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Which game do you think I should get into?
Rapture551
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I feel like playing a MMO that includes interesting questing, some dungeons (or some sort of grouping), a good crafting system, and some decent PVP. I play WoW, but I also want another MMO to play just to get away from WoW. Please vote for one of the games on the poll. Thanks!
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Well if you ahve been to Wow i think oyur searching for quite unsual game but good one, why dont you try Atlantic aonline a new turn based game which is on 3D, im actually plying it for 2 days now and i really enjoyed it after playing several games i find this Atlantica online coolest.
I voted Aion based on your list. Definitely lots of quests. Enough dungeons to keep you busy and there is a lot of grouping especially for those. Crafting is so so, imo. PvP is quite good - random incursions into your lands, balanced compared to many other MMOs.
I haven't played Lotro, I am not a fan of the IP, but i do hear good things all around.
Warhammer, I did the trial of that the same time as i tried Darkfall and only PvPd which was nice but I never got far enough in to comment.
While I am a fan of Fallen Earth, there is little grouping in practice. The 'hardcore' movement against fast travel has kept it so inconvenient to group even among clan mates.
Darkfall, also a fan, and still subbed, doesn't have much questing, player made drama and politics yes, not much for quests. crafting system is like Aion, almost everyone does it so it is not a big part of the economy. More part of guild econ only. Also, PvP is often not great, despite it being a PvP oriented game. it is zerg fest and OP ganks. I have been in one fair fight i.e. one that lasted more than 10 seconds. I don't care personally, I enjoy that type of thing, but a lot of people don't.
Also, have you looked at EvE? definitely has all the above, not dungeons per se, but more grouping in my xp than Aion. Crafting system is one of the best in MMOS, economy is as coomplex than some real life small countries.
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Well....I see LotRO is winning on this for you, and LotRO is a great game....wonderful community, great quests, dungeons, the crafting was a bit annoying to me for some reason, but to be honest, I can't remember why (it's been a while). I personally, because of you asking for good PvP, would not recommend LotRO. LotRO has (or HAD, when I played) what is called "Monster Play," and is not likely the kind of PvP you're used to. Some people really enjoy it, others....find it laughable. I never played it...so I can't give an opinion on it, other than knowing a bit about the idea behind it. Better to ask a present LotRO player more about that, but I've never thought of that game as a PvP game.
EQ2 has everything you specified....almost. The crafting is extraordinary, in my opinion, one of the most enjoyable crafting systems in any game, to me. However...they're having a bit of trouble with their PvP battleground systems' operation at the moment. I would say once that's ironed out...I would suggest EQ2 to you. UNLESS, of course, you're into very very hardcore PvP....then I would STILL suggest EQ2, but I would suggest it now, rather than later, because you could roll on a PvP server, and those servers are cutthroat hardcore. But you didn't specifically say hardcore PvP all the time, so...I don't know if you meant like BGs or open PvP.
Fallen Earth is another viable option, in my opinion, from your list. However, to be entirely honest....you may or may not like the crafting system. It's not what I call "active crafting" like EQ2. It's more like...you have to have all the ingredients and then the "crafting" is pretty simple, you just queue it up and go about your business and you continue "crafting" in the background. Some things take 10 minutes to craft...others aren't finished for hours...or with higher level items...even days. That being said....95% of what you see in game...is craft-able, and while that is pretty appealing, the economy is not near what it is in EQ2 where crafting items are sought after and respected much more. But that's just my personal viewpoint on that.
Also, PvP in FE is a zoned thing. There are areas that are PvP contested, and those areas have large quantities of crafting materials in them.
Warhammer, for me, was like constant grinding of battlegrounds (scenarios) and nothing much more. It ended up feeling like an FPS for MMORPG geeks. Blah. Nothing special there for me. The crafting, if you want to call it that, is abysmal.
AION, I don't have enough experience with to offer an opinion, and I don't remember what other games you said as I type this, so...lol...they must not have made much of an impression on me.
EDIT: Oops....DARKFALL....duh, so sorry. It's not that it didn't make an impression on me, it's just that you didn't sound like you were necessarily looking for hardcore PvP and a free for all full loot style game....so I guess my mind "tossed that one out" before I started typing.
If you ARE looking for full on pretty unforgiving PvP...then actually it's the ONLY one you listed that would qualify. And I must say....the game world environments...are beautiful, albeit they feel a little empty and void of wildlife or ambient sound (which did bother me a bit). I never did any crafting in the game, and my "experience" consists of only a few days where I mostly spent time sneaking around looking at the game world and killing goblins and being KILLED by major goblin respawns (more often than I was killed by other players, actually). I had no real negative experiences in those short few days, but I determined that really....the game world was SO enormous....that I just didn't feel I even had TIME to play the game and give it the commitment I felt it would need.
