Hearthstone babble and other random gamesFollow

How was BoL? My sorcerer is 27 now, but I've yet to que up for that dungeon. I've actually been playing a couple of alts, trying to stay logged in to get the max number of valentines gifts. Just finished all the newb island quests on my slayer, and he left for the big city. So now I'm letting my pug popori priest sit idle... because pugs with pipes are cool.

Apparently keys are averaging about 100g to buy them on the broker/trading post/whatever its called in this world. So I wouldn't worry about it too much. It's actually nice that (even if its a limited time) cash shop items are being awarded.

I've opened a few of my stack of boxes (had almost 50)... just some consumable stuff, so you're not missing much if you dont use them.

Yeah, I've used them and mostly gotten consumable junk. A couple rubies so it wasn't all bad but my point was that Elite status (subscription) comes with ten keys a month. I'm saying that this promotion has taught me that Elite status (for the keys) or buying keys from the cash shop would be foolish since most chests won't be worth it.

Ran BoL twice more last night. First time I got a nice robe/gown/sun dress out of it for my Mystic. Second time the leader invited some lvl 26 who screwed up the loot table because he was over-level and we only got one rare the entire run

Also, the Valentine's Day event was really poorly planned. Why would you want to encourage 24/7 idling on the server when you already have queues? Didn't affect me since I get to hop the line but hardly a great impression for the F2P'ers and Elites to see a five hour queue to get onto a server.

Edited, Feb 18th 2013 9:12am by Jophiel

Once you get a hang of n00b Island, you can knock out a character to lvl 12+ in under two hours. Gives you an easy chance to experiment and see which ones you like.

It's also a little deceptive since I understand DPS for lancers, priests and mystics drops off pretty quickly after 20ish (I know it's starting to for my mystic) but whatcha gonna do?

Well, like basically every MMORPG I've ever played, eventually you hit a point where tanks and healers are uncommon and DPS classes are a dime a dozen.

The class selections sort of set the game up for this: you have two plate classes (Lancers, Berserker), two healers (Priest, Mystic) and four DPS classes (Slayer, Warrior, Archer, Sorcerer; two melee, two ranged). But as long as a tank is keeping the mob under control it's sort of academic whether the DPS is coming from 2m away or 30m away. Plus the natural inclination for players to pick DPS classes adding to the scarcity of the other core classes. Standard character Trinity imbalance. You'd think we'd be beyond that now.

Lancers are amazing tanks though. With patience you can solo things that would kill most people. On my war I had a duo buddy and we would take on bams that were meant for 5 mans, not wimpy ones like the first basilisks but high level 50+ ones that stomp peoples bones to dust heh. Was great fun. But I could never get my Lancer past about 15 because it feels slow as F to level them and no where near as fun as war was to me.

I've finally broke my Warhammer Online habit so I'm not playing any MMO's right now. My latest routine has been a couple levels of Portal before bed and trying lots of demos. I jumped back into Skyrim last night - I plan on working on some quest collections, etc. Maybe I'll even buy one of the add-ons.

I'll be ready for Elder Scrolls Online to start.

hence, "I think I'll just be doing solo leveling and PvP."

I do it just so I can play God with people; also.

I don't mind healing for people I like, but forget PUGs.

Don't forget to teabag them.

Worked in SWTOR. Trooper healer got to carry the biggest gun in the game. Hold still I'm gonna heal you with this...