Hello, my name is Ysharros and I’m an altoholic. By now, I’m sure you know the drill.
Many careers in WAR take a little while to mature, and going at least to Rank 10 is helpful if you think you like a career but you’re not entirely sure. What may seem underpowered at 3 can change quite drastically by 8 or 11, and a lot of the “core” abilities are handed out right around 7-11–such as taunts (or detaunts), Guard for tanks, stealth for Witch Hunters and Witch Elves, and so on.
I was finally able to take a few *cough* of my other alts to 10 in the last few days, which while technically not exactly all the way through tier 1, is still within spitting distance. Joining the ranks of the other alts whose path through T1 I previously described, this week we have Misericorde the Witch Hunter, Incendia the Bright Wizard, and Meabh the Ironbreaker. I should have made a Rune Priest and then I’d have had all four archetypes, but even I have only so much alt-stamina in me. Even so, those three characters were an interesting contrast to each other.
Yellow, blue, and red. Not only are these the colors of the Romanian flag (as we all know), but they are also the colors on the wrapper of a popular candy.
Behold! The Charleston Chew!
The Charleston Chew was created back in 1922 by the Fox-Cross Candy Company and was named after a popular dance at the time, the Charleston. Apparently they haven’t changed the wrappers since then, as the style looks dated, but not in a bad way. A bold canary yellow backdrop, blue text, and a splash of red to get attention. As a child these were rare to me, and the only time I would possibly get them was during Trick or Treating. After the public confectionery begging rounds were complete and the treats were sorted into piles, the trading began with my friends that went something like this…
I’m breaking from my usual format today to address a pervasive issue that’s arisen on the Internet recently. I’m not exempt from this issue, but I feel that it’s important that we all have a full understanding of what we’re witnessing.
It’s something that every game company does. It sells games. It makes money. It gets people excited. I’m talking about hype. It’s a natural move, of course. When a game company spends thousands of man-hours creating a product, they want people to get interested in it. They want them to spread the word so that everyone and their brother goes out and invests in their product.
Mythic was the hands-down champion for hype over the past couple years. They pumped WAR up so much that Mark Jacobs had to come out and quell the storm, stating that they don’t expect to beat WoW. Looking at their subscription numbers and box sales, it looks like the hype paid off. With 1.2 million boxes sold and 800,000 subscribers, they did the right thing.
Didn’t they?
Each week, I will post a list of the top 10 articles that I found while exploring the tubes of the internet and blogosphere. This list is purely subjective and based on my opinion alone, so take it for what it’s worth.
1. Malitas teaches us the art of an AoE tank as a Black Orc. Great for grinding out levels, public quests, or whatever.
2. Syncaine recommends reducing the amount of content available in Warhammer Online in order to make the game seem more populated and alive.
3. Syp made a list of the 50 small attractions of Warhammer Online.
4. Witching Night, Warhammer Online’s online version of Halloween, is live from October 29 to November 2. Get the official details on the Herald, or check out Massively’s write-up for a closer look at what’s available.
5. Alex reminds us that if you’re looking for war, it’s waiting for you in tier 4 in the form of several large, roaming warbands of both Destruction and Alliance facing off in the open RvR lakes.
Hello again fellow WARheads. I am back, bringing Bartlebee the Black Orc for a second write-up on his later levels of development. At this point, as most people who have rolled the career already know, Black Orcs are a mighty force to be reckoned with, no matter what their mastery specialization. This article will focus on my personal experiences with the Black Orc at higher levels (through level 37) as well as some possible mastery builds for those inquisitive minds.
Throughout Tier 3 and Tier 4, I was increasingly pleased with the Black Orc’s progress in PvE encounters. At my current rank, 37, I can successful solo a champion mob that is at least 2 ranks higher than me, no potions required. I can take on at least 4 normal mobs with a sword/shield out or a 2-handed weapon. It feels as if there is nothing that I can’t accomplish by myself, in terms of quests.
Personally, I feel like a sword/shield combo is the most effective PvE choice for the Black Orc. He can take a tremendous amount of punishment, generate an extremely high block percentage, and still kill mobs at a quick pace.
