All Posts by gestalt11

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Originally posted by Precusor

They taken it too far now and theres no turning back with the current end game.. either live with it or cancell.

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Originally posted by hercules

Like my post said giving a minor and slight edge to raiders will be enough to keep them raiding and others happy espically in pvp in which the gear issue is so so important.

Ofc i do not expect them to use EQ2 formula that makes the spell the main balancing points and having each spell have a different grade(no its not like the WoW as u level u get a new spell.its like i said each spell has the ability to be better) and this are random drops.

The game is totally designed at a different angle for that.

But i think they need to review the way you gain rank in pvp and let ppl progress in their own time to gain the ultimate gear.And then make pvp gear and quest gear just slightly worse then raid gear.Heck make quest long but something soloable or one group do able.

Again i am mentioning gear because i think the system in wow is already too entrenched in gear.

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Originally posted by Eosa

A lot of the advertised features of Vanguard fit my definition of hardcore:  corpse runs, slow advancement, slow travel times, localized banks, little solo content, end game = raiding, etc.  These features do not seem to be compatable with "removing tedium and frustration".

However, I will reserve my judgement about the game until I can see for myself.

-eosa-

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This article is quite old btw, I have seen ot posted on WoW forums like 4 different times.

It reminds me of Soul Caliber for some reason.

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Originally posted by Huntressque
There's no official announcement yet when it will be launch some would say its July and others would say this coming October...it really depends with Blizzard as to when. =)

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Originally posted by hercules

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Originally posted by gestalt11


There is no reason raiders need better gear.  5-10 mans could be tuned to require similar gear to whatever raid dungeons they were paralleled to.  Wow does not work that way because someone decided raiders deserve better stuff.  Those of us who will never raid, for whatever reason, will always be inferior.

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Well if raiders do not get better gear then another group of players will moan.

I think in this aspect is where EQ2 differs.Maybe because they had EQ1 which was geared so much to raids.

WoW took up the EQ1 style of end game.EQ2 tried to correct it and did not even do a perfect job.

In EQ2 spells>anything.It upgrades from app1 to master spells.A bard for instance with a power regen master spell is worth 10x a bard with adept 1 regen song with best gear on server in any group.

Even a tank who is the represenation of gear would be better off with that master of a stamina buff then a epic(called fabled in EQ2) piece.

This spells drop randomly off solo named,1 group instances or raids so there is more an element of luck.PPL raid of course in EQ2 to get gear which gives them an edge but the spells are way more important.

Sadly in my time in WoW gear matters so much i think they even surpassed the gear oriented ways of EQ1.

Blizzard needs to head to drawing board and figure out how to get non raiders and the casuals(afterall they sold the game as a casual friendly game in the first place) to be at least some degree of competition to raiders.

Give raiders an edge but a small margin.

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The only game that trains skills offline that I know of is Eve.  Eve is alot different than FFXI or WoW/EQ.  You might like it, I dunno.  It has a 14-day free trial that you can DL.

Their mistake is putting it into channel form not making it global.  There are too many people on a server to have a global channel be useful, it might be fun but it won't be that useful.  They should have made some tool like Call to Arms and some kinda global communicaiton with that tool.

I didn't really think it was that great.  I guess having a pretty boy blood elf doing it just isn't the same.  Maybe if it was a dwarf.

WoW is a gear based game.  All significant rewards that people aspire are gear.  Xp is fairly constant is not really considered a reward.

As long as you reward a subset of the player base more than the rest of the players you will have unhappy people.

I hate to raid.  I will never pay money to raid.  In fact you would need to pay me money to raid.  If I started playing WoW again I'd be a second class citizen even if I played 24 hours a day.  When I played WoW I a very good player.  No one ever complained about my healing ir tanking.  I could have raided if I wanted.  As a druid almost any guild would have taken me.  Yet I apparently deserve less than raiders. 

There is no reason raiders need better gear.  5-10 mans could be tuned to require similar gear to whatever raid dungeons they were paralleled to.  Wow does not work that way because someone decided raiders deserve better stuff.  Those of us who will never raid, for whatever reason, will always be inferior.

Why would I play a game that is designed to make me inferior when I play the way I want to? 

I don't think they have even announced Beta.  I would add 6 months to an official Beta announcement.

The only non FPS one I can think of is Auto Assault since its kinda a hybrid.

Well trolling generally involves doing some work to intentionally incite people.  So if the fanboyus are intentionally start praise threads to start  an argument I suppose you could call them trolls.

WoW fanboys used to do it on other non-WoW sites before it released so I suppose if you are on a games website and the majority are decidedly hostile to the game itself then maybe its similar?

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Originally posted by Signe
My issues with CoX is mostly the same as Raver listed.  I don't have enough to do in the game.  I love character creation and I very much enjoy the combat.  Although the price isn't a big issue for me, I definitely don't think I'm getting my money's worth.  Give me just a bit more... give me anything.  Loot... I love loot.  Crafting... sure, why not?  A different experience with CoV... definitely was expected, definitely didn't deliver.  A station access sort of thing wouldn't be bad either.  Give me just a couple out of that list and it might entice me to stick around a bit longer.  Oh and get rid of the horrible brick wall grind that hits you at level 25+.  Please! 

I can live without the elves, though. 

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Originally posted by Raver
Some of the problems for me boil down to:

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7) Stick with Elves - frankly most gamers (who are RPGers) love the fantasy setting.  Look at the major MMos and most are all based in the fantasy setting.  NCSoft recent titles AA , COx would appeal to a much smaller market. AA may be good but how many poeple see a car on the box and think , hmm i dont like racing games.  If you want to pick up players from WOW you need something similiar that improves the gameplay in all respects.

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Here's my Auto Assault bounty hunter:

http://img153.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img153%2F2696%2F1151111853er8.smil

http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot200606232109352iw.jpg

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Originally posted by hercules

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Originally posted by Vendayn
I really like NCsoft...hope they dont go bankrupt :(

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You must be kidding lineage series alone will keep them going for quite a few years.AA is a small fish in a big pond for them.

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They made it clear that it would be pay for transfer a long long time ago.  

I heard beta testers say there used to be an actual LFG tool.  But it was taken out before release.  Blizzard mistakenly made some channel server wide a couple patches ago and then people asked for the current functionality and the decided that "bug" was actually a good feature.

I really can't understand why they won't implement an at least somewhat decent LFG tool.  This just strikes me as a half ass solution and what you all are describing is what I was expecting to happen.  Even more distorubing is that Caydiem speficially said the devs were working on and LFG tool.  What happened to that?  That same thread with a with a pretty nice Mock gets bumped back up to the general forums like once a week easily it has been floating around for months and months.  I just don't get it.

As a software engineer Blizzard's design behavior over the last year or so just boiggles my mind.  I'm not talking about bugs and stuff, I expect those.  Or even "balance", class, faction or otherwise.  Just bad decisions or a complete lack of any decision and shortsightedness.  Glad I don't have to deal with it anymore.