N00b Land!

Yesterday evening I was faced with boredom (which I'll admit, happens quite a bit after all these years). Luckily though one of my friends who has recently begun to play had just come online and had been having trouble with the mission The Ruins of Surmia. Now I am always happy to help out a friend – especially if it's also a chance to show off how l33t I am.

So anyway, I headed to Ascalon, and found said friend ready and waiting. As soon as we grouped up however I noticed the appearance of Aeterna and her boyfriend and invited them along too. Before long we had three level twenties accompanying my friend into the harsh wilderness of Surmia. The mission? To hunt down and slaughter the Charr holding the Ascalonian citizens hostage.

Picture the scene, a group of “Ascalon's finest” go into the wilderness. They run into devourers and what's this? Out of the corpse comes a big scary level twenty-nine flesh golem. WTF?! I mean seriously, what's going on?

Well that'd be me, playing my favourite minion mastering build the power of eleven in one. Flanked by the heroic Aeterna playing her Elementalist and raining fire upon the foes, striking them down and frying them to death. And her boyfriend, the mighty and powerful monk of all monks who shall keep us alive, even in the face of level five Charr! OMG!

Ok, so we were a bit overpowered.

In my opinion this made it all the more fun. I mean, it was eleven in the evening, I've been doing hardcore stuff all evening. And then a beginning mission comes up, and we just can't help ourselves.

I could say we wanted to help out a guildy, and that would be true, but all of us crave for easy adventure now and again, and last night was just one of those times.

I've heard people say that the beginning missions aren't fun, that they're boring because of how easy they are. I don't think that's true, I mean, sure, they shouldn't be done everyday, but blitzing a mission with an overpowered build against low level foes is fun. It brings back memories of those times when you were also a n00b and you wanted to be up there with those chaos gloved people and have pink elite armour. And we should all try to recapture the n00b inside us sometimes, otherwise we might become those players who shout n00b at everyone.