[WAR] - Game Update 1.01

[Bizanich]

Originally Posted by Lost Ranger

Appears that mass killing mobs has been nerfed? Saw a SS showing that mass grinding causes a 50% exp hit on those mobs. Not a issue really since alot of the AE grinding was for PQs anyway and the stage exp bonus will still be a nice boost if you can clear fast enough.

You must be joking, it wasn't in the patch notes. All MMO companies know by now that stealth nerfs not in the patch notes cause unbridled nerd rage, right?

Right...?

[Brikker]

Roots aren't changed at all, though I thought I saw a note saying they were supposed to break as intended?

Getting the usual BW Roots me, get focus fired to death while root doesn't break deals in scenarios still.

[Ngruk]

Originally Posted by Ravensign

I don't have to fucking do it for WoW. Let me log in and go. It's a relatively minor annoyance, but a pita nonetheless. It's obviously not a legal requirement if no other games force you to do it.

Obviously the EULA's are different, or Mythic/EA lawyers came to different conclusions than Blizzards did about the need for it to be there.

[Rako]

Originally Posted by TheYanger

The muddy feel of combat and cooldowns was the #1 reason I knew in beta that I wouldn't be buying WAR. Speaking as a non-subscriber currently, it's definitely what they need to work on. Everything else was fairly solid by the time preview weekends and all of that were rolling in, but the disconnect from my UI to my character in a game so vastly centered on combat always snapped me right back out of it. I'm not a person who is bored with WoW in the first place, but even if I were being in LK freaking alpha compared to WAR late beta was night and day, and if they can fix that they'll probably retain and maybe grow their userbase a lot more than any other changes (Queues and whatnot aside, but as a bonus WoW two years ago hopefully got the masses accustomed to that for better or worse).

Thanks for your knowledgeable input. The combat system has improved a lot since beta, a lot of things have, it just isn't completely perfect yet.

Oh and WotLK might be in "alpha" as you say, but the core game has been out for many years, WotLK is just an expansion.

[Horse]

Originally Posted by Bizanich

You must be joking, it wasn't in the patch notes. All MMO companies know by now that stealth nerfs not in the patch notes cause unbridled nerd rage, right?

Right...?

Or it was in the patch notes right here:

We have fixed an issue that was awarding an overly large experience bonus to players who killed many monsters in rapid succession (IE, several killing blows within a second or two of each other). This will largely only affect small groups that use AE abilities to kill off a very large number of monsters with a single ability activation.

[Zerai]

Originally Posted by Rako

Thanks for your knowledgeable input. The combat system has improved a lot since beta, a lot of things have, it just isn't completely perfect yet.

Oh and WotLK might be in "alpha" as you say, but the core game has been out for many years, WotLK is just an expansion.

WoW's combat UI has never been muddy though. I'd rather have loot lag over muddy UI.

And yes I play War. And it drives me nuts.

The morale lag is fucking gay. The root yourself and your target tank morale ability is awesome when it goes off...and your target had gotten out of range when it did. So now you're both rooted..and you can't hit them. I love that.

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by Horse

Or it was in the patch notes right here:

We have fixed an issue that was awarding an overly large experience bonus to players who killed many monsters in rapid succession (IE, several killing blows within a second or two of each other). This will largely only affect small groups that use AE abilities to kill off a very large number of monsters with a single ability activation.

That only seems to be a fix to their xp bonus stuff for mass kills that they removed soon after the first few people hit 40(the 5 10 15 20% bonus xp). It doesn't really say anything about penalizing xp if you kill mobs in packs instead of killing them one by one, which from what I understand, is the former complaint about AEing. Seems an awful nerf, just like when aoc nerfed powerleveling and AEing. If people want to level fast, they should be able to. Don't think wow ever nerfed frost AE leveling, or dungeon powerleveling, they just made quest xp so much better than it's not worth doing anymore. Going the other way is pretty gay imo, the game isn't terribly slow to level in, but it sucks people should be penalized for AEing when some classes were obviously designed with that in mind(magus/engineer/bw/sorcs).

[Draegan]

Does anyone have any good screenshots of the T2 scenarios? I'm writing an article and I don't have access to the game atm and google is not helping me.

Will pay in +internets.

[Digits]

Originally Posted by Draegan

Does anyone have any good screenshots of the T2 scenarios? I'm writing an article and I don't have access to the game atm and google is not helping me.

Will pay in +internets.

http://medias.jeuxonline.info/war/up...riomarais1.jpg

Aerial shot of the dwarf and Greenskin scenario. No action though, so it's of a limited application. You should try searching for Stonetroll's Crossing, Mourkain Temple and Phoenix's Gate.

[Stromni Redbeard]

Pounce for White Lions was just Hotfixed in game without a downtime. Now works like this...

If you have nothing targeted nothing happens.

If you have an enemy targeted you now Pounce all the way to them...MUUCH further than previously...used to only bounce you on the ground about 5 feet forward. Now you basically leap towards them, i Love the new version soo much more!

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Digits

http://medias.jeuxonline.info/war/up...riomarais1.jpg

Aerial shot of the dwarf and Greenskin scenario. No action though, so it's of a limited application. You should try searching for Stonetroll's Crossing, Mourkain Temple and Phoenix's Gate.

Yeah I've been searching with all the keywords but maybe I get a lot of blogs with stock photo's from warhammeronline.com's grab bag sessions.

[Mist]

If you reinstall the game from disk or disk images or the D2D installer, most of the UI lag is gone. Pretty sure a patched up beta/preview weekend copy has some kind of UI debugger enabled, or something.

[Kreugen]

Not sure if they ninjad it in this patch or not but heals show as green in your combat log now instead of being tied to the same color as damage.

[Rythonn]

Still getting stuck animations and Target Too Far Away bullshit.

[Zierain]

Killing multiple mobs in succession really nerfs your exp now.

I've seen 5-10 mobs down at once, and the exp gets cut 50% for the first, 56, 66, 76, 86% for the rest.

Mark Jacobs has recently posted that it will be disabled pending him discussing it with the design team and finding out what the thinking behind this is. This hurts solo players of classes that AE well as well as AE grind groups.