WAR (Warhammer Online)

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Ten Ton Hammer: With the removal of the tank classes and the melee dps classes, are there plans to specially "tweak" the other classes in that race to compensate for them?

Mark: Yes there is, that is the plan absolutely. We mentioned earlier about the Black Orc. If you follow the melee line, we hope that that replaces some if not all of the Choppa for now.

intresting read. I hope they can do that for the iron breaker too but I have no idea what they could do for the dark elf and empire not having tanks.

This is good news. They already said beforehand that the black orc was going to have melee DPS tactics and such. This will make it extremely fun, DPS and extreme armor. Another great reason to play b-orc :P

     Maybe the warrior priest or the disciple will have tank spec lines.

great a 10 K tank that does as much DPS as a BW  .

im not going to break NDA but that article PISSES me off  !!!

No worries Ironbreaker and Blackorc will be great melee classes to make up for the loss of Hammerer and Choppa.

As long as it is balanced I will be happy.

Originally posted by kegtap

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Ten Ton Hammer: With the removal of the tank classes and the melee dps classes, are there plans to specially "tweak" the other classes in that race to compensate for them?

Mark: Yes there is, that is the plan absolutely. We mentioned earlier about the Black Orc. If you follow the melee line, we hope that that replaces some if not all of the Choppa for now.

intresting read. I hope they can do that for the iron breaker too but I have no idea what they could do for the dark elf and empire not having tanks.

well think about it for a second if they are doing that with Black Orc, and they will more then likely do that for IB. Now looking at the two races that are missing tanks, they are the only two races that also have Melee healers. Sooo I would figure they would do something similiar with WP and DoK but geared towards tanking.

Well I guess that leaves Priest of Khain and Priest of Sigmar as tank classes?

the warrior priest and disciple of kain as tanks ! omg... could ofc be fun... classes that can chose between tank/healer/dps ... just like *cry* paladins in wow :S i dont like if they remove 2 tank classes without creating new ones.. 1 for one has been looking so much forward to play a blackguard (yes, only because they looked so awsom)

I have been following the development of WAR for allmost 2 years now, but the recent removel of a few classes made me disapointet... imo they have to add new classes instead of creating more hybrids

Originally posted by xzeve

the warrior priest and disciple of kain as tanks ! omg... could ofc be fun... classes that can chose between tank/healer/dps ... just like *cry* paladins in wow :S i dont like if they remove 2 tank classes without creating new ones.. 1 for one has been looking so much forward to play a blackguard (yes, only because they looked so awsom)

I have been following the development of WAR for allmost 2 years now, but the recent removel of a few classes made me disapointet... imo they have to add new classes instead of creating more hybrids

there are still 4 main tank classes in the game you knwo there's still the Sword Master & the Chaos Chosen.   The Black Orc is still primarily a Tank and so its the Iron Breaker.    They've been working on a hybrid system since the begining no reason to cry.
 

 how do you know the blackguard was even awsome at all?  We have no idea what it plays like they never posted a think about how the class works.  Just because a class looks cool doesn't mean it IS cool or even plays cool.

Adding new from scratch classes at this point would equal the same problem as before and a delay.