Currently i have been getting bored out of my mind from WoW.

Since i first heard about it some time last year, aoc has always caught my attention... but i want to know from a long-term wow player (more than two years) if they are truly enjoying this game =D Thanks

-Shadowhunter

I played WoW for 3 years and I am enjoying Conan.

Atm I am doing quests which are excellent, the objectives are marked on the map for you, no alt tabbing out to wowdb. PvP is so so, but then lowbie pvp always is. Some classes are overpowered just like in WoW but tbh I see that as being a problem in every MMORPG. I wish my friends did not roll on pvp servers I really can't stand fighting someone and losing just because of class balance issues.

Instances have been interesting but not particularly challenging. They do have interesting settings and monsters though.

Graphics are amazing but make sure you have at least 2GB of Ram, a dual core processor and an 8800 series graphics card.

I have all 3 above and I get usually about 40 fps but it can drop if a lot is happening. Its never unplayable though. I have also had very few crashes, I don't know what all the fuss was about. tbh I think people who don't know how to take care of their computers properly, or have lower specs are the ones complaining.

i played WoW for 2,5 years with alot of experience with PvE raids etc.
Im lvl 57 at AoC and i really enjoy it everyday more. i dont have much technical problems with crashes..almost none tbh. but still game is very heavy at some places. specialy indoor (a god knows why), wich make me believe that is a memory lick issue or something and will be finnaly tuned properly.

Instances are of great design,and you really feel that you are actually in a dungeon, while still things are not very chalenging inside and the respawns are VERY quick....

Profesions are still very buggy and generaly not good at all,but there are there and as funcom telling us they gonna improve them really soon..lets hope ;P

Classes and customization is really nice, one of the best around.

As of PvP i dont have any experience...but i bet when the class balances sort out Guild Vs Guilds will be Epic Imba! :D

Generaly you will feel that you are not too far from WoW but still you will feel the Freshenes of new good ideas that need just some more time to get tune/fixed properly ;)

YES!

I"ve played WoW since the closed beta days .... suffered thru Blizzards launch of WoW and all the Challenges that went along with that launch. I actually never minded the grind for gear ... countless hrs in high level instances until, one day, i logged into wow and didnt know what character to chose to play ... and suddenly realized .. i didnt want to play wow any longer ... looking forward to the next expansion and leveling yet again another 10 levels .. and grinding yet again for more and better gear.. WoW was no longer for me.

I've since purchased AoC and have begun exporing new, different and exciting content. Its a bit of a challenge learning a new game... im no longer the go to guy for everything ( my ego will survive.. :) ) ... but overall its a great wey to kick the Wow habit for me ... and perhaps mark time as i wait to see what Warhammer has to offer.

So, if your bored with Wow .. I strongly suggest you give AoC a try ... they're off to a great start for a new MMRPG.

Thanks for the great comments guys, i just pre-downloaded age of conan last night and am planning to get it very soon!

I wouldn't rush too fast with AoC .. i've also played wow since the beta and i'm know on AoC for ~4 Weeks.
Mit is better then WoW in several parts, but has some flaws besides the mentioned.
It's bugged. Mainly quests.
It has not enough content, especially in the 60/70+ .. together with the bugged quests, this is kinda serious. I would try to reach lvl60 not bevor the PvP System is fully integrated. (No Rewards/Points yet)

Another difference between AoC and WoW is: You don't have that much informations as in wow. No complete Drop Databases, no exact Damage/Resistance Formulas.. it's much more exploring than searching, but makes the game less interesting for power gaming.
Maybe these informations are still to come, but i don't think we will ever know "everthing" as in wow, because there is no script language for AoC! We have a (detailed) combat log and are able to skin the interface. ..so data collection is mostly down to manual work ... the only "complex" Tools we have yet are Combat Log Parser/Analyser and "Gatherer" Style Waypoint Databases.

I love AoC in every way and the graphics are just gorgeous. Never liked WOW just way to many 12 year olds for me played LOTRO for a while and it also is a great game but AoC just tops the bill for me. Have been playing MMO's since Ultima Online

I would wait a little more for AOC to fully develop. I'm a level 65 guardian, and I ran out of quests to do until I hit the next area, so I have to grind a couple of levels. Its kinda of been like that since 60. Still lots of bugs when playing, but its manageable. Not that much to do, and I'm already getting bored of it.

