Is it even worth coming back?Follow

From everything I am reading here how much fun can it be to come back and start at the beginning when almost everyone else is so far out there and beyond you? I mean I have read posts of guys who never see people. If the PVP is a no go unless you catch up with everyone then why return to DAOC? I only ask cause as much as I am not thrilled with WoW right now I do have 3 60's and a number of 30+ guys. Sigh, hate choices like this.

There are plenty of people on the classic server at all levels, and not just in RvR.

Read some other posts to find out more about classic servers, but in short, they do not have the Trials of Atlantis as part of them, which includes artifacts and Master Levels.

They also do not allow buffs outside of groups which has semi-eliminated buff-bots.

These servers are much newer (started less than a year ago), have more casual people in them, and I think are better to "start over" in then the traditional serves.

That being said, I play on a normal server, and my guild has had about 15 people join the past two months that are entirely new to either the game or the server and are starting from scratch.

About finding people, it is true that it is not always easy on most servers. That is primarily because it is an older game and Mythic wanted to encourace its existing player base to have incentive to level up new toons. They did this by making it much faster thourgh catacombs instance Task Dungeons. Most people that have resources in the game do it this way now.

I just created a toon on Gareth though (a classic server) and there are a bunch of newbies there too, so if this is a problem to you and you don't know people already in game to get a guild, then maybe the classics are for you. It is the same game with the same lands, but PvP is also a bit slowed down b/c the uber gear is not in those servers.

Good luck, and don't be afraid to at least try coming back. The end game is still the Realm vs. Realm, and although PvE content is often thought of out-dated in DAoC, its RvR is still the best there is. Equipping your characters is easier then ever now on whatever server you join...you just need to find people that are willing to help you along and take you in to enjoy this game to its fullest.

I would say yes its worth coming back. I played this game on release in albion percival. Have 4 50's few like rr 5. I dreaded too coming back and starting from scratch. With that said its very very easy to level quickly doing Catacomb Task Dungeons. I would say in like 2-3 hrs with the right people you can be lvl 24 in no time especially if you can find a 50 to let you in the highest level Task Dungeon. I would also suggest as it was said earlier join a classic server. Mythic put these in and had no idea that they would have the largest player base. They had to join other servers together to even come close to the same amount of people that log on the classics. Gareth seems to be the most popular though. I play in Hibernia and if you need a hand coming back just shoot me a ingame tell on Sinsaw or Siusan. Leveling is easy, and the no buff bot or artifact hoarding and camping is obolete on this server with makes the game much more fun.