Lots of Questions!!!!Follow

1: Graphics. How does the new graphics engine compare to WoW's? I do like WoW's graphics alot, it is fairly pleasent to the eye. There are some very beutiful environments in WoW but i'm not quite sure if DAoC has anything like this.
**The free trial is the old graphics engine. If you purchase the Epic Edition in stores, or upgrade to the Darkness Rising client (cost of 29.99 if you do it online..I think the store bought version is cheaper), the graphics are great. I would say equal to WoW, but less cartoonish.

2: Crafting. Is there any? Cause WoW has none at the moment...at least I don't consider it crafting. I liked EQ2's crafting system alot...very in depth and appeared that you could make very powerful and usable items.
**The crafting here is very important, but also very time consuming and expensive. They are making changes in a month or two, but nobody knows for sure what they are going to do. They hinted that it would be easier to level a crafter to encourage new people to the game (most players here are several years old..unfortunately not a lot of new people come to this game) to take up crafting and bridge the gap between veterans and newbs. So yes, crafting is here, but it is more time consuming and not fun at all, however, the items made are in demand and can alone provide you with enough funds to do most anything in the game.

3: PvE. How long does it take to level in DAoC? Now, I don't want a game that will require a year or two to attain max level...but I also don't want to play a game where you can level from scratch in a week (see WoW). Another big concern is the ability to solo the PvE content. I love this about WoW; you can go 1-60 all on your own. This is the main reason I left EQ2...because after level 20 or so...you pretty much had to 5 man simple quests...like killing bears and stuff. Well, power leveling does exist here..If you have the right people doing it for you, it can be done in under a week. However, that is not normal. For YOU to do it (not knowing anyone willing to do it the PL'ing way), it will take you a few weeks to maybe two months to reach 50, depending on how much you play. It used to take maybe 40 or 50 days played (that is 24 hour days), but Catacombs has reduced that time down dramatically. you can do it through normal leveling in maybe 10-20 days played now as a guess for a typical person/class. Almost any toon can go to level 50 on their own, however some specs that would not be practical (such as a healing specced cleric..smite specced sure). A lot of people go the easy leveling spec to at least 40, then you get a free respec at 40, and you can switch to a spec that you would want as your final spec.

4: PvP. Now this, as I hear it, appears to be DAoC's bread n' Butter. PvP sucks balls in WoW...pure and simple. Long q's only to be steamrolled. And world PvP consists of nothing but ganking. Not quite sure what Realm vs Realm means but it sounds cool. How does PvP work in DAoC?
**There are three realms, each realm owns 7 keeps and 28 towers (4 towers near the keeps). The whole frontier (a seperate area from where you level, so you won't be ganked, except one server which is free-for-all everywhere) is open to anyone, and keep sieges, roaming 8-man groups, large zergs, and solos (mainly stealthers, but some visible toons also roam solo) are present nealry every day. There are also six relics (two per realm), that give whichever realm own them bonuses, which helps create the incentive to siege keeps and zerg.

That is the end 50 game (although a low level toon can go there, you would stand no chance). for people under 50, there are battle groups for every 5 levels, so toons 29-34 have a bg for themselves. Killing people from the other realms give you realm points, which you can spend to get extra abilities or extra stats. It is definitely what this game is about, and no other game has anything near it.
5: Instances. Again...another thing I like about WoW. I really enjoyed doing the 5 and even 10 mans in WoW. You get good XP...good loot...and is generally entertaining. Are there any in DAoC, and if so, are they any good?

6: Stability. WoW goes down every week...which pisses me off considering the amount of money they are shoveling in. There's also some ranodm bug of something that causes the servers to go down. Now I understand that it's a big job to run one of these games...but if I don't make my payment...my account is instantly shut down...so they can keep the god damn game up. Also, how does the new graphics engine run on older machines. My wife also plays, and her computer is just a tad old. It runs WoW just fine, but struggled with EQ2. Will there be much lag with PvP/raids and such? Her machine runs just fine during large 40 on 40 BG's in WoW...if that gives something to compare it to.
**DAoC is very stable. They have patches/upgrades every few months which cause some downtime, but then you are good to go again until the next patch. There is lag issues on crowded servers, but if you have a good connection, it is hardly noticeable at all unless you are in huge zerg areas (100+ people relic raids for instance).

7: Community. WoW's community just plain sucks. If it isn't the Allakhazam jokes...it's some momma joke or something else that's equally stupid and juvenille. Plus, people are just @#%^s on that game. Are the people that play DAoC older than 12 and will lend a hand to new players without throwing insults around?
**never played WoW, but have heard that it is a very immature community. Here, I have heard is much more mature. you can join a guild, and up to 21 guilds can join an alliance. Most /as are geared so you don't get spam. you can't talk to people from other realms, but you can emote, and there is a lot of /rofl and /rude after kills, but that is sort of the spirit of the game.

Try it out, I think you will like it and be addicted in no time : )