let's face it everyone of us will sooner or later hear the call of WoW, while only some are going to leave horizons most of us will want to give it a try to see what it is all about

so pioneers please post here what servers you choose, so that we can all meet/help each other in those hostile foreign lands

scouting report by your undercover reptile claws:
(spent 3 days in each game)

Everquest II: If you like anything about horizons and are not one of those complaining about the loot system all the time, don't even bother testing it.

It has nice graphics - so what.
You can loot armor - makes you look like a rag doll - with all different parts and no dye available.
No building , crafting is very complicated.
Lots of quests, which get old soon - in no way better than what we've got just more of it.
NO DRAGONS!!!
On the plus side it has placeable furniture!!!! (we could use that)

WoW: Nice game, worth a try, got thieves.

Thieves are just agile fighters really.
Crafting is nice. (says me, the non-crafter) I made two fifth of the available leaterworking and cooking skills in just under 3 days by cooking and skinning (or the other way around maybe) my kills!!?
Crafting overall is very limited though.
First impression: very finished, many small details
NO DRAGONS!!!

..oh and not to forget Sid Meyer's Pirates!!
Nice game, reminds one of the good ol' times
totally different genre though

her majesty Arcat's secret service officer

hoo...

I am still not sure which server Cilix and me are hopping on, since this will be decided by the people from our current guild who will create their accounts first.

only some things certain:

1. PvP
2. english
3. Horde side

So that's about it.

As soon as I know it, I will give the info here

Firstoff, well done Claws
Undercover mission completed with success (you didn't get sucked in heh).



It's important to me that my fellow guildmates enjoy playing what they play, so I would never sabotate any efforts to seek for fun - but I won't and can't actively support them: Bet it's no secret to you, I can't stand WoW at all (ethical issues with highly commercial products, gezz I'm a punk and vote green - why you think I'm gatherer and cleric heh) so whatever you guys wanna explore - I can't follow


Nuff said

best,
Arcat

Server is:

BLADEFIST (PvP)

my guild is called "Insomnia" (I know... I suggested Puppeteers but it only made 2nd place in the vote)

my chars are called (from main to altest alt)

Pilate (1st = Tauren Druid)

Guilleaume (2nd = Troll Hunter)

Meta (3rd!! = Undead Warlock)

after all those metagruen I decided to go for a fresh name and after all... metagruen IS the tailor lizzy!

I have only one thing to say...



= NO Soresha!

I'm staying with HZs, I love flying too much to give it up now

ROARRR!!!!!

Bought the game today..couldn't resist to check it out.

Atm I'm just messing around in the noob area to get a feel of the game. Of course, the male chars looked too funny again so I had to create a Lovice in WoW, too, lol.

So..where are all the guildies who left Hz? Only Meta and Cilix on Bladefist, the rest gone to Evergrind?

PvP server..hm..not really my kind of thing. Might be fun to create a char there just to give Pilate a few dp's, horde scum! Die, die! ..erm, forgot you spent like ages in Beta, so never mind, Meta.

Boy, what a blast this game is. It has mounts, summonable creatures, ships, air transport, moving npcs, truck loads of quests, voices, smooth performance, and even lots of players.

If it's still as enjoyable once you get to higher levels, I can't see myself returning to Hz anytime soon except of course for guild events or fun stuff. I won't cancel my subscription, but AE really needs to get things done soon.

If anyone wants to say hi, I'm on English PvE server Silvermoon, levelling my little Paladin Lovice.

wroooong Lovice wrong:

1) you play alliance
2) you play PvE
3) you play Paldin the uber-needs-arcat's-nerf-bat class...

shame on you baby!

give PvP a try.... believe me it's a blast, too

OK at least I switched to Rogue..dark dual wield style sounds more like me, eh?

And the name's Eclipse now..was surprised it wasnt taken yet, but I'm on Shadowsong now..even darker than Silvermoon, lol. But PvP...nah..met enough player killers in Ultima Online and Diablo2..cant say they acted very mature overall.

the thing with PvP in WoW is:

1. in your starting areas and the areas controlled by your faction you cannot be attacked by the other faction.
So... when you are just starting and are killing low level creeps in the newbie area a lvl 60 migh stand before you but he cannot attack you

2. So in addition to 1) you can only be attacked right away in "contested" areas. And these are zones, that you usually do not enter before LVL 20. And by this time you are able to defend yourself.

