Uthgard (DAOC)

[Mardur]

Originally Posted by Massive Marc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hey, Thanks for the reply. I'm interested in trying it out this weekend. Not knowing much, could you answer some questions ?

Is it a hard game to jump into (confusing zones/maps/defined objectives)
Is the game Item based or Skill based ?
Looking over their web page, I see that there 3 different server faction ?(not sure if I have that right ?) is there a better faction to choose ?

DAOC is pretty similar to EQ. There's a bit of a learning curve, but if you're familiar with EQ you should be fine. Classes are a bit more complex than EQ but not by a whole lot. There's some reactive skills and such that make the game a little deeper, which definitely helps the pvp. Leveling is a pain in the ass a lot like EQ, it's not bad 1-40 but the last 10 levels take a ton of grinding. The problem with that is that the PVE is pretty lackluster compared to EQ, so you have to put in the time to get to 50, get your gear and RvR. Gearing up in DAoC isn't as big a deal as EQ, you just got to figure out what you want to use as a set and then farm the pieces, which could take you a week or less if you play a bunch. There's posts on the Uthgard forum that suggest different gear sets for level 50.

Basically the way the game works is that there are three warring realms that each have their own slew of classes. There's a set of "skills" that are distributed evenly among the classes in each realm. The "generic" way to look at it is that Midgard (Nordic) is the melee realm, Hibernia (Irish) is the magic realm, and Albion is the stealth/defensive/well-rounded realm. The class design is really nice in DAOC. For example, the "healer" class of Albion is the Cleric and gets healing/buff/nuke lines. For Hibernia it's the Druid with healing/buff/pet lines. Midgard has the Healer with healing/buff/cc lines. So the realms all sort of have "base" classes but with different specialization lines to make them unique.

So it might take some time to get to 50 and obtain your BIS set, but it's worth it for the RvR, since DAOC is essentially the best pvp mmo.

I have a Skald on Uthgard but I ended up quitting since the two American guilds I was in fell apart. Midgard is hella Germans with a lot of other Europeans mixed in, Americans are sort of hard to find so it's hard to succeed when you play during off-hours.