oh, for some reason I thought you only just created the WH a few weeks ago.
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More than 8 weeks ago.
I just haven't been talking about it in here for that long.
In the last two or three weeks I got myself that kickass city weapon and got my str to 1k, things have gotten so good I've been playing more. I used to need to get an "rpg" fix and a bit of an "action game" fix, where'd I'd want to play some action games for a while.
But WH is an action game. It's all split second skill use that means the difference between slaughtering people or dying quickly and horribly.
My played says "9 days, 43 hours, 23 min".
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Man, they must've been secretly working on this stuff for a long time if they changes are going to get rolled out onto the test server in october already.
MorningLord! What server, guilds, etcetera? I need information!
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I'm not with most of the other penny arcaders atm. I'm in my own small guild of friends on order side on Badlands. We want to keep it small so I'm not going to say I can get people in there and then have to dissapoint people later. Sorry.
I'm not in the Candymancers and I haven't seen many people in the Candymancers guild.
I think many players in this thread are on destro on Badlands.
Some also play order on iron rock and destro on iron rock.
We are kinda spread out.
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edited October 2010
Double post because it's awesome!
This isn't really new, it's just an easier to understand explanation than that giant list of random from the games day.
While the changes we’re making to ORVR represent a holistic attitude shift in our current gameplay offering within a single zone, the campaign itself won’t be changing. Players will need to unlock the zones in order and choose which zone to fight in. All zones, once contested, will begin with each Realm owning one Keep, and the purpose is to take control of the other. The purpose is for players to fight over the Battlefield Objectives, generating Resource Carriers that will travel from the battlefield objective to their Warcamp. Once the resources reach the Warcamp, or if the other side intercepts the resource, those resources will be added to their Realm total. No longer will the win condition be based on waiting out timers after a quick capture of all the zone objectives, instead it will be based on a push-and-pull of resources, and even if one Realm is outnumbered, the longer they hold out the battle, the more points they earn for their side.
Resources gained will level your Keep, and at each level you will unlock mechanics that will help you in your effort to take down the enemy’s Keep. At Rank one, your Resource Carriers will become armored, and at Rank two they will become mounted. By Keep Rank three, you will be granted offensive siege, which will be limited now but extremely powerful. The new vision of siege is that it can really help turn the tide of battle, and as such we want to allow more freedom in placement, so they will be able to be placed anywhere around the keep. Rank four grants you the ram, more siege, and aerial bombers. The ram will be required to take down the outer door, which must happen before taking down the inner door, and then eventually capturing the Keep flag (goodbye Keep Lords!) The aerial bombers is one example of a strategy we’re opening up to melee classes, who no longer will be forced (or able) to “grind” the keep door. Now they all can take the battle inside the keep before the door is down, to help employ new tactics in the attack and defense. Finally, Rank five will offer more aerial bombers and siege, and will hopefully cinch the battle for one side or the other.
These are pretty significant changes to the game, however we’re confident that they will create many new exciting experiences in Open RVR, including, among other things, spreading out the more populated Realm, giving the less populated side new tactics to employ.
At some point during the campaign, players will also be able to take control of Skaven classes. We are bringing four beloved Skaven archetypes to the game, and players will be able to choose to control a Skaven troop instead of play their normal character (but only if they’ve earned them!) These classes include the defensive constructible building Warlock Engineer, the stealthy sabotaging Gutter Runner, the tank, rat-hurling Rat Ogre, and the supportive rat-harnassing Packmaster. Skaven are some of the coolest creatures in Warhammer lore, and we think you’ll have a real dilemma on your hands as you decide to fight alongside your trusty character(s) or harnass the sneaky power of the rat rat thing thing.
Looking forward to this.
You can't just zerg four points and win with this. You need to watch out for gank squads raping your resource carriers because then they can sneakily steal all your resources and upgrade their keep.
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I'm also looking forward to these changes. I'm really bored of the current RvR campaign rules. It really sucks when one side dominates all BOs and Keeps in a region, killed a bunch of enemies but we still need to sit around waiting for Skirmish and Scenario VPs. I hate that!
