Overly Positive

At this point in time, being coherent, much less communicative, is extremely difficult. It’s entirely possible if I was to receive a cut, caffeine would pour out of me and could be used for energy drinks.

As for the Disciple, a great slowdown in leveling power due to lack of availability of people to play with confirms my thoughts about WAR being dependent on its population. Hopefully something is done about it soon.

The Disciple really comes into their own as a quick healer, with damage mitigation that is immediate and oftentimes a difference maker. Even resurrecting serves its purpose by allowing people to contiue the battle.

This may be in all likelihood, the last update for 24 hours of WAR. I’m sure you noticed by now the quality of my posts decreasing as sleep deprivation takes over, and when I complete the time period at 9:00am, 4 hours from now, I will immediately be getting some much needed rest. I’ll be posting my final thoughts and doing a bit of cleanup on all the posts.

Thanks to everyone who gave me support during this time. It’s much appreciated!

What a difference a group makes.

At the 12 hour mark, I managed to hook up with a group of people. Blazing through PQs and scenarios, I managed to gain a number of ranks and basically tear through a bunch of content.

WAR’s group dynamics make things pretty easy – you can find open parties, look for guilds that are recruiting, use the search option to find friends, and more. even though communication is sorely lacking, it seems that in many cases, you don’t really need to communicate to get the point across.

This is especially good for me, considering after 16 hours of continuous playtime, the caffeine needed to keep me awake is starting to increase. After a bunch of healthy pasta, oatmeal, and other various foods designed to give me the energy needed to continue, I’m starting to feel a bit loopy. I honestly don’t see how some people do it regularly.

Still, for a good cause, nothing is too troubling.

Two more updates to go!

So on a look and feel note I will try to put some screenshots in here to pretty things up. Sadly, I’m really typing off the top of my head and in addition to that, I’m obviously going to be working off of zero sleep, so these thoughts are going to be jumbled, tired, and certainly even worse than my usual subpar humor.

Right now, I’m still crawling along. Seems that When Mythic said the best way was to level with a blend of PvE and RvR, they weren’t kidding. Opting to have a fun experience if it’s going to be a grind, I have basically been levelling exclusive through scenarios the whole day, with a few quests sprinked in for a few k worth of experience. The experience is nice, but ultimately it’s still slow going after about rank 7 or so. It’s possible some of this may be due to the fact that the server isn’t a high pop server. Gorfang is med to high at best, and even prime time sees the open world a little bit barren.

This is probably one of Mythic’s biggest issues as the campaign and fun factor really depends on the population mass. If it’s high, there’s plenty of fun to go around, but if it’s not, well, then, things can get a little bit harder. Even a simple attempt to find a group can take hours.

Still, the Disciple is an interesting class, and while it does have its moments whenit just isn’t that great to play, there are times when it is completely and uttelry fun.

A little bit of a delay here just to get something to eat and drink, and here I am with update 2 of my 24-hour WAR marathon for Children’s Cancer Research for the Extra Life program.

With my guildies signing offline, I was left on my own for the most part. As a result, I am only rank 10. It’s safe to say that with a lot of people now rerollign alts, that actual communication is starting to happen in scenarios, something that just didn’t before due to a lot of reasons. The recent healing renown change, however, has left people short on healers. I can count at least 3 scenarios where I was the only healer, and we aren’t built for sustained healing.

I’m noticing as I level the amount of potential DPS that a Disciple can put out. It’s not a small amount, and if I managed to dump my points accordingly, it actually could be pretty formidable. But this is the classic pitfall of the hybrid healer – doing the role they aren’t at the expense of the role that they are. Disciples put out the DPS they do so they can generate the healing needed for friends. 

It’s a bit appalling, to say the least, to see some of the healers that just don’t bother healing anyone but themselves. It doesn’t take that much to target your tank or that melee in troule and start using abilities that benefit them. Thankfully, even with being a healer that is always the first target, my generosity has paid off, as there are a ton of tanks and melee classes willing to protect the person that keeps them up and running.

After 8 hours of this, I am actually not quite bored yet. Part of this, aside from the charity benefit, is to see how good and tough of a game WAr is – can it be beaten up, played til it’s dog-eared, and still be fun? That remains to be seen. Tiers1 and 2 of the game seem to be, for many people, the most fun they’ve had. Whether or not I can actually get to tier 3 in one day remains to be seen – but I do know that right now, WAR isn’t boring – even though this is clearly not the first time I have leveled a character through all of this.

Back at 9:00pm!