Ready for something new. I can no longer fool myself. I am dissatisfied with Mythic/Ea/Bioware (or whatever they are branding themselves as this quarter) and the state of Warhammer Online. I've been teetering on the edge of frustration for a couple of weeks now...
People leaving Warhammer So again the Badlands server is down for whatever reason. So I started looking over the Bioware forum and the umpteen threads about "I am quitting" or my favorite the "Organized Unsub". I have been a gamer since 1999 in that time I have played every somewhat decent MMO out there...
Hello! I am Oooghas son and a member of Excessum. I signed up for the website so I could sign up for events and such at the request of Quackery. This is a great alliance and my Father and i love it here.
Switched my main. So I have switched over from Rants as my main to Oooghaa, I have always been partial to healers anyways. Spent most of the day yesterday just leveling him up with my r/l son Benedic. Farmed some rats, did some RvR, all to push his leveling to get him to 12 for the t2 event today...
My move to Badlands... So after playing Destruction on Iron rock for almost 6 months, before that I believe we were on Gorfang for a year and a half. My son and I decided to play Order. I did a few guild searches and finally stumbled upon Excessus...
50 things that would make Warhammer even more fun! 50 things that I think would make Warhammer online even more enjoyable.
1) Give us the option to toggle the flight animation to "off" so we can go straight to the zoning screen.
2) Let us enter the Hunters Vale instance at any level...
Zomg Hunter's Vale! Zomg Huntersvale!
Craythur was just a wee little Runepriest for the original Huntersvale Live Event. I have fuzzy recollections of taking part in a PQ in the RVR lake and hunting down all those tracks...
Taking time to smell the (blood soaked) flowers. I'm here for the ORVR. Anyone reading this blog knows that by now. Having said that, I sometimes miss picking flowers.
Gathering flowers & Mining ore in that Other Game was something I always enjoyed...
Looking forward to something new. The Warhammer forums & blogs are are lit up like a Christmas Tree over the bits and pieces of "RVR Pack" news. While the general handling of the release info could have been better it's great to see news about the games future coming out...
Craythur's Craw: Dungeon Lockout Timers And now for something completely different.
In keeping with my grumpy reputation (I'm roleplaying! Really! lol) here's a Warhammer Mechanic I find difficult to swallow. Dungeon Lock Out Timers. Specifically, lock out timers for instances that are not end game instances...
A long, long time ago, in a server, far, far... dead... ;) Well hell... seems like forever since release eh...? Celebtyr is the re-encarnation of my very first char, Anarion (yeah, name filter bugged out and let me get away with this name :) on the long dead Ulthuan Server...
A Walk in the Park So, there I am walking, well hovering, around with a few good friends. We are nimbly being led down the garden path....okay, so that is not quite true. Here is the real story:
Its a dark and stormy night...
A Warm Welcome in the Nick of Time My return to WAR brought me to Phoenix Throne thanks to The Cotcast (now Multiplaying) crew. A planned server wise T2 Dwarf vs Greenskins convinced me to play here even though the podcast folks moved away from the game before I reactivated my account...
Delianath, the Young Blade Delianath didn't always dream of being a warrior. When he was very young he enjoyed long walks at the peaceful forests of Ellyrion where he was born and dreamed of being a poet to sing the beauty that surrounded him...
Down but not Out I will be away from War for 7 to 14 days. A bad Thunderstorm went thru my town and Burned up a piece of my Wifi Link equipment. So as soon as this replacement comes, I will climb a 115' tower replace it and then will be back up and killin Destro! Good luck hunting...
A New Voyage Captain's Log, Stardate 64111.9,
After months of wondering where members of my crew have gone, I have found them. Wilriker, Bcrusher, Mrdata, Dtroy (Actual Character name spelling) and JtKirk? Clearly this is a strange anomoly that has brought us to this plce...
An oRvR Night That Wont Be Forgotten It was the Battle for Badlands Season 3 kickoff. It was in tier 1 and it reminded me of what oRvR was like when the game first launched. Just masses v masses or as most call it, zerg v zerg. The whole night was a tug of war...
The man behind the man................... The details of my life are quite inconsequential...
Very well, where do I begin?
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Altdorf with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery...
Keep it in the Circus! Ran another successful Lost Vale this Friday and Saturday. It's very good to be able to pick up a new person or two and still make it through the whole thing. This week we subbed in Docroc for Vampiresbane, and ran him all the way through it, and it was his first time in the dungeon!
We only did the left and right wings on Friday night, cause a few of us were about to fall asleep at the keyboard...
Belts, Belts and more Belts. I often wonder how many times can one person receive the same loot out of a gold bag. It's happened many times before way back before medallions were around to buy the armor pieces. I have to say, 5 warlord belts in a row just seems a bit much, but that is OK...
From David to Goliath and back to David again. From David to Goliath and back to David again. Or: Northrends charms could not hold me long.
I had canceled my WAR account and retired my squig herder. I then caved into pear pressure (much of it from my wife) and returned to Warcraft...
A Sovereign Cloak! . . . again I'll start out with the good news that sounds less like the tantrum of a young child. I'm no longer alone in the Gaiscioch at rank 80. It was fantastic to see Craythur finally hit the mark, just a couple weeks after myself...
Two more for the "family album" Today was a busy day for Seabhran in PVE and Scenarios. She had to take her time taking advantage from the item she got from the Talabec Event. So, despite she wasn't able to attend to the Tuatha affairs earlier, at least Seabhran got the time to fight some battles and kick some Destrution heads...
War Was everywhere! Or riding the wave of hype, expectation, and good will. What do I say about War's launch? I look back on those days with bittersweet memories. I rolled destruction on Uthuan with some friends from Warcraft. That sounds simple enough. There was plenty of hand ringing over which faction to play...
