#Social MMOs

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tired slate
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All MMOs are social to some degree. But I've e.g. had more luck finding people to talk in FF14 than in WoW or GW2. Sometimes it can depend on the server too though. So what are you some good MMOs in which people actually hang out and talk with randoms instead of just being focused on tryhard sweating the content?

fierce olive
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FF14 is my main mmo, and since you've tried those 3 (ff, wow, gw2), have you tried ESO (just inacase you havent yet :P) in ESO i had an easier time talking to people in the open world than GW2 like you say it's luck and your server/timezone

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osrs has a lot of chatty people too

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in FF14 the chattiness is just found mostly if you hang out in limsa or uldah (mostly limsa)

tired slate
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Hm I did, but been a while, and I don't really recall how chatty people were in there haha. Might have to retry ESO

tired slate
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My issue with 14 is like, idk if I just wanna play more of my old char, but making a new char is also like a PITA

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unless I buy story skips

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but at that point, eh

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might as well play the old char then

fierce olive
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cause if it's just story (that you forgot where you at or what has happened since)... there's a lot of recap and summary videos in youtube

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but if it's people in your social circle that give you the feeling of wanting to logout after you've logged in, then yeah i can understand that

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(though a server transfer and a name change may partially fix that)

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also if it's "social", it's new and janky, but you may want to also try bitcraft online

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i've recently made my first character there and right off after logging in, i see my chatbox being very active with server chat

tired slate
fierce olive
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maybe watching a recap would help for that

tired slate
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Maybe, but it's less about story

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more, idk, I don't even recall what I was up to, what half of the stuff in my inv was for, what to do now, etc

fierce olive
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yeah it's a "you" thing i guess, i certainly dont have that issue (for example in WoW) whenever i come back every 2 expansions (i skip 1 usually)

fierce olive
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once you get re-oriented what each of your stuff does, and what each item or currency is for

tired slate
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Yeah, but also having to re-acquire all the things can be a pain hah

fierce olive
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then go back to your main

tired slate
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like mounts from farming stuff or w/e

fierce olive
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if anything most of the junk in your inventory is just teleport tickets maybe, free food and potions, free gear chests (open to get gear for current class), or those allagan piece of metal/silver/copper things that you just sell for ingame money to the npcs

tired slate
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ah, right

fierce olive
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if you've been killing open world mobs then you'd probably have a lot of crafting materials as well

tired slate
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Still wish the game had fox girls :P (yeha you can mod that in, but eh, then only you and/or people on Mare can see it)

fierce olive
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if you're primarily socialising, then you'll probably see a lot of people with Penumbra and Mare eitherway

tired slate
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Maybe, yeah

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Thouhg my socialising tended to be with random people not at clubs or w/e

fierce olive
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console people aside

fierce olive
tired slate
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Haven't really played Dawntrail yet, how are healers doing? xD I recall in Endwalker they felt more and more unimportant, barely needed to heal some tanks in dungeons cause selfheals an stuff

fierce olive
tired slate
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Well depends on if those complaints are based on raiding or dungeoning I guess too

fierce olive
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you still for the most part throw your DoT and spam your spammable dps skill (glare/broil/malefic/etc.)

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as for "healing" in content, this expansion's savage raid and extreme trial mechanics will have you busy being an actual healer

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while juggling mechanics and your role

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there's still downtime where you do nothing but spam your dps skill but it's fewer and far in between compared to endwalker

tired slate
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I see

fierce olive
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as for dungeons and more casual content, the dungeons in dawntrail have more interesting and refreshing mechanics compared to all previous expansions (comparable to when stormblood introduced fresh new, not recycled mechanics)

tired slate
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I do notice newer dungeons tended to not have any side paths

fierce olive
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sooo they're fun the first few times around, but like any dungeon content you will get used to them and they will be second nature one day

tired slate
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And the reworks of older dungeons made them worse too heh

fierce olive
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ah yeah dungeons for the most part are still, hallways with 2 packs of trash in between bosses

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i was mostly talking about the boss fights

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lol

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if you will be doing savage content and doing extreme trials, healer is probably one of the more exciting roles

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is basically the tl;dr

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for healers this expansion

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with tank being the most boring

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cause atleast ranged dps (both physical and casters) have some mechanics to do

tired slate
fierce olive
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the feeling of healers being "optional" is less felt in dawntrail

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for dungeons and casual content i mean

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lol

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warrior is still broken with self healing for dungeons so that hasnt changed

tired slate
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f

fierce olive
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but even then, with the harder than usual mechanics, a mediocre tank and party can still die if not healed up

tired slate
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Would you say people are chatty in RO private servers? xD

fierce olive
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but if you happen to be at the time when most players are active, then on p.server, the #server-chat can be very chatty

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official (iRO) does not have a server chat though

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so it's a bit more lonely over there

tired slate
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Hmm

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Local chat tends ot be nicer

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Server chat, I mean, I oculd also just use discord then xD

fierce olive
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on some p.servers they link discord chat and the ingame server chat via a bot

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well 1 channel of the server's discord atleast

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so it will feel kind of connected

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but yeah i get what you mean

fierce olive
tired slate
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OSRS could be neat, just zero interest in the super grind gameplay of it XD So RO or FF14 are the more likely options

fierce olive
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you can try eso again for another spin as well

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but yeah in everygame it really just depends if you're there at the right place and at the right time lol

tired slate
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Yeah, probably

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Some just seem easier with it maybe

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Like WoW usually has some talk in zone chat but felt quite little "walk up to someone" talk

tired slate
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Wonder how chatty people are on Everquest 2 🤔

fierce olive
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i've only played on the p99 eq1 p.server so no idea about eq2, and im not sure if anyone in this discord current plays eq2 to have an idea about how social it's population is... maybe @sleek shoal though LOL

tired slate
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I did hear some people say it's still being played at least heh

sleek shoal
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Whomst pinged me

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Oh

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Yeah Everquest 2 is a fucking desert

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I've geniuenly never felt so alone playing an MMO before

tired slate
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f

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Kinda expected since I never hear anyone talk about it

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But I did seem to see a comment or two on some YT video ro so going "EQ2 is still being played!!"

young brook
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Super late to the party

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But hang out in the most bustling cities in BDO

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You will always find people doing literally anything but grind in the game just chilling

tired slate
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Hm interesting

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My memory of BDO cities was lots of people being afk grinding/fishing xD

bright belfry
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I always remember BDO trying to talk politics and demonstrating that they're all a bunch of a kids with the compassion of a rock.

young brook
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Which is what you do when youre too tired to do anything productive but need to be chronically online

tired slate
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Right

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Idk, might have to check again too. Didn't play that muhc of BDO cause of how grindy it was and some other stuff

young brook
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Yeah, I dont play it myself anymore

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But the last 3 months of my gametime was mostly talking shit in the lifeskill chat and interacting with people in Velia

tired slate
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I see