For the most part, my time in
BnS NEO Divine Gems has been interesting enough in terms of fights but not so intense that I really felt threatened. As I wrote last week, the switch to the Assassin definitely made me sit up and take notice, but as things have worn on, I’ve sort of felt as if I am entering a bit of a routine.

That has slowly begun to change, however, and I’m starting to think that perhaps the Assassin is a bit of a self-own in the later levels. Or it’s a class that I can’t wait to unpeel and learn to master. I’m still not sure which side I fall on right now.

Before I start to absorb my thoughts there, I should report in on what happened when I followed the previous polls results, which was to put on the PvP outfit and see whether or not that would change my overall experience. It most definitely did not: I had it on for a couple of hours and ran around doing the story and side quests as usual completely unmolested. About the only time that I was killed from someone on the opposing faction was when I was doing a PvP-specific quest, and even then I’m pretty sure that was an NPC and not another player.

After a little while, I elected to just ignore that whole thing, put on my previous pantless ninja girl outfit (we all know that pantslessness improves stealth and combat effectiveness by about 30%), and continued the F Key Smash Train, picking up all of the yellow and blue quest arrows while killing all of the 10 rats or entering into another one of three similarly styled instanced cave maps.

If this reads like exhaustion, then that’s good because that’s what I was feeling. The levels were starting to come less frequently, as were the additional skills to hit, so I was beginning to hit a routine. Or more appropriately a rut. But then at some point, I was kicked out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I can’t begin to tell you what mission it was that I was doing. It was another objective that required me to go inside of yet another cavern to take down some slightly larger enemy. Yes, I hit a point when I was having to manage my various skill chains and escape maneuvers in something that resembled a far more active combat cadence. This was a pretty big spike in challenge as well as a new layer of skill requirement, as I suddenly was discovering that I had a few more abilities available to me beyond simply hitting buy BnS NEO Classic Divine Gems the counter stance and pressing a specific series of smaller buttons. Furthermore, the rotation I’ve used for basic enemies that stunned them was not working all of a sudden; I was still meting out some pretty tasty DPS, but it wasn’t as free as it had previously been.