ArcheAge Unchained, so confusing
I started playing ArcheAge Unchained in February 2021. Initially I rolled a Warborn of the Haranya (East) faction, because the whole demonic thing was appealing. However, it was kind of disappointing from the start. First (& maybe most importantly), after I spent half an hour designing my character's looks, once ingame she didn't look anything like my efforts. I ended up deleting, for which ArcheAge makes you wait, depending on the character's level, & doing it over, trying to compensate for the ingame changes. In the end I was just "fuck it, it's not like I ever actually look at her face anyway." The Warborn tutorial is apparently in a completely different physical form (kind of like the Daeva lost memories in Aion) with WoW Death Knight type skills (you could just hit the keyboard with your forehead & whatever attacks you hit would kill everything around you).
Once I started questing for real, the world was somewhat bleak & the NPCs were rude. Warborn are apparently looked down upon by their faction. I think it was the ugly world that disillusioned me more though. So I rerolled (this time I had to wait a lot longer) a Firran Maledictor.
The Firran starting area is a lot nicer & Firrans have a cool racial that negates fall damage. I tend to fall off things. Also, with a catgirl I didn't really care what her face looked like so character creation - as Ian calls it, the biggest boss - was relatively quick.
I was playing on Denistrious, & it was pretty unpopulated. Apparently all servers were pretty unpopulated, because in March, Trion (or Gamigo, whatever) merged all 7 servers into 2.
My Firran ended up on Marmas, & out of curiosity I rolled an Elf (Nuian faction, West) Sorceror on Akmit. It turned out to be the right move because Marmas was constantly high pop. I liked the empty servers.
I didn't waste too much time rolling the Elf, & ingame she didn't look super different, but it doesn't really matter anyway. Nuia so far has been very pretty, & my character is level 46 now, although most of that xp came from gathering & crafting. I'm way behind on quests. I did get my 1st scarecrow garden though, & after looking at Dewstone, Marianople, Two Crowns, & White Arden, I decided on White Arden.
I kind of want to move to Dewstone now, just because there's millet growing all over the place & I like getting the random hay bale. It's also way better for mining, & my main source of income right now is selling iron bars on the AH.
I got a little carried away with the tax certificates though, & I'm prepaid all the way until August, apparently. I didn't realize I prepaid that much. It only really cost me Labor though (300 a pop), & although now I'm capable of using all 5000 up in one session, I do still have more tax certificates in my inventory. Now that I know how easy they are to make, I guess I'm not so worried.
So far I'm enjoying AAU, even with a well populated server. The player base, at least on the Nuian side, isn't too toxic. It's kind of the same folks chatting most nights, & although I'm not familiar enough to socialize, the few times I have asked game questions, I was given helpful advice.
Right now I have about 500g, which is not enough for anything really, but I'm still totally confused about how everything works. I need to move along with my questing though; I've been mucking around trying to make money but I'm leveling almost completely on gathering xp.
The money from trade packs is ok, but I make more selling iron ingots. Delivering trade packs requires only a little Labor, though, so it's a way to make some gold when I can't craft/mine/gather.
I still have to figure out what Gilda specialty packs are. I really need to get back questing. lol
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