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I'm toying with the idea of reactivating again. Unfortunately I think I'd only be able to play during the daytime, but I guess that would be euro hours. Kinda feel like getting a few more RRs on my druid and cleric. The state of RvR has kind of been commented on recently, but I'm curious if anyone actually goes to the lab anymore, or if that's just a horrible cesspool of stealth zergs?
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unless you play during the dead of night (3-5am) US time, laby is usually full of groups. you'll find stealth groups roaming the hub and then 8 mans porting around wherever they see spam to wipe whatever is there. hibs especially seem to be drawn to laby since they've got vamps, although all the realms zerg there. it can be really quick RP though, especially if you are a cleric / rej friar with all the ports. always see people in our alliance wanting healers for lab 8 mans.
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The Labyrinth is still very popular. You can usually find Hibs and Mids in particular down there, especially when Albs are zerging all over the Frontier. Prime time will have 30-40 Hibs in the Laby - 2 full groups running separately and a number of stealthers and smallmans. The tight corridor layout makes fights more interesting and discourages zergs on the level that you'd see in the Frontier. Once in a while, one realm will field enough people in the Labyrinth to "sweep" it, just for kicks. Mids did this for a while, sending 3 full groups through the Labyrinth to all of the mythirian farming spots and just wiping out everyone. It's pretty rare now. Outside of those situations, though, it's a fairly even playing field. You will run into stealther groups from time to time, but if you're in a full group of visibles, most stealthers will leave you alone. Stealthers generally go after smallmans or stragglers in the Crossroads. There's also an underground dueler network that meets in the Labyrinth, if you wander around and see a dead end full of people from different realms. Good druids are hard to come by. If you have any trouble finding a group as a druid in Hib, you're a bad druid.
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Apr 21, 2013 07:08
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Found a bunch of my Molvik mans. I have a Blademaster, Warden, and Ranger.
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welp, more or less got my account setup again. Ran around a bit this afternoon on alb with some euro players I used to play with on Alb/Kay way back when. Seemed like there was actually a pretty decent rvr population from every realm. Is anyone else playing alb or hib during euro primetime? ~2-5PM EST?
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Apr 23, 2013 00:09
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I do. Serpus ingame on Alb.
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Apr 23, 2013 01:47
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angry muppet posted:welp, more or less got my account setup again. Ran around a bit this afternoon on alb with some euro players I used to play with on Alb/Kay way back when. Seemed like there was actually a pretty decent rvr population from every realm. I'm on Gnusong most nights in alb.
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Apr 23, 2013 12:09
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The realm hoppers seem to have come to Hib, so if you want to level up a Hib character, now's the time!
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Apr 24, 2013 02:12
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DaftAero posted:ToA and a pie to the face needs to happen asap. Let me give you my ToA story, the only one I can remember since it consumed me, the rest I have forgotten. Sounds about right. I'll add my experience of ToA, which is probably quite a common one. I witnessed what others were going through, heard stories, nightmares, saw LONG lines every stupid underwater quest.... I gave up part way in telling myself, "I don't need this crap! I'm going to keep RvR'ing the old fashioned way!". It wasn't more than a month later that those who suffered through the Trials of Atlantis were dully rewarded with tangible item/skill advantages over their peers. You either did ToA or you had no place in the Frontier. The game fell to pieces shortly thereafter. I wonder though.... how long could DAoC have really gone on if not for ToA? It seems every game with large scale PvP has it's breaking moment. *edit* On a positive note, i'm playing again! Albion - Pacific Time.... going to create a few characters, see what I like. Also looking forward to Camelot Unchained. arroze fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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Apr 25, 2013 22:59
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I just got my account back after going through hoops with Mythic. Let me know if anyone wants to small man/8v8, I have hero/skald/sorc/friar/sav etc.
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Apr 28, 2013 12:03
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Well done, it also took me about a full week and tons of questions before I got mine back. Kindof annoying I did not remember all of my character names, and original email no longer being active. And back then I didn't have a CC so our gamestore owner had a CC for that. (long before gamecards even existed)
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Apr 28, 2013 13:24
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On a related note, does anyone here play or have any interest in playing Uthgard Classic DAoC server? I recently started playing about a week ago on Midgard realm, as a skald, me and my friend are about level 10. I've played on and off, and I know the grind is really bad but, that's what makes it hardcore 
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May 2, 2013 13:48
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No.Mercy posted:On a related note, does anyone here play or have any interest in playing Uthgard Classic DAoC server? If you are playing U.S Primetime, you will run into no action passed 7PM EST. We rolled there and found nothing at night so we rolled on Ywain. Just a heads up.
