Runes of MagicFollow

http://www.runesofmagic.com/us/index.html

Anyone else going to try it? I'm downloading the client now, the videos look pretty good for a free to play.

I'm downloading the client now.

I wish they would just give me a Torrent rather than just a fake torrent client. I've found that if I let my Upload speed go full bore, it slows my whole connection down. So I set my personal bittorrent client to upload 5k under my max upload, so I can have nearly full upload and download capabilities without slowing my connection. Their pseudo torrent client has no upload cap capabilities, so using it kills my connection for everything but it.

So I have to download it from their slow servers, at about 90KBps

i heard there's an issue between the runes of magic and wow.. there saying that runes of magic are the same as wow.. is this true guys?.. i just wanna clear things up...

It shares alot in common.
Rogues use energy and warriors use rage, the UI also looks similar but there are alot of differences too. You have a sub job similar to that of FFXI but instead of being half the level it's the same although class specific skills wont carry over from your sub-class (each class has class skills and class specific skills).

I haven't messed with the crafting yet but you can get gems to upgrade your equipment and some items have slots for stones (or runes or something) which again is kinda similar to WoW except there are no colors I think only levels.
You also don't have to buy spells, you're given them at certain levels and you earn points by killing monsters and doing quests to build them up.
Also there's XP debt but it's not as bad as it sounds, at least not for me yet (I'm only 18).

My only real complaint so far is about the mounts, all I've found so far are the ones you can rent, for like 15 mins - 2 hours. The permanent ones seem to be the ones you have to spend real cash for but I guess I can understand that with no monthly fee and all they have to turn a profit.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2009 2:28pm by Kouran

Took me an entire day to download the client from the runes of magic website, then upon install, I got a corrupt file error and the install couldn't be finished.

Trying again from that Games on Net link, but my expectations are now far lower than they were yesterday. I expect every tiny flaw will seem like giant game breaking glitches now, considering the trouble I've gone through to try this game out.

I don't expect I'll be playing for very long.

I'm NixNot on Osha, or whatsitsname.

It really is Free WoW. It shares so much in common with wow that I find it hard to believe that Blizzard has yet to bring a lawsuit against them.

Aside from a little choppy lag it's an ok game. It does seem as deep and fufilling as WoW, but I have yet to see if they have any instance combat, or unlock their FFXI-esque dual job system.