3. there is (as you might have already noticed) almost no death penalty. Sure you lose some durability on your armor when you die often and you need to repair it. but neither do you lose XP nor items or anything.
The most annoying thing would be the run from the graveyard to your corpse which can be long.. depends on the place of death.

4. fighting an enenmy .. group against group of same levels is VERY VERY funny. Since you can revive as often as you like the fights are not so serious. It's more about fun.
And fighting another players is much more encouraging as the hordes of mobs.
See it this way... after you reach LVL 60.... there is not much else to do than
- do instances and farm for items
- PvP!!

5. I never thought I liked a PvP server... and sure... there are moments when a much higher char kills you while you are fighting with a mob. But.... I mean.... it's Horde against Alliance.. so why shouldn't you kill all other faction members you see.

6. You have to be careful when soloing and I think this is giving my gameplay a certain thrill.

Fair enough. Still I'm pissed enough already at running all the way back to my corpse and for fun there's always the duel option.

With that being said, sure I might get bored with farming mobs for items and will start a new char on a PvP server to hunt you down - or get owned for all it matters.

Hey

Take a visit to Bladefist server Lovice...and join the Alliance ranks against the horde.

Look up Jiffy the Gnome warlock if u want some fun



Monkee

gaaaH

you betrayed us, too???

well. fair enough. seems like Grogk and Pilate will hunt down some lil gnome....

beware to go into ashenvale mr. monkee... I will sneak behind your back

Oooh, Monkee on Bladefist, too. Hmm, if we get Arcat there as our Priest or Paladin I will join you guys on Bladefist.

Btw Arcat..theres big hammers and maces in Wow as well as loooads of trees. Plus there sure are lots of 'punks' playing the game.

Done, I'm on Bladefist joining forces with Jiffy soon to do a little Meta-raid. B)

For da Horde!

was level 14 scout on german pvp server already - switched to bladefist - human rogue girl named Precious - just for the fun of kicking some metabutt

14 level auf dem falschen server - 3 tage verloren
serverwechsel - name verloren
Meta in den A*** treten - unbezahlbar


not sure if i am going to level her up though
making progress with finder again - and got terragor online yesterday too
(maybe it is time to address the name _thing)

why are you all against us??

why didn't you join Cilix and me??

sniff.. you know.. there is no communication possible between members of opposing factions

so you'll be playing on one side and Cilix and me on the other side and even when we meet each other the only thing we can exchange are emotes....

really - fun left aside - it's a bit sad that we cannot roam the lands together ... but it's your decision to join the light side.

It is just that I wanted to play a rogue - and "beast" rogues look silly.
I can't imagine anything but a human thief - it is probably my poor imagination.
(I have to point out that appearance choices are VERY limited )

yeah,

in this point WoW sucks majorly.

BLIZZARD is saying they tried it with more customization and removed it because the results would differ to much from a persisten WoW feeling.

IMHO this is just an excuse. The advantage of limited customization is fewer information is required when a lot of people are in the same place.

When you enter crossroads at peak time you will see ~50+ minimum players running around. And the game is still not a slide show, but rather fluent fram rates.

If the client would have to download the data for 50 different characters it would result in the situation we all know from Horizons... mega lag!

So, after all... I rather take good frame rate than more customization. And after you got a little bit of feel for the game you can start to recognize people by their armor, weapons, pets, etc...

What sucks, tho, is that all Druid bears, cats, travel form look EXACTLY the same.
So when you have five druids runninng in bear form you cannot tell who is who.. onyl by the name.

But I say it again... That all doesn't really matter as long as the gameplay is fluent and fun and this is certainly happening.

Maybe we should exchange messenger IDs... so we can arrange a meeting sometime via ICQ, etc..

would be cool to make an extraordinary gathering of Alliance and Horde... just for the OoR mayhem.... when I think about it.. a very cool idea roleplaywise.

I mean... there are NEVER totally contrary factions, there are always people that make contact with each other, without having to fight.

And after we danced and flexed a bit I will root and kill y'all!!!!! Mooooh

Well Meta, we won't hold you back if you decide to reconsider your choice and join the alliance...it's never too late.

Meta,

6160 Silk Spools in Parsinia Consigner ready to be applied
Would be great if you could find a free hour to place them.

(for the scholar shop)

I'm not yet at silk with my weaver :/

edit:
also completed the kenaf + elm part tonite - shop will pop once the silk is applied.

best,
Arcat

Monkee - some 500 granite bricks and a few obsidian as well in tavu cons - can u make blocks /keystones and apply to my t4 silo please - else they gonna f**k up my vault again

Heya

Sure thing Claws




Monkee