All I've heard of in the past week is how overpowered bright wizards are (hereafter referred to as BW). They have an AoE snare which makes it so you can't move (also seems to last about 3 times as long as it should). This snare also has a bug attached to it causing the snare not to break on damage at all. They have one of the highest single target DPS in the game to go along with their AoE. But the most irritating spell of all (that directly relates to me) is called playing with fire. PWF hits a target, it decreases the healing done to that target by 50% AND puts a dot on any healer that throws a HoT on the person under the spell, it can't be purged and does some pretty hefty damage. Yeah, that's irritating. It wouldn't be so bad except every scenario I've been in in t3 has had about 4 or 5 BW's in it. The percentage is about this. 33% - BW, 25% - IB, 20% - RP, 15% WH and 7% misc., and Order still seem to get rolled and I think I've figured out why.
While BW is the most complete class Order has to choose from in terms of DPS, every MMO needs balance. You can't just get 100 of the best class and expect to win against a balanced attack that works together. 100 Kobe Bryant's playing individual basketball cannot win a championship. You need role players and balance. So, I think that the best solo class in the game is the BW because of all the utility it has from range, you cannot win without healers, tanks, and melee DPS to do the dirty work.
~J
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
WARHAMMER Chronicles: Episode 5 - No Quests but finally a mount
Well, I logged in yesterday with the sole purpose of getting to level 20, and the best idea that I could think of was then to run up into tier 3 and quest up there. The biggest reason for thinking this is that I had no further quests to do in tier 2. Maybe I did and I just missed some, but I went through all the quests in the greenskins and chaos area and a few in the dark elf and I just kinda ran out. Maybe I should pvp more, but I'm still stuck in that area where I'm the highest level and everyone on my team is below 15 and everyone on the other team is above 18. We lost that one 500-12 or something like that. Hoorah for retards.
So, I went into the tier 3 greenskin area for quests. I joined up with Buf's sexy alter-ego a sorceress named Alyth. We tromped merrily through many quests until we got to the chapter 11 greenskin pq where I then was kicked from the group and had to finish the pq solo while Alyth played with her new friends. Luckily I still got a bag.
That left me with 15% to get to 20. That's about 10k experience I think... I could be wrong though. I had to get it so I could get my mount. It was imperative. I decided to pvp and I ended up hitting 20 in the middle of a scenario. Flew to the inevitable city for the first time, which by the way is epic and I can't wait for 40 to attack the order cities, and got my wolf, which as someone so nicely put it, "He doesn't run as cutely as your little man." But, I'm excited now, I can officially travel. Time to start questing again. Hopefully hit 23 by the end of the week.
~J
So, I went into the tier 3 greenskin area for quests. I joined up with Buf's sexy alter-ego a sorceress named Alyth. We tromped merrily through many quests until we got to the chapter 11 greenskin pq where I then was kicked from the group and had to finish the pq solo while Alyth played with her new friends. Luckily I still got a bag.
That left me with 15% to get to 20. That's about 10k experience I think... I could be wrong though. I had to get it so I could get my mount. It was imperative. I decided to pvp and I ended up hitting 20 in the middle of a scenario. Flew to the inevitable city for the first time, which by the way is epic and I can't wait for 40 to attack the order cities, and got my wolf, which as someone so nicely put it, "He doesn't run as cutely as your little man." But, I'm excited now, I can officially travel. Time to start questing again. Hopefully hit 23 by the end of the week.
~J
Monday, October 13, 2008
WARHAMMER Chronicles: Episode 4 - Stuck in Between Bubbles
Well I hit rank 19 on Sunday morning right before church. It was nice, I finally got to finish a PQ for the first time since chapter 5 when I did it with my BLORC friend, Buf. We soloed that one. That was cool. Anyways, I went into the next tier with a few of my guildies and we completed the Greenskin chapter 10 pq till I was highest level of influence. That was a lot of fun, even though I was low level. But I figured out one thing. I'm in between the bubbles.
