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1.0.6…

swisscakeWell, it’s the big day! The day when players may come back to WAR to see how the class changes/balances and the tank additions will change the game. A day which will see those people and the current player populous re-evaluate the systems that Mythic has put forth for us. More than anything, I’d say this is the perfect day, if not the perfect couple weeks, to sit and think about what you want to be doing with the game. If you are like me, you are starting to hunger for endgame, if for no other reason to just be done with the grand quest of having a max level character. Or, you want that level 40 so you can rate the endgame of WAR, see if the oRvR is worth the time spent, or if you should just roll around in T1 and T2 with various alts until the system becomes more robust and worth your time. You can ask yourself if the character you are currently running is the “fit” for you. If its not, these two weeks provide you with the perfect opportunity to reroll a class that you think makes more sense to you.

Me? I’m still not sure. There’s a big part of me that would rather play a more healing support role (a la Warrior Priest), but I have so much fun playing the Engineer that I don’t know if I want to go though two and a half tiers of the same stuff I’ve already done to get a WP to the point I’m already at. But, seeing as the majority of the player base WILL be rolling for one reason or another, I think the next couple weeks will give me an opportunity to play around with a couple lowbies if at least for a break from the Engineer. It should either show me that I need to stick with my guns (engineer pun intended) or seek other options.

For those about to rock…

Heavy MetalAnd so the next live event begins with todays patch. Im actually somewhat excited about this one. It seems that the team made the tasks pretty easy to do, so anyone with any desire to try out the classes a week before they are available to the open public should be able to obtain the reward. (that means you Marv!)

Im not sure about needing the final reward, but the idea of obtaining a trophy and a sweet looking cloak interests me:

heavy-metal-cloak 

On a side note, they have held off on updating the game with the class balances untill after the live event. SO, this means we will see one more patch (1.0.6) before the big 1.1 release. Wait…so then what was 1.1 again? Wasn’t 1.1 supposed to be the game balance/class adding/mail fixing/everything under the sun patch? I guess Mythic figured its best to fix things based on priority. Good thing! You can see today’s patch notes here…

1.0.5 part duex

and the reasons and current plans for 1.0.6 here…

From the desk of Mark Jacobs 

I like that they are re-evaluating the 3 biggest concerns that people had from the initial patch notes. Good news for Runepriests escpecially seeing as your HoTs will now not be touched and the GRANDE HEAL has had its cast time lowered in order to lower the chances of the heal being reduced by combat. So, they turned the nerf,…into a buff!

They are also doing more tests with the Ironbreakers, Bright Wizzies and Sorcerers to make sure that dont over-nerf. I hope they get this all figured out before the new tanks are available for play (since the Black Guard uses a similar mechanic as the Ironbreaker).

In honor of the “Heavy Metal” theme, I plan seting up a nice playlist on my iPod and rocking out as I play tonight. You may even see the return of DJ Slurm over vent.

LETS ROCK!

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