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Is WoW like DAoC?
Pate08
Member Posts: 37
Is WoW like DAoC (Dark Age of Camelot)?
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No.
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Why are you reading this? This is crap compared to what's above.
I've played both games.. They are similar in the respect to it being fantasy-based, but they are still very different in content.
Personally, I think that DAoC is way more indepth with its quests, storylines and content, compared to WoW.
The WoW Battlegrounds (Compared somewhat to DAoC's RvR / Frontier areas) are a complete waste of time right now, depending on what server you join. The WoW server I've played on, I've had to wait 2+ hours just to get into a BGs fight. If you play on the WoW PvP servers, it isn't as bad cause its open PvP,and nothing stopping you from just going around and looking for <faction> to kill. With DaOC RvR / Frontier.. no wait time, and time limits.. go hard.
WoW I would say far more easier to "use" than DAoC in terms of keystrokes, key mappings and overall combat. I used to play a nightshade on DAoC, and the combinations and the number of bars you needed to use them effectively was a little insane, but managable over time. Rogues in WoW are not as complicated for combos.
(And yes, I'm still playing both games)
My 2 cents.
Yes, WoW is like DAOC 2. The next generation of DAOC. WoW is more like DAOC then other MMO's.
i played both games for a good amount of time.
Personally i find the PvE element of WoW to be far superior to DaoC. There are many more quests for one, they are more varied and have better rewards, not only in items but also in things that happens.
In addition WoW quests tends to be quite localized. meaning most quests you find in a zone deal with stuff in that zone. Of course there are world spanning quests, but most of them are local.
DaoC quests tended to let me travel a lot, on horse, making them quite longish affair.
WoW regions tends to be full of points of interest to find and explore, not that DAoC regions do not have them, but WoW's one tend to be... fuller.
I found the dungeons of WoW to be a great scripted experience with lot of monsters, loot and stuff to do in them. DaoC dungeons (at least before catacomb of which i have no experience) are also good, but not so good.
Classes: while it is true that DAoC has a gazillion of classes, they are mostly similar. There are differences between , say an Albion Armsman and a Midgard Warrior, but they are, frankly, minor.
Same thing between an hibernian Eldritch and an Albion Wizard. and so on. WoW classes tends to be very different from one another, even in ways one would not expect from "classic" classes like the fighter or the rogue. Fact is there are just 9 of them, but each of them is like a different game.
The worst part, in my opinion, of DaoC class system is the spec points. The same thing that should make you different from everybody else ends up specializing you too much in one of the three (or more) branches the classes have. I frankly prefer WoW system, that while similar, gives you ALL powers of a class and leave the specialization to IMPROVE what you already have. a small distinction, perhaps, that gives you in one case and limits you in the other.
In the end, on the PvE side, DAoC itself was a distinct improvement over EQ and WoW is a distinct improvement over DAoC. it is evident Blizzard's developers looked up Mythic's jewel and took freely what was working in that game.
The crafting system works in the same way for both systems, with the difference, though, that DaoC system do not involve mining/harvesting in the environment. It takes longer to level up (but then also the normal combat game takes longer than WoW to level up, so same concept), you can fail and lose all the items during a combine (but only for orange recipes), but you know most recipes (if not all, not sure of that) from start, so no need to spend money on that.
The PvP system is a whole another story. DAoC was always intended to be heavily based on Realms Vs Realms and that is probably the best part of the game. I, however, did not partecipate extensivly in it, not in DAoC nor in WoW, so i will leave this part to somebody's else review.
I hope this helps. Have a nice day.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
I played both games to max level and I found WoWs areas and quests to be superior to most of DAoC's quests and areas. MOST. DAoC had some very cool areas and some quests that were every bit as cool, and even more fun than WoWs. I just tried out that DAoC free return to try things out again. So I picked up Catacombs. And that expansion seems to have added alot more quests and some very interesting areas so it seems Mythic has caught up to WoW some in that area.
With the graphical upgrade, I still found WoWs graphics to be a little better. But at the same time, I prefer or more realistic look to my games, so I found DAoC's graphics more appealing.
Musical score and ambient sounds, combat sounds etc...better in WoW.
Crafting: I did a decent amount in both games, but to me crafting is crafting. I didnt enjoy it any more or less in either game.
PvP isn't even a question. DAoC blows WoW right out of the water. Its not even close.
Classes: Saying that a Midgaard warrior is the same as a Albion armsman, well to a degree, in that they are both the same is somewhat accurate. In that they are both heavy tanks. But they do have significant differences, especially in weapons/armor choices. But they both serve as the heavy tank for their realm so they have to be somewhat similar. But there is much more difference between a Midgaard warrior and an albion armsman than there is between a Horde warrior and an alliance warrior. And every realm has many classes not mirrored at ALL by another realm. Nothing like a heretic outside of albion. Most of Hybernia's classes are very distinctive, the bainshee, animist, vampiir, etc...nothing like them in any other realm. I could go on and on, but basically: yes some classes are very similar to each other between realms, but there are many more that are pretty much unique to their realm.
In the end, I found both games to be good. But someone once said somewhere in one of these forums, that WoW starts fun and gets boring, DAoC starts boring and becomes fun. And I agree wholeheartedly with that. WoW was a blast to 60, then got dull. DAoC is slow till 20 but a blast from 20-50 and stays fun at endgame. At least that was my experience.
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"To those who says WoW is cartoony I say they should have a more open mind..."
Here's the scoop: I played WoW from Beta until April. Guess what? It's cartoony. Actually, I like my wife's comments: glazed comic-strip. Does that mean bad? Nope. Just means that's what it is. If you like it, great; if you don't, great. I played it, the game got astonishingly boring and was far too bogged down with l33t-speaking idiots (and yes, /ignore only works until you realise that you're using it so often it's hindering your ability to play and no, I'm only trying to "ignore" the morons calling each other n00bs, or "pWNd!" or other idiots like that). Never run into so many like that as in WoW. Hopefully never will again. That's the downside to opening up the game-market to so many new players -- you get every moron in the world on, which goes a long way to ruining the experience. Is that all that's wrong with WoW? Nope.
Is WoW like DAoC? Hell, no. Not even close. DAoC's PvP (RvR) is light-years ahead of the moronic Battlegrounds/"dishonorable" Honor System that's it's like comparing Wizardry 1's graphics to Morrowind's and faulting Wizardry 1 for being so "out-of-date". DAoC's RvR system doesn't come with a built-in 2-hr+ waiting line, it doesn't come with idiots ganking others left and right, and it doesn't ENCOURAGE bad play like the so-called "honor system" did/does (can't speak for it currently, may have changed, haven't been there since cancelling in May). WoW is to DAoC as Diablo II is to Morrowind.
Thank God it isn't like DAoC! DAoC is a terrible, TERRIBLE game.