Played it a few hours. I actually had fun. I think it kinda mis-sells itself as an "MMORPG".
I'd say it's really a Diablo style action hack-and-slasher that is, somewhat incidentally, massively multiplayer. Reminds me of games like Torchlight. Massively multiplayer Torchlight. Or just about any top-down hack and slash game, really. It's very "gamey" so not something you should play with a Serious Business Conan-style mindset. It's a little twitchy but I'd maybe put it as about GW2 level in terms of twitchiness.
The tutorial area was not impressive but once you get a couple unlocks, which will happen fairly early, the combat gets a lot more interesting.
So if you play it for what it is I'd say it's pretty fun. Didn't get into PvP yet. Not sure where you end up stumbling into it. I just kinda ran around doing the dungeons I found (there are a lot, though they tend to follow a randomly-generated-looking set-piece pattern for any given area) but none of the zones I went in were PvP enabled.
It's a classless system but you can't mix weapons -- or you can but that's a little more like multi-classing where you'd be splitting your XP between, say, sword and fire staff as you switch between the weapons, slowing your advancement down in both. Not sure if you can switch weapons in combat but there's no obvious hot-swap. But you can build your own armor layout based on what effects you like -- mage hat, leather chest, plate boots? I started doing a full plate, sword and board guy and decided I liked "pyro wizard tank" better so now I'm a full plate, fire staff and board guy and that seems to be working well (though I don't have a lot of basis for comparison).
I did a little crafting and decided I didn't feel like it so I just started buying everything (with in-game silver). They're doing the EVE plex style thing, I think, where you can buy real-life-money currency ("gold") and spend that on your subscription renewal or (I think) sell it to players for in-game currency ("silver") and vice versa. Potentially (as in EVE) you could buy your way to subscriptions by gathering silver and then selling it for gold. At least I think that's how it works. I didn't see any pay-to-win stuff, but like Planetside, you get clear benefits if you subscribe.
I would label it as:
Probably not the next big thing but fun to dick around in.
Comes with 3 days of premium to lure you in.
I'd say it's really a Diablo style action hack-and-slasher that is, somewhat incidentally, massively multiplayer. Reminds me of games like Torchlight. Massively multiplayer Torchlight. Or just about any top-down hack and slash game, really. It's very "gamey" so not something you should play with a Serious Business Conan-style mindset. It's a little twitchy but I'd maybe put it as about GW2 level in terms of twitchiness.
The tutorial area was not impressive but once you get a couple unlocks, which will happen fairly early, the combat gets a lot more interesting.
So if you play it for what it is I'd say it's pretty fun. Didn't get into PvP yet. Not sure where you end up stumbling into it. I just kinda ran around doing the dungeons I found (there are a lot, though they tend to follow a randomly-generated-looking set-piece pattern for any given area) but none of the zones I went in were PvP enabled.
It's a classless system but you can't mix weapons -- or you can but that's a little more like multi-classing where you'd be splitting your XP between, say, sword and fire staff as you switch between the weapons, slowing your advancement down in both. Not sure if you can switch weapons in combat but there's no obvious hot-swap. But you can build your own armor layout based on what effects you like -- mage hat, leather chest, plate boots? I started doing a full plate, sword and board guy and decided I liked "pyro wizard tank" better so now I'm a full plate, fire staff and board guy and that seems to be working well (though I don't have a lot of basis for comparison).
I did a little crafting and decided I didn't feel like it so I just started buying everything (with in-game silver). They're doing the EVE plex style thing, I think, where you can buy real-life-money currency ("gold") and spend that on your subscription renewal or (I think) sell it to players for in-game currency ("silver") and vice versa. Potentially (as in EVE) you could buy your way to subscriptions by gathering silver and then selling it for gold. At least I think that's how it works. I didn't see any pay-to-win stuff, but like Planetside, you get clear benefits if you subscribe.
I would label it as:
Probably not the next big thing but fun to dick around in.
Comes with 3 days of premium to lure you in.