All Posts by TheHavok

Oh, and the fastest way to reach 40 is to get a tank that can aoe taunt, a healer (either rune priest or zealot to be most efficient) and a good aoe dpser (sorceress or bright wizard to be most efficient) and then just grind PQS that nobody else is doing.  That can power level people really quickly.  Also, completely skip RvR till you are 40.

<The Allstars> Dark Crag Order has a couple of 40s that reached it Saturday, September 20th.  I do not know who the first 40 was, but Dark Crag has more then a handful.

Originally posted by Yeebo

I am playing both factions on different servers.  I started one faction on a high pop server for when I play in the middle of the night.  I started on a low pop server for primetimes. 

I think I over did it on the low pop server though.  It has my favorite characters on it, and it's low pop even duriong prime times now (it was getting up to medium before).  It's getting really hard for me to get any PQs done.  I think I may have to start over on destruction elsewhere.

In any case, given my choice I think ques are better than playing on a low pop server.

Honestly, I would just give it time and stay on the same server as your order.  All of the north american servers are either medium or high population during prime time (5-10 est).  It will fill up more and more as the general population starts to buy the game.  Plus, if you think about it, your going to spend much more time as a level 40 as opposed to the time it took you to level up.  So why not be on the less populated side where the server ques are much smaller then being on the overpopulated destruction where is take FOREVER to join a scenario?

But if you are heart set on playing destruction then go for it.

Originally posted by TheFighter

I've not been playing any MMOs with consistancy for a couple of years, mainly jumping in and out of WoW, but i can finally "settle down" with a game i can enjoy.

WAR probably isnt a "WoW Killer" but WoW doesnt need killing, they can keep all of the raging Pre-Teens that would put their life down to defend Blizzard, After all, they are the ones that turn a games community into trash.

Anyone else enjoying this brilliant game?

I am.  And the great part is, the more I level, the more my guild and friends level, the more stuff I discover about the game that I enjoy and is also fun.  People write this game off so quickly as another wow or lotro clone, which is ridiculous because people have just barely scratched the surface of this gem.  I know im going to be playing it for awhile.

It been publicly known for awhile that the game is a sinking ship which is a shame because it is a pretty cool concept.  I too was considering picking up the game because it was going for $10 at my local frys.  Then I did some reading up and discovered the game is not doing well, had a failed optional subscription system, and was losing players quickly. 

I think the initial main selling point for hellgate was that it was from the creators or producers of diablo. 

Originally posted by xenogias

Originally posted by TheHavok

Originally posted by HazukiStyle

Speaking from the point of vew of a healer/dps (playing shaman) its the ranged dpsers that tear me to shreds.  The amount of times I've come up against a wall of witch hunters and been blasted limb from limb.

I'm not sure what the tank situation is like on other servers but destro is missing 'em on my realm.  You feel so squishy when dps can freely run upto you and start bashing away.  The one or two that are present seem to get mistaken with WoW warriors - just charging in without any form of back up.  But anywho, I digress.

But yeah my vote goes to witch-hunter for most feared class in senarios.

The game uses a rock, paper, scissors formula so of course a witch hunter (and witch elf) will be most devastating to a caster.  However, Chosen bring a little more to the table.  All chosen are hard to take down, whether they have a sword and board or are rocking the two hander.

The reason why I list them overpowered is not because they are the best tanks in the game.  In my opinion Ironbreakers are the best tanks due to their many interrupts, push backs, and amazing survivability (at the cost of low dps compared to other tanks.)  No, the reason why Chosen are the most overpowered class in the game is because of the Discord tree. 

The Discord tree is the Chosen's Magic spec.  Many people do not even think about a Chosen doing magic damage and being effect, but it really makes them dominate in scenarios.  Sure, they do not have the dps of witch elves and witch hunters, but they follow close behind and they MORE then make up for it with their survivability.  This, in the long run, gives Chosen the potential to always top the damage and kill charts.

Honestly, I see it being nerfed in the future.

