All Posts by throckmorton

For those of us who love PvP with meaning, consequences, no rules, and full scale brutality, there is simply no other game out there for us. After playing SB, every other MMO becomes bland and empty.

The only way I see SB dying is if Darkfall is a success.

In the preview weekend, we crushed all of the unorganized destruction out of the t1 RvR zone and had nothing left to do except instances.

We desperately wanted to go into the zone and gank everyone, and cause some ruckus, but we couldn't.

Definitely going open.

Scenarios do get old after awhile, but ever now and then I felt the urge to play some.

It's a nice option to have even though world PvP is better.

Don't expect classes who aren't rune priests or zealots to heal.

[These are not experiences from WAR, but from several other MMOs]

I hate healing in PvE, but in PvP I have a blast doing it.

-- As a healer I have to keep track of the location of people in my group, and have an awareness of where the enemy is.

(Close enough to heal my team, but far enough away from the enemy so I'm not caster fodder.)

-- Staying in movement whenever possible to appear a less viable target.

-- Casting other buffs/debuffs/cc

-- See the warning signs of being the primary target of enemy focus fire, and run out of the range of casters or kite melee.

-- DON'T DIE!

Staying alive is a huge challenge, and that's what makes it fun. Competition.

Why is golf fun?

The population of Thurin has rapidly spiked in the past few weeks.

I see a lot of people who left SB for AoC making their way back to SB. I'm one of them.

The end game sieges and in general PvP of AoC is a terrible buggy mess right now. We'll have to see how AoC shapes up in a year to see if it can pull some people back, but for now it is not the end of SB.

F5 doesn't help. Just let the page sit there. It can take 15 minutes to go through.

Fileplanet dropped the ball on this one. It's taking me 5 minutes to load a page.

Hey, at least I don't have to pay for this download, like I did with Aoc.

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Originally posted by sgel

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Originally posted by throckmorton

From what I'm hearing most WoW players are going destruction, so I'm going order.
They will drop like flies at first until they realize they can't rely on gear to win. And they will probably remedy that by crying nerf, and PvEing more gear.

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lol... and you're going to be sitting there.. over your corpse.. thinking.. "but whyz did i diez?... i had ze tactix!!!"... and SLOWLY you'll realize that there are no complicated tactics to win... just zerggggg !
 
sigh... idiocy never seazes to amaze me

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That is why you fail.

I don't know exactly how WAR will be, but in Shadowbane I've witnessed 25 players of an organized guild capture the city of an unorganized guild that fielded 60. Mostly even levels and gear.

I've heard similar things happened in DaoC, and I'm hoping to find it in WAR.

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Pvp has never interested me

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Then get out of here!

From what I'm hearing most WoW players are going destruction, so I'm going order.

They will drop like flies at first until they realize they can't rely on gear to win. And they will probably remedy that by crying nerf, and PvEing more gear.

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Originally posted by rasgrix
Isn't it true that people are always trying to find macros and shortcuts to make combat as easy as possible?

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In PvE, macroing is viable and people do it, but in any skilled PvP you are going to be fighting opponents who move around, and you need to manually time your attack until you are precisely lined up against them.

You people complaining about the combat system sound like you have only experienced it in PvE. I came to the same conclusion as you guys until I started doing a lot of PvPing with it.

I've cancelled my account because sieges are a laggy, buggy mess, and Funcom has refused to fix + melee damage gems. I might resub when the game gets past beta. But the combat really is amazing.

In PvP it's a real challenge to land/dodge combo finishers and much more. There is no reason to go too in depth on it here, but this combat system really is a huge improvement over the traditional system.

Here's a PvP instructional video:
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=94394
http://files.filefront.com/Mephs+Ragni+Entourage+lavi/;10700925;/fileinfo.html

The PvE is nothing but grinding, but you will most definitely run into some great PvP while doing so.

The PvP is unrivaled in this game, but the learning curve is immense.

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Originally posted by IKShadow

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Originally posted by throckmorton

Have you got to level 80 and experienced Age of Gemstacking?
Have you been at a large siege and experienced Age of Lag?

This game level 1-40 is the best MMO out there. End game is is still in beta and simply not fun.

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Yes
Yes
No ( i liked the whole 1 to 80 ) and yes.

p.s. Still playing and dont planing to cancel.

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Have you got to level 80 and experienced Age of Gemstacking?

Have you been at a large siege and experienced Age of Lag?

This game level 1-40 is the best MMO out there. End game is is still in beta and simply not fun.

It depends on what fast paced means.

If it means you die in 2 seconds then no.

If it means you need to make lots of quick movements then yes.

In AoC 1-20 was good, 20-40 was decent, 40-80 was unfinished.

I'm definitely seeing it.

100% agree.

Shadowbane is the most revolutionary MMO out there, and it's 5 years old.

Everyone complains about modern WoW clones. I'd love to see a Shadowbane clone.

Sadly, the lack of success that Shadowbane has had scares away developers.

Only one pet at a time.

And don't use pets. They are exactly the same ever since the level cap was 50, and any skill points put into them are better used elsewhere.