Age of conan - World of warcraft

[Anksy]

how many weapons/items are there on conan compared to wow ?

is there a fun playability on age of conan ? as i don't really think wow is fun i just want to get to lvl 70

I know which has better graphics, and i know what they both involve, i dont really want to know which is better game , majority of posts are just wow is better, graphics are this and that, and mmo you choose wow, but i mainly want to know what items and weapons are like on aoc compared to wow, which is quite easily comparable, and how fun is it in comparison to wow!.

 

[Margaret]

Age of Conan PvP is crap compared to WoW's, so if you fancy fighting against others stay away from Conan.

and as said, Conan has bad itemization.

http://warcraftmovies.com/download.php?id=72659&mirror=1

Try that for a high quality and great Warcraft PVP movie, should give you an idea of the gameplay and interface.

I played Age of Conan after having quit WoW for over a year, after playing Conan I thought it was so bad that I am now playing WoW again. (felt the urge for an MMO, Conan did not deliver it)

 

[bushmins]

I know which has better graphics, and i know what they both involve, i dont really want to know which is better game , majority of posts are just wow is better, graphics are this and that, and mmo you choose wow, but i mainly want to know what items and weapons are like on aoc compared to wow, which is quite easily comparable, and how fun is it in comparison to wow!.

But you cant fairly compair the two games. Ones has just been born the other has flurished for years.
Im finding AoC a mature game full of people who are descovering something new and most of them liking it. Im on a PvP server and its much like all other PvP out there, seen one seen them all.

The style of AoC is much more like EQ2 than WoW, mature.
You wont see 10 foot blue glowing weapons in AoC or shoulder pads the size of houses, like i said its more mature.

I prefer the more realistic game play, when ever i need a mmo fix i have always reinstalled GW or EQ2 over WoW. But sometimes i like a bash at WoW, but i get bored very quickly.

Its all up to you to try the game and see. a lot of people rave on about WoW and say every other mmo is crap, but it seems a lot of people go try other mmo's just to **** them off... which i can understand if they have put a lot of time into their chosen mmo, they dont want to admit anything is better/as good.

Good luck in your search and remember theres room for everyone!

 

[KittensCake]

Age of Conan PvP is crap compared to WoW's, so if you fancy fighting against others stay away from Conan.

and as said, Conan has bad itemization.

http://warcraftmovies.com/download.php?id=72659&mirror=1

Try that for a high quality and great Warcraft PVP movie, should give you an idea of the gameplay and interface.

I played Age of Conan after having quit WoW for over a year, after playing Conan I thought it was so bad that I am now playing WoW again. (felt the urge for an MMO, Conan did not deliver it)

This is true. If you want PvP then don't go with any other MMO apart from WoW, because it has PvP is in a league of its own.

 

[Jokester]

Not really, Conan is far worse than the situation WoW was in.

I'm going to agree with you Jihad, when WoW came out it was far better than AoC, the only thing that struck me as a major problem with WoW was that it was too popular and led to the servers not being able to cope with the numbers leading to poor performance.

Pre-TBC WoW was the golden age.

 

[PixelChef]

I agree with what Jihad has said in this thread. It's just boring now, and I have no motivation to play because I don't like the PvP. (Melee with cast time ftl)

 

[DampCat]

3 years ago when WoW was released, the only issue it had was server stability due to Blizzard not realising how popular it would be.

AoC is sometimes unplayable. The interface is shocking. The amount of bugs is laughable.

The "maturity" thing people keep going on about is rubbish. Again, 3 years ago when WoW was released it was full of lovely people who wanted to help eachother out because everyone was discovering something new. In a year's time, AoC will be full of idiots. I dont know what makes you think that it's a particular brand of game that attracts muppets, but you'll find that given time, anything on the internet attracts a-holes. Every forum, every game. It's inevitable.

Itemisation, as mentioned, is pretty shoddy in AoC. Played it for a while now (purely in the hope it will get better) and i have no idea what stats i should be looking for, what my goals are for items. In other games it's usually pretty obvious what stats are good for what.

The games are comparable, and people who say they aren't just cant think of any arguments to save whichever game they prefer. They're comparable because they're the same thing, released at different times.

