If you've enjoyed WoW, D2, Guild Wars, Final Fantasy, or Everquest, I urge you to look into Runes of Magic.

Basically, RoM, wraps the best of all those games together!

RoM has :

Great Graphics ( Much better than WoW )

Detailed Character Customization ( Your character can still be unique in a world of millions )

Dual-Classing ( You can have a Primary and a Secondary, using skills from both, and being able to switch between the two! )

Crafting ( Making your own gear from gathered materials )

Runes ( To put into sockets, like in D2 )

Transmuting( To create more powerful items! )

And best of all, it's 100% Free! RoM well NEVER cost money to play! Not even for an expansion! It's free to download on the official site.

The game DOES have a cash shop ( It does need a little support for being so damn good, and FREE after all. ) The Cash Shop is NOT needed to level fast, OR to get good gear. My character is lvl 43W/29K with NO help from the cash shop to lvl whatsoever!

If you're interested, here's some helpful links :

Official Site : http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/index.html

Official forum : http://forum.runesofmagic.com/index.php

How to install : http://forum.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=20712

Official sources to download : http://forum.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=11658


I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has about the game, just PM me or post here!

Note : I play Artemis PvE Only. so if you would like in-game help ( Free items, free gold, free quest help, etc etc ) You need to make your character on that server, otherwise I cannot assist you!

It should also be noted that PvE DOES NOT mean it's only Player vs. Monster. All PvE means is you have to AGREE to a battle, where as in PvP realms you can get ganked anywhere-anytime. When you die in PvP, the other player can loot your items. Just something to think about before deciding.

This post was edited by Makemetalmusic on May 13 2009 07:16am

Great Graphics ( Much better than WoW )

i used to play wow, then i tried out rom for a bit and wows graphics are SOOOOO much better

i play on the highest settings on both games on a 19" monitor and wows graphics easily surpass runes of magic graphics on a low to medium setting...EASILY

stop spreading false information

Are you high? I have a SAPPHIRE HD 4870 1G GDDR5 PCI-E, which I guarantee is way nicer than your card, I run 4GB of RAM on a 22'' LCD 2MS 10:1 LCD screen. I'm sorry that your trash rig can't enjoy RoM's graphics in full, but don't take your anger out here because of it.

totally agreed ive started playing RoM recently and it does surpasses WoW in a lot of aspects on a pretty much same engine ameliorated! try it out!!!!!

can you post an s/s and your settings?

i have a older 4870 x2 so i must have missed a setting or something....

I can take a really shitty picture of my rig yeah, gonna take a day or two though. Camera isn't at my house.

If you run RoM in LOW on everything, it looks terrible beyond reason. On High though, it's pretty up there as far as MMORPG'S go. It's not quite on par with perfect world's gfx, but it's very close.

Make sure you scale the resolution to fit your screen, that might have been the issue. Also make sure you have blending/shadowing on and everything else at max.

hmm i guess i got it to pretty good graphics at a low res in windowed mode but something is always messed up

like sometimes my character looks TERRIBLE but others look good, and then when i change the graphics settings they dont apply.

I know exactly what you're saying, my gf's laptop has the same issue. Idk what it is, I agree I think it's a glitch with the interface not accepting the changes. What OS are you running?

xp pro

think ill try updating my drivers quick

Lmk how that turns out.

Everyone else, please look into this game, it's alot of fun.