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.

Negative Burn – Preview Weekend Video!

It’s almost 1am here in Seattle, so if your up and about check out the new Negative Burn RvR Video!

Content:

1. Gates of Erkund Scenario play
2. 3 – Tier 2 Keep Sieges
3. Open RvR play

PoV – Engineer/Runepriest

Veoh Version (recomended)

YouTube Version

Cheers! and goodnight… or morning.

Army of Engi’s

Howdy yall,

I wanted to update my activities , knowlege of Engineers, and give my opinion on the current “sate of game” they are in. The past few days I have been running a ton of RvR with the guild. We focused our efforts on Tier 2 RvR zones and I have to say it’s the real deal. To my surprise I’m somewhat overwhelmed with the amount of abilities this class will eventually have at his and her (yup, female dwarfs armed to the teef with explosives….scary) disposal. I was wondering what RDPS (Range Damage) would feel like in the battles and there isn’t enough i could type to fully explain the amazing terrain snipe spots, spell animations, and how unique each player model really is. The game does a real good job in the immersion play department. I will dive in a bit to into each spec li…err mastery path.

Engi Specing basics

I also hope all of the Engineer hopefuls have got a chance to check out our Career Mastery Page.These masteries are awarded after Specing into each of the three paths: Rifleman, Grenadier, and Tinkerer. As is, we have 25 points to spend on our masteries (an additional 5 points are awarded from Renown Ranks) and each path is 15 points + 3 tactics + 3 abilities + 1 morale ability totaling 22 points.

RIFLEMAN

• This path will boost damage output for our core abilities.

1. Gun turret
   
2. Hip Shot
3. Incendiary Rounds
4. Focused Fire

• The focus of this path is to effectively rain damage down on the enemy(s) from with-in the 100ft range (sorry EU I would vote for metric system) Using AoE’s , DoTs, and DD abilities. This is a very focused path used for picking out those weakened, squishy back playas, single targets and generally obliterating the sad soul you targeted.

Grenadier

• This path will boost these core abilities

1. Bombardment Turret
2. Powder Bomb
3. Flashbang Grenade
4. Fragmentation Grenade
5. Acid Bomb

• The focus of this path is more geared toward Aoe damage, aliments, and debuffs. Grenadiers will prove worth utterly destroying and manipulating the front lines of the battle.

Tinkerer

• again, adding to these core abilites

1. Friction Burn
2. Land Mine
3. Flame Turret
4. Blunderbuss Blast

• If your looking to ride in with Tanks and be close enough to smack an enemy upside the head with your monkey wrench… look no further. The Tinkerer gets the unique ability of a Brew inspired pbAoE HoT. (I know huge acronym, maybe its better to say It’s an area heal for comrades fighting along side of you) also find additional Turret abilities and LOTS of point blank area damage.

Featured, in the latest WAR traileryou will see Engi’s blastin’ Orcs and enjoying a stien! Engineers are definitely a class dropping heads when skillfully played. And since I didn’t get any questions yet to answer, I am still willing.

P.S.

over the next few Days/Weeks till launch, the Negative Burnpublic forum will be expanding. Any players and guilds may join up and interact the nB Community and nB alliance. These forums will provide a great hub for Order players, I encourage players to sign up and contribute! nB will be taking apps for new recruits and Guilds that wish to create a band along side of Negative Burn.

Cheers!

28.5% ready.

The last few days have got away from me. Like others, I too have been upgrading my system to ensure smooth play in large RvR battles. My processor and graphics card are the weakest part of my system right now but they still rank above the minimum line by a decent amount so I’ll keep those units. Up until now I was running 1.5GB RAM with windows Vista so i picked up two sticks of Super Talent 2gb 800MHz RAM putting me at a very comfortable 4Gigs.  I got home and threw off my tower door like the hulk and begun to unpacked my RAM. The heat sinks on the sticks made it a tight fit and almost impossible to install and nearly missing a component on my motherboard. I booted up Windows and checked my system specs…. RAM: 3gig…..huh? I ran Dxdiag and updated my beta account anyways. As it turns out the salesman gave me the wrong chip and I had to wait till yesterday to exchange it.

