I don't see it this way... first, how are you dying so much? I got knocked out a few times, but I NEVER group and have never died.
If you do, grab some more gear that you made (you make and enchant 4-5 sets at a time and put it in your house/bank) and run back... forget your body unless there's some uber rare on it. Why bother, no gear is that good.
FInally... I picked exactly the enchants I wanted, there was nothing random.
Am I wrong??
Z
My neighbor has done this as well... pretty cool.
Z
@Silynx Yeah you're right... I thought I saw them but was wrong. I play a mage but took a cpl of melee skills by mistake then I was new, lol.
Z
@Wika I totally agree. It's great to HAVE 40 skills but we should only be allowed to USE 6-8 at a time. (and maybe 4 more for utilities) This makes the game MUCH more strategic.
If you can slot 20 skills then everyone has the same 12-15 "main" skills, the meta is born, and we're all the same. We can all tank, cast, melee, heal, cc, etc..
Limiting the skills to 6 or so makes you choose smartly, and decide what kind of character you are. You can't "do everything"... you are forced to choose to be a support character, tank, caster, off-healer etc.. It makes group creation VERY interesting and strategic too.
I don't like MMOS where everyone can learn everything, do everything, be everything. I prefer to have to choose or reroll. Heck, I'd prefer to have something like 160 skills broken into 8 sets of 20, and when you start you choose 3 sets and that's it.
I hope when they add crafting trees you can only pick 1 or 2 as well.
Z
I would agree with something like this. I HATE that everyone can do everything in an MMO and wish that we were limited in points to be able to get around 33% of the skills and that's it. So we need to decide and build smarter.
It makes jobs important and choices matter.
Z
@KKillroyV2 I agree with that, the person recruiting should not post if his prior post is still there... but I still feel it should be allowed if they don't do it like a knucklehead.
There's also some good conversation in chat. Last night we talked about a lot of things... new ideas, helping people, etc.. Since there's nobody in discord and no guild or anything for the town I ended up near, I'm already bored. World chat helps.
Z
I see no reason not to recruit in-game if it's only done every 15-20 minutes or so... when people pile on yelling "stop recruiting, stop recruiting" is when it becomes a flame-fest. (and because of Discord and such, a lot of people never check forums)
The devs need to put in an "ignore" button, and problem solved... of course, there are 1,000 different things that we all think they "need to do", in varying priorities. It's early, it'll happen in time.
The bigger problem, as indicated by the mod's comment, is there are so few people in game. So there's nobody here to push the chat along, and very few looking for a guild anyway. I've probably put in 25 hours and have never seen more than 3 people in one place... THAT is much more serious of an issue.
What we really need to do, is police ourselves and not act like dicks to each other, ESPECIALLY since there are so few people playing!
Everyone has different priorities for this short testing period... we can't be so critical.
Z
I've been able to do 98% of everything I've come across solo so far, but I've only played these 4-5 days...
Having said that, I really think the end-game will... or HAS... to be so different than what we see here that it almost makes it impossible to discuss, assuming we're only seeing around 15% or so of the final game.
Correct?
Z
@Amuck I expected more as well... I really hope they have a lot, LOT more done and under wraps ready to be tested. Considering what three years in, if this is truly where we're at it's going to take 10 more.
I have no reason NOT to think they have a lot more ready... just hope so.
Z
@PaulMacabre Should copy and paste this to as many threads as you can. Oh wait...
Z
One or two of the mage skills I have say that they're a "guaranteed crit" so I'm pretty sure it's supposed to.I'm not in game and don't remember the skill name, I'll post it later.
Z
Should be $50 to buy and then $15 a month... hell, Ultima Online charged that 23 years ago, so did Everquest. If the game is good, we should pay monthly to make it better.
UNLESS! They're making more than the $15 a person average from selling cosmetics... that model works as well.
Z
I prefer pvp as well, but there needs to be some safe areas as well, to draw the PVE crowd's $ too. There's so much not in the game i'm afraid at this pace it'll be many years until the game is complete.
Z
I started yesterday and have run around killing mobs and gaining skills and such, learning the basics.
I ran pretty much from one end of the map to the other, and there wasn't a ton of change... which is fine. I understand where we're at in the process.
I saw some people putting up buildings in cities, etc..
I'd like to start a chat about what people are actually "doing" in-game at this point in the development. I'm curious, but I think it will also help to show some other options to people who may not realize things are in the game yet...
So whatcha doin'?
Z
Akismet can be funny. Maybe delete it and repost new?
Z
@Caako You'd think... but from the forums posts in most pre-release games, it's obvious that most just want to grind, kill, frag, etc.. 
I blame milennials.
Z
@Razvan I read that it affects your rolls... so more likely to evade or block, hit for more damage etc..
Z
@lopekz7 That's really special... especially being so far apart. I would do anything to get my wife involved in gaming.
I've tried since 1997 in Ultima Online, no luck. 
Deacon Z