All Posts by Wakygreek

Originally posted by //\\//\\oo

Now I roll on the RP-PvP server (the one and ONLY) Chaos Wastes, so maybe this is just exclusive to my server, but has anybody else noticed that the community is somewhat .. special? 

I've played the following games: WoW, EQ2, AoC, FFXI , RO, AO, VG and some Asian mmorpgs that I can't remember. I had never witnessed such pure downs as I have in WAR; from tanks that have somehow achieved >= rank 30 and rr == rank without knowing how to use guard, to warrior priests that think it is their sworn duty to conserve their righteous fury for a nuclear holocaust.

Some of the more convincing instances can be found in the t2-t3 scenarios where both sides tend to ignore the objective, because they were too busy focus firing the black orc with a shield. 

While this only hampers my experience slightly.. well.. a lot at times, it can really gnaw at one's patience, since scenarios are inter-realm and not inter-server, so you are usually guaranteed to get the same set of padded delinquents you were with last game.

 

 

I have to agree, I play on order in Drakwald and the healers dont know where the heal button is. Granted I never get healed on my BW or my SW or my RP or any class. They tell me to stfu and that they cant heal everyone lol. I have a rank 10 RP and i can heal everyone in the area just by slapping an instant hot on them lol. the tanks know how to guard on my server..the WP (some can heal) but most of the dps are special in the sense that they try hard to dps down a magus or a tank instead of a healer. So yeah...some of the players are a little "special" but some are also pretty good. I guess you just observe and find a guild that hopefully has a good healer.

1) if someone asks you for a heal what do you say?

a) OMFG STFU GO L2P

b) Sorry, I didnt have time to heal you, ill try better next time.

Originally posted by Sevensodd

Any suggetions?

The most complete, fun MMORPG that is free that I have played so far..is Archlord, Lunia and Shaiya

I figgured I would start this thread for people that wanted to post new information about Aion. I am very interested in the game as im sure alot of other people are as well. If you have any new information aside from what is available on the website please go ahead and post it. Also please post what you are looking forward to the most about the game.

Here is the website if you are starting out and are new to Aion:

www.aiononline.com/us

Im still on the fence about getting the expansion. I just dont want the same repetetive stuff over again. However if my friends tell me its worth it. Ill get on try the new talents for all my 70's first and then if I dont feel a pull to one of them ill try out making a death knight.

as far as time played, usually try to get in 1-2 hours a night and then play all day on saturday and some if im lucky on Sunday.

P.S. When my wife is working and I have the week off is when i get the most play time, go vacation and holidays! In fact Christmas and Turkey day is comming! I smell game time on the horizon!

Originally posted by zimmy910

 

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Originally posted by Rhoklaw
WAR does do PvP right, by giving players incentive to fight. What did WoW give before the latest patch for killing opposing forces? NOTHING!

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And you know what ? People in WOW actually pvped for fun without any rewards, before a ranking system etc. came out !

 

Orly? I played wow for 4 years, and I can tell you 90% of all pvp activity on a pvp server in WoW was done out of kill griefing. Thats right...and anyone saying otherwise is a liar. You had level 70's going to Tarren Mill and South Shore camping 20-35's and killing the npc quest givers and guards. I know this for a fact because Leveling an alt on a pvp server was hell. No gains or punishments for it either which made it worse. What pvp did we have to work with? Lets see....we had Nagrand and Zangermarsh...Nagrand had pvp here and there because you gained access to merchants and rewards if you held it...and allowed you to throw bombs on flying mounts (blizz made it somewhat fun).  In Zangermarsh it gave you a 5% damage bonus if you controlled the spires...whooopdee friggin doo. WoW pvp if it ever becomes great will be because War came out and is starting to scare Blizz. You want to know how I know their scared? After 4 years and 1 expansion they are NOW incorporating ideas from WAR. Funny how they never did it before while DAOC was out and had the simmilar concepts.

Well for those specifics I can answer your question im a EQ and wow vet. The atmosphere your describing can be best found in a combination of 2 zones. the forest evil look (nektolous) can be found in the Dark elf starting area, the (lavastorm) type area can be found playing at the greenskins area.  All in all you want to go towards Dark Elf or Greenskin.  Chaos doesnt really cut it for the look and feel based on what your saying.

