New Rift expansion is coming out soon.
WoW is really the only MMO worth your time in the end.
New Rift expansion is coming out soon.
WoW is really the only MMO worth your time in the end.
Neverwinter is free and its pretty fun. Not as good as wow of course. The controls for it are similar to skyrim but better. It has pretty cool quests and dungeons. Its free.

Try Everquest 2, it's still excellently designed. And perhaps the last Grand MMO in active live development.

Firefall is an enjoyable experience and definitely worth a try at least if you like shooters. It was the first MMO in quite a long time to suck me in. I burnt myself out on it though after a month of constantly playing, lol. Their f2p system is one of the best.
or that great feeling of owning a certain item you wanted for so long, where I feel that lacks in wow for me at the moment.
yep all the great mount hunts from yester year seem to be replaced in wow now by the cash shop

I am trying to find some MMOs like WoW. Now what I am trying to find is games with a similar interface. Like action bars on the bottom of the screen. Yes, I already know about SWTOR, Rift and LoTRO.
Thanks!
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Last edited by Heathy; 2014-10-03 at 07:56 AM.
Swtor, Rift, FF14, Lotro, Everquest, Aion... /shrug
(Warframe) - Dragon & Typhoon-
(Neverwinter) - Trickster Rogue & Guardian Fighter -

Definitly Rift as the closest to the WoW "feel". Plus, its f2p with a lot of content.
World of Warcraft is a 2nd era MMO. Games like Tera and Guild Wars 2 are 3rd wave MMOs, not like World of Warcraft- or more appropriately, 2nd era game design in the MMORPG genre.
These are actively developed 2nd era MMOs:
Rift
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Everquest 2
Lord of the Rings Online
Runes of Magic
Allods
Perfect World International
Final Fantasy 11
Final Fantasy 14
Lineage 1 & 2
Aion
Age of Wushu
Archeage
Gran Fantasia
Age of Conan
The Secret World
Forsaken World
Champions of Regnum
OP, you say you are already aware of Rift and SWTOR. So barring any objection to those two games, I would recommend those as the finest in 2nd era design that remains a fair value. Provided you have the stamina, Everquest 2, LOTRO and FF14 offer also well made 2nd era design.
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I'd recomend rift UNTIL you reach 40, the lvling from 40 to 60 is just awful, i'm stuck at 57 because i just got tired of it and started to go back to gw2-planetside 2
Cod has a new campaign, new weapons, new multiplayer levels every year. Zelda has been recycling the same weapons, villains, and dungeons since the 80's. Zelda recycles enough to make cod blush. The same weapons, villains, dungeons, and princess in every single Zelda for the most part. It's almost as cheesy as bowser vs Mario round 35

Cod has a new campaign, new weapons, new multiplayer levels every year. Zelda has been recycling the same weapons, villains, and dungeons since the 80's. Zelda recycles enough to make cod blush. The same weapons, villains, dungeons, and princess in every single Zelda for the most part. It's almost as cheesy as bowser vs Mario round 35
it still has an action bar, it might have target-less combat but the concept is exactly the same, level up, get gear, do raids or pvp, the only real difference between wow and tera is that there is more emphasis on personal positioning. in wow, your either grouped or spread out (in which case everything rests on the healers shoulders), in tera you just avoid as much as you can and not be 'that' guy that doesn't move from all the abilities (its quite possible to take zero damage in a boss fight in tera). its like a beat-em-up, where your just dodging slams and frontal cone attacks. or using your immunities when you do fail. (like blink or disengage in tera those abilities make you immune for a second or two.)
the truth is the only game exactly like wow, is wow.
Last edited by Heathy; 2014-10-03 at 07:54 AM.
Honestly, by your analogy, all MMOs are alike :P