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[Mortikhi]

and then put it back down.

I think I'm gonna wait a month or two to see if people are still liking the game.

[Siddhartha]

Spammers are selling pLevel services 1-40 for $300... who pays for that shit?

[Nubs]

I dunno but you can get to 40 in three days if you really want, there are guides all over the interwebs.

[mven]

I have still been playing quite a bit and enjoying it. My Swordmaster is 35 currently and still one of my favorite characters from any game. The biggest downside to this game thus far is its similarity to WoW. I really loved WoW's quest system the first time I played through it but after so many characters and time put into WoW I find I really HATE quest grinding. Seriously I am back to the point where I have more fun solo-grinding a public quest than running through the dozen or so mundane questlines you find in each chapter. The sad thing is questing is even faster than grinding for levelling I just can't bring myself to do it.

My usual levelling strategy at this point is based mostly around how fast scenario queues pop. If the queues are near instant I will hang out in the appropriate warcamp for that scenario and just repeat the scenario completion/kill X players quests found there. If there are longer delays between queues I will pick out a chapter with influence rewards I want and just grind the first stage of the PQs for that chapter while waiting for queues. If there are no queues or inf rewards that I want then I will quest while I can.

The keep siege aspect of the game is by far the most fun. I love the bigger keeps in T3/T4 and how with coordination and good use of siege equipment you can hold off a pretty large force. My primary bitch with siege at present is simply the fact that Oil is way too easy to destroy. It is retardedly powerful while up but I feel that they should make it to where a couple of Sorcs/Bright Wizzies can't drop the Oil in 2 seconds flat. Perhaps it should be made to where the directly targetted siege weapons (cannons and the like) do massive damage to it while players can't hit it so hard. It is pretty much the best way to get people off your door. Though concentrated fire from a few hellblasters/organ guns/repeating ballistas can have similar effect especially in t4 where they can hit for over 1k on crits. If there is an active population doing keep siege at 40 this will provide a good bit of fun. Though I think like planetside it will get old fairly quickly if they don't do something to keep it interesting.

[bonedead]

I don't know why you said Planetside when you could've just said DAoC.

I don't know if they can change it to keep it interesting, but I do know they will do an alright job of balancing classes/siege/etc, they've got a lot of practice doing that.

I'm pretty sure their plan is to not change RvR. They want to do what they did with DAoC imo which is get a decent foundation for fun and let it keep the players playing/paying.

[mven]

Well I guess the reason I used planetside was more the fact that that was the one thing I really hated about it. How repetative the taking of bases became. In DAoC I hated lots of things haha.

[Gatsu..]

I'm rather disappointed with it on the whole. I am by no means a graphics whore but the game is just plane ugly and there's no excuse for the performance for a game with such below average visuals.

[mven]

Really? It runs about the same as WoW for me at least until you get about 100 people on the screen. I think I have the graphics on the middle setting. I am also playing on a 2 year old machine and running at a pretty high resolution. With the lower settings the graphics don't seem that much worse and it runs fine on my laptop.

I agree it isn't as pretty as WoW though. The world design seems pretty hit or miss. Like the Chaos starting area is awesome. And in T4 the Chaos Wastes zone looks really cool a lot of charred corpses sticking out of the ground. I have to say the elf area is by far the most disappointing on both the High Elf and Dark Elf sides especially in T1-3. The tier 4 dark elf keeps however look pretty cool and fit their silly spikey ass architecture fairly well. Praag is also a pretty cool zone a lot of it reminds me of Stratholme in WoW where you just have a big ass burning city.

What class/race did you start out as?

[Gatsu..]

Oh I like the world design. I'm just not really impressed with anything else. I played a Witch Hunter, a squig herder and I tried a shadow warrior. I'd like to point out that the high elves and empire race models are ugly of a level I haven't seen since morrowind. So I spent the most time with the squig herder. Performance wise, if I don't have the game on high visual quality it looks like assberry pancakes and the performance increase is negligable at best. Now wow I can run with everything set to max and absolutely no slowdown whatsoever. Even Vanguard and EQ2 I had set to a fair compromise of performance/visual quality and they both looked considerably better and ran considerably better. The animations also leave something to be desired.

[mven]

Try out one of the chaos classes if you get bored and see what you think of the first part of the game. Of those I toyed around with in beta it was my favorite though I hate all of the CHaos classes excepting the Zealot.

Also the armor etc looks like complete ass for just about every race/class until you get into tier 3 when they really start to improve and then again in upper tier 4 it gets a lot more detailed.

[sturmur]

I'm at level 25 and I can't make myself keep playing.

[bonedead]

I bought it this Friday on my way home from work

Got a 12 Witch Elf. Played a couple others, meh, like the Witch Elf.

Runs like complete dick, but I think my lag helps me win (ftw).

[Nubs]

I like the way the game lloks but I also notie that the game can lag with a system that it probably shouldn't lag with. I hit 26 with my Ironbreaker and am still enjoying the game a lot.

[Darthus]

I like the way the game lloks but I also notie that the game can lag with a system that it probably shouldn't lag with. I hit 26 with my Ironbreaker and am still enjoying the game a lot.

Yeah, they've acknowledged that it doesn't run too well on lower end systems, which is high on their priority list. We'll see where that goes.

[mven]

I just got to 39 this weekend. Really only played a few days in the past 2 weeks cuz of reality being gay. Still fun though but in T4 destruction still can field like 3X the numbers we can on Order side. Hoping things even out a bit more once more order get over 35 and we can have some real large scale battles. The one thing that annoys me about PvP in this game is the heavy reliance on "goofy" CC abilities. Next to everyone can knock back, ae knockback, or has some sort of tractor beam style ability. The Magus and Engineer both have a "mass tractor beam" style ability that lets them suck any number of people within a certain range on top of them. This gets really retarded when you add in some heavy AE damage. Hopefully these abilities will become more limited in the near future as they totally fuck up utilizing any sort of PvP formations.

[gloryforixseal]

It also helps that it not be took in the late hours of the night, especially on a Wednesday when many have to work the next day

but it was fun, especially taking 2 fortress then storming the gates of the city

[mven]

Back up in dat ass with the resurrection.

I need to remember to cancel my 5 gd subs for this. Sigh.

[mven]

L33t double post.