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Tide27

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Lost Ark to me is amazing in the fact that I dont think I have played in game in recent memory that I really, really liked....and disliked at the same time.

I play less than most, usually only an hour or so a day and had no intentions of rushing it at all.

The combat, chars, sounds, graphics etc...all top notch for me. The questing through the zones...hot fucking garbage. Every 20 ft is a quest hub to pick flowers, move rocks, talk to someone 5 ft away,...just awful. Killimg mobs generates no experience, loot is on rails so depending on the zone you may get +5 item lvl...nothing exciting will ever drop if this continues. Zero reason to not click the quest, mount to location, kill 5 mobs, mount back to infinity. Boring as fuck.

On the flip side, going into the secret dungeons to fight a boss, the actual dungeons you come across leveling...I think is amazing and a lot of fun.

From my understanding, the end game will be filled with content that I like the most, so will certainly keep playing....but god damn the 1 to 50 slog is terrible so far 95% of the time.

I can certainly understand the reason people find ways to rush 50.
 
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Blazin

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I have never felt so disconnected from fellow forum gamer bros this game to me is hot garbage on a visceral level. The combat is just fucking awful. Fine with someone liking it but just hard to imagine the rpg mmo crowd we all came from would have any interest in this. Feels like a game you'd play on a tablet and it's just non stop button smashing.

Reminds me of working in construction where you would never see women so any woman you saw was "hot" , what a dearth we must be in to think this is good.

I'll see my old self out.
 
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Pyros

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Blazin said:
I have never felt so disconnected from fellow forum gamer bros this game to me is hot garbage on a visceral level. The combat is just fucking awful. Fine with someone liking it but just hard to imagine the rpg mmo crowd we all came from would have any interest in this. Feels like a game you'd play on a tablet and it's just non stop button smashing.

Reminds me of working in construction where you would never see women so any woman you saw was "hot" , what a dearth we must be in to think this is good.

I'll see my old self out.
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Diablo is older than UO/EQ though, ARPG gameplay isn't some "new kids" shit. It's also basically the same as modern mmo gameplay(and modern here is somewhat loose, talking wow vanilla) in terms of just pressing buttons as they come up. It is certainly not for everyone though.
 
Zog

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Blazin said:
I have never felt so disconnected from fellow forum gamer bros this game to me is hot garbage on a visceral level. The combat is just fucking awful. Fine with someone liking it but just hard to imagine the rpg mmo crowd we all came from would have any interest in this. Feels like a game you'd play on a tablet and it's just non stop button smashing.

Reminds me of working in construction where you would never see women so any woman you saw was "hot" , what a dearth we must be in to think this is good.

I'll see my old self out.
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The combat is very complex, on the surface it feels like button mashing because the trash mobs are very easy and it doesn't matter what you use, on bosses and later content, especially pvp, the counters and directional abilities matter significantly to the point not doing the right ability wipes raids.

You'll see if you inspect your abilities it has tags like back attack and counter that grant significant priority to the combat.

It's fine if it's not your cup of tea, everyone knows the 1-50 tutorial is hot garbage but most mmos are, it's just whether you can stomach it to get to the good stuff.

Depending on class also makes a huge difference in fun.
 
Zog

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Also i wouldn't even bother with the side quests to 50, just rush the main quest and you won't be behind in levels, the purple special quests like pets, engraving and tradeskills are only ones you should do besides the main story.
 
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Picked a low pop server on EU and it's 5k queue. Luckily the queue goes down quite fast.

Taking it slow playing a Sorc and feeling really overwhelmed with all their systems.
 
Qhue

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There is definitely an overwhelming sensation with all the different skills/stats/levels/collections etc. Taking it easy and just addressing one thing at a time seems to be the way to ease into it. Thankfully most enemies while levelling are weak enough that you have plenty of time to get used to stuff / choose what skills suit you for a build.
 
Nola

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Pyros said:
Hmm kinda fucking weird, no queue at all during headstart, had no issues logging in at 6 and 8PM even, but now it's launch and I have a 5k+ queue to log in middle of the day, even though servers are supposed to be closed for new chars? Granted it's the weekend, I guess, but damn that's a big queue for this server.
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True. I tried logging on around 9pm last night on Regulus and the queue was over 5700+. So I decided to go to sleep because I have to work in the morning. Woke up an hour early around 2am so I can at least play for a hour and there was no queue at all. They must of opened up character creations for Regulus because I only had large login queues on the first day and after that if I did experience a queue it was only for a few minutes.
 
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Nola said:
True. I tried logging on around 9pm last night on Regulus and the queue was over 5700+. So I decided to go to sleep because I have to work in the morning. Woke up an hour early around 2am so I can at least play for a hour and there was no queue at all. They must of opened up character creations for Regulus because I only had large login queues on the first day and after that if I did experience a queue it was only for a few minutes.
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Yeah, I wanted to wake up early to see if I could hop on Reg, but it was one of 4 character locked servers still around 11est (yeah, yeah, "early"). I'll probably try again tomorrow at like 8am or something and see if creation is back open. It seems like it's kind of like FF14 servers where it's not hard locked, but will open up if there's little to no queue. Worth a shot if others are still trying to get on Regulus.
 
Daidraco

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Koushirou said:
Yeah, I wanted to wake up early to see if I could hop on Reg, but it was one of 4 character locked servers still around 11est (yeah, yeah, "early"). I'll probably try again tomorrow at like 8am or something and see if creation is back open. It seems like it's kind of like FF14 servers where it's not hard locked, but will open up if there's little to no queue. Worth a shot if others are still trying to get on Regulus.
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Thats exactly what I was thinking yesterday. Character locked at peak times and open otherwise. I'm kind of glad its handled like this because if they just outright lock the server, similar it slowly kills the server. The more I play, the more I really believe that the server cap has to be wayyyy the fk up there though. Queues are instant for content, and I can go all the way back to the noobie areas and see chunks of people running around.
 
Kirun

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Have they said when they're allowing you to claim the "second" founders pack?

I rolled on Regulus with you fags. Ping difference isn't as huge as I thought, now that I found how to display network latency.
 
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Koushirou

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Yeah, looks like everything opened up in the past 30min or so. Made a few chars on Regulus, minus my names, but oh well. Trying out sorc; seems fun.
 
Grim1

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I never saw them, so maybe they are only triggered if you make a character on a new server.
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Supposedly the second pack will be delivered Monday as long as you have "redeemed" (whatever that means) the first one.

Doesn't matter if you started on a new server, you can essentially have 2 packs on the same server. The second pack doesn't include the wallpaper, title or 30 days of aura. And the second pack's items are untradeable.

But the way they word things is so fucking confusing and contradictory that I may be way wrong on that.

 
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Pyros

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Koushirou said:
Yeah, looks like everything opened up in the past 30min or so. Made a few chars on Regulus, minus my names, but oh well. Trying out sorc; seems fun.
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Oh I guess that's why my server got filled up then. Seeing as how every server is full it makes sense, should have opened more, although I doubt they expected the amount of people to almost double from headstart to live
 
Daidraco

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..and you guys thought it wouldnt double. It went up ~115% lol
 
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