Time To Lava Dye
I pre-ordered Hellgate: London and I think that this game should be some nice, pseudo-mindless fun. I especially appreciate the lack of healbots and buffslaves, although there is a tanking class. Hopefully, this game will have minimal grinding, and be a sort of Guild Wablo 2, as I mentioned to Velius.
With my preorder, I was told I would get all kinds of goodies. The clerk handed me a plastic box (the kind that games come in nowadays), and I was surprised and eager to find out what was inside. Although it was the type of box that holds CD/DVDs, and even had the little spindle thing in it, all that was in the box was two pieces of paper. The first was a legal paper-sized glossy poster of some class art. The second was a little card that invited me to try the Beta (lol…). However, all was not lost, because there was a super-secret code that will let me customize my armor “in the scorching red and yellow scheme of the Lava Dye Kit.” Sweet, now I can make all my armor look rusted! Mwahaha, I bet those demons never got their tetanus shots.
Over the weekend, I also saw an ad in a magazine with another code. That code would let you get some kind of super-fugly yellow pet with 5 legs or something. I was tempted to snap a pic with my cell phone camera, but it was too much work to actually take my phone out of my pocket for this sort of thing. I’m not going to sign up for the subscription fee, so I will only get 3 character slots, and so I am considering:
- Engineer: I heard they were really buggy in the Beta. I also heard that if you upgrade your minion with enough rare artifacts, it can run Crysis on high.
- Evoker: Sounds like your standard mage.
- Guardian: Off-hand shields seemed pretty lame in the demo, but grappling guns are fun.
