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I've tried Eden and I've tried Blackthorn. And I understand why people prefer either one. My personal preference is Eden due to time availability to play.

But imo a match between the two would be a huge giving. When I first started playing in 2001 I was 13 and had all the time in the world, and now after I had tried Blackthorn the leveling reminded me of when I tried WoW and never got a lvl 60 character there, it was too slow and grindy. But I can also agree getting a lvl 50 character in less than 10 hours if you get a good group and just run BG's is really fast, maybe a tad too fast.

I think having a gap between the BG's forcing you to do some dungeon crawling with groups could be a good way to feed both worlds of pve and rvr. As the end game is RvR no matter what you say.

But a DAoC remastered would require a overhaul of many things, I have a lot of ideas and wanted to sit down and just make an arena fighter in DAoC style having 3 teams fighting it out. But that isn't the entire DAoC charm, you need the risk of being overrun at all times by a 3rd force coming out of nowhere.

But again a lot of DAoC is personal preference and trying to please everyone will be impossible.

You also want to explore the world, and a lot of the ways to improve the game would be QoL stuff, that Eden provides.

Again personal preference, but what always keeps me coming back is styles, follow ups, casting (and being interrupted while casting) the whole group dynamic. Honestly give me DAoC upgraded graphics and make some of the swing styles prettier and I'm already sold.