I took it a bit easy today because I was really exhausted after getting home from work, however, I did manage to put in about 2 1/2 hours

I am what you would call a “Casual Gamer”. It wasn’t always like this, nooooo sir! I used to play my PSX/N64/Sega/NES/SNES until early morning, which is probably why I have such bad insomnia these days. As I progressed from consoles to computer, I found a home in Everquest. From there, I moved on to SWG. A year here, a year there, and I found myself bouncing between games, until WoW dropped.

After WoW came out, I put easily 9 hours a day in, and that’s even during High School. After HS got over, although I should have been doing something productive, I found myself in a raiding guild, putting in 18 hour days, 6 days a week. Now THAT’S a grind! Flash forward to today, and I’m now a casual gamer. I have too much work to do for my job and the freelance projects I work on to merit calling myself “hardcore”. But I digress, today is about Aion.

Let’s Log In

Well, as expected, I was hit with a queue, which was surprisingly not too bad, only about 400 people in front of me with a wait time of about 30 minutes. Quite glad we chose this server now after hearing all the horror stories from the other servers. So Dez, Mandi and I decided to run some quests. Dez and Mandi had already been leveling during the day to catch up, and were ahead of me by a level, along with a couple quests, but we went back and did the ones I needed to catch up.

I Chose SpiritMaster!

Yup! I decided on Spiritmaster because I’ve always loved pet classes but I haven’t played one for ages. In EQ I was a cleric. In SWG I was a TK but went Creature Handler for a while. In WoW I was a mage and warrior. So this time I wanted to play something that is a bit more support, but would also allow me to solo a lot since I’d be playing casually and may not be able to group as often as I’d like.

I went over and drop a ton of money on my new skills, and grabbed myself a fire elemental.

I paid good money for that mustache.

To Verteron.

Killing crabs, bandits, and all sorts of goofy critters, we got our asses handed too us by some GIANT ENEMY CRAB.

But that’s no biggie, cause it was quite hilarious to see a bunch of other people getting wrecked by him as well.

After about an hour, our quests started to get a bit wonky and out of sync, so we decided to take a look around the Sanctum and I decided to finish up any last quests in Poeta.

Finishing up some Quests

Back in Poeta, I only had a few more quests to do, including a yellow one. After grinding my way through the mine, I collected all the little trinkets and blew up the gate, woop woop. Afterwards, I turned in all of the quests and got a round of applause.

"Good Job" said the weasel demons.

Finally, I went back to Verteron to take a few snapshots, and man, this one really is something else. I gotta hand it to NCSoft for creating a pretty beautiful game. I love the elephant creatures in the background, they’re very Dali.

So that wraps it up for Day 1. GREAT SUCCESS!

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