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i'm just really getting into Mmorpgs and i wanna buy WoW is it a good idea to buy WoW?
cornoffcob
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I've played Guildwars for a while now and i used to play runescape a while back..... so i'm not very intact with the mmorpg world and i was wondering if WoW is a good idea to buy even though i'm not much of a MMorpg person...
PLZ help
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Guild Wars is a good game. Runescape was, but Jagex got a little money hungry and more idiots came in and flooded the game.. not a pretty picture. I was there right from the start till a few months ago... just got tired of the lame additions (ie countless quests)
WoW is gonna be a totally different experience for you if you havn't played other MMORPGS. The leveling is much faster than Runescape (as long as you do the quests... farming monsters won't do much for you) and the game isn't instanced like Guild Wars (you know, when you leave town in guild wars it puts you in your own little area? Not so in WoW) And if you were a crafter, you're going to like this game a lot more than RS.
All I have to say is it's an improvement on what you've played so far (and in my opinion, the best MMORPG so far... but it's all personal taste) Just a suggestion though: stay away from Sony Online Entertainment games (SOE for short). SOE is notorious for their boneheaded ideas. Say it with me now: I will stay away from Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies. They are the plague...
Depends on what you're looking for. Do you need PvP? Does l33t-speak ("Uber!" this and "I PWNd" that) bother you? Do you want a crafting system that's involved (degrees of quality of success, aka you could build that sword but your first effort may turn out a very low-quality sword) or simplistic (here's my recipe, here's my chunk of ore, click here to combine)? Do you fall into the RPG part of MMORPG, or the MMO part? Do you want everything easy, or to work for your rewards?
A quick summary of some of those out there:
WoW -- very easy to play and get into, uber-simplistic crafting, extraordinarily easy to level. No real endgame. "Honor system" that in the past encouraged ganking and bad behavior. Battlegrounds that are instanced PvP -- but that can take several hours of standing around waiting for the "instance" to fill with enough people. Graphics are a hate-it-or-love-it, sort of a waxed-cartoon look. Easy to level, as in, 2 weeks to get near the max level at a casual-play rate.
EQ2 -- harder than WoW to level, but not really that difficult. Much deeper lore. Crafting can be intimidating in that it's more realistic throughout the construction process. Realistic graphics, which require a lot of horsepower to throw around with any options turned up. A lot slower to progress than WoW -- you won't hit max level for a few months at least. Upcoming PvP addition is limited to an arena (not worldwide).
AC -- community's shrunk, graphics are older. Interesting take on combat -- "power" and "height" of your swing and the need to move in combat (bob and weave) is very different than the more-static takes of WoW and EQ2 (and EQ1). Crafting is detailed. Expansive, open world; deep lore.
You've played Guildwars, so I'll leave that one off. I don't like the "step out of the city and you're in your own unique instance", since it guarantees you won't be sharing the world with anyone else when you're in the wilderness, but that's a matter of personal choice.
DAoC -- phenomenal PvP in their Realm-versus-Realm (RvR) setup. Not that hard to solo, crafting isn't particularly memorable. Graphics were revamped a short while ago. If you consider yourself a PvPer, you've got to try Realm-versus-Realm (think of it as what WoW"s Battlegrounds should have been, and DAoC came literally YEARS before WoW).
UO -- shrinking community but perhaps (arguably) the richest and deepest of the games. Very dated graphics, 3rd-person angled-overheard perspective only. Had a blast way back when, but it is getting very old in the tooth (stupid corporate morons, cancelling UO2).
Again, what I or anyone else thinks about these games is a matter of opinion. The big key are the questions, since no one can really give advice without knowing what you like/don't like.
thanks for the help spyder! and every one else that pitched in..
I hope some day we can all put aside our racisms and prejudices and just laugh at people
I don't think you could beat WoW for a first MMO. Anyone wanting to start playing an mmo, I would whole heartedly direct them to WoW. It doesn't over complicate things, and gives you a feel for everything that is found in a typical MMO.
I think numbers alone can answer that question for ya. Hehe unfortunately I dont know them, but I have been told WoW is currently outshining all the other mmos as far as number of players go.
Oh well, since I dont know the numbers I'm just gonna tell ya that I think WoW is the best MMO out there right now. But the above repliers covered the rest for me so get the game and enjoy.
Kill them KILL EM ALL!!!
WOW was my first MMO and I had no problem with it. Takes about a week to learn all the bells/whistles/lingo but after that you will fit right in. In 5 months I was able to get 2 level 60 characters.
wots wrong wiv star wars galaxies i havnt played it be4 but am thinkin bout gettin it, the total experience however