/wave hey kiddies

[Dall dies to much]

just popping in to say a big hello

wanted to see how you all were doing and what was going on, board seems dead :/

tried Aion... ya.. that lasted 20 days or so... uggg.. not my cup of tea

went back to WAR after PT got merged, played on the new PT for a bit.. rift got fixed (i know, right?)

got most of exitium back together for a very naughty experiment

made a rift team on order with help from bad moon, proved that it was 110% viable (even after ALL the nerfs to it and BWs)... talked to a ton of order from PT on vent that had merged to that server, the stories I heard from their perspective, O.M.G., I am was 100% shocked at how bad it was over there.

let me put it this way, one of their LARGE FAMILY GUILDS (hint hint) made all the healers into 1 warband, all the melee into another, and they had an artillery warband for range.. I am not kidding, should of heard the old PT order bitching on vent about them

let me put it this way, if PT order didn't have a ton of selfish engineers during it's hayday, and they specced RIft, destro would of never left the warcamp. if you ever wondered why you never saw it used much by them, it wasn't that it was "bad" it was becuase they were all "DPS" freaks

think about it.. Eng had a 5 sec stun, BWs had a 5 sec stun, knights had +10% crit chance off block.. rift was 30 sec reuse... rift stun, rift stun rift stun.... sigh.. was bad enough without them using it


I'll pop by once and awhile to say hi.. hope everyone is well!

p.s. moved twice, and new job for that real life update

p.s.s. the second youtube link is the only footage of exitum to surive a HD crash, though not our best of best kills, it is amusing! and why Rift/AE got nerfed, since I am 100% sure mythic played order on PT

[Gisli]

Hi, Dall! Yeah, most people got bored eventually with Aion and quit playing. Its not a bad game, but is too PvE oriented for some, too grindy for others. There isn't much on the horizon right now for MMOs. That, and its summer...

Took me awhile to dredge back up enough memories of Warhammer to understand what you are talking about.

[Scarr]

WAR is free for 10 days. You have to put in your CC info to get the 10 days but you dont get charged until the free 10 are up. I loaded it up, saw I had to transfer all my characters... did that. I got them all on Iron Rock now. I ran around a bit, the game looks just like it did when I quit. Boring, stale and full of global chat complainers. I am sure you had fun in your video, but WAR is not something I am really interested in anymore. Joras and I played the hell out of it on our Sorcs, running around Duoing and killing mass amounts of players. There is only so much you can do anything, no matter how fun it may be originally until eventually it just gets boring beyond being fun.

The only thing that is interesting is the ENDLESS Trial account in WAR. If you want to make a maxlvl 10 character and rampage in Tier 1 you can do it for free it seems. I am sure the twinkage on that is rediculous though.

[Vasan]

Still slightly on the topic of warhammer, the old republic is vaguely hinting at solving the problem of tons of players on the same area. I at once thought of the whole mess with warhammer, stupid winds of chaos.

So hopefully the team on team pvp aspect of Old Republic aka warzones will have meaningful amounts of players involved in each scenario, however, not just little zones where six on six fight in every now and again.

Still, thinking it about it, Old Republic does seem to have a hella of alot of cc abilties. Every class seems to have an ae knockdown or ae stun that hopefully will be limited by size of impact, foes effected, duration or reuse timer. There is even seems to be a version of the white lion ability pull, used by the bounty hunter called grappling hook.

Being firmly on the bandwagon of the amount of cc in pvp combat should be as close to zero as possible, I hope that they don't overdo the impact of cc in the pvp warzones area while prehaps allowing something a little more robust in the pvp department at some future point.

And heya Dall and others.

[Rimalder]

Gis, does this all mean that you're getting rid of your pink beard?