I really enjoy PvP and I rolled a squig herder when release came and I just didn't click with the game I guess.
I'm going to give it another go, and want to choose something I can have fun with, meaning, something strong, or at least middle of the road.
I really enjoy PvP and I rolled a squig herder when release came and I just didn't click with the game I guess.
I'm going to give it another go, and want to choose something I can have fun with, meaning, something strong, or at least middle of the road.
Well balanced is a dayto day thing depending on who whines the msot. Now strong.....that we can help with.
Disciple of Khaine that a Sacrifice spec heal the group a decent and make you a one man killing machine that can take on Champions and such a few levels higher solo. http://discipleofkhaine.wikispaces.com/
Tanks I don't knwo much about. Blackguards are pretty meh though, they got overnerfed in beta.
If you don't want to heal at all with a DoK and have good damage, Choppas or Marauders are the way to go. Witch Elves are good, but you need a healer or the patience in knowing you will die all the time. On the other end, if you don't want to heal in the thick of things, go Zealot for now. I had a Shaman and got him to 40, he was a pain to level when I was solo, and the heals were very underwhelming and didn't get much of any bonus from stats. It was smarter to go the damage path or Da Green for utility.
Just got done with the worst Pheonix Gate ever. Less than five minutes in, both teams have captured eachothers flag, and Order expoits ours up into their spawn. Neat! So we farm the shit out of them outside their spawn until around seven minutes left and I end up with the flag. Three minutes left, we abruptly go from farming them to packing our shit and running, but no one remembered to heal the flag carrier. So they kill me and win.
Just got my Bright Wizard to 10 on the Trial and I have my Ironbreaker at 6. This game is a hell of alot of fun, but, I don't think I'm gonna subscribe. I had a horrible framerate during the Beta and this was progressed to only semi-decent, all this on the Fastest Framerate setting.
I think it's time to upgrade the ole' rig but I just don't have the money and probably won't for awhile. Ugh. I am really tempted to buy the game anyways though, even with the problems I'm having it is still excellent.
Just got my Bright Wizard to 10 on the Trial and I have my Ironbreaker at 6. This game is a hell of alot of fun, but, I don't think I'm gonna subscribe. I had a horrible framerate during the Beta and this was progressed to only semi-decent, all this on the Fastest Framerate setting.
I think it's time to upgrade the ole' rig but I just don't have the money and probably won't for awhile. Ugh. I am really tempted to buy the game anyways though, even with the problems I'm having it is still excellent.
Try after tomorrow, by all accounts on the test server, 1.2 seems to be improving performance a fair bit.
My favorite memories of Phoenix Gate have been as a white lion, on the repeater ballista that is accessible from the spawn point. Just run over to it, summon my kitty, sic my kitty on a shaman or something, and then mount the repeater and just pew pew pew. Get off the gun every now and again to respawn my kitty, and keep it on defensive so it'll start attacking something that I've hit if its current target dies or whatnot.
Just about guaranteed top damage every time, and a great way to disrupt casters, hold up fleeing opponents, and generally just throw a wrench into an otherwise threatening charge. I really wish there were more siege weapons in higher tier scenarios.
do we know what the objectives of the live event are?
More importantly, will they be doable by someone who has no characters past level 9? (just finished a free trial and subscribed the other day, whee!)
And from what I hear you have to do this if you want to play a Slayer or Choppa for a while, confirm/deny?
Yeah, you can unlock the classes via the event so that you can play them next week (starting the tenth, I believe), while those who do not unlock the classes through the event will have to wait until the week after (the 17th, I believe).
No clue about whether a level 9 can manage the unlock, but if it's like the Heavy Metal live event (that allowed people to unlock the Knights of the Blazing Sun and Black Guard classes early), then yeah, you should be able to manage it. You'll just need to log in each day and complete that day's event objective. In Heavy Metal, it was stuff like doing something specific in the event's scenario, or complete all three stages of a public quest.
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Is anyone else having the patch download run really slow?
It's taking me 30 seconds to download 100kb.
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do we know what the objectives of the live event are?
More importantly, will they be doable by someone who has no characters past level 9? (just finished a free trial and subscribed the other day, whee!)
And from what I hear you have to do this if you want to play a Slayer or Choppa for a while, confirm/deny?
Yeah, you can unlock the classes via the event so that you can play them next week (starting the tenth, I believe), while those who do not unlock the classes through the event will have to wait until the week after (the 17th, I believe).
