WoW to WAR and back again

[Alienenduro]

Afternoon all,

How many of you have gone from WoW to Warhammer and then back to WoW again? How many of you have switched to Warhammer and plan on staying? Would you say Warhammer is a step up from WoW or just a time filler until WoTLK?

[Furosuto]

Went from WoW to WAR, Did a 180° and started to 5box in WoW.
I'd call it a filler..

[Nisch]

I went from DAOC to AoC, back to DAOC. Then DAOC to WAR and back to DAOC, but now the DAOC population is terrible, so I rolled 5 toons in WoW.

[magwo]

Same here. Warhammer feels like DAoC on steroids, mixed with Guild Wars. The user experience is dull and dampened, interaction with the world doesn't feel good and stimulating.

[merujo]

like i use to say: u can try all mmo's and have fun. in the end theres always wow.

[Sarduci]

Warhammer is my pvp game. WoW is my pve game. Depends on my mood.

[Havelcek]

I canceled my 5 WoW accounts while I level up my WAR character. Once I hit 40 and am mostly participating in my guild's activities I will consider reactivating WoW but right now its just not worth the money.

[kadaan]

I tried out AoC for 2 months, but I don't think WAR will even get me to try that second month. The game itself is great, like AoC, and it definitely feels more "complete." My biggest gripe, and the one that prevents me from enjoying it, is the way abilities work. Animations are static-length, so with spell pushback you'll see your spell go off well before it actually does. Nothing like seeing my sorc's doombolt fly to the target and they don't take damage for 2s. If you move after the animation finishes, the spell cancels. Same thing with the ice spike graphic. It's supposed to be instant-cast, yet I often sit there spamming the button and it takes 2-3 seconds to go off. Sometimes the animation will go off after the spell casts, so the people who get hit with it aren't the people where the graphic is.

Then there's morale abilities, which you can click 105921037418094731284 times and they don't fkn go off. It feels like WoW with horrible latency, all the time.

I won't even get started about the mail lag... but when 5-10s latency to open a mail starts to feel fast you know there's something wrong.

[valkry]

My friends and even the computer store guy tried to convince me to go to WAR, but I really can't see myself doing that. WoW feels to good to me to leave it.

[genocyde]

I bought WAR along with a few friends even after being less than mildly impressed from the beta. I rolled Zealot since I've had a priest main since the beginning of WoW and healing has become my staple in both PvE and PvP. I have a 70 of almost every class in WoW (sorry warrior i'll finish you someday) and quad box as well so I could never give up WoW. I had shelved WoW until WotLK though and after 2 grueling weeks of pumping out zealot anger in WAR i reopened my quad box on wow and donated WAR to one of my friends that is keeping it in an attempt to corrupt him into dual boxing. I barely got my zealot to the upper 20's and I spent lots of time with my friends and their different classes and it became readily apparent to me that I HATE the PvP in WAR. Its movement and player reactions are about as fluid as fresh vomit. I started counting my deaths per hour from 'Morale' abilities failing to cast due to the bug i seemed to experience where mashing a button gives you a "Ability not ready" warning despite the ability becoming ready in the middle of your mashing. With absolutely no hope of PvE content having a point in WAR i didn't see myself going back to it and I secretly hope i corrupt my friend into boxing and then I can drag him back to WoW ;)

P.S. The graphics in WAR were pretty impressive except for the choppyness on rare occasion in inevitable city but sigh maybe WotLK will impress me further than it did in beta (EDIT: Graphically impress me i mean... gameplay was :thumbsup: in WotLK beta.

[Alienenduro]

HAHAHA, just found out from a friend that used to play WoW with us is now quitting WAR to get back on wow. He was trying to persuade us to get on WAR too!

[Caspian]

Its movement and player reactions are about as fluid as fresh vomit. In my personal experience, fresh vomit is usually pretty fluid. So is this a positive or negative?




:)

[Kulzor]

I tried War, back to WoW again now.

