Allods Online: Damn Bag Grinders

One of the things that is really destroying my fun, is those "bag grinders".
I call them bag grinders because they're usually grinding mobs to get rare drops to be able to get the bigger bagspace ingame instead of buying it.

Now i really think there should be an ingame way of getting the same stuff that you can buy in the cashshop, if you don't want to buy it, however when i am on a quest for which i need to kill a bunch of mobs and find a couple of high levels grinding those mobs, one shotting them even before i can get a shot in, i am not ok with that.
Especially if there are a level 27 and a level 31 grinding lvl 13 mobs..

I really think the devs need to come up with some other way, as this is making things annoying for those that need to complete quests, let them grind mobs that are not needed in other quests.

Of course this also depends on the (grinding) player, afterall those high levels could be a little nicer and ask those lower levels that are running around in the same areas if they need to kill them for a quest and offer a group, but then again they're probably to scared those lower levels run off with the rare drops :)
Or at least leave a little area untouched so others can get quests done and not kill every mob in sight.

Personally i say, just buy the damn bags, at least you are supporting the game with it and you are not annoying other players. I know it's a free to play game, but hell if no one buys anything it won't be around for long.

Please SOE: fix the Station Launcher

Lately my Station Launcher has been bugging like crazy.
When i have it running (in the background), a popup would appear in which the launcher said it was updating, it takes forever and this happens several times a day. And the worst part, it minimizes any game i am playing, even non SOE games.
Nothing is more annoying than when you are playing a game your game minimizes...

And the worse part, it never updates, the launcher itself says it's up to date, yet the window keeps popping up.

And today, the launcher suddenly decided to not remember my login/settings, which is not the first time either, it's very annoying to go through all the login and game settings again, true it doesn't happen often, but it is annoying as hell.

Right now i am thinking about removing the launcher all together and go back to launching the games through their own launchers, it's just too annoying.

Creating a Cynfull Death Knight

Finally reached level 55 on my main Cynheiddon, which meant i could finally create a Death Knight, so say hello to Cynfull :)
Have to say i initially liked it a lot, but as soon as the "tutorial"/story ended i felt like, meh.
I really enjoyed the "new" world they created for the Death Knight and ending up in Orgrimmar really felt like an anti climax.

Oh well for now it's back to my main and who knows maybe i'll try the Death Knight out later..

To Worlds Unknown at a new home

From today To Worlds Unknown will have a new home here at Blogger (Blogspot) on http://www.toworldsunknown.com

If you are reading this through a feed reader it means that everything is working correctly and you can keep reading To Worlds Unknown this way.

I have finsihed moving most of my posts one by one for the most part, still a few months to move, so you might see some wierd things going on with the site feed, but after that it should be "business" as usual.

Unfortianatly moving the posts also meant losing all comments, which is really a shame but there was no way to move from a Nucleus CMS to Blogger in an easy way other than manually (re)posting all posts.

I really got tired of having to actively fight spam and other malicious attempts at my blogging software, so instead i decided to go with Blogger and let them worry about all that and all i have to do is just a little comment moderation :)

3 years of blogging

It completely passed me by, but last month was actually my 3rd year of blogging for this blog :)
so yeah, DING!!

Allods Online, doing the right thing.

OK, i'll admit it, i was one of those (probably very few) that actually did buy the 20 dollar bags.
Do i think the (very) little extra bag space was worth it,... hell no, it was definatly not, not for the bag space.
However i looked at it in a different way, i was getting a little extra bag space and with that 20 dollars i support a F2P game that i actually enjoy playing.

Of course we all know there was a huge uproar about the pricing and we also know they lowered the cash shop prices.
But yeah, i payed 20 dollars for the bag before they lowered the prices, well guess what?
They actually went back and priced my bag at the current price and put the rest of the gPotatoes (points) back into my account.

So i guess one could say that they are definatly trying to do things right, eventhough they didn't have to, afterall i agreed to the 20 dollar price when i bought it but still they went back and gave me back credit for the "overpricing".

Allods Online, Giving it a second chance and liking it.

I have been playing a lot of Allods Online, although i did get pretty close to quiting it.
My first character (Cynfull) is a warrior on the League side and i have level 10 with her.
But the kill stealing was so bad that it really took the fun out of the game, well technically it isn't kill stealing, because as soon as you land the first hit on the mob it's yours no matter what happens.
However as a warrior it's very hard to get a mob everyone is after, as what usually happens i see a mob and before i can reach it some mage comes along and from a distance castes a fireball and takes the mob, even if i still kill it i will not get credit for it.
As a warrior theres really no way to getting to a mob fast unless you are standing right next to it, i do have one ranged attack but that takes 4 seconds to fire.

So i got really close to quit the game, but decided to give it another change, this time i rolled a scout (stalker) on the Empire side (Synfull) and i have to say it's alot more fun to play, as i feel it suits me better, being ranged, and at least i have a chance to get a mob as soon as i see it as my ranged attack is instant, so the kill stealing is no a lot less.

I also feel like the the Empire has had a lot more attention from the Devs, it feels more "done", it definatly felt like i was leveling faster and so far i have to say i really prefer the Empire over the League.
It's save to say they try to put it down as the evil Empire, as one of my first quests was to beat up a couple of POW's, a quest i personally didn't like and i actually felt bad for doing, i don't know it definatly felt wrong (i know, i know it's a game, but still..).
But so far i have not had any more quests on the Empire side that were that extreme and i have generally been having a blast.

I have had a lot of fun running the XAES Dungeon, so far i have done it twice as i found out later that i got a few more quests in there to do as follow up quests for other quests.
And although it's not a raid, as it's set to max party of 6 (we tried as a raid but mobs wouldn't aggro), it has been fun doing it a second time, i even got a nice pair of (blue) dual daggers from it, and i definatly enjoyed my part, just staying in the back of the group and fire those arrows and try to do as much DPS as i can :)



So far i never had the urge to do raids, as a matter of fact i always tried to stay away from them, but now i think it might actually be a lot of fun doing raids, i mean not like being a full time raider, but more like a casual raider.
I do sometimes listen to some talk about raids in WoW where people actually "study" the raid and memorize a complete "choreography" to do a dungeon, i admire those people and the efforts they put into it to do it "right" and i do enjoy reading/listening to those stories, but it's not what i would like to do, i just wanna go in there and have fun and either we make it or we don't.

So who knows.. i might actually turn into a casual raider :)

So after all this, yes i will definatly keep playing Allods Online, i really enjoy the world and the setting and although there are quite a lot of those kill ten (or 20) rats quest, i am really enjoying the storyline quests. It's definatly an interresting world.

For the Hor.., i mean for the Empire :)