No clue about whether a level 9 can manage the unlock, but if it's like the Heavy Metal live event (that allowed people to unlock the Knights of the Blazing Sun and Black Guard classes early), then yeah, you should be able to manage it. You'll just need to log in each day and complete that day's event objective. In Heavy Metal, it was stuff like doing something specific in the event's scenario, or complete all three stages of a public quest.
As a note: You have to complete all of the tasks on the same character to get the Slayer/Choppa unlock. But once that is unlocked, it is for your account no matter which faction or server you play on.
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FFS this patch will take all day at this rate. I've never had it be this slow.
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it's just taking a long time because so many people are preloading 1.2
just leave the patcher up overnight and you won't have to deal with it when the servers are back up after 1.2 goes live tomorrow
Alright, I've got a 9600GT, 2Gb of ram and a 5000+ Dual Core cpu. I was running at 1024x768 on medium settings and I used to get 20-30 fps in just regular old running around the T1 zones. RvR was.. rather difficult.
Which is kinda why I didn't bother with it after the first month.
If I decide to resubscribe does anyone have any clue how to make it run better? Or will I have to get more ram or a new video card?
Alright, I've got a 9600GT, 2Gb of ram and a 5000+ Dual Core cpu. I was running at 1024x768 on medium settings and I used to get 20-30 fps in just regular old running around the T1 zones. RvR was.. rather difficult.
Which is kinda why I didn't bother with it after the first month.
If I decide to resubscribe does anyone have any clue how to make it run better? Or will I have to get more ram or a new video card?
Are you sure you're not having your video card settings force a massive amount of AA or something? I ran high at 8800gt, 1.8 gig dual core athalon, xp, 2gb ram, and a pretty shitty HDD no problem.
On that note. I resubbed and rerolled a Witch Hunter on Badlands. Name of Cession. I took a DoK to 37 and still like it, but the stealth class is how I want to play right now. I'll be in the Candymancers channel and I look forward to grouping!
I don't think I was. I hope I can get everything to run smoothly when I resubscribe. The game I enjoyed.
The frame rate was the only thing that made me sad.
Alright, I've got a 9600GT, 2Gb of ram and a 5000+ Dual Core cpu. I was running at 1024x768 on medium settings and I used to get 20-30 fps in just regular old running around the T1 zones. RvR was.. rather difficult.
Which is kinda why I didn't bother with it after the first month.
If I decide to resubscribe does anyone have any clue how to make it run better? Or will I have to get more ram or a new video card?
Are you sure you're not having your video card settings force a massive amount of AA or something? I ran high at 8800gt, 1.8 gig dual core athalon, xp, 2gb ram, and a pretty shitty HDD no problem.
Really? 8800GT, 1.8 C2D, 2GB RAM with a Raptor drive and I pretty much turn the thing to Best Framerate for RVR, because otherwise it drops into "ah fucking hell I can't even click-select mobile targets any more gngngngngn". And yes, I do have the latest drivers, and I do have the drive defragmented.
I only run the thing with the details on for PVE.
any of you chaps with 1.2 up (us european types have to wait till thu i think) able to tell me what the rewards are for the event (titles, trophies, trinkets etc). i'm out of the country on business next week so the headstart is a bit meaningless. i would like to know whether it'll be worth some focussed inf grinding anyway this weekend though....
I have to agree on the leveling at through PvE. At no point should I have have to hop into one of the other pairings. Not once. Ever. If you're going to tell a story through all these quests and PQ's, don't make me hit the pause button and pick it up days later becasue you still ahven't got the scaling of the XP right. I'm on my 4th guy now and I am sick to death of having to hop back and forth over and over.
From the first moment to the last quest in Ch 22, I should have gained somewhere between 35-38 levels in that single pairing, leaving the rest to RvR. Now I only say this since puggers are usually terribad and at least right now we have no TSM guilds running on either server, otherwise we can add in more XP from RvR.
(Plus there's the fact that elfland by and large sucks for quest placement, and because it's elfland. So that means 2 pairings back and forth over and over)
You actually don't need to switch pairings. You need to switch pairings only if you're doing nothing but the quest grind.
However if you mix in maxing the occasional kill collector, PQs (admittedly hard to do without a dedicated group), actually working on maxing out various chapter influence bars for gear, the odd tome unlock hunt, exploring various locales beyond just snagging quest mobs/items etc. it's actually fairly easy to level in just one pairing.
I'll agree it's annoying to have to swap for pure quest grinding but then that's why I stopped doing pure quest grinding after doing it to level my first 40 :P
Yeah, but maxing out PQ chapters is a pain in the ass if there's no-one around. I really don't want to do the same PQ more than once, but unless you have a full group steamrolling the place you pretty much have to. And I haven't seen people just spontaneously doing PQs since early T2.
