Been feeling the itch to get into an mmorpg. Hard to tell if there’s any good ones out. Seems some in the works but what is good this currently available?
My context: was huge into EQ2 for a long while. Loved Rift. Played AION. Didn’t really get into WOW but played it a tiny bit.
I like crafting and love the idea of building my house and world. One if the things I loved most about rift was building my dimension. I had HOOOOUUURRRS into it with some very cool stuff.
Anyway… what if anything is anyone playing. It feels like that genre is currently in a drought.
I could’ve swear I wrote this…
Only thing I’d say is to pick your WoW server well. If you like the story pick a server than has good scripting.
Imo the one that has the best scripting is TauriWoW but they are still on Pandaria. If you want something more modern try Felsong. Still alright scripting bit naturally, the closer you get to retail on Xpacks the less polished they are on private servers.
Also, FFXIV trial is a bit limiting. If you’re playing alone you might be alright but with friends on trial it’s not so fun… You can’t start parties. You can’t PM/DM people…
To play together with my SO, the workaround we found was to go to limsa to beg someone to create a party for us and then they leave the party, leaving just the 2 of us there.
Also, but not least important. Unlike WoWs trial, on FFXIV if you ever pay for the sub/buy the game, there’s no going back to free trial.
This is actually why I don’t play ffxiv that much…
Sorta what they sound like. They’re privately owned and hosted by third party people. You have to download their own launcher to play but most are pretty much free.
Check out ascension. It’s wow but classless, you have a couple servers, one where you choose from 3 random abilities when you level up and another where you get more leeway in the abilities you chose. It’s a really interesting way to play wow.
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I also hear New World has vastly improved since launch but I’ve not played it since beta so I can’t really say.
I played New World through beta to launch and didn’t touch it after release. I just bought it and started last night. Really enjoying it so far.
I could’ve swear I wrote this… Only thing I’d say is to pick your WoW server well. If you like the story pick a server than has good scripting. Imo the one that has the best scripting is TauriWoW but they are still on Pandaria. If you want something more modern try Felsong. Still alright scripting bit naturally, the closer you get to retail on Xpacks the less polished they are on private servers.
Also, FFXIV trial is a bit limiting. If you’re playing alone you might be alright but with friends on trial it’s not so fun… You can’t start parties. You can’t PM/DM people… To play together with my SO, the workaround we found was to go to limsa to beg someone to create a party for us and then they leave the party, leaving just the 2 of us there.
Also, but not least important. Unlike WoWs trial, on FFXIV if you ever pay for the sub/buy the game, there’s no going back to free trial. This is actually why I don’t play ffxiv that much…
(sorry the text got this big, didn’t mean to :( )
For an ex-Wow addict from vanilla through WoD, would you mind eli5 what’s the deal with private servers and how the work?
Sorta what they sound like. They’re privately owned and hosted by third party people. You have to download their own launcher to play but most are pretty much free.
Check out ascension. It’s wow but classless, you have a couple servers, one where you choose from 3 random abilities when you level up and another where you get more leeway in the abilities you chose. It’s a really interesting way to play wow.
I thought Blizz went all in to shut down private servers, and that’s how Classic was born?