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Hail all,

Reading the DAoC review brought up a few questions, would appreciate if anyone can answer them.

I've played AC2/ Shadowbane/ and SWG Beta. So far I havn't found anything I truely like. I love RPGs and the concept of MMORPGs really attracts me, but the ones I've tried so far havn't held my interest.

I havn't tried EQ. Is it worth going back? Also I havn't tried DAoC. Only thing holding me back is that new games are comming up, figured It might be better to just wait.

I got up to lvl 21 in AC2, realized how pathetic the skill system is- and forced grouping unless you're a melee defender(spend 5 minutes a fight just healing) . I loved the fact quests grant you lots of XP, but it wasn't enough to justify other parts of the game.

I basically want a MMORPG that is semi balanced for melee classes, and is viable to solo.

Would appreciate any comments, Thanks!

I would recommend DAOC. I played it for 8 months and managed to cap level a character (50). It's really quite polished and adresses alot of problems that other MMORPG's have. The chat system is great, combat is somewhat more complex than "click and sit" and melee classes are quite strong and can hold their own against magic users and archer types.

The 3 realm feature is also very cool. not only do you have 3 different areas to explore, but you've got the realm war areas where PvP takes place.

I've played AC1/AC2 and DAOC and DAOC is the best one of the 3. EQ I hear sucks in comparison, since it's so outdated and the combat modes are so weak.

My only gripe about daoc is the class system. I really liked the AC1 character creation process and the ability to learn/train anything you wanted regardelss of classor race. DAOC has strict classes with some flexibility, but in the end most classes end up similiarly trained because there's a "preferred model".. it's not that big a deal really, and if you're not dead set on total freedom in character creation, then you'll love it.

i agree. a lot of it does have to do with organization, but every server still has a "zerg" realm that has many more characters. I played on merlin on albion, and most of the top guilds were albs, but mid always had 4 or 5 out of the 6 relics. Frontier combat was a lot more fair though, we had darkness falls just about as much as midgard did, hibernia was weak as hell on that server.