Against All Odds

I wanted to mention that if you noticed, that the header for this blog is Jen's Addicting Habit. Yes, I'm a girl and I play computer games, AND I play a tall ugly troll as my main character.

To top it off, I'm old. LOL I'm in my mid-30's and I've played computer games since I was 13 back in the day of Wizardry and Rogue. (very old games, some of you might not remember).

I am a statistic that goes against the norms. - I'm good with that.

So late last night, I thought instead of doing a quick "capture the flag" battle with my NOW level 52! I thought I would try out what the hype is regarding Alrathi Valley an all out battle. The purpose is to capture areas of the playing field making your way to the opposing general and well, killing him.

What I didn't know was - I entered the battle....40 versus 40. I'm the lowest level toon. YIKES! It was total mayhem and I thought I would be useless. Not so, my toon is a mage - awesome damage from a distance - until I become noticed than I tend to get creamed pretty fast.

Well - let's just say 3 hours later, the battle is still going on - it's 1am...I definately want to go to bed. We've lost, but have not given up. I did, shesh. With a raging headache and bleary eyes I finally called it a night.

I learned something though...AV is not a "quick" battle. It needs to be strategicly planned (this one wasn't so well). It is viscious and brutal. And fun - though maybe I'll be back when I'm near 60.