Not enjoying it like I thought I would...

[Cribanox]

So I was totally pumped to play classic eq again, but 15 lvls into the ranger class, for some reason I'm just not enjoying it. Maybe WOW has ruined me, or maybe it's the drama here. I just don't remember eq being so full of eliteism and self entitlement. Yea there are people out there who help others but most are just in this rat race to 50 , with all the limited resources in this game it gets quite frustrating.

I'd rather have the anti social community of WoW sometimes than deal with people camping all the named mobs in one dungeon, or play a game where melée classes have nothing and are basically unable to get anything. I never really noticed back in the day how casters have basically everything and melée have nothing.

Thus isn't a I'm quitting speech or anythig, but for some fucked up reason, playing on this server has made my appreciation for Wow grow :/. I feel like I have an even chance for my character to grow unlike in eq. Sure if I has time to play in a top raiding guild things would be different, or if I played a druid, but I can't and don't, so ill probably never get rich and I'll be scraping by in EQ until 50 and I guess I just don't have the time or patience to anymore. I even did 5-10 HUGE cr's since I've played here, so it's not I'm being a big baby and shit about how hard eq is, it's just totally unfair.

Anyway if you took time to read this you must have too much time on yours hands, and need to get back to your job! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Takshaka]

Well, I do indeed have too much time on my hands because I am awfully bored at work right now.

I would say part of your lack of enjoyment may be the result of playing a ranger. did you play a ranger back in the day? b/c rangers have always kinda been the gimpy-est hybrid class. Sure the concept of the ranger is pretty cool, but in play they just don't hold up that well and you still suffer that damn 40% XP penalty so it takes so THAT much longer to level. I remember a friend of mine leveling his ranger up to 36 or 37 as his first toon when EQ launched and he was so pissed that it took him that long to figure out that the class sucked at the time. (rangers may have gotten better after during or after Kunark)

Also, not sure what server you played on, but there was probably more drama on Erollisi Marr than there is on this server and then my second server, The Nameless, it was pretty much the same situation.

[Reiker]

EQ is the game for some, WoW is the game for others... shrug.

[Barkingturtle]

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

playing on this server has made my appreciation for Wow grow :/. I feel like I have an even chance for my character to grow unlike in eq.

Which is my biggest beef with WoW. It's boring when everyone is the same. Everyone can have everything because whatever you want is contained within an instance made just for you. It's just all handed to you.

WoW is like a whore that will blow you and all your friends, no questions asked. At first you're like, "Radtastic! Free head!" But then you start to realize that this whore's blowjobs mean nothing, because everyone gets them.

EQ, particularly this old school incarnation, requires you to beat up the whore first.

So obviously, it is much more gratifying to beat up a whore and get a blowjob than it is to just get free head, because there is really no greater thrill than kicking a prostitute in the vagina.

[Takshaka]

haha Barkingturtle, that analogy made my day! I sense that you have great experience in these areas of kicking whores in the vagina?

[Fern]

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

Which is my biggest beef with WoW. It's boring when everyone is the same. Everyone can have everything because whatever you want is contained within an instance made just for you. It's just all handed to you.

WoW is like a whore that will blow you and all your friends, no questions asked. At first you're like, "Radtastic! Free head!" But then you start to realize that this whore's blowjobs mean nothing, because everyone gets them.

EQ, particularly this old school incarnation, requires you to beat up the whore first.

So obviously, it is much more gratifying to beat up a whore and get a blowjob than it is to just get free head, because there is really no greater thrill than kicking a prostitute in the vagina.

thats almost perfect ...i love kicking prostitutes in the Vag!

[Finawin]

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

Which is my biggest beef with WoW. It's boring when everyone is the same. Everyone can have everything because whatever you want is contained within an instance made just for you. It's just all handed to you.

WoW is like a whore that will blow you and all your friends, no questions asked. At first you're like, "Radtastic! Free head!" But then you start to realize that this whore's blowjobs mean nothing, because everyone gets them.

EQ, particularly this old school incarnation, requires you to beat up the whore first.

So obviously, it is much more gratifying to beat up a whore and get a blowjob than it is to just get free head, because there is really no greater thrill than kicking a prostitute in the vagina.

I like you.

[darkkor]

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

Which is my biggest beef with WoW. It's boring when everyone is the same. Everyone can have everything because whatever you want is contained within an instance made just for you. It's just all handed to you.

This is really not true at all and too many people believe this. The absolute BEST gear in WoW is still only obtainable by a tiny percentage of players. Everyone most certainly can not have everything. BUT...everyone can have SOMETHING good.

They just added a level of gear right below BEST and made it available to most everyone with a brain. Honestly, I never saw a problem with that. I still had access to gear a step above what most people could get and did hardmodes most people couldn't

Hardmodes have certainly added some challenge and Ice Crown is actually shaping up to have some difficult encounters (Putricide is actually really really hard).

Be honest though, how hard is it to gear up in EQclassic right now? Extremely easy to get the best gear before planes give or take a few slots. Even the planes aren't that hard right now and were rolled over quickly. Friends of guilds are tagging along and getting full plane gear in a few days. Everyone looks the same also for the most part, especially casters.

I love both games. I think they both have awesome things about them and some bad things about them, both of them. I don't "defend" either game but I will retort blatantly wrong remarks.

[guineapig]

I was going to write something about rangers but then I read the rest of the thread and think I need to go pray...[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jify]

Neato!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8182446.stm