WAR (Warhammer Online)

I was playing WAR and the graphics made me want to try LotRO and it's so much more polished and everything that I am thinking of cancelling my WAR account. Even WoW or GW have better PvE. So if you are dissapointed by the lack of people in groups ect try LotRO or something it has a similiar feel and people actually talk and look for groups ect. Plus it's been out longer so it much more polished. In addition it has a Deed system ect and you unlock things like you do in the ToK... plus next month an expansion is coming out to add even more content.

I guess I got to thinking... why even make WAR an MMO or even have a PvE side. Why not just make it an online table top type of war game.

Obviously if you're more into PvP or RvR as it is called in WAR than LotRO is not for you. **This basically to the people dissapointed in the PvE.**

And before you flame away I know WAR was made with RvR in mind but that doesn't mean PvE should suck. Otherwise they never should have created an MMO in the first place. I really like WAR and I tried really really hard to enjoy it and defended left and right.. maybe in a few months I will see how it's progressed but I'd have to say LotRO is where it's at right now. You can flame me but I think i have some points.

Anything has better PVE than WAR. PVE in war is absolutely meaningless. there is no story, there is no sense of acomplishment and it's overall just doing the same stupid kill quests over and over. I WOW PVE is still fun and gives a sense of acomplishment even after leveling 3 characters to 70 (on my 4th one now).

As for PVP, WOW BGs are still way more fun that WAR BGs. In war it's down to who has the highest level players, In WOW, it actually takes skill and strategy to beat the other teams and many times I've seen high level groups beaten by lower level groups because they had more skill. In WAR it's just a zergfest. This keeps wow fun and challenging, where as WAR is just the same thing over and over again. There's no sense of individuality, no sense of making any difference and it's just no fun. I took the advice from all the Warhammer fanbois and I went back to WOW and I'm haveing a blast. I didn't care for LOTRO, but i would probably subscibe to that over WArhammer if I had to chose between the two. They at least put some work into PVE.

Originally posted by natuxatu

The two games have a similar feel which is why i compare them

How so, I wonder?

I just say, with a group of 4-5 people. Doing PQ's in WAR is my best PvE experience so far ever.

Theese things are amazing, they are all very unique and actually makes me feel like PvE is something NEW!

When you guard the dwarves from cave spiders so they can hack gold and the other players take turns in depositing the sacks.

Or when you fight bands of cold-one riders only to see a giant dragon come down from the sky and then battle it!

Or when you kill the annoying squigs around the giants feet to be able to see him carry a giant mine over to a door and blow himself up.

Yeah, PQ's are easily my best experience. Ofc some are worse than others, but they are there, just have to find them

Tried Lotro, looked nice but was just so boring. Some of the enviroments were gorgeous, but the character models were crap and I thought the animations were rigid. Just didn't really get the feel for it I guess. Oh, and the "pvp" was dreadful.

That said, i think its a pretty solid game, but very middle of the road.

Probably worth getting the trial before buying it.

WAR's pve does lack mystery, and surprise, and I personally would say story to it, unlike other mmo's that have pulled it off good. But of course WAR is more focused on RvR most people will argue.

PQ's would be great, if people were actually playing in them. :/

I quit LoTR when I realised that I needed to kill another 250 wolves to get a trait; each wolf was taking about 5 mins. I don't mind a bit of a grind, but that game was crazy.

Take PvMP, great fun as a monster, up until you realise that it going to take months to get the next level; and for me that was only rank 4!

Don't get me wrong, good game and excellent look; however leveling and questing (and getting traits) is so much work, it feels like work.

On the other hand, there's so much to do in WAR, I haven't really been noticing the amount of effort/time to get a level.

Yeah this is one of the lamer threads ive read.

with all the lore missing from the lotro, the lack of the ability to play the evil side, the fact that only a few of the classes touch on the lore characters and "classes" , nothing ot me felt more incomplete as a mmo than lotro, despite its polish.

and in the end, lotro is just like all the other pve grind games

at least war brings to the table the ablility to pve and RvR to level.

also i think the OP is forgetting that the warhammer lore is applied to the game, its everywhere.

really one of the weakest troll threads ive seen here.

Originally posted by sbowling

As for PVP, WOW BGs are still way more fun that WAR BGs. In war it's down to who has the highest level players, In WOW, it actually takes skill and strategy to beat the other teams and many times I've seen high level groups beaten by lower level groups because they had more skill. In WAR it's just a zergfest. This keeps wow fun and challenging, where as WAR is just the same thing over and over again.

This got to be the most ironic thing i have ever read, because no game is more repeatative and requires less skill than wow's pvp,  if you never got a rank14 character in vanilla wow, you will never know what i pointing at when i say repeatative, atleast war dosnt have the same SC's (bg's) from lvl 10-end game.. there is atleast variations.. wow dosnt have mutch else than 4 bgs and the world pvp dosnt exist.

both these games, requires 0 player skills.. its all about gear, and a private healer with healbot addons.