thegreenskin.com - 10/9/2008
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After writing my “boo hoo” post about being ultra-casual yesterday, I asked the wife if I could spend the night playing WAR (after dinner and a walking the dog together). She was happy to oblige as she had her own things to do.
I ended up putting in 2.5 hours of straight solo ...
potshot.wordpress.com - 10/16/2008
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potshot.wordpress.com —
Folks like Tobold and Bildo (and many others)
have been discussing ways to get people out of
the scenarios and into open world RvR in Warhammer Online. Even Mythic seems like its trying to put the scenario genie back in the bottle. Nerf this, ...
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What if you had a WAR and no one showed up?
ramblings.rebelutionstudios.com - 10/15/2008
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ramblings.rebelutionstudios.com —
As we near the end of WAR’s first
month of being live, with players deciding to stay
and some deciding to take a break from the battle, it occurs to me that I have very few issues with Mythic’s game at this point in time. There are minor ...
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WAR: Incentivizing Open RvR
tobolds.blogspot.com - 10/10/2008
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tobolds.blogspot.com —
On November 13 me and many other MMORPG
players will have to make a decision: Do we
continue to play Warhammer Online, or do we go back to World of Warcraft and the new Wrath of the Lich King expansion? So somewhere in my head there is a little ...
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Tug of WAR
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Blog Posts from "WAAAGH!" - Gameriot.com —
... Snafzg went on a frothy-mouthed rant about something I’ve been hearing — and experiencing — a lot more lately: that leveling up in Warhammer Online can be an uneven, uncertain process that can result in a frustrating journey to 40. The problem is, and I’ll attest to this, there’s not enough PvE XP to be had in each tier, unless you’re willing to travel to one of the other same-tier zones in another pairing. You can do the quests, you can do the PQs, but sooner or later, you’re going to find yourself “XP ...
Tug of WAR
Tobold's MMORPG Blog —
... From level 1 to about 15 I was happily playing WAR as a PvE game with the occasional PvP sprinkled in whenever I wanted. But then leveling up got slower and slower in the tier 2 zones, and I was running out of quests. After some discussion with other players it turned out that I was doing not enough scenarios. A quick comparison revealed that in the same time that it took me to do a quest for 2,500 xp, I could make 5,000 to 10,000 xp in Stonetroll Crossing, plus get renown. Questing is too slow. Having been unable to play for two weekends I'm already falling behind my guild ...
When the tier 3 quest train got derailed
Book of Grudges —
... The big difference that we, and everyone else, has noticed is that it takes longer and longer to level up via PvE. Where before we were struggling not to outlevel our quests because we were getting so much xp from pretty much everything, now the opposite is true. It’s quite easy to finish all the quests in an area and not yet be high enough level to easily tackle the next set of quests. Snafzg has a good rant about this. I agree that questing feels too slow at this level but not that grinding does — that depends more on what class you are playing and who is with you. ...
Warhammer population incentives gone bad?
Player Versus Developer —
... if others hadn't beaten me to the punch: - I observed that I had a hard time picking a class and Rohan has figured out why: Warhammer classes are VERY specific in their flavor and abilities, and you either find one you love or you're not even going to get off to a good start in the game. - Tobold didn't like having a bullseye on his head for the mistake of playing a healer, the same reason why I gave up on my Rune Priest. - Snafzg noted that "questing/grinding is too slow", following it up with a more in-depth look at the flaws in ...
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tobolds.blogspot.com 9/10/2008 — Some readers preferred that I do a specific WAR review with a recommendation of whether to play it or not, so here is my take on that. As I've already talked enough about how the game works, this post is pure opinion. I don't do scores, but rather ...
WAR’s Greatest Flaw
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Return of the WAR
bookofgrudges.wordpress.com 3/17/2009 — As I think the majority of readers here knows, I took a bit of a break from WAR and have recently returned to playing more regularly with my little Warrior Priest (who dies a LOT thanks to a sea of Choppas, and contrary to popular belief!). Was ...
Only-WAR.com - This time, it's 'WAAAGH!'
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WAR/WoW: Some thoughts after a solid weekend of play.
ramblings.rebelutionstudios.com 12/9/2008 — As the title suggests, I spent a lot of time in WAR and WoW this weekend. Well a lot in JoBildo time anyway.
My wife and I and Sarzan ran through the Deadmines with Frump (a fellow CoW member) on his Death Knight when we couldn’t round out ...
If it changes the way you play, it's innovation
tobolds.blogspot.com 9/18/2008 — I've read various reports of what people did during their headstart days of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. And I'm sure there will be many more reports like that when WAR launches the release version today. And one thing I noticed with myself, ...
WAR is on the MAC come October 28
examiner.com 9/29/2009 — EA SOUNDS CALL OF WAR TO MAC GAMERS WITH RELEASE OF WARHAMMER ONLINE: AGE OF RECKONING FOR MAC ON OCTOBER 28 WAR for Mac will be Available via Digital Download for $19.95; Beta Version Available Now for Download to Current Players, New Mac User...
WAR Burnout?
ardwulfslair.wordpress.com 10/18/2008 — According to Xfire, I spent 36 hours over the past seven days playing Warhammer Online. It’s actually more than that, since Xfire rounds the length of each session down to the hour. So add probably another 3 or 4 hours on top of that.
This ...
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thegreenskin.com 1/27/2009 — Some people are born to shoot hoops and some people are born to write. I use this analogy because at 6′5″, I was always urged to use my height advantage to play basketball. It is too bad God forgot to give me any sort of natural shooting ...
Warhammer Online: a new hope for open RVR
walloftext.info 10/30/2008 — WAR is a brand new mmorpg and has its fair share of issues, like any new mmorpg would. Its not for everyone, and takes a certain mindset to enjoy it fully. If you like heavily PVE focused games like EQII, WoW, etc...there's a good chance that WAR just ...
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