Day 3: Kindness FTW
Day 3 went a lot better than day 2. Through trial and error I learned most of the things that had had me frustrated from the day before, such as navigation, chat commands, messaging(turned out its case sensitive) and trading. I took some ribbing for my totally hardcore name by other players but I took it in stride.
This was the day that I learned about buffing, skills and also macros. Utilizing them helped me out a ton. Buffing made attacking easier, my one skill made it faster, and macros made it less stressful to take on tougher monsters without having to always keep an eye on my HP gauge. Not the monsters had been all that tough, after my run-in with the Lizard the day before I'd learned how to use the colored circles around the name to gauge a monster's strength and avoid any more insta-death. I roved the newbie areas, happily picking up and selling newbie armors and weapons in preparation for the next phase.
Since I had purposely spent most of my teen levels away from other players to get a better, unbiased view on the game, it lent me more time to observe how players interacted with each other. One thing I found right away was that the maximum benefit comes to those players that work very well as a team. Players that partied well came back to HQ richer, stronger, and were usually more friendly to hapless noobs like me than the lone high powered characters that disappeared for hours on end, only to come back to base, sell loot, say something inflammatory, and disappear again. These were the players that were out consistently at the Chip Wars (more on these later), were the ones relaying messages about members of enemy races that were camping a portal, offering encouragement to other players during the grind (more on that later too), answering noob questions, etc.
After a couple days of getting a pretty good handle on what was going on in our little Cora corner I decided it was time to lay on the charm and make some friends. But first I would buy pots. I was doing some quick mental math at the vendor when a couple guild members came up behind me.
"Nice name." A level 39ish warrior behind me commented.
"Thanks!" I said, the possible sarcasm sailing over my head. "I like it." A couple members of the same guild (You know who you are :) had also come over to observe.
We ended up chatting for a while, and I forget about what, but the subject came around to stupid questions.
"I have a stupid question." I said. "Do we ever get any real pants in this game? I'm level 16 and all I've seen so far are ass-less chaps." Which is quite true. The Cora women are, in the lower levels at least, the most provocatively dressed. By far.
They thought this was funny, which was cool, but I was kinda serious. They assured me that costumes, and in fact everything got a lot better after level 30, the first class change, and even more after level 40, which was the second class change. I was heartened by this somewhat, as I was starting to hit the grind and was wondering what I would have to look forward to in later levels. They put up with all of my pestering, and even invited me to join their guild. I accepted, because they were nice.
And now, they are a little bit famous.
(Hi Guys!)
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