Bored with WoW, back to CoH.
It's a familiar feeling. It happend in UO, it happened in DaoC, SWG, AC2, CoH and now WoW. You log in, pull up the character screen and stare at it for 5 minutes trying to decide what you want to do. You finally pick one out of frustration and get loaded then stare at the screen for another 5 minutes trying to decide what to do. Then you log out and go see if there are any old Kung Fu movies on the tube.
I hit the wall on WoW this weekend and played some single player stuff for a while.
So, yesterday, I'm at work and check my home email and see that CoH has gone live with The Arena. Woulf had said something about it but I got that other old familiar feeling (where you just HAVE to go try it out) and knew that when I got home, I would be cranking back up my CoH account and giving it a go.
I just love how easy it is to get back in a game you've cancelled. It took a while to download the patches but about 2 minutes to reactivate my account. Very soon, I'm logging in and Little Janie, the all powerful energy blaster, is back in action.
The only problem is that I couldn't remember how anything worked. Wait a minute, I remember my trinity of ass kicking (the three powers I used the most) but which buttons were they? So I'm staring at the screen trying to remember which button Fly is bound to when I see a message from someone in the Super Group. I send out a "Hi All" and one of the resident smart-asses comes back with, "So, did you beat WOW?" and about two seconds later I get a group invite from Woulf. I remembered going back to UO and no one knew me, it was sure nice to pop in and get a warm welcome.
My first challenge was how to get from Galaxy City to Crey's Folly. I'm one of those guys who has the entire map in my head and I'm sure it's still in there somewhere but the synapses aren't quite firing yet. Finally, after they've watched me bounce around a while, someone offers a suggestion on how to get there. I run a mission with them, die pretty quick because I'm just hitting buttons and targeted the wrong purple thing. I slowly remember what powers do what and have a pretty successful time of it by the end.
The mission finishes and Voodoo Joe invites me over to the Arena for a little PvP practice. I run in and check the salespeople. There is a new thing call a Break Free so I buy a couple, knowing he is a holder type guy. He sets up a duel and we log in. You log in to what looks like a mission so i run around looking for him. I find him and we stand for a few seconds just looking. You can't talk so he eventually attacks and it's on. Like I said, he is a holder (controller or defender) so if he can hold me and bounce me off the ceiling, he will probably win. I'm an energy blaster so if I can blast, he's toast. Dueling is pretty simple, you kill each other as many times as possible in 10 minutes. Amazingly, I won. Being old and slow, my basic tactic is to target, blast, blast blast, blast until everything else is dead or I am. We played 9 rounds and I won 5 out of 4. Those two hold breaks figured heavily in my first few wins and it went back and forth after that. More importantly, it was great fun. I thought I would get totally pwned so was pleasantly surprised.
I'm still amazed at how awesome an energy blaster is at dealing out damage, especially one on one. Many of my blasts have knockback which help a lot (they can't attack from their back).
I'm not sure how long I'll be back in CoH but for now, I'm having a blast.
I hit the wall on WoW this weekend and played some single player stuff for a while.
So, yesterday, I'm at work and check my home email and see that CoH has gone live with The Arena. Woulf had said something about it but I got that other old familiar feeling (where you just HAVE to go try it out) and knew that when I got home, I would be cranking back up my CoH account and giving it a go.
I just love how easy it is to get back in a game you've cancelled. It took a while to download the patches but about 2 minutes to reactivate my account. Very soon, I'm logging in and Little Janie, the all powerful energy blaster, is back in action.
The only problem is that I couldn't remember how anything worked. Wait a minute, I remember my trinity of ass kicking (the three powers I used the most) but which buttons were they? So I'm staring at the screen trying to remember which button Fly is bound to when I see a message from someone in the Super Group. I send out a "Hi All" and one of the resident smart-asses comes back with, "So, did you beat WOW?" and about two seconds later I get a group invite from Woulf. I remembered going back to UO and no one knew me, it was sure nice to pop in and get a warm welcome.
My first challenge was how to get from Galaxy City to Crey's Folly. I'm one of those guys who has the entire map in my head and I'm sure it's still in there somewhere but the synapses aren't quite firing yet. Finally, after they've watched me bounce around a while, someone offers a suggestion on how to get there. I run a mission with them, die pretty quick because I'm just hitting buttons and targeted the wrong purple thing. I slowly remember what powers do what and have a pretty successful time of it by the end.
The mission finishes and Voodoo Joe invites me over to the Arena for a little PvP practice. I run in and check the salespeople. There is a new thing call a Break Free so I buy a couple, knowing he is a holder type guy. He sets up a duel and we log in. You log in to what looks like a mission so i run around looking for him. I find him and we stand for a few seconds just looking. You can't talk so he eventually attacks and it's on. Like I said, he is a holder (controller or defender) so if he can hold me and bounce me off the ceiling, he will probably win. I'm an energy blaster so if I can blast, he's toast. Dueling is pretty simple, you kill each other as many times as possible in 10 minutes. Amazingly, I won. Being old and slow, my basic tactic is to target, blast, blast blast, blast until everything else is dead or I am. We played 9 rounds and I won 5 out of 4. Those two hold breaks figured heavily in my first few wins and it went back and forth after that. More importantly, it was great fun. I thought I would get totally pwned so was pleasantly surprised.
I'm still amazed at how awesome an energy blaster is at dealing out damage, especially one on one. Many of my blasts have knockback which help a lot (they can't attack from their back).
I'm not sure how long I'll be back in CoH but for now, I'm having a blast.
posted by Big Ed at 1:47 PM
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