Hit 86 Tonight and it makes me curious about what Mythic was thinking about some of the 80+ gear.
Mostly because I'm looking at the jewels and the world drops i've gotten and I have yet to find something that I would split up my 6 piece offensive bonus over, and moreso my 5 piece TOVL set. I have a rather nice RR86 Cloak that I would wear, but it isn't worth the loss of the %5dmg in crease I get from my TOVL backpiece.
The Set bonuses is what kills it, because so far to my knoweledge no gear is dropping in RvR that matches the stats and the set bonuses that DPS classes are getting from tovl. This creates imo a significant issue.
1 - Players who want the best gear in the game must PvE in a game that is constantly driving towards PvP all day every day and leaving PvE in the dust. While some people might want to do that, grind TovL to get their gear, this leaves casual players, or players in less populated Guilds/Alliances without groups to grind it with. And those players who are not on 6 or 7 nights a week, when they get on they want to PvP and now they find themselves up against better geared players because those people went and did TOVL when it was the fasionable thing to do.
I see in /1 and T4 and Alliance chat all the time people looking for TOVL groups that never get into one because most people who still play this game who aren't new from 1.4 or returnies have that gear already and don't want to go up against this.
This is going to be presenting itself as an issue now with the sheer grind of rr90. On badlands we have several 90+ people in doomflayer and that gear is so far above Sovereign gear atm that those players might as well be their own 6 man group. Heaven forbid they roll in a premade with guard etc etc. The joke that we're looking at this game turning into Gearhammer is an apt one because I'm finding myself more and more determined to get to 90 just so I can compete and or experience that unbelievably overpowered RR90 gear so that I can laugh my ass off in def Doomflayer just to be a complete asshole.
Edit
I've decided as an experiment to drop the TOVL gear and wear the new gear. My DMG bonus has gone from a 294 unbuffed dmg bonus (280+%5) to 260, a 34 pt drop. My Crit only drops 1%, but I can pick up the 7th piece Sov bonus for the %7 crit on-the target proc...
The next thing is that I'm running 8990 HP with a liniment up from around 8560 which is a nice little bump in wounds. My Toughness goes from a sad 164 to 252 and my Resists skyrocket up about 200pts in each category. Looks like a more durable slightly softer hitting version of the old set. Overall the TOVL set looks like it will be harder hitting but this new set up looks like it might be more viable in terms of a balance between Offense and Defense. I still ought to not be missing out on my 2k+ crits. But we shall see about that.
The biggest downside, the upkeep. 15 doom flayer crests every 2 days or so... means I have to run more TI and I just loath that place.
I'm using the Crit DMG with str andt he Crit DMG with Wounds/Tough, Melee Power and the Sov Piece + an RR86 Backpiece.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
PvP Video
Those who haven't seen it on the WAR Forums yet, I have a new all Offensive Sovereign PvP Fraps video up on Youtube for your qq or zomgz pleasure.
Offensive Sovereign Video
thanks for watching (if you watch it)
Offensive Sovereign Video
thanks for watching (if you watch it)
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Kruelhand's Guide to Emoting
Emoting is in many ways a point of controversy in MMO's and in WAR it's pretty much one of the most misused features in the game. Before I get further... why are there not enough animations to go with some great emotes like Hug or taunt (bad animation) and or sometimes animations just not going off... lame.
Laughing
Now, this one is easily the one that burns people the most. Basically there are plenty of scenarios where laughing is in bad taste. Why would you laugh at someone you jump 5v1 and kill them even if they killed 2 of your guys in the process? He should be laughing at you for being bad.
The Laugh emote can be and has been used strategically to goat people into making mistakes to try and shut you up. But in most cases it's just people being asses. When I /LOL it's when 3 ppl jump me and I kill them with them potting absorbing etc etc... I laugh because they were bad and needed to be taught a lesson. I also laugh at funny situations... because that's what people do, laugh when something is funny. But I'm laughing at the situation and not at you. Suffice it to say, very rarely will I laugh at someone just to get them to rage.
I dislike it when you get into a 1v1 situation and you get beat badly and get laughed at. There are far to many factors going into any fight to deserve a laugh. Someone might have lagged out, or an ability bugged or they just made a stupid mistake (guilty of that myself many times) and they lost. Try that guy again and he might roll you right back and I bet you wouldn't appreciate the laugh you get in return. If I go to duels and I rip someone to shreds and will cheer their attempt or clap for them out of respect.
