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April Fool’s, Lost Vale and Rant

Friday Apr 3,2009 09:25 AM
By Thulf
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Just so the people reading my blog through a newsfeed reader don’t miss it and spend hours searching: The entire Beyond the Kraken Sea towards the GM Castle post was just my sophisticated April Fool’s joke. Everything was fiction and photoshoped. If you spend some time up there searching for the Journal (and i know some did *g*) i hope you had some fun at least and maybe saw a new area.

After the evening in Lost Vale when the server started to screw us over, we went back another evening to finish the instance. We encountered some strange bugs (most is covered on the forums) during our run and especially at N’Kari i think we had the pleasure of encountering all of the ones mentioned here. Running several meters past an orb and picking it up was no fun. Also it felt like the stupid channeling-tomes are even harder to pick up now. Took me around 100 clicks to pick one up at some point. I fail to understand why the end-game instances does not seem to have any priority in the bug fixing process. At least they give people something to do while Mythic works on fixing the real end-game. But when you run an instance with a five day lockout and its bugged like hell, you start to ask yourself “Why am i doing this again? I want to have fun and not bite my keyboard due to stupid bugs…”
We did not get many items we could really use during that run, but i was lucky enough to grab Da Choppa of da Chieftain, which will become my new main weapon. I still wonder why there are just more or less generic weapons and not some designed for specific roles so eg. you can obtain a tanking Choppa – guess its part of a somewhat lazy itemization.

During our LV run we were talking a lot about the current “feel” of the game. The main problem right now is that there is not much to do that you can call endgame. Once you’re not (or very seldom) running city dungeons anymore, because you got full sentinel, you can only do Lost Vale (which has a long lockout, you can’t switch team members and its bugged), do oRvR and scenarios. The thing about oRvR currently is tho, that its a zerg-fest. Those of you that played AoC may remember some of the cool small scale PvP you could do there. That’s the feeling i want in WAR as well. Zerg attacks are freakin’ boring. Attacking Keeps involves too less strategy and the capitol raids are boring as well, once you’ve been there a few times. The whole end-game is not polished enough to be fun. And the thing that really bugs me are the very few possibilities you have to “upgrade” your character. Farming renown just feels like a grind, as does running LV currently. If we would not have such a fun crowd to play with in the guild, i think many more would have quit already. Once you have full Darkpromise gear you can only upgrade via Warlord gear (rr64-70). If i will hit a wall when i have to grind 30 renown levels to be able to wear the next item upgrades and there is no other possible upgrades… probably I’ll rethink the “fun” I’m having. Mythic is re-thinking the ward-system and i hope they’re doing it properly. In addition i know for a fact, that when the Land of the Dead does not deliver towards end-game fun and the “feeling” you can upgrade your character more, WAR will face hard times.