A good MMO that gets even better while time passes..
WAR sounded excactly like what I was looking for. And it didn't dissapoint me.
What fascinates me in War is how well the devs managed to include everybody from newbie 1lvl player to mmo veteran in the ever-going battle of the Warhammer Universe.
Your options to level you char are 'limitless' compared to other mmos.. If you like PVP you can join the battlegrounds and lvl from 1-40 by just doing those, or you could combine BGs with ORVR, kiep sieges, epic 80+ vs 80+ battles
or in case you are more of an explorer you could lvl by questing alone and some pvp ocasionly.
Another thing i like are the rewards and abilities you are getting throught out you life in war..
Most quests rewards are armor pieces, weapons or amulets for your armor cash included which gives you a reason to try pve aswell..
where else for every 2 levels in WoW you are getting a bunch of upgrades for your abilities in WAR every one or two levels
you are getting new abilities, morale abilities, or tactics. Your character is more like a puzzle that is coming together piece by piece and with every new ability you see the new options in gameplay and new ways to achieve things, in this case to kill your opponents.
Besides what I was looking for was a game to give me some happy times without having to sucrifice my soul for it. In WAR i can log for 30mins do 2+ BG's gain 30k xp and 5k+ renown, and get an armor piece for my collection.. Even when I got some hours to kill War has enough things to offer.. RVR, hour long kiep sieges, some basic, but fun enough, dungeons, and i never have to sacrifice my lvling for any of those things as i always gain xp..
The bad side of WAR shined at me when my server was splited to soon to lower queue times in the first month. GOA the operator in Europe decided to open too many servers and duplicate some too soon for the European release.. That way the server I play my main ended up having low population.
As WAR is a RVR/PVP focused game, the low pop destroyed the good image of this game.
Another thing is balance between factions. this game is about the war.. If the server's population is unbalanced, there can't be a war..
BUT from november GOA is offering transfers from low pop servers to medium populated ones, which made WAR again one of the best MMORPGS
in my eyes.
As for the bugs that some reviews/forums are crying about.. with the latest 1.1(a,b,c,d) patches the game is running better then ever before.(I managed to
run the game on P4 3.0ghz 2gb ram and a medieval hercules ati radeon 9500 pro 128mb ram, i don't recommend it though)... And some of the design flaws are also fixed by now. (see warhammeronline.com under news).
So if you are a PVP oriented gamer, that can and want's to work in groups i can only recommend this game. It's a must for every mmo player that likes
PVP and wants to go a lvl up.
But be aware this game is not for solists. If you decide to give this game a serious try.. find a good guild on a med to full server and you want regret your choise :)( or roll a witch hunter or witch elf :p)... and one more thing, take it slow.. don't rush to max lvl.. enjoy each aspect of this game.. and by the time you hit 40, most people will, and you will enjoy the end content as it is ment to be and with more stuff to do as 1.2patch seems to be one of those content patches they promised..