Fighter lvl 4 & Rogue lvl 3

Yup, I´m still posting about DDO, as I told you all, I decided to take a small break from LotRO in Varsalla´s blog since I´m taking more seriously the champion in his leveling duties. And since I dont want to bother you all about this (mostly same things that I saw with Varsalla and Khas).

When I logged on the crazy wizard, I realize something funny after taking the screen. My Main, several months ago, decided to take over our Guild... My friends are, like me, no longer in this game, but from time to time I´m pretty sure that some of them, as I, enter just to see how things go by and possibly to make a small adventure alone. Anyway, when I saw that the Guild leader could be usurped I didnt think it twice, i just went for it. mostly because I thought that we could loose the guild for our absence (Which seems logically) and after that: Just to make a small prank.

So, when I logged I saw this:

Serenie is a deliquent! D: Why?

I guess that eventually my time of absence was about to expired and someone could take control again over the guild or, eventually, loose it. So I did what any deliquent... I mean, noble warrior/rogue had to do: I logged on Serenie and secured my reign of chaos and pranks. The game could had change, I´m not so sure about, but even if not, I felt like I was playing a new game. The character sheet was just different as I remembered, lots of things in my backpack, a special cake for the anniversary (That granted me +2 STR permanent). The interface seemed to be more clear and less rigid as in LotRO as well... It was a brand new game (at least in sight) for me. 

New everything... well, not everything, but lots of new things!

And yes, I almost died jumping of the ship... I totally forgot how to go down and I had things crazy, idiotic idea of jumping of, suddenly the idea of a portal sounded good inside my head and I almost jumped... But then something inside my head (Yeah, that was like the parliament, all yells and curses) told me: "Are you kidding me?". And after a small search I founded the captain who could drop me on earth.

Serenie, the Rune-keeper

Funny, I named her Serenie Runekeeper before I knew about the runekeeper... well, now I´m not so sure if was runekeeper or runemaker... but was something with rune-blah... In fact, that´s a pretty cool name.. Rune-blah... Anyway, this was my first game with surnames and I was pretty excited about and I went a bit creative.  Returning to the game, the graphics were quite amazing at first glance, even with the clumsy mobility of the game, the graphics were giving me something to talk a lot between my guild friends. The only, possibly trouble, was the excessive glow in some parts... Honestly, I loved the glow in the lamps, fire and runes or crystals but in the wood brigde? or the wooden door? chairs? well... Was a bit overrated.

Serenie, reading her tome of +2STR... or her shield with the +2STR on it.

I totally forgot about the real deal of this post: My character. The reason why? well, yesterday I went to a friend's house yo spend the night there, we were talking about art (weird, but true, we were rambling about some new tendencies) and some 3D stuff that he was working on and I was kinda sleeping at the moment that I started to write this post (To have it "at time" for today in the morning) so... that happened :3

Well, I'm out for now, I still need to work in the other blog and eat something, I havent lunched yet and its almost 6:50 pm D: my cursed work, had a horrible day in here and I'm just looking forward to reach home and sleep... hehe that was a lie, I just want to play a bit before go to sleep, I really need to defeat some guys and unleash my inner rage against some bytes in the shape of a troll or goblin :P Well, I', out, good luck my friends! and have a great hunting!

Dungeons & Dragons Online

Before LotRO was Dungeons & Dragons Online, the first game of Turbine that I played after WoW. IOt was during the time that we were expecting for Cataclysm, the Lich King was already long dead and our raid was having some troubles for several personal reasons (Of each player). So many of us decided to seek for new sources of fun and one of them was DDO, I already had one character there, in Orien Server, but was long forgotten and I had to remake it all over again.

My first impression with DDO was kinda weird, the game controls are a lil' bit horrible if you compare them with WoW and the graphics were a lil' bit to ahead that WoW in what realistic means is. The game was a total change but it was worthy. I had this paradigm about the quests-instances, I were, in fact, against them at all time, I was more used to the fact that you could meet any random character in the game in almost everywhere but eventually, when I saw the quantity of players online, I saw that this was the best way ever for that.