Yeah, those new rules should spread the zerg around the map, making for some interesting fights!
I'm also looking forward to these changes. I'm really bored of the current RvR campaign rules. It really sucks when one side dominates all BOs and Keeps in a region, killed a bunch of enemies but we still need to sit around waiting for Skirmish and Scenario VPs. I hate that!
Yeah, those new rules should spread the zerg around the map, making for some interesting fights!
I eagerly look forward to airdropping into keeps with organized groups. Finally something to do besides run a ram.
I started back up. Moved my Ironbreaker to Iron Rock and my Shaman to Gorfang (?). Both are only mid-teens as I just couldn't get into the game when it came out. I liked some of it, but the performance problems and some bugs kept me from really enjoying it
Played a Rune Priest during some Tier 1 scenarios last night. Had a really good time.
I have no idea how open RvR is, but is there actually Open RvR in Tier 1 and 2 on either of those servers?
If anyone knows of a good guild, let me know. I'd like a more casual, fun atmosphere with some folks that are patient with basically a new player.
I'm not with most of the other penny arcaders atm. I'm in my own small guild of friends on order side on Badlands. We want to keep it small so I'm not going to say I can get people in there and then have to dissapoint people later. Sorry.
I'm not in the Candymancers and I haven't seen many people in the Candymancers guild.
I think I'm one of the few people who've logged in with characters in Candy lately. And apparently I don't have any sort of invite privs.
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I'm back on badlands in the Candymancers, and I'm also the "Candyman" (leader of the guild, somehow...) again, so I can invite anyone who needs it. PMA, let me know what char you're on and I'll set you up with permissions as well. The old candy forums are still up and running (they were never taken down), so feel free to post there as well if anyone wants.
I'm back on badlands in the Candymancers, and I'm also the "Candyman" (leader of the guild, somehow...) again, so I can invite anyone who needs it. PMA, let me know what char you're on and I'll set you up with permissions as well. The old candy forums are still up and running (they were never taken down), so feel free to post there as well if anyone wants.
Oh sweet, just saw this. Nevermind then!
Also heya Wolvesight
Couldn't remember if I gave Candyman back to or not :P
nah, some other guy had it when I first logged on. I was the 2nd rank though, so it probably defaulted to me since he hadn't been on in a while either. Permissions "should" be fixed so people can invite if need-be (someone had done some messing around with them).
It's been an interesting experience coming back so far.
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edited October 2010
rr 50!
Now I've got burn away lies, punish the false (-50% incoming heal debuff), seal of destruction (all attacks ignore 50% of opponents armor for 10 seconds), pistol whip and the +50% to damage tactic all at once.
Seal of destruction is so fucking sexy. I love it.
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So Squig Herders are fun, and by fun I mean hilarious as I take out a WH and a knobs and laugh as I take my emblems and move on.
Was wondering if this gets even more ludicrous in higher tiers- I'm currently in t2, or if it gets tone downed with other class abilities etc.
In late T3 it felt like I could break small sieges on a keep by myself. It's still hilariously fun. Just starting T4 with him sometime soon, so I don't know about that yet.
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edited October 2010
Nope. They're still the best ranged dps in the game with the best utility all the way until the end of t4.
Although at the start of t4 you will be squished in .0005 of a second. You gotta wait until you gear up before you get back to where you were survivability wise.
I speak as a WH who can smash a new 40 sh within a couple of cooldowns and can't even touch the higher ranked sh. In fact they scare me so much I stealth away from them.
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We need a TV series staring Morning called Pimp My Witch Hunter.
I'd link my character profile, but apparently Realm War can't find them for some reason. What I really need is a new sword, still using the green.. Vanguard?... one from the vendor. Finished off the Empire epic weapon quest this morning and ended up going with the pistol with the on-hit chance for a armor debuff.
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edited October 2010
My only suggestion for you is to go for scenario weapons and try to get stage 2 purple bags in city runs.
Stage 1 major bags also drop a decent 53 dps sword.
