DrRusty Wrote:As some of you might have noticed by now, i've been playing world of warcraft for about a month now and I wanted to share my experience of both games. I stopped playing maple due to 4 (now 5) people in my guild getting hacked and me not wanting to lose my own gear. So I decided to try something new and stay away from maple until the hackings/hackers stopped. Well... someone in my guild got hacked on saturday, and there's still d/c hackers in FM (go figure?).
WoW is a much different game than maple for two big reasons to me. First, the learning curve. It's steep, very steep. Falling off a cliff can't describe it. Deciding how to spec your character in what role you want to play in the game, learning how to spec your char around your gear or gear yourself to your spec, learning how to get around, learning how to manage add-ons, learning different strategies for PvE and PvP for your specific class, learning which stats benefit you the most and in which way, learning which classes or mobs you are and are not effective against and how to lesson your weaknesses, LEARNING THE FAWKIN ABBREVIATIONS FOR EVERYTHING. I could go on forever seriously........ The discussion in my profile doesn't answer half the questions I have. I've already respecced my toon (that's what they call char's in WoW) twice, and I plan to respec again by about lvl 60.
Second is the community. It is MUCH more serious than maple. Typing in complete sentences and not using LOL wtp OMG? is a must if you don't want to sound like a complete idiot. I actually got a warning on a WoW forum called elitistjerks.com for asking too many questions. "You have been warned due to asking for hand holding". I was like "oh shiet? :f6:". I asked like 4 questions in 3 days. These guys in WoW don't play around. They get pissed quick if you mess up. This one guy I met actually has a program that monitors the auction house (FM in maple) for prices dropping and raising. The amount of add-ons that are available are enormous. I use about 8 of them myself. Add-ons are different programs you can use to change your interface or help you in game (for anyone that doesn't know). Also, the game is actually a bit more relaxing to me than maple. It isn't a huge grindfest and there is much much more to do. You don't level through grinding, it's actually slower. You level through questing. The quests give a very nice chunk of EXP (like 5% per quest). It's much easier and more efficient to bring people along with you and it's even faster (and more rewarding) to do quests for instances with others. High level people are extremely kind in this game. I've already been pulled through around 25 instances by a lvl 70+ person. Most of the ones I do though are set up with people my own level. The instances are huge. Maraudon is by far my favorite, and took close to 2 hours to go through with 2 lvl 70's bringing me and a guildie through.
Well, I just thought i'd share. If I remember anything else I didn't mention i'll mention it later.
Edit: I guess i'll mention gear. The best gear in this game can't be bought. You can't be godly in WoW by spending a shietload on farmed gold. WoW has something called "BoE" , "BoP", and "SB". Which is bind on equip, bind on pickup, and soulbound. Soul bound means you can't trade the item to anyone, it's stuck to you. The only way to get rid of it is to NPC it. Bind on pick-up means it becomes sould bound after picking it up, and bind on equip means it becomes soulbound once you equip it. The best gear in the game becomes soulbound to you one way or another.
elitistjerks is a site for theorycrafting. I warned you not to get too much into it. First off, it changes too much to stay constant, 2nd off, you only need the basics. There's no "best spec ever" as it's always changing and each has their pros and cons. (For your class, maces do more dps than swords but pull much more aggro, and dagger/sword hybrid is generally best for pvp.) Also, don't post on that site. elitistjerks, if you didn't get it by now. And the ms community is rude too at times, often ruder depending on who it is, but they just don't get banned/infractions.
So anyways, generally I prefer WoW for strategy, and ms for weird-ass content. Btw, it's worth it to make another toon specifally to run the WC (wailing caverns) instance. It's a 3-5 hour instance depending on your levels. Generally closer to 5.
I myself have about 20 addons. Once I get my new keyboard piece, (and make space for them in my room) I'll be able to play WoW again. Too crowded in my room to play before that. The thing about gaming gear like a good keyboard and keypad is that it helps manage those bars and skills, along with selecting friendlies/mobs faster.
As for what your class is good against, you generally learn quickly as you die or get damaged. You usually say to yourself, "oh, I could have done this or that," and as you try more and more things, you learn how the pace goes.
As for rogue, they're good against everything, as long as you don't pull aggro. =D In PvP, just avoid tank specs and other class dps specs. What I mean is, rogue vs rogue is a fair fight usually, but shaman, warlock, deathknight, etc, specced for dps will usually win if they get off first hit and you can't ambush/cheap-shot. So most classes have their own uses. Shamans are generally guards, killing things quickly, so they could be considered, and palidens are buffers/tank.
I've put a lot of time into ms too, but WoW is worth playing as well. Also, unless you're high level or spend lots of time farming for mts, or have a good guild to help you or play with, you'll get bored fast without spending money. On ms, you can easily spend more nx than you would on WoW. A month of WoW is 15k nx, and there's no tax in most states, so consider how many active months you've played and how much money you've spent on ms, and divide it by the months. That's basically your monthly fee for ms. And before you reply saying it's free because of the mts, I just noted that at the beginning of the paragraph.
It's worth trying. A lot of mmo's aren't as good as WoW. There's Eden as well, but there's basically nothing to do except fight other players or mine (literally) resources. And that's only after you've trained your pilot and gotten the large amount of money for it. Other mmo's are WoW cookie-cutters with different playstyles and usually missing raids, instances, etc. EQ is a good rival, and that's because WoW copied EQ. =P
In all actuallality, FFXI, which I've tried recently, is a lot like ms in that it's grinding to level. But you have a lot more to do, hundreds of bosses and thousands of mobs. And it has a mascot. If we're talking about different mmo's FFXI is a bit better, though the interface is horrible.
Anyways, /boredrant.