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Ok i've looked at sites which all say "DAoC is the best game ever" and "buy this game now" or words to thast effect, i do not play, but am thinking about it and would like to hear from the people who play it rather than the people who are payed to sell it. Why should i play DAoC? What is good about it and what makes it worthwhile?
dont know if the serch function is working here or not, but if you have played EQ, then i can tell you that coming from EQ to DAoC is a bit differnt.
basic laydown of DAoC:
its RvR based, in other words its your world vs the other 2 worlds in PvP action espeicaly once you hit 50th. its a total blast as you can not communicate with the other realms and dont have to worry about griefers.
trade skills that work and are worth more then merchant items. by that i mean you can make items better then you can buy, and until around 40-45th or so, you can make items better then you can loot.
complelty customizable character. there are so many different trees to take your toon down its crazy.
great eyecandy. better graphics then SWG if you have ToA, and just about as good if you only have SI. all that and using less system resources then SWG or EQ.
extreemly stable. ive been back for going on 3 months now, and have had 1 game crash, and roughly 3 or 4 LD, all LDs have been due to either my ISP, or my router.
some of the downsides:
low player base. this means on some of the servers you may have a hard time finding a group. to me this is only a little thing as i tend to solo a lot due to my screwed up playing times.
the UI is not as instinctive as it could be.
without SI/ToA it can be very hard on the system when a lot of players. with either SI or ToA you can adjust the caching on a lot of the graphics, that will really cut down on the system lag. i run 1G of ram, so caching is no biggy for me and it really helps when im out in the PvP areas with 200+ other players, spell effects, and enviroment going on.
enjoy. its a great game, and ill never go back to EQ.
basic laydown of DAoC:
its RvR based, in other words its your world vs the other 2 worlds in PvP action espeicaly once you hit 50th. its a total blast as you can not communicate with the other realms and dont have to worry about griefers.
trade skills that work and are worth more then merchant items. by that i mean you can make items better then you can buy, and until around 40-45th or so, you can make items better then you can loot.
complelty customizable character. there are so many different trees to take your toon down its crazy.
great eyecandy. better graphics then SWG if you have ToA, and just about as good if you only have SI. all that and using less system resources then SWG or EQ.
extreemly stable. ive been back for going on 3 months now, and have had 1 game crash, and roughly 3 or 4 LD, all LDs have been due to either my ISP, or my router.
some of the downsides:
low player base. this means on some of the servers you may have a hard time finding a group. to me this is only a little thing as i tend to solo a lot due to my screwed up playing times.
the UI is not as instinctive as it could be.
without SI/ToA it can be very hard on the system when a lot of players. with either SI or ToA you can adjust the caching on a lot of the graphics, that will really cut down on the system lag. i run 1G of ram, so caching is no biggy for me and it really helps when im out in the PvP areas with 200+ other players, spell effects, and enviroment going on.
enjoy. its a great game, and ill never go back to EQ.
sounds cool, i will think about it more and find more opinions though, any thoughts from anyone else?
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If want to see what it actually looks like alakazam has screenshots to get to from the homepage.
I played Daoc for 8 months, was good game. Great community, great people, they release in patch a while back a thing where people with maxed out characters could start new characters up at lvl 20-30 which made it hard for new people joining game because it killed the amount LVL 50 pplthat played alt 1-20lvl.
I found it easy to start up, took some getting used to but people gave me money, showed me around, were extremely cool, i was on Galahad server Albion Realm.
I dunno i would recommend it, i left because i had maxed out character and was getting close on maxing 2 more and FFXI beckoned. FFXI is better game than Daoc but Dark Ages has much better community. More experience MMORPGers and mature people where FFXI has lots of teen agers that like to grief or whine at drop of the hat.
I found it easy to start up, took some getting used to but people gave me money, showed me around, were extremely cool, i was on Galahad server Albion Realm.
I dunno i would recommend it, i left because i had maxed out character and was getting close on maxing 2 more and FFXI beckoned. FFXI is better game than Daoc but Dark Ages has much better community. More experience MMORPGers and mature people where FFXI has lots of teen agers that like to grief or whine at drop of the hat.
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
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it depends on what u look for in a game.
if u want to play against other players, daoc has the superior RvR
if u want to quest and what not, FFXi might be for you
if u want to play against other players, daoc has the superior RvR
if u want to quest and what not, FFXi might be for you
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