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I quit WoW, came to DDO and love it
eadu
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I am the top ranked arena hunter on my wow server. Bored to death with WoW. So I scanned these forums to see if there was another game worth trying....
I'm glad I came here, DDO is more complex/detailed than WoW....and the community? I can't believe how friendly and helpful everyone is...it's the complete opposite of the WoW community.
This game deserves more praise than it's gotten, it's definitely not the same game it was 2 years ago.
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So what class/race are you playing? What level are you up to now? What you like most about the game? What you dislike most so far about the game?
I agree, the community in DDO is pretty good, probably the best I seen in a game. I also enjoyed Vanguard community.
Anyways, glad your enjoying the game, can't wait for Mod 7 to come out.
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Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.
Pretty much after leaving WoW, especially if you've been level capped for awhile, any of the top mmos will feel better. I'm not going to get a debate going about something being better or worse. But new things tend to be more entertaining then what you've been doing for months.
And when you consider -nothing- ever changes in the wow pvp world, the repetativeness gets really dull.
I really liked DDO when I played it, I just couldn't get my friends on board. Glad to hear you're enjoying it.
I'm curious, how are you adjusting to the AI and the "game world"? I know the AI alone is apples to oranges in comparison to WoW.
What about the combat system? Shield block, jumping, tumbling, etc...how has this worked for you being that these mechanics aren't availble in WoW, from what I recall.
The "click-to-swing" is being changed on the next module. After #7 we will just have to hold down the left mouse button rather clicking it a bazillion times.
There's a patch coming out tommorrow that's supposedly going to fix the lag issues.
The class I've played the most so far is wizard so I'm not doing too much shield blocking or tumbling atm. I plan on checking out the other classes as soon as I learn more, I've got a lot of stuff to figure out.
It's refreshing to play in an environment that isn't riddled with teenage-nerd-rage, If I made a 'hi i'm new' post on the official WoW forums it would have been greeted in a very different way.
I too came from WoW after numerous 70s and enjoy the increase of interaction within the game.
I also came from wow and enjoy the game. I have been playing a rogue and a cleric and thinking of trying out a bard at some point. Not sure tho.
I gave up WOW a few months ago and now i'm back to ddo after a year off from it. Being an old time paper & pen D&D DM for a little over 20 years, i feel much more at home with ddo. WOW was great, but I never felt the attachment to it I do with dungeons and dragons. Now that i'm back, I hope I can get into the bigger areas eventually and get involved with a guild so I can get out of the starting city.
Will I go back to wow at some point? I'll probably sign up to check out the expansion, but I'll never get back
into raiding like I use to be.
See yas around the world....
For PvE there isn't a better game imo out there. The uniqueness of the quests and interaction is the best of genre. Then on top of that the game that started turn-based pnp, ironically has the fastest action combat model of any fantasy mmo, AoC included. Very FPS'ish and can play like a 3d diablo. Make sure you toss away the auto-attack skill and hang in there at the start to get use to the UI. Community is top-notch.
If you managed to get bored playing WoW here's a fun exercise for you. Take the amount of time you played WoW and divide it by 100. Now you have the amount of time it will take you to get bored in DDO!
Being playing DDO since beta, not bored yet, I need decent combat and quests, I don't care how big a world is, or how many kill x, deliver y quests it has, it doesn't change the fact it is a mindless grind.
Different folks, different strokes.
Wow...that would mean I should have been bored with DDO in 10 minutes...
Wow...that would mean I should have been bored with DDO in 10 minutes...
I dont know...the comment wasn't directed at you.
Wow...that would mean I should have been bored with DDO in 10 minutes...
I dont know...the comment wasn't directed at you.
ClassicAs I read it, it applies for every single indiviual who got bored of WoW and is currently playing DDO... am I wrong?
Wow...that would mean I should have been bored with DDO in 10 minutes...
I dont know...the comment wasn't directed at you.
ClassicAs I read it, it applies for every single indiviual who got bored of WoW and is currently playing DDO... am I wrong?
You're pretty close...but the comment would actually only apply to people who actually played WoW. If you can't make it through the first 10 levels in WoW you flat out haven't experienced the game. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that, its just that those people don't actually tell us anything about WoW.
On the other hand, if a person seriously played WoW to the point where they actually got bored - and given the fact that that game has so much more to do than DDO that there isn't any way to make a fair comparison - then I think it's fair to say they will be bored with this game as well. Sure, buy it and use the month you get with the game, I'm but know from the get go that all the myriad options you had to keep you occupied in WoW will be either missing altogether or poorly designed version in DDO.
