[Warhammer Online] Da big swords are fer hittin stunties!

[Belle Hibiki]

So I finished downloading and woke up at 4:00am on the 16th to start patching up Warhammer for head-start, and I think I've been playing ever since... save a few hours here and there for food.

Easily some of the most fun I've had on an MMO ever. The game looks great, feels great, has lots of character, and only a few minor bugs. The biggest one I encountered was today's, when Scenarios got totally borked and no one could play them. That wasn't all bad, however, because without scenarios Order and Destruction (finally!) took to the field. Had some good back and forth in Tier 2 today. I'm totally digging my Black Orc. (Btw, Black Orc /special is king of all /specials, with the Goblin's close behind.)

But man oh man, does the game slow up after rank 10. I have a total of like... 1.25 days played on my Orc so far (that's what happens when you graduate and don't have a job), and I think like 8 hours of that was getting to rank 10. I'm currently rank 16.

Some weapons, though, are just bizarre. There's a Rally Reward in like the Marshes of Madness for Black orcs... It's like, a 1-handed axe that has 1) more DPS than 2-handers of it's level and 2) a slower speed. I've finally managed to replace it, but Jesus if that wasn't a head-scratcher.

Public Quests definitely need to be more dynamic. The first ones are extremely memorable. You have giants demanding you to get them beer before they pick up a huuuge landmine and throw themselves against keep doors in kamikaze rushes.

Then in T2 it's like "Kill 100 of these fuckers. Okay, now kill 4 of these fuckers. Then kill this harder motherfucker" ad nauseum. Maybe I'm doing the wrong PQs... I know there are multiple per race per tier per zone. And I've also probably been doing them waaaaaaaaay too much, but most of the time I want those "Elite" rewards...



Oh, and De-Taunts can go fuck themselves. Hate "Wot Armor?"ing someone down to 25% armor, popping Taunt, then seeing a giant fucking BLUE DETAUNT go off on me right as I'm about to spike down a rune priest. akhgkdhgasgasg.