DDO was a era of changes, I had my main (Serenie) who is a Fighter lvl 4 and a Rogue lvl 3, a total mess, a complete disaster, but a resourceful adventurer for the initial quests and some medium-low levels (7 or so). I used her for important things, for perils beyond our comprehension... While, with the other character slot I was just rambling about, working on impossible characters. One of them was Vharkham, the Paladin who had full plater but lots of points in jump and a feather fall ring. There's a instance, like a Forge or something, located in one of the districts, that you need to climb between lots of pipes to a unthinkable high... He was capable of. But eventually I got bored and I made the new Vharkham, the wizard...

I present you: Vharkham, the weird Wizard.

This guy is a mess as well, dangerous fellow that all his spells are basically AoE, magic missiles and Acid arrows, mastering the dark arts of raising skeletons and cursing others, dressed up with some... primitive robe... and quite old. This guy was funny, I used to die a lot with him since I was looking forward to see how great could be a solo wizard in instances. The mana bar in here helped a lot, also the cloaks and the rings of healing and several potions and scrolls with different spells, but still, sometimes, it was not enough.

Near the Market in Stormreach.

I didnt wanted to "play" with him today, in fact I was just looking forward to get a new material for this blog since all the weekend... well, not all, all the time that I could play, was with Ricther (Who is still undefeated and is at lvl 29, I'm so proud of that boy!). Honeslty, I didnt wanted to overload this week with post of him and stuff that I have already said, so I saw the icon of DDO there, alone, near the Lotro Icon and I said: "Sure, why not?"

the Market place. I really like this town.

This game brings me good memories, I used to play DDO with Alawren, Lodakai and Nyx and we were looking forward nikki and Vhalerian to jump in but they never did. Funny fact: There were already in LotRO, at Silverlode server, in fact, its for them that I heard that LotRO went for free, I think, so I could try it at least once. Returning to DDO, this game is such a nice and challenging, really challenging stuff, each instance could have several difficulty levels, from Easy, Normal, Hard, and other one or two more (I can't remember). and the hard option its already hard enough.

But I will speak about that later, for now I will stay on the fact that perhaps this week is all about DDO in here :3 Yes, a entire week if I get enough material for it, while we take a break from LotRO and I could work a bit more in my experiment. I already got a Tank that is soon to reach lvl 75 in there.

Still, on the market, in the outer-circle.

This first post in weird, I know. The moment that I was taking the screen I had this face of "I dont know what I'm doing", just running and pressing several buttons thinking that perhaps that was the way to take the screens... but no, it was control + p. so several good shoots were not taken.

overall, and for now, if you like D&D, this is a game that you should try, not only because its about Dungeons and Dragons and its Online, but also for the great stories, the incoming expack (Menace of the underdark or the dark or the underworld, I dont recall it now) and most of all: Many of the instances have a Game master that tells you about the place, if its smells, the decoration, incoming random bosses, traps and mysteries. its basically like playing D&D but a bit more... free-style.

And yes, the penalties are applied, so forget about swimming in a full plate for a long time or carrying several two handed axes and several full plates if you are a mage. When I said that this game was challenging I was, honestly, not kidding about.

Well, have a good night friends of mine and see you tomorrow! good hunting as well :3

Results of the Experiment, phase 1.

Well, it's time to throw some results in here. As I said few days back, I'm looking forward to explain how hard is sometimes to find a spot in a strong circle inside the Kin. There's a huge chance in here that its not impossible, but its kinda hard anyway.

Sadly, one part of the screen its at home, and I can't post it right now. That part (At least for me) was kinda essential since its a bit of the Kin chat. In there I was running around the new zone in LotRO asking few times who wanted to make a tier 1 run inside the 3 man instances. No one answered at the moment, not even later in the kin chat which seemed to be strange for my Kin, they usually give answers, even if they can't. But few seconds later I knew the reason so I can blame them of anything: They were re-aggruping the Raid of Saruman who had some technical issues.