The first bubble consists of the hardcore players who preordered the game and play it every night and don't go to school and work. They are the ones that play the game well and play it often. Then there are the casuals or the ones that don't play as often. This is usually the Order. They don't play very often. Sure, they play well but they can only log in on weekends or started late, or something like that. Now, I lie in between the two bubbles. This means that there are only 2 people doing a pq at any time. This means that there is 1 tank in a scenario who is level 13 and can't do crap so all the DPS dies. Now, I'm just a tad too low to get into the next tier where all the good destruction people are. But I'm too high to level with all the other destruction people are. So now I'm stuck being a good healer and decent DPS in a crappy pool of mud that you couldn't see the bottom with the hubble telescope.
I did get a few achievements this week though. I got the title 'The Showoff' for doing a bunch of things naked. I tried a scenario completely naked and did pretty good except that it didn't get me an achievement. But, all in all, I'm happy with it if I could just level a little faster. This week should see me around rank 23 near the end. Maybe I should hire a leveling service? Then again... maybe not...
~J
The first bubble consists of the hardcore players who preordered the game and play it every night and don't go to school and work. They are the ones that play the game well and play it often. Then there are the casuals or the ones that don't play as often. This is usually the Order. They don't play very often. Sure, they play well but they can only log in on weekends or started late, or something like that. Now, I lie in between the two bubbles. This means that there are only 2 people doing a pq at any time. This means that there is 1 tank in a scenario who is level 13 and can't do crap so all the DPS dies. Now, I'm just a tad too low to get into the next tier where all the good destruction people are. But I'm too high to level with all the other destruction people are. So now I'm stuck being a good healer and decent DPS in a crappy pool of mud that you couldn't see the bottom with the hubble telescope.
I did get a few achievements this week though. I got the title 'The Showoff' for doing a bunch of things naked. I tried a scenario completely naked and did pretty good except that it didn't get me an achievement. But, all in all, I'm happy with it if I could just level a little faster. This week should see me around rank 23 near the end. Maybe I should hire a leveling service? Then again... maybe not...
~J
Thursday, October 9, 2008
WARHAMMER Chronicles: Episode 3 - Stupid Guildies, Friends, and Finals
Friday night rolls around and I get off work with no homework till Saturday night. Inviting friends over and getting some alcohol means that it's time to log into WAR again. I was only rank 10 when I logged in and decided to pvp with my chosen friend. Well the scenario didn't pop until I was Rank 11 and almost rank 12. I won the scenario very handily and bumped up to rank 12. And that's when the fun began.
There are always those people who disgust you. Unfortunately, I have had the poor luck of having 2 of the worst in guilds with me. Crimsonownz was the worst. I didn't think I'd ever have the bad luck of finding someone as bad as him. But that was before I met Bluenote. (sidenote - if you ever make a guild the absolute worst thing you can do is promote a 14 year old to be an officer). Here's the list of things I found out about Bluenote in the order I found them out:
1. He's 14
2. He thinks he's the boss of everyone because he's the officer in a guild that invites everyone and their 10 alts to the guild to make it seem like they have a better guild.
3. He's a virgin and is unhappy about it and is trying to find some prostitute willing to perform statuatory rape on him.
4. He's a total dick.
Now, me and my chosen friend start making fun of him, and he can't handle that very well. But, as much as we're irritated at him, we all join a group to take over a keep in the Ostland. This was a TON of fun, and 10 times better than anything WoW ever gave me. I'll post a video of it tonight. I ended the weekend as Rank 14, with a good many quests to turn in. And the best part about the whole thing was the Bluenote left the guild when he realized he couldn't order us to wear pink and purple and bend over so he can finally lose his virginity.
But finals week called me and now all my friends have caught up and passed me in a single weekend because I had not time to play. It sucks because now I'm gonna get the brunt of all their "you're so lame cause I started later but I'm higher level than you" jokes. Well, at least my last final is today and next week is break week and she's working all week. Oh, I might have to up the post ante for next week so I don't forget. I'll keep videos posted when I make them too. Hopefully, we can get a kickass PvP video going with a whole group... I have a few ideas.
