Kathy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kathygnome) wrote,@ 2008-09-22 15:58:00 |
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WAR!
Well, much to my shock, I am not just enjoying Warhammer, I'm having an absolute ball. Over the weekend I did a number of scenarios, a few Public Quests, and I got in some Tier 2 RVR, defending a keep.
So first the ugly. Solo PVE questing and fighting is still horrible. It's pretty much press the same button again and again about 20 times and the thing keels over. Rah. But the PVP is worth it. At least as far as I've gone, it's balanced and manages to combine a fast pace with not constantly dying. Even as a squishie cloth wearing priest, I can survive virtually indefinitely by running and constantly self-healing. I won't ever get off even a single offensive spell at my attacker, but I can usually manage to stay alive long enough to find someone.
I got a chance to get into a little bit of "real" rvr this weekend, defending a keep against a few harrassers. There was never really a serious threat to the keep, but it was a lot of fun.
I think the one complaint I might make about the game is that there is too much to do. Sunday morning I was poking around and there were at least three different groups doing Public Quests at my level. However, none of them were actually doing public quests because the groups were too small. If there had been one PQ instead of 3, we'd all have been doing it. The same is true for the PVP scenarios. I imagine in the end, everyone in a given bracket will end up queueing up for the same one and the other two will lie dormant.
One thing that does gripe me is that there are no female tanks in the destruction realm. None. One of the three races is male only. Ok, supposedly they come from mushrooms or something. But they all look male to me. The others, only the chaos tanks have females according to the lore and they decided they didn't want warped out butched out women warriors and made some lame excuse.
Well, much to my shock, I am not just enjoying Warhammer, I'm having an absolute ball. Over the weekend I did a number of scenarios, a few Public Quests, and I got in some Tier 2 RVR, defending a keep.
So first the ugly. Solo PVE questing and fighting is still horrible. It's pretty much press the same button again and again about 20 times and the thing keels over. Rah. But the PVP is worth it. At least as far as I've gone, it's balanced and manages to combine a fast pace with not constantly dying. Even as a squishie cloth wearing priest, I can survive virtually indefinitely by running and constantly self-healing. I won't ever get off even a single offensive spell at my attacker, but I can usually manage to stay alive long enough to find someone.
I got a chance to get into a little bit of "real" rvr this weekend, defending a keep against a few harrassers. There was never really a serious threat to the keep, but it was a lot of fun.
I think the one complaint I might make about the game is that there is too much to do. Sunday morning I was poking around and there were at least three different groups doing Public Quests at my level. However, none of them were actually doing public quests because the groups were too small. If there had been one PQ instead of 3, we'd all have been doing it. The same is true for the PVP scenarios. I imagine in the end, everyone in a given bracket will end up queueing up for the same one and the other two will lie dormant.
One thing that does gripe me is that there are no female tanks in the destruction realm. None. One of the three races is male only. Ok, supposedly they come from mushrooms or something. But they all look male to me. The others, only the chaos tanks have females according to the lore and they decided they didn't want warped out butched out women warriors and made some lame excuse.