Still, in other moments, I asked for the same but no one answered as well, either because they didnt read the chat at time, or someone was just spamming and the chat was going crazy or they just didnt wanted to go.

So I decided to open a post inside our Kin page and this was my result:

I'm my post I explained what I wanted: A simple group that had the need of gear, that were interested in running instances from the very beginning, and no help at all by overpowered characters.

First Answer was basically what I want to show in the Phase two.

Gallithil, one of our lovely healers, a great person without any doubt and someone who is always looking forward to help everyone with some needs, was the first answer that I got. Basically, in this post she explained to me how the events works in our Kin, mentioning Raids and and runnings to help newly characters to get their shiny items at time. But at the end of the post, after the explanation, she posted that for Saruman's Raid not everyone could go, only those who have certain conditions that they found it reasonable.

It's true, not everyone could go since its the main Raid of this expack, but still, her answer was a bit out of the range of what I asked for. And sadly marking the Inner Circle with misdirections. Still, I know that she didnt do it in purpose since she is, like many other of the Kin, a great person.

I answered that I was really grateful for the answer but explained again that I was not looking for raids and hastly things, I wanted a group that could go slowly so everyone could get benefits and learn the mechanics of the fights. I explained that I knew that it was going to be kinda hard to find it in the kin but that I felt that was righteous to ask it in here first.

Second and third answer, and a badly screen... sorry :3

Advices from Stonhard can be looked in the first one, mostly stuff of how I could start in the dungeons, some benefits about taking good geared guys in the group and, as well, some bad news about them (Like for example, some of them feel immortals so they were usually doing suicide things). Also he offered his Runekeeper for helping since he felt that he was kinda low in his dps. I can't be sure of this Runekeeper, but I feel like he is also geared so it was not what I was looking for.

Escipion, another officer of the Kin (Like Stonhard), told me that he had the same trouble that I when he got his Minnie to lvl 75. Wanted to learn how to heal and do some instances and everyone tried to help him by taking him as healer to Tier 2 Foundry, and by his words: There were a lot of deaths. 

A reasonable answer and Gal's second answer.

Deigol, one healer of our Kinship explained to the rest the point that everyone was missing by far: I didnt want help with geared characters, but to start with some fresh lvl 75 to equip them. A mutual benefit. In his answer, he explained that was going to be hard to find in this Kin (Not to say that almost impossible) but suddenly dropped a name of a character that had those requirements that I was looking for. Also, offered himself for advices and explanations about the core mechanic of the character. This one, was without any doubt, the first directly answer out of the Inner Circle. (And he is inside the Core raiders of the Kin)

Gal, by the other hand, told me that was going to be a bit harder to find that on the players, but also told me that eventually they will be alts that were going to be in the same situation as I, so it was a light in the dark for my answer. Yet, announced to the rest to get some groups for Skirmishes, 3-man, 6-man and raids to help the new 75 to get some gear. These screens are a great example of the second phase, I will be mentioning these later again.

This is just the first part of the phase 1, I still need to take this experiment out of the Kin and test it in the fields, where the dark and dreadfully chats knows as trade, general and regional lies at. But as a first "results" I'm kinda happy to know that even if in my Kin exists the Inner Circle; they are aware that everyone still need gear and practice and they are willing to help. Its a strong Inner Circle but its not impenetrable, there can be exceptions and they are open to them. There were also some posts about a low level character asking practically the same as I, but looking forward to receive help from high levels; telling how hard was to get their help and that it was basically "not often". Escipion, in a clever mode, answered saying that it would be great as long as everyone could go with a toon of the same range level, Reasons: Nostalgia; but I like to see it as: I dont want anything easy at all.

I'm kinda excited to take this experiment to those channels, Kinships are always like a family, or at least in those in which I have been lately. But in the channels, things could be more dangerous since there's no need to pay respect to those who speak to them since they wont offer you reputation. What I mean: You can get insulted by a random player (Possibly with a silly name) since you are not know, or important, for them.

