WAR (Warhammer Online)

Three days will tell the tale... my sub expires then. How many others will? That's the real question.

I though I had found a home for years to come. I really loved this game till I hit T3. The knockbacks pretty much ruined it for me.  I don't really know what I will play now. Maybe I am just done with MMOs. I don't see anything on the horizon.

Resigned level 26 Zealot :(

The knockbacks ruined it for you?  And you are on the destro side???

Im assuming your frustration is comming mainly from knockbacks in Tor Anroc, because yes it is very annoying there...but outside of situations like that, knockbacks are hardly annoying.

If anything is annoying with that mechanic....it is the "pulls" that allow you to target and pull an enemy at ranged to you.  Although I really like both the knockbacks and pulls, but it is still annoying when you are the victim.

The mechanic in general just doesn't work for me. I can't really explain why. Yes I can see the tactics, a SW runs at you and knocks you out of the park... just doesn't work for me. It just seems out of rythm. Fine if others like it. I just think it's not the way I like to play.

I was on Destro with an old PvP guild I joined through a friend. That didn't do it for me. I actually thought it might be that I need to switch sides to Order. I went order for a week with a guild I found online. It just seemed hollow.

I think maybe the fact may also be that I am just not a guildy. I never raided in WoW, and didn't guild up but maybe 4 months in almost 3 years of playing. I wanted this game for PvP cuz that's all I did there. This PvP blew that away until knockbacks. Ultimately, in this game end game, you have to be in the equivalent of a Raiding guild to truly gain reward. I think once I realized that, it kind of did it in for me.

I'm just not a guildy and you HAVE to be one in War.

Originally posted by BiggusRiggus

The mechanic in general just doesn't work for me. I can't really explain why. Yes I can see the tactics, a SW runs at you and knocks you out of the park... just doesn't work for me. It just seems out of rythm. Fine if others like it. I just think it's not the way I like to play.

I was on Destro with an old PvP guild I joined through a friend. That didn't do it for me. I actually thought it might be that I need to switch sides to Order. I went order for a week with a guild I found online. It just seemed hollow.

I think maybe the fact may also be that I am just not a guildy. I never raided in WoW, and didn't guild up but maybe 4 months in almost 3 years of playing. I wanted this game for PvP cuz that's all I did there. This PvP blew that away until knockbacks. Ultimately, in this game end game, you have to be in the equivalent of a Raiding guild to truly gain reward. I think once I realized that, it kind of did it in for me.

I'm just not a guildy and you HAVE to be one in War.

I can definitely see where you are coming from...however I dont think you need to be in the equivalent of a raiding guild to truly gain reward.

This is comming from someone who has been in a guild comprised of about 15 core members the last 7 years, so try to keep that in mind.  We usually end up having 20-25 people online at the very best after finding new members that fit our personalities in each game we play, but we are not that huge uber guild.

WAR tried to really give people who dont like guilds a chance to experience it all.  PQs and Keep sieges allow you to just "join in" and contribute.  Same thing with scenarios to some extent.  But in keep sieges you will never get the full experience, in my opinion, until you have sieged or especialyl defended one as a part of a coordinated group.

Organizing your warband and setting up dedicated groups of BWs + an aoe healer, or gathering the melee guys on the postern door to mount up and go pick off the sieging factions siege weapons and people in the back to create a distraction.  It adds a new level of strategy and overall reward of the experience.

And going back to knockbacks...yes i can see how personal distaste for knockbacks could make it annoying, even if i dont mind them.  I simply would rather have them than a crowd control fest ala stuns/mezz/fear etc like WoW had.

If you've ever played a SW... then you would know KB was about their only real value as class....

just run back and kill em; it has a 30+ second reset timer, so it's not going to happen again.

KB and overpowered bright wizards..

(taking 4k of damage in just  TWO dots.. is a bit much..)

They way you guys talked about it I thought it was a pvp tactic, but you're talking about server issues right?  In old SWG, we called this rubber-banding.  Very annoying and it too sooo long for $OE to fix it too, but it got fixed.  If you leave over this issue, I would check back later if this is the only thing holding you back.  It is something common and fixable.

I've cancelled my account, effective the 19th.  No, I don't say that because I expect anyone to care, I just state it in response to the OP's question.

There isn't really anything I overly dislike about the game.  I I could consistently find RvR action, then my desire to continue playing would be high.  In the last week, I have not found a single RvR group in T2.  I create one, nobody joins.  I chat in general, nobody responds...completely dead chat.

If I'm lucky, I'll run across a handful of Destro, but usually not even that.  It's usually me, running from T2 battleground to battleground looking for a fight and a group.

Meanwhile, I can go to the warcamps, and there are a dozen or two individuals just standing there, I assume waiting for Scenarios to pop...

I can't buy RvR for gold in this game even...I don't know that right now I have the heart to re-roll on a more populated server, as my population seems fine...they just don't care to RvR.

Originally posted by m240gulf

They way you guys talked about it I thought it was a pvp tactic, but you're talking about server issues right?  In old SWG, we called this rubber-banding.  Very annoying and it too sooo long for $OE to fix it too, but it got fixed.  If you leave over this issue, I would check back later if this is the only thing holding you back.  It is something common and fixable.

Nope we were talking (or at least I was) about ranged and melee knockback skills that send your target(s) flying away from you.  Enough to knock them over a ledge into lava or out of the fight temporarily.