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.
FFXIV is great and free to play until level 60
WoW (Private Servers)
GW2 (Personal fave out of these)
FFXIV
ESO
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 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.
not so much a drought as people getting burnt out on cash shop and gamble box shenanigans
out of the top tier, it’s been pretty much status quo for awhile now
- thanks to Blizzard, World of Warcraft really shouldn’t be an option
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Guild Wars 2
- Elder Scrolls Online
- Lord of the Rings Online
Massively agree with gw2.
Overall good costumer practices (not perfect). Buy to play, no worries that time is running out and you need to grind like a maniac for the next days…
Great community and story.
WOW is algo a good option, if you’re going to a private server. Those seem more fun honestly and less bullshit
Based on your other interests, Guild Wars 2
If you want to try something different, there’s an MMO called “Secret World Legends” that is super unique in a lot of ways. Also super niche, so don’t worry if you decide you don’t like it; but if you do, it’ll become one of your favorites.
Is legends as good as the original? The original was truly a game you had to try out. Loved all the puzzles in that game.
It’s the same game, just with a load of QoL improvements, and iirc a few of the expansion chapters come free. Biggest change is combat and targeting… idk if I can explain it well without making it sound like trash, but instead of click-to-target, you have to aim your character at the thing you’re fighting, which sounds clunky, but you get used to it in a hurry - it makes combat much more fluid. Also all the currencies from various factions you could acquire in the base game, 90% of which were obsolete, have been consolidated back down a more reasonable number.
I started on TSW back in the day; switched to SWL. If I ever get the itch to dive back in, it will 100% be for SWL.
I’m personally looking to get into “Palia”, it’s going into open beta in on the 10th. I’ve seen reviews that say it’s “the love child of WOW and animal crossing” so going to get my family in on some cozy gaming.
