Board 8 > Considering the idea of dabbling in a f2p mmorpg. What's good?

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I'm looking for something

-That isn't absolutely unbearable to play for free.
-That's more like a straight RPG than an Evony clone or League of Legends or something, although I could probably be talked into something sufficiently awesome that doesn't fit the criteria exactly. Especially if it involves CARD GAMES.
-That lets you play pretty much however much you want. I'm playing Billy Vs Snakeman, which is awesome, but runs on a stamina system, so I can't always get my fix.
-That maybe somebody else 'round here plays.
-Browser based would be preferred- I switch a lot between Mac OS and Windows, and I don't think many clients will run on Mac. Even if they do, it'd be less of a pain if I didn't have to install everything twice. >_>
-I tend to gravitate towards anime-ish things. <_<
-An actually decent game would be nice, although my understanding is that you can at best pick two of online/free/good. >_>

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STAR TREK ONLINE

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Ragnarok Online is pretty damn good for f2p players now, like the rare advantages you get if you pay is a tad more XP (but the grind was so greatly reduced that it doesn't matter much) and a few buffs here and there that lose their use at high level.

No stamina system so play for as long as you want!

Style is animish! 2D sprites for characters and monsters, world in 3d, high quality sprites too!

And it's decent, lived for a long while and still going strong and updated regularly. I don't know if the game can run on macs though, but I bet it's possible somehow.

If you play go on the Yggdrasil server so I can help you!

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Estiah is a fun card-style browser MMORPG.

Not sure if anyone here plays it though, and I've moved on to other things since.

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the RO topic is what made me think of getting into something, actually! Doesn't look mac-able but I may or may not care too very much about that.

Didn't know there WAS a trek mmo o_O

and I will have to check on that estiah thing

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True story if enough guys want to play RO I'll be down to playing with you guys.

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You know the cliche. Good free MMO, pick 2. I mean, they can be fun. I certainly had fun with DFO. But perhaps you should consider a formerly-subscription-based MMO or a private server.

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From: GranzonEx | #006
True story if enough guys want to play RO I'll be down to playing with you guys.

If many people feel like playing RO I'll go farm for an Emperium right away

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http://www.playragnarok.com/gameguide/classes_index.aspx

Look at them sprites.

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LOTRO is the f2p way to go.

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From: Forceful_Dragon | #010
LOTRO is the f2p way to go.

LOTRO is nice too, but the download is hueg :(

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Totally worth it.

It's free.

It's good.

It's an MMO.




It is honestly a beautiful game. And if you love lord of the rings at all you can get immersed in it very nicely.


If I wasn't spending most of my time trying to improve in LoL, I would be playing LOTRO as well.

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Good game but I still think Ragnarok has more charm!

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I think LOTRO is easier to get into than RO.

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What's ROs combat like?

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It's like Diablo.

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From: Wedge Antilles | #015
What's ROs combat like?

From: GranzonEx | #016
It's like Diablo.

Pretty much! Well except that instead of clicking for skills it's with hotkeys, but otherwise it's very similar.

Oh and Ragnarok Online's music is legendary, the game has one of the best OST in video game history easily.

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Downloading the client, need some entertainment until Mists of Pandaria hits.

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Yggdrasil server!

Sabryna Eberhardt is my IGN, Assassin!

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Next question:

How is class balance? Are they all fairly even? I'd like to go Paladin, but Assassin would be a decent second option.

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The class are pretty damn balanced except for the '' Extended '' classes who'll get a boost eventually, one of them actually got an evolution in Korea so the rest will come.

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I might play a Warlock, it's either that or a Ranger since they have badass wolf mounts.

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Star Trek Online is entertaining, give it a shot

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Also a good thing about Ragnarok Online is that it's a 100% non-linear game, a lot of mmorpgs have you hop from zones to zones to level but in RO at any level there's at least a dozen different places where the xp is good and they're at all very spread out.

Also a ton of non instanced dungeons with boss at the end (who are almost always dead since it's no instand!)

Oh and RO is not really dependent on quests, now to level they implemented those kill x things quests to speed things up but they're far from necessary, got to 80 without them in like 3 days. There are other quests though, they give items, XP and give access to other locations and man some of them are long.

This one in particular is legendary : http://irowiki.org/wiki/Sign_Quest

Extremely long, reward is a pretty damn good item and access to one dungeon, let's just say that it's the dungeon it's the hardest to get access to!

Oh and the quests are actually interesting, skipping the dialogue is foolish.

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Do you have pics of the Royal Guard mounts? I might want to try one of those.

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*whistle*

Downloading

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Griffons vs Lizards, it's settled.

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Acolyte classes got a badass Alpaca

Better imo.



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Seems fun, might try RO.

Of the F2P MMOs I've played

Atlantica > LOTRO > Dungeon Fighter Online (but only because everyone disappeared from lower levels after like a week, it's actually the best for combat/experience)

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It's asking me to choose Ymir_VIP, Yggdrasil_new_open, apr Valkyrie_open.

Are these servers or something?

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Yeah they are server.

Pick Yggdrasil.

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And leave your IGN in here!

Don't forget, spaces are allowed so you can have last names!

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Just play TF2. Totally free and lots of ways to play, depending on the class, and you get a lot more out of the game with much less time than most MMOs, and it runs on PC and Mac, and the settings and such sync in the Steam cloud so you don't need to worry when switching computers.

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I can't get to sleep because I ran out of meds, so I'm downloading Ragnarok. This better be as acceptable as you guys imply.

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Ayuyu make the guild!

I'll be back in 12 hours >_>

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Alright just woke up.

Running to Orc Dungeon right now and spamming grimtooth everywhere.

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Oh and I need a name.

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How about Nacho Guild? And it can come with free queso.

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Oh there's quite a few good f2p MMORPGs out ther-

From: Tom Bombadil | #001
Browser based would be preferred-

'oh'

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my only experience with F2P MMO's is maplestory, my only advice is- do not play maplestory. thankfully no one has recommended it so this warning might be unnecessary!

(though MS does do decently in aesthetics in being animeish as you requested, it's just awful in terms of being a video game)

These are the quests I was talking about for EQ:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=18453
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=472

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Dat dialogue.

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I think I'll just wait for someone to sell an Emperium and buy it.

Don't need money to rebirth apparently since I'm VIP!

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Goddamn people selling Emperiums for 1 million zeny.

I saw them at 400k once but now that I have the money they stopped existing!

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