Plutoinum
German Cyberdome Corp
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2006.12.13 11:45:00 -
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Edited by: Plutoinum on 13/12/2006 11:47:04
WoW PvE encounters are much more challenging at least until you have developed strategy and teamplay to beat them and are equipped for it.
The bosses use all kind of nasty tricks and sometimes the fight has different phases, where the mob behaves differently. The big instances are not supposed to be finished fast, so they are persistent for some days. One run takes many hours, but you can stop and continue on the next day.
Back in spring 2005, when there was a race towards the first kill of the highest boss (Ragnaros) on the european servers, I think we spend like 2 months in Molten Core or so, learning the instance, from trying to kill the first boss, until finally managing to kill Ragnaros. The guild we were competing with and who managed to kill him 1st on our server, was only 5 days faster. The time to learn to manage those encounters and get all the equipment to survive in the meantime just took so long.
It was always a race between our guilds, who has killed a certain boss first. First attempts were usually plain dying. Whole team annihilated. 
Think nowadays my guild does the whole instance in one evening.
I don't play anymore. After killing Ragnaros a few times my goal was achieved. My guild went on to newer instances that came out, I had enough as it felt like work. My life was dominated by WoW high-level instance runs.
In EVE, PvE encounters, where you need a team of 40 coordinated and well equipped people, just don't exist. I did my first 10/10 complex run successfully. You just needed a good tank and some damage dealers with a lot of support drones. How to do the plex can be explained in a few sentences. There is no coordination/teamplay to train except putting the drones on the tank.
But imho EVE is a PvP game anyway, it would probably just distract from PvP, if such PvE existed.
People would spend too much time with it and with farming once they have learned how to beat the ai easily.
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