Jay Talbot’s Ramblings

Ok, so just as I was getting into WoW, we go out of town and go see my girlfriends parents for Thanksgiving. Bleh! Oh well…. Anyway, I started out playing a Druid, and armed with the knowledge I had from the Beta, got to level 8 in the first 3 or 4 hours playing. With the amount of running around, unless you’re getting a powerlevel, there doesn’t seem to be much of a fast-track in leveling. You pretty much spend most of your time running around doing quests. Anyway, when we got back, Friday evening, I spent most of the night going through levels 9 to 12 just so I could get my bear form (the second part of the quest is really hard unless you either have a group, or you’re level 12 or higher). For those that don’t play WoW, bear and dire bear form is kind of tank form for Druids. It makes you pretty tough, and you can do some decent damage. After running around a clobbering many a mobs in bear form, I got a little bored and decided to see what Hunters were all about.

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Ok, so I broke down and couldn’t resist the 14 day free trial to WoW offered through FilePlanet.com. Unfortunatly, I found out that I will need to buy a box at the store to continue playing after the 2 weeks is up. Like any good dealer, they give you a taste, then stick it to you when you’re hooked. I’m not entirely sure I’ll be able to shell out the $$$ for the box.

So far, game play is pretty much as I expected. It has changed, but not too noticably from the beta 2 and stress tests. It’s a very pretty game, the quests can make you work some, and keep it interesting at low levels at least.

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This could be interesting. A company taking true D&D rules and applying them to a MMORPG is almost unheard of. I never really got into the whole paper and pencil game, mostly because of a bad experience with a bad DM when I was a kid. I opted, instead, to play the CCG, Magic: The Gathering. But still, I revel in the thought of playing this one. I may have to at least bite the bullet, buy it, and try it. I missed out on the stress test because of other obligations. Maybe I can take a break from DAoC for a while and D&D online.

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New Scientist is reporting that, perhaps most, gamers are addicted to the games they play. Ummmmmm…. DUH! I could have told them that! Heh, any of us could have told them that! lol! What I think is interesting about this theory is the fact of the matter, people will get addicted to things they enjoy. I’m a geek, some have called me a hacker, others have called me much, much worse. I’m addicted to technology, although I have to curb it with cheap entertainment, such as DAoC and Secondlife (although SL isn’t really all that cheap if you wanna really create something). I can’t really afford to just buy stuff and tear it apart to see how it works and how I can modify it to be better, and I’m not into pilfering goods for this sort of thing (I dunno. The thought of going the any “pound-me-in-the-ass” prison doesn’t sound appealing).

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Having played DAoC since about a month before Shrouded Isles was released, I have characters on all the different servers, except for the roleplaying servers. *cough*cough* Anyway, many of those servers are now clustered, and now I have “grandfathered” toons in all three realms in each cluster. With a 45 minute wait, it’s possible to logout from one server on the cluster, and login to a different realm and play whatever, including RvR.

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