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CuriousLord -> RE: WoW .. what about eq?? (8/25/2007 10:10:20 PM)
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I was always a casual player. I like to be able to play, even for up to a couple of hours, then give it a break.
EQ's become a very "mature" game. It's been around for a long time, and most people are nearly at the end, so they keep releasing expansions to push it back. There's a lot of lower level content now- but the balance is badly broken as the game is now designed for the higher level players, which form the great majority of players.
EQ and WoW differ in one aspect that's very important to me. At level 60, a lvl 60 Warrior in WoW can solo a level 60 monster pretty easily. In EQ, a lvl 60 Warrior attacking a level 60 monster would be charging to certain death. This is true for most classes. As, by that level, you have to do a lot of traveling (in either game), finding group members can be quite a long- if possible- task. Corpse runs are long, experience deaths are a pain. Regeneration takes ages. (By lvl 65, my Druid took about 10 minutes to recover from a battle- and recovering means he has to sit there, doing nothing.)
Well, long explanation short, I quit EQ since it's too much of a time whore. I do miss, though, some of the more realistic and interesting qualities to the game.
I guess I like WoW, while more childish, because I can play for half an hour, then get back to life.
PS- I almost forgot to say! I loved EQ, though I was forced to quit when the guild I wanted to join told me I didn't play enough. Their demand was that I play at least four hours a day, for the week days, and an absolute bare minimum of six hours a day on weekends. Also, they wanted me to be ready on call any night for a raid in addition to those times. Hahahaha.. yeah...
Anyhow, I thought about it, and while I like the game, I simply didn't have enough time to join a guild, and there was nothing left to do in the rest of the game. I played on the PvP server so I could fight other players, but my character was severely under-powered due to my lack of raiding (in which most gained very strong armor and weapons- leaps and bounds better than the stuff I had), so PvP wasn't an option anymore. And, really, I just got tired of soloing.
Now I just play WoW with my slave when we get a bit of free time.
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