Margaret
Loyal Freddie
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2004
- Messages
- 261
I've recently made a new character - a magic-using type - and am levelling it up the hard way, all the way from 1. I'm currently at 15, and slowly but steadily xp'ing my way up.
Today I grouped briefly with a rare phenomenon: a new player. He'd somehow managed, I kid you not, to get from 1 to 15 without actually finding out about that whole 'combat styles' thing. He played a hybrid character, and had somehow managed to muddle through getting his spells set up, but every fight he was going at it unstyled. I pointed out to him how to set up styles on quickbars, and how to line them up('first press the situational one - like your block style - then an anytime style, so that if your situational requirements aren't met, you'll do the anytime instead'), and he got so enthusiastic, I couldn't help but sit and smile. When he figured out, all by himself, that the same principles applied for Guard and Protect abilities, he got so proud it was almost embarrassing.
After the fact, though, I keep coming back to this:
Wouldn't it be nice if we could be that enthusiastic about the game again?
Today I grouped briefly with a rare phenomenon: a new player. He'd somehow managed, I kid you not, to get from 1 to 15 without actually finding out about that whole 'combat styles' thing. He played a hybrid character, and had somehow managed to muddle through getting his spells set up, but every fight he was going at it unstyled. I pointed out to him how to set up styles on quickbars, and how to line them up('first press the situational one - like your block style - then an anytime style, so that if your situational requirements aren't met, you'll do the anytime instead'), and he got so enthusiastic, I couldn't help but sit and smile. When he figured out, all by himself, that the same principles applied for Guard and Protect abilities, he got so proud it was almost embarrassing.
After the fact, though, I keep coming back to this:
Wouldn't it be nice if we could be that enthusiastic about the game again?