Well had a talk yesterday with blinky and none of us are convinced by WAR so far. :/
Nothing to do with the grafx, it's ugly but I'm used to it now :).
We knew it was a pvp centric game but didn't expect the pve side to be so barren.
Put it this way: we like instances (dungeons) and there are none :(. That's our main grief.
The game has lots of qualities, it's well thought out, it's polished, there are tons of stuffs to do...in theory.
Basically right now all the Public quests are the same and few are oustanding/surprising (except the first dark elf one and the first empire one so far that have a bit more cinematic approach). The chore of it is all about grinding and after a few it gets boring to me. (also the fact that in the end we fight the same mobs ad nauseum)
Everything feels very repetitive, be it pvp or pve so far. They made a tremendous effort to flesh out the quests but tbh we don't read them much and it's too much run and bring back once more (doing quests in batch isn't a good option so far cuz it'll force u to redo areas).
Ofc the class I play have something to do in it (pretty static) but still the progression doesn't suit me either (not enough gear for my taste) and overall I find the immersion factor pretty poor. I don't even see any other class that would fit my style and meet my "fun" requirements (hear look good enough to my eyes for me to identify to my char)
Where AoC was intense in combat here I feel like mashing the same button over and over again for little gain. I don't feel my skills are counting much as in the end it all ends up to a roll of dice (in pq) or to levels (in pvp).
Problem is right now I don't feel like playing much (I'd not even consider playing war solo), the only thing that makes me wanna play is play with you guys lol. Which is sort of bad when I haven't even reached the end of the free month (usually I get tired of an mmo after the first free month not during, hence my concerns)
Dunno if it's an mmo's fatigue from me (never been doing mmo's non stop for so long and there are games ahead that I'll wanna try for sure lol), but I know blinky isn't happy with it so far either so there isn't only that.
Maybe it'll get better with levels but I sort of doubt it and dunno if I wanna put the effort in it. :/
Tbh I don't feel like going back to AoC now, the wound is still too fresh for us to get back there. I prolly won't before the expansion is out.
And I don't see many games I haven't tried and disliked lol. (as I hate redoing things)
For the moment am thinking of giving a try to dungeons and dragons online: stormreach (I'd have preferred it centered around Forgotten Realms than stormreach but well...) like I told u (when I get time I'll try to check the shops for it). I don't have high hopes for it but the game is dungeons centric (instances everywhere) and would probably suit me more than war.
Again just ranting and maybe next playtime will prove me wrong but well am sort of convinced now that WAR just isn't for me no matter its qualities.
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We completely understand you; WAR isn't the dream game for us either. We like some of its aspects but we also realized from the beginning that it will not get our addiction, like AoC definitely had. We also miss the dungeons and boss fights with nice loots. Somehow the game misses the "wow, we managed to do that!" aspect.
Our main reason to play is ofc also you two :) I am sure we will find again a game in the future that we all like and enjoy to play together. And we will also not allow that we will loose contact, so we are not worried :)
As kanu was bored today, we downloaded a 14-day free trial from vanguard today and maybe will give it a try (now we both have a cold and lying in bed the whole day doesn't make life funnier ;). Kanu isn't really very impressed by DDO and I don't know much about it.
So I hope to see/ hear u two soon again. Hugs and kisses from us to you friends :)
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