This week my video highlights surround the still-in-Beta title Mythos. I have been really crunched, mentally, as I juggle my last weeks of Slashdot with ramping up to full power at Massively. The in-and-out quickplay of Flagship’s Mythos, as a result, has been the perfect way for me to get some happy-fun-time in. I have to say: I’m liking Mythos a lot more than I ever enjoyed Dungeon Runners, another F2P Diablo-clone I’ve played quite a bit of. I’m not sure I could tell you why exactly; I really like the art aesthetic in Mythos, for one. My little Gadgeteer Gremlin dude, with his flintlock rifle and smoking cigar, is really evocative somehow. Today I’ve got three videos for you. Two are random combat snips, and the third is a more lengthy combat encounter with a boss - Zuriel the Kindler of Discord.

My random screenshots for the week touch on my time in SWG gathering screens for a Massively guide. They also cover some Alterac Valley sessions with my rogue, and the (to me) hilarious shot to the right of my baby Belf hunter standing over some dead spider-dudes.

Story of the week: I’ve been enjoying playing with the Hunter as an easily alt-tabbed distraction. As weak sauce as they are in PvP Arenas right now, they still are the kings of PvE soloing. I’m in Suncrown Village, on the edge of the Ghostlands, killing Nerubis guards. There’s one elite in particular, Anok’suten, that I have to down. To my surprise, he’s actually still an elite. I was under the impression most overland elites were taken out of the game a while ago. But I figure I have three levels on him so - what the heck, right?

I sic my kitty on him, and he immediately calls another guard to aid. I pull the guard off the cat, and immediately go back to helping him burn down the elite. At this point a patrol spawns in on me (I saw a warlock leaving the area as I approached, must have been her kills). So me and the cat are now taking on an elite and three guards. The result is as you see there: four dead, a ragged hunter and pet, lots of sparkely loot piles. And people say Paladin is EZ mode.