I joined up with SoD about 6 months ago now. I quickly fell in love with the game and having no prior experience with Everquest, had a mountain of stuff to learn. I was fortunate to meet a great community, join a fantastic guild, and start the various 'grinds' for the Main Quest, Vah, etc. All in all, I'm having a wonderful time.
I must admit though, in the last few weeks, my desire to continue to play on my own has dwindled. Despite getting some great gear rather quickly through the generosity of my guild, I can't DO much anymore because of mechanics currently in place - mainly mob summon.
When I joined, I didn't know anything about anything, but what I did know from other games was I didn't enjoy tanking much, and I don't like the stress of healing. So I rolled a ranger and a wizard, and had a fantastic time, and found they meshed well together. Now that I'm 65 with about 175 AA's, I find I can't do a lot of the more important faction grinds, or quest progressions, or just exp grinding in general, because the vast majority of mobs worth killing for xp or otherwise all have the same core ability of summon. I understand for other classes it may not be an issue, but for quite a few, mine in particular, summon negates the core of what I do. I can't tank as a ranger or wiz, I can't root/snare kite, I can't do much of anything. I've even tried taking the majority of the defensive AA's first on my ranger to give myself a bit more survival, nothing helps.
Now I know I probably could have picked two better classes to duo with, but I didn't know at the time and as I said already, I don't enjoy some of the other aspects of it. I'm trying very hard to catch up to my guild mates to make myself a useful part of their team in a community that isn't too large to begin with. I still feel like dead weight, and unless I can find some charitable souls to group with on off times, there's no method for me to do so.
I'm not asking for summon to be removed entirely, far from it. Major quest mobs, named, high tier dungeons, go for it. Garbage trash mobs throughout Ikisith though? Faction grind mobs like no name giants/dragons? ANYTHING worth killing at 65 that gives xp to make it worth your time? I think that's hindering younger players like myself that want to get into this game, but can't. Just my 2c and rant!
I must admit though, in the last few weeks, my desire to continue to play on my own has dwindled. Despite getting some great gear rather quickly through the generosity of my guild, I can't DO much anymore because of mechanics currently in place - mainly mob summon.
When I joined, I didn't know anything about anything, but what I did know from other games was I didn't enjoy tanking much, and I don't like the stress of healing. So I rolled a ranger and a wizard, and had a fantastic time, and found they meshed well together. Now that I'm 65 with about 175 AA's, I find I can't do a lot of the more important faction grinds, or quest progressions, or just exp grinding in general, because the vast majority of mobs worth killing for xp or otherwise all have the same core ability of summon. I understand for other classes it may not be an issue, but for quite a few, mine in particular, summon negates the core of what I do. I can't tank as a ranger or wiz, I can't root/snare kite, I can't do much of anything. I've even tried taking the majority of the defensive AA's first on my ranger to give myself a bit more survival, nothing helps.
Now I know I probably could have picked two better classes to duo with, but I didn't know at the time and as I said already, I don't enjoy some of the other aspects of it. I'm trying very hard to catch up to my guild mates to make myself a useful part of their team in a community that isn't too large to begin with. I still feel like dead weight, and unless I can find some charitable souls to group with on off times, there's no method for me to do so.
I'm not asking for summon to be removed entirely, far from it. Major quest mobs, named, high tier dungeons, go for it. Garbage trash mobs throughout Ikisith though? Faction grind mobs like no name giants/dragons? ANYTHING worth killing at 65 that gives xp to make it worth your time? I think that's hindering younger players like myself that want to get into this game, but can't. Just my 2c and rant!