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I've spent a reasonable portion of the weekend playing DAoC. On Saturday, some of my guild and a couple of allied high-level folk power-levelled Madoine (and a couple of others) from 19th level to 22nd. For those of you who haven't heard the term, it meant that they formed a group, consisting of two high-level folk and a few lower levels, took us into anotherwise lethally dangerous spot, and killed monsters there, with a few extra people along to heal them. Experience gets divided among the group, even if you're just standing there, so I got three levels for nothing more than being polite. I do feel faintly like it's cheating, but it's the way the game is played, and if I want to run a character from zero to fifty without power-levelling or the like, I can do so another time. Meantime, I'll be more use to my guild - and realm - with a high-level character.
Today (well, yesterday now), I soloed (played on my own) through the rest of level 22, reaching 23, and then went to check out the Realm versus Realm area of the game. There's RvR before this level, but it's not much used on the server I play on. It comes to life at 20th level. And how. The couple of hours I spent attempting to beat the Albion scum into submission was in some weird way the most relaxing thing I've done in months. Working with an impromptu group of other folk there, healing and buffing (increasing other characters power by means of spells) and occasionally hitting something myself, and knowing that I was playing against other people, not bits of code on a computer someplace, was really, really fun.
There's a new patch for the game coming out this week, containing improvements like faster levelling for those who are putting in effort, more experience from rarely beaten monsters, proper in-game mapping, and an on-screen clock. I'm looking forward to it all.
Today (well, yesterday now), I soloed (played on my own) through the rest of level 22, reaching 23, and then went to check out the Realm versus Realm area of the game. There's RvR before this level, but it's not much used on the server I play on. It comes to life at 20th level. And how. The couple of hours I spent attempting to beat the Albion scum into submission was in some weird way the most relaxing thing I've done in months. Working with an impromptu group of other folk there, healing and buffing (increasing other characters power by means of spells) and occasionally hitting something myself, and knowing that I was playing against other people, not bits of code on a computer someplace, was really, really fun.
There's a new patch for the game coming out this week, containing improvements like faster levelling for those who are putting in effort, more experience from rarely beaten monsters, proper in-game mapping, and an on-screen clock. I'm looking forward to it all.
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So I learn yet another 'name' for wolf!