Well, Sethre twisted my arm. He was like, "try this game or I'll never TALK TO YOU AGAIN. FUCK MINNESOTA!"
Nah, in all seriousness I have been trying new MMO's lately. Finally have a computer that can play games... I'm closer to the times now. Sethre had spare guest passes (and may possess a couple more is that right?) so here I am giving it a shot. Only got a couple hours in but here's my first impression:
Probably the best character customization I've seen. Not that I've sampled many games but let me tell you, I spent more time MAKING my toon than playing it. I enjoy the options and attention to detail. Pretty impressive.
I chose Sorceress for my first class. The attack motions seem aesthetically pleasing to the eye. It almost feels like Street Fighter meets up with WoW at a Yoga studio.
However, the attack animations (spell visuals) are very bland. I understand the darkness theme they kinda have to stick to? but tends to get boring. As a sorceress I guess I was hoping for more fire & ice; pillars of frost erupting from the ground and blazing meteors crashing to earth. Instead it's a whoosh of darkness. Still kinda neat, though.
As far as skill trees and itemization goes it is way too early to tell. I know the game has a learning curve to it, there's a lot of fucking stuff to explore that I have not begun to touch up on. I just run around and literally mash buttons and I fly around the field throwing dark ninja moves.
You have to choose a family name and every single good one on the planet is taken. Count on it for your character names as well. I ended up being a Rockbender. Even stuff like Ironside was taken. But after trying names for 10 minutes I landed on Starsea and made a character more fitting of the name. Here she is, my first anyways...
Turgoise-esque hair. Aqua with green tips, the same shades applied to the eyes as well as a star pupil. I think I went with a preset face, only changing the eyeliner and brows?
In the background is a Weasel, which many hath suffered my shadow dance moves. Still really don't know what the fuck is going on, like I said I am running around, button mashing, checking out my hair, and attacking whatever moves.