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.Warhammer’s gold-spammer reporting tool has an odd feature in that it requires you to read the message and know the site that is spamming you. Mythic is making sure you have read and typed the site URL. I know of nothing that the spammers could want more.
: Zubon
Copra has a great point on Warhammer:
the characters are soldiers fighting for their faction. And this is where it becomes a different bowl of porridge. The players assume their role as warriors for a cause, and are not in fact expecting to be the heroes or the protagonists of the great storyline.
I criticized The Lord of the Rings Onlineâ„¢ Volume 1: Shadows of Angmarâ„¢ for this. I stand by that, but I like what Warhammer is doing. Warhammer does not create the expectation that you are The Hero of The Realm. You are one of many. You do not solve problems; you beat back the enemy for a while. There is not an epic story going on, one that logically has a beginning, middle, and end. There is endless war, and you are taking part in it. It does not declare itself the most epic fantasy ever and then force you to watch instead of being the protagonist.
Would you rather come over for soda and board games, or be told that I am having the greatest party ever so could you please come over afterwards and help clean up?
Of course, the eternal, meaningless war with no victory leads to its own problems of “this does not matter.” But I notice that I keep saving the city and the problem never goes away.
: Zubon
The Chosen is the Chaos tank. His special mechanic is auras: +x to you and your allies, -x to your enemies. He uses them one at a time, but the effects last 12 seconds and you can switch them every 4, so you could be a fair melee-range debuffer if you focused on twisting your chants.
It seems unfair to judge this class in any way at level 10. I have not had a chance to tank for many groups. Until I have more taunt skills and healers have their suites, there is only so much we can do about that public quest hero.
Despite claiming to be serious about goldspam, I have been getting tells from the same guy since last night. This would not be a problem except that the game’s ignore list does not work. Why is Mythic advertising an add-on? Because it cannot program basic functionality. I have canceled my account, although I will be playing out the month. Without tells. Great, I must throw out the basic means of communication in-game because the game does not have a functioning system for chat or player harassment.
: Zubon
Update: Yep, turning off tells. The add-on does not work either. I should have known, given that Mythic was advertising it. edit: That was an unfair shot. They’re trying.
Update 2: “The stuff no one ever used in beta, like the chat system, sure that is not functioning properly. But I promise, tier 4 and the city raids will work.”
Update by request: the previous bug post, Zubon likes his Engineer, Zubon likes his Shaman, Zubon likes Warhammer bloggers, Zubon likes his guild, Zubon likes the flavor text, Zubon gives a mostly favorable review.
Much later update: about a month into things, they seem to have it fixed. There is a good reporting system (which the mail system should also use), there is server-side filtering, and SpamMeNot is working well.
Finding myself awake early, I decided to log in and finish a few quests. I was reminded that, while Warhammer may have been the most ready-for-release MMO I know of, it is still not possible to play for five minutes without hitting a bug. In about an hour:
Not today, but these reminded me:
There are probably more, but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
: Zubon
The class is coming into itself a bit more, with a shift towards AE DoTs. It does two things very well: single target burst damage and AE damage-over-time. Survivability is still low, but it is adequate for PvE and improving in PvP as I learn how to play better.
By level 20, the turrets have a permanent improvement, doing what they do a bit better. I have fallen into what seems like the proper use: the gun turret is the generic, single-target damage, what you use in solo PvE; the flamethrower is for close PvP fights and AE PvE, as in public quests; the bombardment tower is used less, for ranged PvP where clumps of enemies are more likely that solo targets. I think I will use that last one more when I start doing more open-field RvR.
I got most of my levels from tier 2 scenarios, which you can reasonably start doing around level 16. People start at 10, but they are mostly wastes of space that help their teams lose. The Order/Chaos scenario uses single-target ranged damage well, along with the flamethrower at the flag. The Dwarf/Greenskin scenario is great for AE, since people clump around corners or near spawn points. The Engineer is the default defense class for protecting your flag in the Elf scenario.
I like him. This is what the creep Defiler aspires to be.
The slower pace of Warhammer fights makes the healer role more manageable. Unless a squishy aggroes a keep lord, no one drops in three hits. Contrast this with City of Heroes, where I often need to start the heal animation before damage arrived. Nothing will save a non-tank with six enemies on him, but healing is not massive bursts of green against massive bursts of red.
I am not sure when we added them to the blogroll, because I paid Warhammer almost no attention until this month, but The Book of Grudges is full of interesting Warhammer content. If you want to see the difference between what we do here and an actual fan site for a game, definitely check them out.
My special love goes out to their comments on healing. On Monday, I will discuss how much I have enjoyed Warhammer’s alterations to the healer role, but scenarios have brought me the most mouthy, demanding, ignorant people I have found anywhere with respect to healing. You were hiding them all in WoW, weren’t you?
: Zubon
As I write this, Mythic has a “Banhammer” image saying, “4051 banned for selling gold.” If that is accounts, that is $202,550 in Warhammer boxes. I know that retailers, publishers, etc. see a lot of that money, but it should be enough to pay for whoever is tracking down and banning spammers.
Frankly, I am not worried about people buying or selling gold, or the fine services offering level 40 in 8 days for $240. Just stop sending me poorly spelled tells about it. Seriously, you are pasting text; someone needs to write coherent English ONCE.
: Zubon
Edit: also, what are you spending this gold on? The only time I did not have enough money for something is when I bought new skills and renown gear all at once on a low-level character, before remembering to sell my vendor trash. I bought my mount at 16 and had cash to spare. Can there be that much on the auction house?
