The only thing that worries me atm about this game is that there seems to be a very fine line between a server with no que and little open pvp and a server with a 45min que and loads of pvp. I hope they sort out the capacity of the servers so this is less of an issue.
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Level 8 last night - archmage high elf.. still looking for you folks.. lol
Compared to playing a Open RvR level 8 dark elf sorcerer..
Not sure what I'll specialise in. Currently in RvR I seem to be public enemy one perhaps the low hitpoints/ac (ac not bad for a level 8.. robe is 45ac, boots 28ac etc) still makes me an easy kill.. so I may just go straight into AoE offensive and sod the healing.. I'm level 8, can tank heavily in PvE yet in RvR I'm a one hit kill to a witch..
I'd expect some rebalancing otherwise Order won't have archmage support in RvR.. just an observation.
Compared to playing a Open RvR level 8 dark elf sorcerer..
Not sure what I'll specialise in. Currently in RvR I seem to be public enemy one perhaps the low hitpoints/ac (ac not bad for a level 8.. robe is 45ac, boots 28ac etc) still makes me an easy kill.. so I may just go straight into AoE offensive and sod the healing.. I'm level 8, can tank heavily in PvE yet in RvR I'm a one hit kill to a witch..
I'd expect some rebalancing otherwise Order won't have archmage support in RvR.. just an observation.
You could make a global defence channel, like we had in beta. The trouble is, people wouldnt use it, people these days tend to stick to guildchat and guild voice comms, often there just isnt a need to use anything more than those sadly. Not purely the fault of a game, equally (or more I would say) the fault of the playerbase these days in MMOs
I dont mind not having official forums, Daoc didnt have official forums and was fine for its community. UO didnt have official forums and some would say it had the best community of any MMO. Whilst official forums are nice, they usually just end up being a cesspit of spam, abuse and chuck norris nonsense, like the WoW forums for example.
To be fair UO was a pretty special case in being the first (and best!). My main issue is that because they seem to have pitched the server pops a touch low, it's very difficult (unless you are in a big guild) to get a feel for where the battles are taking place. Once you're in them it's fantastic and some of the best fun I've had, but finding them is a bit of a nightmare.
I also think that some of the handholding (indicating where quests are, PQ directions etc) actually works against the community feeling as you don't really feel the need to talk to anyone. They're fantastic ideas and implemented brilliantly, perhaps TOO brilliantly!
Later quests don't seem to hand hold as much. I've spent many an hour searching a camp of fast respawning elves trying to find the one named npc i need to complete a given quest.
I think I would go insane if I didn't at least some indication of where on my map to look, in in most cases the area shaded was rather large ;/
I think I would go insane if I didn't at least some indication of where on my map to look, in in most cases the area shaded was rather large ;/
love the game so far, best way i can put it to wow players is something like this. In wow each class has a flaw that needs another class to defend it. In War each class is good at what they do and what they use. So instead of having hunters in wow using 2handed weapons just to get stats of it as they are no good with it in combat, they give the class some skills with the sword to make it useable with bow or sword.
Over all, i like it, maybe its because its new, maybe its the fact each class is so custamizable with skills, items, renow items and as i found out yesterday, renow skills too!
not had much dealings with my guild, but my fault, started a shadow hunter and got caught up with it, love it, so will have to move that to the guild too lol...
PQ's i find are great fun, 20 players defending one elf cross bow V 15 orc champions at a time, wonderful skirmish!
ColiN
Over all, i like it, maybe its because its new, maybe its the fact each class is so custamizable with skills, items, renow items and as i found out yesterday, renow skills too!
not had much dealings with my guild, but my fault, started a shadow hunter and got caught up with it, love it, so will have to move that to the guild too lol...
PQ's i find are great fun, 20 players defending one elf cross bow V 15 orc champions at a time, wonderful skirmish!
ColiN
Hey y'all,
Picked up WAR myself and best fun I've had since playing DDO.