Also, making an alt and doing a T1 PQ? Good god, compared to late T3 the influence is just rolling in. I solo'd stage one of a Hard, then solo'd the full Easy one and bam, epic.
Yeah, but maxing out PQ chapters is a pain in the ass if there's no-one around. I really don't want to do the same PQ more than once, but unless you have a full group steamrolling the place you pretty much have to. And I haven't seen people just spontaneously doing PQs since early T2.
Also, making an alt and doing a T1 PQ? Good god, compared to late T3 the influence is just rolling in. I solo'd stage one of a Hard, then solo'd the full Easy one and bam, epic.
The above is why I said the below. ;-)
"PQs (admittedly hard to do without a dedicated group)"
But yeah the difference in inf gain is huge as you get up there in level. I remember when I was still pretty new to the game I solo'd a normal PQ on my chosen and was all "cool, it takes a long time but you can solo them if you can't find a group!" Then I got out of T1 :P
Really though I tend to farm my Devastator while still in low T3 and then Annihilator while in low T4 so I usually avoid inf farming outside of if we have a guild group running PQs or something.
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it's just taking a long time because so many people are preloading 1.2
just leave the patcher up overnight and you won't have to deal with it when the servers are back up after 1.2 goes live tomorrow
I tried leaving it up for several hours but it errored out on me. So I'm leaving it for now.
edit: Whoops it just finished in like five minutes. I randomly started it again spurred by this post. Lawl.
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I wish they'd stick more blue bags into keep takes. "Oh, you had 40 people? Well, 3 will get golden bags, 6 will get green bags and the rest can go cry home to mommy." Or at least, stick all the possible lower rewards into the higher ones, so getting a gold bag twice is actually worthwhile.
I wish they'd stick more blue bags into keep takes. "Oh, you had 40 people? Well, 3 will get golden bags, 6 will get green bags and the rest can go cry home to mommy." Or at least, stick all the possible lower rewards into the higher ones, so getting a gold bag twice is actually worthwhile.
Eh, I've never seen anything out of a keep bag that I'd want other than set pieces.
I mean, I've taken plenty of vials and I expect I'll be taking some shards but as far as the random armor pirces- meh.
Rizzi, don't run on medium. Turn the settings to "fastest framerate" as you won't see a huge difference really, turn off grass, water, and the specular lighting stuff (both options) and set your spell effects to "all." You should get a fairly decent framerate without losing too much on the game. Now, this was before 1.2, so expect that it should run even better after you patch.
I don't do keeps for gold bags anyway, so if I get one I consider it a bonus. Although so far I've managed to get gold bags for most of my characters in t2.
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I wish they'd stick more blue bags into keep takes. "Oh, you had 40 people? Well, 3 will get golden bags, 6 will get green bags and the rest can go cry home to mommy." Or at least, stick all the possible lower rewards into the higher ones, so getting a gold bag twice is actually worthwhile.
This is especially infuriating to me, since I pretty much only do keep raids, and to date, since release, i've only gotten one fucking bag despite taking out about eight keeps a day. And it was a green, too.
It's gotten so bad that i'm starting to think that there's something up with their number gen, since half the time I barely get above a natural 100 on my roll. Hell, last time I was in a raid that took a keep I got a fucking five on my natural roll. That one actually caused me to quit doing keep raids, since aside from the comparably small exp/reknown bonuses, I wasn't getting anything out of it.
Considering how frustrating keep raids can be what with all the exploiting and glitch abuse, I could spend my time better by doing scenario's and leveling up to the max tier where people who regularly do shit like that can at least be blacklisted, and can't just reroll and re-level to the tier as easily to avoid being labeled as a bug abuser.
Nevermind the wonky bonus system that seems to randomly award people by how much they stand around with their thumb up their ass, while everyone else tanks/beats on the keep lord, or beats on the door. A couple times now i've seen people who stand in the back doing nothing (And a couple times, trying to play armchair commander, while the group leader is trying to get people to listen to him.) who have gotten a +500 bonus.
There seems to be an extremely large coincidental connection from doing less and getting more.
I encountered it very often as well.
Sometimes I would come into a PQ at the tail end, beat on the boss a bit, and get the best bag. Happened a few times.
More often, I would be there from the beginning, and get the best contribution score, and get absolutely shit all.