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I'd think the LoTD scarab weapons would make a decent holdover at least. Doing the WC quest and then a pq or two would start bringing them in pretty quick.
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edited October 2010
Yeah.
I'm too lazy to keep farming the scarabs. I've already got all my conq and the melee cloak/jewellery set so I don't bother with the wc or go to lotd much anymore.
You do want to grab yourself the strength + melee power ring from the armor vendor in lotd for 2 silver ankhs and some golden scarabs. It's got str and melee power on it. This is in addition to the ring you need for the melee power cloak.
I am kind of toying with the idea of being an ass and buying myself a sword and a few talismans to go with it, and getting a small stock of undefendable ones. Mainly for the annoying premades we go up against which roll around in those. There's a bunch of ex-korean/asian guilds that merged with badlands and they have shit like World Boss weapons, LotD weapons n shit and I know for a fact that some of their most hurty dps use undefendable talis. It'd be nice to give them some of their own medicine.
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All the melee power on the items isn't showing. Nor are the procs n set bonuses. This thing is really only good for showing the names of things.
I really want a better main hand.
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Man, I know what guilds you're talking about there. I see a bunch of them rolling around IC every now and then. Crazy sov and weapon sets, but they have terrible taste in appearance items and dye :P
I did luck out once and get to surf one of their premades for a round. Their blorc was putting out ridiculous damage. He was full off-sov with the world boss 2-hander. I just slapped guard on, and let him do the work. It was retarded how quickly things died, and our health bars never moved thanks to their doks.
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edited October 2010
We went up against a full city full of them. They had 9 chosen and a few blorcs. It was like a wall of steel smashing into the order side. There was nothing any of us could do.
The funniest thing is that the times I catch one of these guys by himself, like the Aluba Shrimp marauder I caught lagging behind his group, I annihilate them in seconds. Many of them are not very good at solo play and without guards. some of them actually keyboard turn. Which is just...what.
Their healers and squishy dps tend to be really alert though. And there are definitely some dudes in there who are just great. I see some of their tanks guard swapping and other skilled group play. They all listen to their healers and come back to protect them as well, so it's impossible to do anything to them. It's kind of creepy actually: the melee swarm will turn and come at you just like a flock of birds turning in the air, all at once.
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I think my worst/most hilarious adventure was when I first met the engy multiboxer.
It was a nice afternoon in praag, just riding around looking to catch up to the zerg, when I see an engy ahead. "Oh nice, an easy kill!"
Needless to say I didn't realize it was 5 engy's stacked on top of eachother until my status bar lit up with signal flares and grenades
It was pretty funny last week ending up in a city siege with both him and the SW multi-boxer at the same time. We got rocked hard on stage 1 and stage 2, but in stage 3 they just couldn't position far enough away and we demolished them.
I think my worst/most hilarious adventure was when I first met the engy multiboxer.
It was a nice afternoon in praag, just riding around looking to catch up to the zerg, when I see an engy ahead. "Oh nice, an easy kill!"
Needless to say I didn't realize it was 5 engy's stacked on top of eachother until my status bar lit up with signal flares and grenades
It was pretty funny last week ending up in a city siege with both him and the SW multi-boxer at the same time. We got rocked hard on stage 1 and stage 2, but in stage 3 they just couldn't position far enough away and we demolished them.
Yea I know that engy, funny story if you knock back one or knock down one he ceases to work and you get mad renown from him.
I hate that Engie and that Shadow Warrior guy. I've lost a couple city instances with them when we were able to get 3 full teams of our guild in one instance and the 4th team was that Engie Army. They all die instantly at first enemy contact... So it was like playing the instance with a team short.
Okay, since you can only transfer a character once, I'm looking to just start fresh and find a server that is somewhat balanced and has a decent population. Badlands, I hear, is lagging badly due to prime time overpopulation.
Iron Rock, where I sent my level 15 Order characters, is pretty dead, even during prime time. Is there a happy medium server? If not for the Open RVR aspect, I would go to a server that's unbalanced terrible as the underdog, but I'd rather not do that in an Open PVP game (was great being the underdog in WoW, because hey, quick queues for WSG and AB and world PVP was rare to find on RPing servers), because it's not fun to get constantly zerged. I'd settle with being a slight underdog, but not a big one.
