WAR (Warhammer Online)

After all in a PVP game that's what really counts , I started out in mmo's with DAOC . Having said that , I liked the pvp and not much else and moved on to SWG , again decent PVP not much else(meaningless though).Now I play EVE  

my question is what motivates endgame PVP ?

Keep battles like DAOC ?

 are they instanced ?

How does the world PVP effect the game world, if it does at all?

I know about the seiges , that's not what I am asking about , I'm refering to everyday open world, random PVP battles.

only Elder testers can tell and they are still under NDA.

other testers can only commet up to tier 3 because tier 4 is not open but i can say this just playing in tier 3 alone is engough end game and tier 4 and 5(capitol city seige) is like icing on a well baked cake.


in tier 3 you have so much options to PQ, quest, scenarios, Open RvR, your crafting by then should be good if you  are into crafting, you might be trying to fill up your Tome of knowledge, or you are defending/seieging battle keeps.


edit: no keep sieges are not instance only scenarios and the capitol city FIRST STAGE(thet are about 3~4 stages i think) will be instance.


someone could be in the open world doing a quest or doing something for crafting and see your keep being attacked  by the other side you can go and  help out your side.

Oh man their NDA will be lifted before release ,right ? Giving me flashbacks hehe.

Thanks for the rest of that information though , Sounds good.

no sorry, not to crush your hopes but this is what the letter from mark jacobs said




[quote]2) The Elder Test Servers (ETS) are still fully covered the confidentiality provisions contained within the BTA. You may not talk about your experiences on the ETS at any time, even after launch, unless you hear otherwise from Mythic. This applies to all content/systems/etc. that differs in any way from the content/systems on the non-ETS. In the case of content/systems that are EXACTLY the same on the ETS and the non-ETS and you make no reference in your disclosure about the Elder Test Servers you may talk about the content/systems/etc. We?e giving you folks a little latitude here since we have so many Elder testers but please don? take advantage of it.[/quote]

because they realllly mess with the code in the elder servers and all elder testers have been testing the game since for at least 18 months so i guess they dont want people to know what was cut change or moved around.

Guess this is another wait and see game then , No worries though . I just like to know what to expect.

I am an an EU tester , the NDA have now been lifted for us , with no special restrictions.

 and we have tested tier 4 stuf.

so i can talk

but its no secret that fighting keeps and kontrolpoints is not instanced. 

But what motivates andgame pvp , i would say its fun!

think about it i had 15 minutes before going to work a few days ago , joined my server jumped to "praag" the t4 empire/chaos zone. Looked at open party screen , had 5 choises , joined a warband doing RvR. Ran to them , we took a hero boss down to gain a controlpoint, loosing a fewgroupmembers in the process. Then order counterattack and pushed us a street or two back, until our reinforcments arrived and we pushed them back to their warcamp, where they have acces to cannons and can keep ground. Then my group went for buying seigeequpment to take a keep. and i have had my 15 minutes of fun.

beside that the main motivater is to win the zones and get to sack the capital. for guilds to own a keep and for everyone to have the bonuses there is to zone control!

Tier 4 can be discussed with the NDA lift, just not elder Tier 4 testing. Warpstone server is not an elder server and only allows templated Tier 4 characters atm. So it's false to say you can't talk about Tier 4. I'll just say it's great atm. I only really answer specific questions when I'm not so tired lol and I don't like writing reviews.

Originally posted by VirgoThree

Tier 4 can be discussed with the NDA lift, just not elder Tier 4 testing. Warpstone server is not an elder server and only allows templated Tier 4 characters atm. So it's false to say you can't talk about Tier 4. I'll just say it's great atm. I only really answer specific questions when I'm not so tired lol and I don't like writing reviews.

  Jebzuss, I posted this this morning and it's already on page 10, No one can argue people aren't interested in this game .

I asked specific questions in my OP , I placed them in bullet point format so they were easy to answer.

My biggest question is outside of sieges , What purpose is set to motivate PVP ? Some of that question has been answered in other threads , Like XP from killing players which definitely sparks my interest. Is there any other incintive offered?

the final form of progression after you reached Rank 40 is to increase your Renown Rank. there are 80 Renown ranks and they can take a long time to acquire once you get in RR30's and up. The Renown Ranks give you 1 renown point per rank to spend on passive abilities to tweak your character. Plus I believe there are 20 Renown armor sets per class starting at level 4 and but the majority are at rank 40. It will take a very long time to ever reach Renown rank 80, and I heard they do not plan on raising the rank cap past 40, but Renown rank cap could potentially be risen past 80.

Oh and other end game incentives would be to max out your guild's level. Guild's gain experience like players and have different bonuses every level, up to level 40. Then there is the tome of knowledge. Some people will try to get every single achievement in it, and there will be a lot of achievements to gather.

Oh and forgot to mention for the hardcore player there will be statues in the cities that represent the top 10 renown earners of the week. There will also be guild banners displayed for top guilds of the week at the guild taverns.