No DR for Xmas! Boo!

[Svartmetall]

"Testing Darkness Rising
The new servers are now open, all our efforts are concentrated on the next expansion for which the English tests already began a little time ago. Next week tests will begin in the other languages and will last until January. You will soon discover the website dedicated to the expansion and we will then be able to announce the release date for the expansion to you."

Bah.

 

[Chimaira]

Not buying either cata or DR in europe. simple not worth the pay check.

And its probably released end of february (or july) if they follow the cluster promises

 

[Himse]

;<

they testing it on Gorre?

 

[Chimaira]

What is there to test rly KINGS CHAMPION NPC OMG

 

[Flimgoblin]

they said it probably wouldn't be before christmas - there's the whole distributor thing to sort out for one

plus mythic spending a month on 1.80 after DR's release to fix the "too many abilities" issue didn't really help.

 

[Downanael]

they said it probably wouldn't be before christmas - there's the whole distributor thing to sort out for one

What distrbutor thing,they offer it as downloadble expansion which you can never buy from shelf.

 

[Eruptix]

be glad they didnt release DR yet

trust me,DR is a pita unless you want to rvr grind it out and make about 400-500k rps to get cl5.

if your planning on doing the quests and stuff,prepare to be in for a boring "toa sensation"

DR flt
only good thing about it is the champ weaps.

 

[Himse]

be glad they didnt release DR yet

trust me,DR is a pita unless you want to rvr grind it out and make about 400-500k rps to get cl5.

if your planning on doing the quests and stuff,prepare to be in for a boring "toa sensation"

DR flt
only good thing about it is the champ weaps.

what about the horses man?

feel the horse love? :<

 

[Eruptix]

Horses Ftl

its all funny until a 4fg zerg on horses comes your way and lags half of your grp into LD'ness!

 

[Tilda]

be glad they didnt release DR yet

trust me,DR is a pita unless you want to rvr grind it out and make about 400-500k rps to get cl5.

if your planning on doing the quests and stuff,prepare to be in for a boring "toa sensation"

DR flt
only good thing about it is the champ weaps.

I disagree totally! Eruptix, give it a chance!
Dr is good fun, its something that you can quest through, and the quests arn't boring, they are acctually fun, if you bother to read the back story, sneaking into a baddie lords castle to assasinate him is so much fun!
And yes, you can do it in RvR too, its the kinda expansion you can either grind along hardcore and hate it, or get it, and carry on doing what you normally do, and get extra abilities on the way.

The abilities arn't the sort of thing that you *need* to be able to compete with a fixed group, however, bits of them are cool. So really the fixed groups who farm mobs to get CL5 are just wasting their time tbh.

In no way is DR a long boring toa sensation.
It dosn't take 2-3 months in pve zones, BG's of 150 players and 10 hours raids or boring mob farming to get CL5, if you just carry on doing what you enjoy doing, you'll get it sooner or later.

And yes, champ weapons are cool

 

[Eruptix]

I have played DR Tilda ^^
and done all the quests except Co5 Step #4

booooorring :/

 

[Fana]

I have played DR Tilda ^^
and done all the quests except Co5 Step #4

booooorring :/

Maybe you just dont enjoy pve in any shape or form? There are those that do enjoy pve though, as long as its nicely done with some thought put into it.

 

[Elitestoner]

Maybe you just dont enjoy pve in any shape or form? There are those that do enjoy pve though, as long as its nicely done with some thought put into it.

yes, but also a lot of people DONT like pve, and its just another boring grind, that unfortunatly we need to do to be able to compete

 

[Lejemorder]

yes, but also a lot of people DONT like pve, and its just another boring grind, that unfortunatly we need to do to be able to compete

saying you need DR to compete in RvR is bs and it take about 300k rps to get to CL5 with no xp.

 

[MadsKaizer]

yes, but also a lot of people DONT like pve, and its just another boring grind, that unfortunatly we need to do to be able to compete

We can talk about this on the classic servers, but not on rvr, and the slighty advantages soloers would have (the buffs) isnt something you couldnt do with potions untill you are cl5 or whatever

but saying you cant compete/will loose, due to not being cl5 is imo bullshit

 

[Eruptix]

Maybe you just dont enjoy pve in any shape or form? There are those that do enjoy pve though, as long as its nicely done with some thought put into it.

true

I hate tendious and boring PvE with a passion.its not that i dont want to work for my items,or levels but..if it was up to me there'd be much less grind in daoc ^^

going trough it all once is fine,unfortunatly thats not how it works.few stick around with the same character for too long.

the more grind mythic adds,the more difficult it becomes for a new player or new character to be ready to compete in pvp.

oh and before anyone pulls out the ooh so brilliant and overused comment in a discussion like this: No I'm not interested in playing any different game,nor CS,UT,Quake w/e. Your comment is by definition flawwed and ignorant,since I like daoc's RvR,just not its PvE.

 

[Flimgoblin]

I have played DR Tilda ^^
and done all the quests except Co5 Step #4

booooorring :/

umm go to modernagrav/back of a necro/whatever hibs do these days for like 8 hours, really.

Or go RvR since that's what you say you like do - get CL5 in no time and voila you get all the shinies.

