A particular event that stands out in memory, which I might add only happened within the last 48 hours, was taking down an Assassin (I play a Polearm Guardian) from a guild on more or less every other guild's "kill on sight" (KOS, for short) list. To his credit, he was knew precisely what he was doing, but personally I felt that he came in to the fight thinking he had it in the bag (he was four levels above me and had a very good alpha strike and overall DPS). The scrap would have lasted a good three to five minutes, surprisingly not many others were around to at least watch or jump-in, and there were no NPC guards around to wail on the player that landed the first strike. It was probably the most intense MMORPG player-versus-player fight I had been in for a long time, but as I landed the killing blow an involuntary wry smirk slowly wiped away any sense of relief I was feeling on completion of the fight. Proudly, I re-sheathed my weapon, hit F11 (screenshot key) and proverbially added another notch to my belt.
The "RP" (roleplaying) tag is bound to attract a more than a few interesting sorts. Some background first: I like to explore; I enjoy going behind nooks and crannies that others mightn't bother with, and it's this sort of curiosity that has allowed me to make the interesting to the most bizarre of discoveries in the games that I've played. I was a level 52 in the Eiglophian Mountains, and I decided to do a bit more exploring which took me behind the Hunting Lodge near the very entrance of the zone. What stood, or should I say "layed" before me, was one male and one female character engaged in a different sort of roleplaying (roleplaying each other's brains out, apparently). Yes, I'm insinuating something here, but thankfully I had come at the very end of it. For a moment it felt like I had just walked in on my parents doing "it": they hadn't noticed me there, and before making a quick dash before realising, I took a screenshot to add to my ever-growing album of screenshots. It was at this moment I had an epiphany: Yes, this is a roleplaying server, after all. It takes all sorts, I suppose.
I have yet to experience Spellweaving first-hand, but thankfully I've got plenty of guildies at the moment that are playing magic-using character level 50 and above, that have also showed-off their spell-weaving abilities. Some have argued that waiting until level 50 for Spellweaving is much, much too long a wait, but to those people I say two things: you're going to want your character to be strong enough to last the effects of Spellweaving (or have a strong ally nearby capable of supporting you through the spell weave); and it is well worth the wait! I can't say I completely blame Funcom for keeping Spellweaving a secret until release, because it's a lot the Colonel's special recipe: if you knew the recipe, you wouldn't appreciate it as much, and of course there's the incentive of actually making your way to level 50, reaching that milestone and being able to test your mettle as you divine with dark gods, summon unnatural blessings or petition the gods of light to intervene in your task(s). I've offered myself as a guinea pig a few times to guildies wanting to test Spellweaving, and just let me say this: if used under the right circumstances and with ample support, the spell weaver can become a one-man wrecking crew! It makes me wonder if any NPCs have the Spellweaving ability. Could Thoth-Amon himself wield such destructive powers?