I'm pretty sure that the human tendency to remember those more noteworthy times you either felt you didn't earn the bag you got or didn't get the bag you felt you earned are skewing everyone's perception of keep bag rolls. I'm not saying the system isn't broken, it does seem to be pretty random how contribution for keeps is derived. However beyond that I don't believe the rolls are skewed off what one would expect from a truly random result. The simple reality is that most people are utterly terrible at estimating the probability of an event, or even worse, the probability of a series of events. Because of how most people think about probability, it's pretty much inevitable that any random loot roll system is going to piss people off and the contribution system makes it worse because it leads people to erroneously feel like they earned something they didn't get or got something they didn't earn.
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I'm pretty sure that the human tendency to remember those more noteworthy times you either felt you didn't earn the bag you got or didn't get the bag you felt you earned are skewing everyone's perception of keep bag rolls. I'm not saying the system isn't broken, it does seem to be pretty random how contribution for keeps is derived. However beyond that I don't believe the rolls are skewed off what one would expect from a truly random result. The simple reality is that most people are utterly terrible at estimating the probability of an event, or even worse, the probability of a series of events. Because of how most people think about probability, it's pretty much inevitable that any random loot roll system is going to piss people off and the contribution system makes it worse because it leads people to erroneously feel like they earned something they didn't get or got something they didn't earn.
The problem with that is that i've been keeping track. About the fifth time I rolled a >hundred in a row I began getting a bit ticked off and started paying attention to my rolls.
To date i've only gotten above five hundred on my natural roll five times, despite doing plenty of keep raids and regularly tanking the keep lord until he's dead (Which is another issue entirely, since I never really seem to get a significant amount of bonus.). Only one of those was a win, which was the previously mentioned green bag above. Either I have the worst fucking luck of anyone on the game, or something has got to be up.
Since I'm gonna be at work when the servers come back up, could someone post the list of tasks fir the event when the they do come up? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
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I really enjoy PvP and I rolled a squig herder when release came and I just didn't click with the game I guess.
I'm going to give it another go, and want to choose something I can have fun with, meaning, something strong, or at least middle of the road.
Well balanced is a dayto day thing depending on who whines the msot. Now strong.....that we can help with.
Disciple of Khaine that a Sacrifice spec heal the group a decent and make you a one man killing machine that can take on Champions and such a few levels higher solo. http://discipleofkhaine.wikispaces.com/
Squig herders don't suck anymore. There's the big banf of 1 Seocnd Plink spec or Quick shooting. The melee path still needs some tweaking, but it will never be as versatile as an Assault Shadow Warrior. http://www.squigherd.com/
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231301
Tanks I don't knwo much about. Blackguards are pretty meh though, they got overnerfed in beta.
If you don't want to heal at all with a DoK and have good damage, Choppas or Marauders are the way to go. Witch Elves are good, but you need a healer or the patience in knowing you will die all the time. On the other end, if you don't want to heal in the thick of things, go Zealot for now. I had a Shaman and got him to 40, he was a pain to level when I was solo, and the heals were very underwhelming and didn't get much of any bonus from stats. It was smarter to go the damage path or Da Green for utility.
Just got done with the worst Pheonix Gate ever. Less than five minutes in, both teams have captured eachothers flag, and Order expoits ours up into their spawn. Neat! So we farm the shit out of them outside their spawn until around seven minutes left and I end up with the flag. Three minutes left, we abruptly go from farming them to packing our shit and running, but no one remembered to heal the flag carrier. So they kill me and win.
Fuck that noise.
I think it's time to upgrade the ole' rig but I just don't have the money and probably won't for awhile. Ugh. I am really tempted to buy the game anyways though, even with the problems I'm having it is still excellent.
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Try after tomorrow, by all accounts on the test server, 1.2 seems to be improving performance a fair bit.
Remember the Amazon deal I mentioned earlier?
It's up now, and it IS W:AR.
$25.98.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27
Looks like it'll be that price for four hours.
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Err, I loaded the patch, but it looks like it will not be active till 7 AM tomorrow. Boo, I thought I would get a start on my Choppa...
More importantly, will they be doable by someone who has no characters past level 9? (just finished a free trial and subscribed the other day, whee!)
And from what I hear you have to do this if you want to play a Slayer or Choppa for a while, confirm/deny?
Just about guaranteed top damage every time, and a great way to disrupt casters, hold up fleeing opponents, and generally just throw a wrench into an otherwise threatening charge. I really wish there were more siege weapons in higher tier scenarios.
No clue about whether a level 9 can manage the unlock, but if it's like the Heavy Metal live event (that allowed people to unlock the Knights of the Blazing Sun and Black Guard classes early), then yeah, you should be able to manage it. You'll just need to log in each day and complete that day's event objective. In Heavy Metal, it was stuff like doing something specific in the event's scenario, or complete all three stages of a public quest.
