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[Tharinor]

I'm enthused by the fact that the devs seem to have made a fix to the servers that have helped with the lag a great deal. Supposedly the servers were fetching unneeded data and causing heavier load than needed on the hardware or something to that extent.

[Jalathan]

Thar,

That might be true about the tiers of RoK, but I got sick of even leveling to get the opportunity to raid in RoK. Linear Quest Grind FTL.

At least in AoC, I can still get into a good old dungeon crawl and have fun with it, I lost that in EQ2 with the coming of RoK, noone ever wanted to dungeon crawl because it was more efficient to quest grind.

As for leveling in AoC, it isn't that hard to do really. I'm level 38 and the game has been out what? 3 weeks?

[Tharinor]

Originally Posted by Jalathan

Thar,

That might be true about the tiers of RoK, but I got sick of even leveling to get the opportunity to raid in RoK. Linear Quest Grind FTL.

At least in AoC, I can still get into a good old dungeon crawl and have fun with it, I lost that in EQ2 with the coming of RoK, noone ever wanted to dungeon crawl because it was more efficient to quest grind.

As for leveling in AoC, it isn't that hard to do really. I'm level 38 and the game has been out what? 3 weeks?

They better have some good end-game content if the game is that easy to level up in.

The dungeon crawls are there in RoK, people just didn't want to do them early on to level grind because solo questing was quicker.

Once they were leveled though, you see people farming raid worthy items out of several group instances, Chardok, and even KC (though KC probably to a lesser extent at least on our server because people don't seem to like that zone).

[Oizen]

Disclaimer: I don't want this thread to get jacked to discuss AOC or anything. There are more AOC threads on EQ2Flames than EQ2 threads right now. LOL

...but this vid did a good job of showing the endgame and producer's vision for those interested. Live Raid and Siege Presentation Video from AoC Launch Event | Ten Ton Hammer

It certainly appears to beat the crap out of dragging a mob to a corner while everyone smacks it on the behind and pressing a few macro buttons while using their mouse to surf lulz on the interwebz.

[Tharinor]

Vision, practice, and implementation aren't mutually inclusive unfortunately.