Perhaps that's my problem? I believe in sportsmanship which in most cases is absent from WAR almost entirely except for a small percentage of the player base who is willing to play with respect and some assemblance of honor. Yes the spirit of the game is to kill your enemy and that's all well and good. If you want to emote no one can stop you... but in the end people who emote out of rage or epeen are the ones that look bad.
Aside from cross-realming, emotes are the only way to communicate with the opposite Faction. I think it's something that should be respected and not Overused.
Duels
On other servers I don't know the duel etiquette so for those on Badlands thinking about dueling and don't know how it works I want to summerize it with the rules.
Rule No1
Aside from a Liniment and an Armor/Resist Potion there are no pots allowed. No moral pots no Heal AP pots no absorb pots etc. No LOTD Pocket items!
Unless the duel is labled as Anything goes of course
Rule No2
No group buffs and no Groups. Other people should not be able to benifit from renown by leeching in your duels. It is 1v1 fight and there are far too many risks of a sorc buff or chosen aura to accidentally get added to your buff bar if you're grouped.
Rule No3
IMO first person that dies is the loser even if the other person is killed from DoTs. Some might call it a draw, and I accept that but imo if you die first you lost the duel.
Rule No4.
Duels with Range should always start at 65ft (which is the range of an axe toss). If the Ranged class is willing to be closer then that's his perogative but further or at max range... not cool.
Players are allowed to start with pets out mutations/stances. Mechanics that require ramping up must start at Zero (ie Bright Wizard combustion or Choppa's rage)
Rule No5.
If at some point someone during the duel emotes for you /Hault... you stop no questions asked. Someone might have crashed the duel or they hit their pot hotkey by accident etc. Stop the duel and restart.
How to Start
Signal to your desired Duel partner with an emote.
/beckon
/wave
/point
/taunt
They must agree to the duel with an emote such as /agree.
You can move together with /beckon to an area that your AoE (if used) doesn't interfere with other duels or their duel doesn't interfere with yours.
One person bows (/bow)
once the other person (/bow) back to you the duel is on until someone stops it or someone dies.
Laughing
Now, this one is easily the one that burns people the most. Basically there are plenty of scenarios where laughing is in bad taste. Why would you laugh at someone you jump 5v1 and kill them even if they killed 2 of your guys in the process? He should be laughing at you for being bad.
The Laugh emote can be and has been used strategically to goat people into making mistakes to try and shut you up. But in most cases it's just people being asses. When I /LOL it's when 3 ppl jump me and I kill them with them potting absorbing etc etc... I laugh because they were bad and needed to be taught a lesson. I also laugh at funny situations... because that's what people do, laugh when something is funny. But I'm laughing at the situation and not at you. Suffice it to say, very rarely will I laugh at someone just to get them to rage.
I dislike it when you get into a 1v1 situation and you get beat badly and get laughed at. There are far to many factors going into any fight to deserve a laugh. Someone might have lagged out, or an ability bugged or they just made a stupid mistake (guilty of that myself many times) and they lost. Try that guy again and he might roll you right back and I bet you wouldn't appreciate the laugh you get in return. If I go to duels and I rip someone to shreds and will cheer their attempt or clap for them out of respect.
Perhaps that's my problem? I believe in sportsmanship which in most cases is absent from WAR almost entirely except for a small percentage of the player base who is willing to play with respect and some assemblance of honor. Yes the spirit of the game is to kill your enemy and that's all well and good. If you want to emote no one can stop you... but in the end people who emote out of rage or epeen are the ones that look bad.
Aside from cross-realming, emotes are the only way to communicate with the opposite Faction. I think it's something that should be respected and not Overused.
Duels
On other servers I don't know the duel etiquette so for those on Badlands thinking about dueling and don't know how it works I want to summerize it with the rules.
Rule No1
Aside from a Liniment and an Armor/Resist Potion there are no pots allowed. No moral pots no Heal AP pots no absorb pots etc. No LOTD Pocket items!
Unless the duel is labled as Anything goes of course
Rule No2
No group buffs and no Groups. Other people should not be able to benifit from renown by leeching in your duels. It is 1v1 fight and there are far too many risks of a sorc buff or chosen aura to accidentally get added to your buff bar if you're grouped.
Rule No3
IMO first person that dies is the loser even if the other person is killed from DoTs. Some might call it a draw, and I accept that but imo if you die first you lost the duel.
Rule No4.
Duels with Range should always start at 65ft (which is the range of an axe toss). If the Ranged class is willing to be closer then that's his perogative but further or at max range... not cool.
