much to do
But today would of been a great day to call in sick. Why?
AC2 gets patched once again! Ok ok yes i know most of you could care less but when I finished my blogging this morning i tapped into ac2 to see if the update was done and behold it was!
Ooooo newness. Its the best thing about online gaming at times.. the sense of a world changing and they are doing in that fairly well in ac2.
My two characters, Barry the tact my high lvl toon is still fun but much of what he can do is aimed strictly at the high end of things where no one solos really. Barry spends his days finding stuff for SallySue the young struggling alchemist.
SallySue is fustrating to play, as an alchemist you get the feeling this spec in the game was the least developed yet still really interesting. Most spec trees for classes set one direction to take yer player. Melee yer a zerker, your magic yer an elementalist.. with the Alchemist I throw potions at people.
My spec tree as an alchemist is split 3 ways... gah. I can go lightside and toss speciality potions that do different things, basically like a Ranger but more orientated towards fire. The alchemist loves fire, breathes fire and everything either burns or blows up or oxidizes and keeps that fire going.
Darkside is my other option, darkside turns the alchemist into Mr Hyde. You transform into a mob basically a big mean mutant. Your baselines stats all increase, health, vigor etc. Plus you get a great speed boost in combat along with a set of skills to boost the darkside agenda- double attack, bloodfeast etc..
But because of the way the alchemist is structured you have to choose who you want to be. Darkside is a blast to play but yer attacks are based of the missile tree cause thats where the base of abilites are, so to hit you do fine but to defend, well that hurts cause yer not a melee character but you fight like one. So the downside of the darkside is that you dont have the melee defense skills of a typical melee player. You can't use any of the lightside skills in darkside and vice versa.
A third tree is healer and can be used by either side. Healing powers are kinda cool too, they arent player directional simply aoe effects of the alchemist. You heal yerself for 250 and so does everyone else near by all for the same vigor. Its good in groups.
Anyways long story short, alchemist is fun but hard to play. Sally dies often but at times solo's mobs much higher than herself due to darkside. Sally is so fun to play Barry feeds her habbit of wanting even more potions and items to keep her soloing as the darkside.
So AC2 is still fun and I know that puzzles many of you. I've met some good people in game and still solo quite often and have taken up questing more and more. Lately the loot and new changes they've made to weapon effects and new mobs has been great. And dang it I wish I was home playing this new update already!! heh ahh well..
Gotta work!