Besides, don't you just chat with them while you're out on your own with henches? Or do you actually team up with them too, apart from the occasional newbie helping? Just wondering.
As for Satis not caring about wanting me in his pet guild...i know he does, just playing hard to get again.
Anhoo...my monk is lvl 16 or something and at the first mainland mission. Still n00b armor.
Some thoughts:
->being a monk is so freaking weird. I have to watch my own health bar, wtf?
-> I suddenly get INVITED at missions by parties...that didn't happen with my war, necro or ele, let alone my mes.
->Factions is fun so far, but I have (or have had) grudges with some things. For one, it's too hard. I mean, sure that they want to make it challenging but I don't wanna be forced to be paying COMPLETE attention all the time to avoid yet another party wipe. Pve isn't PvP dammit and it shouldn't require much coordination...bleh. I'm also thinking about ppl who never played GW before here, they suddenly powerlevel to lvl 20 in a tracherous environment and no game experience at all. I'm sure there are gonna be quite a few new players choking on the difficulty.
-> the bosses doing insane dmg...well, I agree that they should do a little more dmg than your average dmg, but the way it is now is freaking insane. I had an ele or smiting monk boss (forgot) one-hit my monk for 658 dmg. WTTTFFF? Ok, i was wearing n00b armor but dude!! That's like 2 or three times the max amount of dmg I ever took from a single spell in prophecies, also wearing n00b armor. I say, bring the dmg down a bit.
->the new concept of the huge 'city' combat instance with merchants, NPC's etc spread all over the place with tons of bandit gangs ganking you: It has it's charm, I must admit. At first i didn't even get what was going on, hehe. Then I realized how it worked. But...I can't imagine it being quite as fun when you have to fight your way through hordes of the same bandits time and time again just to get around the city, you know? And the problem is, these guys STAY hard because they're lvl 20. I'm prediciting mass runner investments to finish these "talk to X in the far corner of the city, oh and kill 70 bandits on your path too"quests. So: nice concept, but probably bad in the long run. Or annoying anyway.
->The new henches...I love most of em!! Especially te fighter henchie, Talon Silverwing. Wow, what a guy..erh, bird. Can take good damage, can take care of himself and has some really sweet sword moves. Three thumbs up. And professor Gai is just too sweet not to have aboard.
->The story really started now. It looks pretty involving so far, with flashbacks to the past and everything. And I must say that i'm pretty anxious to (maybe) meet a guy who turned the sea to jade and petrified an entire forest with a single scream. Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Mon May 08, 2006 3:26 am
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