Well I really will pay for my mistakes. $40 waste the EQ software was because after 3 days I can tell I wont be playing this much longer at all.
Its everything this message board has said and more but yes, I do agree mostly with 2 points.
SoE put nothing to to give you a reason to grind. I am only 12 and I am not jumping for joy to level up even to 20 to become a ranger. The game just is not fun.
Also, it does feel like regardless of all the abilities I have, I have to follow a set path of them to do real dmg to a mob the yeilds real exp, before it kills me. Blue and Green ++ mobs I guess. If I dont follow the set path they really have put me on for the fight, I wont win, thats simply it. I have to mess with the, imho, stupid, herioc opritunity wheel. And hope it gives me the DD atk I am looking for. I read about it in reviews but never was it fully explained. If it was it would sound ridiculous and I would have known =p.
So Yea I think I will bear with WoW. It is actually fun no doubt. I just badly needs more content (battlegrounds). The approach blizzard took is known. Levels, gear, all of it, is at an all time low amount of work on your part. This is to reach the high end section of the game, and explore its vast content. Yeah that IS a joke because there is no battlegrounds yet. 3 zones for loot farming is their idea of a cornucopia of content for the high end game. I will probably be going through a warlock to 60 til battlegrounds is out. Will dabble in a little of guild wars I am sure. Also considering that EQ1 platinum pack down at walmart if things dont look up. Going back through all of its content, much of which I didn't see because that was a game with tons of content =p.
Evilgnomes, PvP in wow on pvp servers is handled this way. If your in a contested zone you can be killed and kill the opposite faction. Going into a contested zone also raises your PVP flag, therefore if you run into a friendly zone, you can still be attacked, and you can attack. Going into a unfriendly zone flags you for pvp and only lets you kill people recently in a contested zone, and flagged for pvp.
There are VERY few zones that are uncontested. As a new character you should pretty much at all times be in friendly zones til 20-25. After that, EVERY zone progressive to your character will be shared with the opposite faction, uncontested. So expect to be ganked alot after those levels. There is no lvl range limit either. All lvls are fair game in pvp, unlike EQ1's team pvp servers I guess.
I play on pvp and cant imagine normal server play. This is not a game full of pve content. You wont save much time playing on a normal server. Plus even on normal, you cant socialize with the opposite faction, they are just standing there... doesnt make sense =p. IMHO it would be cooler if normal servers were 100% open, you could go to ironforge as a orc and be friendly with the guards. You could have horde and alliance mixed guilds and groups. But you can't sadly. The only difference is non-existant pvp. Which sooo many people make a difference about.
Edited, Wed Jan 26 12:55:34 2005 by Justariuss