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• • Armor is it all the same?

  • Originally posted by truuk
    

    
    

     

    you left out the arena sets, the pvp sets, the crafted sets, the rare crafted sets, ..................

     

    dude, dont. Just dont. Do not lie topeople and get them to believe this game has more gear choices than wow. That is an absolute lie. And I HATE wow.

     

    You certainly have more appearance options in WoW.  There are way way more different looks possible for a given toon..  Everything from a pink dress to epics.  However, you can't customize how a given set looks.  You can't dye it or add trophies to it.  And if you wear whatever has the best stats, very often you will end up with mismatched gear that looks dumb.  

    A relevant penny arcade reference:

    www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/2/

    For me in WoW finding armor sets that had decent stats for my level and looked good together was a game within the game (and actually one of my favorite pastimes).  In WAR, I don't have to worry about it.  I know I'm going to look good from about level 2 on, just a little more badass looking as I level. 

    Again, I'm not saying that the way Warhammer deals with things is better.  I actually enjoyed the meta game of not looking stupid in WoW.  However, the way that WAR handles things has merit too.  Theres something to be said for never having to look like a Rodeo clown. 

     

  • Posted: 9/23/08 8:39 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Armor is it all the same?

  • Warhammmer is based on a minatures game.  One of the signature features of the minatures game is that troops of a particualar type have a unqiue and immediatly identifiable style.  When you choose a class in this game, you are also essentially choosing your style of appearance.  It's not really a good thing or a bad thing in my mind, just very different from how most MMOs handle the relationhip between classes and gear.  

    The up side is that you never have to wear gear that looks stupid.  The downside is that, save for color, you are going to look an awfull lot like any other class of your level.   I'm a fan of the IP, so it's what I expected.  It would have bugged me if my Black Orc didn't look like a Black Orc is supposed to, for example.  However, I'm also a big fan of customizing my gear in other MMOs (appearance slots ftw), so I can see how it would be a turn off for some players.

     

  • Posted: 9/23/08 7:45 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • War Fanbois in force

  • Who's worse, the fanboys or the irrational haters that are completey fed up with Diku MUD style MMOs and yet for some reason still follow and complain about every new Diku MUD style MMO that comes out?   

     

  • Posted: 9/23/08 5:03 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Why i don't like WAR

  • If all you did was solo quest to level six, you missed the point. And if the orc language seemed arbitrary too you, you obviously now little of the IP.

  • Posted: 9/23/08 4:59 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Is the Magus class as bad as people think?

  • I've played a Magus and an Engineer.  I have to say, at least at low levels they are pretty challenging in RvR.    I do manage to wrack up some kills, but I'm literally getting four times and many per scenario on most of my other characters. I know that on my greenskins, when I see an engineer I think "lunch."  Hoping the class takes off more at higher levels, but I am having fun regardless. 

  • Posted: 9/23/08 12:54 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)