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D Loomis is totally wrong...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok, first off, the whole thing about putting thousands of hours into your character and if you mess up once your done forever is total bogus. You get FREE respecs at level 5, 20, and 40. So if you mess your character up at anytime before 40, it doesnt matter because you can fix it. By the time you hit 40 you have probably learned exactly how you want your character so the chances of messing him up between 40 and 50 are insanely small. And even if you do there are things called MINI-DINGS. These are where once you get halfway to the next level you get FREE specialization points to put on top of your current spec. Plus there are other ways where, no it won't cost THAT much to respec. You go on a dragon raid and get a respec stone. When you kill the dragon it drops FIFTY of these stones. Usually it takes a little more than 50 people to kill the dragon. So almost everyone on the raid gets a stone if they can afford it. And now with the new instance tasks you can make money in no time at all. I made 1000 gold in around 2 hours. Which is about how much money a respec stone costs. So if you've put in 1000s of hours into your character and arent going to spend 2 more to fix him, you got issues.

Number two, it is NOT hard at ALL for a begginer to use. The new classes are extremely powerful in both PvE and PvP. The Heretic, Vampiir, Bainshee, Warlock are all GREAT in PvP. Vampiir is probably the most powerful out of them all. But they all have strong points. The Warlock is a GREAT caster. The Heretic can heal, fight, cast, buff and is the most versatile cclass there is. And the whole thing about being able to INSTANTLY kill someone is untrue. THE ONLY way to one hit someone is either with Critical Shot with a scout or some kind of attack with an infiltrator/shadowblade/assasin. Jsut to let you know, crit shot takes about 7 seconds to use, and if your target is still in range, u can still see him, you havent unstealthed, and no one has hit you then u have a slim chance to one hit your target, providing he is some sort of pure caster. Only about 6 classes out of around 40-50 can be one-hitted. Loomis is wrong again....moron.

All in all i hope i have proved how insanely retarded Loomis is, and how great of a game this is, and don't let him discourage you from buying this title. BECAUSE IT ROCKS MY SOCKS!!

excellent expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've been an avid daoc player for 3 years now. I have to say, TOA upset me alot. it bored me and irritated me that the only way I was able to kill people was using gear only accessible if you're willing to go through drearily drawn out quests. Catacombs is completey differant. with great new classes, massive graphics upgrade, new areas (including instance dungeons!) and access to materials to make crafted equiptment even better, this made me a very happy mythic customer.

Piss Poor Loyalty Maintenance

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong, DaoC is a great game and I have two accounts and 14 toons to attest to this fact. The good news, at least for those just entering the game, is that you'll have an easy time immersing yourself in the game, at all levels. The bad, for long-term gamers, is that Mythic has made all of those levels, Master Levels and achievements that took you months and months of work MUCH easier for noobs to achieve, without actually giving you anything in return (you DO get the nice title of "Elder" if you've player for four years or more). Given the ridiculously exaggerated prices for artifacts and scrolls achieved through Atlantis (now available for free download along with the basic DaoC software and Shrouded Isles expansion at Mythic's site), Mythic has made scroll drops vastly easier, and dramatically increased the cost of repairing artifacts (in addition to adding Epic Armor in Catacombs that comes close to approximating artifact quality, and which anyone can, and almost has to, get as part of general class quests).

It's genuinely sad that Mythic, rather than responding to its long time, loyal customer base, has chosen to pander the game to potential new subscribers. It wouldn't be such an issue if something were done to balance this, like giving long-time players some advantages in crafting (getting an LGM "has never been easier"), or benefits for toons leveled prior to the Task Dungeons of Catacombs (where "leveling has never been easier"). Sadly, this is not the case, and new subscribers continue to join, which is, in some ways, great news. What should concern them, however, is one day they'll be veterans, like the rest of us, and will find out first hand how deaf Mythic can be to that group.

Wierd Amazone?!?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

How can you already know there is a new expansion out at 7dec.
As there gaming communitie doesnt know of it yet. An no info from Mythic it self

Even if Mythic was. Three is still bussy on the new Frontiers expansion, whats a FREE download to all. (...)

But this is Amazon, so plse double check it Amazon guys. It wont hurt you :))

A letter by Ruri

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dear Mythic
I find your game to be delightful!
5 stars mates! Cheerio!
You successly rolled and pwnt the daoc community once again! Bravo!

rofl

Newest expansion pack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This catacombs expansion is the third major expansion of the Dark age of camelot MMORPG online game.Each expansion Mythic have improved graphics quality and features, and also added new areas to play.

Their last expansion, Trials of Atlantis, was not great, its true. Mythic admit that due to publishing deadlines they shipped it with bugs that they have had to fix later, and some even they are still fixing, but this is true of most online games, they are in a state of flux always.

For the main game review, check out DAOC gold and the expansion reviews, we have yet to see how this newest expansion changes things and how it works, the original game and its expansions to date are well worth playing.

Online games create strong loyalty, and some negative reviews here do show that they were written by people loyal to other games. As a player of DAOC I would say it is one of the best I have played, with a great community and many features that other games lack. I will be buying this newest expansion, but I am wary that it may have problems that their last expansion had because it was rushed out.

neutral review because I, as everyone, has no clue how good or bad this patch may be. Anyone who reviews it at this stage otherwise is heavily biased one way or the other.

Daoc is alive and well

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Daoc doesnt need another expansion at this point, most peeps are trying to get through crappy ToA and grab artis/ML's but considering how this is still over half a year from being released and frontiers(free rvr expansion) will be out by then i gotta say it will be just about time for another expansion. It just better not be as buggy or EQ like as ToA was. I'm just hoping for some sweet looking dungeons with cool drops. If they do this then all will be well. No more scroll farming or ML's please. arti's are cool ideas but they should make u quest for the scroll peices...which should drop 100% after each quest and the arti's should drop 100% of the time...no more linos spawns please. If catacombs is done right i may keep my account open even through EQ2 or WoW at least for another month or two anyway. If its done wrong then account closed.

A good expansion for a fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best expansion they've made for camelot so far. Very graphically intense so older systems may have some trouble.

This game ROCKS!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Excellent gaming experience. The game is very robust with many different types of activities to become involved with.

Bah, wait for WoW

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

(...) The game is slowly losing its player base and I would imagine by the time this money-pit expansion comes out the game will be on the back burner. Keep in mind, you will need the SI and ToA expansions to even be competitive before you even think about this one. Not worth it.

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