Attention War is coming - The Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Thread (Read 19042 times)

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The whole problem with MMORPGs really is that if you start later or start a new character you won't be able to do the group stuff well anymore since the "big player flood" only passes through the group stuff once (at the launch). I started a swordmaster alt (Daegil, on EU-Alarielle) and there was no one doing any PQs at all and the world was pretty much dead expect for 3 others. Scenarios did seem to still happen frequently though.
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Type "/channeljoin gamingw" when you log in on Axe Bite Pass for GW chat 8-)

note: WAR is too dumb to remember the channel when you log out...
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im aware tanks are more benefit with sword+board defensive style, but for fun i decided to try 2 hander with offensive tactic. im discord spec so i just put up discordant instability (resistance reduction), used blast wave (more resistance reduction) then spammed ravage (which does spirit damage). got a few heals from mark admittedly but this is the result. quite cool!
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still playing my chosen, fyi. rank 10 :<

if for some reason i want to roll a gay gun having order character, what's the best server to do it on, guys? please choose a low pop one the queue times on axe pass are killing me :(
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still playing my chosen, fyi. rank 10 :<

if for some reason i want to roll a gay gun having order character, what's the best server to do it on, guys? please choose a low pop one the queue times on axe pass are killing me :(

I've got a swordmaster on Alarielle, but it's a RP server so it's populated by cyber elves and stuff.
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So yes, I wanna play this game, and I hope to get it soon. I wanna be Destruction, which Server should I play on? And which class seems to be the most overplayed.

So far, I wanna be a Shaman or something...
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i love the rvr in this game.

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i told you you would like it esp!

i really hope someone makes a mod for the scenario party windows so they take up less space and less look out of place soon. :( at least i haven't found one lol
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Espar is ranking so fast it's crazy. :O
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patch 1.01 comes out later today!!!!

supposed to fix quite a bit.
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Espar is ranking so fast it's crazy. :O

yes but.... i have to go back offshore tomorrow so i won't play for 2 weeks. everyone will overtake me then.
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i told you you would like it esp!

i really hope someone makes a mod for the scenario party windows so they take up less space and less look out of place soon. :( at least i haven't found one lol
You can hide the warband frames by right clicking on one and unchecking all the parties. I got an addon called squared which is a bit like grid from wow, it rocks for healers get it if you are one. Also get the scrolling combat text port because it shows more shit and is a lot less intensive (mythic developers don't know how to optimize shit - currently if a buff/debuff is refreshed or added THE WHOLE WARBAND'S BUFFS+DEBUFFS are refreshed too niiice programming)
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i know you can disable them but i want em to be a lot thinner and take up less space cause i like them. :(
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no point disabling them anyway, all the health/buff updates still happen, they're just not shown to you NIIIIICE
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update delayed just saw lol :(

at least it'll be bigger.

there's a rumor they're adding Knights of the Blazing Sun and Black Guard but I dun believe it.

Also, I'm so glad they added cross race scenario queue so you can queue for all scenarios at once!
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Wait. New classes? Apparently for Chaos and probably Empire? What about Greenskins we only have 3 classes. We need new classes! Greenskins need new classes!
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ya they cut Choppa, Knight of the Blazing Sun, Blackguard, and Hammerer and they said they'll readd em for free eventually
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I don't want Choppa. I want like, Nob(which I guess is close to Black Orc), or Shoota(Witch Hunter kinda...Choppa+Gun). Choppa just seems kind of lame and "Black Orc without the armor and with higher dps" to me.

edit: or Weirdboyz/smartboyz. But those might be 40k. FOR GORK AND MORK! WAAAGH!
edit2: seriously, the combustion mechanic was MADE for orcs. Like, it exemplifies everything that an orc is. Do as much damage as you can before you blow yourself up. There should be some orc class who uses combustion like crazy. And when they explode, they deal damage to everything around them too (not sure if Bright Wizards do this?) and have all kinds of barely controllable spells. like "deals 2000 damage in a 30 foot area randomly chosen". But then I guess you'd end up with Rafa/Malak from FFT and it would pretty much suck. BUT still. That's the orkiest thing I can think of.
Last Edit: October 01, 2008, 04:05:35 pm by Rajew
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After seeing Esp's screenies, I started going 2her on my black orc, and it is officially awesome. I was staying in the top 3 for damage dealt, and in one match of Ekrund, myself and a 2her chosen managed to just cut a swathe all the way into their spawn and stopped a big chunk of them from even making it to the actual battle on the gate.
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yeah 2 handing is great fun and while you're not some dps-machine its like... you're still pretty hard to bring down AND you do some dps too!

i still normally go sword+board in rvr though, as long as a) the group is competent and b) i actually get some fucking heals (i see so many idiot shamans who spam their crappy dps spells thinking they're some kind of elemental shaman from wow, completely ignoring the fact they can heal. i'm aware they need to dps to keep their heals going but PURE DPS is not the way to do it!! its usually shamans actually, most zealots and DoKs actually tend to do it right.)

if i fight 3 minutes of a scenario and both of those points arent matched i'll just say "fuck it" and whip out my 2hander, run around throwing people off cliffs and kill lowbies. you normally don't get heals if you start with a 2 hander!

if i get heals while tanking, i normally find a good witch elf or marauder and have them stick to me, guard them up and run riot, throwing people off cliffs as i go (i love that. especially in tor anroc where you can throw them into the lava).

chosen gets a bad name from all the idiots who think they're some kind of death knight and run around with a big 2 hander trying to kill tanks. it doesn't work. 2 hander chosen is acceptable if you play it right! in fact 2 hander tanks are good for staying back with the healers and picking off the witch hunters etc. who try to get sneaky kills on them or for hanging just behind the MAIN TANK if you like and holding people off while laying some dps down. and throwing them off cliffs.

i wish i was an ironbreaker cause their knockback is RIDICULOUS
Last Edit: October 01, 2008, 11:24:29 pm by esp