Mail System Improved!

I gotta say im really impressed with the quickness Mythic is fixing bugs (yes i know its a retail game, they should have been fixed, but mmorpgs are different) After much complaining about their useless mail system they realeased a hotfix today that made the mail system usefull again. It’s a lot faster with almost no time restrictions any longer.

Greetings!

As mentioned during this morning’s updates to NA servers all Oceanic servers will be coming down at 1:45PM EDT for an update. This update is part of our efforts to improve the responsiveness of the mail system. We expect to have servers up before 4:30 PM EDT.

As always please check the Herald for the latest information and updates.

Thank you!

no…thank you! Mythic.

Who said BWs are overpowered…

 

Overpowered....i think not.

 As you can see from the screenshot above, this is my proof that BWs are not over….oh shit nm.

State of the game

Marc Jacobs (GM/VP of Mythic) posted a great article about the state of the game after its first month and what to look for in the upcoming patches and its definatly worth your time if your interested it includes 2 new classes, rvr rewards, and much much more…here is an exerpt:

Let’s start with what we know is some truly exciting news.  I’m happy to

 announce that in December, the Black Guard and the Knight of the Blazing Sun will officially be part of WAR.  We have very special plans around their appearance and in our next newsletter we will provide full details about that exciting and rather novel event.  When they were cut from the game

 launch plans earlier this year, I said that the Black Guard and the Knight would be part of WAR only when they were great and deserved their place alongside all of WAR’s other compelling classes.  I also said that we would not charge any additional fees for this new content or put it in a separate expansion pack; that’s not how we operate.  We’ve kept to that plan and with the introduction of these two classes, Mythic shows that once again we are happy to keep giving players more value for their subscription dollars than any other MMORPG developer.

Put down the Hot Pocket and go read it now!

This will help the lacking tank presence in the scenarios we have all been craving…I really missed seeing a huge armored tank running in front of me (sorry ironbreakers, you are still cool), it gives you that warm little feeling inside that you are safe(r), did i mention i love player collision in WaR, it really changes everything about pvp.

Tier 3 Finally! (again…)

I finally have my mount again…yay, running around was getting really old. Finally i can go back to Tier 3. 

It hasn’t been too long but i gotta say i missed Tor Anroc, its just a blast to play with my WH and now with Lynx. Nothing like watching people get knocked around in to the lava (i can’t wait ’till i get my knockback) I joined kind of early (only 20 atm) but i found that going into the next tier early has a lot of good bonuses. For one you get alot more Renown Exp, due to every player being higher lvl than you, i was doing around 800-1000k for the first few games at lvl 20. The other exp is a little lower but rapidly gaining renown rank to catch up to your level makes up for i think.

PQs are boring…

Ok so last night i was running around Ostland and found a small group right outside chap8 doing a PQ so i joined in and next thing you know i had repeated the PQ 4 times, i got 1 purple miniskirt robe (it was meh…) and 2 lesser bags-o-crap. The experience sucked, i ended up getting 15% of exp for my lvl which would have been done easily in 2 Scenarios. Yet another reason not do any PQs. Oh and the influence rewards were awful compared to RvR gear also, so one more reason its a waste of time.

Kill Collectors

I’ve seen a lot of posts and questions about Kill Collectors so let me explain how they work very quickly how ive come to understand them (i’m sure im wrong in some way…lol)

They are located at most (if not all) chapters i believe and give you a certain amount of experience for every mob you kill that they want killed (genocide is a great thing). This is not a quest you have to keep turning in after every kill, a good example is the kill collector in troll country. He wants trolls dead, go do the first PQ inside the chapter area and go back to him after your done for the day (im not sure if the kills persist after logout, someone correct me please), its a great one due to trolls being the main mob you will be killing in the area, make sure you see him before you leave the area to cash in all those kills you racked up. Ive gotten up to 5-7k after a day of killing there.

Patch 1.0.3

New Patch is out today… Not anything amazing but a few usefull items here is my Patch Notes For Dummies. 