Bonus if there are some decent medium roleplay guilds on there.
The server forums on Mythic's site are less than helpful. Anyone have advice?
Adding the average daily population of the 3 other servers, doesn't add up to Badlands numbers. Since this game is so based in its RvR mechanics, you need a lot of people to fight with and the numbers on the other servers I just don't think it supports that well.
Badlands had 2 weeks of bad lag, but recently, I haven't had many issues. I wouldn't play anywhere else and if it becomes unplayable, I'd just quit the game until they get it fixed. But that's just me.
How is faction balance and EST timezone activity on Iron Rock and Badlands nowadays? I read the last few pages and it sounds likes this game might be interesting to play again but I sure as hell don't want to have hour long stretches where I'm basically capturing empty BO's and Keeps like when I used to play.
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I've been 40 for a while.
I only have one subject this semester, so being a part time student I have a lot of free time.
I don't play anywhere near as much as some other people I know.
I just haven't been talking about it in here for that long.
In the last two or three weeks I got myself that kickass city weapon and got my str to 1k, things have gotten so good I've been playing more. I used to need to get an "rpg" fix and a bit of an "action game" fix, where'd I'd want to play some action games for a while.
But WH is an action game. It's all split second skill use that means the difference between slaughtering people or dying quickly and horribly.
My played says "9 days, 43 hours, 23 min".
BOs now send carriers to the warcamp, which help upgrade keeps.
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I'm not in the Candymancers and I haven't seen many people in the Candymancers guild.
I think many players in this thread are on destro on Badlands.
Some also play order on iron rock and destro on iron rock.
We are kinda spread out.
This isn't really new, it's just an easier to understand explanation than that giant list of random from the games day.
Looking forward to this.
You can't just zerg four points and win with this. You need to watch out for gank squads raping your resource carriers because then they can sneakily steal all your resources and upgrade their keep.
Yeah, those new rules should spread the zerg around the map, making for some interesting fights!
I eagerly look forward to airdropping into keeps with organized groups. Finally something to do besides run a ram.
Played a Rune Priest during some Tier 1 scenarios last night. Had a really good time.
I have no idea how open RvR is, but is there actually Open RvR in Tier 1 and 2 on either of those servers?
If anyone knows of a good guild, let me know. I'd like a more casual, fun atmosphere with some folks that are patient with basically a new player.
I think I'm one of the few people who've logged in with characters in Candy lately. And apparently I don't have any sort of invite privs.
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My blorc no longer feels downright impotent with a one-hander :P
Well worth the grind.
The armor debuff is around 35% (1500).
I can keel gud.
2 bubbles from rr 50.
He literally popped out of stealth, pistol whipped me down, and burnt me to zero within 20 seconds. It was painful to say the least.
Oh sweet, just saw this. Nevermind then!
Also heya Wolvesight
Couldn't remember if I gave Candyman back to or not :P
nah, some other guy had it when I first logged on. I was the 2nd rank though, so it probably defaulted to me since he hadn't been on in a while either. Permissions "should" be fixed so people can invite if need-be (someone had done some messing around with them).
It's been an interesting experience coming back so far.
Now I've got burn away lies, punish the false (-50% incoming heal debuff), seal of destruction (all attacks ignore 50% of opponents armor for 10 seconds), pistol whip and the +50% to damage tactic all at once.
Seal of destruction is so fucking sexy. I love it.
Was wondering if this gets even more ludicrous in higher tiers- I'm currently in t2, or if it gets tone downed with other class abilities etc.
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In late T3 it felt like I could break small sieges on a keep by myself. It's still hilariously fun. Just starting T4 with him sometime soon, so I don't know about that yet.
Although at the start of t4 you will be squished in .0005 of a second. You gotta wait until you gear up before you get back to where you were survivability wise.