[aNiMaL]

After the AoC experience in which I canceled my wow subs and reactivated them after 2 months of boredom.
I liked it at first, and A LOT, even tried dragging our WoW guild into AoC.
Dunno, there's something with mmorpg launches I love,
maybe it's the qq from less intelligent people which drives me (:o explains my boxing aswell)
But, I decided not to go for War, maybe in some future,
but WoW is enough entertainment for now, especially with WotLK incoming.

Gief:
>24hours daily cycles, Less sleep needed and/or free necessities
maybe then I'll find even more hours to play games in

[Solon]

Gemstone 3 to FF11, got tired of waiting for hours for parties, to WoW, got tired of dealing with parties, to 5 box WoW. This is nice... If I ever get bored of WoW I will probably go 5 account Gemstone 4. Single boxing just seems so... Incomplete.

[elo]

I too did the AoC thing, even became a fan-boi pre-launch and up through level 20. Past level 20 it fizzled though, levels 20-80 just weren't finished out well at all and the PvE instances are so incredibly lackluster. Most were bugged like crazy and the loot was 'meh'. Along with that one of the big controversial things was nudity in it, but from level 2-45 (when I stopped) the only gear that could be found was some variation of a burlap sack.

Anyhow, the end result is I'm simply not jumping on the 'next hot MMO' again. I've got severe anghst with WoW raiding, and BG's at least on my server make me want to /wrists, but it's something I know well and boxing breathed new life into it (for about a year now). I got started on Arena's way late (like 3 months ago) and they are absolutely THE most fun I've ever had in an MMO. I think it's because of the similarities to counter-strike which I loved. Even with a bad combo (mage + resto shammy) and rockin' 1250 rating it's still crazy fun for some reason.

I'd really like to see another rockin' MMO come out, change the rules, do something DIFFERENT... but they just seem to /fail. I can't imagine how hard it must be to break into that niche right now, particularly with WoW's success, but I'm not willing to donate the days and days of my life (the cost isn't relevant) to learn/level/gear and then find out that the end game blows or doesn't exist.

[Lyonheart]

I got two CEs of WAR and I like it! BUT, it is not "better" than WoW. If there were NO WoW. I would play WAR. Although for PvE i would probably be playing EQ2. That game has improved leaps and bounds since it was launched, mostly from 'borrowing" ideas from WoW lol. The PvP in EQ2 sucks though.

I'm not sure what an MMO of the future would have to be like to beat WoW, maybe just time. At some point WoW will just be old news. And any decent mmo that comes out might benefit from that. But the next best MMO will probably be another Blizzard MMO 8\

A lot of people think something like KotR Online or Starcraft mmo will be the next best thing. I think that Si-Fi MMOs will always be limited. Fantasy is just what works well. I mean people play MMOs to escape reality somewhat right? I think the idea of "magic" vs "pewpew lasers" will always win our imagination. And for classes in Si-Fi, unless you mix magic in there, theres only so much you can do for class types. Fantasy themes leave a lot more to the imagination 8)

[oxxo]

Had 6 WoW accounts.
Got 2 WAR accounts.
All are currently active.

Will most likely cut down to 1 WoW account and 1 WAR account.
Max will be 2 WoW accounts, 2 WAR accounts.

Like I've said over and over. They target different audiences and do different things.

No reason you can't play both.

[80smetaldude]

I had a very long stint since playing WoW beta through about 6 mos ago. I had a long book typed but decided against it. My only comment here is that I play Warhammer and love PvP, it's built around PvP wheras WoW is PvE with PvP built on it. I loved my stay in WoW will always have great memories but War is it for me, hit the nail on the head HOME RUN Mythic.

It is only 1 month old vs. a 4 year MMO vet like WoW, if some of you have played it and missed out the good stuff I encourage you to take another look. I participated in a 200+ player battle last night across Praag and it was very intense and taking the keep at the end was very glorifying.

I'm not going back to WoW.

[krum]

I've picked up a copy of WAR a few weeks ago, but have yet to open it.

