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HELP! I've had a very bad MMO year
Kamandi777
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Preface: I have had a very bad MMO year. It began with WoD. I quit playing WoW for some time but some friends at work said they were rolling 20-29 twinks so I said wtf. It was great, the xp-on and xp-off were still segregated and we were playing premades almost every night so I was having a blast. I even made a Garrison and a Shipyard and endured the humiliation of playing with toy boats just so I could have the heirloom rings. I even won the dread pirate ring.
Then Legion. The xp-on and xp-off got crammed together and my heirlooms became useless not to mentioned long-farm items like +8 rings of agility etc. were now useless.
So I tried playing a Vanilla wow server named Kronos. I started playing WoW in April of 2006 so I remember the "good old days". Well I thought I did. They weren't good. I forgot how broken Vanilla was--ask a druid or pally. I forgot how long leveling took. So I bought some gold and made two 19 twink hunters. I was in heaven. And again this wasn't about facerolling noobs, we were fighting other twink guilds every day and bgs were popping every 2-3 minutes. The nthe devs at Kronos made a serious mistake. In reaction to Nostralius being shut down, they split their population by opening a new server, known as K2. This was followed by a month long massive DDOS attack. Living in the US my pings were between 100-130ms but after the DDOS attacks began they were as high as 1500 and as low as 480. They finally fixed the DDOS problem but by then almost everyone was playing on the new server K2. No more bg pops for my twinks on K1.
Now for the the main point of my post.
Someone please recommend a mmo that has a fun world, pvp and little or NO GRIND.
I can't grind anymore. NO more. I can't make new toons on K2. I tried but I can't do it.
PLEASE HELP!
Please recommend a fun MMO with no grind, or at least a minimal grind.
tyvm
k
Then Legion. The xp-on and xp-off got crammed together and my heirlooms became useless not to mentioned long-farm items like +8 rings of agility etc. were now useless.
So I tried playing a Vanilla wow server named Kronos. I started playing WoW in April of 2006 so I remember the "good old days". Well I thought I did. They weren't good. I forgot how broken Vanilla was--ask a druid or pally. I forgot how long leveling took. So I bought some gold and made two 19 twink hunters. I was in heaven. And again this wasn't about facerolling noobs, we were fighting other twink guilds every day and bgs were popping every 2-3 minutes. The nthe devs at Kronos made a serious mistake. In reaction to Nostralius being shut down, they split their population by opening a new server, known as K2. This was followed by a month long massive DDOS attack. Living in the US my pings were between 100-130ms but after the DDOS attacks began they were as high as 1500 and as low as 480. They finally fixed the DDOS problem but by then almost everyone was playing on the new server K2. No more bg pops for my twinks on K1.
Now for the the main point of my post.
Someone please recommend a mmo that has a fun world, pvp and little or NO GRIND.
I can't grind anymore. NO more. I can't make new toons on K2. I tried but I can't do it.
PLEASE HELP!
Please recommend a fun MMO with no grind, or at least a minimal grind.
tyvm
k
Comments
Well, his suggestion was a sound one. Guild Wars 2 is not a hard leveling game. As a matter of fact it's pretty easy. You asked for a game with little grind and he gave you one. Don't let the level number dissuade you. This is no Lineage 2.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
My advice is to wait for Star Citizen which will hopefully (but likely won't) release in 2017.
Mortal Online also has a pretty low barrier to entry if you can suffer through the bugs and balance issues. If you want to enjoy that game at all you need to hook into a group fast. It's the least solo-friendly game I've ever played.
Eve Online has no grind in the form of actually just doing crap to build stats. With limited playtime on a fresh character I've managed to remain 98.2% ISK efficient in PvP by hooking into a good newb friendly corp. 98.2% ISK efficient is a reflection of the fact I've lost about 80 million ISK in ships (Most of which were paid for by my corp) and taken part in the destruction of 4.5 billion ISK of ships.
But do you know @Torval? Someone here maybe disagree with you without bothered to counter your argument and just use "LOL" button instead.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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When you don't want the truth, you will make up your own truth.
I do have a zillion of those boost I gotten in game but never bothered to use, the movement speed boost is meaningless since I either have a skill equipped for that or some traveler runes in my armor. I don't think there actually is a gathering booster but there is one for crafting, but the the time saved is pretty small (I tend to forget using them, the only time you need them is if you go for 500 to craft ascended gear.
The only booster I tend to use is the birthday booster that last 24 hours playing, never bought any and still have loads of them.
I do buy a character slot or something every third month but that is to support the game, not that I actually need it. If you want to play older living story though you either need to pay some money for them (the latest is free so I never had to do that) or exchange some gold for them but you don't really need that anyways.
Neither GW2 nor ESO is pay2win but if you could call any premium it would be ESO.
I don't think the OP can escape the grind, it may be best to leave MMOs for a while. I have had gaming breaks before. I take a month or two of gaming, get on with other things, you come back refreshed and eager to play.
And when I read @Kmandi777 response to:
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Answers like this are proof America is in decline. I have money. It is the 80 level GRIND I want to avoid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello? Can you hear me in the back??
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What I first thought was: go see a movie! (Given GW2's design)
Which suggests to me that the OP might be better trying something with a story to go through, puzzles to solve, missions to complete and so forth. ("Economy building" I decided would be grind.)
Based on this premise and replacing "multi-player" by "co-op" maybe look at games like:
Portal 2; Left 4 Dead; Dark Souls; GTA V; Divinity OS.
You have to be careful with fps games since some have leveling e.g. Borderlands 2.) And most team management games e.g. FIFA maybe don't offer enough of the "multi-player" feel (lots of 1vs1).
More of the same, and MOBA's. Halp!
The fun factor is subjective, but clearly if it isn't then its time to find a different game.
He says no grind, but that's just another word for profession, and its clear the OP wants none of that, not in levels or even gear, he wants everything static.
Except as sidebar activity such as twinking, most MMOs aren't designed around a no progression model, especially more modern ones which don't often offer level locking.
OP is going to have to play MOBAs, FPS shooters and the like to find the playing experience he is looking for, it no longer exists in the WOW format he is used to, not even in WOW.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
The trick is to find an MMO where the grind is enjoyable / worthwhile for you.
Contrary to what some people have posted above, Eve Online has 3 grinds! -
- the grind for ISK
- the time grind to get the skills
- the grind of socialising to be in a team (this is the biggest grind - you've got to be reliable on a regular basis)