All Posts by Zeroxin

Originally posted by Noggin

Empire suffers in PQs very early on due to the lack of a tank, I imagine Dark Elves have a similar issue (can't speak from experience being somewhat of an Elf hater), but people tend to migrate fairly quickly. I've seen a Swordmaster taking part in the very first Empire PQ for example.

 

I don't think a lack of tanks will be a problem seeing as 'warriors' are the most played class in RPGs.

The Empire and Dark Elves have what i would call "health Tanks" which as you would know are DoKs and WPs. Have you ever seen a Warrior Priest and a Black Orc go at it? Its amazing. I was actually the warrior priest in this situation, i got his life to about half until a ******* zealot came along. We were at it for about 3 minutes before the stupid zealot decided to step in and save his buddy.......stupid zealot.

"Before I knew it, I was online for 6 hours and its 3am. Smiling (and yawning) I force myself to turn off the computer and go to bed".

You're in my head! GET OUT AAAaaaGGhhh!!!!

Nice review, now all i need is a guild to make team play much more satisfying.

Originally posted by Humvee

As for the Engineer turrets- You will have to keep moving them if you're on the attack. If you're defending however, the class really shows it's spark. Turrets don't ALWAYS fire, make take the enemy running out of distance of the turrent and running back into it. Hopefully we see a fix on this in Open Beta.

And about the 'cheap' tactics in RvR- Running back for heals is part of the game, part of the game that both sides have equal advantage. You'll notice this to be most annoying during Keep Seiges. Unfortunately the melee classes are prone to die in this case as the healers dont want to get too close to the battle in the range'rs view. I found myself (Rune Priest) being camped out on the ledge of the keep tossing heals down to my allys on the front lines (right outside the door). Every once in a while I noticed a tank standing behind me with half life. Gawing over my shoulder for a heal.

It seems like the Healing classes were alot more abundant during the low levels (1-6). But once you get up to 10-20 you'll notice only the serious healers stuck to their class. Then agian, its beta preview weekend, maybe alot of people just wanted to test out a healer as a possible alt in the future?

If you had a Warrior Priest in that group your tank wouldn't even need to retreat. I was doing RVR with a warband group and me(Warrior Priest- HeranKarr) and a fellow Swordmaster left the group and took a keep on our own until a massive group came with zealots and tanks, then we were totally wasted.

Like I said in the other post similar to this, I updated my card(Nvidia 7800) and everything that had to do with CTD's came down to me playing for three hours straight with my PC making weird clicking noises like it was trying to prevent a massive crash. Even though it might have nothing to do with your PC and all to do with their servers, updating your card wouldn't hurt now would it?

It was a pain in the arse for people like me who weren't even looking to pvp (I just wanted to get my SPICES!!!). But it was funny though.

Originally posted by Aethios

NO YOU CAN'T HAVE MY ACCOUNT. I only got in for the Preview Weekend, which ends tomorrow. Target is selling the pre-order box for $1. Go buy one and you can play on the 7th.
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Maybe my expectations were too high. I don't know. All I can say is that WAR was too much like WoW, and with all the bugs and crashing and stupid quirky things that just weren't right, I'd rather be playing WoW (which is to say not at all). To give a little background, I played a Chosen and made it to Rank 10, Renown 7 within a few hours. My issues are not with the Chosen class, I liked it very much, but with the game as a whole.

RvR and PvP
RvR is a bit of a mess. Nobody has a clue what they are supposed to be doing. Good luck finding people to group with, everyone (including people who rolled healers) just run into the fray head first and start spraying spells. On the realm I played on, Destruction won every time hands down, but it was still like walking into a meat grinder. The Order players would all bunch up at a bottleneck and toast anyone who came too close. Not that this is a bad thing, but it's far flung from the dynamic, PvE/PvP mixed battlefields I was expecting. I also felt the RvR areas were a bit small, but that's probably because they were in the early game and the zones were focused more on PvE questing. I'm sure they get bigger towards the upper tiers.

Yea I also got slaughtered too, mainly because the destruction were more and groups weren't really playing together as such, but in the group I was in we were able to take a few posts and gained a morale boost for the realm. But after that we started getting slaughtered. Did you play in Gorfang?

