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Originally Posted by Metrolike
Hey guys, wanna grief ROR? J/K.
And yeah, I pretty much soloed WoW all the way to endgame. I didn't even know some of the low level instances existed until way later in the game (I would help out random lowbies by running them through an instance real quick). It was also cool just to go back to all the instances and just enjoy the events for what they are instead of worrying about survival and gear drops.
Having said all that, once I joined my guild (which was freaking awesome) the camaraderie and the excitement of downing big bad mobs were just too much fun. Let's face it, there's not much to do at end game besides PvP and raiding and you can't really do either one successfully without a committed group. I'm not too fond of rolling and maxing multiple characters, I'd rather make one badass that's designed to pwn.
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I'm kind of the polar opposite, I love rolling alts, and I generally try to be as completely self-sufficient as I can in every game. On my LotRO account (which I haven't been on in 6-weeks, got bored...) I have 9 characters, all of them are above level 20, all but one of them are level 40 or higher, and I have 5 toons at the cap of 65. I have 7 supreme master craftsmen, one for every craft in the game, and each one of those have capped rep with their respective crafting guild. I raid sporadically, although when I do, I'm good at it. What I don't like about end game raiding, however, is that if you want to be "serious" about it, you have to do it on a schedule, at which point it starts to feel like a job for me. I'm of course the kind of guy that starts to get bored when the word "work" appears, so I have a tendency to say "**** it" at that point and start another alt, or another game. Because I just don't like doing the same exact thing every week for months or years on end.
Although, ironically, that's exactly what I'm doing when I roll an alt.
Go figure.
Anyway, LotRO is the first game I've stuck with for more than a year. And I'd probably still be playing it right now if they had introduced more new content in the last 12 months.
I get the sense that I may have a slightly different play-style with TOR, though, because I believe that grouping is going to be rewarded (don't ask, it's just a feeling) and because I think that there will be reasons beyond gear acquisition to do flashpoints and raids - the story part of the game is really the most attractive thing to me.
Although I do fully expect to have one of everything in that game, too. But I also fully expect that it will take me a very long time to do that, if they're being legit about each class' story taking upwards of 200 hours to complete. It won't be the regular rush to the cap that leveling alts has been in every other MMO that I've ever played. It's going to be like playing a new game.
And I find that to be a very attractive proposition.