WAR - Couple questions

[Biz]

So I tried out WAR during the head start program and I have a couple questions.

How long is it supposed to take to get into a scenario? I leveled to 6 being queued the entire time and I never got in. Server pop is listed as med/high.

I have an overclocked Core2duo and an 8800gt that I would think can handle the game but even on 'highest framerate' the mob and other player animations appear to be missing about half the frames. When a running creature only has like 3 animation frames something is wrong. Anyone else have this issue?

I have yet to engage in any PvP but somehow I leveled to renown rank 2. How did that happen?

Thanks!

[Sanctume]

So I tried out WAR during the head start program and I have a couple questions.

How long is it supposed to take to get into a scenario? I leveled to 6 being queued the entire time and I never got in. Server pop is listed as med/high.

I have an overclocked Core2duo and an 8800gt that I would think can handle the game but even on 'highest framerate' the mob and other player animations appear to be missing about half the frames. When a running creature only has like 3 animation frames something is wrong. Anyone else have this issue?

I have yet to engage in any PvP but somehow I leveled to renown rank 2. How did that happen?

Thanks!

I was Rank 8 last night, and only got into the scenario RvR 2 times, and then nothing for the next 4 hours even though I was in the queue. From reading other boards this morning, the Tier 1 and Tier 2 scenarios were crashing last night.

Sometime around 10:30 pm pst, I took a break from PvE questing. I rolled 2 Engineers for the heck of it, named them Locken and Load. Before I completed the starting area quests, I was able to do 2 RvR scenarios. After I logged out, it was too late for my main R9 RR8 to queue because I already bound myself in a Tier 2 area, and can't queue to Tier 2 scenario until R10.

I have a Core 2 Duo lap top with 2x Go 7950 GTX and had to disable SLI. It was clunky when I set it at High Quality. I got a better result setting at Highest Framerate. My resolution is 1920 x 1200.

My AMD 64 Dual Code 4400 desktop have 1x 7800 GT @ 1680 x 1050 loads faster than the laptop, and it's also set at Highest Framerate.

As for getting some Renown XP via PvE, there are some quest, PQ that are RvR related and give Renown xp. Even if one grinds that way, it would be slower compared to the EXP + Renown XP via scenarios. Or you can just do RvR objectives too without doing scenarios.

[Jezebel]

1: there were some crashing issues with scenarios yesterday, so they were taken offline to be fixed.
2: my secondary PC's run WAR with absolutely no lag running 2gig ram, 2gig dualcore CPU, 8600GT's (with low settings). try turning the settings down gradually and disabling useless effects such as grass and shadows.
3: you can gain renown participating in RvR areas, PQ's, etc, without directly participating in PvP.

as a little side note.. if PvE isnt your thing.. you can actually level quite quickly purely via scenarios (as long as youre on a decent population server with frequent scenarios running). i leveled 1-11 on my team with two bright wizards and two runepriests in a few hours two days ago. stand next to your scenario quest giver and just keep accepting/completing the quest. i was averaging around 8,000 experience per 10 minute scenario, plus another 700 for completing the quest. thats nearly 900 experience per minute not even including any experience you get from kills during the scenario (50-100xp per kill).

ontop of that, i easily capped out my renown each level, before i attained the next level. i was RR10 already when i hit level 11.. plus the gold is quite decent from scenarios. over 1 silver per kill per group member from equal level PvP kills, plus another silver and a bit each from completing the quest. when you hit 10 you can buy some awesome PvP gear from your faction keeps.

all in all, i was surprised that this game actually seems to live up to its promise of viable PvP leveling.

[Oatboat]

I think that most people are enjoying the open rvr more than scenarios cause on the server i was playing... the Order won like 430 out of 500 times.. so destruction just stopped que'ing. And then head to Tier 2 content where you can pvp while you lvl.

[Biz]

Hey all, thanks for the info. I haven't had much time to play lately but I'll give the suggestions a try.

[ChaoticMonk]

Do you get a free month when you buy the game (like when you buy wow)? If so then I'd like to give it a shot.

[Korruptor]

I'm pretty sure you get the standard free month.

Anyways, I find myself on my low pop server waiting around 10-15 minutes tops for joining a Chaos/Empire RvR.

[DrZ]

It seems like there is always one scenario per tier that gets all the attention while the other 2 are lacking. It makes me badly wish for an option to queue for all of a tier's respective scenarios anywhere I want as opposed to bieng in a certain area.

That said, my server is usually full with an hour waiting queue during prime time, med/med during off hours. If your in during prime time, scenario queue time is almost instantanious. Off hours it's like 10 min.

Leveling strictly through PVE is much, much slower.

[Korruptor]

I like the fact that the kill quests are brief in number, like kill 3, 4 or 5 of a given group. I haven't seen anymore then that (Chaos side).

I did pause my Zealot to see what playing a DoK is like and I enjoyed the quest where you use that ballista type of bow to sniper the approaching high-elf infantry. Once I killed the 4 the quest was complete and it kicked me off the ballista. Pity, i was enjoying it.

[Sanctume]

I like the fact that the kill quests are brief in number, like kill 3, 4 or 5 of a given group. I haven't seen anymore then that (Chaos side).

I did pause my Zealot to see what playing a DoK is like and I enjoyed the quest where you use that ballista type of bow to sniper the approaching high-elf infantry. Once I killed the 4 the quest was complete and it kicked me off the ballista. Pity, i was enjoying it.

Play a Dwarf where you need to skill 15, but your cannon does AoE.
I think it's the 2nd quest, and the cannons are just 10 feet from starting point.