Community
The community is not bad so far, but it's very very quiet. I've seen the usual "it's still in beta so your opinion doesn't matter" trolls, people who steal kills, people who get upset because they can't solo PQs or whatever. I've also had random strangers save my life, random strangers answer cryptic questions with detailed answers, random strangers offer to give away loot that's not for their class. Overall I'd say it's pretty balanced, and a little better than you'd expect from any MMO.

I'm preety sure everyone was trying to get to higher levels before the end of the preview weekend that's why it was so quiet and i'm also one of those strangers who goes around saving people's arses from inevitable death.

PvE and Questing
The PvE element is, to be totally honest, a complete joke IMO. I would frequently have to turn off my auras (Chosen are like reverse Paladins) to avoid aggroing every mob in the area, including non-hostile mobs and even level 1 critters. Even if I did aggro them all, I had no problems soloing 5-6 mobs at a time, as long as they weren't Champions (WAR equivalent of 'Elite'). NPC damage is a joke.

I would often have mobs run away for no reason, even before I had done any damage. At first I thought maybe this was part of the AI, but as I played on it became obvious that even mobs who shouldn't run away (such as Champion mobs) were still tucking tail and running. I can only assume it's a bug.

HUGE BUG.

I think people are expecting to be able to level from RvR alone, and I can tell you now that doing so would be painful. It would take easily 3-4 times as long to do it that way. The quests give HUGE amounts of experience, and you simply can't compete with that in RvR. Also, the gear that you can buy once you've reached a certain Renown Rank also requires a PvE Rank, usually higher than the Renown Rank. This means you'll have to do a lot of PvE questing/grinding to get where you need to be.

Scenarioing and questing is the best way to climb up that steep slope. Rank 12 and Renown rank 10 was what i reached before they booted me out and turned me into a chicken for beating them up too badly.

Money
That brings us to the money issue. Even playing as far as I did, saving every bit of money I could, gathering skills and all included, not to mention all the extra grinding I did just to farm money, I was still able to buy only 4 of the 12 pieces of the Dominion set. There were times where I struggled to be able to afford even my basic class spells. Needless to say, prices on gear and spells are too high, or money drops are too low.

If you learnt the Scavenger and Apothecracy skills you would be so rich you could buy a realm and then some. I've been doing this since i got into beta and I've not run out of money yet.

Crashes
As was mentioned several times before, I believe, crashing is a serious issue right now with the game. My own client crashed roughly every 30 mins, and it seemed to get much much worse when I tried to do RvR. Often after a crash I would lose levels or quest credit, and I'd have to do it again. I thought maybe it was my system causing it to crash, but after doing a little research I found hundreds of posts and dozens of comments in game from all kinds of people who were having the same issue. It seems to be totally random, and a problem with the client rather than with our systems.

I updated my card and played the game for 3 straight hours without crashing, maybe it was my lucky day but I'd say it helped.

Collision Detection
In my experience, the collision detection didn't work properly either. Sometimes I would get hung up on small objects (like a brick in the road) and other times my character would teleport on top of objects that he clearly couldn't climb (like trees or lamp posts). Player collision was sketchy at best, and worked roughly half the time. It was also frustrating being a tank and getting blocked in by my own team mates. I think collision detection would have worked better if it didn't apply to people of your own faction.

Conclusion
I won't tell you not to play this game, because I do have a sincere respect for what they were trying to do. I think, though, that they shaved it a little too close to the WoW cookie-cutter and focused a little too much on the aesthetic decoration. Maybe the game will be better closer to release, but I doubt it. With about 3 weeks to go, "it's only beta" doesn't really hold water anymore. All we can do is wait and see.

EDIT: I tried to break it up a bit so it's not such a wall-o'-text. I hope it helped.

EDIT 2: Added a few points that I forgot, and a notice at the top. Please stop sending me PMs to beg for my account!

I wasn't able to display my Huntsman and Road Warden titles, they better get me my title fix OR ELSE......no sub from me.

I like the crafting BUT I don't feel obligated to use it because it doesnt give me something I dont have or let me put it this way--> I can get the things I craft from the enemies I kill or quests I finish making the crafting a bit useless in a way....except to get tome unlocks! I love my tome unlocks. PLING!

Originally posted by LtJohnnyRico

I was hoping for a summer release as I am a teacher and September is always a terribly busy month. But I think that if I don't give homework those few days, I will be ok!

Just tell the kids you are playing WAAAGH!!! They'll understand.

