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From one power gamer to another....

My Experience:
Eq from day 1 till recently (lvl 65 war/ench)
Daoc 2 months from day 1 (lvl 50 mentalist)
AO 4 months from day 1 (lvl 180 bearoucrat)
SWG 1 month from day 1 (matser or whatever the max is rifleman)
UO 1 year from day 1 (quit at rep patch) (tons of 7xgm chars)
Lineage2 10 days from day 1 (EWWWW TERRIBLE GAME) dont ask


Many of you seem to think wow is catering to newbs but I have to tell you thats compltely false. If you have any concerns about wow post them and I will try to explain how they really effect a powergamer playstyle. So far , its the most FUN in a mmorpg ive ever experienced.... it isnt a grind but it still takes time to level.

Edited, Thu Jul 1 20:29:19 2004 by CnC

It's a perfect ballance imho. Heck I find a lot of the content challengeing even with 5 maxed players even from the top guilds (see afterlife) such as the highest end instances. Trust me, its not very easy and the rewards for the hardest parts are exceptional.

Have never played runescape but I can try an answer your question. Fishing is currently not in it's final form so I cant really help there but the other tradeskills are challengeing and worthwhile. I am currently working on Mining and Blacksmithing and have found the items made to be usefull (theres a lot of demand for the high end of blacksmithing) but not too easy. Since I didn't start till at the level cap, getting the skill up has been easier due to allready haveing the skill points (there are caps placed in your progress that you aleviate by spending the skill points you get while leveling or for every 900xp). Currently the Cap on blacksmithing is 300 and any item that is "orange or yellow con" to make will give you a skill up pretty much every make. Depending on your cash to begin you can power it up fast by buying stuff but at the higher end the components become more expensive and rare buy reward you with exception items (search for truesilver on here) that can be as good or close to as good as the top dropped items. The skill point limitation will prevent a lot of jack of all trades and allow you to specilize in one field and be great at it or sacrifise some of the higher end items and take up lots of skills.

Thank you for answering my questions, but when you mine do you get ore to go to a furness to make it into bars then make them into armor and stuff? Oh and how close is the beta to being public?

You get raw ore from the ore nodes that spawn in the world (better the ore the higher lvl the region). Then you smelt it into bars. Some smelting isnt 1-1 ratio like 2 bronze bars = 2 tin bars and 1 copper bar. 1 Steel = 1 iron bar and 1 coal.

Public beta is serveral months away.

The game is chllengeing to get the BEST items. With enough time, anyone will reach the level caps but they will never get the best stuff unless they have game skils. If "takes 100 /played days to get 60" is challengeing then no by that definition it is not. If its "To have the top tier of gear and be effective in pve and small group combat" then yes it can be extremely challengeing. If challenge == takes forever then wow isnt for you. If challenge == working well with others to defeat difficult scripted events and monsters then it is challengeing and you should enjoy the game.

Edited, Fri Jul 2 23:43:46 2004 by CnC

Edited, Fri Jul 2 23:44:20 2004 by CnC