Die in the Face II: Return of Die in the Face (re: DAoC)

[EZ_Kinare]

The awful brain-numbing pain of camping stupid @#%$ all over again. For instance, there is this really cool belt artifact (artifacts are basically loot that learns new abilities as you kill things). In order to get an artifact you need to do the following:

1) Kill the mob that gives the artifact. If you buy the artifact from someone else, you still need to kill the mob to get credit for the encounter. It is a "key" to unlocking the artifact's power.

2) Have the artifact.

3) Collect all the story scrolls associated with the artifact. There are three scrolls per artifact (ie. Belt 1 of 3, belt 2 of 3, belt 3 of 3) and you need to have all three to read the whole story (or so say the roleplaying gods). Usually one scroll is really really common (you sell to a merchant because it isn't worth the space it takes up on your consignment merchant), and another is really really hard to get.

Belt of the Moon 3 of 3 takes the @#%$ cake. Everyone for a very long time has been trying to find the scrolls for this artifact. Posts on VN show people searching in vain. But a patch adds them mysteriously to the loot tables without mentioning it whatsoever in the hot fix notes.

So my husband and I take our characters to two seperate camps where the scroll is confirmed to drop, and we get one on the first day (we both want one). We were watching DVDs the whole time so it wasn't too bad.

Flash forward a week later. We have probably invested somewhere around 100 hours of play time (while watching our DVD collection, and getting normal amounts of sleep) trying to get this scroll.

NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! STUPAAAHD! YOU SO STUPAAAHD!

My point is, this camping is wholelly unreasonable and the main reason why many people left EQ for daoc. Camping was virtually nonexistant in DAOC beforehand. Now it is rampant and the game is full of loot whores.

We cancelled our DAoC accounts on the second day of TOA, and it looks like it will remain that way once our subscription runs out.

[EZ_Peebs]

I am also about to cancel my account due to the effect ToA has had on the game, and many in my guild have left already.

I don't like to whine about things like this, but something about this expansion rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. I loved Shrouded Isles, it was one of my favorite expansions for any MMORPG ever. Just thinking about the Trials of Atlantis (and the effect it is having on the game as a whole) makes me feel burnt out and ready to cancel.

I think they just tried to turn their game into something it was not, which alienated a lot of people who used to like DAoC for what it used to be. What DAoC desperately needed was a RvR overhaul of the frontiers, realm abilities, basically the whole system. I know they are working on this now, but it is too late for me. They turned the game I liked into an extremely aggravating level grind and loot whoring/camping game that I want no part of, and anybody who says you don't have to do ToA crap to stay effective in RvR is kidding themselves.

[EZ_Myrkskog]

Quit DAoC 2 weeks after getting ToA. After searching for 5 hours for some retarded mob "West" of the quest giver I said screw it.

[EZ_Kinare]

Quote:They turned the game I liked into an extremely aggravating level grind and loot whoring/camping game that I want no part of, and anybody who says you don't have to do ToA crap to stay effective in RvR is kidding themselves.

I totally agree with you. Fortunately today I ran into a very nice person who traded that scroll I needed for two he needed. I feel kinda bad about it; I would have paid him 10 plat if he had asked (I think in EQ that would be about 10k plat a couple years ago, not sure how the economy is now).

As far as quests go, I don't need to be the first person to do it. In fact, I would prefer that frustration go to other people. I think open ended vague quests waste time. They are not fun (as in that mob you tried to find Myrkskog). We let other people do them, then follow the spoilers. Much easier that way.

[EZ_Dahne]

It's funny. I got ToA right after it came out, and though I haven't canceled, I just haven't felt like playing in days. Tradeskills are my favorite things to do, and now they seem kind of obsolete. And now I'm suppossed to do all these things that take 5 billion people to do, and the people'l only come if they happen to be on the same step, and there's never enough...it's turning into more trouble than it's worth. So I've been replaying Metal Gear Solid instead. Hooyeah.
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