"IF" you've played wow since closed beta ... wow had these same issues ... and both you and i stuck with them .. they'll get it fixed ... theyve come this far .. thats not a reason to stay away form AoC ... wow end game/conent sucked ... if we could roll back the years .. yoru comments would fit wow to a T when it came out ... GREAT game .. take your time seeing the content/graphic on the way up .. not need to rush to 80 .. for the very reasons Tyrion has mentioned .. but if your looking for a change from wow OR just starting a new RPG ... look no further ...

One thing I really enjoy in MMORPGs is the trade skills, ever since UO that has been my favorite part and unfortunately it's one thing AoC, imo, lacks. They just aren't exciting or fun to me. The architect sounded pretty neat but only one per guild is needed. Also I'm lvl 55, been playing since early access and am bored with the game. It starts out very fun and exciting, with the voices for quests but it's gone downhill for me, I dont even play that much anymore. :\

AoC is totally different than WoW Both are great games, so I am not knocking WoW here, but there is a lot in AoC that you will never see in WoW. First off the quests are more detailed and seemingly longer than WoW, but I have only been up to Level 40. Combat is much more fun, especially if you play a melee type; as it is more challenging and rewarding - fighting 5 foes at once is very gratifying - feels more action packed. And, if you get a fatality, it just makes it so much more fun. I've seen about 10 different fatalities from my Conqueror, but I have only seen 2 different ones on my Tempest of Set. I left WoW about 1 year ago, because I got so sick of the repution quests. Everything worthwhile in the game required me to either kill the same mob 7000 times or run the same instance hundreds of times. In the beginning Blizzard said they would never do that... What happened? In AoC, I have yet to grind, all my leveling has come from questing. Leveling is also pretty quick, I made 3 levels in 5 hours last night. Yea, there are classes that are seemingly OP, like my ToS - but that is okay - I tire of the same ol' junk. I don't play my ToS anymore because it seemed to powerful and I wanted to get more into the fray. But, I like the differences in the classes, and I'm perfectly okay that there are classes that are sronger than me.

AoC is a great time, everything is new, no more rep grinding, & no more raid grinding. I love the fatalities! It is so much fun!

In a nutshell.

Do NOT switch.

Now with that said, here is why.

I left WoW after 362 days played. I played on a PvE server and did a lot of raiding.

Here is what AoC has.

1. Broken classes. Can you imagine a priest doing more damage than a mage with the ability to heal? The highest DPS classes are priests. They are not in shadow form. There is one form and they can heal and dps. There are lots of other issues with broken talent trees as well.

2. Crafting and Gathering. This one is kind of cool. Everyone can gather anything. The way that they do the leveling up is to have you get a rare item to move up to the next tier. The problem? The rare items are VERY rare. There have been people who have gathered over 500 of an item to get the rare. This creates frustration. Crafting - broken and in constant flux. They recently put in items to get the first tier of Alchemy done. It only took 6 weeks after release.

3. PvP - there is no rewards yet. People were promised a full fledged PvP system. Well, it ain't there. There is no penalty for beating up people 60 levels lower than you. There is no reward for killing people your level.

4. Quests - Level 1-20 is beautiful. You can solo it and not need anyone to help you. You can play at your pace. Level 20-40 is not that bad. You can do lots of quests and there are a few dungeons. Some of the dungeons are partially broken, but not the end of the world. Once you hit the mid 40s you learn with AoC is about. It is forced grouping. The mob placement and the volume of the mobs pretty much requires that you join up with at least one person. That is either good or bad depending upon how you feel about it. Once you get into the 50s you will find yourself grinding or doing repeatable solo instances to level.

5. PvE - the reality is that it is a tank and spank. There is not much you do other than maybe a stun, but it is tank it and spank it. They finally fixed T2 raiding by putting the drop that is supposed to happen for the key into the game with the last patch. They had 'death touched' a guild to get to T2 before. To me, that read that they needed someone to test T2.

6. Mass departures - Funcom has pissed a lot of the player base off. A lot of people are not renewing. This is making the server less populated and that is not good for a MMO. To put this in perspective, I play on a FFA PvP server. I was in a main gathering area. I left my character near a road that is well traveled. I left for 15 minutes and came back. I was not killed. Four weeks ago, I was constantly under attack.

7. Back to balance . . . A level 60 beats a level 80 in PvP? Makes no sense to me. However, the PvP system for resists/etc is much different than PvE.

8. Client stability. The client crashes. No, it crashes a LOT. It has lots of Out of Memory issues. The horsepower to play this game is much greater than Wow.