If you want to avoid "grinding" just get your CL xp whenever you do something else that gets xp, or do the champ quests, hardly the end of the world redoing a champion quest.

People who whine about the DR being a "grind" are really quite sad. Are you that lazy? How about a /everythingfromtheexpansionpleasenow command that you can use on installing it?

DR if anything is _lacking_ in content and in "things to do" - you can ignore it and still get all the goodies.

Anyway, when do we get /freerealmrank so I can get through this crappy RR grind, need another 8 RRs before my armsman is ready for pve!

 

[elbeek]

Blah blah blah.

Methinks you are in the wrong game.

 

[Elitestoner]

We can talk about this on the classic servers, but not on rvr, and the slighty advantages soloers would have (the buffs) isnt something you couldnt do with potions untill you are cl5 or whatever

but saying you cant compete/will loose, due to not being cl5 is imo bullshit

if u are saying that the 10% extra resists, parry/evade buffs or all the other nice tools there are, access to a champ weapon, and about another 300 odd hp isnt necessary to compete, then why bother getting artis or a template, and join the rest of the randoms.

im not saying u cant kill anything when cl0, but it certainly makes a difference.

 

[gervaise]

<<what about the horses man?

feel the horse love? :< >>

You don't need DR for the basic flavour horse, comes with one of the patches.

 

[Vladamir]

if u are saying that the 10% extra resists, parry/evade buffs or all the other nice tools there are, access to a champ weapon, and about another 300 odd hp isnt necessary to compete, then why bother getting artis or a template, and join the rest of the randoms.

im not saying u cant kill anything when cl0, but it certainly makes a difference.

You just can't kill anything

 

[Libertine]

DR isnt a grind at all really, my BD got to CL5 purely from RvR, although it has to be frustrating you EU players not getting DR until the new year. I'm so glad to have left GOA behind because as it looks now you have a busy classic server and a english cluster thats almost dead, and 1.81 looks to be released around Feb/March.

 

[Notirt]

English cluster server thats almost dead ?
wich one is that ?

 

[Shike]

if u are saying that the 10% extra resists, parry/evade buffs or all the other nice tools there are, access to a champ weapon, and about another 300 odd hp isnt necessary to compete, then why bother getting artis or a template, and join the rest of the randoms.

im not saying u cant kill anything when cl0, but it certainly makes a difference.

10% extra resist that doesnt stack with resistbuffs in a group.

Parrybuff and evadebuff is crap, doesnt make much difference at all tbh.

Champwep is nice for casters and suppport, for tanky types I still think Malice etc is a better choice.

300HP for a tank ye, much less for a caster as an example. This is a nice bump though.


The PVE needed for DR is about... zero, null, nothing. Talk to the king, go rvr and ding CLs.

For once, Mythic have actually thought it through and realised that different people like different things, some want to RvR and some want to PvE. Its not hard to ding CL5 with some RvR, you can PvE it too in around 8-12h without much effort. Cant believe that people are whining when they even have options on how to gain everything from it, its amazing.

The new quests arent bad at all, they have even added new instances for some parts of the quests which felt very refreshing.

All in all, I'd say that DR is one of the best expansions to DAoC.

 

[rampant]

DR isnt a grind at all really, my BD got to CL5 purely from RvR, although it has to be frustrating you EU players not getting DR until the new year. I'm so glad to have left GOA behind because as it looks now you have a busy classic server and a english cluster thats almost dead, and 1.81 looks to be released around Feb/March.

r u taking drugs....or just been watching too much porn?

 

[Javai]

I'm so glad to have left GOA behind because as it looks now you have a busy classic server and a english cluster thats almost dead, and 1.81 looks to be released around Feb/March.

Well it's hardly surprising in the first week after it opened classic would be busier than other servers just as Camlann was when it first opened.

 

[Feyd]

Ppl thinking that we would have gotten DR before christimas is a bit naive imo.

If you look at the history of release dates of expansions that needs to be bought from stores then my guess would be that it will be releases end of february/beginning of march.

DAoC Europe got releases (retail) in february iirc
SI got released 21st of February 2003
ToA also got released in February 2004 (cant find date atm)
Catacombs got released end of March 2005 just before easter (with a lot of distribution problems).

so approx 1 year between each retail expansion, strangely enough its the same in US.

 

[Libertine]

r u taking drugs....or just been watching too much porn?

Yes, i was snorting coke of your mums chest while i shaved it

On a serious note, these are reports from my rl friends who actively play excal.

 

[Libertine]

Well it's hardly surprising in the first week after it opened classic would be busier than other servers just as Camlann was when it first opened.

Agreed, shame a classic server was released to be honest, spreading the english server playerbase even more is asking for trouble.

 

[mordsythe]

i have been playing DR in usa for a while now and tbh it looks like some of u guys havent.. if you dont bother with trying to get the CL xp till CL4 steps then all will be good.. the circle of fire for CL4 gets u all the xp u need for cl's 1-3 and then when you do the CL5 u will get all of 4 and a lot of 5. then if u can cut in on a circle of fire (wont be diff as plenty of peeps will be doing it and always need help) then u will ding CL5 in no time. i got it within 2 hours of doing CL5.. so wtf is all the blah blah blah about "grinding"
play the expansion THEN moan, bitch and complain as it seems most people are doing with nothing to base their bitch on..