TL, let's talk MMORPGs - Page 6

On September 28 2011 15:15 Zariel wrote:
Ahhh... the memories of Final Fantasy XI

This game... my o my, the game that punishes you hardcore, but when you succeed, it'll give you the best feeling.

Literally, if you don't have a second computer (or you use windower) to look stuff up on the net such as quests, where to buy items etc, don't bother playing. You start off and you will have NO IDEA wtf to do, there's no indicator on your map nor any easy signs to point you out.

A slow paced game, a Great Axe will swing once every 8 seconds at the start, a dagger will poke once every 4 seconds. Take into the fact you'll have a 70% accuracy rating in general (less as you fight slightly tougher creeps). To rest to full health at the start, it will take you a good minute or 2. If you don't have at least an hour to play, don't bother turning on the game because you won't achieve much.

Now the end of the rant, lets move to the good points of this lovely game.

Getting into a party of 6 to level up was literally the best thing in the world. Inherently, Japanese players have IMMACULATE teamwork, no words need to be said, everyone knows what to do and when exactly to do it. A good party will level up very very quickly and the addiction of getting a perfect party will itch you hardcore.

I always liked the Summoner Class...when they actually had all the cool summon spells lol
The game was about balance, you needed a tank, physical dps, sub-tank/dps, healer, caster, support caster. Thankfully, there was no job/class that was overpowered nor underpowered. Because you were fighting creeps that were 5-8 levels(ie: they can 1-2 shot a caster) above you, threat of a party wipeout was always there and thats probably why everyone who actually played the game was quite pro at it.

About teamwork, for the tank, he needs to keep the creep focused on him the whole time, the healer cannot heal too quickly, a mage cannot cast too often. Combined with the long rest nature, casters must be very very efficient with their mana. The game rewarded parties that could kill strong creeps through bonus EXP if you can kill successive creeps (EXP Chain). See where I'm heading? Better the party, your leveling time decreases exponentially.

There's a bucketload more I'd like to share.

TL:DR: Do not play if your a casual gamer

On September 28 2011 00:22 darcevader88 wrote:
where do i start?

It all begin one dark dark day in the summer of.. yea i dont remember which year LOL

but anyway, my first MMo experience was with a little game called Last Kingdom, which was pretty damn fun at the time (note: i was maybe 12?) i played for like 6 months and then the game was cancelled on me just as i approached max leve l still makes me angry.

From there I moved onto UO where I played on numerous free shards, from arcadia?(arcodia!?) to some smaller ones my friends were hosting/gming (i even gm'ed a few mid level ones at the time) played the crap out of UO for as long as i could possibly play during junior high -> into high school.

woah totally forgot, in between UO and WoW i played a crap load of iRO and to like 79/40~?? or somewhere there as a mage->wiz.. that shit was ultra fun but got SOOO grindy and none of my friends played so it was a lot of solo shiz

Grade 11 in high school i get introduced to WoW (i was also a d2 addict) so i got into WoW beta and i was hooked like a junkie, play the everliving crap out of WoW, top 15 in world guild clearing almost all content (aftermath lightning's blade [necronis]), pvped the hell out of it aswell (my true passion) got to rank 14, had pretty much every pvp item you could want in the game. BC rolls out, I decide it's just not worth it to do that all over again to be the best and quit/sell my acct / move on to RL until sc2 comes out and boom. I keep trying to get out, and you can't DRAGGING ME BACK! (damn you blizz)

On September 28 2011 15:46 MaestroSC wrote:


US Lightnings Blade?
If Alliance, I played on that server for the first 2 years of WoW.
Was good friends with Jookya, Ming, Tangji. 3 of the first Grand Marshalls (? equivalent of alliance High Warlords, but back when getting these titles meant 60-70 hours a week of nothing but ganking in open fields)
Was in Sigil for a bit. There was a UD warlock whose name I cant remember.. who was known server wide for premade PvP'ing it was like "Constantine" or something, i remember he was UD lock and whenever you got into a BG vs his premades the alliance would just accept defeat and wait for next game lol.

The most epic pvp time in WoW was vanilla seeing Ming and Jookya just 1v5 people no problem. Same with Sunken... aaahh rogues were sooooo badass back then

Also the horde guild SiN OMG LOL. that guild gave every single alliance person nightmares back when i played on that server lol