Asuryan's Flames

So, like all games you try and hit level cap as quick as possible so that you can get a real feel for what the game is like. I am sitting at just over 4 days played total and I am close to level cap. In War, it took a similar amount of time, and even in WOW is was close, but there seems to be a greater feeling of accomplishment with the higher number that AOC provides.

Now there is more to level in War then just hitting level cap, there is renown rank, which AOC does have PVP rank, but it seems to be way less important than hitting RR 80 in War. Ontologically, they are focusing on different areas. Where as War focuses on getting your character to 40 then the real grind begins because the best items are PVP related and earned, AOC has the PVP caveat for those who like it, but that are encapsulated in a raiding environment where PVP is not the core.

In both instances you will end up doing the same thing over and over, but in War you will end up doing that substantially quicker due to the limited scope that endgame seems to focus on. Now with the huge expansion on the horizon that might change, but that is still a ways off and it could be the Trials of Atlantis that plagued DAOC being brought to war. I say that lightly, but we are not 6 months after release and we have seen several huge promise that where made by Mythic broken.