• “In order to ensure that the Apothecary skill remains a valuable crafting profession potions will no longer drop as frequently.” Well thanks….now we will never have potions since nobody makes them and everyone who salvages just vendors their materials for cash.
• /rg – Report Gold Spammers with 4 strokes of the keyboard…not bad. I’ve actually have stopped receiving gold spam in the recent weeks, im sure its only a short time until someone figures out a way around it. 
• Regional Chat System, hopefull this fixed the ever so quiet world that we have come to get used to…i want some “Barrens Chat” to annoy me so much that i turn it off. Yah its off…but its nice to know its there.
• New Mail Icon Notifier – Yah….we can now know when we have new mail…too bad i could UPS a letter to someone faster. Oh i grabbed a nifty mass mailer addon for WaR the other day of curse…that was a huge waste of time considering it dosent work due to the 30 second mail delay, dont waste your time with it.

I miss this…. kinda.

Seventeen

 

So after a few days of grinding away at Scenarios and doing most quests im now level 17 and wow did it go much faster this time skipping the crappy gear in PQs and Influence rewards. Not only that but my Renown level is on par with my lvl. Which seems like a smart way to go for now. I’ve been doing amazing, im 90% of the time top of the dps meter with atleast 25% more dmg than the person before me, with the ocasional BW or White Lion beating me (grrr…).

Once again im starting to come to that point where quests arent enought to level you anymore and you must do RvR and even travel to do quests from other areas. Meh, i dont mind doing them since its only in between Scenario play and im traveling to Marshes of Madness to do the repeatable RvR quests anyways (great way to make money BTW) I cant wait to get back into T3 again, i miss my lava cave of doom. Tor Anroc…ill be coming soon.

I’ve decided to go Immolation due to Conflag not being an option at low level since we have no good AoE spells, I gotta say Immolation is nice so far, Detonation is emazing….nothing like doting up a front line attacker then watching him run back to his healers only to Detonate him and dot everyone around him. So great.

My dmg has been amazing with in the last few levels shooting up alot due to detonate and the amazing tactic “Fuel to the Fire” which adds 3 seconds to my mainly used DoTs. I can’t wait to get my mount again the running around is really starting to get old.

Rise of Lynx

So i got home and made my BW, and i chose a female…yah i know…shutup. They just looked cooler and i could care less what people think about my gender choice having something to do with my sexual whatevers. Does you picking a green skined 4foot goblin say anything about you that i should be concerned about? no.

So first thing i noticed as i prance around Nordland as a lvl 1 BW is that killing things has gotten a lot faster, one or two fireballs and mobs get charred to a fine dust. I think to myself “yah ok its level 1 they made it this way for a reason” so i do some starting quests and get them out of the way and i queue up for Nordenwatch…oh the memories, wait its only been 2 weeks since i had been there with my WH. So i knew what to expect atleast. I jumped right in and watched as the new players got familiar with the RvR aspect, which i was pretty familiar with.

So i sprinted to the front line and started tossing fireballs, and noticed this little cute Combustion meter at the bottom of the screen…”WoW” i said to myself “…the higher it goes up the more dmg i do!!” not noticing the side effect of catching my ass on fire until i killed myself. Thankfully i had a good healer on my party keeping an eye on me. I kept my combustion at 100 (due to me been a noob and not knowing about meltdown lol, guess i didnt read up on class enough) and started DoT’n everything in sight and tossing fireballs every second i could. I started seeing some crazy dmg…not like i had seen with my WH even at tier3 level. I was Criting for 200-500 on lvl 11 Chaos with full T1 gear, i was hooked…

Starting over…

I’m gonna go back a few days and take you back through my experience rerolling a BW and just playing WaR in general…here we go.

So i took upon starting a new character in WaR recently, after my lvl 25 WH (Pooke) pretty much bored me to hell in scenarios. All i would be able to do is pick on random people and wait for a armor wearing monster to come slice of my head with his gigantic sword. Playing a Witch Hunter was not really what i expected, ive always been a Rogue Type Melee DPS character in every mmorpg ive played.

From EQ1 to WoW, ive always liked to be upclose in the action putting out those crazy dps numbers, I always strived to have the best gear and do the best DPS in a game to both help my guild and boost my ego . The WH in WaR is a great character, really well designed but it was just not what i expected, After a couple of weeks of playing i started reading up on Bright Wizards…and so my interest on a range DPS class was sparked. I was reading all i could online @ work to be prepared to get home and reroll my new Bright Wizard. 

I want to thank Warhammeralliance.com forums for all their information for sure….best place to get class related info from first hand experience. Check them out if you have a question.