I think it was summer that I downloaded Runes of Magic. It is a very pretty game, and my husband tells me it reeks of WoW. Sure, there are buttons and chat screens and mini maps and character info bars all neatly where WoW puts them, but I don't see much similarity past that.
I started an Elf Mage named Eromee. I didn't go back to whoever I had started before, because I wanted a fresh opinion of the game. Character customization was fun, not too hard to mess with, but had the potential to get really sticky, depending on how picky you are about your character's looks. Here is the finished gal, all done up in her around level 20 gear.
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| Eromee on her Rent-A-Nag, with her pet Spore Guard giving advice. |
I'm getting ahead of myself. The elf starting area is an island of its own, and I was pretty nearly 15 when I left it. I heard rumors of an experience boost this past weekend, so don't expect the same bang for your time invested. I did finish EVERY quest they had out there, though, and left with some decent clothes and a sexy staff. Pants and Robes on my own, all the rest were quest rewards and drops. I took their zeppelin, which somehow managed to look elven and steampunk at the same time, to Varanas, the main city that I seem tied to right now. Oh, before I left the Elven area, I made sure that if I could craft it, I ran out of items to craft with the resources I gathered there. This kept me from having to craft or gather for a long long time after leaving the homeland.
After hitting Varanas, there were a few errand quests to do that take you all over town, though none of them seemed to help me find some of the things I needed when I hit gathering and crafting caps. The quest log is helpful, in that if you click on an NPC name in it, it will path you to them. Just be careful as you run to stop and gather or kill things, and then restart your hell bent run for that NPC, or you'll die on the way.
Death. There's something I should mention. When you die (I'm not sure what the beginning level of this is at, if you play you'll find out soon enough) you lose experience and training points, and your experience and training point gain per kill and quest turn in go down to help pay off that debt. You should always go back and find your grave stone to get some of that debt refunded to you. It's not such a horrible debt, at least yet, that I haven't been able to repay it within a few minutes. Still it is a tiny setback you should know about.
Skills you gain as you level, and you use your training points to strengthen your abilities. I'm sure I am doing it all wrong, so if I become concerned about the right build, I will write down how they are supposed to be leveled. Right now, I figure I should keep my ordinary skills at max, and probably only max out the skills I like in the mage specific category. Why? Because if I grab that second class, I want the ordinary skills maxed and ready, because I won't have all the fancy fun ones available to me if I change primary classes. Right now, I am only a mage. I'm pretty sure being a rogue or a warrior type would be a bad choice, as their skills aren't even remotely similar. Until I figure out, I'll be a one trick gal, and that is fine by me.
The cash shop is full of fun goodies that so far I haven't needed. Helpful things would be a permanent mount (though you can rent them by the day from a stable keeper) and some extra storage space. Daily quests are available from day one that grant you Phirius Coins, which have their own separate tab in the cash shop, and you can buy mount rentals and other maybe things you might want, like transport and home runes, items to reset point and class choices, experience and talent point boosters, housing items (yes, I have a house! more on that later), and items to upgrade your armor. Personally, after I get a few housing items and I am set on transport runes, I'm saving up for the one and only costume item in the Phirius Coin section, a pair of Heavenly Black Wings. Why? Why not?!
The next category in the shop is rubies. Rubies are given when you purchase items in the item shop(at least I think this is how it works). In here you can find backpack expansions, upgrades, and a slightly larger amount of costumes to choose from. No mounts here, but I figure that either I should cough up the 10 bucks for a regular horse, or just pay for one when I want one, which is pretty cheap, I think. Besides, if I hoard enough gold, I can probably find just about anything I want from the cash shop in the auction house.
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| Down on Grandpa's Farm There Is A Little White Hen. |
I let this sit half written in my browser since Thursday night at 2 am. I have been so busy figuring out how my Spore Guard pet works, and feeding him, and being an absolute noob trying to follow a higher level person through the Forsaken Abbey dungeon (Oh, what fun is that? I totally forgot to finish a quest in there, too :( ), and dying to bad things I should not have died to, and reading every little thing my pet says, that I totally forgot it was here. Yeah, and I was busy caring for a newborn for my slutty Medieval Sim. Really. If you believe that, then I have a farm to sell you, full of chickens that might lay a golden egg for you, and cows and goats that refuse to be milked. More on that later. It's, again, waaaaay past my bedtime.
1 comment:
Well, since he's naked, you could name him Flash or something like that :) I played Runes of Magic for a while. I totally agree that while it looks like WoW at a glance, it does have a totally different vibe, which is hard to explain.
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