The Great MMO Search of 2008, looking for an alternative to the WoW Career

As you may have guessed from the title I am going on a little quest of sorts. A quest to find a better fantasy game than World of Warcraft. So may say it can't be done I personally beg to differ WoW has become more of a career than a game with players having to spend countless hours grinding away for little return.

With that said I have already found my Sci-Fi refuge in Tabula Rasa which is by far the most fun I have ever had in an MMO, but sometime you need an alternative, a side track to prevent burn out. For me normally I have a main MMO and a secondary which I may or may not keep a subscription to or just enough to prevent character deletion. Usually my second game fills some gaps that the 1st has or it just something completely different. In the case of my new quest I am looking for a good Fantasy game that I can alternate with the Sci-Fi game I love.

So Here is the quest, I am going to do as many trials or fantasy based MMOs. I am talking game that are in full release with an established community. I will give each game a full try for the length of the trail post my feelings here and then move on to the next. After a few months I should have a fair grasp on each game and can make a educated decision. For the readers out there I hope to offer and incite into some games that may have been forgotten and new games that people may have written off.

The Great Quest of WoW alternative Finding
Current Candidates and the order in which they will be played

• Dark Age of Camelot--Where WoW got a lot of there ideas on how they do things. To much like WoW to be worth playing for to long
  
• Dungeons and Dragons Online
• Everquest
• Asheron's Call
• Lineage 2
• Everquest 2
• Lord of the Rings Online

EVE Online...Yea I know its not a fantasy game but I have to give this game a full try.

More will be added as they are discovered.