Take your time.
This is one of the MMORPGs that is truly trying to provide you with a world.
Rushing will likely burn you out.
You dont need the best everything after 1 week. You are highly unlikely to have the best everything after a month.
Stop and smell the digital roses.
Socialize. This game has a strong social element to it.
Immerse yourself.
Posted Oct 16, 2019, 9:53 AM UTC · edited
In any game I play, it's all about the journey and not the destination. This game, for me, provides one of the best journeys. Haven't been on in a while and hope they haven't killed the early levels like so many other games have as they age. I have no desire to rush to end game. I love the lore.
The biggest change I've noticed is how fast you level. It's crazy fast now.
That can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it, but otherwise it feels pretty much the same.
Isn't that up untill lvl 30?
I think so, but I haven't gotten that far, and wouldn't count 30+ as "early levels."
It's because skills are locked behind levels. So the game is designed to level you to 30 very quickly, setting you up with a decent base set of abilities. From there it tapers off HARD, and 30-55 is considered the real leveling section
1-30 is tutorial, 30-55 is early/mid levels. Ancestrals is the real levels.
I am not a fan of the faster leveling either. I missed the streams but I hope it tapers off around midgame.
To be honest, the rush to and hard focus on endgame disgusts me, and we as players are the ones that caused it. It's like, does anyone actually read books anymore or is it always straight to the Cliffsnotes or to an internet tl;dr page?
Life before death Strength before weakness Journey before destination
Unless you want a good home....in that case you better run boy!
Good is amatter of perspective.
A farming/trading pmayer wont want a home where a pvp player will. Big guilds wont want the same spots necessarily either.
At this point the way queues are going even those lands may be gone saturday
Each player is limited to 2 plots placed at a time, and there is a LOT of land in the game. You will be able to find plots somewhere for weeks after. And even after a month - people who don't pay taxes will have their land demolished and more will open.
Except in unchained Patron NEVER expires, so you just gotta log in every 5 weeks, craft certs and NEVER lose your land. Once horders grab land in unchained, your not going to see it opening up.
I think the worry about land rush is over played.
Back with original AA launch it was literally impossible to find land just hours into the game. And there was no where near as much land available back then. However, even with all that I managed to snag an 8x8 near one of the starter areas (like a level 15 area) which made it super easy for me to do farming/crafting.
THis time around I have no idea where I want to grab land. I'll probably even find a 16x16 spot, if not more. At original AA launch, getting even getting 8x8 was nigh impossible, 16x16 was like hitting the lottery and you didn't get to choose where since everything was immediately filled up.
Was in the starting areas and I was next to someone’s horse and the H icon popped up and my curiosity got the better of me. I hopped on the other player’s horse.
This is the first MMO I’ve played that allows me to be a criminal.
Shoutout to player Hire for being a lad and not getting mad for my ignorance.
I’m enjoying this game.
Doesn’t make you a criminal for hopping on someone’s horse lol.
I haven't played AA since about 2 or 3 months into the original AA launch.
Last time I took my time, spent most of my time farming and slowly leveling up.
This time, with Unchained, I'm rushing through the leveling system and hope to try out the boating/fishing stuff, dungeons, etc, plus more farming.
So, basically doing exact opposite of what OP is suggesting. lol :)
But shouldn't I rush so I can get land?
Are you going to be a dedicaed farmer/crafter?
Are you going to be an adventurer?
Are you going to join a big guild?
The first? Yeah maybe you should try and snag a plot but there are numerous places to put down farms. Some might not be pretty or accessible but it is a possibility.
The second and third? You can probably get by without. The few times you would need to grow something there are all of the public farms, you just need to know where you put stuff
Wrong mmo for that, but to each their own.
If youre a pvp only player, maybe.
Luckily it isnt only a pvp mmo
Oh wow, did the game change that much since the original version? It was purely a pvp mmo back then. Thanks, you made my day, I'm gonna look into this :)
You could always have focused on guild, pve, farming/crafting/trading? Pvp and player controlled territories are still important. It isnt gone or overridden by pve - if thats what you're looking for
Except all those things are made in unison with pvp as the end goal. So it still is a pvp game or no?
True. I just spent 3h after i got the glider just to find illegal farms. Just for the rush. Still lvl 18 tho^^
Can't wait to hop in this afternoon (assuming all goes well). What are illegal farms if you don't mind me asking?
You can plant anywhere in the world, but once it is ready, anyone can 'steal' it. People like to try and find hidden areas up in the mountains and plant lots of trees, or other high value plants. These are known as illegal farms, although in game it is stealing them that can get you crime stat. (As I remember from launch, don't know if that part has changed.)
There is a lot of fun in trying to find other peoples illegal farms and pinch them before they get back. Especially if you brave the enemy continent, where (if nothing has changed) there is no crime stat from stealing an enemies trees.
I only purchased this game as an FU to blizzard but I get more and more excited when reading about this game. I didn’t even know there were illegal farms. This sounds so badass!
A better way to say it is unprotected. If u plant trees, plants, grow livestock outside a public farm or land you own it is unprotected. Anybody can harvest . I called them illigal cus that was the policy of the server i used to play sorry.
That's awesome, definitely adds a different element to it. I think that's going to be fun side hobby. Seems like there's a lot of freedom in this game which will lead to some pretty wild encounters. Now I just need to get outta work.
That's the allure, there is a lot of sandbox elements that allow for player agency.
except whats actually illegal is steal said plants/animals from your own faction. Planting them is fully legal.
That depends on the server policy
Hehehe I had a great one back in the day. It took a long time before someone found it.
What's great is I'm just going to all the hidden places I remember from launch, where trees grow naturally, and there is tons of wood to be found even around the starter areas.
Might have more to do with the labor bug than anything.
New player here who needs help
I think I leveled past the point where I can get a glider. I’m 30 and I tried backtracking to get one but the quest didn’t show up
Is there another way I can get a glider, id rather not spend Gilda on it though
It's one gilda in mirage isle.
You were going to spend gilda on it anyway.