Well, you see, that only apply for a few... As I see it, is alittle different from you; If you like what DDO have to offer (real quests, unlimited character customization, a dedicated Roleplaying community, fast travel, twitch combat, or any other feature that set the two games apart) you wont like WoW at all!... But thats not the truth either, is it?
In my opinion, your "fun exercise" doesnt hold water at all, because the games are too different to compare conserning how fast you get bored.
My Fun Exercise:
I played WoW for two weeks - got to lvl 19 before I deleted it. Played about 2.5 hours a day (including weekends) X 14 days = 2100 minutes playtime. Meaning, I should get bored of DDO in 21 minutes. I've played DDO since beta....
Which is why my comment doesn't apply to everyone. If something about the gameplay in WoW turns you off, then I'm not making any predictions about how you will feel about DDO. But if you only made it to 19, then you didn't experience WoW.
My point is that for people who enjoy WoW enough to play the game for real - that group will find that compared to WoW a game like DDO has very limited features. If you don't leave WoW because the gameplay itself "isn't for you", but rather because you are bored, then I think there isn't much you will find in DDO.
Or conversly they may find something in DDO that does appeal to them and they just didn't know they were missing it, horrible use of the true scotsman faliscious argument.....
I think it is time for me to try DDO again. I only played a one week after release. It was a different game back then.
As far as WoW is concerned, if you don't like it after a few levels, you will hate it at 70.
For me, it was really quite simple...
DDO: I loved the combat engine. I loved how personalized my character was. I loved the experience of instanced PVE questing. I loved grouping for the first time in an MMO.
WoW: I hated the combat engine. I hated that my character felt cookie cutter. I hated levelling through ratting. I didn't find a group or want a group.
I haven't played another MMO to date that offered me what I found in DDO that I loved...so in my opinion, DDO is the best MMO on the market today.
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Which is why my comment doesn't apply to everyone. If something about the gameplay in WoW turns you off, then I'm not making any predictions about how you will feel about DDO. But if you only made it to 19, then you didn't experience WoW.
My point is that for people who enjoy WoW enough to play the game for real - that group will find that compared to WoW a game like DDO has very limited features. If you don't leave WoW because the gameplay itself "isn't for you", but rather because you are bored, then I think there isn't much you will find in DDO.[/quote]
Played WoW to 70, raided 10 and 25 man raids, PvPed etc. /played was just over 20 days so thats 20*24 thats 480 hours. Should have got bored with DDO in 2 days played, been playing for about 6 months now, not bored.
Originally posted by Gabrion2:
"My point is that for people who enjoy WoW enough to play the game for real - that group will find that compared to WoW a game like DDO has very limited features. If you don't leave WoW because the gameplay itself "isn't for you", but rather because you are bored, then I think there isn't much you will find in DDO."
Just admit it was a dumb DDO bashing comment already and be done with it.
I stopped playing WoW for various reasons. 1) They kept messing with my characters, giving evidence to the theory that they don't know what they are doing in the first place when designing classes and abilities. But the more important reason was 2) that there are limited group quests that have any meaning, and a limited amount of people who like to group who don't require you to be in a hardcore guild. I was bored. Soloing is boring. On my last day, I even ganked lowbies. I never did that before. In DDO, people HAVE to quest with at least one other person, for the most part. Forced grouping is bad? Nah.
Played some LOTRO. Mostly the same thing. People like to solo a lot.
Now, WoW has been reducing or eliminating the requirements for big quests and lowering the amount of people needed. For those who like to do group quests but don't have a second job in a hardcore guild, this may become interesting.
"Which is why my comment doesn't apply to everyone. "
Your comment didn't even make sense to begin with. You were trying to be cute, and it failed. That's the reality of what happened.
No, my comment was just letting the OP know how limiting DDO is compared to the game he came from. It wasn't random DDO bashing or a scotish fallacy or whatever.
Wow i just couldn't overlook this one.
You think balancing in WoW means the devs don't know what they are doing, but you are here defending DDO? Just take a moment and thing about the radical changes this game has undergone. Are you willing to make the argument that DDO developers also don't know what they are doing? (I happen to agree, but I'd just like to hear it from you)
Then you make the argument that a game where you have the choice of running in a group or running solo is somehow naturally inferior to a game that requires you to play in a group. This just doesn't even make sense to me - it seems pretty natural that a game people pay to play should have options for people who want different things out of the game (or even people who want different things at different times).
As far as "messing with my characters"... that's the nature of MMOs. DDO does it to theirs as well. One would think that with the tried and true 3.5 rules as it's base that there wouldn't be much in the way of "messing" but you would be wrong.