High Level Armor Sets

[Cyclonic]

Blah blah. Same post, different day.

[Pringles]

Maybe you should play the damn game before you tell people they have no logic.

You can buy 1 piece of all the sets from vendors, the rest is thrown out into all the random bullshit you have to do in RVR PVE.

So, you can buy the gloves for each set, have fun with 1 piece!

[squirrel]

Is this confirmed anywhere? Seems like a lot of anger over something i haven't seen a lot of evidence for.

This came from the Herald.

The worst part of this is i play with my gfs family and my future mother in law wont let me quit cause im their tank  :P

LOL. You are so fucked.

EDIT: In a good way mind you, if that's the worst a mother in law has in store you're in good shape.

[Votan]

This game just seems not very well thought out.  When I play it feels like badly done random pieces thrown together from other games with no rhyme or reason.  They seem to have invested a lot of time(majority) and resources on some very bad pve, rather than RVR.  Even if I get the lucky roll I still have to farm another 23 to get one warband geared and since it is random drop you could get a bad streak of getting the same shit over and over again, let alone the farming for the rest of my guild.  What in the hell are they thinking about...

Maybe I am just getting to old and have played to many of these POS MMO's to have fun with them anymore. 

[Apone]

A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade. I love the Corps.

Hahahahaha ! 

Allright, sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill! Assholes and elbows!

[Xanthippe]

I'm stunned at the stupidity of Mythic.

What, exactly, did Mark Jacobs mean when he acknowledged that ToA was a mistake?

I'm beginning to think that what he meant was that all of the unhappy players made a mistake by not supporting it, rather than that the design was flawed from the beginning. 

Mythic learned nothing from ToA.  WAR is ToA v. 2. 

[waffel]

With all the dick-measuring MJ has done over the past month with WOW, Mythic is on the verge of doing something Blizzard never could or ever would; pissing all over their playerbase and shooting their game in the ass.

[amiable]

My current theory is that MJ is a Blizzard employee hired 3 years ago to take rival EA down.  It is the only logical conclusion I can draw from the past months decisions.  (Which should be chronicled as some of the worst decision making in MMO history).

[ghost]

With all the dick-measuring MJ has done over the past month with WOW, Mythic is on the verge of doing something Blizzard never could or ever would; pissing all over their playerbase and shooting their game in the ass.

This font is weird.  I was wondering what "click measuring" was.  Figured it was some sort of technical term............

Then I realized, "oh, Dick measuring".  Too funny.

[Righ]

My current theory is that MJ is a Blizzard employee hired 3 years ago to take rival EA down.  It is the only logical conclusion I can draw from the past months decisions.  (Which should be chronicled as some of the worst decision making in MMO history).

Every times he posts, this is what pops into my head:

[Arthur_Parker]

Paul Barnett 24th October, You Tube video blog.

The future is bright apparently.  I think Paul is a pretty funny guy, sure he's plugging a game but he's always been watchable. 

This video did really amuse me though, probably for all the wrong reasons, hey keep lords give exp now!  Yeah about 3k exp, I can get that in about 3 minutes killing normal mobs, so I wouldn't really chose to do it via a 30 minute (undefended) keep siege, not counting the 10 or so minutes needed to pick and turn the quest in.

[Ratman_tf]

A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade. I love the Corps.

Hahahahaha ! 

Allright, sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill! Assholes and elbows!

Hey Sarge. You'll get lip cancer smoking those things.

[Apone]

A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade. I love the Corps.

Hahahahaha ! 

Allright, sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill! Assholes and elbows!

Hey Sarge. You'll get lip cancer smoking those things.

Look into my eye...  ;)

[WindupAtheist]

Hudson: Is this game going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another gear grind?

Mark Jacobs: Did you know that there are a total of 19 sets of armor available for each career? These armor sets can be found throughout the Warhammer world, and at higher levels can be incredibly helpful (if not imperative) for certain encounters.

Frost: Excuse me sir, what?

Mark Jacobs: On these high end sets, there are five pieces of armor which grant a 10% reduction in damage per piece when worn in specific endgame encounters, for a possible cumulative of around 50% reduction. With these set pieces, players can emerge victorious from what would otherwise be much more difficult battles.

