Another World

In this post I wanna talk about the differences I noticed so far between my previously played MMORPG Lineage II and WoW. Bear in mind that this list just reflects my personal opinion. I’ll probably udpate this list once in a while whenever I encounter a new feature in WoW (remember I’m still a newbie).

L2’s biggest advantages

• gorgeous dark and realistic looking graphics (if you don’t count the female dwarf)
• very detailed help system for new players for the first few levels
• one of the best game soundtracks ever (the music is composed by Bill Brown!)

WoW’s biggest advantages

• tons of interesting quests for really everybody at every level
• it’s actually worth doing quests in order to gain levels and new equipment
• very PvE friendly
• huge world with a very detailed and rich environment
• no real penalty for dying (your equipment just gets 10% off its durability, which can cheaply be fixed), thus giving you credit for daring to attack someone strong
• great selection of emotions (and even audio emotions)
• possibility to program and include plugins for pretty much every feature
• very smart chat system: you can click on any player name to see his/her current level, guild and place as well as inlcude this name into one of your messages.
• possibility to rebuy accidently sold items at vendors
• possibility to unlearn your skills in order to relearn them the way you want

L2’s biggest disadvantages

• when you die, you lose about 5% of your xp (very annoying if you’re at lvl 50+ and just lost several hours of leveling play time!)
• everybody can attack you almost anytime anywhere (not in cities)… and believe me they WILL attack you!
• after lvl 15 or so you get very few quests and most of them are boring and not even worth doing (very often your reward is less than the money/time you spend doing the quest!)
• very few emotions available

WoW’s biggest disadvantages

• in my opinion it’s sad that you also gotta pay for official addons (L2 delivers new material for free, even though it doesn’t include as much new stuff as TBC for instance)
• the guide for the first few levels could be a little more detailled