Ryzom

In January 2005, I played Ryzom for about 3 weeks.

Think I rolled up 3 toons. A Fyros, a tryker, and I cant even remember the 3rd, or any of their names.
I know that my main toon, the Fyros must have reached level 40, cos he made it to a desert city on the mainland.

Anyway, since then, I have played numerous MMO's :
SWG, EQ2, City of Heroes and Villains, DAOC, EvE, Settlers of Ganareth, Dark & Light, Final Fantasy, WoW, and maybe even a couple others.

It's funny , but I always had that little niggle in the back of my head that I liked something about Ryzom, and intended to return someday.

I have been reading with interest about the Ryzom Ring, and the new starter quests in this patch, and I actually think this may be the time to make my comeback.

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Could someone please tell me :
How is the community now ?
Any friendly UK or English speaking guilds ( with regular players constantly chatting )currently recruiting ?
I freely admit I am not as young a warrior as I once was, and although I will learn enough combat to survive, I would rather concentrate on Harvesting , Crafting and Merchant skills.

My favourite times were the 2 years I spent playing SWG as a Master Tailor/Merchant and Creature Handler.
Mirth Dragonfire - TRIAD Guild , Infinity Server --------(just in case anyone here came from there)
Once I settle in , I may even be able to entice a few of my old guildmates to join up here too.

So, what d'you think ? Can i make a go of it this time ? Can you still recommend Ryzom?
cheers,

Mirth

Sure, there are LOTS of friendly homins out there, congregated into guilds And, as Arispotle is the English speaking server, well, you should find someone to talk to

While it isn't necessarily a good idea to completely ignore the fight skill tree, you can become a pretty good harvester/crafter without fighting too much, you just have to be sneaky, a player skill as opposed to a character (numerical) skill. As for merchants, well, we either sell to the NPCs to resell to players, or post to the Bazaar when we have something good to sell.

I can wholeheartedly recommend Ryzom. Come on back

Welcome back! *huggles*

Hey! same with me, I played Ryzom beta...liked it, but my friends left, because they were playing warriors and warriors were gimped in Beta. If you remeber mages owned everything with Nukes. So I left also...cuz playing without my RL friends is not as fun. I played WoW, EQ, DaoC, Eve, bunch of others with free trials, Ragnarok Online, Silkroad(I loved this game, but then it got too boring with routine same quests)...well, now I hope everything is fixed here and I can come back(downloading the free trial atm). Any sugestions guys? Are the characters and PVP(I love PVP) balanced? Is it not like WoW, where the geeks that play 24/7 get the best loot+best rankings? Is it at least a little skill oriented? Im thinking about going ranged combat? Any suggestions? Prolly make a Matis again...

Welcome both of you!

@captainr
As far as I know, a nuker wins most 1on1 fights while the massive battles are won by the healers. Ranged fighters are useful for disrupting and turn the battles around.

But I am not a dedicated PVP'er, others will give better answers. I use 1h maces mostly and recently found a new love in autolaunchers - it's so fun pulling and killing a 3 mobs at a time while running for your life.