After a few days of watching him play, I decide to give my son's game a try. I put in his name and password, pick a server he's not playing on and selected Hibernia as my realm. I decide I'm making a female character as most of the female players in the game do. My grandson (yep, I have grandkids) says name her Alicia. He wanted his baby sister to be named that, till he found out it was a brother! Ooops, name already taken. I know, I'll add his initials to the end?Aliciaday, that worked! Now to choose a race. Firbolg's are just big and bulky looking?blech. Celts are pretty plain, Sylvans just ugly, Shars got funny looking pointy heads, kind of ugly. The Elf?she looks pretty cool, Elf it is! Next up is the class. The magician classes sounded a bit involved, don't think I'm quite ready for that. At this point I wasn't sure if I was even going to like the game, blademaster sounded like you just jump in and start pounding. Spec points? Well, she's a melee class so she's going to need to be strong and fast?split them all between strength and quickness. According the the in game descriptions that was what she needed. So there you have it?Aliciaday the Elf Blademaster is born.
I started off running around in Mag Mel, doing quests and killing mud men and skeletons and being killed by spraggons and water beetles. I roamed around Ardee, got trashed in Muirs Tomb, wiped in Tir na mBao but was having fun doing it. I was astounded by the size of this game. I've only played things like Baldurs Gate and Heroes of Might and Magic before this. I explored everyone and everything and died A LOT. I even found my way to the Frontiers when I was around level 7. Didn't last very long, but I was having a good time, and didn't care if I died. I found the game to be an awesome out after a day at work. It was relaxing, it was fun, and it was a little bit of escape, even if it was just an hour or 2 after dinner. It wasn't long before I met others in game, and created other characters. I was definitely hooked! Eventually, we were able to adjust our character attributes so Aliciaday's starting stats were fixed with the help of some friends. Yes, I still have her and yes, I still play her. Although not as much as I once did. Blademasters were picked apart by the game developers and they don't take a hit as good as they once did, and they don't seem to hit as hard as they once did. Maybe one day, they'll get around to fixing that and I'll start using her regularly again.
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