I didnt had the luck to play Daoc from the launch we stucked with some friends with wow for around 5 years O(i quitted wow 1 year ago).
Around then i got a daoc trial so i can see for my self what doac is about and since ive read in here all praying daoc pvp as best pvp around the mmo scene had to look for myself.
1st of all i must admit i loved the huged variety of classes. One of the few mmo's around that i can play barbarian style toons.
I did tutorial and did a few quests at start to see how's combat system which for me is one of the most critical part in evry mmorpg.
Hmm after few battles with some mobs i quitted. It wasnt the bit crappy grafix (imagine im playing morrorwind right now instead of skyrim till some overhaul arrives.Never was a grafix whore. It was though the very clunky animations and usual wow/eq/l2 combat system that dissapointed me mostly.
And im asking .After all these years the devs of the game didnt launched any updates to improve animations or they did and i didnt saw it because of the trial i download? Were there any options in the graficks that i didnt setted up correctly maybe?
Dont know maybe i was too hasty to judge after playing it only 40 minutes to judge? I keep reading posts about how's daoc is the best pvp around still in the mmo scene. Anyone can comment direct me?
The core of DAOC is awesome, however, the character feedback, UI, lack of modern UI feedback from enemies while fighting, cast bar, etc. make this game impossible for me to play. Hence, if they ever make a DAOC 2 and hopefully keep the "core" of the original game intact then I'll be all over it. Until then, this along with similar older games with the same issue will just fade into history.
It's all your perspective. Leveling was never the fun part. Don't tell me you liked sitting at a tree spawn for 12 hours straight, pulling all night sessions, never really moving spots, falling asleep at your keyboard, drooling. Doing that for a month straight. That was FUN to you?
Yes actually. That was one of the main reasons I played back then actually. The leveling and end game community was that you could always find people to play with. Everyone always did everything together.
I loved the level 50 armor quests. They were so cool! Everyone would pitch in and everything ran like a well-oiled machine! I remember the first thing my level 50 friar did was kill one of those darned trees solo! LOL
I was never into RvR though (too unpredictable and friars were very squishy despite the damage they could do). TOA was okay except that DAOC insisted on large group scenarios, which many, many players warned them against during testing. It still may have worked if TOA items didn't affect RvR, but they did. Can you say revolt?
DAOC was one of the best PvE games ever. They did make the leveling a bit too easy though. I've occasionally visited the game and made it to the mid 30's within a few hours. I'm tempted to go back sometimes, but I've really burned out on online RPGs and I know I would just end up playing for a few days and canceling within a month.
Another enhancement that has been recently been implemented is that you can buy full buffs in all battlegrounds and in end game rvr. These buffs are almost equivelent to buff bot buffs. I think the difference in the end game buffs is +147 vs +151. So you can see around 5% or less difference in effectiveness. What this means is that running two accounts is no longer neccessary unless you are min maxing.
The question I have is, is it only for PVP that you can get the buffs or can you get them for PVE as well?
I remember playing DaoC where I was only happy if our country held the physical relics and if we lost both I hardly ever played because it was literally the difference between the battles just barely not being able to be won vs the battles going your way consistantly.
It's all your perspective. Leveling was never the fun part. Don't tell me you liked sitting at a tree spawn for 12 hours straight, pulling all night sessions, never really moving spots, falling asleep at your keyboard, drooling. Doing that for a month straight. That was FUN to you?
The PVE content is still challenging. There is still a purpose to farm PVE to make tons of money. The game has simply changed so that people who want to RVR solely to level and or to catch up to friends quickly...can do it with ease. And trust me the end game RVR is not care bear. Never has been and never will be.
Actually, I liked PvE and RvR equally. I actually loved spending hours camping mobs or dungeon crawling with a group. WAY better than solo grinding quests in modern MMORPGs. I even liked TOA, minus the underwater swimming part and the long boss respawns, only to be ganked from you by someone else. What I hated about DAoC was buffbots, which is why I voted for Classic servers when they ran the poll. By then, it was too late, I already tried SWG out and loved it.
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I didnt had the luck to play Daoc from the launch we stucked with some friends with wow for around 5 years O(i quitted wow 1 year ago).
Around then i got a daoc trial so i can see for my self what doac is about and since ive read in here all praying daoc pvp as best pvp around the mmo scene had to look for myself.
1st of all i must admit i loved the huged variety of classes. One of the few mmo's around that i can play barbarian style toons.
I did tutorial and did a few quests at start to see how's combat system which for me is one of the most critical part in evry mmorpg.
Hmm after few battles with some mobs i quitted. It wasnt the bit crappy grafix (imagine im playing morrorwind right now instead of skyrim till some overhaul arrives.Never was a grafix whore. It was though the very clunky animations and usual wow/eq/l2 combat system that dissapointed me mostly.
And im asking .After all these years the devs of the game didnt launched any updates to improve animations or they did and i didnt saw it because of the trial i download? Were there any options in the graficks that i didnt setted up correctly maybe?
Dont know maybe i was too hasty to judge after playing it only 40 minutes to judge? I keep reading posts about how's daoc is the best pvp around still in the mmo scene. Anyone can comment direct me?
The core of DAOC is awesome, however, the character feedback, UI, lack of modern UI feedback from enemies while fighting, cast bar, etc. make this game impossible for me to play. Hence, if they ever make a DAOC 2 and hopefully keep the "core" of the original game intact then I'll be all over it. Until then, this along with similar older games with the same issue will just fade into history.
I loved the level 50 armor quests. They were so cool! Everyone would pitch in and everything ran like a well-oiled machine! I remember the first thing my level 50 friar did was kill one of those darned trees solo! LOL
I was never into RvR though (too unpredictable and friars were very squishy despite the damage they could do). TOA was okay except that DAOC insisted on large group scenarios, which many, many players warned them against during testing. It still may have worked if TOA items didn't affect RvR, but they did. Can you say revolt?
DAOC was one of the best PvE games ever. They did make the leveling a bit too easy though. I've occasionally visited the game and made it to the mid 30's within a few hours. I'm tempted to go back sometimes, but I've really burned out on online RPGs and I know I would just end up playing for a few days and canceling within a month.
LOL I hear you on that. How they went from one of the most epic RvRvR PvP games to that utter trash called Warhammer is BEYOND me.
The question I have is, is it only for PVP that you can get the buffs or can you get them for PVE as well?
I remember playing DaoC where I was only happy if our country held the physical relics and if we lost both I hardly ever played because it was literally the difference between the battles just barely not being able to be won vs the battles going your way consistantly.
The buffs stay with you, even when you leave the bg's. I like it!
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Actually, I liked PvE and RvR equally. I actually loved spending hours camping mobs or dungeon crawling with a group. WAY better than solo grinding quests in modern MMORPGs. I even liked TOA, minus the underwater swimming part and the long boss respawns, only to be ganked from you by someone else. What I hated about DAoC was buffbots, which is why I voted for Classic servers when they ran the poll. By then, it was too late, I already tried SWG out and loved it.