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Something about the games combat just seems alot better than others, by combat I mean the timing of hits and speed, I dont know how to explain it but in other mmorpgs I played lets take the newest one for example WAR it just feels as if combat is slow and sticky and timing for hits are just off, Ive been feeling this in many other mmorpgs to and the only ones ive yet to feel this in was WoW and to a extent AOC

my top 3 in terms of combat would be:

1. ddo

2. aoc

3. war

I agree.  You'd think it wouldn't be so hard nowadays to make gameplay smooth like WoW.

Originally posted by Warpriest02

Something about the games combat just seems alot better than others, by combat I mean the timing of hits and speed, I dont know how to explain it but in other mmorpgs I played lets take the newest one for example WAR it just feels as if combat is slow and sticky and timing for hits are just off, Ive been feeling this in many other mmorpgs to and the only ones ive yet to feel this in was WoW and to a extent AOC

Its just you and some other jerks

Originally posted by Kilmar

Originally posted by Warpriest02

Something about the games combat just seems alot better than others, by combat I mean the timing of hits and speed, I dont know how to explain it but in other mmorpgs I played lets take the newest one for example WAR it just feels as if combat is slow and sticky and timing for hits are just off, Ive been feeling this in many other mmorpgs to and the only ones ive yet to feel this in was WoW and to a extent AOC

 

Its just you and some other jerks

Nice to see elitism early in the morning

I have feelt the same thing for a while... I have always blown it off with my hardware... Not that it's old and laggy... But more that it is half on half incompatible with itself it seems... I always get subpar performance from MMO's but never so bad that I can't play it. But it is strange that many MMO's seems to have a huge hitbox, you would think that as technology and programming science goes forward the hitboxes could be made smaller and the games be made smoother... I am not saying that WoW has good combat... Just that it's the smoothest I feelt since AO. 

Yep I'm going to agree with this actually.

WoWs combat is one of the main reasons people keep going back to the game.

WoWs combat just feels natural, its very responsive and fast almost like a FPS in 3rd person.

Others MMOs just feel slow in comparision.

The level of polish that went into WoWs combat is amazing really.

It just shows you how much the MMO genre has failed that time and time again new MMOs fail to surpass Wows tight combat system.

I realize once I post this people will tell me Lotro, DAoC, AoC and WAR have better combat systems and WoW is the same as EQ. I'm sorry If you can't see how good WoWs combat is you're just blinded by pure fanboi hate.

Lotro combat is slow and clunky, AoC combat just feels off, DAoC combat is slow and WAR is the same as DAoC.  Also WoWs combat is far superior to EQ, Eq combat is slow as shit compared to WoW.

Man I can't believe I'm actually writing a pro WoW post, While I don't play WoW anymore (combat isnt everything) you have to either be a complete hater or just someone that didnt get passed level 10 to say WoWs combat isnt the best so far.

Yeah, it's the speed in WoW's combat that made me comback (until the grind really killed my intrest in the game). It was even more fun pre TBC when pvp was really fast and rapid, rogues could kill multiple targets in seconds or mages one-shotting someone. I think this is where most other games fail. Their pvp combat is just so slow that people loose intrest. I don't want to chase some poor sucker from one end of the map to the other just to be able to kill him/her. 

i dont get how ANY autotarget AUTOCOMBAT can feel natural , ???

the only games that have natural combat that flows with good timing are Dungeons and Dragons online and AOC, you decide the timing ; (there are some others with NON -autocombat but i havent played so i dont know)

In DDO and AOC , YOU decide when you hit , , you click mouse or keyboard and you swing sword or shoot arrow. YOU control your character and how it fights , in these games you can even dodge or block , thats real combat , immersive and exciting.

WOW and WAR and any other auto target auto combat mmo , just dont make sense at all , you dont  feel like you control your toon ,  not saying this games suck , cause i enjoyed wow in my days. and i like WAR more than WOW , but compared to other mmo s these 2 are so similar.

Once you enjoy the freedom of really fighting with yer toon (dodging , blocking ,trying to strike in the back )  its hard to get back to the WOW /WAr style, eating a sandwich while fighting a mob and clicking ability 1-10 in certain logical max output order.

THe next game i wil ltry that will have active tactical combat is Darkfall, this game seems to offer so many features it is mind boggling.

Originally posted by Wildbeard

i dont get how ANY autotarget AUTOCOMBAT can feel natural , ???

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