What do you think about this? I would love to hear any idea or get some material and experiences from another players. :)

For the moments, I'll be leaving soon to my home and I need to get ready, hopefully see yo in game later, but for now, good luck my friends and have a great time playing! Good hunting as well :3

New Blog, different blog

I started a new blog recently, a different blog but still about LotRO. How so? Well, since I have already my both primordial characters at top lvl and I miss, somehow, the low level content besides that I'm looking forward to play with a heavy armor user, I made a Champion (Which most of you already know by now) called Ricther.

The game, so far in my knowledge, has not changed too much in the low content except for several things such as map upgrades, some new quests, several new epic books (But that's a high lvl) and possibly better graphics... which they are already pretty awesome and comfortable. So, in this blogI wont be talking about the core mechanic of the game nor the quests (At all); I will be only posting landscapes of the places when I'm leveling or I am not afraid to visit at my lvl 22 (For now).

It's a Blog basically for those who doesnt play LotRO but love all LotR things related, in here they can enjoy the views, places and some of the beauties of the game without playing it. Its a layback blog in fact, few friends of mine told me that they will love to have some of the screens for references at the moment of creating landscapes for Role games such as D&D or Vampire: Dark ages: while other friends told me that they were great for references at the moment of making some illustrations.

Your host in here is going to be my little Champ. I know that perhaps with Khas I could make a better and faster complete blog about the zones but I really want to make it with all the peace of the world and with no rush at all.

Ricther, future explorer of Middle-Earth.

I'll have to do a lot of work with that blog, for example I have to vanquish my worst problem ever: Good screens, or at least screen that makes sense in what I'm trying to express. Gather some info about the things in the game and some Lore as well.

Very well, I'll see you later on both blogs, but for now I have to go back to work! Have a great friday my friends and I wish you a great hunting!

This is the beginning of a new era :)

Ah, this is the new address :3 I totally forgot it jajajaja.

Exploring the Virtual Middle Earth

Ricther the Undying!

It was not a coward move avoid the Old Forest. It was even more than coward, but really strategic and intelligent after all. Ricther is at lvl 20, proud owner the title "The Undying" that probably I'll use for like 2 days or until I get something better. But still proud of that. :)

After the quests on Adso's camp I went directly to the Book chain and Buckland, several quests were waiting for me and for other hundred of players as well, you know? Its good to find out that there's people out there still getting some alts to lvl or just trying out the game. Its normal, between several friends of mine, to hear that they find horrible to level up a character from lvl 1 to lvl 70+ in others games, like WoW (For example) and thats why they stuck with the toons that they have with at least lvl 68 and up.

Anyway, I was getting busy with all those quests, killing wolves, bears, boars, gathering mushroom and other few things aside the quests like, for example, killing wolves, bears, boars and brigands. Several times I forgot that I were a low level and I were just running around without looking at the morale bar but, thanks that most for the quest at low level gives as a reward some morale potions, I didn't died like a noob. Almost died like a hero, but never as a noob. Actually.. there was one chance that I almost died like a noob, but that was inside the Old forest, I will get to that.

Mushrooms... Hmm vs Eww

After those quests my road eventually ended going forward the Old Forest. I dont hate that place, to be honest, in fact I kinda like it a lot but only when you go in the right way. For example, using any entrance aside the road from Adso's camp and Buckland may end in a certain death, going from The NorthBarrows... Well if you survive at this, or even at fewer levels, the wights and dogs and rats and hands, and skeletons, and dread... could end in a suicide as well.

But from Buckland its another story. Easy to enter, several quest at the beginning that helps you to understand the entire plot inside the Old Forest and some, for some lower levels, good rewards as well. But wait! There's also a lot of perils in there as well.

One bear its not a problem... 3 bears and two wolves... They might be.

You see that screen above? Few second before I had a horrible fight against 3 bears and two wolves with a bit of rest between each one, enough to loot and run a bit. The beasts in here are quite closer so you must go inside with caution, running around the mob like if you were doing PvP its not always a good idea, walking backwards trying to avoid other patrols may end attracting other unseen patrols. Behind the trees there's always a beast. Avoid Bats and other beasts in the same combat group since Bats can stun while Bears lower your fate and Wolves applies DoT.

