I'll be starting again after new year and I'll just give my own explanation of why I first got into it and why I want to come back.
- Questing - I've played MMO's out my a** and used to even play WOW and stuff. You know going through a raid is where you work as a team and depend on each other. Now Arabel when I first came here was the beez knees. You would eventually get large quests, going in dungeons or large expeditions and such, the best part is the party would be half way through and running out of supplies and we'd end up quickly camping or resting and deciding how to get out/finish the quest. The role play doing this and you feel like you're actually there just blew my mind, not to mention death of this server is PAINFUL so you will be working together and actually scared (rl) to die.
^ The stonelands quest was the f**king BOMB, this always ended up having some DM come in to spice it up if they were bored and nearly kill us all, or we'd encounter so many traps/undead that we got stuck between finishing the quest or retreating.
1b. When questing I do know on this server if you've played it a lot, going through frins basement for the 10000th time, you can't expect the person to be so hyped and will rp the crap out of it. I guess most of us are also working 24/7 with a family or some other time consuming thing so we don't all have time to go through quests rping the same thing. BUT, the best part was last time people rped just a little bit, and kept it like I was on an rp server not a farming/action server, this just added the brilliance to Arabel.
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I once had a huge argument with another in the same faction (IC) and the relationship nearly broke and became and huge rivalry. Now after this the player approached me (OOC) On DM and said 'I apologize I actually got mad over this myself and started to get angry at you' After this we laughed and talked. Basically I found more people on this server mature and grown up, to not have grudges or make things personal, I've never found one person who was NOT helpful, polite, personal, sensitive. (Only my experience obviously)
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Arabel was SIMPLE, it was big then, but not SO big that you would bump into other people sometimes doing to quests, walking around being rp gods as always. Was great to see, without having to DM people or anything to meet up. The areas look good and scary sometimes and makes you want to explore. Quests were not ALWAYS in the city which allowed you to go somewhere.
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DM plots of course are just what makes it great again. Even if you're never IN the DM plot you will then find everyone talking about it and somehow get involved. They can even mess up you're well established character but it just adds onto the fun. Got to give a round of applause for the DMs on this server for the time and effort they put in and making things interesting for us normies!
^These are things that I liked about it, sometimes I would use a side char and only quest while rping some mercenary half orc (creative I know) but just doing that and the role play with people on quests was just so great.