Second First Post

Bartle breaks gamers down into four basic categories, Killers, Achievers, Socialisers, and Explorers. All gamers fall into one of these categories and most gamers will drift in-between them. Killers like to impose themselves upon other players, usually by ganking them. Socialiseres utilize the communication abilities of games to role-play or just interact with other players in a benign way. Achievers give themselves game related goals and try to achieve them. Explorers seek to know as much as possible about the game world, they frequently push the limits of the game engine to find things such as bugs, exploits or the most effective farming routes.

After seeing Bartle's breakdown of player types I see that I am most definitely an Achiever who dabbles in Exploring. In MMO's such as WoW or EverQuest I try to max out my level as fast as possible and then begin conquering the end game content. Bartle says in reference to Achiver-gamers, “Exploration is necessary only to find new sources of treasure, or improved ways of wringing points from it. Socializing is a relaxing method of discovering what other players know” this resonates very much with me as a gamer. I generally only use the zone chat when I am trying to find something out or I am helping another player with a question. I tend to only explore to find more efficient ways to gain gold/xp/mats.

I have decided to roll a Loremaster in LOTRO. The Loremaster has a very interesting mix of traits. Loremasters are support characters that do ranged dps, aoe, dots, healing, buffs, debuffs, cc and can even summon a few different pets. Loremasters are similar to a Warlock/Shaman/Mage mash up. The Loremaster is listed as one of the 'Advanced' classes. The beginning of LOTRO feels very noob-friendly I am only level 4 and I have not felt challenged yet. I am sure once I get closer to 20 things will become a lot more complex. It seems like the Loremaster has a huge range of abilities and pretty soon I will have to start specializing in something. I look forward to finding out how easy it is to re-spec in LOTRO, I would like to do DPS when soloing but I think we will really need some heals as soon as we group up.

GG

DPS-GAMER