Its not a hard stuff, just use your head, remember, the Old Forest is not a safe place anymore. But anyway, thanks to this Old Forest and one other quest about going from Buckland to Adso's Camp I got 4 points left to lvl 20. I wont deny it, I was scared, in that moment my brain decided to make lots of interrogates: What if, fighting against a boar, I go D/C? What if I get owned by several bears? what if I fell from some higher spot and go defeated? I were only at 4 points to lvl 20 and I was scared as hell.

Thanks to the Valars, the boars that I confronted was silly and pacific and I got several criticals. He granted me the poinst that I need it (and more) to reach my beloved title of Undying. And with it: Skirmishes. I went to Bree to Train, then to the Skirmish camp at Bree for the Tutorial and got some new weapons to finally: Skirmishes.

Gondamon, serious business.

I totally forgot what was being a low level in this place with a almost useless companion. Almost died (Like a hero) But I survived. I realize several things that I didnt liked with the Champion, for example: My Power was getting easily drained with my attacks, lots of potions were used in the entire fight and most of them were of Power. The second wind skill its kinda great, but doesnt give me enough sometimes, specially in a fight.

Me and Random Herbalism.

At the end I defeated the Dragon and the Dwarf boss of the instance, alongside with the two random encounters to get a decent and nice reward that helped me in getting some new gear. Yes, As the noob that I am, I totally forgot that I had trained the Heavy armor use and I didnt got the new armor (from skirmish) at the beginning.

Ricther in Ered Luin... there's a lot of deeds in here to be done.

After checking all my gear and stuff I decided to craft a bit, specially the symbols for the Crafting Guild of Weaponsmith. As you know, this guy is a Weapon-master that its gonna work hard to give Khas, Varsalla, any other toon and, of course to himself the best weapons ever as long as they can get their mats. Except Khas and Varsalla that have given a lot of gold and minerals for his vocation.

Duillond, second town for the Elves.

I'm pretty excited about this character, its a different way to play (Melee and heavy armor user) and reminds me of Serendis who I miss a lot but I'm glad to got rid of her. maybe, someday, I will decide to make another character, It may be called Serendis.

FUN FACT: Yesterday, while I was running to the Skirmish camp before logging out I found this door: minimun lvl 90... LVL 90?! I mean, really? In fact.. let me search for this in google.. brb...  Well... several answers... Lots of weird links... let me post this one:

From Lotro Forums:

GarethB said:

Re: Door in Bree Town min. lvl 90 to get in??

The door is useable on the Bullroarer test server but it's not meant to be useable on the live servers, so the devs put a level limit on the door for the live servers that no player can reach. There are more doors like this in other parts of the game, not meant to be useable on the live servers but meant to be useable on the test server. On the test server, there is no level limit and the doors can be used.

As for what's behind the doors, it's the PlayDwarf mansion, bearded lady dwarves in cute caveclaw costumes.

This is the door my friends... Bree if full of mysteries...

Well, I'm out for now, good luck my friends and see you later! Have a awesome hunting and a great night :3

Phase I, Theory -Boring part-

Well, I'm back with my experiment, and this time I even made some stuff while I was having my lunch that will help to explain it a bit better. Taking a step back to explain how this syndrome works is, without any doubt, the best thing to do in this post.

Before you read this, have in mind that all this junk-writting is basically invented by me and this is how I see the players in this type of game once they reach to cap level. None of this is actually a real study but just a goal that I want to expose, with result (Good or bad) about the games and all the names that I'm using to denominate the phases may exist in some way inside the Psychology. Like for example the name of my first syndrome: The Inner Circle.

