Looking for a fun and challenging MMORPG.

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• Wizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332

  January 2018

  Like sooooooo many you missed the boat on the hay days of FFXI.It is however still going and is pretty much relegated to mostly end game and is VERY hard.
  
  I am not going to go into detail as to why i stopped playing but i don't like end game nor do i like games that force you to have certain tiers of gear to play the next content,i prefer the class/abilities and thinking of the player to take care of that,the way FFXI was for many years.
  
  FUN is a very subjective term,what i have seen is more like "compete" or "racing" or "bragging among gamer's than actually having FUN.Then i see stuff in for example Twitch,a group of people dedicated to nothing but speed runs,i don't call gaming fun if i feel a need to RACE through content.
  Where else FFXI shines is that you don't need to form raids to have a challenge,there are normal open world mobs that can and will wipe your entire party if your not very careful and knowledgeable,because FFXI has systems other games do NOT,like feeding TP using one example which allows mobs to unleash powerful attacks.
  
  
  

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• dougha1 Member UncommonPosts: 152

  January 2018

  Believe it or not, the first Guild Wars might work for you.  Yes I know it came out in 2004 or so.
  
  
  

  This forum is broken. It is time to move to proboards, because they're broken.
  
• Kyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,053

  January 2018

  ESO I'm thinking....

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  Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
  

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• Po_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749

  January 2018 edited January 2018

  Fun, challenging, purely PvE, dungeons and endgame grind - and also not on the very long list posted...   AoC on Crom, the PvE server?
  
  Not exactly a fresh one (like the aforementioned GW and FF 11), but challenge is not something you can find in recent games, or in older games still getting updates aimed for the new gamers. AoC on the other hand was left behind years ago, so it successfully avoided the "dumbification" fad of the recent times.
  Sure, it has side-effects on the other end as well, with unpatched, broken classes and way too OP classes, but since you don't care about pvp, you can ignore those so-called balance issues. (the holy "Balance" is just a myth for pvp folks anyways )
  
  Give it a try, it's a really fun game. They said there will be a new, timed server soon, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it... it's Funcom, and a whole warehouse could be filled with their undelivered promises.
  
  
  edit: damn you Funcom, I look away for a day and you make a fool out of me
  so, for the breath holding part: http://www.ageofconan.com/news/introducing_saga_of_zath   missed the news piece yesterday... drop it to Suzie as well.
  

  Post edited by Po_gg on January 2018