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I still don't understand why someone would ***** about ANYTHING other than FFXI - The Gay Blade being off-topic in the Asylum. There is no such thing here, barring the previous exception.



I didn't even want to try another MMORPG. I quit CoH awhile ago. I decided to download the beta client for WoW with pretty low expectations. I don't really like the Warcraft games to begin with but I ended up giving it a shot because it was free. I was more than impressed. All around fantastic game thus far. It really is fucking amazing. The game itself is beautiful. Sure, the graphics in EQ2 are great, but they don't look like fantasy graphics, by and large. WoW looks fantastic.

I love Taurens, so I'm pro-Horde. If you play on a roleplay server (which, I do suggest actually, the crowd seemed a bit less spamhappy), you can have characters of either faction. I'm not sure if that's only in beta though.

I will miss some of the EQ classes though. Nothing like playing an SK. However, gun toting hunter will have to do I guess :) .




I live in CST but wouldn't mind doing the EC RP server. I'm not a PVPer in general, but I also wouldn't mind trying it in this game.

About the only complaint I have in WoW is that I found a village of Goblins... and I REALLY want to play one (they're the Horde version of Gnomes... little technical guys). Anyone know if they will be playable in the future? Goblin Rogue would be too cool.

I'm in any guild Smash/Taco are in. Period. Most fun that I had in nearly 5 years of EQ.

Grady

Edited, Sat Nov 13 09:22:27 2004 by Grady

Fair warning. I vow to be a constant thorn in your side and pain in the ***.

If Smash quits in a fit of rage and Taco takes over, you can expect 24/7 raids on Male NPC's with the "Ghey Blade" tag over your head.

By the way:

/wave Val

Miss you, undefeated mistress of Dexterity

Agi?! Jezus :/

Please send Twink and Star my regards. So many fond memories it makes me melodramatic.

Comparing my time in SoC and in FN is like comparing a Ferrari with a motoped.

/hug

Nice to see people talking about WoW in here.

I have been playing WoW since my FFXI disk exploded and destroyed my DvD rom drive on a install. I guess I will deleting my FFXI account and playing WoW because of this.

Pacific server here, test 10, tauren. I prefer the horde lands, not so crowded and shamans rock. Hope to see some of you around.

That's the server I've been on. Mostly as my Tauren Hunter, who is level 9 now. Name's Zeld.

Grady

well, i have been playing EQ2 now since launch, and all i can say is.......WOW.

true you can only have 4 characters per acct. no biggie for me, but really, even in EQ1, all you have is healer,caster, melee, support, or some combo of those three. 4 is enough.

the game is perfect for a casual gamer. between quests, and tradeskills, there is always plenty to do for the one hour play session. there are also raids for the hard core.

the game is stunning to look at. absolutly stunning.

the game is solid as a rock too. very few crashes, rarly going down unplanned.

no twinking.
no camping.
no farming.
no advantage to double boxing unless you just cant get enough of yourself.
and because of instancing, no severly over crowded zones.
no night mare corpse recoverys.
no penalty for exploring the world.
no deleveling.

just a positive experience from the time you log on till you log off.

quests. you will level much faster, get more plat, and find more items questing in EQ2 than hitting the grinding wheel. you get so involved with the quests, sometimes i dont even know what level i am. i dinged twice during one series of quests, and didnt even realize it.

nice job sony. it will be a big big hit.

Edited, Mon Nov 15 08:34:17 2004 by shadowrelm

We tried out the Taurens (got my hunter up to level 5, wife got her shaman up to level 5) and made it to the big city. We fought in that thorny canyon place. The quests are cool, but honestly, we have more fun playing Dwarves, Gnomes, Night Elves and Humans.

Still, I am determined to try out the other horde areas just to see the areas. But our primary characters are Alliance.

We are redoing all our Test 2 characters (with some minor changes) on EC Test 35 (RP). Since are characters will most likely be wiped, we'll be focusing on the Night Elves (currently at level 11) until release for Alliance exploration. My characters there are:

Wallop (Dwarf Paladin)
Roam (Night Elf Druid)
Wonky (Dwarf Hunter)
Fizzletwitch (Gnome Mage)
Rhyswin (Human Priest)
Nacmacfeegle (Gnome Rogue)
Bronto (Tauren Hunter)
Grisly (Orc Warrior)
Groggy (Troll Shaman)