They will tell you!

Anyways, as a Mordred player, I'm having a tough time picking a realm to stick with. Prior to Mordred I played Alb as a wizard and a merc. I know and love the Albion lands for its nostalgia for that reason, and then PvP'd and leveled everywhere within it with Mord.

BUT on Mordred I mostly played non-alb characters despite my main being an Infiltrator. I also was able to level in any dungeon of any realm and learned quite a bit about all of them. It's just strange having to pick a set of classes that will have to battle against another set of classes and have to live in ONE realm, when I'm used to having to battle a mix of anything and everything while playing whatever I want wherever I want. I've stayed out of 8v8 discussions because of it, since I mostly rolled with a stealther group or an infinite amount of alts that never reached 50 but PvP'd constantly. I quit shortly after TOA, and a lot of these discussions I have to bow out of cause I never really experienced what everyone else did as far as the frontiers go. EVERYWHERE was a frontier, so I never learned the actual frontiers.

Mordred was also MUCH more forgiving with group class selection, since we are all technically enemies and most likely built for PvP. Banding together regardless of class was always better than trying to form some sort of perfect group.

Anyone else in a similar position? What realm have you decided on? Personally, I think I'm gonna stick with what I know, which is Albion. Then I'm stuck with Albion characters...which is fine, I do like a few of them and having a necro for money is great. I loved the friar on Mordred...but apparently I'll never get a group in Uthgard if I go PvP spec, and feel like the PvE spec is lame.

I bet my best bet is Sorc. I loved the mind/body sorc, and it's Albs primary CC. HOWEVER, would the sorc be the main person to guide a group? Because I can't guide ****** in the frontiers since I know very little about it's PvP aspects. I guess I'll just have to learn. It just seems like compared to Mordred people are so hostile and unforgiving of spec/class. Weird, considering.

I forget, what was Mordred's rule set? I recall the name but not the mechanics. Was this the server where anyone from any realm could play with anyone else from any realm?


In any event, choose what you like and what area you enjoy. Luckily this is beta and you will have plenty of time to figure out where you want to hang for live just by testing out beta. So do what you like and go where you like and you'll figure it out.

Since he could play all classes in any realm it probably was the pvp server or some dedicated crossrealm PvE server. But I cant remember having a crossrealm server in EU, so maybe it was an NA thing.

Mordred was open world pvp. Race still determined your class as normal, but you could travel anywhere anytime. Be a skald and run to mag Mell for pvp. Check dungeons all around each faction for pvers. You could group anyone as everyone was an "enemy or ally". Thus you could have a cleric, skald, light eld, body sorc, shaman, arms man, zerk, bm group.

Ahhh, mordred was life....mordred was love

I tried Camlann (EU PvP) myself. Initially I liked it, but after a while I was just tired of being sniped by some random scout or killed randomly without any chance of fighting back. Really liked the idea but afair there wasnt really a PvP ruleset. They just let everyone slaughter each other mindlessly.

Torgen wrote:I tried Camlann (EU PvP) myself. Initially I liked it, but after a while I was just tired of being sniped by some random scout or killed randomly without any chance of fighting back. Really liked the idea but afair there wasnt really a PvP ruleset. They just let everyone slaughter each other mindlessly.

& that is natural selection and you missed out on the best servers created in gaming history.

Kawaikzor wrote:

Torgen wrote:I tried Camlann (EU PvP) myself. Initially I liked it, but after a while I was just tired of being sniped by some random scout or killed randomly without any chance of fighting back. Really liked the idea but afair there wasnt really a PvP ruleset. They just let everyone slaughter each other mindlessly.

& that is natural selection and you missed out on the best servers created in gaming history.

Might be, only played there for a Week maybe and it bothered me getting killed while just wanting to level or finish a quest.
What did people fight about on the PvP Server? I mean, daoc originally wasnd made for open world pvp and so there really wasnt a "predefined" purpose like capturing lands or building cities like in Shadowbane or similar games.

Can you tell me a little bit more about that?

Dude, it was an epic risk vs. Reward system. You wanted to pve at the best locations, there is a chance pkers are going to be checking it. Forced people to go off the beaten path to find safe spots to xp.

Typically the 50s would just roam looking for other 50s to 8v8 or whatever and didnt hunt levelers. Not to say it didnt happen with solo 50s. But a group of 3-4 pveing lvl 30s can kill a solo 50 or in some cases a duo.

I dont know why, but Mordred was amazing to me. My best daoc memories.

P.S. Not to mentioned, you could level from 20-50 just on PvP alone if you wanted. Pvp kills were great xp.

Russiancrushian wrote:Dude, it was an epic risk vs. Reward system. You wanted to pve at the best locations, there is a chance pkers are going to be checking it. Forced people to go off the beaten path to find safe spots to xp.

Typically the 50s would just roam looking for other 50s to 8v8 or whatever and didnt hunt levelers. Not to say it didnt happen with solo 50s. But a group of 3-4 pveing lvl 30s can kill a solo 50 or in some cases a duo.

I dont know why, but Mordred was amazing to me. My best daoc memories.

P.S. Not to mentioned, you could level from 20-50 just on PvP alone if you wanted. Pvp kills were great xp.

Now I really regret not having played it more.

A very simplistic PvP approach but sounds awesome. Just let people fight over the best xp spots. I bet you get to see places youve never been before if you have to secretly level to not get killed

Russiancrushian wrote:Ahhh, mordred was life....mordred was love

Kawaikzor wrote:& that is natural selection and you missed out on the best servers created in gaming history.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Old mordred player here.

Actually, there were still frontiers and you could get keeps and relics. i had a RR9 druid on mordred, and it was my best time in this game. It was very hard to lvl to 50, but once oyu were 50 and you had a solid grp, you were feared by other grps

back to topic,

i started playing hib on this server, cause i actually knew it the best, but if not, i would still have picked hibernia, cause it allways lacked players on every server i played. here it seems that albs lack players tho. but like someone else said, its beta time, just test it out. only got an hour for the realm swap which isnt very much.

GL guys and see you out there in the frontiers.

Torgen wrote:I tried Camlann (EU PvP) myself. Initially I liked it, but after a while I was just tired of being sniped by some random scout or killed randomly without any chance of fighting back. Really liked the idea but afair there wasnt really a PvP ruleset. They just let everyone slaughter each other mindlessly.

just too weak

Galandriel3 wrote:

Torgen wrote:I tried Camlann (EU PvP) myself. Initially I liked it, but after a while I was just tired of being sniped by some random scout or killed randomly without any chance of fighting back. Really liked the idea but afair there wasnt really a PvP ruleset. They just let everyone slaughter each other mindlessly.

just too weak

Dude, I was like 14 years old

I played on Mordred for s short time. it depends on how your going to play. 8v8 imo would depend on what your seer type's want to play or cc. the rest falls into place. Solo well its w/e. Just the way i have always looked at it anyway. played all realms throughout my time. alb being the least.

The Dreds were both great if you had a decent guild and alliance. Never a dull day in game. Solo, sm man, group, guild, and alliance battles. In fighting, spys, drama lol. DAOC can be played so many different ways!