WOW Versus Diablo II
I have read a fair bit on here about ppl wanted to upgrade to WOW from Diablo, since Diablo is after all a very old game and starting to get a bit tired.
After playing World of Warcraft over the weekend for a good 30 hours all up I personally wouldn’t bother.
Dont get me wrong I was pretty hooked on it at the start – and played it non-stop for like 8 hours on Friday, Saturday and last night
But now I am completely bored with it.
Everything just takes so long !!
In D2 u have to go out do a quest – but u could always Town Portal back to town to repair your gear.
Last night I was 20 minutes out from the nearest town, halfway through a quest and my armor broke. I had to run back on foot for 20 minutes to town, fix my gear, run back out to complete the quest, then run back to town for another 20 minutes to claim quest credit. That wasted an hour just to get my gear repaired…. Really really annoying I tell you.
U cant use town portal scrolls to portal to town, and there are no waypoints to goto! U have to go everywhere by foot – and the world is huge – I bet u could spend like 20 hours just walking from one end to the other.
There are griffin waypoints but these are way too far apart from each other.
The other thing I cant stand is when you die. In D2 u just hit escape and respawn in town.
With this game u re-spawn in the graveyard then have to run back to your body to get it and become alive again.
On Friday there was a giant spider near my body and I died like 4-5 times just trying to retrieve it – and wasted a good 2 hours just trying to get my body back!
Soloing is viable up until about level 10 – then u have to party up to do quests otherwise you just don’t get anywhere.
Its not like D2 where u can just jump into a pack of 20 skeletons and survive – if there are 20 skeletons in this game u have to fight them one at a time. If u jumped in you would die instantly.
In fact its very difficult to take on 2 monsters at the same time – AND u cannot heal yourself in combat, AND u cant run away so if u r loosing a fight at the start u know u will die. This is really crappy.
I was fighting a normal mechanical golem on Saturday with 2 friends ( we were all level 13 and the golem was level 15) and we got annihilated…. And had to run back to our bodies and die again…. Fun… not.
Leveling takes forever – 1-5 goes pretty fast. Then from 6-11 is ok. It almost took a whole day to go from level 13 to level 14.
And that was after doing like 10 different quests.
Its just really slow.
Its actually more grinding than Diablo – I personally have more fun running down killing Mephi – making a new game doing it again.
This is exactly the same – it might say go kill 20 kobolds and bring back their candles. The next quest will be – go kill 10 spiders and bring back their legs…
Boring…. No thought has gone into this game at all.
A quest in D2 can be completed in like 1-5 minutes.
The go kill 20 kobold quest above could take a good hour to do and you still wouldn’t get a level up.
The level ups are dodgy as well – u don’t get to choose new skills – u have to talk to class specific trainers and buy them.
The only skills u can choose are talents – which are all really weak – like increase your chance of blocking by 1% - or make your attack do 1% more damage over 30 seconds….
I played a warrior and a preist – and they both start at the same place and have to do the same boring quests. There are some class specific quests – but they don’t add much flavour to the game.
In Australia the game is $90 and u can play it for one month! Its such a rip off since u can only play it online.
They should of made it like $20 to buy it then u pay a monthly fee.
I have played Guildwars at a mates place and that looks very polished… that’s what Im waiting for.
Has anyone else found that WOW just isn’t worth all that hype?
The average age on there is like 10-13 as well – no adults or anything.
Im 26 and felt very out of place on there LOL.
My final gripe with the game is that all the character names are used!!! Havent Blizzard learned? They should let us use numbers and special characters so we can all have names we want.
Like -- If you wanted Fred then u could use
Fr3d
–Fred—
*Fred*
Instead u have to have Tyoujojlkdfjdk
because that is the only name left availabe.
Sorry but there is no excuse for Blizzards negligence on this part.
My final gripe - is that every warrior is the same, they all have the same skills, do the same thing - U just dont have must customization at all.
Lets look at D2 if u played a Druid - u could be a summoner, u could play a shapeshifter, u could be a fire druid, a Wind Druid - a hybrid - heaps of options avaiable in this if u r a warrior.. u r the same as every other warrior.
Im just so disappointed with this game – it has so much potential but just doesn’t pull itself together.
Excellent music, reasonably tidy graphics, gameplay just blows.
