All Posts by banthis

I really don't see how its 'catering' or makign thigns 'easier' these have been issues since closed beta. T3 is incredibly slow way too slow infact...slower than the EQ1 Hell Levels which is a huge negative and a grind.

They never said that PvE leveling would be 'slow' they always said that Renown Rank Leveling would take you the longest time to cap.  If they suddenly make RR leveling at T4 mega easy to get to Rank 80 then I could see a reason for complaints.  I swear some people aren't happy unless they have a reason to bitch even if their bitching makes no sense.

Scenarios have a "minor" affect on the realm control .. its so incredibly minor though.  Anyone who heavily participates in scenarios thinking sweet I've beat 10 scenarios in a row for X realm ... X realm should be really looking good for my side are dreaming.  If your side owns no keeps and no world objectives your realm at that Tier pretty much belongs to the otherside.

You can't lock realms down and get the bonus's for owning the realm by doing just scenarios.  You can't get the best RvR gear in the game by doing just scenarios or a lots of pve. 

The gear sets can not be finished if you don't Open RvR unless your doing the 'mercenary' set which is a mix of PvE & PvP (and the stats are only decent so far).  Keep Lords & World Objective Champions drop PQ style RvR loot its some of the coolest looking loot in the game and they're also the only way to get the full RvR gear set.

Scenarios were meant as a way for casuals to make good xp and decent Rp...I've found doing a mix of everything but leaning heavily towards Open RvR nets me the best in both.  You garner far more RP doign Open then you ever well in Scenarios.  I expect scenario grinders to get rather upset at T4.

thankfully according to the devs on the VN boards they are working on something to increase the appeal to Open RvR without 'nerfing' Scenarios.  Hpefully this means more XP for participation or more ways to garner gold and gear.

The 1 gig of ram will hurt you more than anything else.  My friend has a dual core 2 with a 7300LE Nvidia card and 2 gigs of ram and she runs fine...she can't run it well on high because of the video card but the rest is golden.

Newer games period pretty much demand 2gigs of ram if you want it to run smoothly.

Originally posted by DarkPony

 

Bare with me here ...

These guys are saying they will hand out tons of gold on any server / faction of the winner's choosing.

That can mean two things:

1. Mythic supplies them with that prize money and helps them to arrange this event.

2. They use goldsellers to get the prizes to the winners.

Knowing Mythic's stance on goldselling, and knowing how they would easily be aware of an event advertised like this, the last option seems highly unlikely.

So that leaves us with:

1. Mythic is in on it since they WILL put a stop to this if they would use goldsellers to acquire their prize money.

or

2. Dis be a hoax. People could ask questions wether it is actually healthy and ethically correct to promote players to not sleep for 10 days in a row and I am having doubts wether Mythic would stimulate that kind of dangerous incentives.

Bare with me some common sense please...if Mythic was supporting / supplying this company with gold for a tournament it woudl be advertised on their sight.  It is not..infact the gold amounts are outrageous and any server it goes to would heavily destroy the economy.  They're using gold sellers is the only explination or they ARE gold sellers / farmers.

Mythic's not going to support an event that breaks their OWN rules about pre arrange fights etc if it was a supported event it would be on all servers or a special tournament only server and it would be advertised by Mythic and not just On MMORPG.com the biggest spam fiesta hate sight.

Originally posted by Czzarre

Originally posted by banthis

Unless this is approved by Mythic..and some how i doubt it is since they frown on prearranged fights you can get Banned for pre arranging RvR fights.  You should see the threads on this topic on Warhammer Alliance.

I doubt that. This is in the spirit of the game. I think your making Mythic out to be more Ogre-ish that they really are.
 

are you calling the goa/mythic reps on warhammer alliance liars then? Its bannable. How do they control the right 'teams' going after keeps ...they'd ahve to find a way to keep out random people from showing up they'd also have to 'prearrange' between order and destruction for the fights.

Originally posted by DarkPony

Originally posted by banthis

Unless this is approved by Mythic..and some how i doubt it is since they frown on prearranged fights you can get Banned for pre arranging RvR fights.  You should see the threads on this topic on Warhammer Alliance.

 

Well, considering the 1st prize is 5k Gold on server of choice.... I assume that Mythic supports this event, the alternative would be goldsellers and I think they wouldn't advertise for that like this.

*grins*

I hope noone dies though ...

You shouldn't assume anything if Mythic supported this event they would have it on ALL servers to promote RvR for all players.    I'm not saying it will lead to bannings but it could after having seen talks about tournaments etc in Open RvR areas and a Mythic / GoA Rep flat out said its a banneable offense to pre arrange fights...of course if this guy is only doing it for Order its not exactly prearranged the otherside would have to be involved.

The only thing this promotes is Greed to be honest.  Infact its almost a direct rip off of the WoW tournaments that dont' promote any sort of server or realm pride at all. 

Personally if he's got so much gold to give away I'm betting he bought it which is sad..the Economy is about to go to Shit if people are giving away money like that.  Its already ridiculously hard to get certain items on the AH that should be relatively cheap.

