WAR (Warhammer Online)

The only thing I hate about Warhammer is that I am having a hard time choosing a class and side.  My top choices so far are:

Order:  witch hunter, white lion, warrior priest, Sword Master

Destro: Witch Elf, Marauder, DoK, Black Orc

As you can see I prefer melee!  But I still like the ranged classes as well like the BW and Sorc.

Does anyone else have this problem with not being able to decide?  :(

Originally posted by icedutah

The only thing I hate about Warhammer is that I am having a hard time choosing a class and side.  My top choices so far are:

Order:  witch hunter, white lion, warrior priest, Sword Master

Destro: Witch Elf, Marauder, DoK, Black Orc

As you can see I prefer melee!  But I still like the ranged classes as well like the BW and Sorc.

 

Does anyone else have this problem with not being able to decide?  :(

 

Lots of times what sounds like a fun class really isn't, because it doesn't match your play style. I suck at playing ranged DPS, although it always looks like a cool class, because I hate standing back, and always want to be in the action, which is exactly where a squishy ranged DPS class shouldn't be.

Play them all, and see which one fits your playstyle best.

I have the same problem.

Order: Brightwizard, Witch Hunter, Engineer, Shadow Warrior

Destro: DoK, Marauder, Black Orc, Squig herder

Now I choose Destro. BUT now I don't know which class I want to play first at launch. =(

After a while, I decided to choose destruction, because my friends choose destro.

Maybe you should ask your friends what they will play. If your friends are going to play it.

     Play on 2 servers...Go all order on one server and all Destruction on the other.....Create at least one character of each type (ie healer, tank, ranged dps, caster) and play them to at least level 20......

It's pretty easy for me, I'll play a healing type as my main and run several alts to vary play style for enjoyment.  It's slower for advancement, but more fun for me in the long run. 

As far as whether I will prefer Order or Destruction, I will pick which ever side is least populated on the server I'm playing.  Since Order and Destruction have close counterpart classes on each side, it shouldn't be too hard to work through the which side to play issue.  The issue is whether you are fixated on one particular class/race combination, or if not, then whether you want to join the zerg or the underdogs.

I hope this helps.

I wish 'Witch Elf' could be male or female.  That's a big issue I have at the moment.  I refuse to play a female character in any game.  From what I've seen, the Witch Elf seems pretty great, but I'm not going to cave.  I really wish Black Guard was still available, but since it's not... I don't see much in the way of Dark Elf that draws me to that race anymore. 

On the other side of that factional coin...

I enjoyed playing Shadow Warrior quite a bit.  I must say that Witch Hunter was also pretty fun as well.  I found a lot of survivability in Shadow Warrior though, and that's what I spent 90% of my time playing in the preview weekend.  (for the record, no, I didn't name him Legolassss or any variation of the sort.)  A lot of people feel as though Shadow Warrior is a squishy, I just didn't really find that to be true at all.  I know that vs some classes, they weren't quite as well matched... but that's the paper/rock/scissors mechanics of any MMORPG at play. 

Noted:  with NPC pathing and behavior somewhat 'broken', Shadow Warrior did have an advantage and that may change the way I feel about the class in PVE play once NPC/PVE mob behavior is fixed.  I could essentially hit any mob and they would run the other way at first.  This gave me time to unload some dmg on them, then mezz them/root them, then ping away, usually finishing them off just as they hit my melee range.  Also, I could pull very well with Shadow Warrior and didn't find myself having to get into aggro range of other mobs just to pull/kill the things I needed to kill.  There were also times when I needed to kill bolt-throwers or seige-esque weapons and I could do that from a pretty safe range without being aggro'd by mobs.  (that may be due to bugged aggro?  i dunno)

In PvP/RvR battles as a Shadow Warrior, I could stay on the outskirts of the battle and plunk away at targets from long range.  If someone looked like they were about to break away from the group (enemy clump of targets) then I could start in with dmg on them and soften them up before they got into their dmg dealing range. 

I tried playing another ranged DPS class, but I just didn't care much for them.  I think Magus was the closest I came to actually liking any of those 'caster' type classes.  I have yet to hit cap level in any MMORPG playing a cloth/caster class.  I guess it's just not my cup-o-tea. 

I typically play a class that has at least some ability to heal and find good survivability that way.  In WoW I played a Shaman (elemental) and a Druid (feral)... both classes can obviously heal themselves in a pinch (or someone else if I'm feeling generous).  In SWG I played Jedi with a MLS/MDef template with some Healing (limited as it was, it was enough to keep me from ever dying at the hands of a BH) and my BH was MBH with CM.   I found that those classes were very 'solo' friendly in times when I just couldn't find a group to do the things I wanted to do in game.  I think that Shadow Warrior, even sans the heal, is that type of class in WAR for me.... at least from what I've seen and played so far.

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I always pick a female character in mmorpgs because I'd rather look at a sexy character than some male big muscled guy........ Its like I wouldn't buy a gay porno mag becuase I'm a guy, I'd buy one with women in it cause I like looking at women.

Do you have any 20-sided dice laying around?

The hardest part will be finding a list of classes you can make of 1-20 to roll with.

I have that same problem! I want to play Order for sure but i dont know if i want to play as a warrior priest, ironbreaker, shadow warrior, or engineer. I like b eing in the front fighting people off, but i always liked how the ranged dps'ers looked, such as the engineers with there rifles. I would rather be in the front but i know i'll also have to enventually be on defense, such as defending a keep or something. I think in that case it would be better to have a rifle and good ranged damage and be able to shoot down on your enemies!

haha too many choices!