I'm not a fanboi. I've uninstalled WoW and never want to play it again. It's incovinient, it's long winded, it's a constant grind. AoC however is a far inferior game to WoW, at release. They're going to have to work hard to pull it up to scratch. Pre-release hype isnt enough.


Disclaimer: in my opinion. i know how people like to go off on one unless you include those 3 words.

 

[mark_t50]

Just to chuck a different opinion in, I've got to say I prefer AoC over WoW, maybe it's the newness of the game, or maybe I've just become bored of WoW, but I am definitely enjoying AoC a lot. Strangely it's some of the points listed here that I find better in AoC.

PvP is excellent in AoC, so much so that I'm playing my main on an RP-PvP server, with WoW I hated PvP so much that I played on a PvE server, it just feels like so much more fun. I'm not ashamed to say that I'm usually quite rubbish at PvP, but I enjoy the fighting in Conan even if getting beat.

I started getting a bit sick of the graphics in WoW, I know they were great for being able to run it on a low end system, but I'm glad they have gone for a more detailed graphics system because I've got quite a nice system and it's great being able to put nearly everything on max settings and have a great looking game to play, especially if your going to be spending a long time playing it. Also the performance has been great for me, I've seen the posts all over the official forums about crashing, bugs, poor performance etc, but I must be really lucky because it just runs fine for me.

I also love the combat system in AoC, I will admit to being worried that there was to much button pushing involved, but three weeks in and I'm still loving it. I think the idea of different directional hits and shielding is great as is the combo system for getting abilities to work, it just seems to make combat feel much more involved for me.

Maybe my opinion will change, I certainly haven't seen all of AoC by a long way, infact at the minute I'm taking each class up to lvl20+ just to see which one I like, I'm also taking my time and enjoying the game, so far I've not found and problems with lack of quests, items or game content. I'm sure that will change once I pick a class and start getting into the 30's and 40's but then the game has just launched and I'm sure there will be plenty of content added over time.

Finally, a lot of people have problems with the instancing in AoC, it doesn't bother me at all because I was used to it from playing EQ2. I've found that it has never hampered my game and there have always been plenty of people in whatever instance I've been in, besides you can change instance to be with friends. So yeah, maybe I'm just getting caught up in the newness of it all, but it's finally got me to cancel my WoW account after a long time.

 

[Sankari]

But you cant fairly compair the two games. Ones has just been born the other has flurished for years.

That's true, but WoW was a polished product when it first came out, and its basic structure was sound.

Interface was superb; itemisation made sense; scaling was balanced; combat was intelligently structured; classes and races were well defined, etc.

The initial product was a superior one - not just because it was less buggy, but because it simply offered a better gaming system all round.

 

[scorza]

Have to agree with Jihad - WoW was much more polished at release than AoC is now. I really wanted to like AoC, but so far it just isn't fun.

 

[KNiVES]

Maybe if AoC had a bloody free trial I'd be able to make comparisions.

 

[Makunouchi]

Pre-TBC WoW was the golden age.

I dissagree with this. For the people that didnt emo out on the scant information that was available before TBC came out, and actually stuck with it, the SSC/TK and then BT/Hyjal age was amazing times and i actually think that the atmosphere of the community was higher than pre-TBC (that is once ssc/tk had been tuned). I think now that SW has come out and is simply more of the same as before people are getting dissenchanted, BUT again my view is coloured by the fact ive now quit WoW and i want to justify that to myself, which is where i think a lot of people go wrong when they view games like WoW/AoC.

It annoys me that people say that WoW was better pre-TBC, because its usually said by the sort of people that quit before TBC even came out....

Not that im suggesting thats true in this instance.

 

[fish99]

Well, i play wow, and i want to know if its worth starting age of conan

basically comparing both games

Weapons/items
Size of the game
How fun is age of conan compared to wow

how many weapons/items are there on conan compared to wow ?

is there a fun playability on age of conan ? as i don't really think wow is fun i just want to get to lvl 70

Why are you playing it (and paying for it) if it's not fun? But anyway, might be worth waiting six months till the high end content is more polished. It's very obvious when you leave the up-to-level-20 starting area that the rest of the game isn't nearly as done, NPCs don't say anything, the world feels a bit empty etc (on a side note you might want to read up on AoCs instanced zones, basically the whole game is instanced). From what I've seen I would say the core combat gameplay is more fun though.

