02.12.07
Have Guild Will Travel
Wondering where all of your guild leaders have wandered off to? We have been running the gamut of currently available games looking for some alternative fun to CoH. Don’t get me wrong, we still love The Cheese but needed a break to keep it fresh.
We have wandered through several games, trying different things including Titan Quest (Diablo III), Final Fantasy XI (Don’t ask about this one, it was sad!) and have finally found a new home in World of Warcraft. Whodathunk? We are really enjoying the game, it is a big world with lots to do and see. The most unfortunate part is that the team cap is 5!! We have been joined by a good friend of Soa and 8th’s which put us, with all leaders accounted for to a total of 6. This has been an issue that we have not been able to overcome yet. We have essentially had to split into 2 groups. . .Soa, 8th and “Intendant” (We have not yet discovered a pattern, or a true name for this one yet. . .ha ha ha) forming one. Vi, Slave and Hot in another and joined occasionally by Hot’s family members. . .
Another definite disadvantage is a definitive lack of travel power until level 40 (!?!?!?). And the worst part is that they don’t minimize travel to offset this. There is a lot of running around, and around and around and then back again (Remember whining about having to run across a zone before level 20? Yeah, that’s cake compared to some of the running we have done in the past coupla weeks). Still hoping that this will be resolved at some point but I’m kinda thinking that since the game has been around for several years and is at 8 million+ subscribers it’s not very likely to be changed soon. Now, I do have to admit that they have provided some travel in the form of public transportation. That is primarily from major city to major city. There is also transport from the smaller cities although that does cost to use. Even with that travel help, it takes a long time to get from place to place. And since all off the different races start in different areas there are times when one of us must literally run across the world at an early level to meet up with others so we can group.
Now that I have talked about all of the things wrong with the game let me talk about what they have done right. All of the classes and races are designed so that they can all be solo toons. Even the healers have enough attack power that they can level on their own if necessary, not that you general solo for long as a healer. However, I have a healer in CoH parked at level 6 since all of the guildies around that level have bypassed me. There is no way with that toon that I can really solo and none of us are really great at PuG’s since we aren’t usually really social people (Vi and 8th are the exceptions to this particular rule. Mostly Vi. . .Have no idea where she finds all those people!). The quests are fairly simple and you can kill of several at a time if you do it right. Levelling is fairly straightforward, so far have not had issues with feeling like “Can I just please level already dammit!”. Overall it is working out to be a good fit for us.
Anyway, no real point to this post especially since the posts have been dead for 8 months and the only people that usually read them are currently running WoW with us but since I am at work and bored outta my mind it’s given me something to do for the last half hour. Now I only have to kill off another 6 hours and I’m set!