Improvements to WAR since the Preview Weekend

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As of less than 10 minutes from the time of sitting down to write this, Mark Jacobs gave the community an update to the update of the WAR Preview Weekend.  He gives a list of 10 things they have improved, changed, or tweaked and a bit of info.  Here are the points and my thoughts:

1.  Significantly improved NPC Pathing – Hallelujah.  Patch 3.3 really botched this up good and made the game really unenjoyable when you would attack a mob and it just sits there until half HP.

2.  Improved pet commands and responsiveness – You mean my pet will actually work?  Only one word for this.. Booya!  Squig Herders might actually be worth a darn now.

3.  Fixed an issue with texture blurring – One of my biggest peeves that I have not spoken at all about.  The textures blur and look awful lately.   It was like looking at some things through foggy glass.  Now if only they could fix texture popping.

4.  Enhanced Global Cooldown Mechanic – This is probably what made a lot of people consider the game to be unresponsive.  It took some getting used to, like most new mmorpgs do, but I guess they wanted it tighter so tighter it is!

5.  Continuing improving client stability – Anything is better than crashing multiple times an hour.  The CTD’s in 3.3 were getting really, really old.

6.  Added New graphics settings – I can’t wait to log in and test these asap.  I want to see how far I can crank those settings up.  I’m actually more excited about this than the pathing.

7.  Target nearest target improved – This will make Graev happy.  The target nearest target was borked pretty badly and was worse than most tab-targeting out there.  Although it will never be as good as clicking a target with precision, it will be hopefully be decent now.

8.  Renown gear changes and potion potency increased – Hopefully they made it so that you can’t take RR6 gear down into Tier 1.  Potion potency increases should make alchemy worth it.

9.  Increased bonus for earning medals in PQ’s – Good!  This should address my issues with winning PQ’s not meaning much when you factor in the random roll.

10.  More loot bags for Tier 1 – Another booya!  When you have 50+ people fighting for loot in a PQ and only 3 getting something.. yeah, that sucked.  Hopefully it’s the top 10 now.  I’ll test this and report.

Some good fixes in here and some good ones on the way.  *cough* Let’s see some balance tweaks!

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  • Still no word on talismans? On the preview weekend, I saw “enhancement slots” in certain gear. Were those reserved for talismans or something else? If they were for talismans then apparently only certain gear can utilized talismans.

  • I read that Mythic has made some changes to Renown gear. Time will tell if this is in response to the class balance issues.

  • At first glance I thought you were quoting Mark and then I got to the part where you mentioned Graev. I was like – holy (!), Mark is talking about Graev being happy?!

    Thanks for the link. I really really admire how Mythic is handling Community Relations. They are very upfront, proactive and the people who are doing the speaking are the ones empowered to make changes.

  • Number 9 was the only thing I wrote any feedback about in game. Clearly they take my opinions very srsly.

  • Was online in the test weekend but if you could post some high res screen shots of the new graphic options on full. I would be thankful.

  • “Oh, and there’s still no such thing as a miracle patch so don’t expect one here.”

    Mark Jacobs, you sir, you win the internets.

  • Sounds great, cannot wait to see how it turns out. get us some pics if you can. I got tired of DL updates and after doing a fresh OS install this weekend, I couldn’t bear to go thru another 9GB lol.

  • In beta weekend I never found where to get renown gear at, was it there and I was blind? The merchants only sold apothecary items and I couldn’t figure how to combine the items to create potions. These issues caused me to become a pawner and collected 9 gold by rank 12.

  • I Lol’d at the miracle patch reference. 😛

    @Andrew: You buy renown gear in Warcamps in T1, Keeps in T2, T3, and T4. Then the best renown gear in the game is in the capital cities.