Unless this is approved by Mythic..and some how i doubt it is since they frown on prearranged fights you can get Banned for pre arranging RvR fights.  You should see the threads on this topic on Warhammer Alliance.

Originally posted by woeye

 As someone else said: depending on the server there is indeed not much RvR going on. Why? Because everyone is grinding both XP and RP in scenarios. Which is a sad thing, imho. It's like playing WoW BGs with a different skin. instanced PvP was not what I was looking for. I played enough BGs in WoW already, thanks. Especially since Blizzard decided to kill world PvP in WoW I was so excited when I heard about Warhammer. But frankly Warhammer is again nothing but grind in instanced BGs aka scenarios. 

The root of the problem is that scenarios gives way more XP and RP than open RvR or PvE. Since everyone wants to rush to level 40 and RR 80 as fast as possible it's no wonder noone cares about open RvR or PvE.

Some servers might be a bit different. But on the servers I've tested there wasn't much open RvR or PvE. Everyone was doing scenarios. Becauze you levelz fazter 

Actually this is incorrect.  Open RvR at the keeps gives you way more RP than Scenarios.  If your keep has gone into the under attack flag you gain about 100+ RP (in T2) every couple of mins. It increases if your fighting people live because then you get RP for defending but for also each player you kill.   Because everyone's playing scenarios back to back (and then complains about grinding) there's not enough constant fights going on ... if people actually chose to try the RvR lakes everyone would be gaining Gear, xp and renown way faster.   Infact gear set peices for PvP only drop in the RvR lakes...the Keep lord has a peice and each objective has a peice...funny...how the scenario grinders don't seem to notice so they all complain about customization well hello they're missing it by grinding.

People rant and rave but never actively try anything.  Last night Order kept attacking the keeps we had...I created an open warband with my friends got on the /1 channel and within 5 mins we had another warband and several members in our warband beating order back out of our keep.  Its really not that hard if you TRY.

Originally posted by Mrbloodworth

Nope, but i would love to have a key to sheath my stuff. I feel stupid with my junk out all the time ().

 

I know that they can be sheathed, becouse my DoK does it every time he swims, my SH does not.

 

Mabye you are getting "Disarmed" ?

Press X it makes you sheath your stuff. If your a tank your shield goes on your back and your sword in a sheath.  The only chars it doesn't work properly on are those with a bow you either hold the bow o r you hold the staff / sword but for the most part everyone's stuff goes on their back if you hit X.    Read the Instruction booklet sometime..there's a pretty print out of Key controls.

There's also an "auto loot' check button in the User Settings menu for those that keep bitching about Auto loot..you still have to click on the body but it auto puts everything in your bag.

I've never had any of the poster's problems...sometimes if i'm lagging my abilities might not fire off when I like but they've always fired off.  I'm constantly tossing people off cliffs or into cliffs or into corners to trap them *shrug*

To be honest i call this thread on big smelly troll post.   I'm not saying there arent' some minor balance and stability issues but for the most part this game is in fantastic shape .. the few minority voices that have issues are usually the same 20 posters under different names.  Some of which have never played and just like to repeat the information.

bTW i played in Open RvR a good 15 vs 20 match last night not counting the Keep NPC's and everything worked fine for us with no rubber banding and plenty of morale abilities going off

I'll be doing both Open RvR & Scenarios...I get bored / frustrated if i have to do the same couple of scenarios over and over..not to mention it gets tiring of being randomly grouped up against 6 Bright Wizards there's no combination of a group in a small Scenario area that can take on and live against that.  People who grind off Scenarios suck to play with to be honest not to mention they miss out on all the Gear Sets you can only get through Open RvR.  

But whatever to each their own..some will scenario grind, some will do everything, and some will do only open rvr.   At the moment there's not enough people playing T4 to make a real judgement on what it'll be like besides the number of scenarios that open up is locked at a fairly small amount per scenario.   IF most of the server population reaches T4 its doubtful that everyone will do only scenarios since the Queue time will be fairly long by then.

Besides Open RvR is techincally worth more RP points people just havent' figured that out yet.  Hopefully theyll nerf Scenarios RP gain eventually. 

The biggest difference in my opinion between WoW & WAR's systems is the fact WAR's unlocks Tactics skills that you can Only get through achievements.  I'm not sure what all WoW's unlocks besides pets and titles but WAR's unlocks Tactic Abilities, Pocket Items, Trophies, Cloaks (that turn you into the animal / npc you got it for killing), and Titles.  There's other items as well but I can't remember them all. 

WAR's ToK does more and to me it seems its Achievement system does way more but that doesn't mean that WoW's is crap either if its giving pets thats pretty cool they've always been highly prized by collectors in WoW.

wow awsome revival of a long since dead Thread..thsi thread is like 5 months old ..there's like no point to revive it rofl

Originally posted by Czzarre

I think we all know that end game RvR will not be Scenario but City Raiding.

