So, I was bored tonight, wandering around the rest of Alla, stumbled upon this thread. I've played WoW, I've played FFXI. I've never played DAoC, I some of my friends moved from DAoC to WoW, but I'm not here to compare.
I'm here to rip "The One And Only Katie" to shreds. Since I'm going to rate you down, and it might push your rating into Sub-Default, I'll do everyone else the favor of quoting everything that you said in the thread so far.
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Hi!
"DAoC is and will be better than WoW. I've done my homework and nothing compares to DAoC. Yeah wow is going to have PvP built eventually, so you can run around and kill other idiot nooblets that got to the highest level in 12 days. Where is the challenge? Its in DAoC."
You haven't done your homework. You've never played WoW. You've heard a bunch of hype from a bunch of other whiny people like yourself. Go play WoW, go run Molten Core a few times, and then talk about the challenge it presents. Go run Onyxia, one of the hardest raid bosses ever created in any MMORPG, then look at the fact that she's the lowest tier of the raid bosses in WoW, then come back and tell me that no challenge exists.
The people who hit the cap in 12 days grind it straight through, which is boring as hell. The people who do this also have crap gear all the way through. The people who do this also hit 60 having absolutely no experience with instances, and are therefore rendered useless at endgame.
There's no challenge in grinding to the cap of any game. It doesn't matter if it takes you two weeks or a year, if it requires no skill then you can't call it a challenge. A timesink does not equal a challenge. 40 people having to work together and execute their skills at the absolute highest level of play they can muster? That's a challenge.
Also, Bizzard has stated since Beta that WoW isn't about hitting the cap. They've stated over and over again that the game begins at 60. With the implementation of the Honor System, Molten Core, Onyxia, Kazzak, Azuregos, Dire Maul, and Battlegrounds on the way, there's tons to do already. Blizzard hired the top raid guilds from EQ to create the raid content for WoW. That's why it's as good as it is, and that's why the raid content in WoW will continue to own the raid content in every other game on the market for a very, very, very long time.
"You have to WORK to get to the top, you have to know what your doing, you have to continously work on your gear, your ML's and your arties to stay on top. Yeah, the tower humping hordes can be a bore sometimes but can you honestly tell me that you don't get an adrenaline rush off of sieging a keep, running inside and taking over? Setting up base camps and getting siege going. Knowing that you and others have to work together to accomplish the goal."
I've never gotten as much of a rush in any game as I have in WoW. You don't hit one or two buttons over the course of a battle. I've played multiple classes in WoW, and each one required me to remap my keys because I used more than 12 of my skills in a given battle.
"IMO stick with DAoC, you'll thank me later."
Go play WoW before you bash on it again. Idiot. You're just another one of those diehard gamers that's been spending their entire lives playing DAoC/EQ/FFXI ever since release, who are so reluctant to start over and accept a different style of play that you just give up and talk WoW down instead of giving it a fair shot.
"if your a whiny ***** that wants everything handed to you, go with WoW."
This is possibly the most ignorant statement I've ever heard made about WoW. You don't get things "handed to you". Endgame in WoW is raiding multiple instances in order to get the gear necessary to raid the next tier of instances and raid bosses. You can gimp your way to endgame, but you'll be useless to everyone else, and then you'll just sit around whining about how there's "no endgame content".
Please, enlighten me, and tell me how everything gets "handed to you" in WoW.
"pfft.. WoW is for ignorant @#%^s who cant do more than hit one button repeatedly."
I'll say it once again. I've had to remap my keys to allow me the use of 15-20 skills for any given battle (or set of battles), simply because the 12 keys that WoW keybinds by default aren't enough.
WoW may be filled with a lot of idiots. Leave general chat and join a good guild. They'll be gone soon. Many have already left for Guild Wars or other games.
WoW may have made server problems in the past. I haven't had to deal with unscheduled server maintenance for months.
WoW may have a weak PvP system right now. Everyone is still getting used to it, and the core of the PvP system (Battlegrounds) hasn't been released yet. It's been confirmed that it's coming in the next patch.
WoW may be a lot of things, but it's not easy. Not by a long shot. So hush.