An update on where we’re at in WAR

I’d also like to add that I can’t spell…but Wolfenburg and PT are the same two servers my two guilds play on. Chaos on PT, Order on Wolfenburg. I’ve been hearing the same complaints about Wolfenburg and it is disheartening, but the news from PT keeps me hoping. (Still can’t play…)

The Ironbreaker is a rocking little class, I’m enjoying my alt a lot.

We had a RPed witch trial and witch burning in Altdorf last night (leave it to them witch hunters to find something productive to do while there’s supposed to be a war on, eh? 🙂 ). More worryingly, the chaos guys on our server had some RP going to do with a cult of Slaanesh — lets burn more witches say I. And then witch elves.

We did have some T4 open RvR but … it petered out when Order realised we were outnumbered 4:1.

Questing would be better if the mob AI wasn’t so barebones, that’s the key element for me, if just killing a mob isn’t fun, how is a Kill x mobs quest going to be?

There’s not much difference to mob types at all and I don’t think I’ve ever seen mobs heal each other. Even PQ scripting seems more about throwing Champions at you than any sort of complex behaviour.

Initial aggro is even more simplistic: You can pull individual mobs right out of groups with ranged attacks, unless they’re hard-linked (then they’re connected from miles away because no one thought to modify the wandering code with linked mobs). Runners don’t aggro similar mobs, etc.. There’s nothing special about the threat system either.

I know it’s meant primarily to be a PvP / RvR game, but the PvE feels like 8 years ago. Like someone at Mythic went ‘what’s the least we could get away with for mobs?’ or that they haven’t played other MMORPGs in awhile to realize the bar has been raised.

At first I thought 40 levels would be short, now it’s feeling silly. They could chop off at least 10 levels. Not that I’m in any kind of rush, my Squig Herder is pretty much parked while I let guildmates catch up and I play alts. But with PvE so lackluster, what’s the point in leveling this much, aside from Mythic ensuring a time investment in your character?

doh, go back and do greenskins from 17 on, the quest xp is so much faster in greenskins from 17, i have lvled 2 chars one before the xp was upped and lvling another now, and from 17 on right now greenskins is the place to be, 10 to 18k a quest.

I concur, good class choice, my highest funnest char is an Ironbreaker.

‘No RvR on Open-RvR? WTF is that all about?’

On open RvR servers, the chicken mechanic is partly turned off, so level 40s can fight in tier 3, and so on.

The obvious consequence is that no-one fights before T4, and no-one makes it to T4 unless they are not bothered by a lack of PvP, meaning even there there is a lack of RvR compared to similar population servers.

What Romble says is true, other than the obviously gear grind, there are things that become available RIGHT when you hit 40. I was really expecting some sort of epic mount, other money sinks, INDIVIDUAL rewards. People no matter how much they like/would like the game to be for them, cannot be forced to play with other people ALL the time. Even if they want to, schedules mess everything up right away. Now perhaps I am being way too critical of the game, and I really do want it to be good, but there are things that are in game that I cannot see WHY they are implemented the way they are. I don’t know if Mythic just doesn’t understand the way the players work, or if they expected something different, but WHO COMES UP WITH TOR ANROC? What is with the lack of carrots? The game is here, it’s perfectly ready, yet it’s like having a cake with a ton of VERY large air pockets. You bite in and say “Well wtf? Who thinks of these things?”

Now I respect Mythic 100%, just as I did Blizzard, but if they cannot prove within the next 6 months that they can improve WAR to be omgwtfbbq amazing, they should seriously reconsider their life.

Now I see this looks like a hate message, but try and believe me when I say I really want WAR to be good. I just think that with WoW out several years before they could have taken a bit more from it.

Mythic just announced the Witching Night event. PQs that take place in the rvr lakes. If this doesn’t stir up some open rvr, than nothing will.

I am very pleased to see how quickly Mythic has responded to our outcries. They do listen to us; they do care. And as long as they adhere to these standards, the sky is the limit for this game.

# Keen Says:
Well, the server has lost a lot of people. We’re sitll “medium-high” pop but the RvR action is severely limited because Order mostly sticks in their warcamps and queues for scenarios. *shrug* Honestly, at this point I have no idea why people won’t come out to play.

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You’ve answered your own question: “medium-high pop.” When the numbers are even there is a lot of action and it’s fun, but Order players just aren’t motivated to walk into a 1v3 meatgrinder once the oRvR-starved masses of destruction get word there’s a fight and swarm in. Then comes the forum whining about us staying in the war camps as if any player of any faction would do differently faced with zergs that have them severely outnumbered and outleveled.

It’s absurd to blame the problem on Order. That’s just typical MMO forum blather: the assumption that there is some fundamental difference in the people who play different factions that makes one side “cowardly” or whatever. The culprit here is the serious population imbalance. You can say Order need to leave warcamps just as much as I can say Destruction need to reroll Order so that we can have a fair fight for once.

My group of friends rerolled from Destruction on Bechafen to Order on Wolfenburg on the 16th when we saw the vast population imbalance on day one. Yes, Destruction looks a lot cooler and we were disappointed, but we wanted the underdog faction since we knew we’d be able to find fights that way, and it has worked.