~J
There are always those people who disgust you. Unfortunately, I have had the poor luck of having 2 of the worst in guilds with me. Crimsonownz was the worst. I didn't think I'd ever have the bad luck of finding someone as bad as him. But that was before I met Bluenote. (sidenote - if you ever make a guild the absolute worst thing you can do is promote a 14 year old to be an officer). Here's the list of things I found out about Bluenote in the order I found them out:
1. He's 14
2. He thinks he's the boss of everyone because he's the officer in a guild that invites everyone and their 10 alts to the guild to make it seem like they have a better guild.
3. He's a virgin and is unhappy about it and is trying to find some prostitute willing to perform statuatory rape on him.
4. He's a total dick.
Now, me and my chosen friend start making fun of him, and he can't handle that very well. But, as much as we're irritated at him, we all join a group to take over a keep in the Ostland. This was a TON of fun, and 10 times better than anything WoW ever gave me. I'll post a video of it tonight. I ended the weekend as Rank 14, with a good many quests to turn in. And the best part about the whole thing was the Bluenote left the guild when he realized he couldn't order us to wear pink and purple and bend over so he can finally lose his virginity.
But finals week called me and now all my friends have caught up and passed me in a single weekend because I had not time to play. It sucks because now I'm gonna get the brunt of all their "you're so lame cause I started later but I'm higher level than you" jokes. Well, at least my last final is today and next week is break week and she's working all week. Oh, I might have to up the post ante for next week so I don't forget. I'll keep videos posted when I make them too. Hopefully, we can get a kickass PvP video going with a whole group... I have a few ideas.
~J
Thursday, October 2, 2008
WARHAMMER Chronicles: Episode 2 - Ahh, the joy and pain of being a healer.
As I stated last week, I am playing a shaman. It is a healer damage hybrid caster who does a decent amount of both. Perfect for a guy like me who is looking for a little more utility in both PVE and PVP. Well, I first joined a scenario with my good friend, the Black Orc named Bif, and we rocked. I had the most fun I've had in a instanced battle since I had an organized group for ABing in WoW. It had a lot to do with the fact that I was one of two healers and everyone else was a tank. We won 500-100 and the world was happy.
But behind every happy face, there is a sad face beating it's head in with a baseball bat. I decided to try out PvP on my own over the weekend, and it killed me. The class of the week is no longer tanks, but casters. But not just any casters, those casters who refuse to heal, but instead shoot out green lazer beams of death (hereon called GRBOD). The GRBOD wielding shamans would watch both tanks and fellows healers die just so they could squirt out that extra 5 points of damage before the adversaries took them down. This led to no one playing tanks anymore, which lead to no one protecting me anymore, which in the end led to me swearing so loudly at my computer my roommate came in and complained. Since then, I have to have a tank with me at all times in order to survive, and with just two of us working together, the sides are much more even. But, where have all the rank 10 tanks gone? All I see are rank 1 tanks, rank 5 shaman who think it is their sole duty to top every damage meter from now till doomsday with one spell, or rank 8 squig herders who are great, but don't really help in a pinch.
I had to turn off my computer for the week as this is the week right before finals and I need to study and get all my presentations in order. But next week is the last week of the term and that means all break is gonna be spent perfecting my way of playing. At least I'll perfect not dieing. I can't tell which side I hate more right now. My enemies (the Order) or my friends the stupid pieces of #!$# that can't seem to do anything right... But maybe it's me screwing everything up.
~J
But behind every happy face, there is a sad face beating it's head in with a baseball bat. I decided to try out PvP on my own over the weekend, and it killed me. The class of the week is no longer tanks, but casters. But not just any casters, those casters who refuse to heal, but instead shoot out green lazer beams of death (hereon called GRBOD). The GRBOD wielding shamans would watch both tanks and fellows healers die just so they could squirt out that extra 5 points of damage before the adversaries took them down. This led to no one playing tanks anymore, which lead to no one protecting me anymore, which in the end led to me swearing so loudly at my computer my roommate came in and complained. Since then, I have to have a tank with me at all times in order to survive, and with just two of us working together, the sides are much more even. But, where have all the rank 10 tanks gone? All I see are rank 1 tanks, rank 5 shaman who think it is their sole duty to top every damage meter from now till doomsday with one spell, or rank 8 squig herders who are great, but don't really help in a pinch.
