Tank in Order, Heal if destruction, Rant if player
Posted by Jay | Filed under Game Industry
I just hit 14 on my swordmaster and 13 on my zealot. Going from tier to tier is a lot of fun except a few minor issues.
First, where are my flight paths? Seriously, there’s like 1 per region, what’s that shit about? What it does is penalize me the player for wanting to experience new content. Let me illustrate an example:
Last night, my guild wanted to get together for some early tier 2 PQ action. So, I flew out to Shadowlands in the dark elf territory to start gathering the troops. My guildies had the option of travelling to two points; (1) the first war camp which is a 10 minute run from the previous tier and (2) the mid point war camp in the Shadowlands which was again a 10 minute walk to the location. Royal pain in the butt. Total tiem to get the group together, 30 minutes! 30 minutes of travel time! Pitiful.
Second, is class disparity. DPS classes in War are REALLY fun. By their nature DPS is more fun than the support. Missing a healer means you can’t complete PQs at all. Missing a Tank means you can’t complete 50% of all PQs. That’s 50% of regular leveling content that cannot be experienced without a tank. That sucks. Mind you, I play a tank on the order side and I never have this problem.
Third, and this is more minor. Apparently alot of people queue into scenarios. I don’t buy it. I agree that many people do queue into them except that when I queue for an evening I will see the same names. So I imagine the overall population is roughly 100 folks queueing scenarios. Of course, Warhammer doesn’t show how many scenarios are actually running, so its impossible to tell.
Third and a half? Please for the love of gawd, add some randomness to the scenarios. Whatever the algorithm is, change it! I’m tired of Nordenwatch and I’m tired of Mourkain Temple. 60% of all scenario content is never experienced. Any company would find that poor practice.
I’m having a great time. I just wish it were easier. And don’t think that its any easier to have said good time in World of Warcraft. These same issues are even more excaserbated in WoW.
Leave a Reply
