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WoW and CoH: General Stuff
Jan. 10th, 2012 01:11 pmI am in the very beginnings of assembling a PvP off-spec for Folami. Thanks to being near the Justice Points cap and being able to trade JP in for Honor Points, I was able to purchase season 11 robes, and then I tailored other bits of PvP gear (I still need shoulders).
I went with Affliction since that seems to be the most popular PvP spec for Warlocks, and I started doing a bit of research on skill-capped.com. I still need to watch a few videos to figure out a basic spell rotation (or at least which spells I'll need to be able to hit fast as well as cool down management). There's two glyphs that were not available at the auction house that I'll need to keep an eye out for, and there are some PvP trinkets and/or rings I've seen around there I'll be watching.
Honestly, I don't know when I'll feel ready to even try a single round. Obviously, if there's a choice between raid and PvP, I'll pick raiding, but so far Steadfast keeps their PvP and raid nights spaced out enough I could do both, and there always seems to be someone around for random battlegrounds in PvP. To be honest, I never thought I'd try PvP, but as I've now got the hang of raiding with a Warlock, I figure I might as well give PvP a shot just to say I tried.
In City of Heroes, Sam's been teaching me how to use Mibs as well as teaching me about the enhancement system (it only took me a year of owning the game...). I think I'm getting the general idea, but I still feel WoW's system is a hell of a lot more intuitive, but that could just be me being used to playing RPGs where you boost stats from armor. I don't know that I'll stick with it and actually learn how to play this time. It is very intimidating and looks overly complicated even if (as hardcore CoH'ers tell me) it's not.
I still hate task forces in CoH. In fact, I hate the large teams. Even in 25-man raids in WoW, I still feel like I'm contributing. In CoH I never feel that way in the larger teams. I prefer keeping it small there, even though it means way less XP. I like CoH for the potential for RP, and also because it's one thing Sam and I can enjoy together. And, okay, character and costume design is just so much fucking fun.
Anyway, that's what I've been up to MMO-wise. Now back to writing.
I went with Affliction since that seems to be the most popular PvP spec for Warlocks, and I started doing a bit of research on skill-capped.com. I still need to watch a few videos to figure out a basic spell rotation (or at least which spells I'll need to be able to hit fast as well as cool down management). There's two glyphs that were not available at the auction house that I'll need to keep an eye out for, and there are some PvP trinkets and/or rings I've seen around there I'll be watching.
Honestly, I don't know when I'll feel ready to even try a single round. Obviously, if there's a choice between raid and PvP, I'll pick raiding, but so far Steadfast keeps their PvP and raid nights spaced out enough I could do both, and there always seems to be someone around for random battlegrounds in PvP. To be honest, I never thought I'd try PvP, but as I've now got the hang of raiding with a Warlock, I figure I might as well give PvP a shot just to say I tried.
In City of Heroes, Sam's been teaching me how to use Mibs as well as teaching me about the enhancement system (it only took me a year of owning the game...). I think I'm getting the general idea, but I still feel WoW's system is a hell of a lot more intuitive, but that could just be me being used to playing RPGs where you boost stats from armor. I don't know that I'll stick with it and actually learn how to play this time. It is very intimidating and looks overly complicated even if (as hardcore CoH'ers tell me) it's not.
I still hate task forces in CoH. In fact, I hate the large teams. Even in 25-man raids in WoW, I still feel like I'm contributing. In CoH I never feel that way in the larger teams. I prefer keeping it small there, even though it means way less XP. I like CoH for the potential for RP, and also because it's one thing Sam and I can enjoy together. And, okay, character and costume design is just so much fucking fun.
Anyway, that's what I've been up to MMO-wise. Now back to writing.
