Got into DND online beta

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Got into DND online beta

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i'll update ya'll when i get in playing it a little more in depth

i like how it looks, but the gameplay seems almost diabloish

but its pretty

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what stage of beta is this?
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i dunno but from my observarions is that the game completely sucks.

least fun game ever

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StormCrow wrote:i dunno but from my observarions is that the game completely sucks.

least fun game ever
SWG version 3.1 has that title, at best it can be the least fun beta ever.
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Would you mind if I used your beta info to make an account and give it a try? I'm kinda interested in it and would like to see how it pans out. If so could you tell me where I could find the game client?

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Just one city? Stormreach?
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Yeah

its really lame, like they took out a lot of important shit, like turn based stuff.

and made it click and strafe combat.

its really ridiculous at low levels to be anything without a +5 attack bonus and its just lame.

instead of leveling up at 1000/3000/6000/9000 and the like you have 5 ranks per each level

a rank at lvl 1 is 2000xp and you need to get 10k to get level 2 (takes quite a friciking long time)

you do get all sorts of "enhancements" at each rank up which help with different aspects of your class

fighters/rangers seem to be almost completely worthless

warforged barbarians make the best "fighters" sorcerers and wizards are the new clerics because the best tanks = warforged and they have repair spells.

clerics are good, but nobody knows how to play a dnd cleric and just expect you to sit there and cast cure

rogues seem to be unnecessary except to disarm traps.

i just can't enjoy this game seeing how its been so butchered

not to mention after like the initial start the game quests and a couple more to actually enter stormreach you pretty much need a full party to do them with any ease at all.

it gives you garbage rewards, each player gets specific rewards out of chests and the problem is it doesnt take into account class/skills/feats when deciding your loot (i made a fighter spec'd for blunt weapons) and i kept getting slashing weapons and shields but no 2handed blunt weapons.

staffs in the game have some weird ability called potency which supposedly affects how strong your spells are so sorcerers with a higher level staff seem to be more effective.

it just isnt all that fun, but really i never could get into a decent group to begin with which is probably what makes it fun, i want to play a caster like a wizard or sorc but its so tedious in the early part of the game its not fun to get to the point where you can finally start grouping effectively

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Post by StormCrow »

just got into some groups it got a bit more fun

i got to lvl 2 on a fighter

pretty fun once ya get a balanced party and do a bunch of quests

i don't like how you don't level up very fast, probably 1/10 the pace of a real dnd game.

you only get exp based on completing quests and not much at all either

another problem i have is the shitty quest rewards and such

like as a fighter with feats for 2 handed fighting and blunt weapons they give me options like 1handed swords and shields as quest rewards, or armor worse than what i was wearing

gotta do a lot of trading really

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Post by Darius »

Doesn't sound too thrilling, tbh. I kind of expected this after seeing some preliminary reports. Heh. I want a really good FR MMORPG, sort of like WoW in the Realms.

Plus, a good FR movie, e.g. Dark Elf trilogy in the style of LotR. This would be awesome.
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i'd play a FR game if it was based more off NWN or something like BG

because straight dnd to mmorpg doesnt really fit.

although its fairly entertaining now i'm going to try and get to level 5 or so before my beta account runs out on the 10th so i'll keep ya'll posted

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