Incomming pt.1 A WAR Story

A days worth of PvP as a Shammy

High Quality of course…..

Cheers!

On the grind.

Howdy fellas!

This poor poor lonely blog hasn’t been updated so I’ll take a minute, and log out.  Dark Crag is a bit funny, Destruction has got us outnumbered/ranked by more then a few and continues to dominate all of T3 and T4 (some of T4 is locked into order control for lack of players yet to reach cap). The good part about this is that when we do have a few good men online we run some smash a grab runs to take over a zone and usually start to see some destruction pour in once we have already took out a the last lord of the zone and run some defense until 50+ destro show up ranging from R20-40. Needless to say holding a keep and even getting back to a keep after death proves to be a very difficult challenge .  I have to say I am really impressed with the RvR lakes it is just to bad that Order/destro tend to neglect this area due to better means of leveling/renown via scenarios and PvE questing, it is really a shame!

At the moment I have leveled completely from Scenarios and RvR quests and Currently a rank 31/31Engineer following the path of Grenadier.  Now I know if any of you have been following WHA Engi forums… you have already switched mains after cursing your laughable dmg,hp, and armor factor, believe me I’m in the same boat. Sure, I can focus mainly on throwing out damage and rank near the top rivaling with the rest of the DPS classes except for the ranged Bright wizards (apposed to the melee suicidal not-worth-healing BWs) but that means I am focused 100% on killing and I don’t spend much if any time worrying about objectives or using our CC moves.  I’m trying to find that niche of play that Engineers excel in because it certainly isn’t high consistent damage or burst damage. Right now, I put our healers as my top priority, I’ll drop my turret near our healers and let them know if they want protection to stand right on top of it.  This does a few great things for the team  first it hides the turret from being obliterated, and second If any witch elfs pop or a melee zerg rushes I will not hesitate to use Self Destruct  (–AoE  5 second knockdown–) followed by a strafing run or frag grenade, followed again by a concussion grenade or land mine (this depends on the amount of players attacking and my range from the turret) Running this combo will effectively stop any onslaught and allow healers to focus on doing their job.

Moving on, I have heard of quite a few people having choppy/lag issues with Nvidia cards and AMD processors and I currently run both. I upgraded to a Nvidia 9600 AMP! edition and still have a bit of bottleneck with my AMD Athalon 2.0 GHz dual core and unfortunately it is restricted from Overclocking.  I might wipe Vista from this computer and run XP but I’m unsure that will provide at least 30% boost in performance that I’m looking for. The other option is to pick up a new motherboard and processor overclocked to 3.0 GHz  for around 200 USD for about a 50% boost in processor performance. I have some great Ideas for Videos but I won’t film until I’m running full effects and lag free ><.

Cheers!

Dark Crag,The Hardcore Open RvR Server.

Heya fellas and gals here is an announment from the Hardcore Order WAR guild Negative Burn.

Dark Crag

After reviewing the list of servers that will be made available for Collector’s Edition Headstart tomorrow morning, we have chosen our server. Negative Burn will be rolling on the US, Open RvR Server, known as Dark Crag.

Prepare yourselves for War.

Roll Dark Crag destruction, bring your A game and give us some kind of challenge.

It may be a while.

Howdy yall,

I got to say that I am not satisfied with my specific Engineer footage to deliver a quality video.  Although, I just picked up some new editing software and just might be able to pull a gem out of these buttocks. One of the reasons excuses I have is … I lagged, a decent amount too while taking on keep lords and other mobs in small areas. It was pretty bad in Closed Beta( I believe the debugger running  was reason for most of it) but I have room to improve(down with itunes, firefox,and seeding)  and here is something I can give you

Look at that beard!

Engineer, how many tricks do you have?

I dare you to cross this line.

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Once we got inside[the keep], I had my best moment of the day. We made short work of the NPCs on the lower level and charged up to the second floor to kill the keep master only to get blown back — I mean literally blown back — by a group of Dwarven engineers who had set up turrets and were throwing grenades. Call it a Team Fortress 2 flashback, but the realization that I had just gotten cut down by a gun turret constructed by a dwarf was easily the most surreal experience I’ve had in quite a while. Even better (or worse from our standpoint) those damned dwarves and the other Order player then proceeded to hold us at the stairwell using a combination of tanks to block and lots more grenades. All credit to whoever was playing Order last night. You held it together against a force of superior numbers and managed to drive us back. You have my respect until next time.

I have always been a fan of defending and laying traps Be it luring a group of players into an ambush, dropping AoE spells on a choke point, or running flanks. The combo of land mines, grenades, turrets, my Rifle, and my cranium are going to have a large amount of fun together.

strangely fitting Will Ferrel quote ” I PLAY FOR KEEPS!, I PLAY FOR KEEPS!”

The GameSpy Journal

Do I hear an echo?

Courtsey of WHA Sept. 18th RELEASE! …. now what?

ToK: The Adventures of Gompers!

Now I Want to play WAR as Order,  and more specifically the Engineer but this quote makes me want to play both sides! Not to mention thanks to Book of Grudges for steering me toward this Gamespy Journal of Press in closed Beta seemingly immune to the NDA sword.

In this case I unlocked one of ten potential flavor entries on Norsca about the Chaos Portal, receiving a small xp reward along with a well-written and fun short (about a page) about a Chaos Sorcerer and a Marauder checking out a Chaos Portal. When the Sorcerer asks the Marauder what he thinks of it, well, I’ll just let the text speak for itself:

“Bjorn was lying on the ground in the fetal position, gently rocking and humming to himself. His hands were covered with blood: his own. The Sorcerer stared into the ragged mess of the Marauder’s eye sockets. The man had clawed out his own eyes.”

This is the kind of news got me excited about the ToK and PvE in general. This might be the single best original Idea that Mythic has brought to the MMOG market. Now this isn’t clearly “new” because almost every game to date puts you in the hero shoes or shoes of great importance. Every game creates a huge land with great mountains, ruins, landmarks, easter eggs, and cinematics to progress a storyline. Every game gives your the scene but no story! In every OTHER game that storlyline is the same for anyone that plays it and that’s the key to the ToK being so utterly huge to the MMO genre. The great thing is that everyones ToK will be different, but equally fascinating to read.The ToK is like a choose your own adventure novel if the ToK Is infact as deep as Carrie G. (ToK creator and spokeswomen) claims.

I can hope that Mythic will print it into an Italian leather bound book upon the inevitable day I choose to leave the WAR effort, just for me to keep(I really do).