occasionally, Satari, Alpha, and my love for the game
For a while, it was making alts and experimenting with builds. But Iāve finally settled on a main (after like 12 characters haha). Now Iām gearing him out. My alt-building has gone from combat classes to shop classes, so now Iām trying to make all of those.
The biggest thing, though, was finding a guild with people I like and playing with them.
Same, itās the experimenting with builds that I like.
Also on your last point, finding like minded people who enjoy the game and forming a decent in game community is top notch.
i find such a question is hard to completely quantifyā¦ but off the top of my heart/head:
[details=what I like]the graphics
story/world
music
game play
the ability to obtain nice loot without having to do raids like in wow
the rarity of some of the loot ( that nostalgia of looting rares returned to me when I started playing tos)
the number of classes and combinations ( have not seem some of the classes in this game on any other game though the amount of mmos I have played is limited)
the ability to name your party
the team system and having one team name for all your character ( makes you feel like players play the game rather than seeing this and that persons character and not even knowing you are playing with someone you already played with + you might develop a good or bad reputation in the community )
I actually to some degree like the idea of some of the afk stuff occurring in this game. to me necros being afk and killing stuff does not feel like a huge issue. I get free loots from them sometimes + they might let you leech exp which is nice of them
all the different kinds of spells and abilities ( there are many neat ones )
world bosses and how bosses in this game are in general
the way mobs explode when you kill themā¦ I often find myself killing mobs for no other reason than because itās fun to kill them + to see what loot they will give me
the types of souls that play this game give me a sense of community and a sense of relating to others if only for the mere fact that they too play and seem to enjoy this game as I do though I am mostly a loner and donāt socialize very much at all
the crafting systemā¦ so many items have an actual purpose if for no other reason than to make some common item and if they donāt have a purpose chances are you can use the item to help upgrade a gem if you wish
the card system though i have never tried out the card game
I like how you loot stuff in this game. clicking on and dragging items to your bag or even having to right click on a corpse feels too tedious to me though looting items needs to, like many things, be more optimized/graceful
this is my first mmo to play with a controller. it feels great and hurts my wrist a lot less than the mouse does
the collection system
I love my characters ( they give me the warm fuzzies )
the meowing of cats in the town of klaipeda
the missions and dungeons
the challenge of the game itself (at least thus farā¦ I have not made it to 300+ because I have been too busy making alts so my highest level is only 215~ish unless you count my battle bird, hes 260ā¦ iām kind of jealous)
the team level system is nice for altaholics that canāt decide what one character to focus on even though I would like to invest all my efforts into one char
the questing system is decently convenient in some ways such as teleportation back to the quest givers
the costumes and hats
the number that goes above you head after you and others kill a boss is cool. I really like trying to get that 1 and am also happy when others outdo me[/details]
thus far with my very limited experience things get harder at higher levels and you might require other actual humans to play with which for someone like me it might be beneficial to do that for a change though iām pretty sure if I play my diev/miko/plaguedoctor as my main that I will hardly need anyone for anything but it still might be nice to play with others in harder content. heck if I play my reset pyro/linker/sage + agni I may not need anyone either. it might be worth playing a op class like clerics in general if for no other reason than that it would be nice to play with others more and to feel useful.
how will things change at higher levels? well i hope that I will actively be part of that change and actually start grouping up and playing with others. thusfar usually when someone ask if I wanna play with them I run away or say no 
. one thing I did not like about all my years of wow is that I was always alone ( besides random ques) itās hard to find good peoples that i love in mmos now. every once in a while when I go back to playing tibia I find someone to play with but more and more iām becoming the overly coffeed up loner noxot the insane cat.
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Are you playing in Klaipeda? My friend and I are currently ~lv100.
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Always
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Iām still hoping for my DOGE class 
until then Iād have to suck all the bs up 
speaking of which, some lonely bastard persisted crashing Istora Map last night. -__- yeah, this too shall be overshadowed by the DOGE
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waiting for rank9 and The release of the Owl pet.
i am here patiently waiting to someday i can spend my hard earned TP and finally wear scout c3 costume
Warningā¦ ( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
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eh
but wasnt pantsu ok back in may?
there even a pantsu threadā¦
who r u, u r imposting as maxā¦
huehuehue
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*Start hiding all my pantsu images *
yeah! Bad @PANDA_isBACK no lewd talk here
ToS is for kids
yupā¦ for the kids
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Mostly hanging with friends, fighting each other, fighting strangers, levelin , questin. I use this game as my chill and relax game
I just like to play my Fencer, i have a lot of fun with its mechanics and just overall love that i can play a class which utelizes a Rapier 
Having a small guild of close friends, and go for WBing or Grinding together while talking in TS is the most fun part of this game.
Get urself some goals (not for urself, but for ur guild - for example farming a 315 orange weapon together, or getting a hamster and raise one or going to gear up and do ET and Demon Lords)
This is why i still play the game!
Jtos is the reason why I still play TOS, still trying to learn kana and trying to find out how to type kana instead of writing in romanji.
I honestly think that the game was meant to be done with atleast one more person with you. In itos i had a cryo kino with linker c2 in it. It was a fun class, but then rank 8 came out and it needed you to be in groups of 5 to do questing and honestly, that was the most fun I have had since rank 8 came out. Its group questing( which includes getting squad wiped by a boss 4 times ), just the way classes would compliment each other was really fun in my experience.
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I still play because Iāve accepted that the game is terrible, and that it isnāt exactly what I want it to be, which allows me to embrace the broken nature of the game and still have fun. As long as Iām not expecting things to work properly, itās easier to not get frustrated and laugh about it instead.
I think the key to enjoying this game is to have as few expectations as possible, to exploit as many bugs as possible, and to laugh about the glaring bugs and problems instead of get mad about them. ā¦and also to not be a meta-slave. Because thatās boring af.
I just got back to playing ToS over the break and I have realized what makes this game so much more enjoyable than other MMORPGs in the market. It is one of the few MMORPGs in which people actually socialize and give a lively feel to the game. In most other action rpgs that come out nowadays, other players would be in a rush to max lvl and are isolated from each other. However, this game encourages teamwork with the holy trinity system of tank, dps, and healer.
What I think IMC needs to work on the most is focusing on optimization and implementing a trading system that cheaters cant take advantage of; because whats a social MMORPG without trading.