It finally clicked
Played on and off since release...always solo....never turned off by the normal ganking and stuff...would just always get bored with the gameplay loop and quit.
So last night I naked ported to Ashir to hang out and laugh and the normal debauchery going on. When I zoned in there was a circle pit with a boxing match going on narrated by a hilarious drunk Thursar. After about 15 minutes so (as is usual for Ashir) some hyper nerd in plate decided to come through town and start spawn camping. This time was different though.
Our drunk Thursar decided to band the naked noobs together and get us some clubs to restore peace. 6 nakeds with starter swords ran out and zerged down a turtle....then we tamed a water dragon, and finally farmed some crocs. Back to town we went and we pooled our resources, made weapons and armor and bows between all our crafting skills and geared everyone up. We were going to restore peace....but then the unthinkable happened. The town went quiet and the shitlords left right as we got geared.
So whats a shit geared group of nerds supposed to do? Well.....i guess we had to become the shitlords. By now it was just two of us left...so we started towards Belrim and set up camp. After a little more waiting finally Odinseed came on a small run with 4. We held the choke, we charged valiantly with our two man death squad, swinging my 3 spec mace wildely and we managed to kill 1 before getting sent back to town. Success (kinda)
Shit talk resumed upon respawns, naked water boxing chases and heavy voice com PvP after our failed gank attempt with Odin. Threats of KOS list. All the good stuff.
Point of my log post is for new guys. Don't just sit in town all day farming clade and building banks full of shit to never engage. This game is 50% what you make it, and 50% of who you do it with. Don't get stuck in the typical mmo carrot chase, just grab a stick, go for a long ass walk, and see what happens. Thanks to the naked shit squad last night, mortal finally clicked and I had an absolute blast!