I missed yesterday’s steem posting. I spent that day griping about Path of Exile’s Syndicate storyline on the PoE forum, finally realising I could ignore it. I’m doing that now, I just can’t be bothered with it, so I just run through the acts. I’ll bash the Syndicate guys if they come to me, but I don’t go in search of them in their labs anymore. Some people on the forums says it’s profitable, but I’m just too lazy.
So with the kids gone for a few days, my husband and I could revert to our pre-children habits! He spent most of the day playing Ingress and then some Steemmonster, whereas I spent the morning working on achieving my first PoE hideout. So both images in this post are from my first ever game hideout! Yay!
It’s called ‘Lush Hideout’, I didn’t name it that, the game did, but I don’t mind it. lol. Lush was a nickname from my teens the people at my first part time job called me. I won’t bother explaining why, but I’m fond of the word. 😂
So, backtracking a little, I woke up this morning to discover my favourite steemian, 
Besides getting my own hideout, I’ve been listening to the differing opinion of gamers. There are those who preach a controlled learning experience using build guides, versus those who think learning by yourself and winging it is the way to learn best. After hearing both sides, I’m just going to wing it a bit longer. I have a general path on my skill tree that I want to go, another player suggested spiritual aid, and since I’ve become dependent on my zombies with this first character, I’m working my way to that branch.
I’m equally interested by the the gaming culture as I am by the game itself. Since checking out the forums, I’ve noticed a lot of willingness to help. Someone explained to me that PoE is friendlier than some other games. It seems to be the case.
I’ve had people want to give me levelling gear, which I’ve politely refused. I’ve had people join me to their party to help me, which I’ve also politely refused as far as playing together. I just want to do a lot of the learning alone. Although, someone did want to see what I meant when I mentioned on a voice channel my ethereal knives went single projectile on me. I was really unhappy with this. I love it for the spray, which hopelessly bad aimer me needs....But when he connected to check, it was working again. But from here, we got into a brief discussion about spells and the one that interested me but I was still unclear about. That was Contagion. Feeling a little more encouraged, I started to use that first when attacking, and followed up with my ethereal knives. Using that virus, along with my zombies and those wraiths, plus my spray of knives, was kinda neat. I was getting into a bit of a rhythm. Except for when I reconfig my gear and it resets all my keys. I go back in and nothing is working, so I have to run away screaming.
Also, there’s a growing list of spells I want to play with, like detonate corpse and desecrate. But between re-raising zombies, ethereal knives, contagion, detonate corpse, desecrate, and being forgetful what button was what, occasionally when it gets really busy, I literally press LMB, RMB, QWERT (basically any key!), check my life to see if I’m dead yet. lol. Things explode, flash, monsters are groaning and I have no idea where my position is in the fray. I’m still really bad at the keys...
Finally, it’s been funny listening in the voice channels. You get the sensible helpful ones, the ones who only talk game, and a lot of inappropriate comments. So I’m often just listening and laughing at the awful stuff being said while I’m trying to play. I don’t talk unless someone talks to me, inevitably someone does. Maybe they’re compelled to talk to the crankyoldwoman in the room. I make a point of being quiet and listen in more out of interest as to what gamers talk about. All good research for my novel. lol
Anyway, I have a couple more of days I can play this game guilt-free, officially back to work next week!
As I write this, I checked on my screen, supersoju is now Level 21! ❤️❤️❤️
10 km jog/walk today.
