Still holding out hope for WAR, and in a recent interview they were talking about improving the world RvR and making it more significant.  They also mentioned splitting the servers into different kinds, with some being entirely RvR....including the ability to kill anyone anywhere.

Death penalty probably won't be as severe as back in the olden days, but hopefully there will be some initiative for destroying the enemy around every turn.

Best throwback we can expect, I think.

Well, I LOVE the dark elves, my one and only army, so I'm gonna have to roll my first character with them.  Can't wait to see Malus, Mengil, Shadowblade, and a couple others. 

However, I am going to have to roll one alliance alt, just so I can fight malekith.  Don't know which class though, because there are so many unique and cool classes.  The engineer who throws grenades and sets up traps seems like it'd be really fun to play in pvp, but witch hunters look so cool too.  Priest of Sigmar seem like a class never before played, a melee priest?  And let's not forget the squig herder! AHHH!  I wanna play them all!

Originally posted by mcharj11

It will have instanced pve and instanced pvp, the instanced pvp yields the most points.

You mean victory points in rvr?  Because I haven't heard about the balance of exp in pvp and pve.

I'm not sure whether it will be instanced or not, but there will definitely be PvE.

They've talked about having both an unclean one and a bloodthirster that you can battle (Huge monsters).

Also, when you raid a capital city, I'm almost certain you get to fight the ruler of that city (Malekith definitely wouldn't go down without a fight.)  So there's prolly gonna be dwarf king, Emperor Karl Franz, Gazbag and Grumlock, whoever the new choas champion is, Malekith and prince Tyrion to fight in PvE.

I actually just read up on the bloodthirster that they're implementing into the game, and thought about those massive fights where you have melee guys hammering at the feet and hooves of monsters.  While it's cool battling huge monsters like that, it seems very unrealistic when they die because of a hammer to the toe (Or hooves in this case). 

That's when I thought it'd be really cool if they implemented flying mounted combat into this, that you needed to be higher in the air to attack a vital part of the bloodthirster, like the head or the belly.  That way, the animation for the bloodthirster wouldn't be him stomping for most of his attacks.

That and it'd be so badass to fly in with your huge team of wyverns/dragons/pegasi to battle this huge beast.

Originally posted by Adythiel 
I've had a High Elf army for over 10 years.

Death to the High Elves!  All hail Malekith, the true king!

Seriously now, it is a fantasy mmo that uses wasd (Not point and click) and has a toolbar.   However, the combat system of building up morale and other different bars to use different attacks is completely different from WOW.  Also, you can use tactics inbetween fights to better adapt for your next opponent. 

Orcs, humans and dwarves are in both, one has night elves and the other dark elves.  However, Chaos is completely unique and crazy.  Read up on it, it's like the twilight zone created an army and went to war.  Also, night elves are wood-loving tree huggers, dark elves are murdering psychopaths who literally bathe in the blood of their enemies.

It also isn't like WOW because the classes on each side are different (HUGE!!)  Mythic is not imo taking the easy way out to balance the two sides by making them have the exact same classes with the exact same skills.  Each side has 12 unique classes, each with their own abilities and playstyles. 

And, as said before, the PvP is going to be a focus, not a tag on.  WOW pvp felt more like scrimaging that didn't really affect anything.  You could get some armor, but it was never going to be as good as armor from upper raids.  Not the case in WAR, you need to PvP in order to sack the enemy capital (Point to PvP) so you can loot the city (Nice rewards). 

So yes, at first glance it looks similar and if you switch from WoW to WAR the first few levels will feel similar and it will be an easy transition.  When you start PvPing early on and competing against other players to finish quests that are more interesting than Kill X and bring Y that it drops back to a person in an immersive, darker world, it'll seem worlds away from WoW.

Originally posted by Volkmar

The slayer was scheduled to be a playable class. Nobody know how. Later it was announced they were dropping the whole matter for a future expansion where the slayer will figure as some sort of "advanced" class for dwarves while other races get other advanced classes (and maybe more than one.. i mean what about who does not want to be a slayer eh? :D).

Slayers NPC were in the game and still are there as far as i know.

Originally posted by Distortion0

Well, I wouldn't say WoW clone, but you have to admit, it is a pretty generic MMO. The only real new thing is brings to the table is the removal of magic. And the removal of a feature, in and of itself, is not a feature. Calling WAr a woW clone on the other hand, is degreading because there is nothing that RvR like it.

Ummm.....have you researched the game at all?  There is tons of magic in WAR, from the bright WIZARD to the chaos MAGUS, along with the zealot (Magic caster) and the warrior priest (Healer/combatant).  Research a game before you post about it. 

The arguement will go on and on, and yes, they are both fantasy mmo's, so you're going to have people only read that and then say it's a copy.  But that would be the equivalent of saying all fantasy mmo's are basically copies of each other.  Let people flame and say their ignorant statements, when the game cocmes out it will be judged.