Entirely new to the whole PvP/RvR scene as I was a group / PvE style player before but can see the whole PvP being a lot of fun
So, looking to play a bit more 'seriously' and get in a guild. Order Faction preferred. What's the official OcUK Server/guild for WAR then ?
Picked up WAR myself and best fun I've had since playing DDO.
Entirely new to the whole PvP/RvR scene as I was a group / PvE style player before but can see the whole PvP being a lot of fun
So, looking to play a bit more 'seriously' and get in a guild. Order Faction preferred. What's the official OcUK Server/guild for WAR then ?
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Yup, but on Destruction
Meh.
Befriend an Ironbreaker and a Bright Wizard. Awesome 3 man team.
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Only problem I see is public quests seem to decline in activity the higher you go.
Pretty sure eventually they will become empty.
It's a good thing you can solo kill things there to get the XP for the rewards though.
I also hate coming first in point but last because I got a crappy roll
Once I sae a gold bag drop, usually it's green and sometimes blue, but gold? :OOO
Never seen another.
Coming from someone who play's a Witch, 1 hit kill may be a little over the top (even with my moral sever nerve and 5point attack, coming out of stealth to do 50% damage a hit, Kiss of Agony and Frozen Touch/another touch from a team member it's more like a few seconds...even still.
Take it from me, myself and observations of other Witches is that we pick you off from behind your main group or from the sides, you don't expect someone to be so crazy but when everyone is concentrating on the front line I usually go take out the casters and run.
I have to say though, until I got my root breaker (60s recharge) it was a little harder because half the people would cast it on you and they last SO long.
The problem at low level as well is that once you've got the flag and run, as long as nobody is infront of you it's a garaunteed capture, there's no way to catch up.
Even when you're JUST out of range to throw an axe to use that slowing ability of it, if his sprint timer cool-down runs out before yours, he will stay out of range, literally, until the end of the earth unless someone else catches up with him from the front/side.
Understandable if they are carrying the flag when the timer runs out they run slower but just chasing anyone for that matter.
This is fixed when at 20 you can use mounts to catch up and kill.
It's quite insane what some classes can do and the punishment they can take, but yeah Witch Elf's are really good at taking out casters fast, jumped 3 with ease...
Rank 20 with like 450 in Strength but the rest of my abils are at 200ish, seems to be helping :d
Got this nice career ability that at the moment adds 80str and scales with level, also one of my quests bugged and let me complete twice to get some big str+ rings.
Imba :d Although not sure how to weigh out the armor penetration from weapon skill and weapon speed.
Pretty sure eventually they will become empty.
It's a good thing you can solo kill things there to get the XP for the rewards though.
I also hate coming first in point but last because I got a crappy roll
Once I sae a gold bag drop, usually it's green and sometimes blue, but gold? :OOO
Never seen another.
Coming from someone who play's a Witch, 1 hit kill may be a little over the top (even with my moral sever nerve and 5point attack, coming out of stealth to do 50% damage a hit, Kiss of Agony and Frozen Touch/another touch from a team member it's more like a few seconds...even still.
Take it from me, myself and observations of other Witches is that we pick you off from behind your main group or from the sides, you don't expect someone to be so crazy but when everyone is concentrating on the front line I usually go take out the casters and run.
I have to say though, until I got my root breaker (60s recharge) it was a little harder because half the people would cast it on you and they last SO long.
The problem at low level as well is that once you've got the flag and run, as long as nobody is infront of you it's a garaunteed capture, there's no way to catch up.
Even when you're JUST out of range to throw an axe to use that slowing ability of it, if his sprint timer cool-down runs out before yours, he will stay out of range, literally, until the end of the earth unless someone else catches up with him from the front/side.
Understandable if they are carrying the flag when the timer runs out they run slower but just chasing anyone for that matter.
This is fixed when at 20 you can use mounts to catch up and kill.