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Since I see you mentioned Darkfall, I'm going to suggest Mortal Online.
No questing - The world is made for you to explore and choose your own destiny.
Not really dungeons but there are caves with monsters inside. Grouping is what will really make this game more fun but you would have to join a guild or find some people to play with on the mIRC, forums, or guild vents.
There are alot of different combination of things you craft. You can make things like a dagger handle with a spear tip, a double sided axe, mace, etc.
It's full loot! Kill someone and you can grab whatever they had on them. There are hitboxes for your shield, weapon, arms, legs, body, head, and there is a weakspot. You can even end up hitting the other person's weapon enough so that it breaks and they try to run.
IMO however the truth is this game isn't the greatest right now. Still in testing and they need to improve and work on alot of things but it seems better than darkfall because there everyone can just max out all of their skills so its like no 2 characters are different.
EDIT: So If you want I think you should play darkfall for a while because Mortal Online won't have as much stuff in it as Darkfall now. Just keep watching out for Mortal Online over the months.
I voted Lotro.
But to be very honest, I dont think you should set your sights on another mmo thats similar to WoW.. I just say Lotro because Monster Play is so addictive (for me)
You should probably look at an MMO thats completly different, like Eve.
If you dont want the Sci-Fi then I'd also reccomend Dungeons & Dragons Online, its still fantasy.. but way different to your typical mmo. worth checking the american version since its now free.
To the OP,if you are looking for "interesting" quests,they do not exist.There are some games that utilize "quest lines"but that is just a pile of drawn out quests to achieve a great loot item.
Wow is a VERY linear game,but since that seems to be what you like to play,i suggest Runes of Magic it is a 90% copy of Wow,solo able just to level,but does need a group to go for raids or bosses,so ya a copy of Wow.I did like the cool stones/gear embues but ,there is a ton of item mall push in the game,so your not going to take full advantage of that.W/o item mall you will have such low hp and weak gear,you would need to rely on others ,but just to pass some time it is your best bet as it is free.
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Welcome to the quest for the perfect MMO. OP, Im going to tell you right now you will not find what you are looking for. Ive been looking for a decent game with all of these features since 2001. The game does not exist. You are going to have to make some compromises.
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Fallen Earth has great quests. And the rewards and not phat loot, the only motivation is some XP and APs (a type of leveling), but really you'd level faster doing other things. I did them for the great writing, and Im really usually a click thru the text person.
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I voted LotRO, you said you wanted fun quests, the epic volume/book quests are amazing! I've also picked up the books, as I'm playing it and doing the two together is almost like picking it up where I leave off, except I'm getting to be IN the world, I highly recommend it for a quest-n-dungeon type of game. That being said the PvP isn't anything to write home about, and finding a good kinship might be a lil' hard. If you do decide to pick it up try to jump on the Brandywine server, to my knowledge it's one of the more populated.
On a side note, you also said good dungeons, and some crafting, I would look into Vanguard, if you're into high fantasy it would be an amazing choice, it is also filled with boat-loads of intriguing content and imo just one of the best MMOs on the market right now. On the other hand I would trial EQ2, and tweak with graphics settings, it has the bulk content, also with PvP and more population than Vanguard, I however valued the ability to fly and the pure seamless open world in Vanguard more. My recommended servers for both games? EQ2 - Antonia Bayle for population or Nagafen for more of a PvP experience Vanguard - Seradon or Xeth, both are pretty equal IMO.
Last but not least I would recommend, on par with my previous suggestions, EVE Online, after being an avid-WoW player this game was an amazing experience, it was the only game to ever successfully capture "that" feeling in me again, that addiction and that craving. It is complex, deep, the economy and skill training is out of this world, it might sound confusing but once you settle in, you'll be hooked. It makes intelligent use of real-time training to make it easy to pick up and just train skills if that's what you have time for, or if you want to create more immersion, the mining and mission running all contribute to a larger goal. It makes you feel like what you are doing, however small is worth something. Once you find your niche, you'll be in love, whether it be mining or battle it all comes together into corporations, the game's guild system that ends up being much more than just a collection of players, but I won't elaborate much past that. The whole game is a shard type system, so everyone's together.
Good luck picking, these are some of the best on the market right now! If you want more info on any of these four go ahead and send me a PM!
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aion for pvp lotr for pve
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