I played some more tonight and I'm liking this game more and more even though tonight was generally a bad night for my poor villain Defenestration.
My friend and I were minding our own business questing and just doing our thing. We started the night nearly through with level 7 and ended up barely into level 9. Why did we get almost nowhere in the three or so hours we played? Because bastards 20 levels higher than us camping the newbie areas.
Let's get this straight-- I like PvP. I like the idea of having to watch my back and even having all out brawls with other players. It's a fun experience. What isn't fun is when 10 level 25-30 (max level) come to the newbie areas and spend all night camping the zone. It just sucked. There was a group camping the respawn points and another group camping the popular quest areas.
My friend and I spent hours trying to do a single quest but couldn't get anything done. We were completely at their mercy and they were complete asshats so we were just fucked.
Like I said, I like the idea of PvP, I just think there should be something to keep the upper level players from camping the newbie zone. I'm still trying to get to know the game and I just can't do that when some max level schmuck is going out of their way to ruin my game.
So we finally finished the quest and we were both fed up and frustrated and quit for the night.
Now, while playing, I wasn't really satisfied at all with my character and decided to make another character. A hero this time and in another city. My villain had The Joker mentor so I decided to do a hero with a Superman mentor. My villain was Ice/Hand Blast so my hero is Fire/Duel Wield. It seemed like a pretty good opposite.
I leveled her (Phoenicia, couldn't use Phoenix) and even though the earlier evening was bad, I actually had a blast and get her to level 7. I love her power set and she does in fact look pretty cool.
I had a bad experience with asshats earlier but still had a great time later. Now I'm just wondering what to do with my villain since I really don't like his powers.