9. Mail, Bags, Auction - too much to say here other than, "They suck!"

10. Transportation - uhh yeah, this is shitty. You will see a lot of people saying, "Kill me please" this way they can port across the map.

Now that I have given you the bad, here is the good.

1. Casting - I play a caster and they let you queue a cast prior to the current cast going off. That is good design.

2. Level 1-20 - That was VERY fun.

3. Graphics - the graphics are very good. The greater power of the machine you have, the better they look.

4. Guild cities - when they get everything fixed and siege battles it looks like a lot of fun.

5. Terrain - I am not sure if this is good or bad. The game is not very flat. With wow, unless you were horde and in the barrens, it was pretty flat and straight line. This game will have you go around in circles to get to the top of a mountain. At times it is very nice, other times it is annoying as hell.

6. No running back to get your body. They do it a little different. When you hit the GY, you rez automatically. There is a nominal penalty that you get for death. Now if you go back to where you died, you can get your tombstone. That removes the 30 minute penalty. The problem with this on a PVP server is that you do not rez with 100% of your mana/stam/hp. You will get ganked. They did put in a debuff that people can not attack you immediately, but the timeframe for that is too quick.

With all of this said, my sub ends in 10 days. I suspended the account. At level 80, I can not find a compelling reason to log in. I do not feel like leveling a bunch of alts (I had 7 60+ toons in wow.) I will keep reading and seeing what they do. I may revisit it towards the end of the year.

You should really go and buy Age of Conan if youre tired of WoW and interested of AoC. I played WoW for 1 but got tired of it after like 8 months.

I��ve tried all other mmo��s out there except Everquest, all games were either too much like WoW or bad. So I can proudly say that AoC is the first good mmo since WoW. It currently lacks a bit continent and most of the endgame stuff are delayed. But Funcom is working hard and promise us that these will be added during the summer and autumn.

But the game is already really good, I would go for it if I were you, it��s the best choice you would ever make since WoW^^

i would like to point out for you all who says age of conan has many buggs ...
well i agree with you but then i Say this How many bugs does wow have ?
and then How long have Age of Conan Excisted if you compare it to WoW?

Soo dont complain so quick about AoC when they have excisted about 2 Months nearly.
if i would rate conan oout of 11 i would give it a 8 since i couldnt use it any longer after the Video Card update that put my computer out of Buisness soo to say but im still sticking too that it is a very good game.

For those of you who say 'give it more time' who say 'wow was broken at first too'

Remember we are talking about a game that people are paying for.

It is BETA and should be either free for very very cheap.

Someone is making LOTS of money of this broken piece of junk. Money they don't deserve.

Or maybe they do deserve that money, after all, people are stupid enough to pay, and blind enough to come here and post about how great it is. People get all hyped about something and just can't seem to get real.

Don't accept this gaming model where you toss crap out for sale then maybe slowly fix some of it.
Sure, any product may have issues, but this is ridiculous.
Big thumbs down for AoC.

Where's the game made by gamers who want every aspect to be really awesome?
You wont find those guys in the AoC dev team.

Funcom does great Job. they work 10 times harder and faster than WoW dev team. WoW is good only with Addons.. and they dont even bother to fix/or make anything..they leave it all to their customers (with addons), while funcom pays people to make a nicer solid UI etc... and why not pay for a game that i like,to become more complete and solid?
you can search all you like to find a new mmo without bugs..you wont find... you can find something that is half complete(and you like the concept) and with your help and support you can make it Awesome.
If you cant do that...wait 2 to 6 months and come back. then you can say if funcom really DID or DID NOT done anything to improve their game.

sodade21

and why not pay for a game that i like,to become more complete and solid?

Good question, why not?
Anarchy reeks of incomplete coding after 7 years.
Be wary of Funcom. Don't expect your $ to go into the code once they reach their goal saturation.

Anarchy is a fun game, much better than AoC in every respect except the newer graphics.
But still an interface hell. Still buggy. Still working on things a real coder could have fixed years ago.

...wait 2 to 6 months and come back. then you can say if funcom really DID or DID NOT done anything to improve their game.

Ummm already waited. And waited, and waited, how many times did they delay?
And all year the beta testers and coders working diligently and THIS is what AoC looks like?
It is still EARLY BETA!

Quit acting like Funcom is some great company, they have done nothing for the Gaming community. They ignore and delay and they laugh all the way to the bank.

iam still happy with what they have done in funcom so far. i agree that the game is in beta states,but it is going to be better..is already alot better not perfect though. and btw.... what game do you reckon if all these sucks?

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