At the moment, I haven’t played for roughly a week, and I’m not really sure why. I love mmorpg’s, however, I’m beginning to think that I may be done with with genre for a while. I have been really enjoying Aion so far, but I think it’s just a mental block of getting involved in an mmorpg again.

After playing WoW for nearly 4 years, you begin to be spoiled with content. I can’t help but compare a lot of the features and play style to WoW, it’s instilled into my conscious. I find myself only playing Aion now for only about an hour max before loosing interest.

Another thing which I think attributes to my lack of interest in mmo’s in general is that I’ve also begun to be much more involved in my own web projects. I’ve stepped up my involvement with my work and freelance designs. Also, I think it’s because I don’t really feel like leveling at the moment, I just want to experience end game content.

Have mmo players become too spoiled?

Just recently I read that Warhammer is allowing you to take something like apprenticeship, which allows you to temporarily participate in higher level battles. This works by raising you to the level and ranks required to play these battles, this also works the other way by deleveling you to play in lower level battles.

So what does this mean? Because of social media, we’re always tightly connected with friends and online acquaintances. As I sat late night in WoW, I realized that I treat it more as an interactive instant messenger than a video game. I think because I haven’t really met anyone new in Aion, that I don’t have as much interest.

But that’s another thing. I don’t really want to get to know a whole new group of people. I do miss my old guild, but those days are long gone. I guess I’m just babbling, so excuse my sidetrack, and let’s talk about Aion for a bit.

Jumping into Aion

Since I last played, Aion has been patched so that personal shops now have a timer. This will stop people from abusing it just to stay AFK in game without being disconnected. Although I like the idea of personal shops, I don’t want other people to not be able to play the game because of queues, while someone is AFK for hours.

One thing I noticed which was very interesting is that when I bump my graphics to all of the maximums, it almost runs better than when I run it with everything on bare minimum. I don’t really mind running everything on low because I rather sacrifice graphics for a smoother game play. I do need to buy a new computer soon, so I’ll have to keep an eye out and start putting away a bit of money.

When I last left off, I had recently reached level 17.

One thing that I’ve been really loving about the Spirit master is the DP ability: Spirit Armor of Light I.

This makes my pet go into hyper drive, that wrecks everything in its path. Combined with my new ability Summon Fire Energy I, which creates these two balls of fire which do damage to a target, I can really wreck mobs. Because the summon is able to handle mobs by itself more proficiently, I now do multiple pulls. Doing multiple pulls allows me to keep increasing my DP so by the time the first Spirit Armor of Light I wears off, I can use it again.

Sidenote: Why the hell doesn’t Aion have swimming?!

I’ve been leveling up my extracting as I go so that I don’t have to go back and do it later. I recommend you do the same, since you find stuff along the way anyways. You’re also able to sell these items for a pretty piece as well. Additionally, some quests require that you extract some of the zones items, so that’s basically free exp!

I make my way to Zumion Canyon, and boy does it look really great:

One major gripe that I have with the game at the moment is that the quest tracker seems very vague at times. Some quests have plenty of information, while others tell you basically “it’s somewhere”. I don’t mind reading into the quests, but when you have a quest log of 20 or more, you begin to loose track. With only the option of looking at completed and in progress, I wish there was a better way to organize your quests besides just having them display a snippet on your screen. But as the wise METHOD Man said, you gotta concentrate on getting the power of booty in yo common ass.

I’ve also noticed that there seems to be a ton of gold spammers now as well:

Anyway, I only put in a few quests before I realize that it’s almost 3:30pm and I need to be up early in the morning o.O

That’s all for tonight, I should be able to get some time in tomorrow

Cya everyone!

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