Try Eden (DAoC) this Christmas - Page 2

MrSparkle001 · #11 12-29-2022, 04:58 PM

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Look at it as a vacation rather than as an end. Dark Age of Camelot is a lot of fun but it has notorious problems with player retention as a server matures. Get in early, enjoy it for awhile, there's no other MMO-RPG quite like it and what it does, it does very well. Usually it'll decline hard over time. If they take a break from P99, they might be back in six months or a year. P99 will wait.

Between your two groups I like the one with some melee a little better. Casters are true glass cannons in that game, they tend to die if something looks at them funny, especially early on before a player gets a good amount of realm rank. Plus minstrel speed and permasprint means you can pick and choose your battles much moreso than you can with caster speed. I'm not high on reavers (I'd like armsman or mercenary better) but a lot of these private servers tinker with class balance so maybe the rules here are different.

Danth

From what I remember you need a mezzing class. At least in classic DAOC it was all about the crowd control in PvP.

Encroaching Death · #12 12-29-2022, 05:31 PM

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From what I remember you need a mezzing class. At least in classic DAOC it was all about the crowd control in PvP.

Yeah mez is huge.

So much so that if you're a melee class, the first Realm Ability points you spend usually go into Determination, which decreases the time you're mezzed for.

There are certain classes that can "cure" mez and they can also charm mobs, so what people will do is charm a mob, run with their group until they get mezzed by an enemy group and then they'll released their charmed pet, causing it to attack them which breaks their mezz and then they go about curing mezz for the whole group.

MrSparkle001 · #13 12-30-2022, 10:05 AM

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Yeah mez is huge.

So much so that if you're a melee class, the first Realm Ability points you spend usually go into Determination, which decreases the time you're mezzed for.

There are certain classes that can "cure" mez and they can also charm mobs, so what people will do is charm a mob, run with their group until they get mezzed by an enemy group and then they'll released their charmed pet, causing it to attack them which breaks their mezz and then they go about curing mezz for the whole group.

Oh yeah charm. My favorite class was Sorcerer with huge charm ability. I'd run all the way down to Lyonesse and charm one of those giant knight-looking mobs and take it up to the frontier. I think the name was teleman or something. Was it super effective? Nope. Was it fun? Yep. Think I was able to charm other large mobs too.

Encroaching Death · #14 12-30-2022, 11:05 AM

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Oh yeah charm. My favorite class was Sorcerer with huge charm ability. I'd run all the way down to Lyonesse and charm one of those giant knight-looking mobs and take it up to the frontier. I think the name was teleman or something. Was it super effective? Nope. Was it fun? Yep. Think I was able to charm other large mobs too.

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MrSparkle001 · #15 12-30-2022, 11:16 AM

Yeah those huge things! It was fun to bring them to Cotswolds and see the newbies all freaked out and confused.

Damn I'm tempted to do it again but there are no newbies to freak out anymore.

Encroaching Death · #16 12-30-2022, 11:17 AM

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but there are no newbies to freak out anymore.

Yeah, that's one of the issues.

Pretty much 99% of the server has been playing for over 10 years and they're usually skilled at pvp.

Evia · #17 12-30-2022, 01:06 PM

We went the caster route and picked up one more who's playing a reaver. I lucked out and got to play the sorc and it's been pretty sweet! It's a lot like enchanter in eq except they won't let me charm in battle which kinda sucks. Forces you to pick a pet and run with it...but at least charm doesn't ever break.

If anyone wants to join us on alb PM me or pst on server to Kellian. We are gonna schedule a once a week play schedule so super casual like.

Homesteaded · #18 12-30-2022, 03:24 PM

Tried this game once and it was bad. How do I enjoy?

Evia · #19 12-30-2022, 03:44 PM

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Tried this game once and it was bad. How do I enjoy?

It might be nostalgia tbhwy. Although I will say 3 of the 5 people I'm playing with have no experience with daoc whatsoever and are all expressing how impressed they are with it.

They keep trying not to hurt my feelings as they say how much more interested they are in it over p99 eq.

I dunno how I'd suggest getting into the game besides finding a class that really interests you and diving into it. Daoc has your traditional style classes and then some weird ones you don't see like ever in a mmorpg (looking at you animist)

Encroaching Death · #20 12-30-2022, 03:46 PM

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Tried this game once and it was bad. How do I enjoy?

If you didn't like it, you probably won't enjoy it.

The realm vs realm pvp is where it really shines.

The pve and end-game are kinda meh.