I finally got the game yesterday and tried it out. Man MMOs are a hell of a lot different than their SP bretheren. Well sorta. I'm playing a Bright Wizard (too many destruction classes on most of the servers so I decided to help out the good guys
) Anyways first off I kept looking for a way to spend my experience when leveling up but there is none lol. I guess you don't really get to customize your character until after level 11 when you get to choose masteries. The core abilities can be purchased with no consequences.
I've been doing the PvE quests and then ran across a public quest. I have to say I like the public quests, but haven't been able to win one yet. Those stupid farmers keep getting killed before I can take out the champions. Sometimes there is someone to help out but most of the time I just fought it by myself. It looks I'll have to join a party before I can actually win one of those.
The RvR is fun. You just queue up and then it teleports you there when its ready to go. I've won 2 out of 3 of those. I noticed that when we won there was always someone leading the RvR. The one when we lost we were in a free for all and there were no concentrated attacks. I guess I'll actually have to talk in these fights if no one else will lol.
The biggest problem I'm having is delays. I have an ADSL line that I thought was pretty fast but I'm getting huge delays. Almost always I'll get an animation for one of my attacks and then it will freeze for a long time, then I'll catch up and the monster will have been beating me while I just stood there. Maybe I should try a tank class at least it will autoattack if that ever happens. I've set it to the fastest framerate, but that didn't seem to help. Also I've tried switching servers and that only made it worse. Is anyone else having these problems?
Anyways it's a lot different than what I expected and would be a lot of fun if I can somehow iron out the delay problem.
Edit: Nevermind about the delay. I must of been on some really slow servers yesterday. Funny thing is that I figured that I would have to use an Oceanic server since I'm in SE Asia, but I tried a North American one today and it was faster than all three of the servers I tried yesterday lol. Go figure.
I'm trying a White Lion this time, one question. With White Lions I read in the RvR battles I'm better at taking out magic guys but stay away from tanks, is that about right? Her damage is really low but I guess I'm supposed to use the White Lion most of the time, lol.