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MMORPGs with player-controlled mercs
DoctorDread
Member Posts: 5
Hello Everyone,
I am on a quest to find a few more games that have the same type of player controlled mercenaries that Atlantica Online has. I really enjoy the ability to hire mercenaries and the turn based fight in classic. So my quest is to find a few more game that have the same characteristics. It is very hard to search through every MMO to find the right combination and with that I have decided to ask everyone here.
Here is the minimum the game must have:
Crafting
PvP
PvE
The ability to have more mercenaries in your group like Atlantica Online.
Lots of quests
I appreciate everyone's help.
Thank you
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Guild Wars? No crafting, and no control, but definitely party members that are npcs.
DDO, you can hire mercs, don't think they are controllable.
Can always just play the classic games with pets
You have full control over heros in Guild Wars, up to 7. That means you're basically soloing with NPCs, tho, as 8 is the maximum group size. It's also more effective to simply let the AI control your heros because the game is pretty fast paced.
I'd be interested in more games like Atlantica Online as well, any recommendations?
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I have been playing Atlantica Online for a while now and it has some great features. What has kept my enjoyment up about this game is a balance of crafting and quests. I hope there are some more games coming out with the same type feature set.
I have a good friend who plays Guild Wars and I think it is a great game. So you can have mercs in your group on Guild wars? I might have to ask my friend how that works. It is a lot of fun having the different skill sets for each character and using them in battle.
Again, appreciate everyone's help,
Dread
Perhaps, OP, you can explain why you don't just play Atlantica Online as it has what you are looking for? Is there a feature that is game breaking for you so that you want to find another game?
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so far, like others have mentioned, your best bet is either Guild Wars or DDO. DDO you purchase mercenary contracts, which are pretty easy to lose. and you have to buy them from the cash shop. pretty sure you can get them in-game, but its easier to just use the cash shop.
Guild Wars i know you can get mercenaries from one of the expansions, not sure if they opened that up in the other areas of the game though
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." William Saroyan
Well, I suppose if we are going that route, LOTRO will also have mercenaries for certain skirmish dungeons in the next update in the fall.
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EVE online has all of that.
PvP: Militia warfare, corporation warfare, lawless space fights, pirating.
PvE: All over the place via belt mobs.
Crafting: Thats basically a whole other game in this one, so much to learn and collect and make. Pretty nice if you have the time and patience to do it all.
Mercs: Quite a few corporations that rely on being mercs as their soul source of income. Really good business.
Quest: Well their called missions and they're endless.
EVE does take a good bit of getting used to and the learning curve is pretty steep but once you get the hang of it it's really awesome. Internet space ships... what more could you want.
Sword of the new world has an option to play 3 characters and you have total control over them just like atlantica, but here you play with 3 characters even when out of combat.
The henchmen/heroes system of Guild Wars is rather different from the mercenaries system of Atlantica, but it might still be something like what you're looking for. In Guild Wars, the party size varies, but is most commonly eight. Those can be eight players, or some smaller number of players with the remaining party members filled in by henchmen or heroes, which are AI party members. Henchmen have fixed builds and you can't really control them that much other than to plant a flag that basically says "stand over here when you fight".
Heroes give you a lot more control, as you can set a hero's particular build to whatever you want. You can tell a hero to use particular skills at particular times, to target particular mobs, or to stand in particular places. Heroes are also autonomous enough that they'll fight on their own if you don't give them specific commands, but you can override what their normal AI would make them do. Atlantica makes you manually tell your mercenaries what to do at every step, while in Guild Wars, you're definitely controlling one main character while mostly letting heroes do their own thing. You can get 26 heroes in Guild Wars, but can only have three active at a time. If there are mutliple players in a party, each player can have up to three heroes, so long as you don't exceed the party size limit. Someone playing by himself who wants a full party can usually bring three heroes and fill in the rest of the party with henchmen. You can upgrade a hero's gear by giving him weapons, runes, and insignias, and a hero does level, but reaches the level cap quickly (and many heroes start out at the level cap). Leveling heroes in Guild Wars is quite unlike leveling mercenaries in Atlantica, in which you'll forever be trying to get your mercenaries to catch up in level, and make the situation much worse if you ever want to swap them out. Heroes in Guild Wars are designed to be swapped out often, so that you can equip quite a few and then bring whichever three are most appropriate to what you want to do at the time.
Guild Wars does both PVP and PVE a lot better than Atlantica, as neither are dominated by higher levels and better gear the way they are in Atlantica. Guild Wars also has a lot of quests, and unlike Atlantica, there's a lot of variety in the Guild Wars quests, unlike the formulaic quests that Atlantica mostly uses.
Guild Wars doesn't really have a crafting system, though. It does sort of have one, I guess, but crafting consists of, get materials and gold, take them to an NPC, and he'll craft the item for you. Atlantica has an actual crafting system, though not a good one, as it's only of the "something stupid to grind levels in" variety. I like the Guild Wars approach better, as neither offer meaningful content, but the Guild Wars approach manages to not be a nuisance, which is more than can be said for Atlantica's.
LOL Sovrath, it's funny that you ask. My boy wants to play Atlantica Online because he likes those features and I have learned not to allow my boy to play the same game I do because he asks for all my money, and a ton of free stuff simply because he does not want to earn his own. So I am looking for a game that will best suit him and still has most of the same feature set that Atlantica Online does.
LOL Sovrath, it's funny that you ask. My boy wants to play Atlantica Online because he likes those features and I have learned not to allow my boy to play the same game I do because he asks for all my money, and a ton of free stuff simply because he does not want to earn his own. So I am looking for a game that will best suit him and still has most of the same feature set that Atlantica Online does.
lol! Well, in that case I would just make him play a different server. Or make him earn everything as life lesson.
essentially, "leggo my eggo"
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Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
I know what you mean, my son wanted to play Sword of the New World with me and he wound up driving my away from the game. very sad moment indeed. I tried to use that as a life lesson but he badgered me to the point of absolute exhaustion and that was my fault. So lesson learned, he does not play any game I am currently playing...Now I could try having him play on a different server, that might stop the pestering. I might try that.