Yeah, dying could set you back massivly since it’s not very lenient where the graveyards are located at all.
But it’s also one of the few RPG’s where dazed doesnt exist as a mechanic. Your mount can technically die/get you knocked off, but you dont get stunned or slow, intead you make a rolling animation that doesnt reduce your movement speed.
It also has unlimited rep grind, no real timegating(no limit since most rep also has rep gaining items you can grind as long/how much you want).
Laurelin was where we played. One of my friends recently went back and is RPing there again but I suspect it’s still a very small community.
The size of the community actually made the drama a lot more devastating and impactful, I’d always hear them on teamspeak complaining about it. At least in WoW the community is large enough that if you find bad eggs, you can easily go elsewhere and never need to interact with them.
Also falling off ledges broke your legs and significantly slowed your movement speed with the duration of the slow depending on how far you fell. That sound is still ingrained into my mind.
I played on Laurelin as well, and it’s where I got my characters.
From what I remember, there was some drama time to time in the /world chat, but nothing in particular I remember.
Oh yeah, I forgot that mechanic too. It’s a neat concept instead of just pure fall dmg but could get annoying.
I also did one or two dungeons, and they felt kinda vanilla wow-like. Simplistic in a way, but somewhat fun.
I also quite liked the ledger/achivement system.
Barrow Downs instance forever haunts my dreams.
I also remember being creeped out/struggling a bit with the dungeon near Weathertorp/the border to the trollshaws. Also had a bunch of wraiths and undead.
I played a minstrel so I had a hard time with pretty much everything tbh.
This image is a peeve.
https://i.redd.it/q2crytuktr251.png
They’re being a little obvious with that.
I played a Beorning, so everything was quite easy for me. Really broken class before it was nerfed again. Could normally pull like 10 enemies of my own level and solo them.
I never played during that era, I stopped playing around the same time Moria was released.
Oh, this was recently lol 
I played like, a year or so ago, when Mordor was just getting released/pre-release and it was still that broken. It’s been nerfed now, but the issue was that not only did you have really high dmg and super tank while in bear form, but you had two seperate self heals, one in bear form(which is nerfed now) and one in human form that was a HoT which lasted over to bear form(no longer does)
At this point, I don’t think I could genuinely get into another MMO unless it’s functionally identical to WoW in gameplay and accessibility. Games like SWTOR and ESO feel a lot more novelty to me - there’s fun features, like the storylines in the former and the PVP in the latter - but they just don’t hold up.
i quite enjoy FF14.
but it’ll never replace WoW.
This is exactly my problem. I’ve been playing WoW for so long and so intensely that I was just never able to transition to another MMO beyond a brief dalliance. SWTOR, LOTRO and Wildstar (rip) all pulled my attention and I desired to make the move, but it just didn’t work.
I’ve been in the system too long, I don’t know how to live on the outside.
Transistion over to Runescape.
I’ll get really excited about this new and shiny thing, and I’ll go there for a week - maybe even a month - but finally I lose steam because there’s just too much going on and I don’t have the patience to learn an entirely new MMO.
I lived my Runescape days already, long ago. Runescape was peak MMO for me before I realised there were better games out there.
Such a big agree on this. I tried to move to ESO but I got overwhelmed by it so quickly. I don’t know everything about WoW anymore, but I know more than enough that I always feel comfortable and never out of my depth.
That feeling is invaluable to me.
Worse still is where games for a while basically replicated the WoW formula of gameplay like SWToR did, where it had the inverse effect. It was overly familiar and it lacked the finesse that I was used to so was unappealing.
A big issue for me with trying new MMO’s as well is that alot of them have like a 70-100 GB download(Modern games really like to push as big game sizes as possible) so not only does it takes literal days for me to download, but also take up most of my computer hardrive, so its not worth the trouble.
I’m terrible for my attention-span when it comes to different games. If I can’t work it out immediately, I start to get frustrated – only a few games I’ve soldiered through to start having fun.
It’s fine when it’s a multiplayer survival game (like Conan Exiles or H1Z1) because I can find a sharp object and run around while Lotheridan RPs a construction worker and builds for me, but if I’m expected to accomplish things for myself…
just want a relationship like this tbh
We are pretty #goals it’s true.