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Originally posted by Draemos

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Originally posted by heimdall22

I'll come up with another question then.
Is it possible to play at the endgame PvP ONLY and that way acquire ENTIRE PvP gear set? (As oppose to WoW where at some point it was impossible to get any weapon via PvP unless some arena rating was reached)

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Unless it changed drastically from beta, it is entirely possible to never do an ounce of PvE after level 10 and you'll still progress at a steady rate, earn good credits, and have the best PvP gear available to you.

It's the most PvP friendly game since warhammer in that respect.

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What kind of time is involved to get the 2 different kind of sets to the same level, do they compare with each other well or does one take more time than the other?

This probably comes down to which game you play and as you say which class. Many people don't look at the skillbar very often. Some classes don't have many abilities with long cooldowns and it's easier to memorise say 15s cooldowns.

In a pvp situation at least I would argue that the lost time, reduced movement and loss of awareness of your surroundings from having to be staring at a hotbar on the offchance that you catch a usable reactive ability can cause their use to cost more than they are worth. That may not always be true in generally more stationary pve encounters.

Either way, a skillbar watcher seeing a lit up button or a keybinder who doesn't use skillbars seeing a "parry" text above his enemy, neither one is more or less skilled than the other.

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Originally posted by DOGMA1138

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Originally posted by Eraserhead
Cooldowns are timed and after a while you roughly learn how soon you will be able to use an ability again. The only time I need to look is if I get it wrong and try using an ability that doesn't fire so I look and go "ok another 4s before i can use that".
Reactive abilities are more random, you would have to be looking constantly at that area of the screen.

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Any game which requires you to A) look at cooldowns, and B) look at xmas lights belongs in the trashbin/back on the drawing board.
MMO's should evolve beyond their simon says / wack a mole phase, i don't think SWTOR is there yet alltough some people on the forums are trying to convince themselves and every one around them that it is. If you have a skill that is avialble after a parry for example there should be no xmas light for that, you should see the parry, the swords locking, and then know that as soon as the animation has finished your can counter attack. Anything less than that in 2011 is pitifull.
Back to the gun analogy, there is no ammo counter in real life, there is also no one on the planet that count's their rounds during a firefight, in the real world soldeirs who care for their ammo put a tracer rounds after the first 2-3 rounds in the mag, smart / experienced people put a tracer as their 3rd or 5th round to know when they are running low, newbies who like to waste space put tracers every 5-6 rounds which reduces their total ammo count by 20%+ since tracers break mid air and can bearly penetrate a sheet of paper...

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I don't get why they are so different as to require a different mechanic for one than the other.  Why have an indicator for procs and not cooldowns?  Why do you have no problem monitoring cooldowns but you do procs?  I don't really get this line of reasoning.

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Reactive abilities are more random, you would have to be looking constantly at that area of the screen.

Many thanks.

Is there site that shows complete advanced skill trees?

It's simple. If the best design they can come up with for reactive abilities is to have you stare at a 20x20 pixel block continuously at the bottom of the screen it's probably better that they don't include them because it's a design failure. It's not a game breaker, noones going to cry, but let's just call it what it is, crappy, silly design. I'll check my hotbar for long cooldowns becoming available now and again but the rest of the time I'm looking at the game, my surroundings, healthbars if im healing, my next enemy target if im dps, working on positioning etc not staring at the 1% of the screen and graphics the amazing and highly paid graphics department spent only 1% of their time on.

Now if you are a clicker, then you probably don't have a problem with it, you're watching your hotbars constantly. If that's good for you, great. For the key pressers a different notification is required.

To the people that think it's good as it is, are you clickers as opposed to key pressers therefore are looking at your hotbars anyway?

Doesn't the game have like a scrolling combat "parry/block" etc that's visible near your character so you know when reactive abilities are going to be available?

I don't think a glowing hotbar icon is a good solution. I don't want it easy, it's just I have all my abilities keybound and I don't look at the hotbars.

