Episode #9 of ChaosCast is now available for your listening pleasure. Brought to you by the Warhammer Online Bloggers (Keen, Snafzg, and Syp), this episode of ChaosCast dives head first into the most topical of topics on the minds of the Warhammer Community members. Mythic is back in the office after their Holiday hiatus and they’ve already begun work on several hotfixes, major changes to Fortress sieges, and more. We hope you enjoy the show!
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Show Notes/Outline
Round-table Discussion:
Open-forum of random discourse!
- Status Update – What have we been up to ingame?
- Major Fortress Siege changes
- Crowd control – Way too much? Just right? Not enough?!
- Mythic’s top 5 priorities for 2009 – What we feel Mythic should be working on next!Welcome to the Community
- http://sixmonthssubscription.blogspot.com
- http://stuntystomper.blogspot.com/
- http://warhammeraddonsreviewed.wordpress.com
- Age of Blogging update
- Greeny AwardsThe Blowhole
Our listener mail section where we take the questions YOU submitted to us on our blogs and do our best to answer them with a discussion.- Squigzog asks: “Why the bleedin’ hell doesn’t anyone know how to roleplay properly?! it seems not many people know any lore.”
- Belkoth asks: “What are your feelings on how some game mechanics restrict your ability to gain Tome unlocks? E.g., Getting the T1 Decimator set is impossible once you enter T2+, unless you somehow manage to win the loot as a chicken. Also, lairs on PvP servers. The tome also hides many related unlocks, so it isn’t always obvious what you must do next. Would you prefer a more transparent Tome?”
- Jay asks: “In trying alts on the other faction, I’ve found that the classes I most enjoyed were the mirrors of my Order characters. The DoK, SH, and Marauder just seemed to click with my playstyle. Do you find yourselves drawn to certain class mechanics like this, and how long do you give a new class before you decide whether or not to continue?”
- Warhammer42 and Vampiya ask: “WOW vs. WAR vs. AoC? How do you see these titles stacking up against each other in the next few months? years?”
- AndrewSquared asks: “Now that all the dust has settled after the combat and careers update, and we’ve all had a good amount of time to get a feel for the changes, what are your guys’ thoughts on the changes? I’m specifically interested in your thoughts on the relative power of the beefed up RDPS classes (Squig Herder, Shadow Warrior, Magus, Engineer).”
- Tilbert asks: “I’ve never been a member of a guild until I joined WAR when it was released. (he describes an apathetic guild experience) I don’t know if I expected too much based on the blogs that I read or just didn’t find a good match for a guild. The question is, what is the best way to find a guild that matches my style and expectations?”
January 9th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
this next 6 months or updates , to be perfect honoest are going to make or break war. In my community I talk with they all agree WAR is beter , they are upset it has less people. After this video update on the crashes, If we see improvements to the populairty and content ect ect. (they would be smart to fix this) we are comign back.
BTW WOW SUCKS ROCK ON WOO>!
January 9th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Excellent content here and a nice writing style too – keep up the great work!
January 10th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Hi Keen, I have a completely unrelated question: I wonder why you have not done any blogging on Aion, at least not that I can remember? Considering how fast this game is gaining popularity in Asia, and how commotion it’s crating out here in the West, having a blog focused on MMO games and industry, I don’t think you can get away from formulating and sharing an opinion on that game. Or Asian MMO games in general, for that matter, because i am sure that where conversation is bound to lead. There is always been a lot’s of negativity towards Asian MMOs from western players, all in all, when you look around a web. I think the general consensus is that these games tend to land themselves much more havier on the side of grinding as in comparison to WOWs of this world. At the same time however, I think its also fair to say that Asian MMOs have a special charm to them, specically as it relates to graphics and animation, combat animations particularly appear to have very dynamic, almost arcade feel to it. And with Aion, some of these concepts have been taken to the new level. Have you had a chance to formulate an opinion on that game? I am very interested in hearing what you have to say.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:37 am
HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS
just like i did in wow before i quit
anyway stop being so mean to AoC i may have quit it but i still had fun
January 13th, 2009 at 6:57 am
[...] Online and hopefully will fit some time to play into my busy schedule. After listening to the new ChaosCast over at Keen and Graev’s I have decided to try and level a character only by pvp/rvr. Rally [...]
January 13th, 2009 at 7:01 am
I liked this ChaosCast alot, and I linked on my little to not known blog. Trying to come up in the world. Anyway I will be patiently awaiting your next ChaosCast.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 am
ohh on side note the Big Zerg guild crashing the server on purpose did push to IC rigth ?
i guess we where able to do it with lvl r*tard because destruction where bad ?
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 am
Yeah, you guys pushed IC. But you did it with a bug. Well done.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
The Large guild you mention around 11 minutes into your pod-cast is Ruin. We joined Dark Crag looking for a Challenge. Many would want to join the winning faction on a reroll and ride coat-tails of success. We chose the path less traveled. We heard Dark Crag is the server where the big boys play and Orde was the major underdog faction. When we arrived there was nothing but a broken and demoralized Order faction. They never was able to push into a city and running with the defeatist attitude and ideas that “If we let the Destruction push into the city, we will at least have a chance at some invader gear.” Doesn’t get any more weak than that? /sigh
01/19/2009 Ruin, long time Hochland server rival with the help of some of these broken order guilds was able to breach the doors of the Inevitable City. Thats right. We went from “Let them win so we can farm some gear!” to “We can and WILLl beat them.”
Now, Dark Crag is no longer a Destruction ruled server.
…Is this the guild you feel doesn’t need your publicity? You are right, We don’t. We make our own.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
The Hochland server rival that was mentioned was “Hate” brackets erased the name.
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
@Keen
ohh tell me mister destro never happen to get that bug ? or im wrong
you still got your ass serve by ”useless” lowbie like you say
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Thank you for proving my point.
January 24th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Dude iot happen by itself destro too got that. We cant prevent it. Not our fautl we wish it wouldnt happen but it does. And tell me Since Ruin and there”useless” lowbie are there. those destruction doing soo well in T4 ? For some reason when i go on Warhammeralliance.com Forum i see alot of QQ about a mindless Zerg. Ohh dire irony