I wasnt trying to say you werent an experienced gamer, I am sorry if it sounded like that, I was just wondering if you had played DAoC, figured ya had played WoW, as ashamed as I am to say it, I even tried WoW, think dang near every gamer out there at least tried it heh.

The core rvr system is derived from DAoC and expanded a ton no doubt. Besides doing nice graphics to all the different races' seige equipment, I didn't see any real difference from DAoC in regards to keeps and seiging. DAoC has had quests available in pvp for yrs and you always got good experience/coin from killing other players. TEFs are nothing new, SWG had em 5 yrs ago and WoW after that.

I never cared much for pvp and in WAR pvp is a core element. Now, I have not played the released version of WAR and dont plan to but in beta it seemed they didnt feel like developing the pve aspect as much as the pvp but I suppose that could simply be because pvp is much harder to balance and its much easier to do expansions to add more pve zones later on.

Thank you for highlighting the points about the classes and specializing each class. Though I agree with you, you can spec your toon numerous ways using renown points( realm skill points in DAoC) and career points(spec points in DAoC,talent points in WoW) its basically the same as any other game, if you want a good healer, spec in better healing, want a tougher tank spec defensively, more dmg, spec offensively.

I have heard from several other players that the game launch was awesome. It should be, they were very thorough in the beta always polling us and asking for feedback and I think they actually LISTENED unlike other companies of the past. I have to give props to EA/Mythic for all the work they put in.

I am glad for you, and even somewhat envious of you, that you have found this game to be an excellent game and I wish you many months/yrs of enjoyment. I shall just have to wait 'til another game to come out, hopefully I'll luck out and find one I enjoy half as much as you seem to enjoy WAR.

BTW, ya didnt post what side ya on? I was always partial to my witch elf