Players are allowed to start with pets out mutations/stances. Mechanics that require ramping up must start at Zero (ie Bright Wizard combustion or Choppa's rage)
Rule No5.
If at some point someone during the duel emotes for you /Hault... you stop no questions asked. Someone might have crashed the duel or they hit their pot hotkey by accident etc. Stop the duel and restart.
How to Start
Signal to your desired Duel partner with an emote.
/beckon
/wave
/point
/taunt
They must agree to the duel with an emote such as /agree.
You can move together with /beckon to an area that your AoE (if used) doesn't interfere with other duels or their duel doesn't interfere with yours.
One person bows (/bow)
once the other person (/bow) back to you the duel is on until someone stops it or someone dies.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
So....?
I'm curious how one can operate a video game, especially an MMO video game that needs subscribers, new players and whatever and have WAR's website so completely out of date.
Their news wire hasn't had a title update since September...
No Producer letters for months as well...
RealmWar while being revamped is dead...
Devs/Andy not posting on the Official Forums...
Community left to speculate and assume that this game is going tits up...
I am, in part a doomsayer in terms of that the glory or best days of this game are loooooong gone yet it still is a great deal of fun. In fact, moments in this game get so epic that it's almost like a drug that you resub or you log on just for a glimpse of those fights that you used to get every night, several times a night. Now they're days or weeks apart. Last night for the first time in it felt like a month we got a legit well balanced 6 man group together for scs and got 1 sc (Isha) in which there was an opposing premade and we duked it out (mostly in the valley to their spawn) and it was a great fight, we (again) had a very strong group (2 chosen me, SH Shaman and DoK, all good players). But then, no scs... lakes seemed to empty once Order fliped LOTD and I logged and that was it... it was 8pm my time.
So in a continuing plea for Mythic's staff to at least communicate clearly their intentions for this game... just please throw us a bone enough so that people don't go running off to Rift like it looks like we will do.
It seems to this consumer that a completely lack of communication for those who render services I pay money for is an insult of sorts. There used to be a time when Andy would frequent our IRC community channel... haven't seen him in over a month... granted it might be an over stretch of his duties to visit us scrublings in IRC but it was a nice gesture on his part to keep in touch with even if he was constantly harassed by bitter players but he always held his own and trolled us right back.
Since 1.4 was a huge change to the game system I am curious, as most are as to what the follow up is. For months we were told that they were changing Orvr... they did... are they going to do more or just go into a maintenance cycle to keep the game going, bring it all down to 2 or 1 server and let the game go quietly into the night?
Seriously these are questions I'm asking here... what is next if anything?
Their news wire hasn't had a title update since September...
No Producer letters for months as well...
RealmWar while being revamped is dead...
Devs/Andy not posting on the Official Forums...
Community left to speculate and assume that this game is going tits up...
I am, in part a doomsayer in terms of that the glory or best days of this game are loooooong gone yet it still is a great deal of fun. In fact, moments in this game get so epic that it's almost like a drug that you resub or you log on just for a glimpse of those fights that you used to get every night, several times a night. Now they're days or weeks apart. Last night for the first time in it felt like a month we got a legit well balanced 6 man group together for scs and got 1 sc (Isha) in which there was an opposing premade and we duked it out (mostly in the valley to their spawn) and it was a great fight, we (again) had a very strong group (2 chosen me, SH Shaman and DoK, all good players). But then, no scs... lakes seemed to empty once Order fliped LOTD and I logged and that was it... it was 8pm my time.
So in a continuing plea for Mythic's staff to at least communicate clearly their intentions for this game... just please throw us a bone enough so that people don't go running off to Rift like it looks like we will do.
It seems to this consumer that a completely lack of communication for those who render services I pay money for is an insult of sorts. There used to be a time when Andy would frequent our IRC community channel... haven't seen him in over a month... granted it might be an over stretch of his duties to visit us scrublings in IRC but it was a nice gesture on his part to keep in touch with even if he was constantly harassed by bitter players but he always held his own and trolled us right back.
Since 1.4 was a huge change to the game system I am curious, as most are as to what the follow up is. For months we were told that they were changing Orvr... they did... are they going to do more or just go into a maintenance cycle to keep the game going, bring it all down to 2 or 1 server and let the game go quietly into the night?
Seriously these are questions I'm asking here... what is next if anything?
Monday, January 17, 2011
85
No screen shot... I fail...
In between regular life and some sickness that I've been suffering through (flu season) I logged on this weekend to see %50 bonus to renown gained. I said "lets do some RP farming" and it was so. While never having an optimal group to fight them with, the bonus brought Order out from hiding behind warcamp guards and turtle-ing inside keeps to actually go on the offensive in some zones.
