I once farmed the Flowing Black Silk Sash for 30 hours straight, but never got it. 
Man, that game was epic back then. Those raids without player caps were craaazy! And because dying was actually a big risk, dungeons and raids were really scary!
Only Swtor. Still the one of the few mmo out there that has insane potential, too bad they pretty much abandoned it. If it would have the same amount of content as WoW, i would most likely quit WoW for it.
It’s still pretty good to pick it up sometimes for the class stories.
A number of them were long time Everquest players. WoW simply followed Blizzard’s old adage “take something niche and make it accessible/cool”. In a way, old Blizzard was like Apple (at least Apple under Jobs) in that they didn’t necessarily innovate, but rather took existing genres and gave them ludicrous amounts of mainstream appeal.
Blizzard of old really just loved specific genres and wanted everyone else to enjoy them too.
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Swtor
Warhammer
Ffxiv
ESO
Wildstar
I played them all. Best classes were on warhammer hands down. I wish ea didn’t butcher this mmo as well as the devs.
I’m just glad that this game at least is not like eso.
While eso had a lot of potential, the devs are super lazy, and the forums became more and more censorious, clear signs that they do not care what the community has to say, and for me it’s a clear sign of degrading quality when the devs start being super butthurt about mild stuff. The server performance is still garbage since a long time ago, they clearly don’t care at all.
Apparently saying that the devs are being lazy when they are is harassment, or talking badly about the changes they have made also is. Unless you are being super respectful in their words… Like come on, grow a pair, you are an adult, and are making a really bad job, at least be conscious about it.
Anyway, the numbers reflect their work, and eso is not doing that well, the active member count has been barely growing in the last few years since morrowind, and every game has had an influx during the lockdown, so growing by 20k players a year is really not good.
And i think with this next oblivion patch they are most likely out of bullets for nostalgia.
OMG how could I forget FBSS? You were lucky if the spawn point in Guk wasn’t camped tbh. On my server it was pretty much occupied 24/7. Back in those days gamers were a polite sort and if someone was camping the spot you left them to it. I remember “Camp call” in general chat and you’d see who was camping what!
Yeah I agree the world was scary as heck which added to the feel of pride when you were a capable soldier. I’d solo in the Plane of Disease just because I could, or Plane of Justice in the hope of getting some Lightly Weighted Polearms to sell cause they were the twink weapon of choice for level 1 to 50 for 2 hand classes and you could make some coin from them for sure.
FBSS was like 30k platinum I recall on my server, it was pricey as heck cause of that sweet sweet haste. My brother had it on his wizard but I never got it!
aww i loved those two. 
i really did love Ultima Online though. i played the crap out of that game. tbh i would ditch wow for such a game anytime again.
SWTOR and Wildstar would be my only honorable mentions as well.
I’ve always been a huge SW fan so I always ever wanted a SW mmo to exist, I didn’t play Galaxies and when I got to SWTOR I already played WoW and the world had an empty feel to it in comparison.
Wildstar also caught my attention, it got great review and I loved how it looked, felt original, but I was cautious about it because I didn’t want to invest my time in a fresh grind that I wasn’t sure would last. I was right, the game was dead very soon, kinda sad.
Beside wow, i play Guild Wars 2 too. I like dying armors and mounts, So colors fits wel. Love de mounts with their own skills too. But there I miss pet battlles
In the past i have played Forsaken World and for a short time Aion
I’m still playing Blade & Soul & Black Desert Regularly
Games that i’ve put some time into long ago but have not touched for many years now
ESO
Swtor
Vindictus
Neverwinter
Other than wow none but I liked other genre like rts, shooting, moba etc from other companies.
I tried Gw2 and Lotro and both are enertaining. Gw2 is much better, you can enjoy it if you are casual player. LOTRO id great but from my perspective you got to pay lot of money to enjoy it fully. There is IMHO no other mmorpg that can match wow.
I used to play dc universe online.
It was fun.
But that game had the unfortunate problem of being too much oriented around daily quests.
But at least, it had a much better gearing system in play. an actual vendor to buy stuff from in every patch.
Rift specially Bard class, Tibia years ago, eso, ff14, Aion
Also a few free ones such as Requiem bloody mare, Perfect world international, Knight Online
I currently play FFXIV, ESO, & Guild Wars 2. Back in the day I played classic Runescape and LOTR online.
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Lineage2 for its amazing pvp systems (which was heavily shifted towards open world pvp and massive battles). It was also endless salt mine, which motivated everyone even more. Because of L2 I can’t stand WoW non-existant pvp. Plus these endless grinds forced players to get into groups (even from low levels) and chill, chat, have fun - I talked with people much much much more while killing 10000s of the same mobs with 8 other people than I do in WoW during a m+ key or raid. And at every moment enemy clan party can come to fight, or you go hunting in nearby rooms to clean house and continue farming ^^.
Though these grindy games might be a bit borring to play alone, but they are not meant to.
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Sadly WoW pvp is miles behind what old L2 pvp already had (sieges, wars, guild wars, epic boss pvp fights, olympiad and heroes, PK’ing others). I just can’t stand wow pvp, when I was in these 50v50, 100v100 200v200 battles for years in L2.
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Ultima online, star wars galaxies, pirates of the burn seas are 3 I really enjoyed I tried swtor which was good for about a month then most of the players left.
Rift- played till lev 60- i quit when it went free with micro.
Beautiful world and class design, amazing pve.
Had potential.
I played some eso- enjoyable experience and nice vibe. But clunky.
As a side mmo i play from time to time gw2.
The music, the zones and class design its awsome.
Its just a chill mmo, tough end game lacks- if gw2 had faction vs faction world pvp and stiff would be amazing, end game gets staled fast.
Played some ffxiv- nice story and amaizng dungeons- clunky chars.
Warhammer online but the game didd to fast. Best pvp period.
Im gonna level in gw2 just to chill, sub runs out and im
Burnedout with this expansion in wow, to bad.
Gonna give tbc a try for nostalgia.
Gluck!
I’ve tried out FF, RuneScape and ESO, but none of them have stuck.
I’ve played WoW since November 2007 and, whilst I have had breaks in between since then, it is the only MMORPG I’ve kept coming back to. WoW for me has more meaning. It’s where I met my partner in Goldshire. It started out as a guild invite, fast forward to 14 years later and we’re still together and have 4 children.
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