People who played Archeage beta opinions

[Zalaerian]

Originally Posted by Swyft [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The graphics are prolly the best any MMO has ever had. The tradeskill system is pretty revolutionary and the naval combat is truly awesome.

It's very button mashy with some classes, and lacks the skill of EQ's pvp system. Allot of Rock, Paper, Scissor's with class balance. It's allot more balanced than WoW in the sense that there aren;t any flavor of the month op classes. But if you get two people on you within a 5 lvl range your toast. Unlike Eq where you can fight a few people, and dunk on them.

Resist system is bad, they have only physical, and magic resist, so every CC effect lands, it's absorb not resist based system like wow.

Im okw this. RNG should have no place in a pvp based MMO. I liked how Blizzard finally over the years started to remove flat out resists and made them reductions (orc stun resist, talent immunties changed to % reductions ect). It made for a higher skill capped game.

[R Flair]

only thing stupid about resists is cloth gives low AC high magic defense, leather gives med ac/magic def, plate gives hi ac 0 magic def. Plate should give at least some, but theres still abilities from a lot of classes that provide magic def.

Naval combat is great for sure, like nothing in any current mmo to date. Crafting system is only OK, but its the main time sink in this game. All about getting resources, money and crafting towards top tier crafted armor or enuff cash to purchase. Then getting the mats to upgrade said armor which can go as high as 10 tiers which to this day only a handful of people have on the korean servers. Once you have these things you battle for land and guild castles. Set number keep defense battles (50 man) so no zerging

[Not Salem]

Originally Posted by R FLair

Set number keep defense battles (50 man) so no zerging

is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[compulsion]

Originally Posted by Zalaerian [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Im okw this. RNG should have no place in a pvp based MMO. I liked how Blizzard finally over the years started to remove flat out resists and made them reductions (orc stun resist, talent immunties changed to % reductions ect). It made for a higher skill capped game.

Actually there is RNG in the game because CCs(many, perhaps not all) are attacks that can miss. Some CCs only trigger off combos, which means no CC if either attack misses.

From my experience in AA, I don't see individual skill being nearly as important as group coordination. I can see 10v10 or more in ArcheAge being a ton of fun, but maybe better, I can definitely see 6v10 or 10v20 battles going in favor of a more organized underdog. Unfortunately(maybe) gear in AA is a very big deal.

Originally Posted by Zalaerian [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

RNG should have no place in a pvp based MMO. *snip* It made for a higher skill capped game.

RNG has nothing to do with the quality or level of competition in a game, this is just long dead arenajunkies forumquesting. There are hundreds or thousands of better games(played by millions and millions more people) that involve elements of chance, and high levels of skill are involved in controlling, manipulating, or mitigating the random side of the game. Poker is a multiplayer PvP game that involves plenty of RNG. Hell, even Hearthstone is more competitive than WoW. It is long past time to quit using WoW as a measure of anything.

[Grimjaw]

http://forums.archeagegame.com/showt...-took-a-survey

[Zalaerian]

Originally Posted by compulsion [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Poker is a multiplayer PvP game that involves plenty of RNG.

And thats why I cant stand poker.

[SamwiseRed]

if you don't like RNG then you are gonna hate RL.

[LostCause]

Originally Posted by Eslade [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But it's boring and the combat looks like wow whack a mole. No thanks.

lost in the past.


LOL

[R Flair]

coordination is everything in archeage... in everything, not just pvp. if a guild doesn't have people that love pvp, and people that love to craft and farm, you will struggle. gear, ships, politics - everything - requires coordination and the ability to interact with other guilds on the server.

you can 10v20 np in archeage permitted your guild is good, but also capable of gearing your members out.

[Heyitsme]

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Guy livestreaming right now

Pretty nice that although a tab targeting game, you can still dodge some enemy attacks