I’m struggling a bit this morning to pull together a blog post. In theory I think I am fighting a cold or something because the last several days I have just felt lousy. Last night for example I really wanted to pop into some Destiny 2 and do the weekly tasks that are set in front of me on a brand new day. However I roamed around the tower a bit before logging out for the evening because I could not seem to focus enough to actually do something as intensive as playing a guardian. I didn’t really play much last week either, so I have not been helping push the clan level up and for that I feel bad. I have so many things that I need and want to get accomplished but have just been lacking the drive to actually do them. The quest for the Last World exotic went in yesterday but after looking what all is involved… I am really not looking forward to more crucible grinding. I had to do plenty of that already for the Malfeasance quest line that I have yet to actually finish.
What I ultimately spent my night doing instead was working on the Blue Mage some more. There are probably more productive ways to go about this process, but what I wound up doing was spent some time in Coerthas before eventually settling into Outer La Noscea grinding the 41-44 Goblin camps. I managed to get Blue up to 37 so the progress was moving pretty well, but solo grinding largely involved controlling the camp spawns since I was many times the only person out there. It reminded me a lot of the way that we used to play in Everquest, where you would work your way into an area and then try and hold that position while avoiding getting overrun as too many things spawned in at the same time. There were a few moments where things got a little dicey if I had two bombs and two goblins on me at the same time, but all in all I reached a comfortable pace and thanks to Sticky Tongue I could yoink mobs over to my perch of relative safety.
The biggest challenge however is that 1000 Needles has started to miss a significant amount lately. I am guessing its the fact that I have been hitting higher level mobs than my own level, but whatever the case it occasionally makes things a little questionable. At this point I should probably be able to solo Haukke Manor just fine, but all of the remaining abilities that I can pick up are going to require some significant shenanigans to collect. For similar reasons to why I didn’t play Destiny 2 last night… I just did not have it in me to attempt soloing a dungeon.
What I ultimately want to be playing however… is more Anthem. So I am guessing that the Demo did it’s trick of embedding that world deep into my psyche. This weekend we are supposedly getting access again and I am looking forward to it. I am hoping the various connection issues are resolved and I can spend some time playing with friends and doing missions together. I am also hoping they maybe give us a bit more of a drip feed of content… at least more than the one strike mission. Regardless I am looking forward to suiting up again because it feels like it is going to be a game that latches hold of me pretty tight. Ashgar introduced us to the FashionLancers reddit, which I am finding super interesting… but also realizing that I didn’t do anywhere near what I could have with the cosmetic system. Here is hoping we get a newer build this weekend and with it a bunch of the issue have been put on ice.