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Lineage 2 cover artvsWarhammer Online: Age of Reckoning cover art

Lineage 2vsWarhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Lineage 2 leans Optimization (Mind & Math); Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning leans Optimization (Mind & Math).

EXECUTION4 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Lineage 2Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Lineage 2 leans harder on execution: Auto-attack systems limit individual twitch expression

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Lineage 2 leans harder on variance: Drop rates and spoil variance are historically brutal

Optimization7 vs 7

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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