Anyone else think war is crud?

[Naysayer]

Leveling a new Squig Herder at the greenskin starting zone.

Starting camp

Stunty area - look at the fire and the detail on the orcs. Bad graphics? ROFLMAO! More like bad computer specs.

Killing me a stunty in the stunty camp

Down the road towards the next greenskin camp

Jumped on the way and this orc tank helping me out with some shield to the face.

War Maker camp. That giant sawblade actually goes up and down the tower cutting wood.

Graphics are pretty sweet. I'll grab some Realm vs Realm pics sometime later today if I have time.

[Rigz]

The default graphics were underwhelming for sure, but once you do some reading and make some tweaks, the game is clearly on another level than wow for visuals. Now art style and direction are another topic, personally I still don't care much for them, but that is subjective. One big problem I have is that some races seem to be shoddier in design graphics wise.

I started as a high elf, and thought the game models looked like shit and assumed all the races had crap design and animation. I was wrong though, check out the runepriest, the first offensive spell is actually real cool looking and has more animation in execution than wow spells.

The big change from looking average to looking awesome came from forcing the AA and AF (not supported by the game as options) through the nvidia control panel. Was like night and day.

Now I don't count that as a plus, in my opinion, a modern computer game should support options like that as a default, but my point is it is possible to make the game look real purddy.

Ohh well back to healin stunties.

[Korruptor]

Shot of my Zealot

(Very creepy, the kind of creepy I think the Forsaken should have been)

[Naysayer]

Damn zealots! So tough to kill. You guys are as hard as druids to take down .

[simpletom]

I brought the game yesterday, and my first impressions is just incredable, i dont really enjoy the style of the game too much, im far more parcial to the cartoony style of warcraft.

But theres alot of things that this game does bring in that set it aside from wow, public quests for example are just great, i had alot of fun doing the same one over and over just meeting new people and getting some really great loot drops from doing it.

The biggest difference i knowticed right away is how much more this game wants you to interact with other players, you can queue for a senario (which is basically a battleground) right from level 1, and no being level one or rank 1 as its called in war will not see you pwned at ever corner by people 9 ranks higher than you, your boosted up to rank 8, and all your spells upgrade with each level.

Battlegrounds will seem abit unbalanced, right away you know that balance isnt really going to be with this game there are some 20 different classes and each faction has their own unique 10. But saying that this game is balanced becuase its more about team work, they havent worried too much about one class has it all and can tackle everything, it depends alot more on tactics and teamwork than warcraft probably ever will.

I was very sceptical about this game and i really didnt want to like it, i hate the realistic looks in games like this, and how sluggish movements feel becuase of the realism, but it is fun to play.

Its never going to be the death of warcraft, but im hopeing that Blizzard will take alot of inspiration from WAR and impliment alot of the great ideas into the next expansion.

If your bored of the warcraft grind try this as theres nothing in it that feels like grinding, you can join battlegrounds right from level 1 when they are over you are put back right where you joined them to carry on questing, the game has its own quest helper style addon, where it will show you the areas where you will be able to complete the quest.

good game all in all

[Korruptor]

Damn zealots! So tough to kill. You guys are as hard as druids to take down .

Don't hate us just because we can run and insta-cast heal & HoT ourselves

Rune priests are the same if i'm not mistaken (mirror class).

[DrZ]

So far I'm running through Volkmar with a rank 16 chosen. Loving the game so far.

The PvP is whats selling it for me. It's a slower pace than WoW, but it's immediatly accessible and rewarding at all levels. I like the visual impact gear has on your character, and that you can color it whatever scheme you want. Also, they made (or remade?) tanking a viable option in PvP. There are several scenarios that require someone to be a flag/artifact carrier, and that means he needs to be protected. With the ability to split 50% of incoming damage on the runner to yourself (but not vice versa), collision detection, high HP/armor/toughness for survivability, snares/knockbacks, and not insignifigant DPS, I found my sweet spot. People chasing the flag carrier/runner/whatever has to deal with me when I turn around to stall them, even if it's laying down some CC.

Technicly, graphics are not to bad in my opinion, but what I don't like is that it throttles my machine even when I far exceed the recomended specs. This is regardles of visual setting. I also get the occasion CTD but it's not common and actually decreasing in frequency. Relitively smooth launch all around.

The balance of 20 classes isn't really an issue imo, as it's really 2 of each class, just with minor tweaks.

[Naysayer]

So far the crafting sucks pretty bad imo. Tried to go Talisman and scavenger, but talisman mats are way too hard to come by. You'd have to have a guild dropping loot for you in the vault in order to level this up. Anyone else have any decent luck with it or other crafting professions?

[oxxo]

So far the crafting sucks pretty bad imo. Tried to go Talisman and scavenger, but talisman mats are way too hard to come by. You'd have to have a guild dropping loot for you in the vault in order to level this up. Anyone else have any decent luck with it or other crafting professions?

Well the only other one is apothecary...
And it's supposed to be alot better.

Talisman making was only very recently added and will probably be tweaked.

[oxxo]

First the install doesnt want to give me a .exe, and the patcher doesnt want to load, so I go googlin for one that works. Finally get it patched so I run it, and it locks up about 5sec into the menus, try to get back in and it black screens me (this is on my fresh laptop aswell, not just 1 pc). After about half an hour I finally get in...

Sorry but I dont get whats so special about it, they've ripped most of it off wow (with new words yay) and the graphics look horrid. I was expecting something at least fun to look at but its just horrid and runs pretty average for what looks pretty poor.

So after about an hour of playing I go to use my hearthstone ripoff and the game just quits on me... didnt bother loading it back up after that. One of my mates hasnt bought it yet so hes buying my copy, Might try it in 6 months once things are working properly if it hasnt sunk already to the ocean floor next to Age of conan.

Queue the QQ of hyped up fanboys.... now :thumbsup:

Maybe use different language so you are taken more seriously??

WoW = PvE
WAR = PvP and very good at what wants to do.

(And WoW "stole" plenty of ideas from other games)