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Hey uh I got bored and decided to randomly check out this MMO that I played for like a month when it first came out and quit at like level 15 without stepping foot into a PvP area and figured I'd play the 14 day trial and that's it. 4 weeks later and after dicking around with several characters, I'm now a 50 Ranger with no idea what I'm doing and probably not good enough situational awareness to even be playing a Ranger in RvR but I'm really enjoying the poo poo out of the game regardless. Is there anyone playing on live? I'm on Ywain 4 if it matters, name in game is Frostypox. Also do people ever do the PvE stuff in the game? The RVR is fun but I stumbled into a few cool-looking dungeons in those freaky Shrouded Isles zones and they look like they'd be interesting to run through
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Sep 1, 2018 05:14
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Will do! I don't know what my first alt will be, I rolled a character of every class and took them to 10 (which is why it took me three weeks to get to 50, lol) hoping to narrow it down but it didn't make things any easier. I really like the class design and combat in this game, a lot.
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Sep 3, 2018 22:27
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Yeah wow this gear the King gave me is super-good, I'm actually able to kill red and purple mobs really easily if I have enough time to plink at them with my bow. E: Unless that Purple mob is the giant alien spider monster raid boss at the Meteor Impact!  I figured there was something special there!
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Sep 3, 2018 23:57
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Yeah, if my memory serves me correctly this was one of the first MMOs that made melee combat more involved than "Press A, eat a sandwich". At least, that's how I remember playing a low-level warrior in EQ. I think the class I played the most back in the day ("most" being a relative term) was a Blademaster and it was awesome.
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Sep 4, 2018 18:11
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So for a change of pace I'm leveling a Healer and I'm surprised at how good the class is at killing poo poo when it's Augmentation spec'ed. Like, drat. I figured this would be hard to solo! It also seems that Mids are.... a lot more salty than Hibs. Most Hibs I've interacted with have been super-nice and region chat is pretty chill. Mids.... well, the ones I've interacted with are also nice but region chat gets pretty belligerent. Also what are you supposed to do in Atlantis zones? They look really cool but I couldn't find any quest givers or anything. It mentions glass and stuff and you get it from killing mobs I guess, but other than that I'm stumped. I went to Typhon's Reach but everything was purple to me at 37. E: I know Atlantis is home to the super-controversial PvE content that people were not too thrilled about when it was released, but it looks like there's more to do there than just raids or whatever
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Sep 8, 2018 03:09
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Well got into my first big RvR party on my late 40s Healer.  Figures it'd be on the class that is A.)A magnet for all the damage dealers B.)A role I'm generally not comfortable playing in any MMO, let alone a PvP focused one. C.)I've been told one of the hardest classes to play in the game in general. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that when a party member's name turns blue with those exclamation points it means they're Mez'ed and I should use my Mez cure 
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Sep 9, 2018 21:12
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Pyro88 posted:
Yeah, I noticed that. I, uh, got a little crazy and actually rolled one of every class. EVERY class. Just to mess around til about ~10 on each. It's tough to choose what I actually want to make my main since all of these classes are pretty interesting. Right now I can safely say probably not Bainshee cuz trying to solo seems nightmarish since almost every spell is AoE and pulling a huge number of mobs is extremely painful, and probably not Animist because the ground targeting is kind of annoying. I did, however, hit 50 with Ranger, Healer, and Cabalist. The latter was surprisingly simple; with 50 points in Body, it seems like the best move is summon Ruby Simulacrum, spam lifedrain until the thing dies. It was pretty effective. The "tanking" simulacrum seemed borderline worthless (at least in PvE) because it can't hold aggro and does gently caress-all damage. Maybe if I was Spirit spec the pets would be better?  EDIT: Normally I play ranged DPS in MMOs but I find I think I prefer the melee classes in this game (including Aug Healer, lol). Something about hitting things with hammers/swords/mattocks in this game is extremely satisfying, whereas the optimum thing to do as a caster in solo PvE seems to be spamming the same spell over and over. I'm sure it's a whole different ballgame in serious RVR and raids. FrostyPox fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Sep 15, 2018 02:06
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OK so after getting a 4th class to 50 (Paladin) I've decided speed-levelling is a bad idea and I'm just gonna pick another class and try to really understand it in RvR and learn about the other stuff in this game (Atlantis is very cool-looking but really overwhelming). Probably a better idea than having like 10 level 50s I don't know how to play  So maybe I'll look up Soflatos this go around, or maybe play a Hib since when I was dicking around on a low-level Hero I got an offer for help from someone. At this point I'm fairly confident I'd want to main a melee class of some form, or a healer, which is totally bizarro world for me since in all other games I tend to main magic DPS or Archers.
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Sep 27, 2018 18:26
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Yeah I've basically been grinding my face off in the Battlegrounds, more or less. At some point I'll probably try to level a character via quests, dungeons, etc to see how it goes. I'd say 90% of my RvR (as in, fighting actual players) experience has come from getting jumped and murdered, with maybe half a dozen kills from either seeing them before they get me, or me somehow winning despite them starting the engagement, with little understanding what I did right or they did wrong (with the exception of the Hunter who let my Paladin get to close to him, the reasons for the outcome were pretty obvious imo) FrostyPox fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Sep 29, 2018 |
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Sep 29, 2018 20:56
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I tried RoR and Warhammer Online is a lot less fun than I remember it being tbqh. It's not bad, though. I'm trying Phoenix right now but the game doesn't finish loading. When I launch the game everything works fine, I get the DAoC loading screen and the bar hangs at like 95% or so. Not sure what to do, I've glanced at the forums and couldn't find anything but I should probably take a closer look. EDIT: Nevermind, needed to run the downgrader. All fixed! FrostyPox fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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Apr 14, 2020 08:26
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When I was messing around with the game last year or two years ago or whenever it was chat channels were pretty active and there seemed to be a decent number of people in the RvR battlegrounds. Not sure about the world RvR stuff since I didn't do a lot of it. Still tempted to play again some time but I just don't have the time for it right now
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Apr 26, 2021 22:31
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I actually got to the level cap when I played live recently but I was really intimidated by the non-BG PvP you do at 50 and never bothered to try to ask for help. Perhaps I will return and try it again some day.
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