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Ywain has seen some influx of bittervets, in the slipstream of the CU kickstarter.
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Yeah I realize this, but when I'm looking for pvp, I'll start logging in during EU primetime. I don't see why this server has hardly any NA players. Seems like everyone is like, the NA population sucks, so I quit, and that's why everyone quit. Why does classic EQ have more players then classic DAoC? I don't get it.
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No.Mercy posted:Yeah I realize this, but when I'm looking for pvp, I'll start logging in during EU primetime. I don't see why this server has hardly any NA players. Seems like everyone is like, the NA population sucks, so I quit, and that's why everyone quit. Why does classic EQ have more players then classic DAoC? I don't get it. Other than the NA population being abysmal, I think it's mostly because the vast majority of NA players are concentrated on Alb side.
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No.Mercy posted:Yeah I realize this, but when I'm looking for pvp, I'll start logging in during EU primetime. I don't see why this server has hardly any NA players. Seems like everyone is like, the NA population sucks, so I quit, and that's why everyone quit. Why does classic EQ have more players then classic DAoC? I don't get it. I was there on Mid Uth for quite a while, six months or so. From my experience (and the Euro guys who were in our alliance who had been there for years) its incredibly rare that any US guilds actually get passed rr5. Keeping ~10 players actively interested, actively practicing RvR, sticking with it... its unlikely for a game where most of us played it when we were in high school or college and now have things we need to do 10 years later. As much as I'd like to dump on some of the really veteran, established European players and guilds there for generally not providing any sort of atmosphere that makes NA players/new players want to spend time on Uthgard, well, some of their RvR groups are really very skilled. They'd likely win anyhow, even if it wasn't stacked in their favor already (with gear, rr8-9 groups, ect). And that server basically replaced ToA with that really awful player designed raid zone, which is equally as bad as ToA ever was and if you can't raid it, well, you're behind on gear. It can take hours to do a raid and you can't pause it in the middle and pick it up again later, so if you can't have your rear in a chair for 4 hours straight (and pray to whatever you pray to that the other 7 people do as well)... welp.
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PriNGLeS posted:Other than the NA population being abysmal, I think it's mostly because the vast majority of NA players are concentrated on Alb side. Alb is the hard road there, also, given that the classes that are favored so highly by the ruleset they use are Hib (see: rangers). It also doesn't help that relics really, really matter there and the chance of Alb having them are rare.
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I'm rather enjoying my time back in DAOC.... i've got a Friar and Minstrel, working on my templates, may get back into crafting, and got a new house built up. Lots of old and good memories being stirred up. The pain that was looking for a group to do dragons or ToA raids is gone. gone gone gone. Now if only i can figure out how/where to train my Champion Level abilities, i'm already CL9 and don't even know.
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CactarHero posted:Alb is the hard road there, also, given that the classes that are favored so highly by the ruleset they use are Hib (see: rangers). It also doesn't help that relics really, really matter there and the chance of Alb having them are rare. What? Also Tajendi2 is a replacement for Galladoria/Tuscaran Glacier/Whatever the alb one is. It also doesn't take 4 hours. I really don't know how or why you would compare it to ToA.
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arroze posted:Now if only i can figure out how/where to train my Champion Level abilities, i'm already CL9 and don't even know. Try Cotswold or your Shrouded Isles town, whatever that's called in Albion. There should be different trainers there from the normal class trainers. They'll have titles like Acolyte Trainer, Disciple Trainer, Elementalist Trainer, Fighter Trainer, Mage Trainer, or Rogue Trainer.
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PriNGLeS posted:What? Mostly the parallel I was drawing (in my mind better than in my post) was that many peoples' complaint with ToA was they didn't want to have to do ML raids, ect, to remain competitive in RvR. So on Uthgard, a server that is going for a pre-ToA RvR experience... it just seemed questionable to add in a surrogate experience of any kind for ToA. And T2 was quicker than T1, but you can't do 2 before 1. Trying to get 1 done as a new player can be pretty rough. CactarHero fucked around with this message at 05:51 on May 7, 2013 |
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ggschmitty why have you forsaken me? Did you jump to Hibs? Let me knowwwww!
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Twlight posted:I'm playing on alb but I can definatly give you some pointers: Cathal runs to 4L9? Is it at all populated?
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CactarHero posted:Cathal runs to 4L9? Is it at all populated? No, I've levelled about 6 guys to 50 in the last few weeks doing BG quests. Whenever I've been in CV there's either no one, or one stealther, total.
