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[Rhylith]

Warhammer Online's NDA has been lifted!

Anyone have any questions?

I'll copy/paste my comments from VN rq for an idea about the game:


General thoughts on Warhammer:

It's a great game. There's a few minor annoyances that they need to fix but considering the number of positive changes they've made in the short time I've been in beta I'm sure they'll fix them. The PvE is made much better than DAOC's and WoW's by the public quest system, which allows you to hop into an repeating large-scale quest that gives outstanding item and xp rewards. It is also very easy to find a group for either pve or rvr by using the Open Group system. Basically, you can set it up to where anybody can join your groups or warbands (4 group raids) without having to actually invite them or without them having to spam looking for group for hours. This is great for when friends or guildies aren't online and you want to just hop into a group and play. I'm not sure how end-game PvE will be but what I've read sounds cool. You can also level completely off RvR if you really wanted to.

The PvP moves at a decent pace and is not the one-shot-fest of Warcraft. The classes and factions are mostly balanced with a few small exceptions, but most balance issues can be overcome with well timed morale abilities (which are powerful abilities that you can use after being in combat for a certain amount of time). It's good to have a game that lends itself to open field RvR again, as the RvR lake areas are a LOT of fun. The scenarios are pretty cool too but I prefer the open field stuff. I haven't played end-game so I'm not sure how things will be then, but I am a little worried that gear is going to play a major role, because it does make some difference in the early tiers. My one worry is that destruction will be a little too zergy, but both sides are a lot of fun and the "good guys" usually end up getting more people when the general population gets into most of these games.

Class thoughts:

First off, I think it is awesome that they found a way to make tank classes useful in RvR with their taunts, guards, and collision detection. They are outstanding at protecting healers and absorbing damage, and can still do decent damage if they switch to a 2h weapon.

The healers are a ton of fun too. Four out of the six heal classes (disciple, warrior priest, archmage, shaman) actually become more effective by weaving in dps spells or attacks with their heals, and the other 2 are there to fill the traditional heal role but are still extremely self sufficient in solo pve or rvr. I will likely be playing a healer at launch.

DPS is fun too. I love the sorceress, and white lions/magus/witch elf/bright wizard/shadow warrior/marauder are cool too. I haven't really tested out the others but I assume they are equally cool.

[Urgon]

http://war.allakhazam.com/

I haven't even begun to research the details on this game, but am looking forward to reading up on it!

Rhylith, thanks for the post! We'll be looking to you for some sage advice!
--Urgon

p.s. If I wanted to play the completely unbalanced uber-class at launch, what would that be? .... just asking....

[Lilae]

Unbalanced uber-character?? I hear that DoK and oh... whatever their counterpart on Order side are pretty damn unbeatable.

I like Witch Elf. Very much. They kick butt.

btw, Urg, we're probably going to need a WAR section!!!

[Rhylith]

They've nerfed the dmg on Disciple and Warrior Priest so they're much more in line with the other classes now. Still powerful but not OPd now.

Really everything's balanced now except for Bright Wizard and Sorceress DPS (but they're still super squishy).

[EmeryaldPhoenixx]

We will probably play both sides some, I will definately be playing elven classes. And I think the whole fam wants witchelves. lol.

[froalith]

you could probably remove the eve area as i dont think any of us play anymore. I will be picking up WAR but wont be right away i have finally found a place to live been looking since last october. i move at the end of this month so will be in about a month late just enough to lag behind the rest again.... any way hope all are well and hope to see a good group of VTers in WAR and none of them Bodycount peoples well maybe one or two we could convert guess i should be nice they have taken me in after all other vters left daoc

[EmeryaldPhoenixx]

I don't know if we can run WH or not, it runs ok on my computer but lags and crashes, ceds graphics jump, one daughters computer runs but graphics are funkky rainbow land, and other daughters laughs at us if we think of trying to run it on hers.

This is 1 Dell xps 410 and 3 dell dimension 8300s with over nvidia 5000s in 3 of them and mine has a radeion 9800 in it.

But froalith making me feel soooo loved here lol

But we trying it anyway and if it runs so be it, if not its stay with DAOC and WOW. But any who want to say hey to us in Vent can just pm me and i will give u the info of vent we in when we use it. Is our mid alliance vent. DOW.

[Soothsayor]

Hello all,

Well I went out and pre-ordered Warhammer today... I look forward to seeing how it plays.. I have basically lost interest in the repetitive-ness of the LOTRO quests.. They need to have different quest lines for different classes.. So come Sept 7 I will be switching over to WH..

Any hints as to a server we may all call home as yet, dont want start a toon on a server only to have to delete and rejoin VT again.. The life of WoW..

Looking forward to catching up..

Cheers
Sooth

[Rhylith]

They haven't released a launch server list yet.

In the preview weekend everyone from galahad apparently rolled on Red Eye Mountain but I didn't really bump into very many of them.