If you have been reading the forums and blogs at the moment you would be hard pressed to find positive thoughts on the game. Anyone would have thought the Raven God himself was demolishing the very foundations of War.
To be honest half the time I think this is down to the usual trolls and rage quit posts, by people who think just because War didn’t suit their needs must be doomed to failure. In my little mutated world all has been fine from release and has only gotten better. Yes classes have been imbalanced at times (with zergs throwing themselves at the bomb squads) and city sieges broken. But as a player I just accept them and have faith the people at Mythic love the game as much as I do and will one day fix the issues. I just work around the areas I don’t find fun and do the stuff I do enjoy.
Anyway for all those doom mongers it looks like things might be looking up, there are a lot of positive reports on the city sieges (see below). The guild I am part of got to take part on PTS to test the city sieges. Everyone agreed that it was a great improvement and seemed to be fluid and fun. As for the last AoE patch, again that seems to have been well received. I for one am not dying time and time again to Bright Wizard bomb squads (did I just admit to sometimes being part of those mindless zergs?).
By the way I also just hit level 40 with my Choppa. This again is a first for me having actually two characters at the level cap, the only other time I ever hit the level cap in a morg was in vanilla World of Warcraft with my level 60 priest. Those last 10 levels in WoW killed me even though I had the help of friends to quest with.
What is more surprising for me is the lack of the sinking feeling. You know that feeling that you never want to go through that levelling process again, and the end game doesn’t appeal. On the contrary I am ready to go through it all again with my Zealot, and a few hours in tier 1 and 2 scenerios always seems to refresh the game for me.
I think she will be more of a part time alt, as I actually plan to play my Choppa and climb the renown and gear ladders.
DRANNATH'S ZEALOT LOVE
Werit
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Regarding the AoE-patch.. have you thought about other careers than the BW, e.g. Magus and Engineer? At least the Engineer now has two rather useless Mastery Trees..
ReplyDeleteA patch were everyone is scaled down, doesn't do any good in terms of balancing.
Mythic have posted a few times that the global AoE changes were needed to bring it under control. They have also said once they have completed the changes they wanted to with AoE and crowd control, then would have a good starting point to look at each class in turn and further revaluate any further changes needed.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best level headed posts I have seen related to the changes were on Grimnir’s Grudge: http://grimnir.mmofansites.com/posts/1434-needs-moar-cowbell