Healer at Heart A healer's thoughts on MMO's.

A long break & technical difficulties.

Where have the days months gone?  I didn’t mean to ditch the blog for so long and when I get back into writing things, WHAM, technical difficulties.

So let’s see … what’s new?

Aion: My Cleric has almost hit 41 as well as a couple alts reaching 26 and 31.  Steel Rake runs here I come!  A couple weeks ago I was invited to a group for a quest inside Kishar Village.  I. Hate. That. Place.  When I was first invited to the group there was a high level Gladiator helping out a fellow legion mate which at first seemed ideal.  Between the invisible mobs and most of them being higher level than the rest of the group I should have known it would be disaster.  After a few pulls and wipes the two legion mates just bounced out of the group.  We were eventually able to fill the two vacant spots and proceed ... sort of.  I’m not sure how the mechanics of the game work but I know that the damage of an ability hits before the whole animation goes off.  The only problem with this is healing through that.  I couldn’t keep people alive no matter what I did.  My heals would go off but apparently the mob had already completed an ability and my heals wouldn’t land.  Even the instant heal!  I have never had so many deaths on my hands as that day.  I disliked that place so much I abandoned the couple quests I had left after finishing the one I grouped for originally.

Mass Effect 2: The boyfriend surprised me with this last month and I’ve already played 27 hours of it!  It took awhile to get back into the grove of playing an xBox shooter and I’m still pretty terrible at aiming with the thumbsticks (joysticks?).  This was the sole reason I chose to play as the Adept class in ME 1.  Thinking back on it though, I don’t think I really ever used my Adept powers to their full potential so I switched to the Soldier class.  I’ve been diving in to it guns a blazin’!  I'm completely in love with this game.

Dragon Age: I decided I’d try to give this another shot.  Previously I stopped playing because neither I nor my team could ever stay alive.  I switched from the Warrior to a Mage so I could at least heal people and hopefully have a better shot at surviving.  That helped a ton!  Now that I’ve played quite a bit of it (and enjoying it) I think I’ll test out a melee class again.

Fallen Earth: Last month I signed up for a 10-day free trial to see if I liked it any better than the last time.  That’s a big fat no.  I’m not sure if it’s the graphics I don’t like (yes I'm spoiled by Aion) or the combat style or how I feel lost the moment I have to do something.  Everything just felt clunky.  No more of that for me.

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box: Having fun and solving puzzles.  ‘Nuff said!

Allods Online: Been playing around with this game and so far enjoying myself.  I’m hoping all this cash shop/patch hullabaloo gets resolved but until then I’m still going to enjoy my time playing.

Global Agenda: I picked this up last month but haven’t put much time into it.  I like the fact that I don’t have to pay the monthly subscription if I don’t want to.  Of course, that means I won’t be able to participate in AvA (at least when the free time runs out) but I’m not too bent out of shape about that.  It is nice to be able to jump into it for a few matches of PvE and then jump right back out again if I don't have hours to spend playing.  Definite plus.  Also, I can heal!  This makes the aiming issue non-existent.

Kindle: I received a Kindle for Christmas and I love it! All the classics are free and if you can find them, some nice free first in a series books as well.  Don’t get me wrong, I love reading from an actual book but this way I can spend less on an author/book I’m not 100% sure I’d like.  It’s also so much less strain on the eyes.

Well, before this post gets any longer (and I assure you it could) I’d like to leave you with something I found in Aion that made my day:

Found: Elijah Wood