I'm pretty much stuck, i won't be able to play it to full effect until the winter holiday which is when most of you would have hit tier 4 and I would still be down in tier 2 trying to fend off diseased villagers in a PQ zone.

Originally posted by facris

nope no sheathes currently it just sits on your back.  You do get a good feel for how huge the great sword swordmasters use when you see it on their back ;)

And how big the shield is, that shield is huge.

You could always try Amazon or Direct 2 drive, amazon will send you the codes in two days and direct 2 drive will send you the codes online.

Originally posted by kikinchaz

Thanks for this. So about mid afternoon UK time.

3pm to be precise.

Originally posted by spyhunter107

Originally posted by darwa

I can.

If you cannot, then it's most likely because your account isn't flagged for the preview weekend.

Go to Mythics account page and check.

 

Preview Weekend:

Provides access to Preview Weekend

 

I got that message under features does that mean I'm eligible for the preview weekend?

Its says PROVIDES ACCESS, have you actually ACCESSED the PROVISION for the preview weekend?

If you haven't then go click on the bloody thing.

Edit: Draconus has done it, no need for my fingers here.

Ok....

On this particular day I was using my Disciple of Khaine(AdrienKarr, all my chars names end with "Karr" so look for me if you want to team up or get a beat down) to run through a few missions in the Blighted Isle (lvl 1-5) when I come across a few guards standing around and looking all tough. I decide walk closer because obviously the mission i wanted to complete was somewhere close by, when I got close I saw a timer counting down and immediately i got scared, not knowing what it was I ran away thinking "Wow definitely should keep away from PvP zones till i get used to this game" but suddenly i turn around and a dragon appears, then i'm thinking "Oh **** EVERYBODY RUN!!!". But as soon as i that thought ran through my mind, about five players came down heavy on the dragon.....so i joined in. And seeing as i was a DoK I was able to withstand most of the attacks by the dragon while others kept getting pummeled to their death I kept pummeling to death and at the end I got this flood of yellow and green coloured xp and influence points and money sound pings that filled me with satisfaction. On a normal day you would expect that i wouldnt get any loot because I came late to the party...but I did...maybe i dealt more damage to the big guy than others but who cares? You cant complain when you get sweet loot.

Or you could read..massively goes to WAR.

Try downloading it through Limewire or Bittorrent, if your connection is fast enough you can get it done before friday morning or if not monday. Another solution is...if you have a friend that has WAR already you can grab entire folder from him/her and begin the game with limited patching.

Originally posted by metalhead980

Guys we need to stop comparing these games to each other.

War is a casual friendly/hardcore pvp focused game with minor progression pve.

Wow is a casual friendly/hardcore pve focused game with minor progression pvp.

Too totally different types of players will like these games.

If you are a hardcore raider in WoW, WAR offers nothing for you.

If you're a harcore pvper WAR will appeal to you.

WAR will not kill Wow, WoW is a freak of nature and no game game will hit its sub numbers ever again.

WAR will be popular and War will totally force WoW to step up its game and make changes (Version of ToK and full pvp zone in WotLK is an example of WoW stepping up).

If anything we should want WAR to be really awesome, competition will make both of these MMO's a lot better.

Both are good games, enough already.

 

Edit: added in that both games also have hardcore elements, don't need a casual/hardcore/easymode debate.

Yes you are trying you best to be the guy in the middle that tries to break the fight becareful you don't get shot in the foot.

Most of what you said is comparison and some of it is wrong, WAR has alot of content and even though i haven't experience most of it yet i know it's there (you can smell it in the air). The new dungeon called Lost Vale is there for Raiding pleasure. I might be wrong about it being a dungeon but I do know it is a big expanse of land that has lots of things a lvl 40 bright wizard would want to check out.

Originally posted by mbd1968

Is there a link to a good guide so I can read up about Career Mastery, Renown points, etc...  Also are there any better class guides than those on the Mythic website?

Thanks.

www.massively.com/2008/08/21/massively-goes-to-war-character-creation-video-for-destruc/

If you scroll down you will see some more links to other character career guides for all the classes, lvls 1-15 of each character and trust me its going to be a hard choice if you read it.

The fact you only have to go into the PVP once to start up your renown ranking is amazing because (if you are selfish) you can just sit back and do PVE while you get renown points because other players are taking keeps. I've reached Renown rank 10 without doing much, although i did go and try to take a keep on my own once....got ganked by a group of white lions..meh.