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At Baltimore Games Day we had a chance to sit down with Nate Levy to talk about careers, RvR, and class balance, which is a very touchy subject in Warhammer Online. Players have been crying “foul!” on Bright Wizard and Sorcerer area of effect attacks and the lack of survivability for tanks and DPS classes in the game.
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The largest issues right now players seem to be facing are the Bright Wizard and Sorcerer AOE groups in RvR. They are made up of a tank for protection, healers, and a Bright Wizard/Sorcerer who is spamming damage all around. Nate explained that these groups are a bit too effective and some changes are in the works. The Bright Wizard is the only career really doing anything active in the fight. Nate had this to say on the topic:
“Right now Bright Wizard and Sorcerer PBAOE bomb groups. People realize that these characters can do a lot of area damage, so they stack a group of a tank to guard, three healers, and a Bright Wizard and they do nothing but concentrate all these five people’s output through one person and they do very well at it,” he said. “Especially against uncoordinated groups who don’t realize you just take out the healers and the Bright Wizard is toast.”

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/67820

It also needs a trailer with a script that is eerily similar to Arthas' crap from the WLK trailer.

Those of you who are looking for a summary of all the great points and footage from Land of the Dead for this weekend's Games Day Baltimore can look no further than this thread!

• The Land of the Dead's access is controlled by competing resource gathering. Resources are gotten through ORvR kills or Zone Control in Tier 4. it is meant for ranks 25 - 40, and the bolster buff will put players to rank 36 in the zone.

• When one faction achieves the required resources, they are allowed to travel to the area and access the content unrestricted for 30 minutes (subject to change). After this, the resource collection begins again, with the winning faction starting from zero and the losing faction starting from where they left off.
  

• A handicap system, awarding more resource value per resource item, will be in place to assist realms on servers that are struggling to gain resources or are constantly on the defensive.

• The Land of the Dead's main area has 18 different Public Quests, each with their own unique dynamic. For example, one PQ carries you into Carrion Nests to destroy eggs, while another features an Obelisk that buffs or debuffs you.

• The Land of the Dead's zone is roughly the size of Reikland, but entirely RvR-enabled (except for warcamps of course)

• Land of the Dead's PQ's give out glyphs to all contributors. The glyphs determine access to the four different lairs within the main area.

• Land of the Dead PQ's are meant to be solo-friendly, which means Champion mobs won't suddenly force you from the area. You can still farm a PQ if you want.

• The Tomb of the Vulture King is the main dungeon in Land of the Dead. The loot within is roughly on par with/slightly above Lost Vale gear.

• The dungeon itself contains traps which must be disarmed by some of your party members to move forward.

• The Land of the Dead's inspiration was gleaned from action RPGs and Indiana Jones-style encounters.

• When zone control flips to the other side, the invading realm gaining control receives quests and the opportunity to purge the defenders within. Because you cannot get rewards from or otherwise do the PQ's in the main area while enemies are around, players will have incentive to attack enemy players.

• When going to an instance, you may choose to start a new one or invade an enemy one. Invading an enemy instance and participating in those tasks gives out rewards and other benefits exclusive to purging enemy invaders.

• Defenders will have to make conscious choices - they can hold the line outdoors, or if in an instance, they can re-arm the traps and re-direct invaders to trash mobs in an attempt to delay their progress. Because defenders, if they cannot be raised, will respawn in their capital cities, there is a certain element of risk involved.

• Defenders can also choose to log out or use other methods of preserving progress such as pushing ahead as far as possible into the encounters.

• The Land of the Dead's zone control is meant to flip at least twice a night, though again, this is a working number and could change.

• As part of this implementation, the ward system is being overhauled into a sigil system. Wards will no longer be attached to actual armor but instead tied to achievements in the Tome of Knowledge, such as killing the boss that dropped that armor. Wards can then be combined into sigils which have the same effects wards do now. This allows players to mix and match set pieces, and retain wards/sigils even if they don't have the armor pieces.
  

• The implementation will also revise the lockout system, allowing players with partial or no progression to be able to join up with those that have further progression.

If you think of any more you see from the videos or other coverage about the event, please let me know and I can add them!

Hey, they are finally getting around to fixing the problems from early Beta. Good for them!

The Career Compendium features more than 220 official careers spanning the entire breadth of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay line

Will Ozymandias be a raid boss in this expansion?

When one faction achieves the required resources, they are allowed to travel to the area and access the content unrestricted for 30 minutes (subject to change). After this, the resource collection begins again, with the winning faction starting from zero and the losing faction starting from where they left off.

Hey, they are finally getting around to fixing the problems from early Beta. Good for them!

Was I the only one who thought the in game footage looked like crap? Not to mention the generic egyptian-esque setting that seems to be used in every fucking rpg ever.

Mmm. Logging out becomes an intended game mechanic. Sounds like a winner.

Was I the only one who thought the in game footage looked like crap? Not to mention the generic egyptian-esque setting that seems to be used in every fucking rpg ever.

The Land of the Dead's main area has 18 different Public Quests, each with their own unique dynamic. For example, one PQ carries you into Carrion Nests to destroy eggs, while another features an Obelisk that buffs or debuffs you.

PQs should scale in difficulty for the number of people that are involved.  If there is just one doing the PQ it should be a 1 person difficulty PQ.  If there are fifty it should scale appropriately.

As is, they scale in loot only. You can't get purple or gold bags unless there are enough people present, even if you do all of the work by yourself.
Yes, brilliant idea, I know.

I can not believe with all the issues, bugs, and general horrible design that they actually wasted time with an "expansion" when the core game still sucks. 

Am i reading this right?  They've got this mini expansion and Mythic can't tell you enough how awesome it is. In fact it is so awesome  they can only let you play it for 30 minutes at a time because you may injure yourself from the continuous raging hardon?

 :uhrr:

Somebody commented on one of the external threads that the whole system has become so complicated that it might actually put people off returning.  I think it's a fair point, like March said they need to return to the basics.

Somebody commented on one of the external threads that the whole system has become so complicated that it might actually put people off returning.  I think it's a fair point, like March said they need to return to the basics.

Somebody commented on one of the external threads that the whole system has become so complicated that it might actually put people off returning.  I think it's a fair point, like March said they need to return to the basics.

Enter instance
Kill some shit
Phat lewts

People dont even pay attention to existing scenario objectives.  All you have to do is go from 1 flag to another, no one goes.  Pickup X and bring it to Y...no one does it.  You dont get anything for completing scenario objectives so people just skirmish in the middle to get reknown.  I dont even stay grouped anymore, I go to a solo group and kill people solo which gets me more reknown and more medallions, etc.  If I kill a RR80 DOK I need the token, why should I be rolling against a level 33 who cant wear that level of armor and wont be able to for months at best(of course the little dipshits will need on it). Plus, why stay grouped when I dont get heals anyhow and since Im usually the top DPS'er/most kills every scenario I honeslty dont feel like sharing my kills/renknown to level 28 newbs who cant do shit

This all just brings a whole new meaning to Failure of Mythic Proportions.

How long have you been waiting to use that line?