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

4Dec/090

What I’ve been playing.

Aion: My Cleric hit level 37!  Yay new skills.  I can't wait to try out my newest resurrection skill.

Aion0353 (Resize)

Assassins Creed II: I've been watching this game be played and we just reached the end.  There are still a couple things to collect in order to 100% complete it.  This is an amazing game.  Another Must Play!

Dragon Age: Ever since my last post about this game I haven't wanted to play.  I'm not exactly sure why though I might have to try another character/class to see if that's my issue.

Super Mario Brothers Wii: I got to play a little of this over the Thanksgiving holiday and I can't wait to own it.  Anything over two players though becomes a challenge.  There are certain levels where you're just bumping your teammates into the lava and killing them off.  Looks like an excellent game.

Torchlight: Haven't been playing.  I really need to pick that back up.  I think I'm pretty close to the end.

Guild Wars: A guild mate of mine and I were playing Aion one night but were completely bored.  We jumped into Guild Wars (I love the non-subscription model) and he showed me a couple of builds for my Necromancer.  It was fun going back and just messing around.

That's what I've been playing and now I want to share with you a couple of neat things I've ran across.

Thanks to Aion's Eye on Community I found this very helpful crafting tool.

Guild Wars 2 has posted up a new video.  Found here.

15Oct/090

The Same Archetype?

A few days ago I read a post on We Fly Spitfires asking if you always played the same archtype in games or not.  This got me thinking.

My first reaction to this question was yes, of course.  But then I remembered back to my very first MMO: Guild Wars.  My first character was an Elementalist/Monk and my second was a Necromancer/Monk (mainly for the resurrection option).  So though I had some healing and resurrection options I was a damage dealer.

When I began playing World of Warcraft, my very first (of many) characters was a Rogue.  Now I never made it past level 42 but I loved her.  It was at that point that I created a Priest and from then on I've played a healer in any game that followed.  Once I hit max level in WoW and began raiding I knew I loved to heal.

There's still a part of me that loves a good DPS class and whenever I start a new game I usually already have an alt picked out for that purpose.  Though now that I heal, whenever I play a DPS class in a group situation I fret constantly that I'm doing something wrong or I'm terrible.  By facing that fear am I growing as a person?