Destro says they want a fight, but they lie like little liars. Me and some DN buddies farmed Order in zones with AAO Buff because Destro wanted to PvDoor their way to Altdorf for the billionth time. This was fine with me, I don't care about being out numbered or being zerged down by 16 guys to my 4 because I still killed 6 of them before they finally were able to kill me and my team. Order is bad, Destro is worse in most cases.
Anyway, after the RP fest was over for me I went and dueled for a while with some of the actual capable Order on the server and had a great time.
1 month left on my subscription means Mythic has 1 month to do something interesting or at least stream line, correct or fix the issues in game going atm. Rift has a beta starting next week, I'll be preordering so I can get a key.
In between regular life and some sickness that I've been suffering through (flu season) I logged on this weekend to see %50 bonus to renown gained. I said "lets do some RP farming" and it was so. While never having an optimal group to fight them with, the bonus brought Order out from hiding behind warcamp guards and turtle-ing inside keeps to actually go on the offensive in some zones.
Destro says they want a fight, but they lie like little liars. Me and some DN buddies farmed Order in zones with AAO Buff because Destro wanted to PvDoor their way to Altdorf for the billionth time. This was fine with me, I don't care about being out numbered or being zerged down by 16 guys to my 4 because I still killed 6 of them before they finally were able to kill me and my team. Order is bad, Destro is worse in most cases.
Anyway, after the RP fest was over for me I went and dueled for a while with some of the actual capable Order on the server and had a great time.
1 month left on my subscription means Mythic has 1 month to do something interesting or at least stream line, correct or fix the issues in game going atm. Rift has a beta starting next week, I'll be preordering so I can get a key.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Rift
I'll be pre-ordering Rift in anticipation of the next Beta Event and moving to that game full time.
Most of my Guildies are going to be moving to Rift, at least the core of said guild and the guys I enjoy playing the most with. WAR has been stagnant and boring since 1.4 with no communication from the developers and no competition in game. While I do enjoy a good fight more then I enjoy anything they are so rare these days that you just can't find motivation to stay logged in for what, the sake of getting renown?
While sometimes I admit that I would love to get to 90 and 100 I just cannot do PvDoor anymore, there just has been far to much of it and there is no PvE content in this game that is remotely challenging for fun to do that I've not done a million times already. I'm ready to move on (again) but this time I think that an extended break is incoming. If Rift is as good as my guildies say it has the potential to be then it looks like when my WAR subscription ends in February then that's all she wrote.
This is all of course is all subject to change. A lack of communication from Mythic really has been the cause of a lot of my own personal grievances and I would love it if they came out and said something to the effect of what it is they plan on doing in the future for this game. Right now they say nothing except for changing cast times for healers... I'm pretty sure healing has been out of wack in this game since release so making it easier to heal probably isn't a good direction to go in my opinion. While I'm find with the idea of making WP and DoK actually melee/front line healers as they were perhaps intended to be originally I just don't see a need to give RP/Zealots Sham/AM's more healing (especially if I'm honest RP and AM are vastly superior healers to Zealots and Shaman although Shaman/AM are close enough).
What WAR really needs is new content. There hasn't been new content added to this game worth putting any time into since Land of the Dead. Now that everyone has their tyrant and pocket items (not everyone, no) it is a moot zone that I never go into anymore and most people don't even bother with. In fact not 2 weeks ago I took my Marauder to LOTD to see what ganking could be done just to see if people still go there to level. I found 2 people in the entire zone and I combed that motherfucker for a good 30-45 minutes looking for anyone, anything to kill.
The new "pvp" dungeon is a joke. Since 1.4 I've done that thing a dozen times if not more and not once have I gotten an instance with a fight in it. I've tried solo, I've tried 6 man I've tried 12 mans I've tried as soon as it opens or half way through... nothing. Not only that, it's buggy and boring as hell without any Order in it. Shit, I don't even know if it's fun with order because I've never been in there with order!
I want WAR to survive and I want to do my part. At this point however I just don't know what to do. We have no feedback we have no sounding board. I'm contemplating transfering to an EU server where Destro is out numbered just for a challenge but then I'd be leaving behind all my guild friends I've made over the last 2 years and that to me isn't acceptable.
Lets hope that we get some feedback/communication from Mythic sometime in the next week or so!
