Hardcore - Page 3

Messianic · #1 08-17-2010, 01:12 PM

Good clarifications.

Instancing was a downside of WoW, although it was probably a boon for its customer service/GM sector.

Having to battle for drops and make sure you're up earlier or there before the other guy made it a serious challenge...It does create evercamp situations for excessively good loot or loot that has an effect/stats that are uncompared with others, i.e. FBSS, the only worn haste item that doesn't require you to kill some insanely strong mob in a raid situation (save the Mith 2hander, but that doesn't allow you to use a diff weapon with the worn haste). That's why frenzy was/is incessantly camped until Kunark and Velious, and even then some...

If it was WoW, everyone and their mom would have one, even though the item would be no drop...

Qaedain · #2 08-17-2010, 02:33 PM

Every time people would complain in WoW about how long raids were taking (OMFG FOUR HOURS), I would be reminded of my old PoS raids and then I would be ready to settle in for another go at WoW's endless supply of comparatively easy content.

Overcast · #3 08-17-2010, 03:07 PM

Well, it's subjective really. There's no right or wrong viewpoint. It's a game after all. It's like saying Soccer is better than Football or harder. It depends on your view.

It's just that WoW has zero risk. You will never loose your corpse, you will never have problems getting your gear back, you will never get a boss mob stolen from another guild because you wiped or whatever. You'll never fail on a trade-skill (profession) combine either.

Hardcore raiding or no, I like the 'risk' involved in Classic EQ.

Sure after a guild knows the area it becomes trivial. Which really - with P99 is always going to be the case. But I could never 'get into' WoW like I did EQ.

I never raided in WoW, because it never held my interest long enough for me to bother getting to that point. Don't get me wrong - I did enjoy the game. It just never 'grabbed' me like EQ did. I think the reason EQ did - is because of the risk factors. Small, perhaps - but they were there. Dunno, maybe it's hard to explain why I still prefer P99 to WoW. It wasn't entirely the WoW community that chased me off, although that was a large part of it, to be honest.

Thus why I'm not commenting on the difficulty of raids, only that no matter *how* difficult the raid is - your risk in WoW (and almost all other MMO's now) is still... Zero.