AoC & EQ: Never thought I’d group those two
I’m trying hard not to give up on AoC. It’s beautiful, that’s for sure, lots of quests, but it’s buggy - you know it is.
Mike and I played AoC this weekend instead of our regular WoW Pally/Druid. We’ve been playing this AoC pair for a few weeks. We work shared missions, if we can find any. We’ve finally gotten out of Tortage. I’m looking forward to seeing what the real world brings. We each had to quit the game a few times because of graphic anomalies.
Unfortunately, Monday AoC patches mean we’ve not been able to play, as a full group, for weeks. We three live in far flung time zones. I’m the furthest west. As soon as I get home from work it’s time to play. A long patch means we can’t play AoC. The boys live in the real world and have higher-speed Internet connections than I can get here in Alaska. Friday is our other fight night, but as it’s Friday we get to play a little longer than on Mondays - perfect for a WoW instance.
We are still committed to reaching level 70 in WoW, switching to some other game full time just isn’t in the works yet. We are level 66 though and are starting to think about what the future will bring. Starting over in WoW for the forth time is being considered, but not with overwhelming excitement.
Sony is having ‘welcome back’ events on a few of their games, including EQ. Mark was first, then me, Mike is downloading the game now. I suspect we’ll play EQ a few times between now and July 25, the end of the event. Mark and I went on a little run today with two testbuffies, we play on Test. It wasn’t easy remembering how to play EQ. I’m playing a Druid, I demanded we have SoW, and I’m sitting, meditating for mana, most of the time. My part of the fight is to Dot the mob, when they comes in, and throw a snare if needed. Other than that, I just watch. At least I don’t have to look at the book. When EQ first came out, casters sat, looking at a picture of a book, until they reached level 35. That’s so crazy. Enchanters, who are crowd control for a group, couldn’t even see how many mobs were in the fight. This was before we had voice chat as well. Ancient history, fondly remembered.