All Posts by brostyn

Just say no to general chat. Its filled with drama queens.

A review I agree with. I love how you can level solely through PvP.

Honestly, the descrption for SM says "Melee DPS", not "Tank DPS", so I can see how the OP is confused. If your using a sword and board that is your problem. SMs seem to be doing fine, imo. You're going to suffer a bit on your DPS side for having high armor/HP. You're not a god, sorry.

Originally posted by Pappy13

Inspired by another thread that was mostly tongue in cheek, here's my REAL top 10 things Mythic should have done to make War better:

1) Tome of Knowledge should have worked as advertised. Nuff said.

*Note:  After being informed that the Tome is working as intended, I'll change #1 above to read

1)  All "Kill X of Y" quests should work like the Kill collector quests.  Nuff said.

2) Classes should not have been race or gender specific - maybe limited to 2 races and maybe limited to 1 gender within one of the races, but never a single race nor a single gender only. There's not enough variety or uniqueness that way. Plenty of uniqueness. Way more classes than most MMOs.

3) Influence rewards should have been much greater and influence should have been much harder to come by so more people would participate in the PQ's. I can get all the influence I need for a chapter by participating in 1 PQ all the way to the end, give or take a bit. Since there are several PQ's for a chapter, you should have to participate in at least all the ones for the chapter from beginning to end to get all the influence you need. If you want to run the same one 3 or 4 times in a row that's fine too, but it should take more than 1 PQ run for a chapter. Don't agree here. PQs shouldn't have better loot, than PvP. All it takes is one tank and one healer, and you can do any PQ I've seen, thus far.

4) Scenario "warmup" time should have been increased to allow people enough time to finish up what they are doing when the message comes up before the scenario starts. I think it's like 2 mins now, it should be at least double that to allow people time to zone in and get ready for the scenario. I wait sometimes 20 or 30 minutes to get into a scenario, I can wait another 2 minutes to get it going with a full team and not 1/2 the people still zoning in. They need to get battlegroup servers like WoW has instead of making us wait forever.

5) Either have a lot fewer champions or make killing a champion a lot more lucrative. I don't believe I've gotten anything of value from a champion and I'm risking my life everytime I fight one. This encourages people to avoid them and since they are everywhere, this turns questing into a game of hide and seek with the champions rather than what it should be. A few well placed champions with really nice drops would be fine. Agreed. Fighting champions is pointless. No loot, and the risk vs. reward is not there. The xp is only double even though it take about 5 times as long to kill. Makes no sense.

6) Anything that can be modified in the user interface should be saved to a setting and stay that way till I change it. Why on earth I have to zoom out on the mini-map everytime I play is beyond me. When I choose Skirmish stance as a Shadow Warrior, I should stay in Skirmish stance until I choose a different one. If I die, I should still be in Skirmish stance. It's annoying as hell to have to put myself back into the stance I want everytime I die. Completely agree.

7) Auction House filters should work as expected. When I say I only want to see Shadow Warrior stuff, then damn it don't show me anything that can only be used by the Empire. I'm a Shadow Warrior and because of #2 above you know that I'm a freakin' High Elf. Yep.

8) Altdor being the only major city for the Order should show up on ALL the races flightmaster maps as a place to go to, not just the Empire map. I'm a High Elf, I shouldn't have to look on the Empire map to fly there. I realize this was probably caused by the fact that there were going to be multiple major cities, but damn it, if you are going to remove them, then put the 1 that's left on the freakin' flightmaster map. Not sure what you mean. Can you not just click on empire, and it shows up on map?

9) Add target of target at least for your allies. I should be able to easily see who my fellow teammates are
targeting without having to setup my own little macro to /assist them. Most newbies have no clue how to setup a macro or use slash commands, do them a favor and do it for them. Please, no. The game is pretty easy as it is. No reason to cater even more to the mindless. I vote for getting rid of the assist train. We are all smart enough to figure out who to attack. /assist dumbs us down.

10) Use more than just color to distinguish between quests that are available, completed or in-progress. I'm color blind and have a hard time distinguishing between green/yellow/orange on the minimap. Put a green square, a yellow circle or a orange diamond at the very least. Agreed

Umm, I played WoW for a total of 3 months.  Calm down, son. I think there are people out there who can see past their own nose.

Stats being meaningless. Even more meaningless than stats are in EQ, and that's pretty darn bad. That's just one things out of dozens. Justmy personal beef.

Title says it all. There needs to be BG servers like WoW. The unpopular scenarios can take hours to get into. Not to mention in about a year or less most scenarios will be empty unless this happens.

Originally posted by truuk

Originally posted by Frostbite05

uh once again my friend twisting people's words won't win the day for you. If anything you look more like the 13year old mama's boy we all know and have come to accept . No never said anything about tactics its just well i rarely die and the only ppl that do are those dumb enough to run into a pile of players from the opposing realm are bound to die its just common sense.....something you apparently lack

 

you "rarely" die? LOL, and I look like an idiot? Anyone...ANYONE who plays this game will IMMEDIATELY know you are fos.

LOL. If you know what you were doing you wouldn't die so much. There has been plenty of scenarios where I've died 0 times. Yep 0. No, I don't consider myself awsome, I just don't super suck.

You have to learn from the mistakes you make, or just be a quitter. You choose the easier path.

Originally posted by Hendora

• The "i r orc" language. It's just a pain in the ass and it hurts my eyes when reading it. (No i don't feel more like an orc because the developers can't spell)

 

Don't get all worked up now

WAR may be awsome in PVP and i really have played it way to little to out judge it yet. This was only my first impression of the game and unfortunalety it was a bad one for me

 

 

I can't believe you have the audacity to tell people not to get worked up, but you have your panties in a bunch over the way some types. I haven't encountered any bugs. Lastly, ok, sorry you don't like it.

How do you report a gold spammer? /report and /petition don't do anything.

Back on top of what? On top of the worst games ever released? I doubt its better than VG, but I'm sure its better than Dark and Light.

Also, what does FC's stock price have to do with how fun the game is?

I think what's happened is that the hardcore RvR guilds are crushing people in scenarios and Open RvR. The good thing is they will level fast, and be gone. I've already noticed on my server, that Order is starting to do a lot better in tier 1 RvR. Last night was the first time we've won a scenario that I've been in, and we won a lot more than we lost. Or maybe people are finally figuring out you have to kill the healer.

I rated it an 8. I was hoping for DAoC 2, but this is more like WoW 2.

The empire one is by far the most popular. I rarely ever wait more than a few minutes there. Dwarf and High Elf can take forever, though. Just go to the dwarven warcamp, and fly to the empire warcamp.

What are your feelings on this?

I'm about to call it quits for Order until Mythic has a solution. I haven't enjoyed one scenario, because its not even a contest. Not one!

The thing with Order is that no one plays tanks. No one is playing swordmasters or ironbreakers. Its all bright wizards, shadow warriors, and egineers wiith the rare runepriest. Order right now is not fun at all, and I may have to switch over if things don't change after a month or two.

Dunno, how old or crappy you're looking for, but here is a pretty dilapidated machine;

Emachine

2.2 GHZ AMD

windows XP

2.5 gig ram

Nvidia 8600 512MB

I get video lag every now, and then but I can certainly enjoy the game. I really want a new computer, but Vista really scares me. Not to mention in this economy I don't want to spend 1400 dollars that I meant need in a few months if I'm looking for another job.