 

Nerfed? Are you serious lol? Unless your an elder tester or talked to an elder tester you have no clue about spec builds yet. Also I have talked to multiple elder testers and all of them pretty much agree on one thing. Chosen are powerfull late tier1 and tier2. Starting in tier3 they seem to fall off. Tier4 they are one of the weakest classes. Of course everyones opinion will differ. But to be calling for or even thinking about nerfs this early is terrible. If we are going to call nerf this early I say nerf the healers. At least in tier1 they are a major pain in the ass to kill and you simply WONT kill them in tier1 unless they suck or you get 3+ people on them. Tier 2 they seem alittle easier to kill though so nah, dont nerf them. Hell dont nerf any classes till people start hitting 40 and only if one class is glaringly overpowered.

Actually, half my guild consist of Eldar testers and they all agree with me.  Yea, I should have waited till people were hitting end game to make my post.  But, I still believe that Chosen will end up the way they were right before closed beta ended, and that is dominating in the right setup.  I forget the name of the it, but on warhammermovies.com there is a video of a shaman and a chosen duo completely destroying groups just because the chosen's damaging auras and the shamans healing.

Originally posted by HazukiStyle

Speaking from the point of vew of a healer/dps (playing shaman) its the ranged dpsers that tear me to shreds.  The amount of times I've come up against a wall of witch hunters and been blasted limb from limb.

I'm not sure what the tank situation is like on other servers but destro is missing 'em on my realm.  You feel so squishy when dps can freely run upto you and start bashing away.  The one or two that are present seem to get mistaken with WoW warriors - just charging in without any form of back up.  But anywho, I digress.

But yeah my vote goes to witch-hunter for most feared class in senarios.

The game uses a rock, paper, scissors formula so of course a witch hunter (and witch elf) will be most devastating to a caster.  However, Chosen bring a little more to the table.  All chosen are hard to take down, whether they have a sword and board or are rocking the two hander.

The reason why I list them overpowered is not because they are the best tanks in the game.  In my opinion Ironbreakers are the best tanks due to their many interrupts, push backs, and amazing survivability (at the cost of low dps compared to other tanks.)  No, the reason why Chosen are the most overpowered class in the game is because of the Discord tree. 

The Discord tree is the Chosen's Magic spec.  Many people do not even think about a Chosen doing magic damage and being effect, but it really makes them dominate in scenarios.  Sure, they do not have the dps of witch elves and witch hunters, but they follow close behind and they MORE then make up for it with their survivability.  This, in the long run, gives Chosen the potential to always top the damage and kill charts.

Honestly, I see it being nerfed in the future.

1v1: DoK and WP.

Scenarios: Chosen.

Originally posted by Bukk24

 I think WOW is great..at least I did, but this endless information dripped wait for an expansion that really should have been here months ago really has taken its toll on my interest.  Its only a ten level expansion and yet its taken 2 years, virtually, to get here, with many continually paying subs with ever changing release date expectations. They really should have at least introduced a couple of new battlegrounds into the game regardless of the expansion.  I am definately going to play WAR from the 18th, mainly because I struggle to even contemplate logging on to WOW at the minute. I personally think Blizzard themselves are developing newer games and that this has taken a bit of a back seat..at this rate you won't see lev 80 to 90 christmas 2010.  We should really have been climbing to 100 by now after 4 years...

K.

Dark Crag is full. 

I bought the world of warcraft strategy guide when I picked up the game....what a waste of money.  I mean honestly, mmorpgs update and change so much over time that some of the info in the guides becomes useless.  Not to mention the huge amount of info you can find online.  I would save your money if you are thinking about getting a strategy guide for war.

I second war

The internet is serious business.

@ OP

BWHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This patch has a lot of stability issues.

My runepriest doesn't even get morale anymore.  This makes me one sad panda bear.

Magus is much more useful then it was before.  Their pets cannont be ignored anymore like in the past. 

Anyways, since the patch, I can no longer gain morale on my runepriest.  So........yeah.

That is not true at all.  Infact, if you look at guild websites, you would see that many people who intend on being "hardcore" pvp players will be rolling on open rvr servers.  Also shard, im pretty sure ive read a thread from you stating how bad war is compared to daoc, so why would you even care anyways?