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How quickly can someone jump back into this game after a 12 year vacation? I was hiking with a friend yesterday and being a tremendous shitlord I ended with a chat about Nisse's Lair, making me want to fulfill one of the worst possible urges; returning to ancient MMOs no longer run by the original devs. How many of you can I realistically expect to group with on Midgard?
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Easily. You can level a character from scratch to 50 in about 10-12 hours played. They have a quest system set up that basically just walks you all the way there. You can either level in the world or in the battlegrounds, and the quests are just collect 5 bear dongs or whatever easy things. You never have to farm for gear while levelling because the quests always give you free stuff, and the battlegrounds quests give you bounty points to buy gear. When you're 42 or so, you can start doing "atlantean glass" quests, which is a currency for level 50 gear, Master level credit, and Artifact credit and activation. Easy as pie. I resubbed about a month ago, and levelled up a ranger from 1. In about 15 hours of played time, I was fully levelled, geared up, and templated for rvr. I'm now nearly realm rank 5 and I don't even play well.
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There are glass quests that start at least as low as 35 in oceanus, some of them don't even require combat in case you feel like doing a support class or whatever. If you run it about 50 times, you'll hit 45 at which point you can just do pictish quests until you're 50. Dunno who all is playing mid these days. I'm trying to play hib but I've only been there a few times. Mostly finding myself playing my cleric since a pile of old guildmates reactivated thanks to news from camelot unchained.
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Oh yeah, the new quests (in the classic areas and the battlegrounds) are awesome for getting up to level 50 or whatever your destination level would be. I started a healing warden on Friday and got up to level 29 or 30 last night with just a bit of messing around and tanking with 4 blunt spec. I think I'm also up to 3 or 4 deathblows now, since I'm doing the BG quest lines. As for playing in Midgard, I'm not sure who's playing Mid right now. It seems to be mostly Hib/Alb for goons currently, though we can update the Current Players post if someone is playing Mid regularly. 
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edit: Is there any way to get my account back if I have no clue what email/account name I use to use? I only remember the character name. I really want to play, but don't feel like starting over.
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May 23, 2013 18:54
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err posted:edit: Is there any way to get my account back if I have no clue what email/account name I use to use? I only remember the character name. I really want to play, but don't feel like starting over. Couldn't hurt speaking with mythic support. The worst you'll get is no, so you're no worse off.
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I got mine back recently, but it took half a dozen of mails. What didn't help my case was that the subscription was paid with the card of a friend, I did not have a CC back then. They also asked me the answer to the secret question, but couldn't track down what the original question was (a serious case of "42"). If they're being difficult, don't give up. I thought I wouldn't get it back and the day after they mailed me the new log in data.
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err posted:edit: Is there any way to get my account back if I have no clue what email/account name I use to use? I only remember the character name. I really want to play, but don't feel like starting over. Yeah, don't give up. I got an account back that was actually banned and another one that was stolen. Takes a long time and a lot of emails. If you can find your old CD keys it is a big help. Don't expect a lot of help though from EA/mythic. They tried telling me the accounts didn't even exist. I've only been back for a few weeks, where is everyone rvring?
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Thanks. I sent out an email but I'm just going to make a new account because I doubt it will happen. Sounds like Hib and Alb are the most populated with goons, any suggestions? Also, are bots still required?
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Not required, but drat sure useful if you want to get into a group or get anything done solo. They have this "realm buffer" NPC (new since I last played) that can give you all yellow specs, bases, and resists for something like 30 gold or 30 bp. I think its just a goldsink though, because those buffs are really awful compared to bot buffs.
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Well that kinda sucks. I'm going to play Alb. Are there any classes that do well without bot buffs, or minimal buffs at that?
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May 25, 2013 21:16
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Alb side, I'd say maybe Friar/Heretic could do well with the NPC buffs + Self buffs, there's always the Vamp Hib side for a buffless toon.
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Pappasmurf1978 posted:Alb side, I'd say maybe Friar/Heretic could do well with the NPC buffs + Self buffs, there's always the Vamp Hib side for a buffless toon. There are now clerics in most rvr zones which you can buy a token with full buffs, they're close, but not quite as good as bot buffs, they're certainly good enough for normal rvr/leveling.
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Lack of Midgard goons is dissuading me from trying to get back into this. I fear change and I miss being a capital T Troll. Just as well, if melee is subject to the whims of casters and I can't splorch everything in a bathrobe that makes me angry.
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Midgard was and still is my favorite....I always think about getting back into this but never have anyone to roll with. Edit: if you want to roll on Midgard let me know im on Camping the Stairs mumble SoggyGravy fucked around with this message at 02:25 on May 29, 2013 |
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