[Gadaí]

Myself and a number of my guildies all bought War, about 50% have dropped it and the rest of us have subscribed. As another poster said it's a completely different game in a lot of respects with a different appeal to players. Personally I'd prefer not to PvP in BG's/Arenas in WoW - I'm not terribly good at it for one thing and, perhaps as a consequence, I don't find it very interesting or engaging. War on the other hand, I can't get enough of PvP and all I can do is think that collision is the difference. PvP when a line of 'tanks' can actually block melee from getting to your ranged if they find a choke point is completely new to me and I love it - it allows for defensive formations, sneaky tricks and lots more. Even playing a healer (something like 8 chars in the 11-25 range atm) you have a definite sense of your worth as a good healer on one side can completely change the balance of a battle (and people will whisper you thanks for your efforts!).

As other people are saying, I'll stick with WoW for my PvE but War is, for me, my PvP home.

[Tdog]

I tried out WAR when it first came out and tbh it's pretty fun. Coming from a WOTLK BETA tester this is basically how I feel about the two...

WAR is more fun than BC.

WOTLK is more fun than WAR.

I expect WAR to make it though. I doubt it will fold like alot of other recently over hyped MMO'S. Will it be a WoW killer? No.

[thinus]

I canceled my 5x WoW accounts and won't be re-activating for a long time if ever. 5-boxing made WoW fun again for a while but eventually you are back to the never ending gold/gear grind. Same with patches, leveling is fun and then the grind starts again.

Only playing a single WAR account for now and having lots of fun. World PvP is huge. There are basically only 2 oceanic servers now and both with large populations and lots of people are max level or closing on it so WAR is truly turning into proper war in the high level zones. There are still a lot of issues that need to be sorted out, some cheesy tactics, performance issues, itemization, etc but the roughness has its own appeal.

[thinus]

I tried out WAR when it first came out and tbh it's pretty fun. Coming from a WOTLK BETA tester this is basically how I feel about the two...

WAR is more fun than BC.

WOTLK is more fun than WAR.

What do you base this on? And if you only tried it out when it first came out I doubt you played up to 40 and even if you did there wouldn't have been enough T4 characters to truly hatch world pvp which is where WAR really shines. WAR changes when you hit T4 at the moment.


I expect WAR to make it though. I doubt it will fold like alot of other recently over hyped MMO'S. Will it be a WoW killer? No.

We will see how much of an impact WotLK has on active WAR subscribers as loads of them are ex-WoW players. Combine that with the first significant "balancing" patch for WAR that has all the vocal forum whiners up in arms and threatening cancellation makes for interesting times.

[Tdog]

What do you base this on? I base that on my personal preferences as my statement was my own personal opinion.




We will see how much of an impact WotLK has on active WAR subscribers as loads of them are ex-WoW players. Combine that with the first significant "balancing" patch for WAR that has all the vocal forum whiners up in arms and threatening cancellation makes for interesting times. Go check out the Paladin forums. I guarantee that more than 90% of those paladins threatening to quit will still be playing their paladin in wrath. People whine all the time when they don't get their way. The fact that a very large portion of WAR subscribers are former (or even current) WoW subscribers should be reason enough to not be suprised that ppl are going to bitch all the time, especially on the forums.

[thinus]

What do you base this on? I base that on my personal preferences as my statement was my own personal opinion.

What I meant was what are your reasons? Why is WotLK more fun to you than WAR?





We will see how much of an impact WotLK has on active WAR subscribers as loads of them are ex-WoW players. Combine that with the first significant "balancing" patch for WAR that has all the vocal forum whiners up in arms and threatening cancellation makes for interesting times. Go check out the Paladin forums. I guarantee that more than 90% of those paladins threatening to quit will still be playing their paladin in wrath. People whine all the time when they don't get their way. The fact that a very large portion of WAR subscribers are former (or even current) WoW subscribers should be reason enough to not be suprised that ppl are going to bitch all the time, especially on the forums.

Yeah, not surprised about it but we do have a slightly different situation here. People bitching about WAR can go back to WoW, where do people bitching about WoW go? I also think some people are just playing WAR while waiting for WotLK.