Tanks have a guard ability and if they stay within 30 feet we get reduced incomming damage by 50%, yes staying near us is good because it gives us added protection from the big bad wolves. But its too bad most tanks dont know how to...tank. I am not saying you dont...but eh Every little bit helps, besides destro cant run around the tanks they have to go through you especially in small areas...as far as big ones are concerned unless you are stratgically sound..you will be seeing the big fat RESPAWN timer.

Originally posted by Pangaea

I blame couple factors to this.

1. Destruction has more melee classes. (pure melee) that are unafraid to rush foward and push to the back line.
   • Merauders, Witch Elves, Chosen, Black Orcs,
   • IBs and Sword masters are the only ones I see rush in first. White Lions are becoming more previlant which helps alot, WH sometimes stand back and play the "shoot my gun" and defend the healers. When they should be flanking thier healers.
2. Destruction has a mental advantage.
   • Believe it or not.. there is a subconcious assesment of battle when you see LARGE HULKING classes rushing you wearing the coolest looking armor you seen.. carying nasty crazy jagged weapons covered in blood and skulls and drippign with evil.
   • Destruction look at us and see a bunch of pretty boy elves, short dwarves wearing normal looking gear with no flair. and see nothing that would intimidate them at all in ANY way. as to quote brave heart "ohh no I wont sent my gentle son.. the mere sight of him would only encourage an enemy to take over the whole country."

 

/agree,
 

One of the biggest problems I have seen for order. Is that 90% of our DPS attacks their tanks or magus's. I rarely see a WH or a BW or SW strategically try and attack their squishies. Part of the problem is that they have tons of tanks so it makes it difficult. However its funny to see how easy it is to win against destro if you focus fire on their healers and no one can heal their tons o tanks.

Another problem I see alot...is that our tanks arent protecting the healers...as my rune priest i end up getting assaulted by 2-5 marauders and witch elves...thats always fun. Our tanks and dps are all around me watching me get pummeled and they are trying to dps the big tanks and support dps.

I think the best way to get an advantage is to send a few Witch Hunters to flank the healers and have all the other DPS focus on the close range dps classes like the marauders and the witch elfs...once thats done switch to the ranged...and then kill off the healers.  90% of the time when you focus on a dps class the healers cant heal them in time to save them...especially not if they are being harassed by WH.

Originally posted by DuraheLL

OP:
Sad but true. And I can't stress enough how boring everyone playing this game is. It's not their fault to be honest. Today you EXPECT the game to be so casual friendly it plays itself mostly.

Forming open parties and engageing in making keep raids is WAAAAAAAY to straining for the modern gamer today

Im sorry I guess we arent playing the same game.  Where the OP does have a few good points..I would not go out and say that everyone playing is bored. In fact alot of people find rvr battles just fine, or enjoy queing for scenarios, or questing etc. And as far as open parties are concerned, 1) you can lock your party so no one joins. and 2) its a great idea because it allows people to see who is in the area that wants more people for whatever activity they are doing.

It makes it much easier to get a keep raid going heh.  So I fail to see your logic.

Well consequences could def be raised, like perhaps level or experiance loss lol like EQ man those were fun times. As far as RVR no where yeah I hear alot of this...honestly 80% of the time I can find a rvr battle happening lol im sorry I know that some of you disagree what can I say im special. Well quite a few others are special too because they are also lucky just like me I guess.  But seriously yeah there could be more rvr going on.

Mythic introduced a +50% exp gain to killing enemy players which is nice thats for sure. Im sure they will eventually IRON out all the small details eventually. We will see where they go, but you have to give them credit for issuing all these updates and fixes in a timely manner.

Originally posted by Pappy13

Originally posted by euangelion

I'm 25 and most everyone in my guild(over 400 people) are between 22-35, someone actually took about a month long poll to find the average last year. Though I do see people, who I assume to be 12, spamming general frequently, I don't usually see people like that in groups.

 

I think you'd be surprised to see the age of some of those spammers.  Maturity does not have an age limit nor an age requirement.

QFT, I know some people that are between the ages of 25-30 and yet they act completely immature...and oooo do they whine.

Originally posted by markoraos

Originally posted by TheBrewer

Originally posted by markoraos

Originally posted by Z3R01

Shes what you call a geek lover a really hot chick that only dates very smart techy guys that have a good head on thier shoulders.

 

 

 

 

There's no such thing.

.. oh wait, I'm married to one! 

 

Lol sure you are.

 

Heh, read the stuff I added in parenthesis. Us married guys do possess a certain kind of practical wisdom when it comes to females. Adapt or perish as they say...

