While it seems on Triniel that we are out numbered out in the abyss its nice to know that for one day we can all come together and win. Tonight the Elyos on my server came together and claimed not 1 but 2 fortresses and on to make it even better one was in the upper abyss. My lag was unreal but it was fun as hell. Hopefully we can keep the team work up and realize that while our names can’t all be on an artifact or fortress we are still one faction. Who am I kidding….the drama llamas will not stand for coordinated action. Either way I’m going to try and be at every fortress siege kicking ass and taking no prisoners!
So after flying around doing some small scale PvP some friends from my legion decided “hey let’s take an artifact”. We had no idea if we’d make it. I mean there were only 5 of us and our highest was only level 36. Some how we pulled it off. I had to fill in and back up heal. This is the part about playing a chanter I do love the most, bringing utility to a group. I had to keep up buffs, off heal, and dps. Nothing feels better than pulling off something that is damn near impossible. Please excuse the semi crappy screenshot. In all the excitement I just through something together. The assassin over there is filling in for our gladiator who I some how cut out of the picture..sorry Sauron.
My orginal goal was to hit level 25 within the first week but as they say the best laid plans. Not really sure what the rest of the saying is but whatever. Last night after grueling repeatable quests I finally hit level 25. A few of my friends and I had run out of quests around level 24. I’ve found that soloing by far nets you the best xp but let’s face it this is an MMO and soloing gets boring after awhile. In theory if you are gathering, crafting, and questing it should be ok but one doesn’t always have the option to do first too which was what happened to me. Due to ques I had to make the best of my time as possible.
After hitting level 25 I ran over to Sanctum and did my “quiz” where you run back and forth from person to person in the library answering questions. Thankfully I did all of this in open beta plus I’m a bit of a lore nut so I knew all the answers. After that is the quest to prove yourself, by far the fight in the dugeon under the arena is the easiest of the three but honestly I’ve only done the other one that sends you to Veteron to hunt for that little short midget general. Speaking of why the hell is he so little. I feel like I should put him on my knee and bounce him up and down. Well after you do the fighting portion the next part of the test is to take the flying quest. Which in and of itself is easy but they hide that last damn ring and I totally forgot about it and failed the test…twice. >.< Well after that was all said and done and midget general gave me the a-o-k off to the abyss I went. The place still amazes me. The idea of free flight, although limited at times, is so much fun. Being the explorer that I am I just want to fly all around but that’s not possible because the abyss is open PvP.
And this is where our joyous omg I’m 25 and I can go to the abyss with the big kids comes to an end. I might have a different mindset than others. I am of course by no means an expert when it comes to PvP and all that. One thing I do know is that you come after me regardless of the numbers I’m going to go down fighting. I’m not going to run away and be all “oh noes you haz PvPs and my PvEs.” That’s not why I’m playing Aion. If I wanted purely PvE there are plenty of games out there for that. Last night when my friends and I picked up some quests we flew out to this one area to see a huge hunting party of Asmodians. They were gunning right for us. I died. I came back. I noticed that the other Elyos in the area were running away. I died again, mainly my fault as I got seperated from our main healer and my own personal heals aren’t strong enough to outstand getting jumped on by 5 people. I came back again and finally we worked together with a group of other people and pushed the Asmodians back. I’m just hoping that running away is just an isolated incident. I’d hate to be part of the carebear camp in a PvPcentric game.