It's quite insane what some classes can do and the punishment they can take, but yeah Witch Elf's are really good at taking out casters fast, jumped 3 with ease...
Rank 20 with like 450 in Strength but the rest of my abils are at 200ish, seems to be helping :d
Got this nice career ability that at the moment adds 80str and scales with level, also one of my quests bugged and let me complete twice to get some big str+ rings.
Imba :d Although not sure how to weigh out the armor penetration from weapon skill and weapon speed.
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Only problem I see is public quests seem to decline in activity the higher you go.
Pretty sure eventually they will become empty.
It's a good thing you can solo kill things there to get the XP for the rewards though.
I also hate coming first in point but last because I got a crappy roll
Once I sae a gold bag drop, usually it's green and sometimes blue, but gold? :OOO
Never seen another.
That's a bag with an epic in i think, never got one myself.
PQs are become one massive grind fest. Every tier requires more and more effort to get the rep. I dread to think what the last ones will be like.
Doesn't help their only seems to one active PQ in each tier.
Got my third one last night! I was annoyed I didn't get a blue bag the previous round, but the roll bonuses enabled me to grap the gold bag the one time it dropped!
Got one on my shadow warrior. gold bag, got the epic booties... did the elf chapter 2 i think it is, the one with the druids and trees that need to be resuced, did it about 4 times, ended up with a war band there where that many of us dong it hehe. seems to be if you have a grp, more will come... good honest fun, good gren drops all over the place, lots of seeds and salvage and some good xp. Will have to get the guild doing some next
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My only annoyance is that the loot is always the same for each class, green items are always the same, as are blue and epic.
If you win a green bag 2-3 times in a row you will always get the same loot.
If you win a green bag 2-3 times in a row you will always get the same loot.
It's always the same so you don't get equipped fully by farming one PQ.
That's what I like about it though, because you move to the next PQ and get a nice set of items you don't need to worry you hope you will get.
Or I guess...different items in the bag so you just need to win again,..yeah you're right, i'm just blabbing.
Anyone know how gold bags drop, totally random or when more people are doing the PQ?
Friend (rank 23) and I (rank 21) are finding the PvE element getting stupidly easy as we level up. Seems like the scaling of mobs doesnt really scale with player characters. Now it has just become an ae fest with loads and loads of mobs and me healing him. My WP can tank rank 26/27 mobs and rank 22 champs with no drop in hitpoints (just me healing myself).
We did get ganked by rank 40's yesterday though quite a few times. Open RvR server
We did get ganked by rank 40's yesterday though quite a few times. Open RvR server
blue, purple, gold totally random as far as I can tell. Had like 7-8 greens on one of them I did.
Ok guys ive hit level 19 naked, i can kill level 23 mobs naked now. Witch elf hunter. New naked related titles ive got:
Teaser - talk to 1000 civillians naked
The streaker - complete 10 pqs naked
Flirt - talk to 100 civillians naked
the exhibitionist - use ability 10000 times naked
Poser - targeted 100 times naked
the showman - ??? cant remember....
theres still a few titles to go. From what i can gather you can where jewelry/trophies/weapons, as i only have weapons equipped i cant confirm this nor will the gms confirm this.
btw something i discovered yesterday... go to orc chapter 6 and do the pqs, the influence reward is a 27.3dps dagger which is more than the elf chap 9pq reward...
Teaser - talk to 1000 civillians naked
The streaker - complete 10 pqs naked
Flirt - talk to 100 civillians naked
the exhibitionist - use ability 10000 times naked
Poser - targeted 100 times naked
the showman - ??? cant remember....
theres still a few titles to go. From what i can gather you can where jewelry/trophies/weapons, as i only have weapons equipped i cant confirm this nor will the gms confirm this.
btw something i discovered yesterday... go to orc chapter 6 and do the pqs, the influence reward is a 27.3dps dagger which is more than the elf chap 9pq reward...
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