Just browsed a clan community roster and looked at one clan with was posting the usual msg "We are recruiting active members. Please post your spec... blah blah..."
And there was a post from a guy with his specs:
"My specs are:
Intel 3500,
4 GB RAM,
FX 7900 videocard
etc etc etc..."
(the numbers are not exact)
No wonder the response from the clan was "Who the hell need your computer specs? You want to run Lineage 2 on your computer for the clan or what?
Meh, as far as stupid-person-of-the-year stories go, that would not be anywhere close to my top 20 ... or even top 100. I've heard WAY more stupid things than that.
In that person's defense, in L2 we typically ask "what's your char?" or "what lvl? gear?" rather than "what are your specs?" So unless it was presented a lot more clearly on the clan's website than you presented it here, I don't think that even ranks as "stupid" at all.
Exactly. And for anyone who doesn't yet know how WoW works (and I'm sure there are such people), you get talent trees (skillsets) in WoW that allow you to specialise in certain key skills. A Paladin, for instance, gets Holy (strong in healing), Protection (strong in tanking) and Retribution (most DD for levelling).
Had I come across what the OP had mentioned before I started playing WoW then I would have thought that they meant PC specs. It's not like a Tyrant, for example, can differ too much from another Tyrant in terms of skills now is it.
Eh, as a Computer Science/Information Systems major, specs sounds computer to me, especially if the guy/girl is new and isn't up on lingo.
true....
however, and by the way, the other posters above me already answered, but i'll repeat: If your a new player coming to Lineage2 from World of Warcraft a SPEC means something else entirely. ;)
but it was a clan recruiting. if they are high enough to be recruiting anyone based on "specs"(wow type) they would know that no such thing exists in lineage 2, so thye wouldn't use it..
... unless they eBay'd their toons, which is entirely possible, sadly.
heh as much as we like to rip on WoW, it's not a bad game by any means, it's just different.
I disagree. It is a bad game in my opinion, it's too easy. It's set at a difficulty where literally everybody can play, which is also part of the reason it has so many subscribers.
It's a very successful game, definitely, it's the most played mmo existing i think. But a good game, I don't know
I don't think you can say it's a bad game. Level of difficulty may be lower (I can actually confirm that seeing as I never got above level 47 in WoW), but that doesn't mean it's bad. In fact, I find WoW to be much better put together than L2 - not as much sloppy coding there (and no gameguard).
I don't think you can say it's a bad game. Level of difficulty may be lower (I can actually confirm that seeing as I never got above level 47 in WoW), but that doesn't mean it's bad. In fact, I find WoW to be much better put together than L2 - not as much sloppy coding there (and no gameguard).
Well, the hardest part about making a good game is making it entertaining, and challenging at the same time, and for me, probably the most important aspect of a game, so from my standpoint, WoW is a bad game. Of course everybody is entitled to their own opinion :)
There's no question in my mind that WoW is entertaining for a shorter period of time than L2, but apparently they are doing something right. And I assume the, what, millions of WoW players are entertained. It isn't my cup of tea either. It's fun for some time, and then I come back to L2 hehe. But it takes more than that for me to think it's a bad game.
I swore never to like WoW and tried my hardest not to play it. But the virtual death of Sieghardt and the the cost of transferring all of my (and the girlfriend's) toons whilst still losing out on gear and materials lead me to try the 10 day trial.
The gameplay is different but that doesn't mean that it's bad. Plus I find that there are many different facets to explore (professions, battlegrounds etc.). Some say that it does not have the long term appeal of L2 but, having moved on from L2 in everything but these boards (in the vain hope that something good happens) I can see that I probably played L2 as long as I did due to the commitment already invested and (believe it or not) emotional attachment that you build up for your characters. You actually start thinking of them as little people. :D
WoW is anything but Bad, it might be easier then the seasoned L2 player (that played hard to get where he is, automatons excluded they might as well play CS) expects but at least it's diverse and there is alot of content.
What L2 lacks completley is content, honestly, no actual item hunt (mats hunting is ******edly boring and unrewarding) no quests worthy to speak of except the usual gather 10 thousand pelts for 1 random bullcrap recipe, no diversity of items or randomness of stats to look forward too. (augmentations slightly introduced that but it's a huge money sink as usual so most won't try to often).
Abundance of "things to do" takes WoW above L2, as easy as it might be.
I personally don't like wow due to the graphics AND the **** forced war ally<->horde, i simply can't and won't cope with the latter at all.
If this were WoW or EQ2 or any game where you can customize your build, then, yeah, I can see why the "what's your specs?" question would arise.
In L2, however, a TH is pretty much a TH... a TK is a TK, a DA a DA, etc etc. Since every class is nearly identical to another of its kind, asking what tats your SwS is wearing really doesn't matter so much.
Remember, kids, just because you spec pew pew doesn't mean you can DPS.