I used to work tech support at a cable company, and we were free to do whatever between calls, so I would usually start up some emulation. I'm sure there's some jobs that have enough lulls in business to allow their employees enough time for some games, but I can't imagine something as involving as an MMO without freakishly huge spans of free time.

So i'm not sure how long this game has been out but is that your character that's level 80? does that mean its not so bad to get to max level or does it mean you are a crazy and play a lot?

Yes that is me, at level 80. The game has been out for three weeks now (for early access players) and I did play a lot. It's not hard to reach max level, but there are about 10 to 20 levels of grinding to be done depending on how much you do group dungeons.

+ that is our guild city in the background.

my friend's the french GM for this game, whoa! that's pretty funny, if any of you are french you can talk to him and...

maybe a name drop might get you some loot...

edit: Teron what's your friend's name? I might know him what the fuck.

probably a little of both

alsowhat do you do that you can just PLAY GAMES at work!  i always hear people going heh yeah i was reading this site/playing this game at work and i cannot even imagine having a job where i was just free to DO THINGS that weren't related to work.  i used to stand around and talk a lot as a server because thats really all there is to do when you dont have tables but they'd yell at us if we even tried to read magazines!

I do tech support for an ISP. Sometimes I end up waiting without taking a call for up to an hour. And this happens semi frequently, especially on weekends. 90% of the people who work here in tech support bring in their laptops daily.

Oh god... Either the people "beta testing" this game didn't test it at all, or tis game was released half a year too early.
This game is full of obvious bugs, they are so obvious they are impossible to miss and there should have been no reason they were not fixed during beta testing.
Balance in this game does not exist. Ranger kills everything (and Necromancer gets killed by everything). An example is the Necromancer, it uses 500 Mp to inflict 100 damage, every other class uses 400 Mp to inflict 1100 or so damage (with similarly themed spells), a level 20 priests main damage dealing spell deals about as much damage as a level 55 Necromancers main damage dealing spell.
And finally, most of the features the game should have either don't work or don't exist. Even basic things like stats and equipment are useless, other than Hp/Mp/Stamina stats (and by extension equipment) do nothing. Things like feats don't work, and past level 40 or so there is absolutely nothing to do but grind. (Also, any features the game boasts about having DO NOT exist.). I am willing to bet the only working feature this game has is it's billing system, hahaha.

Anyway, for now I would advise people to avoid buying this game. Otherwise you are paying for a severely incomplete game that you get to "beta test" (all bug reports and negative feed back will get you a lifetime ban on the forums and any ingame problems you may have will be seen to by a GM... In about 2 weeks).

It's far from perfect I admit. But things even out towards the end, actually - rangers are considered bad after level 50. There is a definite problem with early level scaling.

As far as getting banned for bug reports, there are numerous threads, and even a compilation bug thread endorsed by FC, so I'm unsure what you're talking about here.

Level 40 is actually when things begin to get good.  - plenty to do in the field of the dead and tarantia noble district... Level 50 things get to be a bit iffy. A decent amount of quests, but you may need to grind a level or two; which is while quick - supremely annoying, however if you're on a pvp server If you're on a PVP server, cistern is pretty good fun and there are literally a ton of quests to do in there.

Also, it's my understanding that the only things that don't work are the base stats, stuff such as +slashing damage and the like still works. Not excusable by any means; but not as bad as you make it out to be.

I don't know, I have a feeling once I reach 80 I'll get bored with this game, but since I like the combat and the ideas I'm willing to give these people a bit of time to get their act together; but it is painfully apparent that this game was released far, far earlier than it should have. I still enjoy it, however.

Except Rangers basically one shot every class in the game except Guardians... Nothing kills Guardians. As a Necromancer I quiet literally cannot ever kill a Guardian that is 10 levels lower than me. My damage output is way to low, I have no where near enough Mp and the Guardian regenerates more Hp per second than I am doing damage.

And, I did get banned in the forums, for posting a bug report in a bug reporting topic, supposedly for life (though I was unbanned the next day) and was never given any reason for it.

Also... Level 40 is when things get good...? So the fact that there is nothing worth doing and the number of quests you had went from 30 more or less all the time down to 5 or so is some how better? By level 50 it is 20% quests and 80% grinding.

