straight to the core

one thing i always want for both the witch hunter and the witch elf is for pistol whip and on your knees to be a core ability. would this change the class no would it unbalance them no but it would give us more flexibility and more options for us to use on the battle field.

it would give us more chance to use more points in other trees and get whole new builds. one thing i will say about 1.4 is that the WH and WE are going in to free fall like the marauder pop did. and at the moment we offer on group utility to a group what do i give to a group  what makes them want me as a class.

 for both the WH & WE i predict that the pop will fall dramatically in the coming months :(

dount get me wrong i love my WH and i will keep playing him but we are slowly becoming outcasts of war

my new one stop shop

my new one stop drop for all war info on RR builds armor sets weapons and it has a career builder as well go check it out i recommend it to all

http://wardrobe.war4scrubs.com/Default.aspx

the post 1.4 witch hunter

with the new renown stats that are know up and running there is a grate chance for people to experiment and see what new layouts there are and how best to use this to there advantage.

so pre 1.4 was dominated by crit hits that i think we can agree on my WH was geared with this in mined but with the new reduce crit hits and reduce damage this will no longer be the case i carnt do the damage i was doing and it makes a big difference.

if your opponent isset up like this it can be a pain in the ass particularly as the 2 hander is the flavor of the month i dount know about the other servers but there has been a huge increase in the swordmaster pop on order side which is nice as  mythic may take notice and sort the SM out.

so how to combat the new stat well tho way forward at the moment seems to be parry and weapon skill its still too early to say as if your opponent goes down this route it will mean they will take a hit in one of there stats particularly if they favor crit damage reduction. time will tell but it may not take long to see its all so nice to see new faces old and new returning to the fight so welcome back see you in the fight

stand still and come to me my pray

well i have been exasperating with the new RR stats improvements and there is a huge chance to create a defensive witch hunter particularly with parry and disrupt.
so the first one to take it the parry increase tactic and can quite nicely push up your parry rate up so with this what can this do for you well riposte so its around 450 damage every time you parry an attack but put that in with the confession tactic you disarm them for 2s and you will all ways critically hit, but you dount want to do it that way well then go disrupt rout then take vindication 35% damage increase  for 10s slice and dice time.

rat capture part 2

we it out my friends hope you all enjoying the new RvR as much as i am it takes a bit of getting use to but its not too hard to figure out, at the moment most people are wandering around in big gropes so its hare to pull of a solo kill but i have piked of sum of the stragglers. i must say this is going to be interesting transition for me to see what tactics still work and what new tactics people come up with in the coming months.

rat capture part 1

with the release of 1.4 only 2 days away i am looking forward to it with grate gusto. but how is a witch hunter to deal with the skaven on the battle field........... for that and more come back on friday :P

but i want to say well don to the people that have stuck with the game from launch its been one wiled ride but the past 2 months have given me hope that warhammer online is going to be grate its a shame it could not of been from day one as many people where permanently put off by the game but if you stuck with it then good on you.

so where will mythic take us next ?

its probably too soon to be discussing anything as mythic keep there cards close to there chest, so what do i want and that is ogre kingdoms i have 2 ideas how i would like to see this.

but firs for those not in the know what are the ogre kingdoms?  


Far to the east of the Old World within the craggy valleys and cave networks of the Mountains of Mourn lie the Ogre Kingdoms. These brutish monsters foray into the outside world in their hundreds to find food and war. Ogres believe that might makes right, excelling at two things: eating and fighting. 

Individually, an Ogre is more than a match for a unit of Men, for these creatures stand over ten feet tall and are almost as wide. They are aggressive brutes ruled by their stomach and lust for violence, their Ogre Bulls gathering together into huge stampedes.




so thats the ogres but would i like to see them used well as you can see in altdorf the empire hired ogres as mercenaries and ogres will do anything for gold, so this is what i say give the skaven to desto and let order have the ogres they can have there own RVR dungeon. where destro have to kill the ogre king to stop order from enlisting them in to there armies and the same for the skaven as well that way you can balance out who dose what so desto have to stop us from geting ogers and we can stop them from having skaven.


next is plane and simple a LOTD type map that can give out a sovereign level PVP gear and we can finally put the grater ward to sum use.

out with the old and in with the new

well on the 18th 1.4 is going to come out of its cage and say hi and completely change the face of war as we know it. but before we say good bye lets remember the good times then lets go forth and kick ass and look forward to beyond 1.4 if this goes right then mythic fingers crossed for you so heres a 10 gun salut from helga

with a feather in my cap

this is what the new warpforge sets are going to look like and am liking the feather in my new hat looks amazing i all ways wanted one in my hat just to give me that right good look but the one that stands out is the knights i may have to make a knight just to have the armor. but coodos are in order for mythic so you at the office go grab a bear on me

what if WAR went free to play ?

most people think that this would be the end of war but they never say how so lets look at the other games that went free to play.

one that i am thinking of looking at is POTBS this is just about to go free to play but has a Cretan content which you must pay for its still going strong despite the free to play model it has taken, so could war do the same yes if it is implemented right but you have to look at the industry to see what my happen down the path for the MMO industry.