QFT, all the smart guys are part of the same club. but instead of Adapt or perish, its more along the lines of Dont argue and sleep well, or argue and get no playtime (in many different ways)

I want to see the Hammerer make it over the Choppa, but we need another Orc class. Was kinda looking forward to both TBH.

F2P games are a great concept...one that I hope all companies eventually gravitate towards.  Right now a few things I hate, are their UI's are horrible, if they want to do a monster grind that is cool, but offer some other things in there too to mix it around a little bit. Their classes are sub par 50% of the time, their games are overly gear dependent usually as well.  Graphics for the most part as well look very blocky..camera angles...well damn, there is alot of problems with them.

Here are a few F2P MMORPGS that I played that are a ton of fun.

Lunia

Shaiya

Atlantica Online

These are great games and alot of fun to play.  Now if only they tweaked their games a little bit more and made it a little more fun and added some customization and a few other things I thnik they could give the major companies a run for their money.  The day that MMORPG's become free, is the day that I will be playing 10 at the same time, having fun everyday because I will be playing something different every day.

P.S. Here is a thought, make us pay $15 a month for two equally good MMO's that is something i would love to do. or give people the option to pay for a lifetime subscription

Originally posted by Random_mage

Originally posted by Wakygreek

Originally posted by Random_mage

Originally posted by Wakygreek

Is it possible for a level 29 dwarf tank to crit you for 1200? Sure it could be. and the reason I say this is because I have had a level 21 sorc crit me for 1000 damage. in fact my level 15 Shadow warrior as crit for 800-900 before. It was easy, just used Acid arrow then used eagle eye(also had rank 2 morale which increases damage by 100% for 10 seconds on), my white damage was doing 400-600.  So im really not surprised that a tank can eventually dish out that much.  In fact alot of chosen running around with 2 handers do rediculous amounts of damage.

 

Hold the phone..

a DPS class is hitting as hard as a tank?? .. Do you not see the problem here??

 

No I dont. because a dps class at 30 which is around the same level that tank is, is going to do more damage then a 1 person nuke crit. if a Sorc can crit me for 1k at 21 at 29 almost 10 levels higher that damage is going to be much higher isnt it? if my lvl 15 SW can crit for 900, at 30 I can prob crit 1700 or more. Besides the OP more then likely had an armor debuff on...90% of the time when you want to kill a tank you always want some sort of armor debuff to get in the extra damage.  Lets not forget that the OP has not mentioned yet if he was wearing a shield or a 2 hander.  Because certain abilities are granted for those wearing shields which increase armor and defense.  There are many variables here to look at.  You cant just show a screen shot of a tank doing 1200 and automatically assume its broken. I mean it could be but given all the classes ive played (including chosen and BO) the damage seems correct. especially if they are using a 2 hander. 

In the end a patch is comming out to address the issue if indeed it is one. But I have to call Shennanigans untill you guys can give me the debuffs/buffs of all the players involved.  Im not saying it to be a jerk, but in all honesty to be sure if this is a bug, or just some good pvping. 

(*) I just want to note that in tier 2 my SW does 30-40k damage with lvl 15 skills. in Tier 2 i have seen a sorc/BW do over 66k damage. You cannot possibly tell me that 4 BW (unless they suck completely) couldnt break 45k in tier 3.  Even on a bad night I cant even see that happening (unless they joined late)

 

Guess you didn't see the screen shot with the BW's..

And at 21.. a sorcerer isn't consitently critting for 1k.  Oh.. and did you know they are wearing a wet napkin for armor?  Oh?? Right..

I saw the screen shot of the BW's, and im telling you that BW's generally do way more then that in your average Scenario. and a 21 sorcerer can crit constantly for 1k..its very easy...im not going to discuss this with you random because you tend to be condensending which is very annoying (I will however explain this once). If I hop on my BW and i build up his combustion..lets say using is pbaoe to 100% combustion.  I am going to have a 100% damage increase with a 50% chance to crit and a 50% chance to backlash.  If I was 21 and built up my combustion i would have a 50% chance to crit you for 1K and thats not including if I had modifiers to my stats like a hell of alot of INT to do even more damage.  My point is..a well speced good player with good gear that knows how to play their class, will hand you yours in a battle. I dont expect you to understand everything I am saying because aparantly your more interested in screen shots and not how that 1200 landed.
 

