Where's Blackwulf, interested in what he has to say
Yeah, he was supposed to get back to us with his thoughts on bow combat.
Or maybe he did and I missed it.
I'm here, boys. I really don't come to these forums much anymore - I'm finding that it's pretty clear my tastes in RPG's and MMO's are not very closely aligned with the majority of you folks. The last few pages of this forum make that pretty clear.
Sure, I'll put the pinata suit on and you can bash me for a while: Yes, I actually did enjoy the shit out of this recent beta weekend. I tried the bow, and got to 11 using only the bow, not even any class abilities. It was fine. Nothing awesome, but some of the bow skills were cool - like I could do an AOE volley that dropped fire arrows on an area and set it alight, and I had a nice little knock back shot. I experienced none of the things someone above posted about having random power attacks, or no attack happen when you click. Really fast click - nothing shoots. Normal click, you shoot a fast, low power attack. Hold the button till your guy does his long draw animation, you get a power attack. Every time. Truth of the matter is I've always been a melee guy, and I'll say that I enjoy melee in this game a hell of a lot more than the ranged skills.
The new systems they had in this weekend (crafting, and dark anchors) were very fun. My guild and I did a high level anchor in Cyrodiil on Saturday and it was awesome. The monsters popping out of the portals and the visuals/sounds put Rift's "rifts" to shame.
The level of polish on this patch was pretty good. Yeah, they still have a problem with several quests getting stuck - a certain NPC not spawning is usually the problem. I found the workaround for this was to log out and back in and you'd be in another instance with the NPC spawning as intended. I'm sure they'll nail this one down before launch.
Let's see - audio and visual quality surpasses any MMO I've played, and I've played most of them. Character development is extremely rich and engaging. I have many builds I want to try and lots of skills I want to acquire and test out. I never had more than one quest on my screen at a time - that was a nice relief from the list of objectives in most MMO's. Cyrodiil was fun as hell, once again. I only played there for a few hours on Saturday, because it was bugged out on Sunday. I did manage to get into a low level 4 man dungeon and it was very fun and a lot more challenging than typical lowbie dungeon content.
I could go on and on, but really, what's the point? This community has decided this game sucks and not worth playing. I completely disagree. I'm flabbergasted that some of you claim to be fans of the genre and gave up after a few minutes. THAT shit sounds like viral marketing to me. What the fuck? Do you work for Wildstar or something? (only half joking, here)
He is busy with his viral marketing campaign on SA.
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Utnayan, I must haunt your dreams. I've posted on SA exactly 2 times. Months ago. My username certainly isn't Vanilla Gorilla.
Edit: Utnayan, thanks for mentioning that thread, though. I went and read it to see what you were blathering about, and it was good to see some more opinions similar to mine.
Also to add: I did the survey and answered in very verbose language. It only took me 25 minutes, and I was glad to see how detailed the survey was.
