Today we have a new Video Grab bag for you. Join the Mythic Community Team as we ask devs Nate Levy and Mike Wyatt questions from the players about the new Scenario Structure and the new RvR weapons.
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And if you haven't seen it yet be sure to check out the 1.3.4 Podcast:
We're on the cusp of public testing for Warhammer Online's first expansion, Land of the Dead, and while WoW's Wrath of the Lich King has its Arthas, Land of the Dead has a similarly megalomaniacal arch-fiend, King Amenhen... something. We'll just call him the Vulture King, leader of the newest army to grace Warhammer Online (the Tomb Kings). Rest assured that he's just as ferocious as the pronunciation of his name, and this video proves it.
This cheat is only for Destruction. In Reikland, if you go to the PQ Hunting the Hunters, there is a stairwell at the front of the towers. If you stand on the rail and get enemy mobs on the rail with you, they can't hit you but you can hit them. Here's a video of it in action:
But there is a catch. You MUST aggro them before walking or getting up there. If you lose aggro once they're up there they reset and it does not work. Recommended level 37+
If you're sick of being deafened by the cinematic that the retail copy gives you, then it's easy to fix.
Go to your installation directory (default is C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning) and create a new folder. I called mine deleted cinematics.
Move video.myp and vo_english.myp into the new folder (or you could simply delete them) and voila! No more intro.
There doesn't seem to be anything you can do about the first 3 bits that come up, but that's no hardship imo.
Overview: While we've all made fun of the early screenshots of the Chaos Zealot who looked like Lemmy from Motorhead, these fanatics are no laughing matter. The healer class for the Norse followers of the Raven God, the Zealot is a healing machine. With strong offensive casting capabilities, their great sense of fashion (each Zealot has a belt whose buckle is made of of a human face, possibly right off the skull he holds in his/her left hand) and incredible healing powers, it's not hard to see why this class will be a popular healer. There may be a reason why the Zealot looks like Lemmy, because much like the Motorhead song goes, pick this class and it's time to play "The Game".
Strengths:
Distance. Zealots can hurl heals and spells from a huge distance, allowing you to stay out of the thick of things while still doing your job... which is looking good.
Zealots don't need to be directly in combat to fuel their healing abilities.
Zealots are a good cross between caster and healer. Their offensive spells do pretty good damage and their heals are, of course, their specialty.
Weaknesses:
Zealots don't have a lot of hit points to begin with and can be melee'd to death easier than some of the other healers in the game.
Zealots tend to lack a high level of damage mitigation, which makes them weaker against physical attacks.
Zealots can run out of power quickly if they're not careful since they have no mechanic in place that replenishes it on the fly.
PvE Overview The Chaos Zealot can be an unstoppable force in PvE play. The ability to hit from long distances and powerful heals that can be used during combat give the Zealot the space and time he needs to whittle foes down with his offensive spells. Their powerful healing spells can even help them outlast multiple attackers and even take down Champion class foes a few levels lower than they are.
In a group, the Zealot has got what you need baby and he's happy to give you your healing/buff fix. The first taste is free, but after that you have to protect him from harm of else he'll cut you off, cold turkey. Mainly because they'll probably be dead.
RvR Overview If the Zealot was a element on the periodic table of RvR, it would be Ze for "Zerged". As a Zealot, your ability to cast heavy duty heals from range as well as do a decent amount of damage with your marks makes you the #1 target for everyone in RvR, and much like the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker core, they love to gang up on you. The key to a long and healthy life is stay out of combat, but close to the Black Orc and Chosen tanks. These classes get hooked on having their heal-orin fix and as such, will usually work to keep you alive.
If you manage to get in combat, you're not totally without a way to defend yourself. You can do pretty well in one on one by spamming the heals interlaced with a few specific debuffs and your insta-cast damage and DoT spells. If you are up against multiple people though, you're in trouble, so don't stick around and wait for the "Order Friends" to show up.
Chaos Zealot Mastery Paths Path of Alchemy: This path is all about the healing. You hook players up with the candy that makes life worth living and now, it's much more potent. While they'll not be an offensive juggernaut, the player who specializes in the path of Alchemy will become the healer extraordinaire and be known as "Dr. Feelgood".