If I take a screen shot of a Healer criting for 900 off a spell at 30 would you find that odd? Would you imeediately say its broken?  What if there is a way that healer could pull it off, if the situation was right? Dont be so fast to discredit everything you dont know based on a few pictures.

Keeps in WAR do offer bonuses, have you ever captured a keep in Tier 4 yet, or is this all assumption?

Siege warfare may be different from L2 to WAR, if you prefer NCsofts version better, you might want to check out AION:Tower of Eternity. The siege warfare from L2 will be in there along with the WoW version of PVE and a few other interesting new ideas. 

Also guilds level up, so if you capture a keep lets say, and your guild is only level 1, you would not be really receving as many benefits. Lets also not forget that L2 has been out for a while where WAR has only been out for a month.  Mythic is doing a great job of updating the game and adding content..if you wait or post your response about this, they may end up giving siege warfare or keeps the correct bonuses.

Originally posted by Random_mage

Originally posted by Wakygreek

Is it possible for a level 29 dwarf tank to crit you for 1200? Sure it could be. and the reason I say this is because I have had a level 21 sorc crit me for 1000 damage. in fact my level 15 Shadow warrior as crit for 800-900 before. It was easy, just used Acid arrow then used eagle eye(also had rank 2 morale which increases damage by 100% for 10 seconds on), my white damage was doing 400-600.  So im really not surprised that a tank can eventually dish out that much.  In fact alot of chosen running around with 2 handers do rediculous amounts of damage.

 

Hold the phone..

a DPS class is hitting as hard as a tank?? .. Do you not see the problem here??

No I dont. because a dps class at 30 which is around the same level that tank is, is going to do more damage . if a Sorc can crit me for 1k at 21 at 29 almost 10 levels higher that damage is going to be much higher isnt it? if my lvl 15 SW can crit for 900, at 30 I can prob crit 1700 or more. Besides the OP more then likely had an armor debuff on...90% of the time when you want to kill a tank you always want some sort of armor debuff to get in the extra damage.  Lets not forget that the OP has not mentioned yet if he was wearing a shield or a 2 hander.  Because certain abilities are granted for those wearing shields which increase armor and defense.  There are many variables here to look at.  You cant just show a screen shot of a tank doing 1200 and automatically assume its broken. I mean it could be but given all the classes ive played (including chosen and BO) the damage seems correct. especially if they are using a 2 hander. 

In the end a patch is comming out to address the issue if indeed it is one. But I have to call Shennanigans untill you guys can give me the debuffs/buffs of all the players involved.  Im not saying it to be a jerk, but in all honesty to be sure if this is a bug, or just some good pvping. 

(*) I just want to note that in tier 2 my SW does 30-40k damage with lvl 15 skills. in Tier 2 i have seen a sorc/BW do over 66k damage. You cannot possibly tell me that 4 BW (unless they suck completely) couldnt break 45k in tier 3.  Even on a bad night I cant even see that happening (unless they joined late)

Originally posted by athandashiva

Canceled.

 

I'm an altoholic and the 'mirror' classes thing ruins it for me.  I'm also not a big fan of too many servers with low population AND scenarios that further drain what people there are away from open rvr.

 

They should have known better.  When BGs started in WoW it killed open world pvp... same here except they did it from the start.  It's too much to split a server limited population between tiered scenarios, pve, PQs, and open rvr.

WoW never had open world pvp, im sorry.  maybe when it first launched for a few months earlier..but that quickly stopped when people noticed that you could never take over a town, just grief kill lowbies.

Yes, I re-subscribed. However I am looking forward to Aion's release. I think WAR is a great game, but it is missing something. Not sure what.

Originally posted by Cynthe

Hey Mark posted this link on the source and I think many of you posting in this thread would be very interested in this article: The Escapist: Beautiful 21rst Century. It's all bout Aion, Warcraft and basically what we've been discussing here.

Thank you for the link, that was a good quick read.  I look forward to seeing Aion..I was kinda hoping we would see it in December, eitherway I hope it comes quicker rather then later in 2009

Is it possible for a level 29 dwarf tank to crit you for 1200? Sure it could be. and the reason I say this is because I have had a level 21 sorc crit me for 1000 damage. in fact my level 15 Shadow warrior as crit for 800-900 before. It was easy, just used Acid arrow then used eagle eye(also had rank 2 morale which increases damage by 100% for 10 seconds on), my white damage was doing 400-600.  So im really not surprised that a tank can eventually dish out that much.  In fact alot of chosen running around with 2 handers do rediculous amounts of damage.