I speak as a WH who can smash a new 40 sh within a couple of cooldowns and can't even touch the higher ranked sh. In fact they scare me so much I stealth away from them.
I'd link my character profile, but apparently Realm War can't find them for some reason. What I really need is a new sword, still using the green.. Vanguard?... one from the vendor. Finished off the Empire epic weapon quest this morning and ended up going with the pistol with the on-hit chance for a armor debuff.
EDIT: Oh, wait, there I am.
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Stage 1 major bags also drop a decent 53 dps sword.
I'm too lazy to keep farming the scarabs. I've already got all my conq and the melee cloak/jewellery set so I don't bother with the wc or go to lotd much anymore.
You do want to grab yourself the strength + melee power ring from the armor vendor in lotd for 2 silver ankhs and some golden scarabs. It's got str and melee power on it. This is in addition to the ring you need for the melee power cloak.
I am kind of toying with the idea of being an ass and buying myself a sword and a few talismans to go with it, and getting a small stock of undefendable ones. Mainly for the annoying premades we go up against which roll around in those. There's a bunch of ex-korean/asian guilds that merged with badlands and they have shit like World Boss weapons, LotD weapons n shit and I know for a fact that some of their most hurty dps use undefendable talis. It'd be nice to give them some of their own medicine.
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All the melee power on the items isn't showing. Nor are the procs n set bonuses. This thing is really only good for showing the names of things.
I really want a better main hand.
I did luck out once and get to surf one of their premades for a round. Their blorc was putting out ridiculous damage. He was full off-sov with the world boss 2-hander. I just slapped guard on, and let him do the work. It was retarded how quickly things died, and our health bars never moved thanks to their doks.
The funniest thing is that the times I catch one of these guys by himself, like the Aluba Shrimp marauder I caught lagging behind his group, I annihilate them in seconds. Many of them are not very good at solo play and without guards. some of them actually keyboard turn. Which is just...what.
Their healers and squishy dps tend to be really alert though. And there are definitely some dudes in there who are just great. I see some of their tanks guard swapping and other skilled group play. They all listen to their healers and come back to protect them as well, so it's impossible to do anything to them. It's kind of creepy actually: the melee swarm will turn and come at you just like a flock of birds turning in the air, all at once.
I think my worst/most hilarious adventure was when I first met the engy multiboxer.
It was a nice afternoon in praag, just riding around looking to catch up to the zerg, when I see an engy ahead. "Oh nice, an easy kill!"
Needless to say I didn't realize it was 5 engy's stacked on top of eachother until my status bar lit up with signal flares and grenades
It was pretty funny last week ending up in a city siege with both him and the SW multi-boxer at the same time. We got rocked hard on stage 1 and stage 2, but in stage 3 they just couldn't position far enough away and we demolished them.
Yea I know that engy, funny story if you knock back one or knock down one he ceases to work and you get mad renown from him.
Best solo renown farm in praag ever.
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Iron Rock, where I sent my level 15 Order characters, is pretty dead, even during prime time. Is there a happy medium server? If not for the Open RVR aspect, I would go to a server that's unbalanced terrible as the underdog, but I'd rather not do that in an Open PVP game (was great being the underdog in WoW, because hey, quick queues for WSG and AB and world PVP was rare to find on RPing servers), because it's not fun to get constantly zerged. I'd settle with being a slight underdog, but not a big one.
Bonus if there are some decent medium roleplay guilds on there.
The server forums on Mythic's site are less than helpful. Anyone have advice?
Adding the average daily population of the 3 other servers, doesn't add up to Badlands numbers. Since this game is so based in its RvR mechanics, you need a lot of people to fight with and the numbers on the other servers I just don't think it supports that well.
Badlands had 2 weeks of bad lag, but recently, I haven't had many issues. I wouldn't play anywhere else and if it becomes unplayable, I'd just quit the game until they get it fixed. But that's just me.
The lag to the Euro servers is surprisingly not that bad either. I was pretty happy about that as they're quite rocking.
As for roleplaying....you're probably not gonna find much more than people with the annoying greenskin speech mod, and shouting "Waaaaaagh!."