I play an IB and whenever someone tries to circle strafe me I just pop my moral ability that holds them in place for 10 seconds - cracks me up every time I see them panicking and just spinning around in circles.

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Originally posted by Pheace
Nevermind them, there's always some that have to do away with anything they disagree with by calling Fanboi, it's like a jerk response these days.
 
Haven't played WOW in months but that won't stop them

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LOL, too true my friend, too true :D

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Originally posted by Satarious

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Originally posted by Rayx0r

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Originally posted by Pheace

Banning in the first week when thousands of "extra'" keys were given away was always going to lead to this. Naturally it was going to get much harder for them when real subs finally went in. They just capitalised on that time to make themselves look good :)

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so you're accusing them of delibrately giving out extra keys to boom the gold sellers in the game so they can in turn ban them "to make themselves look good"?
 

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Pheaces is a WoW fanboi through and through.  He tries to deny it, but the fact that he goes OUT OF HIS WAY to trash WAR even though it's clearly unwarranted is proof enough.

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Eh? I don't know what you both saw when you read Pheace's post but all I saw was an accurate description of the situation!

I can guarantee you that right now Blizzard has a team of people playing WAR and reporting back with detailed analyses on what's good and what's not.

The big wigs will then use this data to try and make WoW better in these areas. Whether they pull it off or not is the key.

A bit of healthy competition never harmed anyone and it's this competition that has made the MMORPG industry what it is today. There's no way WAR would be what it is if it hadn't been influenced by WoW in some way.

Blizzard trying to implement these great game mechanics into their game will only strive WAR to become bigger and better than it already is. But then of course this works both ways, it's the perfect synergy.

Originally posted by Volkmar

if you see a feature of a rival and you have the good sense to realize that it is better than yours, yes, you are going to try and implement it in your game as well.

This has been going on since the dawn of games and it is an evolving process.

What one has to be interested into is how this features will affect each game, where they are gonna be better made and so on.

In the end if the impact of WAR will make WoW a better PvP game, I am all for it to happen. I wish the impact of WoW will serve to make WAR a better game as well.

Very well said - the only thing that remains is who implements said feature better.

I only had two gripes with WoW - one was the lack of RvR, the other was the grind to get decent gear.

If they can solve the RvR issue, great, that's a step in the right direction. But I don't see them removing the casual gamer killing grind to get that all important PvP gear any time soon.

Originally posted by teddyboy420

Guys, the "Critical Error" is 99% of the time due to your firewall, router, what-have-you, stopping the connection to the server.

When the game doesn't get access to the servers b/c of firewall or any other reason (usually after patching b/c the firewall no longer recognizes the exe), once the engine has loaded, it kicks out that "Critical error". It's all due to your firewall, alt-tab out, or close the game otherwise, give your firewall permission to allow the game to connect, and the problem is solved.

It happens to me every time there is any small patch, or the game can't connect to the servers for whatever reason, and has been happening since early beta. For whatever reason that is how the client handles not being able to connect to the servers for whatever reason, many people have brought it to the attention of Mythic and it is intentional.

You know you could be onto something. Since the games release it must have patched and downloaded a new EXE about 10 times. And this could certainly cause havoc with some firewalls if they're detecting a change, blocking the connection but not reporting or giving the user a chance to update permissions.

What firewall are you people using?

Originally posted by boomerangx

this thread is seriously stupid

the choices int he poll obviously suggest the poll to be bias

come on peeps at least make the thread seam legit and not so trollish

Eh?! This thread isn't biased in the slightest. How did you come to that conclusion?

And so far the only thing making it trollish is ironically your post!

During the early days of head start it was an issue, but now that people are spreading out across the realms I've found them to be fairly even.

We win some, we lose some. But all in all it entirely depends on teamwork. When everyone spreads out like muppets we get owned. When we stick together we kick ass - as it should be.

I had no idea you had to control the keep, thanks.

So does anyone fancy taking it back for me?

Well Empire is by far the most popular. Then I'd say it's even between the Dwarfs and Elves.

As for the least played class - polls would suggest the White Lion. A very powerful and solid class, but not for those who don't enjoy pet classes.

The renown gear seller at the Troll Country War Camp is no longer availible to me?? Does anyone know if this is a bug or am I missing something?

I accidently just came accross this - at the character select screen when it give you a preview of your toon, left-click on it an spin it round really fast.  The first time I saw it it cracked me up! Looks best with a dwarf!

Ah the little things in life

Ouch! That does suck dude - I feel your pain!

I hope you get your power back sharpish

If you buy from D2D.co.uk you can play today (15th).

So are you people who are able to play better on NA servers going to be playing there gone launch?

Personally even if my connection was better to NA I'd stick with EU because of the time difference - and in the hope that things would improve! :)

Originally posted by rishaki

Originally posted by Sweeet

The linear aspects only apply to PVE. They are virtually non-existent in RvR. 

I must have done at least 100 scenarios during the OB and not one was ever the same. Different team make-ups, different levels of skill, different tactics - the list goes on.

RvR in WAR is one of the most dynamic and diverse aspects I've ever seen in an MMO - I'm truly loving it.

 

 

Your wrong. This has more to do about combat than the aspects of global pvp in the game. Its only in a game with true open world pvp where the freedom is given to the players to fight for any objective or anyone we got a sandbox pvp game. This game got allredy set objectivs, the variables is much less and the reward is allredy at a vendor to be bought. In a open pvp world the reward could be whatever of many objectives you choose to fight for, objectives made by your allies to reach your own set goal. Here the goal is  to advance in rvr rank which will award you new items. The only variable here is sucess or failiur, skill or no skill and rank of items. The open world pvp is  restricted to certin zones here which adds towards the carebear layout that has been flurishing latly. Sc will soon be as grindish as wow BG, there is not much diffrent in the objectives of these two, only thing diffrent is classes and layout of combat in this game.

Are we talking about the same thing here? I'm talking about gameplay. The PVE gameplay is liniar beyond a doubt - RvR on the other hand, never ceases to amaze me.

Yes it may become grindish doing the same objective over and over again - but RvR gameplay liniar? Never. There are many ways to customize your classes gameplay through ability's, tactics, morale...and everybody plays differently.

The linear aspects only apply to PVE. They are virtually non-existent in RvR. 

I must have done at least 100 scenarios during the OB and not one was ever the same. Different team make-ups, different levels of skill, different tactics - the list goes on.

RvR in WAR is one of the most dynamic and diverse aspects I've ever seen in an MMO - I'm truly loving it.

 Two polls and you both forget to put Warrior Priest!

Originally posted by Hamrtime2

Wouldnt the lag have someting to do on where you live?  If you live in France and youre playing on a NA server, I would think that youre gonna get more lag because youre so far away from the server.

It would depend on the route you're taking to NA - some connections are going to be faster than others due to traffic and what not. But one thing I overlooked was that the NA servers were no doubt busier - whether that had a role to play I don't know.

I started off playing the NA open beta because GOA still hadn't pulled their finger out. I switched over to the EU beta a couple of days ago.

One thing that was very prominent when playing NA was a very irritating laggy stutter. First I thought it could be my graphics settings, so I toned those down. But after switching back and forth between the two, it became apparent that these stutters were regional. EU played virtually stutter free, NA was irritatingly stuttering all over the place.

It had a definite effect on using ability's during RvR. I thought it was just bad coding and it may well be. But the truth of the matter is that at present if you want to play NA because you're fed up with GOA's incompetence, be prepared to embrace the stuttering!