A fiery heart and cold steel. Despite the lack of physical similarities, Éirean is Seabhrán's younger sister. While her elder sibling left Ulthuan to fight the Destruction with the elven treaty troops, Eirean stayed behind to finish her Swordmaster training along with other elven warriors that were too young and inexperienced to be sent to fight along the Imperial Army...
My 1st T4 experience Wow! T4 is definately different than T3! I felt like death walking around due to always being dead most of the time. The guild invited me to a wb in the city scenerio. I didn't know which way was up. It was crazy and I felt like a total rookie...
Lost and Found: Vale. Again. Mamby Pamby Elves. I think that pretty well sums up the Lost Vale. Those damn pointy ears are at it again. And by 'it' I mean crying and moping and being too mamby pamby to go save their own queen. But what can you expect from elves...
Issues Resolved... Healer Back In Action! Well, in the past I've always preferred playing healer characters in most games. With WAR I had some issues with the addons that assist with healing.
Apparently WAR does not support it's mods having slash commands and you actually need a mod to enable this so that other mods can be setup appropriately...
Tower of Neborhest I came to marshes of madness as a young engineer hearing the call for help to this cursed lands where oath gold is found and the brave mine it. i came here swearing to kill the terror of the land the vampire lord from old has arisen and has set terror to the land with his undead army...
Impressed By Castles Well, a huge change between Tier 2 and 3 seems to be the castes. I thought attacking forts was impressive but castles place a whole new spin on it.
These things are huge! With not only the standard fort inside but some great walls as a first line of defense they definitely take more effort to breach when there are defenders...
Looking forward to Tier 3 Well, had a great time tanking the oRVR in Tier 2 with tonight's pickup. Was a blast! The Warband roamed for hours and aside from one staggering defeat at Madreds we kicked Destructions butt!
I hit 18/18 tonight and got to get some of those purple influence rewards...
To Kill Boss 5 Last night, Craythur, Don, Hellreike, Tallahassee, Blocked and I decided to pick up where we left off in Tomb of the Vulture Lord, at boss 5. We'd made pretty decent time getting through boss 1-4 on Monday evening, teaching the fights to those that had yet to do them, and I was hoping we'd have some success on boss 5...
Oh My... What a big tick Had an amazing night in RvR last night. Joined a small 6 man group that eventually grew to a 2 WarBand Zerg. Destruction made a good show of things as well and it made for a really fun battle.
We actually managed to lock the zone and to quote someone from the Tier 2 RealmWar channel "Oh My...
Server Maintanance We all know it's needed but it still sucks when the servers go down for a few hours a week in games like this.
I had just found a nice warband in Tier 2. Destruction was harassing us nicely for some great influence and then...
Life with No Purple Korzak Ironweaver turned RR 80 on Saturday, and after the long grind, I can say that it was quite a bit of fun, and a nice achievement to have. I've already caught myself midflight heading to zones to 'catch the flip', even though it doesn't benefit my character...
Into the Tier 2 Well, I've started into Tier 2 and things are a lot different. The first thing I noticed was how quite it is here. Not the huge group of people running around and while I've joined a couple of war-bands there are not as many in the RVR area...
First Entry Well, I'm new to the game and found this guild called Gaiscioch that people very much recommended and here I am! Hope to join in on those guild activities very soon!
It's been a learning experience for sure, I usually play a healer in MMO's and started that way in Warhammer...
Craythur's first blog or How I became a Bemused Gamer So I thought I'd give this blog thing a try.
Where to start eh? I suppose a first blog should be some sort of introduction. It's only fair that readers know just what sort of fractured mind is behind all this...
Uhm, hi? So I have been playing WAR on and off since the first day of closed beta. There are things I really like and things I am not a huge fan of, but I guess the “like†outweigh the "not a huge fan of" because I do keep coming back! Through server mergers etc, flip flopping friends and deleted characters, Dobs on order is my only active character...
I Wrote a Guide! I've been saying that I should write up a guide for RvR tanking since I was RR 65 or so, and now that I'm just shy of 80 I've finally taken the time to put down what I think are essentials for a tank, and then tagged on some of my opinions as well...
We are the Pride of Magnus! The Magnus was a powerful family that had been infiltrated by foreign myths and lore of what family should be. As one blood line of the family began to infect the rest of the family only 2 blood lines of the family remained uninfected...
The furnace of the unspeakable pains Once upon a time, Lillandera had a life, a family and a simple landscape of future ahead of her. Second daughter to a woodworker and a herbalist in the Nordlands, she only had thoughts to the simple house chores and to the petty talks of the village youth...
Fearless Bright Wizard Experiment (Hey I'm going to die anyways) Still really new to game so this has probably already been done and I just don't realize it. BUT it's a tad slow at work and I want to blog about it!
Been playing for a few weeks now, leveled 90% in RvR and scenarios so I quickly learned to fear anything with an Axe or Sword running at me when in a PUG scenario...
Finally got my beautiful elven Sword and my PassWatch Bow...
(By the honor of the Empire... I am Seeeeeeeabhran) LOL
After a lot of great battles at Elf and Empire T3 fronts, finally got my PassWatch bow and Qhaysh Falcata (I'm not sure if that's the right name, but its a beautiful and powerful sword nonetheless)...
order of the broken sword The Order of the Broken Sword
The Order of the Broken Sword formed after a band of local freelance knights led by Dott Barthos gathered together to go after a marauding band of Chaos Beastmen. In recent months, these Beastmen terrorized and pillaged several local farms...
Not bad for a second time leader... I'm very tired from the long battle, but i need to share it with you...
We had a great campaign today at T3 Elf and Empire. First, we took almost everything, and then we kept chasing the forces of Destruction back and forth to demoralize them...
