Message from actual new player

[nasomi]

Here's the thing. The game doesn't have a flat learning curve. You actually have to use BOTH of your brain cells to play. Yes, some things are tough to figure out. But if you ask around, or spend some TIME, they become apparent. Have you tried joining a shell and asking for help, or random shouts? They work wonders. The whole "i just started and i don't know everything" theme is getting old.

[TonyMontana]

Here's the thing. The game doesn't have a flat learning curve. You actually have to use BOTH of your brain cells to play. Yes, some things are tough to figure out. But if you ask around, or spend some TIME, they become apparent. Have you tried joining a shell and asking for help, or random shouts? They work wonders. The whole "i just started and i don't know everything" theme is getting old.

I dont have a PS3 so I dont know the answer to this question. How easy is communication via console vs via PC. Also will PS3 users be using things like ventrilo?

[Polaritie]

Here's the thing. The game doesn't have a flat learning curve. You actually have to use BOTH of your brain cells to play. Yes, some things are tough to figure out. But if you ask around, or spend some TIME, they become apparent. Have you tried joining a shell and asking for help, or random shouts? They work wonders. The whole "i just started and i don't know everything" theme is getting old.

Frankly, at level 20 DoW before patch anything within 3 levels of you was cake (barring NM and the like, obviously). This patch has made it drastically harder to fight things higher level than you. I had to rest after two leve mobs at only 2*. It put them at equal to my level. Multiple healing sources, Shock Spikes, and healthy amounts of AoE... which would have destroyed them pre-patch, were just enough to keep me alive at 20% HP.

I don't really think I should be able to go up to something ten levels above me and smash its face in. But frankly, I think there's some kind of level penalty going on now, because ten levels now reduces my damage by around 90%.