Most of my Guildies are going to be moving to Rift, at least the core of said guild and the guys I enjoy playing the most with. WAR has been stagnant and boring since 1.4 with no communication from the developers and no competition in game. While I do enjoy a good fight more then I enjoy anything they are so rare these days that you just can't find motivation to stay logged in for what, the sake of getting renown?
While sometimes I admit that I would love to get to 90 and 100 I just cannot do PvDoor anymore, there just has been far to much of it and there is no PvE content in this game that is remotely challenging for fun to do that I've not done a million times already. I'm ready to move on (again) but this time I think that an extended break is incoming. If Rift is as good as my guildies say it has the potential to be then it looks like when my WAR subscription ends in February then that's all she wrote.
This is all of course is all subject to change. A lack of communication from Mythic really has been the cause of a lot of my own personal grievances and I would love it if they came out and said something to the effect of what it is they plan on doing in the future for this game. Right now they say nothing except for changing cast times for healers... I'm pretty sure healing has been out of wack in this game since release so making it easier to heal probably isn't a good direction to go in my opinion. While I'm find with the idea of making WP and DoK actually melee/front line healers as they were perhaps intended to be originally I just don't see a need to give RP/Zealots Sham/AM's more healing (especially if I'm honest RP and AM are vastly superior healers to Zealots and Shaman although Shaman/AM are close enough).
What WAR really needs is new content. There hasn't been new content added to this game worth putting any time into since Land of the Dead. Now that everyone has their tyrant and pocket items (not everyone, no) it is a moot zone that I never go into anymore and most people don't even bother with. In fact not 2 weeks ago I took my Marauder to LOTD to see what ganking could be done just to see if people still go there to level. I found 2 people in the entire zone and I combed that motherfucker for a good 30-45 minutes looking for anyone, anything to kill.
The new "pvp" dungeon is a joke. Since 1.4 I've done that thing a dozen times if not more and not once have I gotten an instance with a fight in it. I've tried solo, I've tried 6 man I've tried 12 mans I've tried as soon as it opens or half way through... nothing. Not only that, it's buggy and boring as hell without any Order in it. Shit, I don't even know if it's fun with order because I've never been in there with order!
I want WAR to survive and I want to do my part. At this point however I just don't know what to do. We have no feedback we have no sounding board. I'm contemplating transfering to an EU server where Destro is out numbered just for a challenge but then I'd be leaving behind all my guild friends I've made over the last 2 years and that to me isn't acceptable.
Lets hope that we get some feedback/communication from Mythic sometime in the next week or so!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Spec
There's a new website replacing the old WARDB and it gives a nice little feature where I can link and english my current spec and gives a link to a chart like the old WARDB (although not as polished)
Career Builder: Marauder
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Path of Savagery: 14
Path of Brutality: 9
Path of Monstrosity: 0
Purchased Abilities
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(Path of Savagery) Draining Swipe
(Path of Savagery) Cutting Claw
(Path of Savagery) Thunderous Blow
(Path of Brutality) Mutated Aggressor
(Path of Brutality) Growing Instability
(Path of Brutality) Guillotine
Selected Tactics
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Tactic 1: Brute Force
Tactic 2: Piercing Bite
Tactic 3: Growing Instability
Tactic 4: Flanking
Selected Morales
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Morale 1: Confusing Movements
Morale 2: Great Fang
Morale 3: Tzeentch's Reversal
Morale 4: Frenzied Slaughter
View on The WARdrobe: http://wardrobe.war4scrubs.com/CareerBuilder.aspx?class=MAR#14;9;0;13:9:5:;9:7:5:;;5196:5191:5217:5197:;5201:5193:5194:5204:
Career Builder: Marauder
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Path of Savagery: 14
Path of Brutality: 9
Path of Monstrosity: 0
Purchased Abilities
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(Path of Savagery) Draining Swipe
(Path of Savagery) Cutting Claw
(Path of Savagery) Thunderous Blow
(Path of Brutality) Mutated Aggressor
(Path of Brutality) Growing Instability
(Path of Brutality) Guillotine
Selected Tactics
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Tactic 1: Brute Force
Tactic 2: Piercing Bite
Tactic 3: Growing Instability
Tactic 4: Flanking
Selected Morales
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Morale 1: Confusing Movements
Morale 2: Great Fang
Morale 3: Tzeentch's Reversal
Morale 4: Frenzied Slaughter
View on The WARdrobe: http://wardrobe.war4scrubs.com/CareerBuilder.aspx?class=MAR#14;9;0;13:9:5:;9:7:5:;;5196:5191:5217:5197:;5201:5193:5194:5204:
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