Tuesday, 2 September 2014
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| Adventuring with friends :) |
After a long hiatus I'm finally back to blogging. Have been busy lately. With work and etc. Good thing ArcheAge came along which helps to relieve some stress x)
This shall be a continuation from my previous post A sneak peek at new #MMORPG: ArcheAge . My friends and I managed to participate in Closed Beta 3 and 4. Just like to share some of my thoughts on how ArcheAge fair so far :)
Well, Trion is very smart to offer an exclusive Founder's package at 3 different price point, where you get advanced access to other features of the BETA. The cheapest package costs USD 49.99 and you get like... 4 days headstart against other F2P players? Hmm, just not really sure if it's really worth it to spend just for "additional" Beta access :/
The biggest impression left after the end of CB4 was the complexity of the class builds (whooping 120 types) and the intensity of the dungeon. You can practically create any job by mixing any 3 classes attributes, and so I chose the route of Shadowplay (like assassin), Battlerage (like fighter) and Archery which gives you a job call "Outrider". Sounds cool enough, and I'm pretty happy with this mix which gives pretty high dps. With dual-wielded swords and a bow, it's a hybrid strong melee and relatively strong ranged character as well which I've never tried before in any other MMOs. There's already a bunch of resources created about ArcheAge's complexed job system so would like to share a few good sites here:
arche-base.comhttp://archeage.gamepedia.com/Classes
Highlights in CB4
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| Beautiful airship thingy *-* |
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| Grow your own mount. Hitching a ride on a Nuian's mount is fun. |
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| Gliding with friends! |
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| Oh yes, pretty girl can climb a tree too :) |
Few interesting things we learnt in CB4 - harvesting crops from other's public farms will leave your footprints where other players can report you ^^. Overdoing "crimes" like this, or killing players from the same faction gives you Crime Points and where you eventually can be put on trial and go to jail. And when you commit too many crimes you can turn into a pirate as well ^^ Auroria island is a place where pirates reside. Going back to Nuia or Haranya - NPCs or players will be able to attack you lol. Pretty interesting. Kind of like to try living a life of a pirate :D
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| Oh thiefy :3 |
The most exciting part of our short adventure in CB4 would definitely be our sailing experience. We didn't have time to build a huge sailing boat, but we were so eager to sail out so heck it, 5 of us squeeze into our pathetic row boat and started our adventure anyway! :P
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| Chicken Burgers! This is really too cramp and no leg space! D: |
We set off in the day from Nuia's Dewstone Plains to Haranya. On our way there, we discovered some small isolated island where nobody resides and somebody planted mushrooms there lol.
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| Small deserted island! |
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| Dotted line marks our route! It was really fun! |
It took us quite long by manual rowing. Not to mention there were also sea bugs and gaint jellyfish jumping about and attacking our boat during our ride! It was so scary. We quickly jumped off our boat and 4 of us died leaving our tanker alone in the open sea! D: She was so afraid and could only swim to the shore of Haranya while the jellyfish continues to whack our friend's boat ><. 4 of us eventually managed to row our boat AGAIN via a shorter route to reach Haranya. We reached at dawn and was in time for the beautiful sunrise :D
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| Arriving at Haranya at dawn with our friend from Haranya welcoming us! xD |
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| Successfully arrived at Haranya after much ordeal :D |
You can see the obvious difference in the environment and terrain when you arrive at the opposing faction. Haranya is beautiful ^^ Buildings and trees look different as well :) When we first disembarked on the shores of Haranya, we were careful to look out for any possible enemies because we could be ganged anytime X) Luckily only a few were on shore. We couldn't understand what they are saying because you could only see gibberish texts :D makes it all the more realistic ^^ You gotta learn their language at a later part if you want to understand what your enemy is speaking.
We went on to venture into the lands of Haranya, only to be chased after by NPCs! Hahahaha, 2 of us died and was resurrected at the temple LOL. Our spy friend from Haranya was telling us that other Haranians were shouting to call on other Haranians to come to kill us xD
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| I really like this liondance mount! Way too cute! LOL. |
We met some friends over here as well, but couldn't communicate hahahhaa. Looking forward to Open Beta which starts this 4th Sept!
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| Nice scenary :) |
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| I shall take a selfie ^^ |
