I rolled a new Cham­pion on Brandy­wine. It’s one of the few classes I’ve not even attempted to play as in the past. So far I’ve been hav­ing fun with it because it feels so new. This is cou­pled with the fact Archet and Bree-land have been revamped a bit since I last played. I really feel like there’s more of a nat­ural flow now. Before it was easy to iso­late your­self into a sin­gle area .… You can still do this (there’s cer­tainly plenty to do), but now I have quests that obvi­ously sug­gest check­ing out Buck­town or The Shire and so forth. Before it was easy to skip that zone entirely as a Man, but I think they’ve come up with a great balance.

Aleneth mod­els her favorite “swash­buck­ling” hat.

Any­way, her name is Aleneth and these are my expe­ri­ences play­ing as her.

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