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Originally posted by Siveria
I was hoping for a faction vs faction mass pvp setup with land control, the game is just screaming for it, the same way wow was, but wow screwed it by making resilence, and swwow has failed and did the same thing, IMO the best pvp gear should be the exact same gear thats best for pve, and not be a seperate gear line, PVPers are a vast minority compared to pve players, and with this dual gear system wow/swwow(star wars world of warcraft) uses it cuts out the pve people from really trying pvp, w/o expertise/resilence they'll go into a pvp match and get rolled due to their armor doing pratically nil. SUre the pvp'ers will QQ about having to raid for gear, but they are in the minority as I have said, and should just be ignored in terms of making seperate gear. Now to make pvp also worthwhile: do what daoc did, some extra skills and stuff you can earn via pvp. Make them as a bonus though and not required for the pve raid stuff.

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Just checking you are aware that as part of the move from goa to mythic all EU account names had _EUR appended to them. So use loginnamehere_eur to log in.

Norn and Azgal are very active EU servers in T4.

The renown rank cap will increase to 100.

The EU servers where merged into 2 quite a while back and have had a very stable and active population ever since. From what I've seen of the US servers the are a couple out of the 5 or six that would definitely benefit from a merge. Once you get the core playerbase into the same servers the population stabalises and there are enough of those core players to keep a minimum of 2 very active servers in each region going.

So much negativity. I have to keep asking myself if we've played the same game. I'm still enjoying it, there isn't another mmo out there that does what war does besides doac. Of course if your thing is PvE then WAR isn't for you.

From a new content perspective it's very thin and consists of occasional reworked existing content for example the redesigned city sieges.

It still has a lot of players though, at least enough to make the play experience good and active. T4 RvR is very active up to 5-6 warbands on each side on the busiest nights roaming the RvR zones.

Past server merges for current players are mostly irrelevant. The servers we play now have had stable populations for some time. It does not resemble anything close to a "ghost town".

My advice is get a char into T4 as quickly as you can and get into an active guild.

I think it's a good thing that you have to use different keys for different skills. How easy do we want to make the game, so anyone can win a fight only bashing 1 key? No offense meant to anyone with medical problems. Having said that, there is a mod that does just what you ask. It switches skills into a skill bar slot so you only use the one key.

Seriously, I believe many people haven't and probably never will get to taste what this PvP game has to offer. Think about those memorable moments you get from a typical PvE game like the first time you ever took down a particularly difficult boss after many attempts. You know the ones, where vent goes crazy. Just last night, our 1.5 warbands managed to take down 124 people with good manouvering and working as a team. It felt fucking awesome, one of those moments where all the work and effort came together and made us shine. Later the same night, we were charged unexpectedly by 2 warbands while we were strung out and dissorganised. We pulled it together under real threat of wiping, reformed, held, and then pushed them back wiping them all and winning just by being the better team. 2 memorable moments in 1 night that will stick with the 40 or so people from our alliance that were there.

War could never achieve wow numbers because many people won't get to experience what it was built to provide because their expectations are based on half baked pvp implementations in other games that added "pvp" as an after thought. War is not the same and should not be played with the same mindset. PvP is not the negative thing that previous mmorpgs have painted through their poor implementations. It's the core of the game and it doesn't require a hardcore ganking mentality to enjoy it.

On the subject of polish, I can't argue that war had it's problems which undoubtably decreased the population.

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Originally posted by Pheace

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Originally posted by Eraserhead

I don't come here very often these days as my spare time is mostly spent in War or on the War forums. Coming here and reading all the negative topics I have to wonder what the hell everyone is on about. War definitely has it's issues and bugs but I haven't had so much fun in any game since the first one I ever played way back.

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I'm sorry but I read the WAR forums as well and you can't tell me with a straight face that the OF is a 'positive happy' place, especially if you follow the news or RvR forums.
 
It's good to see you're having fun though, no one here (in their right mind) is arguing those of you don't exist

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People are singing the death knell based on numbers and the expectations of this game competing with wow. The ingame experience for those that continue to build their characters through tier 4 is a whole different matter. There is just nothing to compare for small and large scale pvp anywhere. One of the reasons this game never got WoW numbers is because of the pvp tag. People "don't like pvp" based on their experience of other games implementation. That quote was the most common one from my old wow guild mates when saying why they would not even try war. Go into the game with a fresh outlook and experience the game for what it is rather than trying to play wow through the war client and be prepared to have your eyes opened ;)