For the Emporer

Sometimes, I LOVE WAR!!!  My main/highest level character is a lvl 32/RR27 Warrior Priest on Badlands.  I've had him and picked him for the thought of healing and bashing, much like a Paladin in DAOC.  Little did I know they were Flavor of the Month at that time, of course, I haven't seen much solo pwnage, but I don't try for that either as I'm speced entirely in the Salvation Tree.

But, I logged on last night and I went to head out to T4 to sign into a scenario and I noticed that all the lands were locked and destro was pushing into the city.  Now as you can imagine, I'm not geared like many others, but I truly feel that WAR shines when you step away from the "pre-made" mentality and accept and revel in the Pick-up dynamic.  I had never been in a city defense of any kind before this so I had no idea what to expect.  I was in a full WB and I happened to be in the group with a Archmage, Knight and two Ironbreakers...quite frankly the perfect sort of group for a Warrior Priest to assist.  During the first phase, Destro managed to take over two BOs, but hit our brick wall at the center BO, the Plaza.  Guarding the siege engines and attempting to keep close to my group was a confusing and very fun challenge.  I focused on throwing out my 15 sec HOT to all in the warband and using my group heal for supplemental healing that the Archmage was throwing out...I can proudly say that none of my group went down during Phase I.  The sad thing was I won 1st place in that phase and I STILL have no idea where the chest shows up at...the chat log shows that someone told me my golden bag will get mailed to me, hopefully that it true.

Phase II was very confusing as I lost the WB as I was looking for the chest and I came across some HUGE destro NPC that ran into a huge order NPC...after promptly dying to the Destro players guarding their NPC I realized that we had to kill their NPCs and save ours....I caught up to the Warband after respawn and we managed to do that.  I didn't contribute much as I haven't truly figured out how the heal and move as well as I need to.

Phase III showed up and I saw the emperor for the first time...MAN HE'S HUGE!!  Once again, not knowing the dynamics, I didn't realize that we had to kill two "supporting" NPCs and then kill Tensh after that.  I just ran around in the circular room with columns and spammed one of four buttons, 1) my HOT 2) my group heal 3) Purify to remove curses and 4) my melee heal that heals all allies within 20ft of my defensive target.    I also spent more and more time rezzing others to avoid them from having to run back from the respawn.  Although it was close I think keeping the 10% wounds debuff off of them was worthwhile.  Fortunately, I managed to track down one of the IB in my group that was Main Tanking the "strong boss" NPC.  He had taking him into a corner and it took me a minute to figure out why he was always out of sight of my HOT.  Once I got that straightened out, I was able to heal him much better and using the melee heal, keep others in the same area up against sporadic Destro attacks.

After that, taking down Tensh, was difficult as I was starting to get focused fired more and more.  The Witch Elves were starting to become a serious pain to my low level buttock.  However, we took the boss down and cleared up the remaining destro players...I even got a 7th place bag out of the deal and a purple bookstrap that I can use at lvl 40.  I also managed to level up my RR to 28 throughout the evening as well.  All in all, a great two hours of my evening....and cemented why I like WAR.

Back to WAR

WAR what is it good for?  FUN that's what!

I've been away for over six months and as I come back to Warhammer Online from EVE Online I decided to start a WAR blog to cronicle my path.  A sort of internet record of what I think of this. 

First off, I resubbed on a Tuesday and from what I've seen from a quick forum review...I'm glad I'm on the Badlands server already.  That server has almost double all the other servers combined.  WAR is like that, it demands players...active players or the game becomes unplayable.  Fortunately for me, I happened to resub on the Battle for the Badlands event that is run by a player guild on the Order side.  You can see it here through this link.  http://www.battleforbadlands.com/ I had a great two hours...even though I was getting pounded by destro while I was on.  I found it didn't matter...as a lvl 19 Witch Hunter with my Obliterator gear and generic realm points gear I was still able to kill other characters and contribute to the warband.  Heck, I even managed to solo a few Witch Elves as we were both running back to the battle.

Although I'm now guildless, and I can't blame my last guild for dumping me after six months...you can still jump in a Warband at the T2 and T3 levels and immediately have fun killing other players.  That ability to quickly jump in AND contribute makes WAR a different beast from everyother MMO out there.

I can't wait to get back, but unlike EVE online where I felt a real pressure to get on everyday to adjust a money making endeavor to I COULD PvP...in WAR I don't have to and that feels good.