 

[dokko]

This is disappointing reviews from you lot. Was thinking about AoC after finding the playable cartoon WOW pretty much lacking anything of any real substance.

 

[KNiVES]

I dissagree with this. For the people that didnt emo out on the scant information that was available before TBC came out, and actually stuck with it, the SSC/TK and then BT/Hyjal age was amazing times and i actually think that the atmosphere of the community was higher than pre-TBC (that is once ssc/tk had been tuned). I think now that SW has come out and is simply more of the same as before people are getting dissenchanted, BUT again my view is coloured by the fact ive now quit WoW and i want to justify that to myself, which is where i think a lot of people go wrong when they view games like WoW/AoC.

It annoys me that people say that WoW was better pre-TBC, because its usually said by the sort of people that quit before TBC even came out....

Not that im suggesting thats true in this instance.

I started raiding SSC very recently, along with Mag/Gruul with the OcUK guild - absolutely nothing's changed from vanilla WoW, I don't know if you think this is a good thing or not but for me, I was expecting something very different and never got it. TBC is much more accessible than vanilla WoW but the endgame content is pretty much the same in terms of execution and manpower/time needed. Was a letdown in that regard for me, so I since quit the game. TBC is a step up but nowhere near enough for those who didn't like the time-sink of raids and endgame of before.

The best thing about TBC was Zul'aman. If there was ever an MMO that was more intimate with smaller groups and difficult challenges, it would be wonderful. Just a pittance that the focus in TBC is on soul-draining large instances that take hours and hours if not days to do. WOTLK will hit the nail on the head by making every raid doable with 10 people. When you cross the line from 10 to 25 people the game stops being a game and starts to become a job.

 

[Jokester]

It annoys me that people say that WoW was better pre-TBC, because its usually said by the sort of people that quit before TBC even came out....

From my experience the majority of players (though admittadly raiders) I played with much prefer pre-TBC to post-TBC because of the guild aspect that was required to run 40man raids. The move towards 25man raids reduced this, as did the move towards PvP in terms of Arena and BG (though of course BG was pre-TBC as well). The major moan is the "welfare" epics that anyone could earn just from turning up in PvP that were generally on a par or even better than good raid gear that generally took more effort to get from PvE. It generally made players lazy and discouraged people from making the effort in PvE.

Anyway for me AoC to a large part is not as in depth, generally simpler version of WoW. The sad thing is for all the "no grinding" of AoC, you're going to have to grind a hell of a lot of stuff to build your guild city and also by the looks of things to get through 50-60 as well (I never had to grind to level in WoW).

 

[Makunouchi]

I started raiding SSC very recently, along with Mag/Gruul with the OcUK guild - absolutely nothing's changed from vanilla WoW

I disspute that. 25 people not 40, token loot meaning less farming of old bosses, much better itemised loot, boss mechanics that are much better and more inovative than pre-TBC (with the exeption of some NAxx bosses).

I mean just look at the Vashj fight, nothing that complex or amazingly fun could ever have happened in vanilla WoW.

I quit just before Sunwell came after clearing BT/Hyjal and testing SW on the PTR btw.

 

[Posty]

Well at this very moment WoW is much better but only because it has been out so long AoC looks very promising and is why i am leveling a character in it (currently 69) but i still play WoW to raid and grinding some honor for the next PvP set. I think in a month or 2 i will decide which game i want to stick with, Wotlk looks really cool and will definitely be playing it as i want to finish the storyline set out in WCIII which i played to death.

 

[Converge]

Yeah im thinking of leaving WoW until WotLK comes out as i've cleared MH/BT now, and i just can't really be bothered much with SWP.

 

[Margaret]

This is disappointing reviews from you lot. Was thinking about AoC after finding the playable cartoon WOW pretty much lacking anything of any real substance.

WoW has brilliant visuals, it has a unique charm to it and fantastic locations, some of the armor also looks amazing.

I don't see how you can say it lacks any substance, get 70 first and make an effort and you'll be rewarded back.