Warhammer Online

[Darksinga]

Was pretty excited to see a Warhammer Online beta in the works:

http://www.returnofreckoning.com

Looks like the current beta is locked at lvl 12, which is tier 1. Had tons of fun playing this game when it first released, had some pretty unique RvR pvp that was compared to DAoC. On live I pretty much leveled up and geared up completely on pvp, a feature I'm still surprised to say hasn't been implemented in very many games.

I'm sure the launch is far off, but from the looks of it, alpha could still be a lot of fun.

[FoxxHound]

Nice! I played that game with my ex for awhile, but I quit due to lack of female classes on Chaos.

[pasi]

I loved WAR in terms of tier 1 and tier 2. The endgame both sucked and was imbalanced, but the early game was so good.

Anyhow, have a few dudes on Return of Reckoning. It's fun to goof off on for a few, but it's still very early on in the beta.

[triad]

i loved WAR i saw that site a few weks anck and wasnt sure if it was worth trying or not

[Nocsucow]

Loved my DoK and Chosen

[FoxxHound]

Marauder ftw~

[Millburn]

Greenskin Choppa was my boy back in the day.

RIP Wesley Crusha, you were the best star fleet officer that ever WAAAGGGHHH'd

[pasi]

I mained a chosen which was a good class for breaking the game, but terribly boring compared to my ironbreaker. Also enjoyed blackguard, bright, magus and dok.

You could bug auras so you didn't need to twist (which was good since abilities were anything but fluid). Chosen with 3 auras running had infinite ap so you could spam whatever. Your highest DPS single target move was rending blade which was also aoe.... So, you would just mash that button every global and slaughter everything while being unkillable thanks to plate, disorient aura, and other abilities. That was one glaring oversight for tons of classes: aoe did 90% of the damage/healing of single target stuff while having the same time/cost. Tier 1/2 didn't really have this issue.

Chosen were also unkillable in pve due to piercing repel or whatever that reduced mobs armor pen to 0. Everything that could be mitigated hit for 1. Then when that got nerfed, you could use the +hit on suppression talent which was bugged with that talent to increase the effect to 50% from 25% and the duration from 20 seconds from 10-15 which allowed you to stack the buffs for perma +75% parry on top of your normal evasive stats. Then tzeentchs reflection or whatever gave 300% to bene abilities could be bugged to become permanent. I used to do lost vale with a +666% to beneficial effects.

Anyhow, WARs ironbreaker might be my favorite class design in any mmorpg. Off topic, but Vanguard was another game that failed with p good class design.

[FoxxHound]

I mained a chosen which was a good class for breaking the game, but terribly boring compared to my ironbreaker. Also enjoyed blackguard, bright, magus and dok.

You could bug auras so you didn't need to twist (which was good since abilities were anything but fluid). Chosen with 3 auras running had infinite ap so you could spam whatever. Your highest DPS single target move was rending blade which was also aoe.... So, you would just mash that button every global and slaughter everything while being unkillable thanks to plate, disorient aura, and other abilities. That was one glaring oversight for tons of classes: aoe did 90% of the damage/healing of single target stuff while having the same time/cost. Tier 1/2 didn't really have this issue.

Chosen were also unkillable in pve due to piercing repel or whatever that reduced mobs armor pen to 0. Everything that could be mitigated hit for 1. Then when that got nerfed, you could use the +hit on suppression talent which was bugged with that talent to increase the effect to 50% from 25% and the duration from 20 seconds from 10-15 which allowed you to stack the buffs for perma +75% parry on top of your normal evasive stats. Then tzeentchs reflection or whatever gave 300% to bene abilities could be bugged to become permanent. I used to do lost vale with a +666% to beneficial effects.

Anyhow, WARs ironbreaker might be my favorite class design in any mmorpg. Off topic, but Vanguard was another game that failed with p good class design.


This explains why my ex liked playing the Chosen so much lol.