Sep
12
My WAR Week
Remember way back in the day when World or Warcraft had, ummmm, war around its world? Ahhh, those days were everyone would gather around the CrossRoads just to kick each others ass. Well, for those of you who miss those days of doing stuff like that, except with the goal of taking over areas for your faction, then those days are back baby.
For the last week or so, the majority of my time in WAR has been doing RvR, PQs and PvE quests…in that order. Despite the extreme lag when a hundred or so players are raining hell on each other, I found myself recapturing the fun days of CrossRoad battles. There is an area called the Troll Lands (…I think…) and just to the south of that is an area with a Keep, two control points and two Warcamps (…please forgive me for not remembering the names of these areas…). I headed down to the Order warcamp only to find Chaos literally at our front door. They had the Keep and the two control areas. As the night progressed, Order players started showing up in larger numbers and we started taking it to Destro. We pushed into the control point and took it over…despite the NPC being annoyingly bugged to the point where we had to box him in to keep him from resetting himself. We had about 3 minutes to rest because Destro was not going to take the defeat lying down. They literally poured into the area. There must have been 50-100 of them, and I think we were outnumbered 2-1…at least. Surprisingly, we beat them off…..and even more surprisingly, I didn’t die 
Long story short, by the end of the night, we were storming their Keep and we took back the two control points…one of which was taken by just us CoWs. At the time, NPC pathing was extremely bugged and made taking the Keep impossible because we just couldn’t pull an NPC without it running back and resetting itself. Despite the 4.1.1 patch, my impression is that NPC pathing is still a large issue in this game?.almost to the point of being game breaking. It was definitely preventing us from completing objectives.
Overall, I’d give WARs game experience a B+. I’ve come to enjoy the RvR and accept that the PvE game experience is the same as everything else out there. That fact is also counterbalanced by the PQs?which are just fun. I?ve also noticed that players are starting to get very strategic as the game goes on. Using tanks with a front line. DPS and healers in the rear. Etc etc.
Well, I’m off to AGC on Sunday. It looks like Ike is making a sharp turn NNE once it hits land…so I should be good to go. Won’t be in WAR until next weekend, so I hope everyone enjoys the launch.
D out.
