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Hey all...I have a quick opinion question. for those of you who have played CoH and are in the beta for etiher WoW or EQ2 or both (lucky you!). Are they (EQ2 or WoW) worth leaving CoH for? I love CoH (soloing ability, teaming, concept) but i miss my fantasy type games. Give me your opinions and please don't flame someone else for having a different opinion than your own
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I have not played any of the above games, but from what I have heard, it would be good to switch. At least until the CoV expansion comes out. Then you'd have more to do. I'm going to give you a set of Ear Plugs of Uber Quietness +5 and a pat on the back while I make my quick leave cuz I can already see the war approaching this post.
G'luck! Cheers,
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This seems like an easy question to answer, depending on your budget and how much time you've got to play games.
If you can afford it, you can do like I will be doing and keep 2 subscriptions going, City of Heroes and Everquest II. I will probably be spending most of my time playing EQ II, but City of Heroes is a lot of fun, even for just a little while, it is worth it. Too much of CoH can get really boring anyway, so I limit my time playing as it is.
I originally thought that when EQ II came out I would finally get to concentrate on just one mmorpg, but City of Heroes is surprisingly good and I like to too much to quit.
So if I were you, I would manage my budget and time so that I could play those two games.
I was a stress test beta player for World of Warcraft. Although it was a short time to play the game (10 days, during the school year) I got completely and utterly hooked on the game.
The greatesting thing about the game is the fact that the developers painstakingly polished the game to perfection. The character models are near believable and highly detailed. The landscape is breathtakingly beautiful or perhaps even frightenning, given effects and critters to spice up the surroundings. Unlike some games which recycle the graphics to the extreme, WoW seems to have been fully developed to a degree that everywhere you walk seems distinctly different. Walking through a town of night elves or humans, you can quite literally feel as if you've walked into the first person game of warcraft 3.
The character classes have a unique system of balance (which is still being tweaked.) Weather your a hunter, warrior, priest, druid, mage, Thief, or shaman, each class has enough of a specialty to make it stand alone in a duel or fight. A particular interesting part about each class is that each class has different ways of gaining "mana". While casters have your typical magic points, warriors have a rage system of mana to which the more damage they do, the more rage they get and can use more and more powerful attacks as you get more rage. Or Thieves, who get "skill" to unlock their particular talents. With care, every character class can be soloable.
One thing that distinguishes this game from EverQuest or other MMORPGs is an active plotline for whatever land you happen to live in. By completing missions (which can give you just as much if not more xp than crunching mobs) you can learn hints of storyline, follow a story arch, even get tidbits into the background of the game. Help the Night Elves beat back the corruption of the land. or assist the orcs is beating back Admiral Proudmores Second Fleet. A unique system of rewards lets you choose from one of multiple objects (sometimes armor, other times food or weapons) apon completion of a quest. Although NPC's aren't as interactive as to answer to key words in conversations like EQ, I far prefer the quest system in WoW in not only ease of recall (a quest list system that provides you with the difficulty of the quest compared to your level, a quest description, and a tally of how far you've gotten to complete the objectives) and the varieghty of tasks to perform.
The game is amazingly well designed and developed. But then again, it's blizzard: they're known for perfectionism. But keep in mind if you want to try WoW, it is not catered to powergamers. It's a role playing game designed to step into the world of warcraft and experience an alien environment first person. The game can be powergamed, but you'll end up being high level with reputation and a feeling that you've missed something for the entire game.
There are also rumors (although I have not seen it in my 10 day trial) that the GM's manage the scourge. And that they take out Arthas and invade cities on occasion. As well as hold other GM events to keep the 60+'s (not excluding the lower level players) from getting bored.
After beta testing the game for just 10 days, I've already pre-ordered the game. I've set up to cancel EQ and Galaxies (I would cancel CoH, but I have several friends that still play it still) And wait eagerly for the release next month while I stave off my WoW addiction... I have no idea of the long term gameplay of WoW, but if it keeps up like the first 20 levels. it'll be a blast.
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On a side note, CoH was a great game. But the replay value was lacking in my opinion. Great game none the less! But quite repeatative.
its up to you man...I play multipule mmorpgs....I play eq....coh....daoc...and other games like warcraft......counter-strike etc....and I will be playing eq2 and wow.....so I mean its up to you man
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"Everyones life has a beginning and an end, No one can change that."-Hiko
"If you wish to taste the ground, then feel free to attack."-Kenshin Himura
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NCsoft is releasing a medieval(althought weird) game, I have no idea about when, but they do.
Personnally I just dont play any game I cant reach the top of what I am doing, I group and I solo, I will NOT raid or PvP, I wont enjoy tradeskilling, but well, I would lie if I say tradeskilling would completely stop me, althought I rather not have to tradeskill. The fact that I reach or not the top is irrelevant, as long as I can!
You wont be able to reach the top of what you are doing in EQ2 or WoW unless you raid...the game set itself offlimit alone, no help needed!
- "Some peoples think I am a geek because, they say, that I think I save the world. They are wrong, I dont think I save the world, I did save the world!''
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Honestly, even though I hated most of WoW, I have to admit it does seem a better choice than CoH for me (for ME, yes if I had the choice I'd buy WoW over CoH in a heartbeat). Overall, WoW has tons more content than CoH does, even after both of CoH's massive updates. Even if the talent tree is almost like choosing a pool power, and the inablity to actually alter your character aside from equipment choices AND that talent tree once you've finished making them. Honestly, WoW is a better experience than CoH and the combat is a little more involved, but when I hit level 23 for my warrior orc I was able to solo a few things while cooking food downstairs. :x hopefully they fixed that (I left a while back). Best part was the environmental graphics, I'm a sucker for that stuff, and they had much more diversity (and even PvP! even though I'm not into that.) than CoH did.
My advice? If you don't want to or cannot spend some extra time playing, I'd say stay with CoH. Good fast game for what it's worth. WoW just 'feels' a bit slower paced than CoH does sometimes, but again, it's good for what it's worth. Overall it's like comparing the original unreal (in depth, more story driven, but still pretty action packed, like WoW) to unreal tournament (pure twitch gaming).
I can already hear the hooves of a thousand hateful fanboys jumping on my back, "OMG HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE WOW, YOU LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING THE GAME IS!!!"
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As a casual player, WoW is fun for the week of stress test i did. Easy to find quests, fun to explore, lots of places to go, simple to play. Just the classes and races seemed bare and no room for customization, so everyone is the same, and there are few classes too.
CoH is fun if you like the mindless kicking ass, being a superhero, customizing your hero, the looks.
No nothing of EQ2.
I played CoH and i also did the stress test beta for WoW (cant speak for eq2 here) I would definately leave CoH for WoW. The game will be alot of fun imo and thats why most of us play MMO's i think. At the very least buy the game give it a 30 day trial and make your decision after youve played it or maybe try the open beta if/when it comes out.
They are two entirely different games and design goals and premise, can't really compare the two.