It's taking me 30 seconds to download 100kb.
As a note: You have to complete all of the tasks on the same character to get the Slayer/Choppa unlock. But once that is unlocked, it is for your account no matter which faction or server you play on.
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just leave the patcher up overnight and you won't have to deal with it when the servers are back up after 1.2 goes live tomorrow
Which is kinda why I didn't bother with it after the first month.
If I decide to resubscribe does anyone have any clue how to make it run better? Or will I have to get more ram or a new video card?
Are you sure you're not having your video card settings force a massive amount of AA or something? I ran high at 8800gt, 1.8 gig dual core athalon, xp, 2gb ram, and a pretty shitty HDD no problem.
On that note. I resubbed and rerolled a Witch Hunter on Badlands. Name of Cession. I took a DoK to 37 and still like it, but the stealth class is how I want to play right now. I'll be in the Candymancers channel and I look forward to grouping!
The frame rate was the only thing that made me sad.
So.. some time in December.
Stuck on 64 kbps until then. :?
Friggin' 12 Gb bandwith limit.
I only run the thing with the details on for PVE.
You actually don't need to switch pairings. You need to switch pairings only if you're doing nothing but the quest grind.
However if you mix in maxing the occasional kill collector, PQs (admittedly hard to do without a dedicated group), actually working on maxing out various chapter influence bars for gear, the odd tome unlock hunt, exploring various locales beyond just snagging quest mobs/items etc. it's actually fairly easy to level in just one pairing.
I'll agree it's annoying to have to swap for pure quest grinding but then that's why I stopped doing pure quest grinding after doing it to level my first 40 :P
Also, making an alt and doing a T1 PQ? Good god, compared to late T3 the influence is just rolling in. I solo'd stage one of a Hard, then solo'd the full Easy one and bam, epic.
The above is why I said the below. ;-)
"PQs (admittedly hard to do without a dedicated group)"
But yeah the difference in inf gain is huge as you get up there in level. I remember when I was still pretty new to the game I solo'd a normal PQ on my chosen and was all "cool, it takes a long time but you can solo them if you can't find a group!" Then I got out of T1 :P
Really though I tend to farm my Devastator while still in low T3 and then Annihilator while in low T4 so I usually avoid inf farming outside of if we have a guild group running PQs or something.
I tried leaving it up for several hours but it errored out on me. So I'm leaving it for now.
edit: Whoops it just finished in like five minutes. I randomly started it again spurred by this post. Lawl.
Eh, I've never seen anything out of a keep bag that I'd want other than set pieces.
I mean, I've taken plenty of vials and I expect I'll be taking some shards but as far as the random armor pirces- meh.
This is especially infuriating to me, since I pretty much only do keep raids, and to date, since release, i've only gotten one fucking bag despite taking out about eight keeps a day. And it was a green, too.
It's gotten so bad that i'm starting to think that there's something up with their number gen, since half the time I barely get above a natural 100 on my roll. Hell, last time I was in a raid that took a keep I got a fucking five on my natural roll. That one actually caused me to quit doing keep raids, since aside from the comparably small exp/reknown bonuses, I wasn't getting anything out of it.
Considering how frustrating keep raids can be what with all the exploiting and glitch abuse, I could spend my time better by doing scenario's and leveling up to the max tier where people who regularly do shit like that can at least be blacklisted, and can't just reroll and re-level to the tier as easily to avoid being labeled as a bug abuser.
Nevermind the wonky bonus system that seems to randomly award people by how much they stand around with their thumb up their ass, while everyone else tanks/beats on the keep lord, or beats on the door. A couple times now i've seen people who stand in the back doing nothing (And a couple times, trying to play armchair commander, while the group leader is trying to get people to listen to him.) who have gotten a +500 bonus.
I encountered it very often as well.
Sometimes I would come into a PQ at the tail end, beat on the boss a bit, and get the best bag. Happened a few times.
More often, I would be there from the beginning, and get the best contribution score, and get absolutely shit all.
The problem with that is that i've been keeping track. About the fifth time I rolled a >hundred in a row I began getting a bit ticked off and started paying attention to my rolls.
To date i've only gotten above five hundred on my natural roll five times, despite doing plenty of keep raids and regularly tanking the keep lord until he's dead (Which is another issue entirely, since I never really seem to get a significant amount of bonus.). Only one of those was a win, which was the previously mentioned green bag above. Either I have the worst fucking luck of anyone on the game, or something has got to be up.
there was a podcast with paul and the team lead for the programmers or whatever
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i have a green name on the official forums now :P