Thinking of coming back to DAoC, was wondering...Follow

Well, I think its still strong on two of the clusters with both of them compromising between 1k and 2k players per day at peak hours. I'd suggest you start out on the classic servers without TOA, but thats just my opinion. Its less of a time sink and easier to find people lower levels looking for groups.

I, too, was thinking of re-joining DAoC... I left just after release of DR due to stagnant population/guild problems on Devon server. since then population has seemed to increase slightly, and what im wondering, is if it would be worth coming back also... ive tried just about every other MMO out there, and DAoC is the one i remember being the most fun.... oh, and one more thing- honestly, how do all 3 realms compare in fairness (ie population, relic overpowering, class nerfing ect...)? any input is appreciated! thanks-

I came back to Daoc after a while and I must say that I'm still mainly disappointed. There have been some nice changes in graphics, quests fixing and general interface but it's still definitely behind main competitors : lots of bugs, some of them have been there for YEARS and not solved yet (like pets still seeing stealthers even if they stealth no matter what their level) and general los issues and other glitches (pets wandering through closed doors, ...). All these issues are shamelessly exploited by hordes of cheaters. Even if some of them have apparently been banned there are still a lot out there and personally i can't stand being ganked over and over by some dumb cheater just because mythic is unable to detect their exploit.
Buff bots also are a major pain as many high-ranked player use them and make quite some difference. It's just allowed cheating and i sure will never pay a 2d account to keep my bot. They should be disabled on ALL servers like on classic, just reducing buff range effectiveness would make them mostly useless.
And for info there also are battle grounds now in Wow if you don't like raids ;)

Edited, Sep 28th 2006 at 12:05am PDT by ThorynHiberniaOrcanie

Edited, Sep 28th 2006 at 7:08am PDT by ThorynHiberniaOrcanie

As I was saying buff effectiveness should be reduced on non-classoc servers, too ... nothing to do with Toa, i like it well enough (even if there are quite some problems with Toa stuff).

As i said (again) this should also be applied to 'normal' (non classic) servers. Like it is now buffs are effective at any distance (just endurance is distance limited) and regardless if the buffbot is grouped or not.

As I said above (again and again) i think this should applied to all server (also those with Toa content). That means on the same server (cluster) * Toa = yes , reduced buff effectiveness = yes *.
Sorry katie but this is going around for a while so if you still don't understand what i mean maybe you should try reading this thread from the beginning ;)

Edited, Oct 22nd 2006 at 6:17am PDT by ThorynHiberniaOrcanie

Here, go read this.



So this negates your arguement.

You really are an idiot. Yes, that rule set applies to CLASSIC servers. Classic servers being Lamorak, Gareth and ect. That's what I've been saying. You don't want people to be able to use buffbots on any server. Thats just dumb. Thats why they made the classic servers, so that people can not run buffbots. Thanks for playing. YOU ARE AN IDIOT!

Ya me too (Nydawth, Midgard, Gawaine) I dont like WoW much and my mind just KEEPS wandering back to DAoC. I miss it. I may Try Warhammer when it comes out.
Any how I was also afraid that Dark Age was dying off. It was when I left and I would really like some info on it. PLZ text on this or cont. me!

Okay, so I've started back up playing DAOC again last night. It was about 12:30am (right after midnight) and I could not find one single player around and playing PVE content. I havent played my 50 thane since the first expansion, I think. Alot, I'm sure, has changed. I'm on the MLF server and are the servers supposed to be completely empty to PVE players? Can someone give me an idea what clustered servers provide?

I'm really surprised there is nobody to be found in PvE lands for you. Now, if you would have said this a month ago, I would not have been surprised. But they recently changed it (temporarily, it may end soon) so that xp is doubled in the classic lands. Everyone I know has created an alt or is out leveling artifacts or doing something occasionally because of this. Anyone leveling before usually did it in TD's, but now, classic land xp groups are very popular.

This game however is not a PvE game, and without the xp double bonus, classic lands and SI lands will be barren soon again. ToA lands and the new area, lair of hte minotaur, will be popular because of the items they drop.

TD's will be the way people use to level quickly b/c unfortunately for new people, that is what the main population base wants....i.e. when they want to level a new toon,t hey want to do it as fast as possible.

With each expansion, the game gets bigger and bigger and items become better and better..this leaves items in the old worlds not useful, so nobody goes there.

As Katie said, classic servers give new players the best chance. Bossiney is by far most popular cluster (nearly twice as big as any other), has people that level in the old lands (because ToA does not exist), has the most casual players (players that did not like having to have leet gear to compete from ToA), and has the most new players.