As for level 80... My advise to you is to not bother trying to get to it right now. There is quiet literally nothing to do. As mentioned, stats don't work, so by extension the majority of equipment does not work. And even stranger is how poor most equipment is. A level 80 super rare set of armor that could take you weeks of grinding to get can quiet literally be worse than the suit of armor you get for completing the Tortage storyline (I am not joking either). It is quiet common for the common equipment that is sold in shops or the stuff most every humanoid drops to be better than the super rare "end game equipment".

And honestly... The game is lacking most of the features it boasted about. Even though the case says "ENHANCED FOR DIRECT X 10" the game does not support DirectX 10 yet and supposedly wont until the end of the  year. (Where I live doing things like this is actually false advertisement and a crime, if someone reported Funcom to trading standards they would face massive fines and have to recall all the games they have shipped and reprint them to give out truthful information.)

So yeah, my advise is for now to avoid the game. It is lacking half of the things it should have, and the things it does have are either bugged, don't work or seriously unbalanced. Wait until the end of the year, hopefully they will have gotten their shit together and have a game that is worth playing.

Ok I just bought this shit and don't really know anybody playing it so I'd like to play with any GWers if I can.

I wanna play on a pvp server though, fuck that faggy enviro shit. So gimme a server name and some usernames so we can meet up and shit. goddamnit I guess Dagon is where its at, but can I kill whoever I want there or is it like pvp events only because that shit is lame.

Also aslo I'm having trouble picking between a demonologist and necromancer but I'm leaning toward necro because if they're anything remotely similar to l2 necros then they're fucking badass.

Ok I just bought this shit and don't really know anybody playing it so I'd like to play with any GWers if I can.

I wanna play on a pvp server though, fuck that faggy enviro shit. So gimme a server name and some usernames so we can meet up and shit. goddamnit I guess Dagon is where its at, but can I kill whoever I want there or is it like pvp events only because that shit is lame.

Also aslo I'm having trouble picking between a demonologist and necromancer but I'm leaning toward necro because if they're anything remotely similar to l2 necros then they're fucking badass.

Damn. Fuck yeah. I'm down to fuck shit up. Fuck. Ah damn, hell yeah. Rock and roll. That's the shit!

On the comments about the game being unfinished, well, yeah. Unfortunately it's really not too uncommon for MMORPGs to be pushed out months before they should be! They can spend years in development while funding dries up, and there comes a breaking point where it's time to shit or get off the pot. I think Vanguard is the easiest example to use - It has been in development for practically as long as Everquest has been around. Unfortunately, its financial backers were getting restless and Sigil wasn't ready to release. It almost folded until Sony Online Entertainment stepped in, but their condition for restoring funding to the project was that a specific deadline was set and the game would be released by that deadline -- finished or not. This lead to a pretty infamous BOONDOGGLE of epic MMORPG proportions where a game went gold with bugs as ridiculous as weapons and armour not appearing on certain races and performance so bad that not even the hottest hardware at the time could run the game smoothly. It screamed unfinished but the GREEDY CORPORATE SHAREHOLDERS demanded their ducats.

I don't know if that happened here, but AoC HAS been in development for a long long time, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of pressure to go gold or fold up shop. it's no excuse, it just seems to be the way of it. This whole online gaming thing IS a business first and foremost.

Not sure if you guys picked a server, but I'm rolled on Scourge. A few of my friends are going to be rolling on here shortly, so chances are I will be creating a new character soon. If you guys are interested in joining my guild we've got a pretty decent bunch, all very helpful, with a vent server.

Man this game is pretty cool.

lvl 15 necro and I'm raping most everything ISURE WISH I HAD PPL TO PLAY WITH HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I started playing this, and despite its many bugs I am quite enjoying it. However I'm only lv30 and most things I've seen/heard says it falls apart a bit at later levels, hopefully FC will add more content. Currently playing a Herald of Xotli.

But yeah, graphically its superb, and the base combat system is nice also. It is also the first MMO that has managed to interest me since WoW came out 3 years ago.

If someone has a guest pass i would love one thanks!

PM me ^__^;;

I heard they released buddy keys (guest passes) in US but they're still waiting for "more capacity" over here in Europe. :/

US would be preferable anyway. seriously i will suck so much dick for one of dem keys