Been feeling the itch to get into an mmorpg. Hard to tell if there’s any good ones out. Seems some in the works but what is good this currently available?

My context: was huge into EQ2 for a long while. Loved Rift. Played AION. Didn’t really get into WOW but played it a tiny bit.

I like crafting and love the idea of building my house and world. One if the things I loved most about rift was building my dimension. I had HOOOOUUURRRS into it with some very cool stuff.

Anyway… what if anything is anyone playing. It feels like that genre is currently in a drought.

  • WakerEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I could’ve swear I wrote this… Only thing I’d say is to pick your WoW server well. If you like the story pick a server than has good scripting. Imo the one that has the best scripting is TauriWoW but they are still on Pandaria. If you want something more modern try Felsong. Still alright scripting bit naturally, the closer you get to retail on Xpacks the less polished they are on private servers.

    Also, FFXIV trial is a bit limiting. If you’re playing alone you might be alright but with friends on trial it’s not so fun… You can’t start parties. You can’t PM/DM people… To play together with my SO, the workaround we found was to go to limsa to beg someone to create a party for us and then they leave the party, leaving just the 2 of us there.

    Also, but not least important. Unlike WoWs trial, on FFXIV if you ever pay for the sub/buy the game, there’s no going back to free trial. This is actually why I don’t play ffxiv that much…

    (sorry the text got this big, didn’t mean to :( )

    • Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      For an ex-Wow addict from vanilla through WoD, would you mind eli5 what’s the deal with private servers and how the work?

      • RivenRise@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Sorta what they sound like. They’re privately owned and hosted by third party people. You have to download their own launcher to play but most are pretty much free.

        Check out ascension. It’s wow but classless, you have a couple servers, one where you choose from 3 random abilities when you level up and another where you get more leeway in the abilities you chose. It’s a really interesting way to play wow.

      • WakerEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        There’s way too much variety to explain in a short message.

        Here’s some random pros and cons imo (this is 100% personal preference)

        PROS:

        • Free to play
        • Usually less P2W with micro transactions (but some private servers go for the opposite)
        • Fun and cool custom features/systems
        • Community feels more tightly knit together. Everyone knows the regulars and admins (on smaller servers)

        CONS:

        • Your progress can be lost if the server goes offline (lack of funds, team splitting apart, etc)
        • Bugs. Lots of 'em. Some servers are way better at this than others, check what people say online. There are (or used to be?) servers that don’t even bother with quests and stuff. Just join the game, you’re max level and onto PvP/BG/end game content you go.
        • Offline time. Servers aren’t as consistent as Blizzard’s.

        This being said, it varies a lot from server to server so YMMV.

        There are top/ranking websites with lots of private servers. However I’ve noticed that those aren’t as helpful anymore since servers give you rewards to vote so it’s not entirely representative of the server’s quality, but the amount of players.