To The OP:

You just made me laugh hysterically - good stuff.  You should write more reviews - in fact, this website should put you on staff!

I look forward to your next installment.

Ha Ha!

Fail.

By the way, if you are going through that much trouble for a laugh, why not run it through a grammar or spell-check program and make it more realistic?

You probably don't even know what a thesaurus is.  Or the Dewey-Decimal system.  Just YouTube and Wikipedia.  If you are over the age of 18, please re-enroll in high school.

Fail.

Excellent, thanks for the detailed responses, always appreciated.

Hi everyone -

I'm enjoying WAR and am now at 25/23 Bright Wiizard status on Iron Rock.  My question revolves around the bolster buff that everyone gets when entering an rvr area, in my case a bolster to level 28.  Here are my questions in random order:

• After visiting a "Renown Trainer" say in Altdorf, how do I verify that what I've put points into has been applied to my character?  Do these only show up while in an RvR area?  Is there a UI element that I'm not seeing?
• For everyone whose natural rank is below the BOLSTERED rank stats, what is the point of buying expensive gear with say INT stats if the BOLSTERED stats far overpower what you have purchased?
• Is there a hard / soft cap on stat levels, in other words can I hit the ceiling on say INTEL at any given level or is it whatever I can afford?
• Are the renown merchants in the guild hall in Altdorf the same as the renown merchants in the held keeps?  Cuz I'm not too impressed with what I've seen so far on renown merchants.  Am I missing something?
• Is there a real difference between renown gear stats and pve gear stats, and most importantly are stats on renown gear transferred on a 1:1 ratio to pve and vice versa?
• I notice that the higher I get in level the less emphasis on INTELLIGENCE stats are on equip...it seems to be inversely proportional...I thought as a BW that INTEL was MOST important stat.  For example my weapon as a BW is my staff.  At early levels the INT stats on available staffs were quite good - at one point I saw +85 INT, but as I gain ranks the staffs I see now are diminishing in INT stats and moving to say WILL.  The best staff I have seen so far is +45 WILL and + 54 INTEL 
• What INTEL level should I be hovering around at my level?
• Anyone notice that your tactics, such as +100 INTEL sometimes doesnt get applied until after removing it and replacing it again?

Thanks for reading!

What is VP?

Excess much?

I am having issues in game after today's patch, in that my UI says I'm no longer in a guild even though someone standing next to me can read my guild tag, and I can't seem to type anything in /1 or /2 and I've seen others report that on Iron Rock, nobody can join scenarios and taking a flight makes your fall through the world and crash?

Anyone else experiencing this tonight?

Well this would certainly explain the ginormous cue times for the scenarios then - at least on my server Iron Rock - I cued up for a scenario last night and after 3 hours of running around doing pve and pqs I just gave up on the scenario and logged out LOL!

Hi everyone,

Thank you for the replies. 

Thanks for sharing your experiences and explainations.  You know I thought I had made an error in game ettiquite and felt bad about it - until I understand what happened.  You know the more I think about what happened, the more mad I get :(

Oh well, what can ya do?  I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else or if it does, they read this thread and understand what happened.

Was in a group today (open party), doing an early Tier 2 PQ.  The item that is up for loot roll is a "Damaged Weapon".  Since I am a Bright Wizard (who is also a salvager), the item that appears below it is a certain "staff weapon" for Bright Wizard.  I think "Cool", I haven't seen this yet, it's showing me a staff which I can use,

So I "NEED" it on the roll.

Player X "NEED"s it

Player Y "NEED"s it

Nobody else in group takes action.

I win the roll (my 68 to X's 62 and Y's 40-something) and the "Damaged Weapon" comes to me.

Almost immediately, Player "X" starts shouting at me and calling me names (which I won't repeat here) saying WTF, why did you NEED when you COULDN'T use it?  He yells "It was a sword for my class, you can't use it!"

I say HUH?  It showed me a staff I could use.  Did it show him something he could use too?  Does this particular item turn into something that either of us can use even though we are completely different classes/races?

Player Z starts shouting that I better give it to Player X or I am "black listed" Whatever the F$#% that means, and jumps on the bandwagon.

I give in and surrender the "Damged Weapon" to Player X because I'm not a confrontational type player - after all it is just a game. 

However, all 3 of us "NEEDED" it and I won fair and square.  What is the general consensus - do you "NEED" on damaged items that YOU can use?  And is it really a fair item to have us roll on if all of us see it as something different? Kind of sounds like a stalemate to me.

Please explain this "damaged item" mechanic to me, it's role in group play with NEED/GREED, and does it make a difference or matter that I picked Salvager as a craft career?  Is that why I see it as an item I can use?  Or does it have anything to do with Salvager?  I see the word "Damaged" and think "Salvager".

Thanks!

Originally posted by Hi11Zone

is it ok im still using beta client to play sence my driver is dead and i cant install the game? Will it run differently?

You are fine running the beta client - the only real difference is the opening intro cinematic (which is great IMHO).  If your DVD drive is broken there is no need to worry.  Just keep using the beta client.

Thanks for the input everyone!

So has anyone uninstalled the beta client and installed off the DVDs yet?  Wondering what people who havent seen the intro cinematic yet thought of it in full resolution?

Originally posted by ParkCarsHere

Originally posted by MMOPlaya

Read My Blog Here!  My Review is based on WAR's own merits without comparing it to other MMO's out there.

Agree? Disagree? Discuss. Thanks!

P.S.  If you were in the Open Beta of the game, and are still using the Open Beta Client, I highly recommend installing the game from the DVD's.  The intro video is phenomenal and worth the install!

 

I'm about the read the review, but.... WAIT, WHAT? I've been trying to find out how to open the supposed "cinematic" for a long time now, and it just opens a black, empty box. Are you saying that by uninstalling my Beta client and reinstalling with the DVDs, I can finally see the cinematic?

Aye, that's what I did because I was tired of clicking on the CINEMATIC button and seeing a black screen.  I believe the cinematic movie was intentionally removed from the beta obviously because it is a large file.  For what it's worth, at least in my case, all of my UI placement settings (hotbar buttons) remained where they were even after the reinstall.
 

Enjoy!

Thanks for all the feedback guys, keep it coming!

Indeed, I wanted to try something different, as there are SOOO many reviews out there that say WAR = X Game and not = Y Game so it must be lame and/or great!  I wanted to review it for what the game brought to the table.  Please pardon the pun to those who play the table game :)

Thanks for the read and the compliment!

Thank you very much!

/blush

Read My Blog Here!  My Review is based on WAR's own merits without comparing it to other MMO's out there.

Agree? Disagree? Discuss. Thanks!

P.S.  If you were in the Open Beta of the game, and are still using the Open Beta Client, I highly recommend installing the game from the DVD's.  The intro video is phenomenal and worth the install!

WOOT! To the first part of your post.

TMI on the second part of your post  :)

Absoultely worth watching.  My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw what they have done in so little time.  I have a small synopsis written up on my blog about it if ya want to come check it out HERE