Path of Witchcraft: Not simply happy to keep others healthy, the follower of this path wants to cause pain and suffering in mass quantities. The Path of Witchcraft bolsters the offensive capability of the Zealot and can make him a stronger caster than healer.
Path of Ritual: The Path of Ritual is about boosting your allies and tearing down your enemies. Enhancing your buffs and Debuffs, this path gives you sway over the tide of battle and how quickly it will turn in your favor. All hail Tzeentch!
Warhammer Disciple of Khaine Scenario PVP A short clip of fighting as a level 10 Disciple of Khaine in the Khaine's Embrace PVP scenario. Played at level 10 with the R10 RR6 gear.
Warhammer online mounts This one shows dwarf mounts and dark elf mounts and a short footage of the first dwarf mount
Warhammer Keep Siege
Warhammer Online Archmage Starting Area and Seige Weapons The Archmage Starting Area.
WAR Open PVP
Marshes of Madness A preview of the Marshes of Madness, a tier 2 Dwarfs/Greenskins zone
NOTE: The draw distance in the beta client is locked very near to the character, so you might notice some heavy clipping in the background.
This new cinematic for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning thrusts viewers into the heat of RvR as the forces of Order battle to stop the marauding hordes of Destruction from taking the capital city...
This Warhammer Online video gives you an indepth look into how Public Quests work. I wanted to get footage of me doing a public quest all the way through, but they brought the closed beta servers down for 2 days, so i had to use old footage.
I hope this answers some of your questions about Public Quests(PQ's)
Give me some input of what you would like to know about in warhammer online, and i well try and make a video to answer your question! Comment of send me a message!
This is only some short clips to show that there is no such thing as animation latency anymore. Since it works exactly like WoW, the argument "omg teh combatz suxxorz" is no longer valid.
Animation starts before the server recognition. You can see this when you target non-targetable NPCs and try to heal them. You will start the healing spell, but half way through (or fully completed if it is an instant spell) and you get a message saying something along the lines of "you cannot perform that action on that NPC, you moron."
This is just a bit of ORvR Action its a bit short but i think its entertaining i hope you all like.
Warrior Priest walking alone in the land of the dead, he found an enemy threat and proceed to attack. While he was attacking another one arrived and it was 2 on 1 against the Warrior Priest, but you want to know who won?
Mark Jacobs did a very nice little video that came out in the newsletter yesterday that covers alot of intresting stuff about the crafting system in Warhammer online.
I just did this video a moment ago of the swordmaster for you guys. Not the most exciting vid but you can still see some actions of the swordmaster, hope you like it anyway!
I must say I really enjoyed the swordmaster mechanics. I like that you first hit an ability to unlock other ability which in turn unlocks the most imba abilities.
So it feels like there is a "natural flow" with the swordmaster, the way that you will have certain combos. It feels natural to press abilities in a certain way since some are needed before you can use others. I didnt know about this until just now.
Important side note to those of you that knows anything about video compression: I want to do high quality vids for you guys but uncompressed seems just bad since the files become so large. Anyone know what codec is good for compression that will give an "uncompressed" video feeling?
Side note 2: I dont know what you guys want to see in a video so I just walk around killing mobs. Maybe this is not the most exciting thing to watch. I know you wanna see RvR and trust me, I wanna play RvR but right now it feels kind of dead. If there are certain abilities in classes you want to see pls make a comment in this thread so I know. I can then make a vid with for example "here are Chosen abilities" and then just press those abilites so you can see their animations and stuff.
Frapsed the first few minutes of the life of a squig herder and the starting zone. I stopped frapsing where i did because i alt tabbed, which messed up my client, incase you were wondering.
Brothers and bloggers Keen and Graev have put together a nice collection of Warhammer Online videos over on their YouTube account, and this seems like the best we've seen of the game so far (I saw it at PAX a few years ago, and then we saw quite a bit of it at E 4 All, as well as the various videosreleased since then). The video above was taken at a German show, so it's in Deutsch, obviously, but the graphics are clean and clear, and the gameplay looks pretty manic -- just the kind of thing to get us all excited for this baby.
They've also got a character selection video, some Bright Wizard gameplay, Zealot footage, some Hammerer and Choppa RvR combat, and a little world exploration. This game is definitely looking better every day -- it's still on track for a release sometime in the middle of this year.
