Hello

Chadrew — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:19:14 GMT

Just thought I'd say hi - since this forum is empty and everything :) Someone has to start a topic!

I'm looking forward to May 20.

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Questions

zode — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:38:21 GMT

Hi folks.

There's a group of us thinking of moving from WoW to AoC but would like a little more info before we decide to buy the game. Since you now need a copy of the game to see the official AoC forums I havnt been able to find the answers to any of these questions and was hoping someone here would be able to help.

1. We are primarily interested in the PvP aspect of the game and we dont really want to have to raid PvE content for endless hours every night to get the top gear in order to be competative. Will there be ways of getting high end gear other than raiding?

2. How "hardcore" is AoC expected to be at max level? We are fairly hardcore players but we also have jobs/kids/school to deal with. Will we have to be playin 8 hours a day to keep our gear up to date?

3. The combat system seems like it has the potential to make skill a far greater factor than it is in WoW where 1v1 or small group (eg 2v2 arena) fights are determined primarily by gear and class. Would those of you with pvp experience (from beta or whatever) agree with this or is there still an aspect of rock, paper, scissors like there is in WoW?

4. Overall how balanced is PvP?

5. The sieges look great, but what little footage ive seen so far shows pvp fights to be over very quickly. I cant imagine sieges being very fun if your character only lasts 2 seconds every time he gets into a fight. How is this being addressed?

6. How are feats and combos learned? I've been watching interviews with the developers and a couple of times they seemed to suggest that new abilities would be unlocked as a result of PvE progression. Again this is the whole will we have to PvE to PvP thing.

7. For some reason the WoW devs have decided that healing classes should be able to spec into damage talents and top dps charts in raids. Will the same sort of thing happen in AoC or will classes have a more definite role?

I realise it's kinda early to be asking some of those questions, but if anyone has the experience or knowledge from other forums to answer any of those I would be very grateful.