I've never played WoW, but from all the descriptions, it really seems like Maplestory with better but pointless graphics and some additional fluff.

Well, there's your problem. You've never played it and most of your descriptions come from Runescape fanboys.

 

 

 

True, individual quests are often weak, but when you put them together they often tell a story and generally lead into one another. Also, they are realistic- it's WARCRAFT, a world in which both sides are constantly testing each other and skirmishing. Of course you're going to be killing stuff. It's not World of Lovecraft, although that would be pretty freakin' sweet... Summoning Cthulu... Being a loyal cultist...

 

 

 

I think their criticism was that the game was far too combat based. I mean, their is little else other than combat. Even the skills require you to kill things for the mats to train them.

Even the skills require you to kill things for the mats to train them.

 

Not all of them. Only skinning, tailoring and Enchanting.

 

I've never played WoW, but from all the descriptions, it really seems like Maplestory with better but pointless graphics and some additional fluff.

Well, there's your problem. You've never played it and most of your descriptions come from Runescape fanboys.

 

 

 

True, individual quests are often weak, but when you put them together they often tell a story and generally lead into one another. Also, they are realistic- it's WARCRAFT, a world in which both sides are constantly testing each other and skirmishing. Of course you're going to be killing stuff. It's not World of Lovecraft, although that would be pretty freakin' sweet... Summoning Cthulu... Being a loyal cultist...

 

 

 

Yeah, but I can easily tell from the descriptions. There's nothing much wrong in expressing my opinion based on the descriptions other people give; people do that all the time.

Even the skills require you to kill things for the mats to train them.

 

Not all of them. Only skinning, tailoring and Enchanting.

 

 

 

Well, if you train them just yourself, don't forget leatherworking. And talk about a lack of skills.

Even the skills require you to kill things for the mats to train them.

 

Not all of them. Only skinning, tailoring and Enchanting.

 

 

 

Well, if you train them just yourself, don't forget leatherworking. And talk about a lack of skills.

More skills are not always better. Many Runescape skills are trained for the sake of levels- Firemaking, Cooking, Smithing, Herblore, Crafting, Fletching, and, to a certain degree, Construction. And you actually have just as many gathering skills on Runescape than WoW. Runescape has Fishing, Woodcutting, Mining, and Hunter. WoW has Fishing, Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning. You might be able to count thieving in there as well. Also seven skills are totally combat related- Attack, Defense, Strength, Health Points, Prayer, Slayer, and Ranged. That's almost a third of the 24 Runescape skills.

 

 

 

So, here's the useful non-combat skills: Farming, Mining, Woodcutting, Hunter, Thieving, Agility, Summoning, Magic, and Runecrafting. So, in truth, only nine out of seventeen non combat skills are actually useful. Considering that in WoW you can have five professions, all useful, Runescape is only a bit better.

Even the skills require you to kill things for the mats to train them.

 

Not all of them. Only skinning, tailoring and Enchanting.

 

 

 

Well, if you train them just yourself, don't forget leatherworking. And talk about a lack of skills.

More skills are not always better. Many Runescape skills are trained for the sake of levels- Firemaking, Cooking, Smithing, Herblore, Crafting, Fletching, and, to a certain degree, Construction. And you actually have just as many gathering skills on Runescape than WoW. Runescape has Fishing, Woodcutting, Mining, and Hunter. WoW has Fishing, Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning. You might be able to count thieving in there as well. Also seven skills are totally combat related- Attack, Defense, Strength, Health Points, Prayer, Slayer, and Ranged. That's almost a third of the 24 Runescape skills.

 

 

 

So, here's the useful non-combat skills: Farming, Mining, Woodcutting, Hunter, Thieving, Agility, Summoning, Magic, and Runecrafting. So, in truth, only nine out of seventeen non combat skills are actually useful. Considering that in WoW you can have five professions, all useful, Runescape is only a bit better.

 

 

 

I disagree. Many of these skills, though useless in generating profit, can be very fun for some people who enjoy them a lot. I personally hate skilling, but ask around, and you'll probably find someone who enjoys wasting his life away doing pointless things like breaking his fingers will trying to smith some steel cannonballs or whatever. And they provide more variety, and a market to make the primary industry skills actually useful. Take away smithing and co., and you'll probably see a large drop in profit of the primary industry skills.

Even the skills require you to kill things for the mats to train them.

 

Not all of them. Only skinning, tailoring and Enchanting.

 

 

 

Well, if you train them just yourself, don't forget leatherworking. And talk about a lack of skills.

More skills are not always better. Many Runescape skills are trained for the sake of levels- Firemaking, Cooking, Smithing, Herblore, Crafting, Fletching, and, to a certain degree, Construction. And you actually have just as many gathering skills on Runescape than WoW. Runescape has Fishing, Woodcutting, Mining, and Hunter. WoW has Fishing, Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning. You might be able to count thieving in there as well. Also seven skills are totally combat related- Attack, Defense, Strength, Health Points, Prayer, Slayer, and Ranged. That's almost a third of the 24 Runescape skills.

 

 

 

So, here's the useful non-combat skills: Farming, Mining, Woodcutting, Hunter, Thieving, Agility, Summoning, Magic, and Runecrafting. So, in truth, only nine out of seventeen non combat skills are actually useful. Considering that in WoW you can have five professions, all useful, Runescape is only a bit better.

 

 

 

I disagree. Many of these skills, though useless in generating profit, can be very fun for some people who enjoy them a lot. I personally hate skilling, but ask around, and you'll probably find someone who enjoys wasting his life away doing pointless things like breaking his fingers will trying to smith some steel cannonballs or whatever. And they provide more variety, and a market to make the primary industry skills actually useful. Take away smithing and co., and you'll probably see a large drop in profit of the primary industry skills.

 

 

 

For me, the only skills that are trained just for their levels are smithing and firemaking. Everything else I level because I can use the benefits that having a higher level skill offers me.

 

 

 

Also, Runescape skills have more depth and versatility to them. That and I love the fact that I can do *all* of them, and at the same time. I'm not pidgeonhold into doing two.

 

 

 

PS, I train cooking because I like to make the food that I use, not for the sake of the levels.

 

 

 

And on another thing, something I like about Runescape? A sense of humor. Things that a person who doesn't take a game so seriously can enjoy.

 

 

 

WoW is drier than a popcorn fart.

Aside from runecrafting, construction, gathering, and combat skills i would only ever train the rest for quest requirements or something.

Aside from runecrafting, construction, gathering, and combat skills i would only ever train the rest for quest requirements or something.

 

 

 

That's one thing WoW does have one over on RS. WoW has a lot of the best things are only created by player skills. In RS, we either buy/minigame/quest/etc. all the good stuff.