All Posts by jayheld90

i am with you, not good, but isnt horrible either. definately not the best i have ever played, by a long shot. it is fun though, but i doubt that will last very long. it has so much instancing, it just always feels like i am alone...which is not a good thing (in an mmo).

my specs are to the left, it runs it "ok" at medium settings, shader model 2.0. i really hope they optimize it some more, because it was very disappointing.

what are your system specs? i am pretty confused, because i have a "close" to top end computer and if i put it on shader model 3.0 (and my gfx card supports 4.0!) it drops fps to uplayable, and i can barely have it set to medium on shader model 2.0 and get good fps. (i get around 60 if i leave it on medium, no shadows)

Class: Guardian   (level 17)

Offensive vs Defensive( for example 84/16 for a fragil caster): 40/60 does a good bit of dmg, but not as much as my assassin, but the assassin is a frickin glass cannon. (can only take 4-5 hits and is done.)

Damage output ( 1-10): i would say 8, does good damage, and nice amount of fatalities.

Longevity/defense(hp, armor, escape tools) 1-10: 7 high hp/armor class. no real escape abilities.

Combat system(how fun) 1-10: 8 the comabt is great. rest of the game, i am not so sure about.

Soloplay abillity 1-10: 9 basically soloed it all so far, including bosses.

Group play importance(buffs,tanking, heals) 1-10: tank

if they dont get their shit together, they wont have many subs for very long.

Originally posted by NotNiceDino

Ok, then someone PLEASE explain to me why I switch the setting from DirectX9 to DirectX10 and the game changes. I'll post screen shots when I get home from work.

there is an option for it that doesnt mean it does anything.

Originally posted by Battag

well i have heard many mixed reviews from the combat as well.  I appreciate the responses but in LOTRO being a melee fighter is well,  fairly boring.  I guess i will just wait for AoC to have a free trial then i guess i will give it a shot. I dont know what i should do.  I know there is a free month once u purchase the game but that month cost me 49.99 if i dont like the game.  Is there not some type of guild, or kinship type thing?

buddy keys, but im sure there is a long line. i havent been able to claim mine yet, i think they are going to wait for the stuff to calm down a bit before they hand them out.

Originally posted by TdogSkal

 

Originally posted by jayheld90

if you are looking for community, this isnt it. just got my char to level 16 in tortage. no one talks to me, no one answer any questions, i dont really even see anyone else asking questions either. it pretty much seems like i am playing the game alone, because everything is instanced, and no one groups.

What server are you on?

 

I play on the RP PvP server and I can get groups at anytime, as a question in OOC and get an answer quickly.  Tons of people talking and having fun. Alot of the quest in tortage are single player quests but there are a few that needs groups.

Might want to find a guild or another server.  I dont have any of the issue you have.

The combat system is great.  As Necromancer, I love watching my spell effects, they are great.  I have great AoE spells and good dots.... I am lvl 22 and I can summon up to 3 pets right now... The Necromancer is alot like the Diablo 2 Necromancer.

 

pve - wiccana server. no one talks. i even tried to give away a bunch of rare loot items to lowbies, and no one would even answer.

Originally posted by Enigma

 

Originally posted by jayheld90

if you are looking for community, this isnt it. just got my char to level 16 in tortage. no one talks to me, no one answer any questions, i dont really even see anyone else asking questions either. it pretty much seems like i am playing the game alone, because everything is instanced, and no one groups.

aye,

 

The community is REALLY bad.  Whenever Im on you pretty much see the know-it-all asshole who just left his 14 lvl 70 toons from WoW to come here so he has the right to put down everyone.  Either that, or you don't hear anyone at all.

Plus the zones are set up very badly. There's like only 50 people per zone but the /ooc channel covers ALL of them. And the chat feature is pretty bad too as well as other things.

Its funny with a popular UI Modder for EQ2 and WoW already created a UI for AoC that is 1000000000000 times better than the original UI.  The default UI here is really REALLY bad.  All of your icons and windows are like you are playing in 100x300 resolution.  Everything is just so frigging big (and this is with my 1400x900 settings).

Half of everything doesn't work yet. No banks and traders yet. Don't know if there is a mail system either. Certainly not the ground breaking jaw dropping MMO i was thinking

coudlnt have put it into words better myself.

Originally posted by NotNiceDino

Yes, multi-core and DX10 are in an working, I speak from first hand knowledge, not from reading a third party news article, like all the people will come after to flame me.

The game looks great either way, but DX10 is a noticable improvement, being one of the few game that can switched on the fly, it's very easy to see the change.

Don't really know anything about Spellweaving, other than it's a big contraversy on the boards.

dont listen to this bs, i have been playing since yesterday and dx10 does not work. i cant be certain about dual core, but i know for a fact dx10 is not working. (neither are the traders, still.)

only reason it is boring to me so far, is i am playing alone. no one talks, groups, or anything, and everything is instaned. it sucks.

if you are looking for community, this isnt it. just got my char to level 16 in tortage. no one talks to me, no one answer any questions, i dont really even see anyone else asking questions either. it pretty much seems like i am playing the game alone, because everything is instanced, and no one groups.

ah man, only played about 5 minutes so far, but tis sweet! and runs great on my pc.

Originally posted by Digna

ah. I see.

servers are "supposed" to be open right now. getting ready to check.

Originally posted by Digna

The machine scans and allows you access to the point of authentication server (no login of course) but no patch.

 

I thought there was one from last night? Did they rollback? Confused....

rollback.

until the servers open up!

ah screw it all, it says 10am gmt on the patcher now...will they make up their mind?

says 9am gmt on patcher.

Originally posted by Nadia

launch was pushed back 3 hours to 10am GMT

forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

 

GMT

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

Originally posted by FE|Tachyon

I just set my computer clock to GMT.. ... I guess its wrong?

EDT is GMT -4 so...9am gmt is 5am edt