12 Apr, 2006

Another radio station that caters to the MMORPG crowd can be found at wOOtradio  And for the podcast crowd, there is the Jester's Court, which is also found there. Apparently they do a 2 hour show every couple weeks, which ends up as a podcast file.

City of Heroes and Villains figures prominently interspaced with D&D Online, Auto Assault, and other MMORPGS. I was suprprised to hear one of my old Dark Blade (virtue server SG) friends Pilcrow as a regular participant. Long time readers of this blog may see him on some OLD images as his classic character Goose Man. Bravo! I'll be listening to this one!

I'm anxious to see Issue 7 come online. I'm interested in seeing some of the new Villain Patron powers, although it will be a while before I get a villain up to level 41 to see them firsthand. I hear we are getting a free respec - which usually means something will be done to characters that will possibly require it. With the advent of a free respec, if you've had ANY ideas for a new character, start it NOW. That way you'll have the respec when awarded, if needed. Of course if you have any old characters with respecs unused, it might be a good time to use them since you can always undo/redo them if whatever you attempted doesn't work.

As both a Hero and Villain player, still suffering from alt-itis, I'm not too worried about anything. They love to tweak stuff. If a tweak obviously doesn't work, it doesn't last. I'm on every day this month in some form or other - especially with the 2nd Anniversary sweepstakes keeping track of every day you login as an entry for a different prize. This month sees the launch of Auto Assault, new expansions for Guild Wars and Worlds of Warcraft. This might cause a drop of City attendance in the short term, which means us City addicts have better chances at the sweepstakes. I'm TEMPTED at Auto Assault, but haven't taken the plunge yet... My system specs are right on the edge.

If you want to try City of Villains, MMORPG is running a 14 day free trial special -- Not sure how long this will last, but it is an opportunity to give it a try.

Recently I've been playing an assortment. On Sundays, I've been running Starmax for at least a couple hours as part of a group of near-30 lvl characters have been getting together - mostly working Croatoa. (Virtue server) Also on the same server, I've a character called Shark King - a brute experiment that took off. I kind of made him with the Mako Patron set in mind...

I've gotten involved with F.U.S.I.O.N. on Protector, running a charcter called Bloody Bat. We just had a succesful base raid defense the other day - A LOT of fun.

Also I've a mastermind called Shieldwall (Liberty) that I've had fun with, another Brute called King Krakatoa (Infinity). On Freedom Server is Skellios which won that HUGE contest windfall - he's lvl 15, and has gotten the occasional visit.

Paragon Gnome on Champion got an occasional try. I even spent a couple levels with a 2 year old alt Ace of Clubs on Infinity - He was abandoned after Infinity ceased being my "home" server (the first one I used), and all my activity shifted to Virtue. But I got him a movement power. We shall see if he gets any play.

Curse Giver on Pinnacle? Ashfall on Liberty? Mother Board? Winter Wizard? More occasional points of play - though sadly not ENOUGH...

Active groups with good forums seem to be my favorite. I tend not to like the EARLY groups with little in the way of a base, no features, and a ton of single digit characters that haven't played in weeks to a month supported by a handful of die-hards. Especially it is hard after you have seen a fully equipped base...

So many fun characters to play - SOooooo little time.