My next move was obtaining Fraps since I plan on making short movies, strats vids, Epic RvR vids, and anything of the like.  I ran an unofficial stress test on my machine. This was easy, I started by recording fraps, ran a movie, opened 6-8 web pages, ran itunes, signed into Vent, signed into msn, and did my best to bogg my system down. I’m happy to say everything ran perfectly, but not for too long.

After receiving my Beta invite via CE reserve, set up Vuze with the task of DLing the 9+ gig beta file. Vuse would end up shanking my system repeatably and displaying “the blue screen of death”  <grumble>  I spent an hour or two researching the problem and trying to correct it. AHHHRRGG! I have a good amount of patience normally, but not today!! /uninstall and downloaded Utorrent to do the job. I left this morning at 28.5% the way to WAR!

The Pre-WAR hum.

I finnaly got my Beta Invite and DLing now! Most of the guild is reporting invites as well. There is a steady buzz of preperation across the net, like runners before a marathon and hundreds of thousands of people deep. Tape your nipples down, stretch them legs, and get into your happy place because WARs Open Beta is about to begin!

Re: MBJ and his announcments

Most of us have read and memorized MBJ’s(Mythic CEO) Big Announcment from yesterday. I couldn’t help but read between the lines and put down my own observation of human pessimistic ways.

7) Regarding the NDA lift, we hope to lift the NDAnext week, one month before launch. I wish I could lift it right now but as I’ve said elsewhere, we need to take care of a three issues before the NDA is lifted. One has already been taken care of and I hope that by the end of next week, the other two will be taken care of as well. Once we lift the NDA I’ll go into more detail as to what the issues were and why I wanted to hold things up. The remaining two issues are not earth-shattering by any means but when I explain things, I hope you’ll understand why I wanted to wait another week.

First off, I’m a fanboy of the mythic team since DAoC and all the x-pacsI got to spend time playing in.(except I never forgave them adding those OP Bonedancers) MBJ has been around far longer then 10 years and regularly communicates with the communities around his games. The way he worded this point #7 about the NDA made it sound like he was typing while fitting into a flame retardant jumpsuit. “The remaining two issues are not earth-shattering“  meaning that probly when we hear that MBJ didn’t want to lift the NDA because the team has not decided on what color the top of tavern bar stools should be, the heads of sleep deprived teens will explode.  Openly ignorant comments directed right at MBJ are sure to follow. I suspect somone will even go as far as calling MJB some form of a money hungry CEO holding the NDA so the press in Closed Beta can boost WARs initial sales. Reading posts of that nature paralyze me with WAAGH!! …..ACHIEVEMENT! “you have just added your 100th name to the book of grudges! New title: The Avenger”

Please think before you press “Submit” and realize these type of responses are what turned the WoW forums into a cesspool of random asinine dialogue. I wonder, after launch just how strict WHA ruleswill be able to be enforced with WHA’s newly added moderators. Now, lets see how the NDA lift goes.

Meet Gompers

Seattle from my(brothers) roof.

Hello all, the purpose of this blog is to inform, vent, storytell, and help all concerning the Mythic WAR effort. I don’t know what will come of this blog right now. I intend to Update on a normal basis on a wide spectrum of topics and issues. You can never have enough fingers in the pie!

I come from the damp and mild area in US of ‘MERICA! known as the Pacific North West. I love to travel all around the great state of Washington Avoiding cops, camping, fishing, Hiking, Biking, flirting, general fun and play. These rain forests and snowy peaks hold home to adventure trails filled with curious creatures for an experience no Zoo can show.

I am a single noob with a random plan and a dream of glory.

Cheers!