{"id":447,"date":"2009-03-14T03:37:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2019-04-07T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T03:40:13","slug":"return-to-norrath-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Return to Norrath Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">March 14, 2009. Day 3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace2\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Okay, what did I do today..&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I discovered that players can have their own NPC \u201ctraders\u201d where they sell their goodies.&nbsp; The problem, there is nothing to keep the item\u2019s worth in check.&nbsp; I found a Firebrand sword (i think that\u2019s what it was called) on one trader for 30K platinum, found the exact same sword on another for 250 platinum.<\/p>\n<p>I got the one for 250 plat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s neat, but looks like a regular sword, all it does is hit for about 50 fire damage every 5th hit or so.&nbsp; Not bad, it adds up over the length of the fight.&nbsp; And man are the fights lengthy!<\/p>\n<p>Fought a witch, an armadillo looking thing, some skeletons, a giant, tiptoed past a mature dragon, found myself in the thick of more dragons, hid behind a rock and pulled out my book.&nbsp; Teleported to the Plane of Knowledge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While I\u2019m having a little fun, I am finding that I hate, HATE, combat in this game.&nbsp; Takes too long to kill something that\u2019s lower level than me, and even then you gotta watch for wondering monsters, they will almost always cross your path when you are fighting, thus drawing the fight out even more.<\/p>\n<p>I considered installing World of Warcraft again, but decided against it.&nbsp; I\u2019ll stick this one out a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>But to be honest, I just don\u2019t see myself playing it for too much longer.<\/p>\n<p>Graphics suck and combat is too slow.&nbsp; I\u2019m trying, I\u2019m trying real hard to remember how I could have enjoyed this game way back when.&nbsp; Perhaps it was among the first of it\u2019s kind, but damn, it\u2019s hard to keep wanting to play it right now.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself getting bored, almost fell asleep at the keyboard too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Until next our paths cross!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=447\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 14, 2009. Day 3. Okay, what did I do today..&nbsp; I discovered that players can have their own NPC \u201ctraders\u201d where they sell their goodies.&nbsp; The problem, there is nothing to keep the item\u2019s worth in check.&nbsp; I found a Firebrand sword (i think that\u2019s what it was called) on one trader for 30K&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=447\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/norrath3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}