The Inner circle es a paradigm between old players (Keep in mind that "old players" are player that were before the first expansion or they joined during the first expansion, Like for example in WoW would be "Vanilla WoW players" and "Burning Crusade Players" excluding "Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm; or/and in LotRO would be "Shadows over Angmar players" and "Moria Players", excluding Siege of Mirkwood, Rise of Isengard and, in some way, Shores of the Great River) have about getting new players inside the core of the raids.

Whats a Core Raider? Simple, a player that is always in the raids (Or at least in the 85% and above of them) during the week and knows his class really well doing a great work and an excellent assistant. Core Raiders are like Jedis, they can be Core Raiders (Light side) which are always willing to help, give advices and help others without judgment... But they can turn into Hard Core Raiders (Dark side) that makes them egocentric players, critics of every movement and selfish in same occasions. Sadly, one of the old good games (WoW in older times) is plagued with this last type of players and are few those who oppose to be in that way.

My experiment is, basically, to find if LotRO and WoW now share that same "disease" that convert nice people into... Something that loves yelling at you and telling you that its always your fault instead of, actually, help you in getting better understanding of the game and rotations. I used to be a Core Raider during Lich King and, thanks to three previous and different phases of the game (Vanilla, Burning and Lich King) I knew my character perfectly so I was doing a great work, but always looking forward to help others in their classes. I even had 6 or so lvl 80 just to see how hard or to see how nasty could be some class at top lvl and with that, help others in some different ways. All that thanks to my old guild Rising Phoenix in Sentinel server, one of the more dedicated as a group and small, virtual, family to help their members in WoW.

Back to the main point: The Experiment, Phase 1!

Yes, that's my hand-writting... and yes, I was bored to hell...

Anyway, I will explain:

(This draw, weird, weird draw, is based on my Kin in LotRO called HISPANIA, at Silverlode Server.)

-The Big (Fancy) Circle its what I call the Core Players. They dont need to be, necessary, Raiders at all, but they assist raids and they are mostly officers or good fellows that are always looking to help. They have earned a great reputation for being good and pure of heart. They want to complete the raids and they work hard on it, help other members to get their gear and look always to make a good group. Sadly, sometimes, this Inner Circle become a impenetrable barrack that its quite hard to go inside (Specially in Small groups, for 3 or 6 players. Usually this circle is compose by 4 up to 6 players.

-Square: (Rhombus, in fact) is what I call "Necessary classes that are not core player". Bold players that decided to level up a great class, either healer, tank or support class. Bad thing about this rhombus is that those players knows that their real life goes first, no matter what. Even spending three hours looking at the stars alone is better than playing Lotro. They will help as long as they are online and have free, spare time. I say that this spot could be compose up to 4 players, nothing more than that.

-Triangle: is what I call "Not Necessary classes with Core-wannabe raiders". These good souls love the game, they want to raid and they worked hard in getting not only to the cap level but the requirements to enter in each instance by themselves. Sadly, they level up a class that its not as necessary as others. I know that all the classes are important, but lets be honest: the game have a ratio of 3K champs, 4K Hunters, 30 Loremasters, 20 Burglars, 10 Minstrels, 15 Runekeepers, 3 Guardians, 7 Captains, 6 to 7 Wardens. Yes, I'm talking about those champions and hunters that find hard to get a spot in the raids.

-Floating "Things": is what I call "Casual players". They dont feel the need to Raid, to find funny the first 3 times inside a instance but definitely they will hate the fourth time. When they are Online, they dont bother to say "hi" as often as others players do, in fact, if they can go silently as a shadow, the better. There's a good chance that they have a out-kin group of friends to quest, do skirmish and some instance.

The inner Circle paradigm is based in the difficult work to enter in this 4 up to 6 players, maybe add a 7th player, to the circle so you could become a "Core player". These Core Players could fall victim of the Light and Dark side as well, or stay Neutral, as so far I found out that my Kin is at. Sometimes a bit lighter than others, yet, sometimes a bit darker than others.

I had already started my experiment and in my Kin things were as I expected, My first goal was asking not to get inside this circle but to get some help, from the very beginning, in my healing duties with Varsalla in some Instances 3 and possibly 6 man. Several players posted good ideas, others offered to help, other just realize that what I was asking was perhaps to much and others posted parameters for Raiding, which obviously, I was not interested in.

