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<----- Used to think WoW was the devil, but my cousin made me try it although I was very reluctant
The screenshots of wow do not do it justice at all. For some reason it just looks shitty when screenshotted lol
Aside from that though, WoW has 2 problems.
Its character design is shitty. The men look like huge meat hunks, and its stupid. Even Blood elves now look that way (( but I got used to it )). Their face choices don't look any different in game, and some hair options are retarded. So looks wise, WoW needs alot of work. The vibrant colors I love, they make the game special. i think if WoW got a major graphics overhaul, it might make the character design look more like it was intended.
Secondly wow has only 9 playable job classes. COmpared to ffxi's 18 and eq2's however many it had (( alot )), wow falls short. But this does let wow balance the game easier, and I think thats why.
Because wow is really 2 games in 1. Its a pve game, there are hardcore pve people who join huge 40+ raid instances with their guilds and love to trample shit like that, and enjoy whatever storyline blah blah, and get the godly high end gear
WoW is also a pvp game, and IMO, the best pvp mmo out right now. 4 different CROSS REALM battlegrounds, the the BGs really are fun, (( Warsong Gulch happens to be my favorite )) each having different goals and obstacles to win, aside from killing people, lol. Cross realm basically means you will never sit there and wait too long to play, theres always someone who wants to fight with you from a different server. And theres also world pvp ofcourse, where you just can kill anyone you randomly see lol in your server. Sometimes factions like to invade opposing faction citys, its funny lol. I remember someone saying they saw like 40 Horde on the little darnassus boat lol and they were all whistling lol
-Warsong Gulch is like a capture the flag, 10 on 10, very skill involved.
-Arathi Basin is like. . .you have to take and hold 5 enemy bases, and it gets your team points, whoever has 1800 first wins (( or was it 1900, . . )) lol
-Alterac valley is a full on War. its like 40 vs 40 and the goal is to kill the enemy's general first. Alterac valley is HUGE by the way, it used to last days at a time
And the newest with the expack, I havent done it yet. Its called eye of the storm I think? Dunno what you do in it.
Theres also ARENAs, where you test your 2v2 3v3 and 5v5 skills against other teams, you have your special little team too and you compete to be the best for really good rewards and a fast as hell flying mount
Anyways back on topic. Its hard to balance even 9 classes for both pvp and pve. But BLizzard is doing a good job and they will probably add more classes when they feel they can balance it decent enough.
Ffxi has shit pvp. the jobs are not balanced at ALL, and no one ever plays it. In the end thats why I quit ffxi, lack of pvp. If they had cross server pvp i might have stayed. But I remember leveling up my dragoon to 75 soley for pvp and then when I hit 75 NO ONE was doing it at all, only a few diorama ghelshba games with select friends. But the actual organized pvp schedualed never happened.
Ffxi's design is nice ofcourse, but we all think that because most of us like anime and are not used to WoWs american design when coming from a japanese game lol
As far as roleplaying, I dont know anyone in any mmo who actually roleplays, especially not in ffxi. There are roleplaying servers on WOW< but I dont know if people actually roleplay on them lol. SO I never took anyone seriously who actually cares about storyline, I always spammed scrolled through that shit because I play for the pvp and fighting, if I want some dumbass half hearted story i'll go read harry potter or something lol
Ill never forget that Keston guy, I was in a really nice merit pt with him, and like in the first 5 minutes he says he has to go because he had to defend Al Zahbi from the monsters. . . .I was like. . . are you joking. . .? lol He broke up a great party after like 5 minutes just to do some retarded al zahbi besieged or whatever it was called. I just thought that was retarded, but I'm anti-storyline in MMOs so whatever. Lol and I will be until people in RPG MMOs actually start roleplaying
EDIT: and how could I forget. . . . . .
WoW you can do whatever you want, on your OWN time. you can log on and immediately get shit done.
In FFXI You need 5-18 people to get just about almost ANYTHING done in the game. EXP? Need people. BCNM? Need people. NMs? Good ones need people.
Its just bullshit, SE's " WORK TOGETHER HERP EACHOTHER!" mindset, I wanted to shoot them in the face by the time I quit.
in WOW I Exp alone, better infact that I would with a group, because I rely on my own skill, not theirs. I Farm gold alone easily, With my hunter I can take on Named Elite monsters my same level easily, quests are cake to solo, WoW is a very independant game.
Sure you can have friends to do shit with, do 5 man partys for exp and instances, and get good exp that way. But you dont HAVE to. you get a choice!.
End game WOW now, at 70 is really fucking awsome. Before, at 60, the best gear came from 20-40 person raids from really hard instances. And so casual players couldnt really get the great gear. And wow is heavily reliant on gear, so this inbalanced the game somewhat.
At 70, in Burning crusade, they added Mostly 5 man instances, some 10 man, and I think only 1 25 man.
SO tier 4 and 5 awsome epic gear come from mostly 5 man raids. This is. Godly. What it means is, 5 close friends who work together with good skill can have a shot at the uber gear, and it wont be just given to hardcore pve junkies in huge 40 man raiding guilds.
So basically, everyone end game has acess, no excuses, to the same gear. So the unbalanced should be fixed
edit again:
Basically WoW is better than ffxi in my opinion. For both PVE and PVP. Unless ofcourse you enjoy hunting the same monster every day at a certain time camping against people who bot
Although I'll be quitting WoW when the monster rancher MMO is release in US tho ^-^y Nothing compares to a pet game mmo for me hehehee
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