, and also fancied it after reading up on it.The game itself seems inspired by daoc and wow, there are shit loads of quests to do some being easy and some not so. Almost everything that annoyed me about daoc is solved or not present in GW, there is no:
Camping
Kill Stealing
Leeching
Whining
PvP/RvR Zergs
TOA
Master Levels
Uber leet items
BBs
The classes seem to be somewhat generic, e.g I have a lvl 10 Warrior atm and she can heal, hot, rezz, charm pets etc and hit fucking hard with a large hammer to boot
. Some of the classes will seem somewhat familar e.g. Elementalist who can specialise in, go on you can guess this, Earth, Air and Fire (2 outa 3 ).Leveling is interesting you can do it several ways, the traditional killing mobs, questing or pvp. Questing with some mob killing seems to be the fastest. To give you an idea of the xp required my lvl 10 requires ~7000 xp to ding 11 and a lvl 1 requires 2000 xp.
One of the more annoying things about mob killing is that mobs aggro you even if they are not worth any xp to you to kill. A zerg of lvl 4 mobs at lvl 10 will kill you and be worth nothing other than drops/cash for killing them. Saying that my Warrior doesn't have a problem with 5 lvl 7 mobs atm though 6 killed me.
Obviously when grped it makes things easier, although the xp you get is divided amoungst the members which prolly means pling will be easy.
PvP is limited to arena fights as far as I can tell. You can enter these from the moment after you leave the starting lands which is usually around lvl 6-8. At lvl 6 though you will get owned. The arena gathers random grps of ppl who want to fight and pits them against each other 4v4. It's hectic and can be fun especially as just everyone can rezz. E.g. We had 4v4 and we were getting boned we was down to 1 Warrior left, he rezzed the Monk (primary healing class) and he rezzed me and the other guy and we then boned them
.The xp is reasonable from pvp though not great. Oh and you know tank run through bugs on daoc, again it dont exist and neither do interupts unless you get knocked over. This means a caster class with good damage and self heals > all imo. Same level monks are not killable by a solo Warrior cos they can just spam heal and do more heals than your damage. It requires some skill and teamwork to effectively take down the other team. Speaking of which assist trains, don't exist and even later in 8v8 battles they won't because the game has collision detection. Only so many ppl can melee a mob or other person.
The game also has mission which from what I can tell features and drives the main plot of the game. It requires grps to do them mostly and can be quite challenging. Whats even better is that if there are no ppl around you can grab computer controlled players to join you and they act suprisingly well. I've done a couple of missions with them and completed them both without any problems although the first one was touch and go. (Had to take the last 2 mobs solo
).Anyhow with no monthly fee, there is no excuse not to try it imo. If anyone fancies a go and wants to meet up my toon names are all packets of crisps (Smokey Bacon, Roast Chicken etc) if you see one, chances are its me
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) but then you have to quest to open some skills that you may not have when getting 20.