WOW is huge i dount think i need to stress this point but it has cornered the market on subscriptions and most people can afford to play 2 MMO's let alone have the time to play them, when you buy an MMO you ecspect it to grow over time and to change WAR has been going throw its biggest change at the moment. as i think every one will agree that it will kick ass when 1.4 comes out.

any readers of the escapist will of seen the article form a industry big wig this week saying that the free to play format for MMO's is the way forward and that the sub is dead. at the moment it looks like the MMO is going to change big time will WAR change with it and it will if it wants to survive.

pimp my mount

with the new store open and a bit barren at the moment i would like to recommend my idea to mythic and that is .......
LET ME DECORATE MY MOUNT 

if its just new mounts fine i would splash out on a new mount but let us have trophies for the mount its self just to help my mount stand out from the rest and let i will let you in on a secret mythic people will pay for this big time, i am willing to bet that the most perches item on the store is the new trophies but you see you can take this one step more buy all so selling new armor skins and why not let the community submit ideas for new skins for it do this and i will love you for ever and a day yours Gigelica

ranked scenarios

i can confirm that it will be performance/skill based.

The feature that we will be introducing will attempt to fill Scenarios with players of similar rating. If there are not enough players of like ratings, it will continue checking outward until eventually automatically populating the Scenario regardless of rating.

Obviously with the decoupling of Scenarios from the Campaign, this frees us up to explore more options with this system in subsequent versions. We're not quite ready to talk about what those options are, but some of them are frequently requested features.

And before anyone asks, no, they are not Premade vs. PUG queues. As we have stated before, we desire to offer a fair solution that will not compromise the frequency at which Scenarios occur. For now, this is the solution that we are implementing.




whoot say i to this but i do have a a question of too as to how the system will work will it be individual or group based and i think every one can say that sum times we go better in gropes we know than just us agents the world. and how will we be judged on the ranking is it possible to go down as well as up on this table we will have to hold on and see

its not easy being a signal target MDPS

in my opinion the WH and WE are the hardest class to play in WAR, why you ask as it takes skill and not just spamming one button skill but to be an effective WH or WE you must make the most out of all the skills you have in order to take down your opponent.

most people will clam that its just use torment then BAL to win but any WH worth his salt will know that is not true, for example BAL can be dispelled by a healer if they are on the alert for it and most of destro healers are, what it comes down to is i wish we had more AOE abilities to use at the moment we only have dragon gun which you have to speck to use and the moral reversal of fortune.

first of dragon gun got nerft too hard to the point where it is useless and ROF what happened to you an aoe disarm it was a grate ability  to use just disarming a large grope of destro it saved my life a number of times as well as doing 1200 damage which is the same as sever nerve but only on one target, if they had to change it they should of taken away the damage and left it as an aoe disarm  would of been a grate moral tool to use but no they made it a direct line damage attack so any one in front of you takes 1200 damage which is nothing to a large group of desto backed up by healers

so my massage is to mythic is sort out DG and make ROF a AOE disarm and thats just for the start the disarm was only for 3s so its quite effective and would allow the WH to bring summating more to the group play the other thing i want us to have is (and this for the WE as well) a AOE silence this would add so much to both class and would be such a valuable tool for us.


so please please please mythic can we have one

thinking of coming to the EU

well server transfers have been confirmed and are all ready in motion so if sum of you yanks are thinking of making the move to the EU servers so for english speaking and good times com on over to karack norn of karack asgul but let me tell you what's its like over here to sweeten the deal.

server instability
yes this was an issue when we first where handed over by GOA but the sever is safe as houses

destro rule the server
not true any more i am glad to say order have finally got the act together on both servers and are fighting back on an even pegging about time too it only tuck us two years to shake off the dis-order that we have and are finally countering destros moves

guilds hardcore and casual
there are a grate many of good guild out there on the servers from your hardcore players to my guild executed with its casually hardcore play

donut know which toon to bring over
i dount know what its like on KA but on KN we are lacking good tanks and healers

get use to bomb squads
yes on the US servers the malay train is king of the RVR but on EU the well organized bomb teams are deadly not as big a threat as they use to be but still deadly who knows may be you can show us how to mealy train.

