So.... I've been playing AO for all of two and a half weeks and I think I'm doing OK. I'm an MP at level 63 with my very own Wrath pet, a Sanoo and a Mindreaver (who incidentally is my favourite pet... can't tell you how many times he's saved my life).
I've been hunting down around the OP area doing the pipes and the mines mostly. I enjoy soloing with my pets sometimes at NW mines, but for the most fun and enjoyment there's nothing like a good team. Good strong tank, good puller, sensible and capable doctor and fun conversation, no wild idiots shooting at anything left right and centre and bring a swarm of adds that kill everyone. All in all a group of people working together for fun to help each other achieve their goals.
I enjoy the MP role in these teams. Working to ensure the healer is switched where necessary, using the attack pet to relieve some agg on the tank when there's too many for my healer to keep up with. Throwing the debuffs in to ensure that the team (and my pets) are exposed to the lowest danger and using the reaver to help keep my medic healthy or save someone who's drawn agg away from the tank and pet.
Unforunately, most ad hoc teams are nothing like a good team. I've had a particularly bad run recently.... but I want to do something about it. I've been asked a couple of times whether I'd like to join a guild/org and am certainly interested in the possibilities it would open up. More regular playing partners, more organised, well balanced teams etc... I'd also like to find out more about different places to hunt and draw on the experience of other players (and particularly MPs) in the organisation.
Of course, you do get ad hoc teams that work brilliantly together and it makes up for all the disappointments elsewhere.... but I'd really like to make it a bit more predictable in future.
So my question is this: Am I looking for an organisation such as they are in AO? Or is the sort of thing I have in mind as being the benefits of a guild/org just a fantasy that can never be realised? I'm not a great role player, but I do become involved in the game and get caught up in the fun of it and the sadness. I am angry with myself when someone dies because I messed up... and vice versa of course. I don't take the whole thing too seriously, but I don't take it too lightly either.
Do I sound like an org member to you?
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