plaguelands.comTrying to find my class in Warhammer Online
This selection process should be fun. I like playing alts and usually find it fun, but so far finding the one class I want to play past rank 25 is a bit annoying. Not a good sign. In a few instances I wanted to claw my eyes out and wake my spirits up. It’s not that bad but it was enough for the “this isn’t that fun” thought to enter my mind on a few occasions.
At the start of any MMOG I play a lot of different classes before settling on a main. I’ve played Chosen, Witch Hunter, and Disciple of Khaine and each one has hit at least rank 5. I’ve done the research, I understand their roles and picked what appeals to me but it doesn’t always turn out that way. Damn implementations. I’m hoping it’s still too early to gauge the final feel for each class. When will this happen? When should it happen? I was thinking around rank 15 but that’s a pretty significant time investment for each class. I like the Disciple of Khaine the most so far, but admittedly I don’t like how the movement feels or their Marilyn Manson type appearance.
Your class has to be fun to really enjoy the other areas of the game, your career or class is the catalyst to the enjoyment you experience. Player versus player hasn’t blown my mind or anything. I lose a lot and I’m tired of losing. It’s very repetitive and when your ass is getting stomped it’s actually really boring. I want to give up, and sometimes I do. I’m already sick of Nordenwatch. I don’t know if WoW battlegrounds ruined me or what but I had high hopes for Warhammer’s PvP. The only thing I really like about Warhammer’s early PvP game is the experience gain. If it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t even bother…
On a positive note the Tome of Knowledge and how everything is tied to it is the best robust game system in any MMOG. I wish WoW had it. Is it enough to keep me playing the game past the first few months? Not if I can’t find a class I like to play. It could be all the serious real-life turmoil both personal and political factoring in to my overall negativity this week. Normally these games are supposed to be an escape from all that, but it’s hard to escape. I’m going to give Warhammer a chance for a few months and see how it turns out but it’ll be competing with the 3.0.2 patch. Something I won’t pass up given my time investment and new talents!
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- 10.14.08 / 11am
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I think people really fall into two camps here. Those who liked WoW-style PvP, and those of us who hated it.
WAR really feels like DAOC for the most part - especially on the high-level open-area PvP side of things. I couldn’t stand the battlegrounds in WoW; they felt so pointless and the classes were totally unbalanced.
With respect to picking a class, I’m having the same problem, though not hating it quite as much. I’ve gotten a Warrior Priest up to 19, and then I have a White Lion, Bright Wizard and Swordmaster all sitting at 11. I think 11 is probably the lowest level you can judge decently at; you have your first morale ability and tactic; if you’ve been keeping up with renown ranks, you should have some decent green gear for the T1 scenarios; and you have a good selection of abilities. You should be able to tell the play style around there. It also doesn’t take long to get to 11, and it’s the level cap for T1 scenarios.
I would warn you that the scenarios tend to be very different from my experience in T2. Classes that owned in T1 don’t necessarily do as well in T2, and the inverse in certain cases. So don’t base your decision on the gank/zergfest that is Nordenwatch most of the time.
I think the problem I have is that I’m worried about classes not scaling to T4 / rank 40. Seems to me that hybrid classes in this game really don’t hold up at high level. You either need to be able to DPS or heal really well, and the WP does neither from what I’ve heard in T4. I could already feel it starting to happen in T2 - my heals were pretty worthless and my damage was unspectacular. I was still very hard to kill, and I can solo in PvE like a machine… but this is a PvP game. Hence my switch to the Swordmaster for the time being. Need to specialize in order to PvP properly in WAR, IMO.
Just my 2 brass coins.
People like WoW’s PvP? Burn them at the stake! I’ll bring an extra pitch for or two. Hah. I hear yah. I’m hoping the PvP improves in later tiers, but you may need to be near the level cap in each tier to really be effective. I wish they would take the raid party’s average level and scale our powers to that. A pretty complex issue and maybe stupid idea given spells and how to manage that inside the scenario. I hear good things about the Swordmaster. Do you have a blog?
Thanks for commenting.
I liked WSG as an Affliction based Warlock, that’s about it. Burn meh at teh stake!
I like all DAoC PvP.
I have yet to play WHO (not WAR lull) because I don’t want to be let down yet again. I didn’t even play AoC and thank god for that (from what I hear). I figure after a year the game should be totally awesome with no doubts.
But as for now…. BUILDIN MAH SWG EMPIYAH!
I’ve been considering getting Warhammer a lot today. Like a whole lot. I don’t think I will today, but maybe this weekend depending on how my SWG goes today.
I was wondering if you’d played any Rogue classes. I figure that this is what I would want to play because I fucking hate people, especially when I have to rely on them.
How would you feel if I /deleted my blizog? I’m for some reason leaning towards starting from scratch. I think because I feel as though I’ve embarrassed myself, though, I am almost certain my first post on a clean blog would be just a raunchy and inappropriate. I think I’m just bored.
Any diagnosis Dr. Krones?
I played the Witch Hunter, but I’m not sure if that’s a type of rogue class to be honest.I’ll hunt your ass down though! Aha, see what I did there.
How would I feel? I’d probably feel jealous. I’ve thought about doing that many times but it seems a bit nerd ragish.
If you are going with a .com I’d probably leave your other blog to die and overrun with spambots and hooker with a penis advertisments. I did just that when I moved from blogspot to plaguelands, but I had only about 10 posts on blogspot.
Delete the comment of mine before this that has yet to be posted. I bought it
Witch Elf ftw
Let me say that again, Witch Elf, ftw.
Foiled sir!!!!! what realm are you on?
Haha, I’m Destruction on Gorfang.
And yeah the Witch Hunter is basically orders version of the Witch Elf.