Hello, everyone, and thank you for visiting my blog! Here I'll be chronicling my adventures in Perfect World, an MMORPG. I'll be focusing in particular on what it's like to be a female player and how my female characters are treated. What a fun project! It combines so many of my interests: writing, gaming, and quasi-feminist ranting!
Perfect World International is structured a lot like World of Warcraft (WoW), but it's prettier, more Asian, and FREE.
If you're interested in online games—or even if you aren't—go ahead and check out www.perfectworld.com. You might find Perfect World as enjoyable as I do! And if you play on the server Sanctuary, you can meet my characters. I'll introduce them in the next post.
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My name is Rita. I'm 22 years old, even though I don't look like it. I like playing games and writing about them.
Some thoughts on being a girl, playing MMMOs, and how hard it is to make a decent Mary Sue character.
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My name is Rita. I'm 22 years old, even though I don't look like it. I like playing games and writing about them.
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- Archer: a Winged Elf class that uses bows, crossbows, and slingshots.
- Barbarian (barb): a male-only Untamed class known for their strength and toughness. They look like big anthropomorphic wolves, tigers, lions, or pandas.
- Blademaster (bm): a human class that uses swords, spears and axes.
- class: the "profession" of a character, which determines his or her role in combat.
- Cleric: a Winged Elf class that uses magic to heal as well as to attack.
- faction: an organized group of players who chat and help each other out. Often called a guild.
- grind: to spend a lot of time killing enemies for no reason other than to gain experience and/or coins.
- Mary Sue: in this case, a character who is an idealized version of her creator.
- MMORPG: Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. For example, World of Warcraft (WoW).
- noob/newbie/n00b/nub: someone new to the game. Often used to label someone who's just done something stupid.
- NPC: Non-Player Character. A computer-controlled character. They may sell things, provide information, or assign quests.
- PWI: Perfect World International.
- quest: a job to do that gives coins, items, and/or experience as a reward. Quests can consist of collecting items, killing monsters, or just running around talking to NPCs.
- squad: a temporary alliance of a few players, usually with a common goal. They help each other fight and share the experience and coins earned.
- tank: a character with high physical attack and defense and lots of health points. Barbarians are almost invariably tanks; Blademasters can be tanks, too, as can Venos with strong pets.
- Venomancer (veno): a female-only Untamed class that uses magic and can tame enemies to become battle pets. They look like petite women with animal ears and tails.
- whisper: to send someone a personal message (also called a pm) that only he or she can read.
- Wizard: a human class that uses magic.
Play with me
The game I play:
Perfect World International
The server I play on:
Sanctuary
The characters I play as:
Meirizhu (Archer)
Siloam (Cleric)
Idumea (Blademaster)
Perfect World International
The server I play on:
Sanctuary
The characters I play as:
Meirizhu (Archer)
Siloam (Cleric)
Idumea (Blademaster)
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