looking for a good time
looking for action in the rvr lakes then i have never had a problem finding what to do be it ORVR or SC

entitalments

• Server Transfer - $19.99 USD, this will grant you a code that can be redeemed for one server transfer for a single character. 
• Starter Mount Pack – $8.99 USD, all characters on an account will receive a deed to obtain a mount usable at level 2 giving players a 25% speed boost and have a 100% chance to dismount upon damage.
• Trusty Mount Pack – $9.99 USD, all characters on an account will receive a deed to obtain your choice of a new mount usable at level 20 giving players mounts of up to 60% speed boost and have a 55% chance to dismount upon damage
• Trinkets of the World Pack – $4.99 USD, all characters on an account will receive two tokens to spend at the new Trophy Vendor in the capital cities. Each token can be used to purchase one of 14 different trophies.
• Specialized Training Pack – $9.99 USD, all characters on an account will recieve one War Tract that will allow them to immediately advance one full level when used
• Herald Pet Pack – $9.99 USD, all characters on an account will be granted adoption papers to the Snotling Herald vanity pet. This pet will follow you around and give you a boost!

so quite a bit of back lash there mythic to deal with all ready people are venting there frustrations at it 20$ for one character transfer is a bit too steep. i think the marketing department needs a quick kick in the ass not too bothered about the other stuff its just vanity items the trinkets may be might tempt me depending on what is on offer. but i ecspect a coming storm from the player base to complain about this, i would love for some one to step forward from the marketing pit to step up and say what's going on but on one will be willing to put there head on the firing line 

i have a gun so why not let me use it

one thing all ways comes back when anyone complains about WH or compares the WH with the WE "its not fair you have ranged finishers" well mythic gave us a gun so why are we not allowed to use it, first off we only have one non accusation ability with it and thats snap shot i think at last time i used it id did 15 damage to stop sum one running away.

so the next ones we have are absolution witch is a good finisher i can shoot it on the move or close range but a WH is a MDPS the only time i can use this on you is if you are running away from me and i have accusations so i can only fire it ones if i donut catch up to you but if you willing to show me your back then i will just stick you with my torment.

next in the witch hunters bag of tricks we have TBP a finisher so useless i donut know anybody who has finished sum one with it its crap this needs to be looked at by mythic and i wold recommend they look as WE finishers as well as the WH burn heretic dragon gun

and finally we have the mastery trees finishers yes dragon gun and exit wound, lets start with DG yes at one time it was op but they hit it out of the park with the nerf bat it way too much and its useless so it needs its damage looking at.

and know for my personal favorite at the moment EW at the moment there is nothing wrong with it it could do with the debuff values increased by a bit and the new stat add to it but other than that its fine same range as absolution but less damage but the damage you can do with its effect is worth it

witch hunting in 1.4

so the new patch is nearly here and the notes are out but nothing had been done to the WH so its nice to see but we will see, we are bound to get complanests from the WE community but i think i would be if i was playing in there shoes.

not much you need to know for the new patch RVR changes are the most important and time will tell if they will be successful or not, but i am going to keep an open mined and take to the field with a new confidence in WAR i do like what they have don with the game but i wish they would go on more with the RVR dungeon idea there a lot of stuff that could be add to it. but we will see if they do more i hope they will time will tell who knows what we will be blogging about next year

GUARD the compromise

last month the two handed tank community was up in arms as they where about to lose there guard, as you had to have a shield to use it, anyone can tell i all ways get annoyed at this subject when it comes up as being a witch hunter we get the short end of the stick by getting no guard at all.

so the dust has cleared and guard remains for the moment so lets look at what tanks where saying

sword and bored
many tanks where complaining that S&B specking is too boring and not enough DPS

well to me this is just wrong i have taken on tanks that can put out sum big numbers with there S&B specks
the whole point is to give you more survivability when you go S&B not to mention numerous threads on the forum of tanks complaining they where taken down by a MDPS. to me it sounds like people are not specking right for the S&B.

no guard no love
if you take away guard then my grope will not take me to IC

this is the second biggest point people said which just bogals the mind tanks are the best at crowd control so i have no simpaty for anyone who put this. and if that did become the case then find a guild that will take you there are more guild out there than crimson.

no guard no sub
if you do this mythic i will un-sub

i wish they had stood there ground on this issue andy did say thay will come back to this so tick tock

so there you have it but the name of the title is called guard and compromise so what is the compromise, well i have a number of ideas

1. take guard off two handers many are not using it or just apply it ones and forget about it

2. a new ability for them in stead of guard

3. a complete re-looking at tanks by mythic

4. less damage more parry on two handers

5. more damage for one handers less parry but more block

6. armor de-buff for using two handers

so those are my ideas not every one will agree comments welcome