WAR thoughts on it.. from BETA

[geoffdavison]

So far i'm enjoying the game...

seems pretty easy to figure out quickly.. public quests are fun and a peice of cake to get involved in..

gear is easy to get.. just via quests and doing the public quests and obtaining "influence"

anyone else have thoughts or impressions?

[Dor]

Ive played for a good while now... seems a lot like wow but missing something somehow, cant really put my finger on what tho.

[daddyd302]

Are you guys in close beta? It's after midnight here, and I still can't get into open beta. I didn't order the game, but as a Fileplanet subscriber I got into the open beta. I guess it's really more like Sept 7 afternoon, and not after midnight for open beta....

[Dor]

yeh Im in closed.. dont think the server is back up for open yet least a lot of ppl crying about it on the WoW forums (go figure)

[daddyd302]

yeh Im in closed.. dont think the server is back up for open yet least a lot of ppl crying about it on the WoW forums (go figure)

That's just too funny, people on the WoW forum talking about Warhammer. Anyways as of 10 AM this morning, the beta is downloading the patch so it's good to go for all those open beta people. Downloading right now, won't get a chance to play til later today.

[geoffdavison]

If you prebought you could do the "weekend preview" the open beta is today on..

I do like how easy it is to get involved in RvR

[Dor]

yeh there are some things I really like in War.. the PQs are a nice add. the rvr areas (not lvl dependent) that kind of stuff is fun.

[Jaly]

The public quests sound nifty. I think the way the loot is distroed is anyone who meets some very low minimum threat level on the PQ will get a roll of 1-1000 at the end, the UI will automatically roll for you at the end of the quest.

The more you contribute, the more chance you have to score loot. Just being involved will net you a roll however, and my buddy on the preview weekend got #1 rank from tanking (threat level helped we beleive) and ended up getting some where of an 800 point bonus to his roll, so he rolls 14 and his total is 814, and some guy that was essentially watching the whole thing rolled 9xx, which ended up being the top roll.

I forgot to ask my buddy if the loot was BoE or BoP, but if the PQ loots are BoE, then I could see a very distinct advantage to boxing the PQ's, especially if you have an ok chance at loot.

[BobGnarly]

I'm really trying to give this game a fair shake, but while I'm playing it, all I can think of is "this is the [latest] wow killer?"

There is some cool stuff there, and I know you got to look at it as its own thing, but I just can't shake that it looks and acts just like DOAC to me, and while I liked DAOC, wow raised the bar quite a bit since its release.

I really had high hopes, too. I want to see something give Blizzard a run for their money, even though I know I'm not leaving wow any time soon. Unfortunately, I just don't think this is going to do it. I'm sure it'll do alright, but I just don't see it pulling subs away.

[DrZ]

I gave this a go this weekend as a Chosen Marauder. For whatever reason, it sunk it's hooks in me deep. The RvR combat (I never played DoAC so I just assumed it's like Battlegrounds) availible right from level 1 is awsome. It took me a bit to understand how to play, and I still don't get the whole crafting aspect side (not that I tried to get into it mind you). But soon, I was plunging myself into the enemy ranks, sowing discord with my axe and sword arm on any that stood before me. I wasn't good enough to take on 1v2, but in any 1v1 match I generally got the better of my opponent. Especially casters who think they can run .

Mabye it's because I always liked the aspect of PVP more than I do PvE. You can join the queue to the PVP scenario whenever you like when your in the respective zones that it represents. When your called to battle, you are ported there. When your done, you respawn exactly where you accepted to enter, letting you go right back to questing. There is also two repeatable quests for the scenario that I was doing. One involves killing 10 players, which is easy since in scenarios your in a group. Second is just to play the scenario. Might as well just keep doing these since it added an extra 1.3K experiance on top of whatever you got from the battle. Granted, the battles themselves were lending me around 6K exp when we won.

One thing to note about the RvR, it raises your level to (what I believe) the minimum required for that zone. For the 2 areas I was in, that level was 8, so if you came in any lower, while in the zone you were given a buff that leveled you and all your abilites to 8. (unlike WoW, your spells/abilites don't have ranks from what I can see. Instead, every level you gain increases thier power.) Once I hit lv 8, the buff no longer appeared, and lv 9 I didn't see any debuffs to mark me down. That said, the highest I have come accross is lv 10.

One more thing, Killing players is definitly the way to go leveling wise. Sure, you can do quests and whatnot and it works very well in itself, but if you can kill a player in single combat outside of scenarios, you are going to net yourself some serious XP and gear. Twice I have killed players solo, and each time it netted me over 1K exp and usually green level gear (same type of tiers in WoW, white is basic, green is uncommon, don't know what's higher).

In short, I think I will suspend my 5boxing and reseve me a copy of WAR.