After my stint in WoW (still ongoing, but already tapering to the point where my account is closing up again next month), I got blindsided by a bunch of people all wanting to play the same game. It was absolutely thrilling to get in and dish it out again, as for various reasons we’ve been low on the EverQuest 2-playing recently. WoW is awesome to play by yourself, but not anywhere near as awesome as where I’ve been. Where’s that?

Take me down / To Paragon City

Where the thugs are mean / and the heroes are pretty

Please, won’t you please / let me 0wn, yeah yeah

My elec/elec Blaster Jacob’s Ladder has been dusted off and fully revamped in the wake of Issue 9, and thanks to a quirk of timing he’s now even the (temporary) leader of ye olde Super Group. My time in CoH has always been pretty awesome; it’s one of the few games that I’ve played extensively with RL friends (along with WoW and EQ2, now), and so I have lots of great memories associated with the game, as well as plenty of conversation at parties about our gameplay.

Who knows how long this jaunt will last, but so far I’m having a kickass time. I’ve been working a Invulnerable/Ice Tanker on the side with a group of lowbie characters also run by mostly rl-friends, which gives me three characters (including my scrapper Deft) within a wide range of levels to monkey around with.

The best part, of course: doesn’t matter what level avatars are! Yay! So refreshing after endless not-playing-with-people in WoW, and the fight to stay together in EQ2.

I know Issue 10 won’t be out for a while yet, but Rikti Invasion? C’mon! That’s awesome.

Our SG name is “Pants Are Not the Solution”, and our tag is P.A.N.T.S … meaning we have a recursive name, which is okay, because it was founded by nerds. Anyway, possibly the dorkiest thing I’ve ever asked a Massive developer to do is right here hosted on my personal blog. I felt the need to share. Thanks Jack! Sorry again! ;)