GAz
I have read a fair bit on here about ppl wanted to upgrade to WOW from Diablo, since Diablo is after all a very old game and starting to get a bit tired.
After playing World of Warcraft over the weekend for a good 30 hours all up I personally wouldn’t bother.
Dont get me wrong I was pretty hooked on it at the start – and played it non-stop for like 8 hours on Friday, Saturday and last night
But now I am completely bored with it.
Everything just takes so long !!
In D2 u have to go out do a quest – but u could always Town Portal back to town to repair your gear.
Last night I was 20 minutes out from the nearest town, halfway through a quest and my armor broke. I had to run back on foot for 20 minutes to town, fix my gear, run back out to complete the quest, then run back to town for another 20 minutes to claim quest credit. That wasted an hour just to get my gear repaired…. Really really annoying I tell you.
U cant use town portal scrolls to portal to town, and there are no waypoints to goto! U have to go everywhere by foot – and the world is huge – I bet u could spend like 20 hours just walking from one end to the other.
There are griffin waypoints but these are way too far apart from each other.
The other thing I cant stand is when you die. In D2 u just hit escape and respawn in town.
With this game u re-spawn in the graveyard then have to run back to your body to get it and become alive again.
On Friday there was a giant spider near my body and I died like 4-5 times just trying to retrieve it – and wasted a good 2 hours just trying to get my body back!
Soloing is viable up until about level 10 – then u have to party up to do quests otherwise you just don’t get anywhere.
Its not like D2 where u can just jump into a pack of 20 skeletons and survive – if there are 20 skeletons in this game u have to fight them one at a time. If u jumped in you would die instantly.
In fact its very difficult to take on 2 monsters at the same time – AND u cannot heal yourself in combat, AND u cant run away so if u r loosing a fight at the start u know u will die. This is really crappy.
I was fighting a normal mechanical golem on Saturday with 2 friends ( we were all level 13 and the golem was level 15) and we got annihilated…. And had to run back to our bodies and die again…. Fun… not.
Leveling takes forever – 1-5 goes pretty fast. Then from 6-11 is ok. It almost took a whole day to go from level 13 to level 14.
And that was after doing like 10 different quests.
Its just really slow.
Its actually more grinding than Diablo – I personally have more fun running down killing Mephi – making a new game doing it again.
This is exactly the same – it might say go kill 20 kobolds and bring back their candles. The next quest will be – go kill 10 spiders and bring back their legs…
Boring…. No thought has gone into this game at all.
A quest in D2 can be completed in like 1-5 minutes.
The go kill 20 kobold quest above could take a good hour to do and you still wouldn’t get a level up.
The level ups are dodgy as well – u don’t get to choose new skills – u have to talk to class specific trainers and buy them.
The only skills u can choose are talents – which are all really weak – like increase your chance of blocking by 1% - or make your attack do 1% more damage over 30 seconds….
I played a warrior and a preist – and they both start at the same place and have to do the same boring quests. There are some class specific quests – but they don’t add much flavour to the game.
In Australia the game is $90 and u can play it for one month! Its such a rip off since u can only play it online.
They should of made it like $20 to buy it then u pay a monthly fee.
I have played Guildwars at a mates place and that looks very polished… that’s what Im waiting for.
Has anyone else found that WOW just isn’t worth all that hype?
The average age on there is like 10-13 as well – no adults or anything.
Im 26 and felt very out of place on there LOL.
My final gripe with the game is that all the character names are used!!! Havent Blizzard learned? They should let us use numbers and special characters so we can all have names we want.
Like -- If you wanted Fred then u could use
Fr3d
–Fred—
*Fred*
Instead u have to have Tyoujojlkdfjdk
because that is the only name left availabe.
Sorry but there is no excuse for Blizzards negligence on this part.
My final gripe - is that every warrior is the same, they all have the same skills, do the same thing - U just dont have must customization at all.
Lets look at D2 if u played a Druid - u could be a summoner, u could play a shapeshifter, u could be a fire druid, a Wind Druid - a hybrid - heaps of options avaiable in this if u r a warrior.. u r the same as every other warrior.
Im just so disappointed with this game – it has so much potential but just doesn’t pull itself together.
Excellent music, reasonably tidy graphics, gameplay just blows.
GAz