Hicks: It's a gear grind.

[Apone]

Hudson: Is this game going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another gear grind?

Mark Jacobs: Did you know that there are a total of 19 sets of armor available for each career? These armor sets can be found throughout the Warhammer world, and at higher levels can be incredibly helpful (if not imperative) for certain encounters.

Frost: Excuse me sir, what?

Mark Jacobs: On these high end sets, there are five pieces of armor which grant a 10% reduction in damage per piece when worn in specific endgame encounters, for a possible cumulative of around 50% reduction. With these set pieces, players can emerge victorious from what would otherwise be much more difficult battles.

Hicks: It's a gear grind.

Hudson: Well that's great, that's just fuckin' great, man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now man...

Hicks: Are you finished?

Hudson: That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?

Ripley: How long after f13 drops the mofo in the graveyard can we expect a rescue?

Hicks: [pause] Seventeen days.

Hudson: Seventeen days? Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen *hours!* Half my guild already canceled their subs and shit, what the fuck?

[Zupa]

Ripley:  my 8 year old little brother survived longer than that with no guild, and no scenario pops...

So you better just start dealing with it. 

Just deal with it, Hudson...because we need your subscription and I'm tired of your bullshit. 

Now get on a PC and call up some kind of public quest, solo quest, or grind spot, anything that shows us the layout of this cockblock.

I want to see xp / mob, xp / hour, every possible way into this end game...
         

[WindupAtheist]

Hudson: Let's just bug out and go back to WoW, okay? What are we talking about this for?

Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire game from the forums. It's the only way to be sure.

Hudson: Fuckin' A!

Burke: Hold on, hold on one second. Our subscriptions have a substantial dollar value attached to them...

Ripley: They can bill me!

EDIT: Ripley vs Apone

[FellintoOblivion]

Paul Barnett 24th October, You Tube video blog.

The future is bright apparently.  I think Paul is a pretty funny guy, sure he's plugging a game but he's always been watchable. 

This video did really amuse me though, probably for all the wrong reasons, hey keep lords give exp now!  Yeah about 3k exp, I can get that in about 3 minutes killing normal mobs, so I wouldn't really chose to do it via a 30 minute (undefended) keep siege, not counting the 10 or so minutes needed to pick and turn the quest in.

He's about as watchable as my cat taking a dump on top of the dump my other cat just took to re-mark his territory.

His "Look at me! I'm English, have an accent and say crazy things" shtick got old faster then grinding the first stage of PQs for shitty potion rewards.

[Righ]

I would be surprised if having an accent and being from another country than the one you're from was part of a routine. But maybe all those crazy foreigners are just doing that accent stuff to infuriate people who can't house train their cats.

[Nebu]

I would be surprised if having an accent and being from another country than the one you're from was part of a routine. But maybe all those crazy foreigners are just doing that accent stuff to infuriate people who can't house train their cats.

Like this guy?

[Signe]

I would be surprised if having an accent and being from another country than the one you're from was part of a routine. But maybe all those crazy foreigners are just doing that accent stuff to infuriate people who can't house train their cats.

Are you sure that our marriage isn't part of your "shtick"?    What would happen to our pussies?

Also - what about Canadians?

Also also - Zupa is soup.

[Modern Angel]

I would be surprised if having an accent and being from another country than the one you're from was part of a routine. But maybe all those crazy foreigners are just doing that accent stuff to infuriate people who can't house train their cats.

No. But that is a schtick. It's the Games Workshop schtick. It's why they make machinegun noises in their shops with their mouths. It's chokably obnoxious.

[FellintoOblivion]

I would be surprised if having an accent and being from another country than the one you're from was part of a routine. But maybe all those crazy foreigners are just doing that accent stuff to infuriate people who can't house train their cats.

I didn't say his accent is an act, I said his personality is. Oh and yes, my cats must be shitting all over my floor. Someone should invent some type of box that holds litter. They would make millions.

[pxib]

Paul Barnett 24th October, You Tube video blog.

My favorite part is the expression he flashes when "Community James" provides a stock answer to what game he's been playing.

