As much as I hate to say this, New World is absolutely chock full of problems at the moment and over the past week or so I just haven't really wanted to play. I'm enjoying the game! But there are so many things wrong with it that I just don't feel motivated to bother.
Yesterday, my partner suggested that we give Final Fantasy 14 another go.
We stopped playing back around the start of the year simply because we were going through the post-50 slog and I just couldn't deal with the amount of back-and-forthing we were doing just to get to the next expansion's content... I've never felt more exhausted questing in a game.
This time I have a secret plan. To use the Tales of Adventure on their store to just get to the next expansion because damn.
But first! I must reach that part of the story again.
For, I have made a new character.
Now, I know in FFXIV you don't need to make new characters and whatever. You can do everything on the one character if you so desire. However... I logged into my old character and died a little inside. Too many abilities. I didn't know what to do. Yay I had a shiny wolf mount! But I didn't know what to do or how to do it.
It's not like WoW where I've played on and off for over a decade so just know all the things as though they've been ingrained in my brain forever.
Some people balk at the idea of starting over from scratch. Starting everything over from scratch. But that's how I fly. My partner was horrified. But if I was going to play this game, I needed to do it my way... right from the very start on a clean slate.
It doesn't bother me that I have to relearn being a ninja, and fishing, cooking, botany, everything. It DOES bother me to play an old character and be completely lost and overwhelmed. I'm not normal. 😅 It takes me a lonnngggg time to really remember things and get the hang of things again. For some people it might take an hour, for me it can take up to a couple of weeks, and I'd rather just start anew instead of feeling awkward and headachey for so long.
And this time I've decided that I'll play the game as though it was a multiplayer RPG rather than your standard MMO. I'm sure that'll help my enjoyment too.
You know what else helps my enjoyment?
The fact that Australian servers will be released just after the next expansion! Woooo! No more shall I suffer with a 150-200ms ping!
AND I'll get goodies for transferring to a brand new unpopulated server. More woo!
Anyway. On my adventure of starting a new character, I've discovered that you can't send mail to yourself - you can only send mail to people on your friends list. So I had to send my partner all my gil and get him to send it to my new character.
Annoying.
Not so annoying is the fact that I've just discovered this game has a photo mode!
I played it for nearly a month solid earlier in the year, and I just never noticed this. I will relish this information and this mode and take a bazillion screenshots I shall thrust upon you all! Muahahaha!
In the meantime, I've decided to make Tharmaturge my first class/job -- a class I didn't try at all last time I played -- and hope I can get into the swing of things again.
Since I won't be playing with my partner at the moment, since he's gone straight into the next expansion thanks to the Tales of Adventure, I won't feel as rushed either so can take my time doing things instead of being so focused on levelling, levelling, levelling, must get to endgame, level, level, level.
That alone might make me stick with this a little longer. 😅
I will take my time.
Until next time! 😊
All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, 