I gave in.

[Flufball]

I have the game. Details on where and what I'm supposed to be doing would be appreciated. Oh, and a crash wiped out all of my TeamSpeak settings so I'll need TS details as well.

[PariaH]

Server : Karak-Hirn - Order

[Flufball]

Well, first impressions say I'm going to have a love hate relationship with this game.

On the one hand, there's the same endless questing nonsense that I just can't stand in any MMO (although Public Quests are a nice change) and I find that my mind starts to melt away when I'm doing this.

On the other hand the PvP is brilliant. I've taken a distinct liking to pushing people off cliff's and bridges with my Engineer's knock back moral ability. It's quite amusing.

Still a little unsure of where to go. A bit board of my Engineer in PvP at the moment but I'm only level 12 so I don't want to judge it just yet, mostly it's because I want to get stuck in I guess and at such a low level I find I get somewhat impatient. Some of the later level stuff looks quite cool.

Either way, I'll be levelling a Warrior Priest in the background and in any spare moments I have because they look so damn cool.

[Gunhead]

On the one hand, there's the same endless questing nonsense that I just can't stand in any MMO (although Public Quests are a nice change) and I find that my mind starts to melt away when I'm doing this.

Well the cool thing with WAR is that you can choose not to run the regular quests at all if you don't feel like it and just rank up by doing PQ's and scenarios. Your xp'ing pace will be pretty much the same and you're not missing out on all that much kit.

You have much more freedom and choice in the way you advance your toon than in any other mmorpg i've played so far and there's not as much "must-do-this-before-you-can-do-that" nonsense then in most.

If the regular quests are doing your head in just skip them (well the travel quests are useful since it's easy xp just going from A to B and you'll get to know your way around better) and keep queing for scenerios while shifting around PQ's. Or if there's some action in the battlefields (the open world RvR areas) head in there while grabbing quests from War Camps beforehand - the ones from there are RvR quests and often you don't even realise you're doing them before you get a log update.

[Khammar]

True Story.

You really don't have to PvE at all (well, barring NPC's guarding PvP objectives in open RvR) while enjoying advancement.

[Hovis]

True Story.

You really don't have to PvE at all (well, barring NPC's guarding PvP objectives in open RvR) while enjoying advancement.

This is true. Unlike the last server on this one has plenty to kill.

We all took home quite a lot of XP from a keep defence last night, and there will be more to follow I'm sure.

[Flufball]

The problem I have is that I have a tendency to want to see everything and finish everything. :p

[Ludicrouse]

The problem I have is that I have a tendency to want to see everything and finish everything. :p

If i can end up being the highest level in the guild and only 10'ish levels from the cap then it must be ridiculously easy to level in this game! :D

[Hovis]

It's the number of cool classes that could do people in I think.Almost every fight I'm in these days I look around and see classes I could happily play. This is the first game in a long time that's ever had me play a mage for a start, and even then it's fun. Madness.

[Flufball]

I think that's the main problem I have, I don't like to feel left out and I have this with most games. If I'm sitting on the roof tops sniping in ArmA, I start to get twitchy because I'm not on the ground floor shooting stuff and when I'm on the ground floor shooting stuff I get twitchy because I'm not able to shoot the people 7600,000.942816732 meters away.

Likewise in the small titchy keep we played last night I was an engineer shooting things and wanting to be down below hitting things and I've no doubt that if I was hitting things I'd have wanted to be shooting things.

[Hovis]

I think that's the main problem I have, I don't like to feel left out and I have this with most games. If I'm sitting on the roof tops sniping in ArmA, I start to get twitchy because I'm not on the ground floor shooting stuff and when I'm on the ground floor shooting stuff I get twitchy because I'm not able to shoot the people 7600,000.942816732 meters away.

Likewise in the small titchy keep we played last night I was an engineer shooting things and wanting to be down below hitting things and I've no doubt that if I was hitting things I'd have wanted to be shooting things.

You should have got the sense from me hopping around bored and trying to snag a cannon off people that a melee tank is not what you want to be for about 80% of a keep siege :P

[Khammar]

You should have got the sense from me hopping around bored and trying to snag a cannon off people that a melee tank is not what you want to be for about 80% of a keep siege :P

Tanks rule during sieges. Try being a Witch Hunter. :) THAT is the suck!

In all seriousness, the ranged classes are the thing to be in keep battles. Ranged and healers have big advantages. Tanks are totally needed though.