Lineage 2

You might not believe this but I have started playing Lineage 2. At first I never saw myself playing this game as it was touted as grindy and hardcore. But, as a measure to help our gaming community, Celestial Order, I tried the game nonetheless. And was rewarded with exactly what people were warning me about. Now, after Guild Wars, I am quite bored out of grinding. The only consolation is that I am doing it with my guild mates and it makes it somewhat tolerable. That is not to say that this game is not without merits. I personally like the character designs, armours and weapons. They are not as outlandish as say, WoW but they look more realistic in so far as to look similar to european medieval time armours. The game is still new to me and the first thing I learnt from the game is that everything is expensive! Teleporting will cost you thousands of adena (the game's currency). Even when you have a clan hall, you have to pay rental! And it is not cheap.


My character in the game is a warlord. Which is a crowd control melee class. Quite contrary to the type of classes I choose which is usually single dps melee classses. However, I am taking a liking to him as I get to run a mechanic that I have been aware for some time but never get to experience it. Which is train-ing. Literally, you aggro as many monsters as you can and you train them to a location where you can maximise your weapon's angle. The name of the game is to hit as many of them in one time, with the least swings as possible with the class' AoE (area of effect) attacks and skills. As you can no doubt see, this class is a good levelling companion and most people would want a warlord in the team. Anyway, recently the game just updated to Chaos Throne version 1.5 and there is also a 2x experience event happening. Seems like everyone is on a levelling rampage to take advantage of that. I guess I am on that bus as well.