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I never played DAOC but is a lvl 11 Champion Strong or just a normal lvl 11 character in any other game? Also how would you compare FFX1 to DOAC since you seemed to have played both? Better/Worst gimme the whole 9 yards.
I'll hook ya up on the info ^^
You see, in DAOC, you start off with a base class, like warrior and such. When you get to a certain point (lv 5 I think...) you get to upgrade that base class to a new class. The class you get to choose depends on the realm you are in, with each realm specializing in a role.
Hiberia = Magic
Albion = Balanced between melee and magic
Midgard = Melee Examples of Branching classes are:
Albion Fighter to Paladin
Midgard Rogue to Shadowblade
Hiberia Nature to Warden I picked the Hiberian champion >.> which is nothing more then a DD though I used him as a tank. From what I remember, that class had tons of debuffing. Haven't played in awhile...like pass the free month lol
As for FFXI vs DAOC, kinda tough since I haven't played much of DAOC to compare but I'll try my best:
Graphics - FFXI
Controls - FFXI (I will forever suck at controlling my character in DAOC. People manage but I'll never will)
Interface - DAOC (You can move your chat window, stats window, compus, everything! Plus 2 chat channels. One for combat and the other for chatting. A red mage's dream)
Pace - FFXI (DAOC starts hellishly slow for me.)
Story - FFXI
Classes - DAOC
Balance - DAOC
Quests - DAOC
Content - DAOC (Realm vs Realm, Raid content and all the uber items you want)
Tradeskills - DAOC (Weapons and Armor wear down and you can fix them. How cool is that?)
Sound and Music - FFXI (DAOC has the worst combat music ever created)
End game - DAOC (Even though I haven't seen the end game, I know for sure through reading that its way better then FFXI, where all you do is hunt HNMs...)
Just a small ******************** review. Its up to you. Just want to let ya know that you can try DAOC for 7 days here
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/136481.shtml
I guess you can make your judgement from there.
As for my thoughts on which is better, I have no idea... Really, the jury is still out on that one >.>
Just wanted to add that in terms of purchase, I would describe DAOC as "More bang for your buck" since picking up a copy is cheap (Got mines for 20 bucks) while FFXI as "Where all the cool kids hang out" with the packed servers and such. DAOC still has a good community in size but FFXI has twice as many subscribers. No worries about DAOC fading since its still active with a new expansion on the way.
Edited, Sun Aug 29 06:41:21 2004 by Redmoonxl