Post by wilbane on Jul 10, 2009 8:11:00 GMT -5
I was out shopping for a new server and new play opportunities and happened across Surface (your server tag line did a good job of catching my eye even though practically no one was on the server at the time). I dropped in and have developed a love/hate relationship immediately (I actually mean that in a good way).
I killed a few things, collected my bone chips (very nice that it's repeatable for more bags ... thanks!) and started the travel and collect quests without a clear understanding of why I was doing it other than it seemed like fun (looking back I now realize that I was told in a masked way that it would acceletate my leveling but either I'm dense or it was so veiled that I missed it).
Let me pause here for a second ... as I collected bone chips and started the newbie leveling I almost quit. Experience was painfully slow, I swear even slower than live, I could do no damage and was killed over and over (started a halfling but did #zone qeynos2 to move to where I like to start). Something is really wrong there or I had the worst luck of any starting character in the game. At this point I was curuious where the starting quest would take me so I rolled a cleric on a second account to 2-box. Level 3 still took me almost an hour with the 2-box but at least I quit getting killed so much.
Back to the travel and collect quest ... great job on it, lots of fun, well constructed and incredible rewards. Thanks also for remembering the skills ups to go along with the level. I'm now at the PoD step and level 54, I've got a boat load of plat in the bank and a naked newbie so i did some vendor farming for starter items (mostly trash but better than nothing) and headed to Velketor to work on skill ups, get some earned experience and easy basic gear on old world low hitpoint mobs. Again the exerience observation, 10 kills at the entrance yielded absolutely no experience (am I bugged?) but the skill ups were coming along nicely and I did pick up a couple of pieces of armor but not the venomous Axe i was hoping for.
So, I had fun, the quest is great and well thought out so far but bak to the concerns, am I bugged and why no experience from kills, did I miss a step or quest on gearing up or was it intended that I pause here at 54 with a newbie sword and die a lot as I go in search or weapons and armor?
I think I'll continue to explore the server but I'm really torn at this stage.
Thanks thouhg I was looking for a different experience and so far that's definitely what I've found.
I'm not going to complain about #scribespells or #traindisc yet. I did do some reading in the forum and since that is the intent and one of the challanges of the server I'm going to try and take it in the way it's intended (as part of the adventure) although i can see how it would be a major tunr off to some people.
I killed a few things, collected my bone chips (very nice that it's repeatable for more bags ... thanks!) and started the travel and collect quests without a clear understanding of why I was doing it other than it seemed like fun (looking back I now realize that I was told in a masked way that it would acceletate my leveling but either I'm dense or it was so veiled that I missed it).
Let me pause here for a second ... as I collected bone chips and started the newbie leveling I almost quit. Experience was painfully slow, I swear even slower than live, I could do no damage and was killed over and over (started a halfling but did #zone qeynos2 to move to where I like to start). Something is really wrong there or I had the worst luck of any starting character in the game. At this point I was curuious where the starting quest would take me so I rolled a cleric on a second account to 2-box. Level 3 still took me almost an hour with the 2-box but at least I quit getting killed so much.
Back to the travel and collect quest ... great job on it, lots of fun, well constructed and incredible rewards. Thanks also for remembering the skills ups to go along with the level. I'm now at the PoD step and level 54, I've got a boat load of plat in the bank and a naked newbie so i did some vendor farming for starter items (mostly trash but better than nothing) and headed to Velketor to work on skill ups, get some earned experience and easy basic gear on old world low hitpoint mobs. Again the exerience observation, 10 kills at the entrance yielded absolutely no experience (am I bugged?) but the skill ups were coming along nicely and I did pick up a couple of pieces of armor but not the venomous Axe i was hoping for.
So, I had fun, the quest is great and well thought out so far but bak to the concerns, am I bugged and why no experience from kills, did I miss a step or quest on gearing up or was it intended that I pause here at 54 with a newbie sword and die a lot as I go in search or weapons and armor?
I think I'll continue to explore the server but I'm really torn at this stage.
Thanks thouhg I was looking for a different experience and so far that's definitely what I've found.
I'm not going to complain about #scribespells or #traindisc yet. I did do some reading in the forum and since that is the intent and one of the challanges of the server I'm going to try and take it in the way it's intended (as part of the adventure) although i can see how it would be a major tunr off to some people.