My experience:
A follow up on my previous post about my experiences in dura.
It's been close to 3 months of Dura now. I've logged in every single day to play in some shape or take my runes and my experiences still aren't over. I've had so many fun and frustrating moments which is what a real game should give you.
I found a door with a demon behind it. Deep within the dwarf mines on a lower floor not many have been to. Me and my friend were level 50 at the time exploring all the caves to find some secrets. As I joke, I said into discord "watch me break this door open and unleash the beast." I used crowbar on the door and it actually.. broke.. open. The demon came roaring out, I tried to lure it away from my mage friend to reduce the deaths, and it worked. He somehow made it out and saved my backpack which I thought was 100% gone. It was an intense and great memory. As time passed we gained levels and went back for vengeance. The first one we killed dropped a giant sword. Never been excited to loot such a simple item in the past, however here? I shouted out loud - it was actually such a great, epic feeling.
My friends send me screenshots when they loot boh, extremely excited. They brag about a blue robe when they clear raids. Loot feels great to obtain here, you have that oldschool feeling when you get something nice.
3 Months in and the raids are still exciting, we've started to narrow some of them down, to the ones we REALLY wanna do, vs ones that we do only if we are in a mood. Certain raids will bring us together and make us group and get out in the world to complete the content. We may have just ended up bank staring or house sitting instead. They really do make you get out and do stuff which makes the world seem more alive.
Just want to throw out that me and my friends started very late into this server. I know a lot of people get weirded out by the high levels. Just know that as knowledge is learned about dura, and higher levels/more items enter the economy, it's easier to catch up than you think. We all are near the top of the server even after a very late start. And that's with CASUAL gaming. I wasn't grinding 15 hours a day. And the friends of us who started even later, are leveling even faster with the knowledge the player base has uncovered. What i'm trying to say is it's never too late to start. You can catch up, especially if you like grinding, it's really not as difficult as you think. The high levels don't grind all day every day, there's lots of downtime and hanging out with friends, which a newer ambitious player wouldn't have. So if you get out there and play you WILL catch up as we did.
What i'm looking forward to?
- I really REALLY REALLY hope we get a lot custom items/mobs in the future. New areas to explore and mysteries to solve. More quests, rune charge quests, custom quests, anything.
that's really all I want, I guess i'm a simple dude.
Cya in dura