Its just not in yet, but you know its coming down the pike

Actually End Game is there..there's just currently not enough T4 players at lvl 40 with decent renown rank to complete it.  You can not complete End Game with a single guild as a Euro Server already proved when they were unable to complete one of the PQ parts of the End Game Siege to fully take the city.  End game in WAR depends on a good bit of the population of a server on atleast 1 side to be possible.  You only have a 12 hour window to lock down 1 fortress while another guild locks down the other, fortresses are not an easy fight though the Euro Server that went to them used a well known beta bug to slip in through the Enemy's back door (which is supposed to be for the Enemy's use only) to take the fortress. 

Either way there is no 'its coming later' its already there just no server has enough max level people ready to take it everyone is still figuring out the game, building guilds, building alliances etc.

 People who rushed to the end are probably going to be some of the worst players on a server since they didn't take the time to learn anything about the game (unless they're elder testers i can understand rushing if you were in beta for months).

Of course the Euro peeps couldn't of gotten to much out of the siege its doubtful that the either City was Rank 5 which opens up the King instance.   Invaders only get access to what the Defenders had unlocked and once the Siege is over the City goes back to level 1 so there's no point in ransacking it back to back since it'll be worth little to nothing if its a poor city.

The Archmage is not a PURE healer he shouldn't have all the super baubles etc.  He's in line with his Warhammer lore as an offensive healer.  He's a Caster / Healer not to mention you've yet to specify what level you are.  It sounds like nothing but a bunch of QQing from someone who thinks at lvl 10 you should have all the skill in the game.  If your not over lvl 15 there's no reason to whine for more options your not supposed to have all the options.  To be honest Archmages piss me off they're rather hard to kill and a good one makes it rather hard to kill the target your on.   Sounds like your one of those QQ gimme everything right now players.....sorry this game isn't for you move on or try a different healer.  Or better yet reach lvl 20, train in mastery and shut the hell up.

Warhammer has lots of options spread out over 3 races, each healer plays differently.  The rune priest is the pure healer, the archmage is the 'caster healer' and the warrior priest is the battle healer...(damn WPs!!).

Ever since they removed the 20 second delay between mails its been ungodly slow...funnily enough its a decent meeting place to chat with people in the city lolol.   Its probably in the middle / end of the list of major fixes since for the most part it works its just slow as hell during busy times. 

I've always been able to get my item but only after like clicking 5 times impatiently..thankfully I've never lost any mail  I think I'd die if I did right now since its materials for making golden cores & extracts for dye making...or cash.

I consider it mildly acceptable for now but if it goes on for to long it'll reach my unacceptable /bug rage daily list. 

I only circle around people concentrating on someone else as their target.  I position myself behind them or to the side so when they reach a point that a healer is going to heal them I Punt them away from their group and nail them with my heavier ranged shots.   Its a pretty good tactic but only tends to work if they're not paying attention to you.

Alot of people stupidly circle strafe themselves into a wall of people rofl :) so what if they want to circle strafe let them...when they get stuck in a corner you beat the crap out of them and go onto the next target.

Dunno how anyone can call the economy bad ...im lvl 17 with 20 gold on me..more than enough to buy a mount and help my friend buy one at lvl 20 lol Its like stupid easy to make money in the game.

I find this hard to believe unless GOA doesn't have T4 locked like it is in the US.   T4 has been locked since before launch to ensure that a healthy sized community is at T4  to avoid this exact scenario where an undefended city gets sacked by 30 to 40 people. 

Sounds more like GOA fucked up by allowing T4 to be even open either that or EuroGamer talked to some people making some shit up which is entirely possible.

Originally posted by Wakygreek

 

All players have different play styles..WARhammer did a good job of offering so many options to everyone so the game wouldnt seem boring...or at least that was their objective.  If you dont like Scenarios then dont play them..however players that enjoy them contribute to the overall war...thats the basis of the game.  So if you RVR or Scenario is doesnt matter it contributes to your sides overall victory.  Now for you who think Scenarios...are where its at....if your side does not RVR at all, you will fail.  The keeps in the game are very important in unlocking the path to the enemy capitals.  When people start to see this...and when players get higher...you will see a fluctuation into Open RVR...but since you can que up for easy exp anywhere using a SC it makes it attractive....for those of you who have yet to RVR...each solo kill is = to roughly 1/4 of what a huge quest would give you...and that scales up as you level.  So OPEN rvr is actually much more of a benefit...especially fi your guild captures a keep..you get specific guild bonuses...and your side also gets exp and damage bonuses as well. People need to read more before they post methinks

scenarios benefit the single player far more than they do the war.  You can't lock down a Tier by doing scenarios at all infact their over all contribution to the war effort is negligible.  Here in lies the problem because Scenarios are worth more xp & renown then they should be (but not more than Open)  most people are going to stupidly grind them with little care to helping out the war.  If this trend continues on into Tier 4 we'll either never see End game or End Game will happen everyday because there's no one there to defend thus keeping Cities at a constant level 1 and locking out high end content to both sides.

Not to mention the worse case scenario you get to T4 and half the people around you have no idea how to do anything in Open RvR because they didn't participate in it at all until T4.

Scenarios need to be nerfed, not removed because they are fun but Nerfed.