Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube:
Yeah, the class mechanics will be nothing new to anyone who's played an MMO in the last ten years. I will say that, at least compared to Burning Crusade (which was the last Expansion I played for WoW) that the Sith Warrior is a lot easier. The way you fight battles in KotOR is very different than in WoW, simply because most of the trash mobs are ranged and the battlefields are relatively large and spread out. For some reason, I never feel like I'm taking a very big risk when i go solo questing in TOR, whereas solo questing with a warrior in WoW could get pretty dangerous.
A lot has changed since TBC in WoW. Last time I played my frost mage in arena, warriors would break my snares within seconds, and now, as a frost mage, you can spam frost snares basically every few seconds. Also, I am leveling my warrior, she is almost 82 now, and I am using the prot spec for it. Unlike before, its just as viable as arms or fury. Have I mentioned the self-healing ability of warriors these days? I won't even speak about the same thing for rogues now...
ToR related - as G-Cube mentioned, the lack of looking for group system is discouraging.
Oh, and
a completely inoffensive name seems to have addressed me as /v/, I suppose.
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Oh also, /v/ seems to think that the "ToRtanic" is happening, but I don't where any numbers indicate that membership dropped after the trial month ended.
I said nor claimed no such thing. I said that ToR, at this specific moment (probably in future as well) isn't interesting to me at all. As for the manipulation with sub numbers, everyone plays that game, so I don't care if ToR has 1, 2 or 5 million subscribers. I don't measure my personal (dis)like towards an MMO by the number of subscriptions. ToR will, in all probability, run for much longer, will earn their masters a lot of cash and will probably be the number 2 P2P MMO for years to come. But don't trust companies throwing numbers in your face. personally, I couldn't care less if WoW is being played by 10 or 100 or 1 million players, as long as I myself enjoy playing it.
As for the "haters", well, I wanted to love ToR, I really did. Was hoping that it would drag me away from WoW to something new. But after all the troubles I've had with Origin installation, the game activation (having played and reviewed most of MMO's out there, I got quite some experience in this) that was the most bugged and longwinded affair ever, the credit card issues, forced subscription to start playing (regardless of gametime of one month that comes with the game), response time from the support was a joke (rather poor one) and so on, I've lost my happy thoughts. To add to that BioWare banning people because of the dancing bug, the mysterious loss of the unsubscribe option from players accounts one month after the launch and banning of all who posted direct links on forums how to unsubscribe and deletion of those links, the horribly poorly management of the Ilum patch 1.1 PvP exploit and BioWare freezing in sight of the fiasco like a deer in front of the incoming car lights...
I don't hate ToR. I would have preferred KoToR 3 now, in the light of this game, but back in the day, I was looking forward to it. I simply think that the game is not good enough - at least at this point in time - to deserve an active subscription from me. Too many bad things in this game and the management around the game itself made me pass.