Since this post went a bit longer than expected, i will post the results of those posts in the Forum in the next one, with luck with some screens, and fancy colored things to avoid this horrible, justified, theory box.

Have a good luck my friends! I shall got o my home soon and I need to be prepared, Lotro and some Series awaits for me in my lair! muahahahaha ehem... er... Good hunting! :3

The champion´s return

Yes, I finally took a stand with the next alt that I should lvl up, my Champion Ricther, barely lvl 19 right now, hopefully worthy enough of the undying title this night. Since I realize that I totally messed it up with Anphordeth few days ago in the old forest thinking that she could handle several enemies with her lowly armor and slow heals, I decided to take this challenge as I should: Like when I did it with Varsalla and Vhaleria, step by step and with caution.

What does that means: No Old Forest for me until lvl 20 :3 nah, lies, it not that, its just finish several quests that I have waiting for some action or pending their rewards with the quest givers in the towns. Champions are fun, in fact, its a really fun class after all. I used to have one few months ago which I deleted (Serendis, was her name) due some basic reasons: I was not having fun with a Elf champion and less fate and vitality... mostly the last part, few in those important stats.

Behind those unnamed ruins, the Old Forest sleeps, waiting for him.

Humans have better chances with Swords, which I really like (Even if I decided to carry this guy with axes for some crazy or mad reason) and runs less "fancy" than elves. Also, he is my only male character that have a promising career in the arts of combat, perhaps for the next ex-pack The riders of Rohan. Thanks to destiny, the only mistake that I made was picking a hair color that looked as dark brow but ended as dark red...

After killing some brigands and retrieving some stolen stuff...
I will dye my hair...

Several changes had this class from what I remember, for instance, the martial warrior has no longer the shield ability and its focused on two handed weapons mostly I think. I think that I will take a try later that trait specc to see "how it goes along" but for now, I will stick with what I get in my adventures.

Having a heavy armor character its going to be spectacular, Varsalla has been always victim of the low armor and superb heals while Khas has been always victim of medium armor but a horrible, fast, pew-pew-pew-pew killing speed... Ritcher, by the other hand, is rather slow in his attack, even with flurry skill on (Which is quite awesome, lasts 45 secs and the cd its only 20 or less secs... +15% speed for the entire fight!) its going to be more resistant, more melee abuser tactics.

One of the things that its giving me troubles is basically the melee attack, since I'm speaking of that. I had never the necessity the go "IN" the battle zone to start the fight, but to target my enemy and cast upon him songs of despair and destruction or a rain of deadly, fire imbued, arrows. This guy so far have nothing at all, recently I got the skill: "Let it fly" that allows me to shoot 1 arrow with a bit more of grace.

The Old Forest... I can feel the danger...

The worst part for leveling, at least for me, its basically Adso's camp. same camp, same quests, same old building half way to be complete, same guys talking about it, same brigands. I mean, ther quests are basically the same, but when they have such a important thing that makes then unique: Its hard not to hate them. In this case, for me, its this building.

Adso's "fail of a Inn".

About to learn some new skills and found out that I need
to be lvl 20 to use heavy armor...

Black hair! finally,  a bit more decent for now.

Funny thing about that screen, if I didnt took the wrong one, is that the guy at the end says something like "Who's that stranger sitting in the corner". When I realize that I started to look for Aragorn, I knew that it would be impossible to find since he is in one of the bedroom but I went corner by corner only to find this:

The stranger guy sitting in the corner... drunk... and it's not a corner...
but I guess that they are talking about him

But anyway, today I dont think that I'll be working on this toon; I have lot of things to do with my experiment and things to write down about it. But for now I shall say farewell for now and proceed to end some duties on my office, boring duties of boringness but I need to complete them all and, no only that, but excels as well on each one.

Good luck my friends! have a great time and a awesome hunting today! see you in game :3