Well besides Lineage 2 (which I think is an exceptional game in many ways) there is Archlord.

Not only is it free to play but they just released a hardcore pvp server. You can pvp on all servers but I think this one has some light looting or something like that.

Please don't even say the word "Archlord", It's the worst F2P Game ever...The movement man! the movement..

Cabal is F2p and if you know how to combo and fadestep and move well you can easily kill higher lvl people. the game focus is more about your Skill levels rather then your Character lvl. And you raise your skill lvls by using your skills and comboing your moves.. i found it fun for a f2p pvp game.

Originally posted by dajesse

Please don't even say the word "Archlord", It's the worst F2P Game ever...The movement man! the movement..

The movement is absolutely fine. I think what you object to is the WASD. It's an Asian game and most Asian games tend to favor point and click. The WASD seems added as an afterthought. Anyone who has played and one well with Lineage 2 will be able to play Archlord.

The point and click works extremely well in Archlord. Just as it does in Lineage 2.

For a pk/pvp game that is free to play it is extremely good. However, if one doesn't like grind games then of course it won't be for them.

Wow guys awesome, and thank you to everyones suggestions.  I will try all of your suggestions.

so far i have tried:

Shadowbane: Was very lost, hated the controls, and when i teleported somewhere i died instantly, had no idea how, so after about 3 hours of play and leveling to lvl 15, i bagged it.

Eve:  Liked the idea of space combat at first, but once again got pretty lost, i guess im looking for more of the medieval war type game.

Im about to try Atlantica online, and whether i like it or not, im going to try everyone elses suggestions.  Once again thanks, and if anyone else has any more ideas for me, feel free to let me know.  Ill let you guys know if i find something that fits.

Archlord and Atlantica have both failed to give me anything fun.

Atlantica looks like it could be cool, but its not the kind of pvp im looking for, and also i dunno about the turned based combat system, could get very annoying and slow..

 **** EDIT ****

HANG ON.  I think i may have just found a really sweet game.  Im downloading it now called Crowns of Power and it sounds right up my Alley.

Crowns of Power looks rather interesting.

I may give that a try :D

Originally posted by Oltzu

A friend of mine got rather nostalgic the other day and started playing an old MMORPG that we used to play, it's called "Dransik" and has a pvp that looks alot like the one in Runescape, where you loose your items if you die.

The graphics are really "old school" but the gameplay is awesome and the game f2p, just something to look into while waiting for Darkfall.

http://www.dransik.com/

http://www.pixelminegames.com/   links related

Edit: It might be a bit old for some ppls taste, and the number of players is probably low, on the other hand it doesnt take long to install it, like 5 sec

haha sweet, nice to meet someone who played Dranisk.  I miss my tundarian!

Edit: hmm Crowns of Power does look interesting, I'm gonna at least try it out hehe

Who else is on Crowns? anyone tried it fully yet?

I played it for about 6 hours.  It's ok, but simplistic.  There's no fancy graphics or UI.  There seems to be alot of high level players, but didn't see anyone around while I was questing in the nooby areas.

since you said u can  buy a game, but not pay monthly pay - just go buy guildwars.

mechanics and dinamics are one of the best in mmo world.

Originally posted by sazabi

since you said u can  buy a game, but not pay monthly pay - just go buy guildwars.

mechanics and dinamics are one of the best in mmo world.

It's a good game but it's not really a pk mmo

Originally posted by Gravarg

I played it for about 6 hours.  It's ok, but simplistic.  There's no fancy graphics or UI.  There seems to be alot of high level players, but didn't see anyone around while I was questing in the nooby areas.

I agree they need to fix a lot with the UI, the graphics are fine.

I played Miridian 59 for 2 days before trying out crowns of power and then anything will look great lol

What bother me most with ui is you can't change the hotkeys for the action bar, so you have to click to spells with mouse from 7-0 and -

And where do you live? if you play eu time there is heaps of players around, pretty many for us time too, aussie time is dead lol

im loving crowns of power, if you're a fan of old style mmo like that in runescape classic, you'll like crowns of power

Originally posted by dalevi1

Originally posted by WrathPker

Ok, first of all, im not much of a forum guy, but because of my recent problems finding a GOOD game, ive fallen upon this resource.

