretty much everything!