“Our Game Update 1.3.0b Public Test has come to a close, and Warpstone is currently down in preparation for the launch of 1.3.0b this week.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 1.3.0b Public Test. Your feedback and contribution is much appreciated.”
So it looks like they are going live with 1.3.0b as it is.
This is one of those moments that it will be extremely hard to fully convey. Anyway, here goes…
We’d been running around a large part of the evening generally just causing trouble. We were running as a warband but just going with the flow. We wander into Dragonwake after locking Praag and decide to go help at the west keep. We killed an awful lot of Order but were eventually beaten back when they produced a rather frightening number of people. All good. We reform up at Covenant of Flame and wait for the inevitable attack. I grab a coffee (yes coffee, not beer). Just as I get back to my PC, Order arrive at CoF.
Game on.
Got to RR60 yesterday late afternoon at around 39 days /played…
…and had a hoot. There is so much more flexibility as to what you can do with your character just by having that one precious extra mastery point. I forsee me spending much of the next few weeks respeccing a lot while I tweak and fiddle as much as I did when I was around rank 40 and desperately trying to find a spec that didn’t have pitiful damage output. At the time that wasn’t possible as it was before the first patch post-launch of WAR but it was very helpful later when I finally settled on Changing to have tried different (and sometimes crazy) things out.
Possibly for the first time ever I feel my toon is making an effective and useful contribution to the team, rather than being the cripple that is brought along out of sympathy. Many guilds openly admit they wont tolerate a Magus that is not pure rift spec. I can’t speak as to other classes but RR60 is a seriously major landmark for anyone playing a Magus. I’ve kinda ambled there in a casual way. The irony I find is that its easier to play. If you spec for the big spell on 2 mastery paths you effectively cut out all the toys below them that you might spec for, thus resulting on less buttons on your toolbar. The upside is that the tactical options available are biggies.
I’m glad to have achieved this pre-nerf so that I have something to compare to when it hits. I don’t think there is a Magus player in Europe or America that isn’t seriously considering the status of their subscription.
These have been posted in the GOA discussion forums today:
Magus
Balance Changes
Magus player responses here…
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=301580
and here
http://forums.warhammeronline.com/warhammer/board/message?board.id=chaos_mg&thread.id=4114
One comment that intrigued me was that if Mythic really were standardising AoE then Magus AoE would be brought on par regarding range and so forth in the same patch.
I will confess I’m really struggling to hold back on saying something more scathing. Perhaps I’ll wait until we see the effects of the changes on PTS and live.
You know when you’ve had a goal for a while and it gets really close and suddenly time seems to slow down and its like you’re wading through treacle to get that last bit of the way to your target? Whether its a long journey home or the last few points of xp to get a toon in an MMO to cap level the feeling is the same. Anticipation and mild frustration as your goal is teasingly close. You’ve put in the time, you’ve done the work, you just. Want. To. Be. There.
Recently, someone made a post on WHA to post your /played…
Sneak preview at new overpowered head armour
…can you shatter with your singing?
It seems strange to have spent all that time to make a shorter video than the original. As before, it was good fun because there were again new things to learn while messing around.
…its Karaoke time. Well nearly. I’ve completed the Karaoke version. I was remixing the audio up until late last night as I couldn’t quite get the sounds how I wanted them. Then I boomed the bass drum ghetto style and flanged the bassline and suddenly it all fell into place. The text was already done so it was just a case of tweaking it a bit. I’m less than happy with the karaoke aspect since I couldn’t quite figure out how to get a bouncing bouncy thing above the text within the limited time I have to spend on this, so please forgive me if its not quite what it could be in that respect.
I won’t be uploading to YouTube until overnight since it can take many hours to upload.
Last night we puttered into Land of the Dead. Its quite a giggle at first, but like all PvE-focused areas in WAR not something that will hold my attention particularly. I play WAR looking for enemy players to inflict misery upon and I’d be disappointed if those same enemies weren’t doing the same. For me, the PvE is just stuff to do between those times.
Inevitably Order eventually flip the zone back and thats really when the fun starts. I return from a PQ to near the Destruction warcamp area and we discuss on voice comms where to set up.
Well the big news in the World of Warhammer is the announcement from EA of some ‘reshuffling’.
http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=841
I can’t claim to be sorry. There are some very poor design decisions that were allowed to go through to the final release version of WAR, most notably the appalling mess that is city sieges. Hopefully, Mythic (and hence WAR) will do well out of this reshuffling.
Back in my smaller world of Warhammer, I’ve completed the remixing of the music for the Karaoke version of Manaic Magus, cutting out the intro stuff and going straight to the main meat of the track. So less badly shot video to have to tolerate and all new sarcasm.
I’ve also started the groundwork for the next video, with one music mix complete (a slightly psychadelic version of something fellow nerds everywhere will recognise) and a second awaiting what I laughingly think of as vocals. Its a good job this stuff is comedy. I didn’t gather any video last night during Operation Burning Ring. Since a large chunk of my gameplay during those events is sitting in a keep talking to people I didn’t see much point to recording. We managed to get around 15 warbands out and about, which was good fun. Shame the game still can’t handle truly epic battles but it was a very fun evening’s open field RvR.
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