For those about to rock…

And 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:

 

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!

Can’t beat the classics…

I came accross this today over at Kean and Graev’s blog AND a similar post at Book of Grudges (great minds think alike), and I’d say I agree:

What WAR Needs 1…

What WAR Needs 2…

Yes, Mythic, we need our gear/tradeskill/exp dungeon back that we used to have with Darkness Falls! This is exactly the type of incentive we need for people to participate in Open RvR.

I even commented one thing on KnG’s Blog about adding not just one incentive dungeon, but rather one for each Tier. I think this would make the idea more viable (due to the games current structure). Overall I think bringing back a Darkness Falls type experience/incentive would be great. It gives the people who clamor for a PvE experience just that, at the same time it gives RvR lovers something to fight for. Your thoughts?

ALSO, in other interesting news – You know that Mark Jacobs is the creative visionary behind WAR and our beloved DAoC (you will always have a place right here *points at heart*). And that he is a VEEERY busy guy (one would assume given his position) but, he actually takes time to…

PLAY Warhammer Online?!?!?!?

I think its just fantastic that he sees the need to actually see what we see every day and come up with some ideas from first hand queues.

 

See you in game!

State of the Game…

Hey all,

I’m sure the WAR side of the blogosphere is blowing up with the same topic post as this but I thought I’d get it to anyone who checks this before they see the Herald:

Ladies and gentlemen, the President…

I for one am excited about the news, more on my innermost feelings after the JUMP