As my previous post will have indicated, Im still playing Warhammer and loving it for the most part. One feature of the game that really stares you in the face and says that Mythic really didnt give it much thought is the PvE content. Like all MMO's Warhammer has obviously a lot of PvE conent. It comes in the form of monsters you kill while leveling and as part of the quest system. Dungeons are not really a prominent feature of Warhammer Online and when you experience them they really appear to be an after thought.

The monsters in Warhammer are the dumbest I have ever experienced to the point that they provide no challenge and I often wonder if Mythic would get better server performance if they just removed them. Heres an example of the typical monster spawn point in Warhammer. Say you have a quest to go and kill boss monster X at location Y. You run over to location Y and you find boss monster X and discover he is surrounded by his minions. So you think oh crap I'm going to have to clear all his minions if I want to solo him. No not in Warhammer, if you wait for him to come near you, nine times out of ten you will be able to pull him from his minions and slaughter him while they watch. This is a common theme in Warhammer PvE content.

So then you take the dungeons and wonder what the hell were they thinking. Then you realise they were not thinking, in fact some dungeons really feel like they are a total after thought. Take the sewers in Altdorf, the Scaven Tunnels or the Warpblade Tunnels, they all feel like one of the designers asked their 6 year child to design them. The last two are level 40 dungeons and provide zero challenge and even are 90% the same in layout and design.

Happy New Year and all that jazz. Thought I would post some screen shots of Warhammer and the continuous action on the Darklands Server. As you will see from the number players in some of the screen shots the PvP has a lot of people participating and is a blast. Sure the game has its faults, but I haven't had this much fun PvPing since UO.

Other than taking three week holidays a couple of weeks ago, last night I finally dinged level 40 in Warhammer.

So its been a while since I updated the site, however the site logs do say people keep visiting every day. So here's an update.

Warhammer Online still is my game of choice, its been as good launch for Mythic, however the sailing has not been as smooth as they would have you believe. Mainly due to the bugs being more subtle and therefore not really front page news. The most recent one they fixed has been the slow grind that is leveling in Warhammer. If you do scenario after scenario that's the fastest way I have found to leveling. However when your in a pick up group (PUG) it can become very obvious the average MMO player has no fucking clue as to how to PvP and what role there particular class may be used for. This can lead to unfathomable levels of frustration. I can't count the number of times I wish we had friendly fire so I could help the enemy slaughter some of the dumb fucking sheep playing Warhammer.

Fortunately I am in an excellent guild that has a very long history of PvP and therefore getting into a guild group is not an issue and scenario grinding can be a blast. Just to break up the grind you can do quests, which until the most recent patch was a complete waste of time other than trying to get the rare decent equipment drop due to the fact XP from quests was broken after you enter tier two. However some quick testing this morning shows that Mythic may have fixed this issue and quests might actually be a viable alternative to scenario grinding.

Warhammer Online went live recently and The Kelly Gang has been out capturing Keeps and laying waste to Destruction when we are grouped and fighting together.

The betas are over and this time it counts. Here's some action shots so far: