WoW players?

[JDoobs]

Hi everybody,

I have been looking at this game closely for a long long time now. I have been watching since beta actually. I saw the rather than stellar review and decided to hold off. Since then I have been throughly impressed by the advancements made in the game. At the same time, I have been playing World of Warcraft and becoming increasingly upset with Blizzard's response to the community and I have been getting increasingly tired of the drawn out timesink that is the end game. I was wondering if there are any former WoW players out here in Istaria and what they think? If not, I was wondering if I could get some feedback from the members of the community. I greatly appreciate any responses I get and look forward to what you have to say. Thanks!

[Cerjar]

Best thing is to test the game on your own with the 21 day trial:

http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/horizons/

Ingame join the Help or New Player Channel for help.

[waminy]

I have played Wow and I personally like Horizons much better. Horizion has a community that cant be beat. The people here help make this game. Also has a great crafting selection. Please try it i dont think you will be dissapointed.

[Ssilmath]

I currently play WoW, and haven't yet become disenchanted with it...Still, if you are just getting into HZ, there has never been a better time...the new player game has been greatly inmproved, and for the most part the community beats the living crap out of WoW's (You'll never see a 20 minute Chuck Norris discussion in HZ)

[peladon]

Ssilmath Elder. Thy blade I still bear and will till it returns to thy hand. Let that dawn be one that greets me full soon, and let thy return come in company with the Dawn Maiden.


Sephiranoth, called by some ShadowSeeker
Nobody and Nothing ever, save the Five do Feast

[Ssilmath]

Sephiranoth, friend, I thank you for your words and for the keeping of my blade...Perhaps someday soon I will reclaim it from you, and fight once more by your side, but first I must go on a long journey that will take me from both Istaria and Azeroth for many months...By the time I return, the Gods may have changed the world in such a way that an old grump my awaken from his home in South Gate and spread fear and laughter through Istaria again...But who can tell?

[Tigris]

JDoobs:

I currently play both games. I enjoy both. Here are some things you will notice if you try Horizons:

1. WOW uses a slot-based inventory management system. Horizons uses weight/bulk/stacks system that allows you a great deal more options for expanding your inventory capacity.

2. WOW uses a system where you can write XML mods to modify the UI to your taste. You don't need that in Horizons - the interface is modifiable right out of the box. You can pick up any element of the UI, move it around, adjust it's properties right there on your desktop with very little effort required.

3. WOW is positively HUGE. They have millions of players all trying to cram into a few hundred servers - lotsa mob camping and fierce competition for in game resources. Horizons has... 3 servers: Normal play, RP server, and a European 'server' (*snort*). There are a lot fewer players here... mostly because of a rather difficult first year. However as a result you'll find the community smaller, but much closer knit.

4. I doubt I need to talk much about the crafting system. The crafting system in WOW is WEAK and PATHETIC next to the crafting system in Horizons. You'll find a completely different paradigm in crafting in the Horizons game engine. After playing WOW it may be hard to understand a game where almost EVERY item in the game... is player made. Ultimate Sword of Snazziness? Player made. Unlike a system of simply skilling up, you gain crafting levels in Horizons, just like levelling up. There are tons of crafting schools to choose from and you can try them all!

5. Multiclassing and Prestige Schools - Horions you don't have to roll a new alt to try another class or craft. You can have a single character (excluding dragons) try any adventure or craft school that tickles your fancy. And your not limited to select classes with your chosen race. Be anything you wish. Anything that interests you... just go out and DO it.

6. Dragons. Instead of killing the dragon... BE the dragon. 'Nuff said, I think.

Okay, I'm stopping now. This is sounding less like a WOW/HZ comparison post and more like a sales pitch. I'll be quiet now. *hides in a hole*

[Landowyn]

While it's pretty simplistic, there are some things I like about the crafting system in WOW. Often, in order to gain a single skill point, I would spend a great deal of time gathering the components for a single weapon or piece of armor (as a blacksmith). That, to me, felt more realistic than banging out 5,000 essence structurers and then deconning them to gain a level.

[Landowyn]

Yeah, I think everyone thinks that part of the HZ crafting system doesn't make sense. It also leads to people not being able to sell items very often cause you can simply bang out 10000 of them in an afternoon. It is very confusing why they chose to go that way instead of creating a system where you made a small number (or one) of items for large amounts of XP (and taking just as long per experience point as it currently does).

There were also some nice quests involved in the blacksmith profession (don't know about others) which rewarded you with trinkets you could equip, and I thought that was kind of nice. One of them allowed you to choose between being an armorsmith or weaponsmith.