Return to the World of Warcraft

So I have come to realize that there is very little diversity in what to do end-game in Warhammer. Grinding out levels is a royal pain as well, and frankly, I do not have time to play a game that I do not enjoy playing to get to the end-game content.

I have been playing World of Warcraft on the Icecrown server since Patch 1.10, which was Shadows of the Necropolis, better known as when Naxx'ramas 40 was added to the game. That was roughly 4-5 years ago. Since then, WoW has had several changes, some I like and some I don't. Raiding is a lot easier, which is not a good thing in my opinion, although they have achievements that you can attempt, which add back the difficulty that feels lost. Some fights are just so easy though that achievements are no trouble to get.

If I were to rate expansions, Burning Crusade was the best in general, while Wrath of the Lich King was good in balancing out the classes to be on equal footing for the most part (Retribution Paladin is still overpowered and needs to be nerfed). WotLK would have been more aptly named "Wrath of the Recycled Content," as it reused lots of models and old bosses.

However, I was very surprised and genuinely excited when I watched the Cataclysm trailer and read the panels from BlizzCon. They are remaking the face of Azeroth, and opening several new zones, as well as introducing Worgen for the Alliance and Goblins for the Horde. Freaking Worgens!!! Very tempted to reroll Alliance. In addition to this, they are unlocking several new options for race/class combinations. Most notable is the ability for Taurens to become Paladins. I think I will be making use of the Paid Racial Change when it appears.

During the non-WoW time, I have been chasing my son around the house, drawing, or playing Heroes of Newerth, a stand-alone DOTA clone.

*EDIT* Forgot to mention my characters: Vazhra (BE Holy Paladin), Scout Abikutanda (Troll Combat Rogue), Vazh (Undead Death Knight), Bigspoondude (BE Priest), Scout Jelazingo (Troll Hunter), and Polemissedit (placeholder)

Back to XP

Well after much fussing with it, I reinstalled XP. Very sad to do so but I want to play. lol

I am back on Azazel, playing my Magus. oRVR has come a long way since I last played. Mythic needs to do some server merges though so we overall have at least medium populations on all the servers.

Well off to school. Later.

WAR & Linux PART 1

So I got fed up with not being able to use my microphone and went back to Ubuntu, but wasn't sure how well Warhammer was gonna run. So for the past 3 hours, I have been fiddling with it to make it work, and at last:




I have the patcher working! The script provided on WineHQ that involves replacing the warpatcher.exe and .bin is broken. All you have to do is initially start warpatcher.exe, which will patch the warpatcher.bin file. After that, you have to reset all the permissions for the user to read and write files and that warpatcher.bin can be executed as a program. Then you type: wine warpatcher.bin in the console and boom! Patch time!

I am gonna have a celebration snack and post back when I am in game. ^^

*UPDATE* Well I am unable to determine the exact reason why it's not working so looks like no WAR for me. = ( http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13139

Back to Destruction

Well, after a short bit of playing Order, I have rerolled (again) on Skull Throne, among the 5 last servers that hold medium population. This time, I am going with Sorceror, and my name shall be henceforth Arrolath Frozenheart. After a single day of play I am R11 and RR9. 

It's a very fun class, a lot different from WoW's Mages. For one thing, if they added Backlash to WoW, every Mage would reroll a Warlock or a Balance Druid, because they wouldn't be able to constantly spam spells until they go OOM. Spell-weaving with the possibility of it blowing up in your face is a thrill, and the damage absolutely rapes! I am gonna see how I do in T2. I shall walk the Path of Destruction (AOE) until I feel called to do otherwise. Apparently next level I get Grip of Fear, which from what I see is basically Frost Nova, and with that this becomes probably the strongest caster for Destruction.

Hopefully I can get to 20 without too much trouble, purchase my mount and last name and start in on T3.

~ The chill of death lingers on...

Get to the Choppa!

Been taking a small break from Warhammer to play Wrath of the Lich King with my friends and I am pretty sure that was the biggest waste of $65 I have ever done. Granted they have made some improvements since I last played but all of the servers were crammed with tons of players and the only class I generally play suddenly has like 15% of the server playing it, which is a lot when you consider that there is like 9 different classes. Definately miss having unique classes per race though.

I noticed, while reading news about Warhammer (I usually read the latest news about MMOs to try to stay current with what's happening in the industry), that Mythic sent out some funny hints about what classes they are releasing soon. The missing Dwarf career is probably the Slayer but the Orc career is (and I say with 99.9% percent certainty) the Choppa, which is coming back from beta. I was reading some of the backstory on the Slayers and they sound like a very interesting kind of Dwarf, yet fit the theme of WAR Dwarfs perfectly. I think I will give it a try.

One thing I would love to see is a section of the Tome of Knowledge where I could reread all the old quest text of quests that I have done, as I breezed through most of it without reading all the dialogue that they put into it and I am sure it is very fascinating but at the time I was power leveling and not playing for fun.

Well I need to stop goofing off and get back to my homework for college. I don't need to fail my writing class because I was too busy blogging. Back to Bleach and maybe I will reinstall WAR later tonight and jump back in the fray.

Until our blades cross again,

Vazhra

Frustration with RvR

RvR on Azazel grows increasingly frustrating. The new careers seem to be losing their luster for the new people, as only a couple serious people remain (and continue to outlevel me). 1.1 is gonna hit servers today and anyone that for some reason wanted to play one of the new classes but didn't do Heavy Metal (maybe like 5 people? I swear everyone did it and has a KOTBS/BG). Fortunately the great developers have patched the Aura stacking for KOTBS so now I am not gonna get raped in RvR by a pack of KOTBS. *cheers*

CS final yesterday went ok. Need to get better study habits. *shakes fist at WAR* Normally I do better if I actually study in advance instead of cramming. Hopefully I got a low to mid C from that class. Hard to tell presently. Last final is Algebra and that's tomorrow. Pretty sure I will walk away with a high B from that class.

I am kinda feeling like the only viable class lately is Magus if I keep playing on Azazel. Had to retrain all my stuff due to last patch refunding it all. Forgot to buy the +5% renown from scenarios but I seem to have improved my DPS output a tad:

Wheee

First post is always the funnest. My name is Ross, and I am a Warhammer player.

I play Arrolath the Blackguard (got to T3 within first week!) and Interruptinpig Oiiink the Magus on Azazel server but lately I have felt a call to Order. I have begun to level a Swordmaster on Volkmar, named Vazhra Pureblade. Yes I am a strange one coming up with an RP name despite playing on a Core server. Might see about switching to a RP server.

I originally bought Warhammer to play with my friends but they are leaving for Wrath of the Lich King and Darkfall, which is annoying because I spent extra for the Collector's Edition (totally worth it by the way, if you were wondering if the extra $30 was worth it, it was). Definately excited about the potential of this game and where its going.

In the time I am not found playing Warhammer, I am generally doing scripting for Chariots, a chariot racing game that my friends and I started making without pay and have finally gotten it out the door. Our next major project is Visions, a Christian MMORPG set in the 2nd century. Very very excited to be able to resume work on that and looking forward to what God has in store for that.

Well, I am done rambling. Time to end first post and get some sleep.