Anyone playing the DAoC Classic server in the meantime?

[jilena]

You do NOT want to PvE in DAoC. What you want to do is get to a level where you can PvP to make experience as fast as you possibly can. Even if you hate PvP and experience a sensation akin to having your cock slammed in a car door every time you find yourself fighting another player... This is preferrable to DAoC PvE...

[Agaron]

Pve is boring. The game is pretty much all about pvp. You find the quickest way to reach 50. It usually takes from 2 weeks to 2 months depending how well grouped. There's 1 dragon raid, and 1 custom zone on that server. You pve to get gear for your class template e.g. only allowed so many stats on certain gear, so you have to squeeze as much as possible on either pve gear, or crafted gear. It's quite challenging. You can't get pvp groups unless you're templated, and even once you're you suck unless you have ranks, which is pvp kills. Ranks give you more abilities. You can have all this and still suck, because you don't speak foreign languages, and can't get in groups. Set 8 man groups only require 1-2 of certain classes, so it's like picking people for dodgeball, and it's like highschool with language cliques. It's one of the best pvp game imo. Someone needs to create a classic english server.

[regatta]

Playing Midgard, name is Zeakie

[harojaro91]

Where should I download the client?

Edit: Nevermind, I found it, along with a pretty easy to follow setup guide; http://www.uthgard-server.net/module...wtopic&t=10328

[stormlord]

Thanks for the replies everyone, but you just reaffirm to me why I don't like pvp.

I'd rather pull teeth. Pvp makes me sweat too. I've never had a good experience in PvP except in 1999 in everquest when two roleplayers dueled. That's something I'll never forget. PvP is too primal to ever duplicate that. Of hte pvp servers I've seen, they're just full of griefers and people that want to be king of the mountain.

Ugg.

Can't you tell me something good about the PvE in DAOC. Is it THAT bad???

Tell me about treasure and dungeon crawls and adventure and fortune. Don't tell me about the pvp.

What are the dungeons like? Are there any factions in the world like in EQ? Any epic quests? You know those dreams where you stumble on a shining jewel deep in an underground fortress with a buddy? THAT is PvE! PvE is not just random player-built houses (ex: graffiti) and bullsH***** players chatting about their mommas and pk groups griefing stray defenseless players. PvE has a song. It has a rhyme. It has a message. PvE is not a messed up gang raped hole in the ground. It's substance! And it's so hard to find in pvp games, imho.

Let me say, I spent most of my time on live on pvp servers. 99.9999999% of the time I didn't try to hurt anyone. I'm not a pvper. I could count on my ***** hand the number of times I tried to kill someone. I remember snaring someone for fun, but didn't kill em. I was with a buddy in pojustice and another guy was there and he attacked and i kiilled him with trueshot. It was a mix of self-defense and me just doing what my buddy wanted me to do. I rmember some of my friends in a guild getting together and killing newbies in a zone. I went along with them a single time but it was disgusting. Just not me. I had pvper friends, but i knew that deep inside me there's something irreconcilable with them. I like them as my friends, but I don't like what they do. I always felt bad when I tried to hurt someone else even if it was self-defense. That's why I didn't pvp. My score on eqplayers was 0 forever - in fact, i don't eve remember getting a single kill. But I saw people grief and b**** and moan every time I logged in. I knew a long time ago something is different about me. I just can't pvp like pvpers do. It goes against my sense of respect. When I finally xferred to a blue server, it was like stepping into civilization. People respected eachother and were open with one another. Getting groups was easier and I said hello to a game I had waved goodbye to many many years before. The problem with pvp, as I've known it, is that players don't want to respect eachther and exercise order. That's too much to ask of them. The griefers always win in the end. What's left over? Raped dirty children with cut lips and scars. That is what I see.

Some people will respect you and care about you whether you're a bunch of pixels or not. And that's the difference between pvping griefers and normal pve players. When you approach the griefer, they'll tell you it's just a game and then they go off on their pvp rampage. But you know what, it's not just a game. It's a social world. By killing wantonly, you're showing your own disrespect for that social world. If the anon tag was removed, people would probably make better choices. But I think it's uncovering something much deeper, instinctive. There's a part of us that's animal. It kills, feeds, competes. Unleashing that monster on others, even for a single moment, can be immensely pleasurable. And I think some people let that monster out, a lot.

Pvp games, like an air vent, let that monster out to roam, except not to help, but to feed, and murder.