So, I'm thinking of checking it out. But, can I get some real info from people who have played it? What's better/significantly different?

Is DDO better in any way still?

I'm looking for real stuphs, not really the "because Feather of the Sun" snark.

Whatchu got?

It's not. It's just different. Personally I'm not sure how much replayability I will find once I cap my first toon, although the Foundry is a pretty cool idea.

Having said that, it costs you absolutely nothing to check it out. I've not spent a penny and haven't found that a limiting factor yet. Sure I don't have a cat or a phoenix pet, but the content is still easily playable. Even if bosses solo on a Devoted Cleric involve all the bloody kiting in the world....

It's not better

I capped a couple toons,  then lost interest as there was nothing to do.  It's exploit ridden far more than ddo,  and to make things worse I tried to log in a couple weeks ago and discovered my characters were gone,  not that I was banned just had empty toon slots.  Talking to cs,  I wasn't hacked, and while they didn't say it, if I wasn't hacked the only other option is that they lost data.  A very bad thing for an mmo.

Another point is that the game is too easy.  You can cap in a matter of a few weeks, gear in a few more.  After that, the toon is basically done.  Just like in DDO pre-TR, at this point you are rolling a new character if you want to keep playing and have anything to do. 

With only 5 classes (3 of which are even fun at end game) and basically no build variation in each class, you run out of stuff to do pretty quick.  Since race has little to no impact on game play, they either have to release new classes, make the game tougher, or do something to extend the game play.

How's the combat?  Is it more active, like DDO, or click and wait, like WOW?

It's free, just download the crap and try the first 15 levels, it's all the same till you reach cap, pvp is full of bots and bosses all use the same mechanic which is adds, adds and more adds.

Oh in guantlegrym you just get a premade group and spawn camp the hell out of the other team.

DDO may be having problems lately but NW in no way deserves the DnD logo.

On the other hand if you liked daggerdale you may like NW.

livefreeordie wrote on Jul 10^th, 2013 at 3:04pm:

You can compare: It is a totally different engine... unless they totally revamp it, they will remain different and no where near DnD. 

It isn't like DnD except in names and stories. You are limited to only a couple of actions that aren't DnD-like and you have a charge you can build up to do other actions.

With Foundry, you have a lot more dungeons - most scale to whatever level you currently are - but there are limits to what you can create since the objects are limited. The best thing would be story lines and the fact that you have more creative people doing dungeons and pumping them out.

They have both good and bad points, so you can't really compare the two.  The most fun part of NWO is probably casual PvP.  It's really easy to get into and it's not super competitive.  End-game PvP is broken though, being extremely gear dependent and full of exploits.  People take it way too seriously.

AtomicMew wrote on Jul 21^st, 2013 at 6:03pm:


Casual pvp lol. Say rather its pve in the guise of pvp as more often than not you are fighting bots.

Played a couple months, took every class to level cap. The problem for me was that - by design - there's no replay value as you level. Even if you find something you think is interesting (like skirmishes) once you out-level it you're done.

At cap there's gear grinding, a few epic dungeons, and PVP. That's it. None of which really hold my interest.

YMMV

The only good things about NW: the more recent graphics (capes ) and the possibility of user-made quests (not that user-made quests are good, but the possibility is cool).

I played NW from beta to 1 month after "open beta" (a.k.a release), getting to level 40 something. The game was very repetitive, no character customization, healers could barely heal themselves, much more P2W and money grab than DDO, lead feet combat ...

Not the DDO replacement I hoped. Very disappointing.

Onceler wrote on Nov 30^th, 2013 at 5:30pm:


Lack of content is something that NW was supposed to never suffer from with the Foundry.  I guess the idea that the developer could get the players to do their work for them (Design content) doesn't work.  Turns out, you still have to develop some content of your own.

DDO was released Feb 28th.  By Halloween (8 months later) they had released 3 major Modules with a raid each and 3 small modules with 3-6 quests each.

NW Online was released June 20th.  So far they have 1 release and 1 planned for December.  They still haven't released a new class (only 5 available). 

I stopped playing after 2 months, but it doesn't sound like it's getting any better.

They released a new class, a ranger - a ranged ranger with no option of twf. Basically, an abomination. I will only play again the day they release warlock. Until then, they can suck it.