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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning GAF Guild
- Thread starter theinfinityissue
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TheHeretic
Banned
Played for about an hour, first impressions have been pretty negative. Can't go into it obviously but there are bugs galore, even at character creation.
More distrubing is the ridiculous population imbalance in favour of destruction.
More distrubing is the ridiculous population imbalance in favour of destruction.
Fulleffect
Member
TheHeretic said:
whats even better is the people who say "omg everyone who does not post on a forum is going to roll order" or "LOL ALLIANCE HAS MOAR LOK AT THEM" as an excuse to fuck up the population even more and join the zerg
i mean, destruction is cooler in near every way, but either you will get bored of 20v1'ing people down or order will get tired of being 20v1'd down and quit - this is not destruction online, we need both sides for everyone to have fun..
sigh @ all the shitty aoe recruiting zerg guilds who just keep on with the destruction bs, have not seen any zerg guilds on order yet, a few guilds sucking it up and switching over would help but i guess that won't happen till the above does
TheHeretic
Banned
Fulleffect said:
It doesn't help that the order classes sound so much worse. Shadow Warrior, Warrior Priest, Bright Wizard? Seriously? The destruction classes sound awesome: Chosen, Disciple of Khain, Zealot, Marauder, Black Orc.
I'm playing a Witch Hunter and alongside the White Lion its about the only "I can't figure out what this class does on name alone". On the aussie server the ratio is somewhere between 2:1 and 3:1 in favour of destruction.
Hopefully the population won't be a problem when the game goes live. They've said that there are going to be mechanics in place to help out a side if it's consistently on the losing end, but I don't think they've explained it yet. I do think there's an argument for Order being more attractive towards "casuals" that aren't following the game yet. I'm not going into it because it's full of assumptions, so I'll just say that all ten Order classes are playable by female avatars, while only five Destruction classes are.
kozmo7 said:
I've been getting a lot of info from www.warhammeralliance.com 's forums.
Edit: as for 'official,' I don't think there's anything out yet.
TheRagnCajun
Member
I have to say, The Destruction classes look waaayy more appealing to me than the Order.
Atrophis said:
Not at all. Anyone familiar with MMOs can see it coming a mile away.
Destruction just has far more aesthetic appeal both in name and appearance for your average MMO player. Possibly the only thing going for order in the way of mass appeal will be the witch hunter.
Teknopathetic
Member
For any of you dirty poors who didn't pre-order a CE (like me) the Mythic Account Center's up and you can input your standard edition codes to get a chance at being in the preview weekend.
http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsOverview.war
http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsOverview.war
TheHeretic
Banned
TheRagnCajun said:
The Dwarven classes are very well done.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
JoeMartin said:
Or White Lion....Or Engineer... I mean they have some really cool classes, its just when it comes to Mass Appeal, or "WoW Player Appeal" They need to be shiny and such from the get-go.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Haha I never preordered it. A buddy of mine who works at a GS called me from work one day, telling me that there is a bug in the website and if you pay with a credit card that is no longer usable, you can still check out, be emailed your codes, then get another email saying the order couldn't go through, but the codes would still be good. So I did it, and viola.
TheRagnCajun
Member
StormyTheRabbit said:
I tired Engineer crafting in WoW and it sucked ass. I know Engineer is a 'class' in WAR but I'm still hesitant, especially when there's sweet Destruction Classes to choose from. =/
kozmo7 said:
People should chill and keep their mouths shut. Wait for the NDA to drop and then go all chitty-chatty.
On the other hand:
Vinci said:
EDIT: On the comment of the beta forums - I still don't know how to access them. Not that I've spent considerable time trying to figure it out (I don't have the time and when I do I'm playing the game), but whatever you do isn't as obvious as it should be or something's botched on their end.
EDIT #2: Of course I could simply be a total dumbass.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
lolTeknopathetic said:
Yeah guys, lets tackle this as a big group.
Outdoor Miner
Member
Are all CE preorder folks supposed to be in beta at this point? My bro has had a preordered CE with beta code forever, but when he went to put it on his Mythic Account Center today it got rejected.
Outdoor Miner said:
This is happening around I've seen. A friend of mine's Brother hasn't gotten in either. I suspect they'll be fixing this in the coming week if not toady. (At least I hope so for those poor souls
)Vinci said:
The plan was for all CEs to get into the closed by now but they were having issues with CEs not getting in. Preview weekend is next weekend and Open Beta I assume is the following week. Right now it's still all Closed Beta w/ CE folks.
Vinci said:
Just for charities sake: you've pre-ordered the normal edition right? Some, not many, have gotten in the Closed Beta going on right now with the Normal edition for some reason. This adds more confusion to this.
Either you got a CE code by accident or it's something on their end, I am not sure yet.
theinfinityissue
Member
Wow, this imbalance is getting out of hand. Let's try to get an Order effort going on the Tyrion server tonight, I'll be on my witch hunter Shadwell (any awesome individual get the reference? eh? eh?) I think the GAF effort is going to need to be much more informal than I'd previously believed, but that's cool. Let's just get in there and balance this stuff out. TYRION ORDER tonight be there or be square message SHADWELL for good time happy party
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Getting on now to play my Witch Hunter, on Barak Varr.
Okay, I was actually able to play last night. Made a Bright Wizard on Tyrion named Pym. I tried to message your toon, infinity, but you weren't on at the time; I was playing late.
If anyone wants to play on Tyrion with me, just message Pym, or if I'm not on, send me a mail (in-game) or something so I'll at least know what your characters' names are.
EDIT: Btw, infinity, you were right about Tyrion. At least when I was on Destruction easily outnumbered Order.
If anyone wants to play on Tyrion with me, just message Pym, or if I'm not on, send me a mail (in-game) or something so I'll at least know what your characters' names are.
EDIT: Btw, infinity, you were right about Tyrion. At least when I was on Destruction easily outnumbered Order.
Outdoor Miner
Member
I'm fine with whatever side and server you choose, though I have a clear preference for Destruction and on an RP server (stupid names bug me ).
They axed (pun intended) the Orc Choppa from the game, so I'm kind of undecided on what to play for Destruction. If we go Order, I've settled on Warrior Priest.
).They axed (pun intended) the Orc Choppa from the game, so I'm kind of undecided on what to play for Destruction. If we go Order, I've settled on Warrior Priest.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Just dinged 8 on my Witch Hunter. So far, along with the witch hunter, I've played the Chosen to 10. Both incredibly fun to play and give difference experiences. So when the full game is released, no matter what Faction GAF decides to roll, I know the class I'm playing.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Ok, I am pretty hooked. I have not been able to play much because I keep hanging with friends, but I really enjoy the game.
Server: Tyrion
Name: Cenjay
Class: Chosen of Chaos
Add me guys.
Server: Tyrion
Name: Cenjay
Class: Chosen of Chaos
Add me guys.
Fucking love the ToK
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Vinci said:Beta Center says they'll be back up soon. ~40 minutes from now.
Mostly playing with Pym, my bright wizard. And now he's a butcher too.
EDIT: Does the Live Game Head Start code not work at this point? Figured I'd put it in while I'm waiting.
You can put it in, just won't do anything until it starts I believe.
So does anyone know what to do with professions? I just picked up butchering and Apothecary, leveled my butchering to 21, then couldn't figure out how to open the apothecary menu so I just sold my mats.
StormyTheRabbit said:
That's the thing. It won't let me put either Live Game or In-Game Bonus Items in. Didn't do it before, 'cause I figured, "What's the point now?" but it's a bit surprising that it won't work now.
I've just been butchering and selling. Making money, buying stuff. Not messing with crafting or whatnot seriously till later.