Here are some possible builds for an easy PvE experience. I will list the mastery points spent in a x/y/z fashion for the respective trees of Brawler, Toughest, and Greenest. I will then give commentary on which abilities I chose and why.
I had intended to bring you the second part of my Alts from 1-10 piece this week, but work aggro left me with far less time to play than is reasonable for any altophile, and all I managed were a level or two here and there, and not even on the right characters.
Instead, I’m going to look at Altohphile etiquette. Yes, there is such a thing; for one, not everyone understands or approves of altophilia, and for another, being a raging altophile can cause conflicts: with other people, internally (who to play?!) and, occasionally, conflicts of interest.
If you’re going to be in a guild with one or more of your characters, it will need to be a guild that understands and accepts our peculiar altophile condition. It pays to be aware of the kind of guild you’re joining in any case. Many more “hardcore” guilds don’t allow or approve of alts, or if they do it’s only in certain narrowly circumscribed circumstances; this makes sense for a hardcore guild, since 100 level 5 characters aren’t nearly as effective at the content and activities hardcore players prefer as 10 level 50s.
More casual guilds tend to have few, if any, limitations on the number of alts you can have with them. However, there are usually restrictions on how many characters can be on a given game’s guild roster; in WAR, for instance, the cap is said to be at 500, though I’ve not seen that officially confirmed. If the guild is small, this isn’t going to be an issue, and most members have all their alts in the guild. If the guild is medium-sized or even large, then roster size becomes a more important consideration. Casualties of WAR, my Warhammer guild, has imposed a 3-character limit regardless of what side you play, so you can have all 3 chars on Order side, or 1 char on one side and 2 on the other, and so on. When you have around 200 potential members on a given side, you can’t allow everyone to guild 9 alts. To be fair, you can’t allow some people to have 6 and then limit others to 1 (or none) when you run out of roster space, so CoW has the 3-char policy, and so far it has worked out fairly well.
Welcome back! To those of you just tuning in, I’m Dante, and I type about the details that make Warhammer Online what it is: great, fun, and (most importantly) awesome.
Last week I typed quite a bit about manly things and how shopping is lame, so I thought this week I should even the scales and find something in WAR that women could claim as their own. It didn’t take me very long at all to find…that nothing is specifically a woman thing in WAR. Unless the girls you know wear a lot of flannel and bowl, I don’t think I can find anything off the top of my head that they’d enjoy. Well, there is the dye system…but that’s been mentioned by like everyone already. Though, it is a cool feature…ah, hell. It’s fun, it’s easy, and it helps personalize your toon. A Detail, Dyeing shall be!
Oh, hello there. Welcome back. I trust the journey from life to death wasn’t too…hard on you? Never, no, not for you. Don’t mind me; the fires have been tended to. For the moment, I am the Watcher. Look, over there. Two warriors, slaying blood; one for Khaine and one for honor. Yes, they are still among the living, but just watch as they pulse in the masses on their enemies, their fel blades bringing me new patrons of fire. Yes…watch them: the servants of death.
As I’m sure you’ve already heard, Mark Jacobs came out with his State of the Game address recently. It was filled with lots of juicy tidbits that have many of us salivating at the mouth. Probably the biggest portion of the announcement was that two of the cut classes will be returning back to the game: the Black Guard (Destruction) and the Knight of the Blazing Sun (Empire).
This is exciting news, indeed. When Mythic made the announcement that they were making class and city cuts before launch, players were upset. Even though some of the content had never even seen beta, people still felt jipped. I’ll admit, I was among them. I wasn’t a beta tester even, I was just one of the many who’d looked at the class pages early on, daydreaming of munching on that tasty carrot they dangled in front of my face. I’d long known I wanted to play a Black Guard (and a Choppa, for that matter), so when they took it away, I was let down. I’m sure a plethora of others on Order’s side felt the same way about the KotBS.
And now they’re coming back within the next two months.
I’m left to wonder though, is this truly a good idea?
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