STOP copying WoW and start copying DAoC

^^ Troll - Either you weren't very good, or have never played the game.

This sounds terrible. Why would anyone but a masochist want to play a healer in a game like that?

You said wow takes "zero skill", and in the next sentence said DAoC fights took 5 seconds. Assuming it had any sort of concept of a global cooldown that is a true two button game.

You aren't making a very good case for why DAoC was worth using as a model for anything.

What? lol... what kind of moronic statement is that? Back it up with facts please? Oh wait, but you can´t , cuzz you are clueless about what you're talking about. Either you are a total pvp fail, or just ... nevermind.

WoW's PvP mechanics are what every game should strive for.

Diminishing Returns > Resolve
Combat is fast and responsive.

You have to play it for realizing it. WoW clones are terribly button mashing based. The interrupted system was wonderful and inteligent. No surprise you cant entertain how it was, since WoW is your mmo reference. <shrug>

In daoc you had to have great anticipation skills and act right away, quickly and wisely, or the enemy would do that to you and you would lose. Simple as that, if you can't encompass that, i think the joke is on you.

Masochism on the other hand is to mash buttons so hard that makes your hand hurt. Using brains to decide things faster is way better. Not all the fights were decided in 5 secs tho, but usually most of the 8v8 fights were, which is the true gem of its pvp. A quick instant mezz from a bard, or a successfull assist melee train to get down a key target (lets say the healer) was all that it was about, and it had to be done fast. It was marvelous.

A duel , for example, between two skilled, gear and high RR players tho, could last minutes but its all about tactics not button mashing healthrough.

In regards to the BGs...yea ill give ya that. It is fun..responsive...fast paced.

Balanced??? Not sure about that.

...oh and Arenas....really??? Virtually ruined PvP for a spell.


Wow is great fun but it still has issues.

Clearly never played daoc, did ya?

Please make SWTOR DAOC with lightsabers, thank you.

If you played a Healer, you relied on the rest of your group. On my Cleric, if I had a Melee on me, I would often call in group. Then depending on the group setup, a variety of things could happen. I could have a class with Bodyguard come and protect me from Melee DPS, one of the Caster's could Root/Snare/Mez the target off me, a melee of my group could use a Snare style to slow him down giving me time to escape.

There is just so much depth to it, but it to be competative you had to work as a team. If you've never played it you probably won't understand anything about it.

On my Cleric, I had 2 insta heals on a 7 minute re-use. But I had single target heals, group heals, spreadheals etc. Through my Realm abilities, I could spec things which dispelled negative effects, improve group absorbtion.... It's just the depth of the game like I said before, 45 classes, atleast 3 spec options each, with item/gear charges, realm abilities gained from realm ranks, champion abilities, master level abilities......

45 classes, and not one of them was a "mirror" nuff said... swtor = lazy *** class designers