At first, I dabbled around, trying different classes and races but overall didn’t feel it was going to hold my attention, and it didn’t. I went 2 months of logging in and trying to get some game time in but always felt like I wanted to play a different game so I would just log out. I have leveled many characters to the teens and ended up deleting them and trying something else but just felt kinda “meh” about it.
Last week, I decided I would give it a solid shot with a Norn Warrior and actually started paying attention to my personal story (yes I am/was a “skip to the end” kind of quest reader, I blame WoW) and found myself enjoying it quite a bit. I have leveled him to the 30s and really enjoying his story line to this point and actually listen to the dialog and “cut scenes”.
Did I mention he is a beast? Yeah, big beefy GS wielding monster with an ugly scared up face due to the years of beating up people’s fists with his face in a drunken stupor.
Last night I started a Norn Mesmer (sorry other races, you just fail in comparison to the Norn, nothing personal) and enjoy it quite a bit too, but I don’t want to drift focus from my Warrior just yet because the story is just getting good.
So, thank you Anet for making a game that changed my way of looking at questing/dialog in an MMO. It feels like an actual RPG, which is a good thing after 8 years of dialog skipping.