I had to turn off my computer for the week as this is the week right before finals and I need to study and get all my presentations in order. But next week is the last week of the term and that means all break is gonna be spent perfecting my way of playing. At least I'll perfect not dieing. I can't tell which side I hate more right now. My enemies (the Order) or my friends the stupid pieces of #!$# that can't seem to do anything right... But maybe it's me screwing everything up.
~J
Thursday, September 25, 2008
WARHAMMER Chronicles: Episode 1 - Which class?!?!?
I first started as a marauder. I figured that since I loved playing a fury warrior in WoW I would love the similarities between them. Well, I was wrong. The marauder is decently fun to play. I enjoyed it a lot, but all the glaring innefficiencies that fury warriors had, the marauder exaggerates tenfold. A 3 second snare doesn't do anything when it's on a 10 second cooldown. No ability to break a snare means that the range classes can effectively kite me without me laying a hit on them. And with wearing the equivalent of leather armor makes me more into a rogue that cannot stealth. I plan on picking him up again later, but for now, I'm gonna try a different class.
But which one? I wanted to play Destruction with Toby, but nothing else really had my fancy. I decided to try out a shaman. Almost immediately, I was having fun again. The starting zone and graphics are much more appealing to me than the Chaos. The idea that doing more damage increases my heal effectiveness and that doing more healing increases my damage is a very appealing structure to a class. I am thoroughly enjoying it.
I did a PQ (party quest) with Toby as a black orc and I think this toon will be my main. Yeah, I've heard they get harder to play later, but for now I'll stick with him and see what's up. I haven't played a healer yet so that'll be a great new aspect. I'll keep you posted, as this will be the first in many series of episodes from WAR. Look forward to having Josiah, Pat, Micah, JCrap and Ryan playing with us all and getting a guild going.
~J
But which one? I wanted to play Destruction with Toby, but nothing else really had my fancy. I decided to try out a shaman. Almost immediately, I was having fun again. The starting zone and graphics are much more appealing to me than the Chaos. The idea that doing more damage increases my heal effectiveness and that doing more healing increases my damage is a very appealing structure to a class. I am thoroughly enjoying it.
I did a PQ (party quest) with Toby as a black orc and I think this toon will be my main. Yeah, I've heard they get harder to play later, but for now I'll stick with him and see what's up. I haven't played a healer yet so that'll be a great new aspect. I'll keep you posted, as this will be the first in many series of episodes from WAR. Look forward to having Josiah, Pat, Micah, JCrap and Ryan playing with us all and getting a guild going.
~J
Monday, September 8, 2008
Fusion Frenzy 2
I played this over the weekend some. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first one, this one has something very obviously lacking in it and I can't explain it. Most of the problem stems from feeling like you're pushing buttons in water. All the controls are sluggish and are hard to maneuver.
The characters are much the same, some of the minigames are the same. They added a few fun ones as well. But all in all I can't say I enjoyed this game. Definitely not as much as the first one where I had hours of fun. Maybe if would help if my roommates actually played with me instead of no longer playing as soon as I get decent. I don't want to be THAT guy, but you guys can't expect me to not beat you if you suck at video games to begin with.
I'll give this a 6.3 or so. Completely arbitrary. It was not good enough to rent or buy, maybe not even borrow. In fact, unless you played the first one, don't play this one. And if you did play the first on then go play the first one some more. It was a better game. Play this one for novelty. Then go play something else.
~J
The characters are much the same, some of the minigames are the same. They added a few fun ones as well. But all in all I can't say I enjoyed this game. Definitely not as much as the first one where I had hours of fun. Maybe if would help if my roommates actually played with me instead of no longer playing as soon as I get decent. I don't want to be THAT guy, but you guys can't expect me to not beat you if you suck at video games to begin with.
I'll give this a 6.3 or so. Completely arbitrary. It was not good enough to rent or buy, maybe not even borrow. In fact, unless you played the first one, don't play this one. And if you did play the first on then go play the first one some more. It was a better game. Play this one for novelty. Then go play something else.
~J
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