The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

[Cloudman]

pokoko said:

Cloudman said:

 

Sweet! It's cool to know you've read a bit of this already. I figured it was a small title no one's heard of.

Yeah, on the girl thing, I read that part a few times and I was confused if the sister meant you can only play as girls in the game, or if that sentence was just translated wrongly. I dunno. That just really confused me after the MC's friend showed up and was a guy. It would be funny if the sister did make his character a girl as a joke.

Wow, your Alchemist character kinda sounds like what the MC is going through in the manga, except he/she isn't struggling as much to lvl up as your experience sounds like. I've never played an MMO, so I'm not familiar with any games that work like this manga, but I kinda would like to play one. It sounds pretty fun.

I'm almost certain the mangaka had a very similar experience to mine.  Some classes/skills don't shine right away while others are great at first but get left behind as you level up.  Support classes, like a lot of healers, will level slowly if they're alone but when they partner with someone with damage skills, the leveling up rate for both will be greater than the sum of its parts.  A healer plus a mage, for instance, levels up crazy fast in almost all games, though many games require a "tank" for hard areas.  Not many people like to play support classes but they are in HIGH demand in guilds and for groups.  Some people will pay a support class to join them.

Games like Ragnarok Online are the type you read about in a lot of manga.  It's Korean but it's everywhere.  I played it a long time ago.  This was my Alchemist when she was little.  World of Warcraft is a lot different and not really something you see in manga/anime.

As far as leveling difficulty goes, though, it's because my build was for guild warfare.  All her points were in Vitality, which boosted HP but did nothing for offense.  She was a pure tank that used acid to break armor so that my guildmates could take down opponents.  She was pure support.  I would usually team up with my friend's damage dealing characters to get EXP.

Yeah, it really sounds like the mangaka, or the novelist got their experiences from MMOs like Ragnarok Online, cuz the manga seems to be progressing in a similar fashion. Sort of makes me wish I got into this sort of game as a kid. It sounds really fun and I bet I would have enjoyed this a lot. Maybe too much...

Waiting for the next chapters is really killing me now. Maybe I'll just start reading the novel instead of waiting for the next chapter to be uploaded...