Greetings everyone btw!

Old old school player here from Guin, dating back to beta and all those happy times since release. And i caught word of this server, and i have had not a single thought of what it would be like to start DAOC up again but man, i was totally intrigued when i heard about this.

Could i get a quick rundown of it all? Are there plenty of people for good RvR? How is leveling these days? Just a few thoughts on how this is and if its definitly worth delving into would be totally appreciated.

The thought of playing DAOC again excites me like crazy, this was the MMO that set the bar for me...and ive played them all since, and nothing has compared.

So hope to hear from you all!

imo just go and explore
i personally enjoy playing here alot

Well you can start here, or play live, however if you played way back uthgard will be closer to what you are used to.

Hey this is actually my first post, I registered just to let you know this; Me and 4 possibly 5 other buddies who all played this game back when it first came out for years, some longer then others but we all played our fair share. Feel free to hit us up as we all leveling up new chars!
Mangu
Darenenski
Jollygreen
and a bunch more just contact one of these peeps, im the first one.

How are the Ywain servers though? Are they healthy enough to play on? And im assuming emain is still gone from those servers?

We have Old Frontiers and all the classic zones (with 2 custom PvE instances and SI zones on the horizon somewhere) though it's the NF RA set. Battlegrounds are Braemar (20-35,2L2), Wilton (36-43,3L2) and Thidranki (44-49,4L2).
Population is 700+ during Euro primetime though American primetime is a lot lower. Action RvR-wise varies from day to day but there's always some 8v8/zerging in Emain and keep skirmishes in the other zones. Battlegrounds are also pretty popular.

Exping is like you remember from the old days though with decent XP bonusses in the RvR-zones, Darkness Falls and RvR-dungeons.
Depending on when you play finding/building good exp groups can be hard but there's always a decent amount of people in your level range. Levelling to 50 can range from 2 weeks to 2 months depending on how intensive you play ofcourse.

Setharion wrote:How are the Ywain servers though? Are they healthy enough to play on? And im assuming emain is still gone from those servers?

well no one can really say how many plays on ywain.
i would guess about 3-5k+ at primetime.
with NF there are everywhere groups

there is certainly a bit of the old DAoC feel on this server that hasn't existed on live for years. If your goal is to get to 50 and geared up as fast as humanely possible and jump straight into rvr then the old school grind may leave a bad taste. But if you enjoyed meeting folks leveling in groups and helping the community then i think this server is better than live.

RvR off hours can be pretty sparse though.