Dragonborn wrote on Apr 1
st, 2021 at 3:11pm:
This is my first season giving it a try and after a couple hours I have a few take aways.
~ Pretty fun, makes me nostalgic for 2006-08
~ Experienced players used to blitzing forget basic shit like, examining chests before opening, and pay the price.
~ Some fuckers clearly make waaay more money than I do, or at least their parents do.
~ Really enjoying the sense of having to plan a campaign to get to 20.
~~Trying to figure what the safest bet grind build to twenty
~~Picking between offence and defence
~~Planning out which quests to focus on
~~Which items to farm
~~Group or not
~~Etc... lots, haven't spent that much time thinking before doing
~Guilds matter again
~It's exciting to loot and bust boxes
~My main triple-triple comp is a fucking beast.
I couldn't give a fuck about the epeen cosmetics or other rewards, but I really am enjoying the feeling that sucked me into this money pit of a game in the first place.
Building on this,
~A full weekend of permadeath play was pretty gripping, can't remember the last time the old sphincter was knotting up just because I stumbled into a dozen mobs during Manyshot cooldown.
~I am constantly fighting old habits that don't apply, stuff like reflexively farming items my toons won't use... for sales I don't need in one-off lives, and money and shards I don't need.
~I had to fully embrace the risk and roll the dice after I realized I had wasted almost an hour out of 3 hours play running back and forth offloading stuff to the bank so I wouldn't lose it if I die.
~The endless cascade of death notices is fucking hilarious, especially when several lv 6+ ones go at once... TPK!
~ It's easier to go without guild buffs when all that is available is lv35 stuff. Yet at the same time, it is great to see all the teaming up arranged.
~No teaming up for me. I believe I've been able to avoid lag (only one brief instance in the whole weekend) by going solo.
~Never enough AP, seriously, racial past lives have ruined me.
~The low lev Feywild gear is some kinda crazy OP. Was so busy RR'ing and playing at 16-20 I hadn't noticed. In some categories there just no fucking comparison.