Gungnir
2008-02-26, 12:18 PM
Tibia (http://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=latestnews), if you haven't heard of it, is yet another one of thems free-but-most-of-the-good-stuff-is-only-for-paid-subscribers MMOs. It is also a great game if you happen to live in South America, because it has an extremely strong following there (despite having no dedicated world servers located there, somehow).
I first started playing Tibia a few months before the hostile takeover by the "brs" (Brazilian), and know that it can be pretty fun, as long as you've got people you know who play there. Every year or two, I go back and check it out, since they have major content updates every winter and summer. Only a couple times have I actually picked it up again, such as when they introduced a semi-viable method of attack by casters without several days worth of runes in their pack, and one other time when they introduced monster raids on towns (only to discover that they only occur every month or so, tops, last about 10 minutes, and are generally either too weak to bother with (rat swarms? really?) or entirely too strong for anyone but high-levels to even venture outside of safe spots (AAHHH I'M ON FIRE I'M ON FIRE HALP!-)
Well, last Christmas's update focused on a rebalancing of classes, apparently adding some much needed versatility to each one (except paladins, who can do EVERYTHING), and fixed the experience sharing so that tanks and healers can actually get levels from helping out. I was thinking that I'd try picking it up again, but I figured I'd see if anyone around here would like to join me (my RL friends either hate MMOs, like MMOs and are stuck on World of Crackcraft, or can't play it due to connection/computer issues).
So how about it? Would anyone like to try it out? It's pretty easy on the graphics and the bandwidth load, most computers can at least handle it on 640x480, though that makes inventory management annoying. There's a fair bit of grinding if you wish to play it seriously, but you can pretty much auto-pilot that part and go do other things.
I first started playing Tibia a few months before the hostile takeover by the "brs" (Brazilian), and know that it can be pretty fun, as long as you've got people you know who play there. Every year or two, I go back and check it out, since they have major content updates every winter and summer. Only a couple times have I actually picked it up again, such as when they introduced a semi-viable method of attack by casters without several days worth of runes in their pack, and one other time when they introduced monster raids on towns (only to discover that they only occur every month or so, tops, last about 10 minutes, and are generally either too weak to bother with (rat swarms? really?) or entirely too strong for anyone but high-levels to even venture outside of safe spots (AAHHH I'M ON FIRE I'M ON FIRE HALP!-)
Well, last Christmas's update focused on a rebalancing of classes, apparently adding some much needed versatility to each one (except paladins, who can do EVERYTHING), and fixed the experience sharing so that tanks and healers can actually get levels from helping out. I was thinking that I'd try picking it up again, but I figured I'd see if anyone around here would like to join me (my RL friends either hate MMOs, like MMOs and are stuck on World of Crackcraft, or can't play it due to connection/computer issues).
So how about it? Would anyone like to try it out? It's pretty easy on the graphics and the bandwidth load, most computers can at least handle it on 640x480, though that makes inventory management annoying. There's a fair bit of grinding if you wish to play it seriously, but you can pretty much auto-pilot that part and go do other things.