MMOs for dummies

[Jagos]

My main thing is partying with people. I'm more of a casual gamer who plays with a group. If it's hardcore guild parties all the time, I just can't keep myself to pace with the rest of the team since my harder courses keep me busy.

When I played RO, it was great until we switched servers twice. I liked playing Paladin and being a medic/fighter with capacity to do either in a pinch. I tried on other servers as a DPS guy along with mage. My appeal is to be a front liner tank with some healing capacity or all healing.

So when I played DFO, I'm good at being a Priest. What's horrible about the game is how the guild system is set up along with people who constantly spam about being in a guild. There's less incentive to really join and cooperate in a guild than to just play by yourself and beat up everything like it's going out of style. It's still fun to play, but I've backed off since really it feels like only me in the world.

With Maple Story, it was just the platforming that frustrated me. The tutorial may be great but it was too long and boring to figure out it's just not my thing.

DnDO might be well and good, but it still fails to really capture my attention. I could try again but when your first class is a monk... Yeah, I did that one to myself.

[RobinStarwing]

Originally Posted by Jagos

My main thing is partying with people. I'm more of a casual gamer who plays with a group. If it's hardcore guild parties all the time, I just can't keep myself to pace with the rest of the team since my harder courses keep me busy.

When I played RO, it was great until we switched servers twice. I liked playing Paladin and being a medic/fighter with capacity to do either in a pinch. I tried on other servers as a DPS guy along with mage. My appeal is to be a front liner tank with some healing capacity or all healing.

So when I played DFO, I'm good at being a Priest. What's horrible about the game is how the guild system is set up along with people who constantly spam about being in a guild. There's less incentive to really join and cooperate in a guild than to just play by yourself and beat up everything like it's going out of style. It's still fun to play, but I've backed off since really it feels like only me in the world.

With Maple Story, it was just the platforming that frustrated me. The tutorial may be great but it was too long and boring to figure out it's just not my thing.

DnDO might be well and good, but it still fails to really capture my attention. I could try again but when your first class is a monk... Yeah, I did that one to myself.

I found my DDO experience to be rather interesting and easy. I took on being a Human Sorcerer (Arcane Cannon) with a few modifications to the original build. I only needed to actually get help one time for a question and it was the kill the traitor one in the bar. Managed to get someone to tank for me while I Ice Daggered and Burning Hands us through the quest.

Now I am just wandering the island and getting a feel for it and exploring as well as beating up whatever baddies get in my way. Haven't been able to play due to crap internet connection.

As to RO, I played on the pay server for several months but gave up due to the all the bots taking all the kills. I couldn't get anywhere with them but I had a bit of a rep as a Wandering/Ranger Swordie who went from the very top of the world to the bottom of it and everywhere in between.

[bluestarultor]

I'd yammer on about the free MMOs I've played in-depth, but I've already done that. Although as an update, now that I've got Allods working with click controls, I'm really liking it. That's actually my current review.


Suffice it to say I'd recommend, for a healer type, Perfect World any time, or if you want to party up with people from NPF, I'm personally on Allods, where healers also work quite well and many classes also have additional healing powers, like Paladins, Summoners, and Wardens. Really, Allods is holding my attention in ways I never expected starting out, all without playing on addiction. Trust me, as a guy who's suffered from media addiction, the only reason I keep playing it, and keep wanting very badly to play it is because it's just that interesting (and the stuff I should be doing is boring me to Hell). There are no hooks in that game - no fancy leveling schemes, no level-dependent features (minus normal skill trees), no rare drops so far, quests are easy to do and quest item drop rates are high, grinding levels nets you one point per level to raise your stats only a small amount, and there's absolutely no sense that you need "just one more" of anything. The game is fully scaled to the long haul with no shiny promises to lure you in. Allods has kept me excited about it better than anything else I've played just by merit of it being that good, and the game itself seems written specifically to just let you play on your own terms.


Edit: Oh, and on partying, I'll outright say Allods has PW beat. It teaches you very early on that you'll need to party up for certain things and parties, in my experience, are very fluid. People will pretty much join up with whoever needs them from what I can tell, despite there being guilds.

[Azisien]

The Cataclysm patch improved WoW 1-60. Sucks after that because BC slaps you with an older, decayed grind. But you could get a good month or two out of it before you realize its not actually good, its addictive, and those are different things.

Oh was the thread title a trick question? All MMOs are for dummies.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Azisien

But you could get a good month or two out of it before you realize its not actually good, its addictive, and those are different things.

Pretty much true. When my "brother" (very good old friend who we basically adopted for a while) ran out of money and was forced to quit WoW, he went through some pretty serious withdrawal for a media addiction and had to re-acclimate to real life (he called going out for things like shopping going on raids for like a month afterward). After that he bumped around to pretty much literally every free MMO on the market until recently to help fill the void. Now he's back on WoW, spending money he knows he has no business spending again.

It's not like he doesn't even know the dangers of addiction. The guy's not stupid and just managed to quit smoking late last year. He just got into WoW because he had friends join up. Those guys all still play, too.


WoW: more addictive than nicotine. :T

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

he went through some pretty serious withdrawal for a media addiction and had to re-acclimate to real life (he called going out for things like shopping going on raids for like a month afterward).

lolololololololol

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

lolololololololol

In all fairness, while that example is humorous, he's back to planning his life around raids, still talking about how "casually" he plays it. His newest account, which is specifically the one he "didn't waste half his life on" already has 15+ days on it and he's bitching things aren't dropping anything his guild can use anymore and he has only nine purples and how his blue main-hander is holding back his purple off-hander and limiting him to a DPS of only about 12k and making him look bad when he started as their best DPS.

Mind you, he's also in Villains, which is ranked 7th on the server and is the #1 Horde (would be higher, but they lost three guys and had to take another week to plan) and oh, God, I'm starting to sound just like him now.


This is why I really don't trust myself with WoW.