[Ingmar]

My favorite words in the English language are "I told you so".

So I am glad once again to have a chance to use those words. This is pretty much *precisely* what I was trying to tell people during the beta who were saying, "Don't worry, the game isn't gear-dependent, and it won't be in the future, it's not designed that way." Gear dependent cockblocks are what devs do when they're cornered and have run out of ideas, or where the ideas they do have will be too expensive or too difficult to execute.

This isn't the right 'told-you-so' for what those people (or at least me) thought they were arguing about. The sort of gear dependency I was talking about personally in those threads was the difference between gear in DAOC and gear in WoW; while it mattered in both, in DAOC once you were at cap everyone kind of sat around the same territory stat-budget wise, as opposed to WoW where it keeps spiraling up to infinity.

This is just a out-of-nowhere bizarro you-must-have-an-Onyxia-cloak-for-Nefarian style thing, which isn't what I was talking about at all, and is, if anything, amazingly far more stupid than what the argument was about back then.

My point was that something like TOA happens because developers come up against design problems that they find too hard, too complicated or too expensive to solve, and so they insert a gear-dependent block of some kind in the game that is designed in their view to suck up catass energies. It doesn't matter where exactly that catass gear is inserted into the design, really. And you guys said, "Oh, that's not an inevitable part of Diku design, and Mythic is really clear that this isn't part of the vision for Warhammer."

I apparently completely misunderstood your point; at the time all I was arguing about was the effect of gear on PVP balance. This is a gated content/access issue. The gate could be anything, or nothing, it doesn't have to be gear and it doesn't have to be a Diku to have it.

[Krushchev]

http://www.wardb.com/item.aspx?id=435356
"...complete 5 Enemy King Captures"

Did I miss something? Was this ninja'd or wut the hell?

[Desparity]

http://www.wardb.com/item.aspx?id=435356
"...complete 5 Enemy King Captures"

Did I miss something? Was this ninja'd or wut the hell?

It is the Renown rank 75 gear you can buy from a vendor after you have obtained the rank needed and done 5 King captures which is the RVR endgame of this game.

[Krushchev]

I see. So, it's not rolls anymore or what?

[Desparity]

I see. So, it's not rolls anymore or what?

You will allways be able to buy a few pieces from a vendor according to your current renown rank but alot the other pieces you will need to roll it out over the King capture during the Capital sieges which you need to kill a Fortress lord to trigger.

[Krushchev]

So, which sets/pieces are rolls required?

ps: im lazy (just a lil)

[Desparity]

So, which sets/pieces are rolls required?

ps: im lazy (just a lil)

You can normaly buy Gloves\shoulders regardless and the jewelery pieces rest of the set pieces drops in various places.

[Pringles]

you can get boots from players and gloves from vendors

rest of sets (helm/bp/shoulders and looks like conqueror+ has a belt) are rolled

annihilator - keep taking
conqueror - fortress taking
invader - invader pqs in city
warlord - sub bosses in contested cities - there is accessories for this set too on vendors, no other set has accessories afaik
then the final set which you see, you need 5 king wins for

all the "rolled" pieces are from gold bags and each gold bag has a random piece in my experience, so you could go for the rest of your days getting all breastplates from gold bags thanks to RNG

[deadlyanteater]

The worst thing is I got my sentinal helm last night... level 40 purple... and its a downgrade from my direhelm of the wisp, a level 37 blue from the auction house.

how ghey is that?

[Nebu]

The worst thing is I got my sentinal helm last night... level 40 purple... and its a downgrade from my direhelm of the wisp, a level 37 blue from the auction house.

how ghey is that?

Ghey? Very.  Surprising? Not.

I think we should set up warbands to camp the auction house.  It drops some nice loot. 

[deadlyanteater]

The worst thing is I got my sentinal helm last night... level 40 purple... and its a downgrade from my direhelm of the wisp, a level 37 blue from the auction house.

how ghey is that?

Ghey? Very.  Surprising? Not.

I think we should set up warbands to camp the auction house.  It drops some nice loot. 

I think that's how the gold farmers make a comeback.

Farm for loot.  then offer to sell it in tells on the cheap.

It'd be the only reasonable way to get decent gear.