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 by Fakenick, Level 21
Last updated at June 24, 2008, 4:52 pm
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Various reasons, actually.
2) I sold --> bought a Rogue and Shadow Priest, this season looks like it will be fun for a rogue and a shadow priest.
3) S4 was impeccably times on Blizzard's behalf to start when my AoC month is nearly ending.
Elaborating further, I've levelled to 50 as a PoM, and 30 as a Conqueror, in Conan, and whilst at first I was a big fan of the game, it's become a realisation that the combat system was a novelty and that wore off a long time ago when I was trying to land combos on sprinting clothies, and also the game is just unpolished.
At first I was a -huge- fan of the NPC's that spoke, really immersing you into the game, sort of like Oblivion, complemented by the shiny graphics and sexy women pixels, and then the promise of a unique and awesome PvP system.
A month later and I'm unimpressed, levelling feels like a heavily boring chore that resembles a WoW-esque grind for power.
The PvP is terrible (at least on my server) in that whilst it's refreshing to be able to gank people 8 level's higher than you because they suck, it's dishearting to see 80% of people you may engage in the *immersive* 'World PvP' to sprint away when they realise they've lost the battle.
The game also -isn't- much more skill dependant than WoW! That was a large factor for me as I felt WoW was rather easy, being tailored for casual players of ages 12 and up, and that AoC could have been a refreshing PvP game where I'd need to stay on my toes and actually put up a fight against those who roam the world with me, BUT it wasn't the case, as long as you can block when you see something coming towards you, like say, a big two-hander, and that you have a few braincells, it's as easy as pie WoW.
When I topped up my WoW account, I was a bit disgusted at the graphics, and the fact I couldn't gank people in the same faction as myself, but I realised it was simply a polished version of AoC pretty much, and I've decided to stay with it until either AoC get's some major changes and becomes pretty awesome, or try W.A.R, or decide I should get some real-life friends and socialise more and just drop MMO's in total, and stick to Metal Gear Solid 4 whilst I wait in my corner-of-disgust-toward-modern-gaming-apart-from-one-or-two-gems for a promising Starcraft 2.
Anyway, I don't mean to ramble on, in short, AoC isn't that great or innovative when you look at the actual mechanics, it's actually pretty annoying.
Back to topic, whilst I came to realise Funcom simply wern't the devs for me, I saw my AoC time was running out, and it was time to get a gamecard.
*Coincidently enough* (nudge: Blizzard) I'd been meaning to top up my WoW account, so it came to the crunching point, WoW or AoC.
And it just so happens a new season is dawning upon us.
As a true critic, a month should have been more than enough for me to decide and indeed it has, whilst I'm not here to do a full review I can just say I'm ready to return to WoW.
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So, I went on good ol' WoWtrade, sold my S4 ready mage for half a bag of sand, and decided to get a nifty, agile Rogue with some T6, arena point cap, full s3 and a 5000 arena point Shadow Priest with S1/T5 mix, for just under the amount I was payed.
-Result-
I've been playing my rogue quite a lot, and maybe my urge to write this post has exuded from that 'new-toy' effect of having a new toon to play with, giving a different outlook on the game.
I farmed to 1900 in 3 days with a druid in 2v2, so I am content that I have at least gotten good enough to get my weapons next season (at least I hope), and I used to own a Shadow Priest aswell.
This season marks a lot of things, and mainly it will be the deciding factor on whether W.A.R > AoC > WoW > IRL.
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Fakenick Jun 24, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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Funnily enough, here were my first impressions of AoC:
http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/The-Demon-Within/WoW-sucks-AoC-owns#comment_163120
The last guy who wasn't me to comment sort of hit the nail on the head, after 48 I just felt depressed!
http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/The-Demon-Within/WoW-sucks-AoC-owns#comment_163120
The last guy who wasn't me to comment sort of hit the nail on the head, after 48 I just felt depressed!
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panzer Jun 24, 2008 at 5:22 pm
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1900? I'm happy for you man. Joking aside, the disenchanted masses of AoC players have been crawling back to WoW for weeks now, not really blog worthy.
Fakenick Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 pm
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Heh, I know 1900 isn't amazing at all, but having 3 days before S4 is released with all the teams farming titles, and having started a brand new class without any prior knowledge made it sort of tough to comfortably reach the 2100+ zone 
And I wanted to elaborate further on the issues of why.
And I wanted to elaborate further on the issues of why.
Yiska Jun 24, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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I was expecting something like this when I red "Why I'm returning to WoW."
"Cause I got a 70 s3 druid.
Sup."
"Cause I got a 70 s3 druid.
Sup."
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