War

[Romans DeMalum]

If you care or are interested in Warhammer, I spent about 3 hours with it tonight.

I’m not a warhammer lore person, it doesn’t really seem overly cool to me – Although I’m sure it’s cool to some people, the story behind it all doesn’t grab me. So keep that in mind with anything I write.

The graphics are ok. A little cartoonish, but not like wow (gag!!). Some of the buffs have a pretty neat looking effect, but I wasn’t overly zowed. I like that you can dye you gear, but weird colors like pink and bright orange are off-limits.

Character creation was a little off putting. It seems you can’t be a female tank. Is that right or is like disabled or did I not see the gender key? If that really is how it is, that is dumb. I choose chaos and made what I thought was like a dread knight and got to level 4.

All the quests were the standard fare. Kill some of this, collect some of those blah blah. I did join a public quest and did it enough times to get second place. I just took my gloves reward and scrammed. It’s a neat idea (public quests) but I didn’t feel the need to see what was the first place prize. Mainly because I knew it probably would be lowbie crap that I’d out level and besides, it’s just beta anyway.

I joined Realm vs. Realm a few times. Not what I was expecting. At least at level 4 it felt like the AoC mini games. Basically you join a que and when it fills you get warped to the instance for a game of capture the flag. The actual pvp was ok. Basically it was like VG. Button mashing – With the winners being the team who can focus on one target and or not zerg back from the alter, but form up first and go back as a team.

DDO and Mount and Blade combat is light years more cool.

It has crafting, but I didn’t see any craft trainers or craft quests. I wasn’t really looking either mind you, but vs. adventure quests that were littered all over I think I would have found one craft quest at least by accident.

Maybe it will grow on me. If all the RvR stuff is warp to an instance and capture flags, I’ll be disappointed. I plan on playing on a FFA server – Maybe that will counter act the instance junk.

Overall it was ok. Yeah, just ok…..for me. I have no real interest at this point in learning the lore, reading all the quest text or exploring the land. I want max level, cool gear, PVP and a time killer until Darkfall or VG gets PVP fixes.

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[Mebble]

What you are describing are the scenarios not RvR. The scenarios are what would be WoW's battlegroudns or the minigames in Age of Conan except there are i think 16 different ones that you can play depending on what tier you're on and where you are. At level four you have a grand total of four abilities, think about any other game when you were level 4, you dont have your full skillset. More interesting skills such as heal debuffs, damage on casts etc come later on as well as tactics, morale abilities, and renown abilities.

The realm vs realm combat is all around the open world, (you'll have to get a few level higher before you'll reach your first warcamp). There are three different areas in each tier, and four different tiers also.

Certain classes cannot be both races due to the lore of worehammer such as unable to be a female chosen (which is what i think the class you're describing is) or a male witch elf. As for wanting to be max level etc, from what I understand there are 40 ranks (pve levels) and 80 renown ranks (pvp levels) whereas the pve levels wont be too much of a hassle to max, the pvp levels will take a long time to completely finish.

The crafters if you look for them, look like the career trainers and have the bullseye thingy over their heads. I've never been much of a crafter so i dont know much about it, but I did pick up some harvesting ones for more vendor fodder.

As for us, a few of us that are playing on the erkund (sp?) server at the moment and we'll find another server once open beta begins and you're welcome to join us.

[Romans DeMalum]

Oh K!

I guess that makes more sense. Thanks for clearing up the race/class thing, and yes - I was 'Chosen'.

I'm glad the RvR thing is different than what I was doing. I was pretty bummed in thinking that was all there was. I enjoy crafting so I'll have to look harder.

Is Xandor and Roxxy playing with you?

I appreciate the offer for company, and again for clearing that other stuff up. I'll see if I can track down the E server.

[Mebble]

I'm not all sure whos on right now as most people werent in preview weekend but are in open beta, I was playing with puckett earlier this morning though. But basically realm vs realm in easiest terms would be world pvp, but with objectives.

[Skaag]

Curious if XK has picked a faction they plan to roll with for this game. Our VZ community group of guilds is voting right now.

[ismaris]

order is what we're rolling, alongside the ascendency crew

[Skaag]

I think that is what Purge and PvP will be playing as well. Please post up when you guys pick a server. Maybe we can get together on the same one and reunite some people. This game is definitely designed with group pvp and working together as a faction for a common goal in mind.

[Skaag]

At the moment, Ungrim is the server we will be rolling. Keeping an eye on a few annoying guilds out there so we do not find ourselves on a server full of asshats or FeFs.

The Purge and PvP are going Order.

EDIT: Updated the server choice.

[Ulfen]

The Purge is going to be playing order on the Volkmar server. Hopefully we will see you guys there.

[Tastesicle]

Drakwald is what we'll be rolling Order on. There's a number of Ascendency folks who want to roll secondary Destruction characters on another server, one that's in the CE early access list most likely.

[Skaag]

hehe updated again. We are going to Ungrim because Volkmar got flooded and houses guilds like 4chan and other fef groups.

[Tastesicle]

Vortex for the Destruction side.