I am a past player of Runescape Classic (quit as soon as RS2, or the Now so called Runescape came out)

I also played Eudemons Online for a solid year.

And after disasters in both games, i am looking for a GOOD pking MMORPG.

Now if anyone played, or even remembers Runescape classic like i did, i would argue it was the Funnest Pking game ever.  No complicated controls, No Choppy retreats, RS classic was awesome.  Ya the graphics were terrible, but the game took what us Pkers liked to call SKILL.  There were certain ways you learned to pk that made you a good pker i.e.  catching, knowing how to manage prayer, food management, teams, pile jumping, and so on and so on.  I loved Runescape, i played it for 3 years, and i considered myself good at it.  Then when the current runescape came out, it sent all of us players who only liked to PK searching elsewhere.  I hate to grind, i hate doing pointless, timewasting quests, and i hate acting like im apart of a "game community" .  I played runescape for one reason which pretty much sums up my gaming experience.  I play solely to kill people and reap the satisfactions of that.

And so after i left Runescape sadly, i found a random game called Eudemons Online, and for those of you who played that, you learn that yes, there is alot of pking, but unless you have a thick wallet ( which i certainly dont) you cant get to a strong enough state to pk happily unless you grind away making money for hours upon hours, which i did, and completely hated.

 

So now, sorry for venting slightly, but i am asking, please, PLEASE, someone tell me a good game where i can go out and Pk happily, in a balanced system which requires SKILL!!!  If someone can direct me to that kind of game, i would love you for it.  Thanks guys!

 

Of course the first response was darkfall, a game no one has ever played. So, why not check out a pvp server for WoW or EQ2, or get into War (yawn), or even L2 (where it will take you a year to level to anything capable of standing upi for yourself after a PK). Or get into EvE, join a corp, and skill up AFK for two years.

Yeah, right. Good luck...

Obvious PvP hater.

It's a little difficult to find a nice PvP game, especially when you're unable to pay monthly subs. Games like Asheron's Call and EvE online are the two best that I've played out of the bunch (Although the Darktide population for Asheron's Call is fairly limited these days)

If you end up finding something though, let me know and I'll come and play with you!

EDIT: Downloading 'Crows of Power' now.

The begginning of crowns of power is a slight grind, the way you gain decent items and level up fairly easily is through questing which you may end up spending a decent amount of time doing, but i travelled around a little bit and found the pvp area and it looks awesome.  Alot of the factors going into the pvp aspect have to do with spell combination.  Im still learning, but im having alot of fun playing it.

imo the pvp is too easy, you just have like 4-6 spells that u use mostly in a fight.

and the combos are so simple.. I like it alot more when you do team fights. u no... 2 vrs 2 or more.

Still trying to get my friends to join, if they do I can promise that most guilds will disband of fear from us :D

EDIT: I have won every duel I made in the game so far.

 If you're soley in it for PvP, tey Guild Wars. It's F2P (sorta, no monthly fee) and you can create a character just for PvP. That character will start out with the max level and a few skills, you can then earn better armor and skills by winning in PvP.

Hi Wrathpker, I used to play RSclassic and later moved into RS. I understand where you are coming from and the type of 'pure' pking you are looking for.

I'm guessing RSclassic was your first MMO, or first experience with PKing? If so, its always hard to top your first mmo. If you keep looking for games like Runescape, you will never be satisfied. Why? because you will always compare the new game with Runescape, and only see the differences and be disappointed.

Get a good mmo, with a well built PvP system and give it a try. You will find new things that will make you enjoy pking all over again. Then you can marry your new game and make lots of pk babies.

Good luck, - live long and prosper kill lotsa noobs -

I just started playing Rohan: Blood Feud Online. It is a f2p game that lets you choose classes and skills and build your character how you want to. there is pk in any area except a town after level 30 which is not hard to get to and you can do crazy Town wars or Town Battles which pits 30+ people from a guild Vs. 30+ from other guilds to control the towns. Rohan is also really easy to understand if you pay attention in the tutorial which takes at the most 25-35min if your slow and new.