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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2074362" data-attributes="member: 3649">I've had the game for two weeks, after hearing a number of good things about it. My only previous MMORPG experience was the Asheron's Call 1 beta and City of Heroes. I really do love COH but I was wanting something fantasy-based, didn't want to do AC 2, Ultima or EQ 2. One of the people in the gaming group has been playing WOW since Beta and was very impressed with it. I'm on the Feathermoon RP server, with a lvl12 Night Elf Druid, a 14th Human Rogue, a 10th Undead Warlock, and just started a Human Warrior last night to see how warriors worked. So far I'm enjoying it.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The interface is pretty intuitive and nicely laid out.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is lag, though I've only died once because of it. Usually it seems to catch me when I'm looting a body or crafting an item. Sometimes I'm in a queue to get on the server, though that usually only lasts a few minutes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I've read some of the forums and online guides but by no means all of them. They seem to be pretty informative.</li> </ul>I like....<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">How you can take various forms of transport, some free some not, to get to far-away places.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The death thing, already mentioned. A good thing. I've only gotten frustrated once with XP debt on COH and that was wiped out in a couple of hours of street sweeping. This is somewhat better, though. I've only had one person die in a bad place, with enemies that wouldn't be wandering off soon, but I managed to get out of that.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The crafting thing is nice and lets you really build up some money in a short period of time depending on what you have. The human rogue has skinning and leatherworkling. Following in the trail of people that don't have skinning, she can amass a fair amount of leather in a short period of time, go back and buy the other things she needs the sell the completed product back for a nice profit. Enchanting... seems like it will take quite some time to build up any real ability, since it depends on you finding minor magical items. Going to try mining/smithing next.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's a really pretty game. Nice sound effects. Interesting PC's and quests, though not really all that different from COH. Most at my level are the basic 'take this to x' and 'kill x creatures' but there are others, like 'retrieve this thing' and some other variations.</li> </ul>Some things I don't like as much:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is no way to run even a little faster. This makes some travel really boring.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You cannot buy a horse until 40th level, though I think a druid gets travel forms before then. I have no idea how fast they really are, yet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I cannot jump over most common farm fences or railings, even though they are only waist-high.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I still get stuck when rounding some corners, or when I try to jump certain jumpable items. This has happened on every game of this type I've ever played. Someone really needs to prevent this. COH has a /stuck command that can unstick you from the scenery. I don't know if WOW has the same thing though I would suppose it would. THis is different from being really stuck, though.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some things could be explained a little better. The druid gets a bear shape at 10th level. How do you get that bear shape ability? Apparently you have to automagically divine that you must go not to just a druid trainer but to one particular druid trainer and do a couple of special quests. Not one single thing tells you that this might be different from all the other abilities you've gotten up to this point. There is a rogue quest that requires you to stealth up to a guy and pickpocket him. After seeing the words 'special pickpocket quest' once, I put that together and realized why I've gutted this guy like seven times and not found a packing list on his corpse like every single other thing I've been sent to retrieve. Both of those incidents were particularly frustrating.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I could also do with a larger or more expandable map inset that shows me exactly where 'Person I'm Suppossed to Meet' is. That feature kinda-sorta exists but it just shows the general location.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I want more avatar customization. COH has forever spoiled me on this. There is at least enough variation that not everyone looks exactly the same but there is a lot of similarity. I'd like to be able to customize my height and body type, and there needs to be like two or three times the number of hairstyles for both sexes. The art style used is... just a tad too exaggerated for my taste, esp. with male avatars. I want a human male rogue to have a slender lithe body style, not looking like he could choke a bull to death.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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