New Shiny

The obviously misnamed Eversun City at sunset, outside the Planetarium. I just can’t get it out of my head that Dream of Mirror Online is the real successor to EverQuest. Not the game as it is today – a high level game where raiding is king – but the old, old, pre-expansion, social game. They have open dungeons here! That just blows me away. The usual trend these days is toward instancing. I haven’t found an instanced dungeon yet. I’ve also become used to having quests lead me from place to place. Again, unlike EverQuest, and unlike DOMO. There’s lots of interesting little spots here and there, and while they all have some quests associated with them, you won’t find many of them by running around looking for question marks on people’s heads. Oh yeah. There’s no way of telling by looking at an NPC if it has a quest for you. You have to click on them and see if they’ll talk, and if they do, they might have a quest… but come back another time. ...

Dream of Mirror Online was down most of the night last night. When it came back up, I mostly just ran around collecting jobs – after Norikue’s cool suggestion to have Musician as my secondary job to give my pet somewhat more survivability, I figured I should definitely get that one. I stumbled onto the Shaman job (honestly, I didn’t know that was the job quest until I finished it). ...