So the Warhammer Online has been out for awhile now, and I was just curious as to how its doing with the community. I don't own the game because of my ancient computer, but after watching it carefully I decided it wasn't something I wanted to play - the most I got out of it was the music and some interesting artwork. :3

Is the game dead yet or are people still happily playing it? Any new changes? Do the physics for the character models still clip and pop and skip or has that been fixed? Any new DLC?

It's now got the free endless trial, so u can play till level 10 in the first zone indeffinately, and it's much more stable now too. They also added bloom and post processing effects and there have been new content released. Fast travel options are also now included.

However despite this the community dwindles, though they have consolidated servers, and now seem to be on the right path to recovery.

A good expansion with some proven new fixes could breathe life into this game, though it is my oppinion that it's linear state which is a major setback, ie not being able to travel freely as say, wow.

Have they done anything concerning the HE players total disgust about the lore being totally f-up beyond all recognition?

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Warhammer Online is like a spinoff using the basic lore of Warhammer and doing what they wanted with it.

It goes the evil's way this time instead of always being the good guy's victories.

Silver, I have no problem if the good guys get the occassional or indeed an everyday kick! Besides, being the underdog has its bonuses...
However, it is one thing to use the generally accepted background created by GW and produce a spin off - and a totally different thing to kill off well established characters of the Asur on a whim!


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And yet that's how it is.
I don't see why you're complaining, you can go ahead and kill dark elf characters, even Morathi herself.

There's nothing wrong with how they let all the popular high elf characters get killed like that.

But that is the thing...DE players did not kill Imrik. They got rid of Imrik by having him (AND his dragon) fall victim to a druchii assassin.
Also, you are made to run around gathering flowers or to quote another player ''Awesome. Just completed a PQ in the Shadowlands which (Quite literally) involved saving Sparrows and BUNNIES hiding from Cold Ones.''
And while you do things like that - the White Tower of Hoeth is in druchii hands...
Not to mention that apparently Asur elves only live in tents and ruined towers.

That is why i asked if the dev-team has taken any steps in making the game more appealing to Asur players.

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Sparrows AND bunnies?

Not to mention the Swordmasters being tanks...

Yup Aethyr, there are so many issues with the way they did the Asur classes (Shadow Warriors unable to be stealthy?! seriously...).
However, that can be (eventually) rectified and donne properly with a few tweaks here and there...if they decide to jump off the dark elves chariot.

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well they have take out the fortreses mearged lots of the severs dessy got alot of love in the last pach they have new desinges for the armour sets in the works and new pach should be coming soon

Go go Archmage! Annihilate those guys...what? You Cant? Lore of Life you say....
Yeahhhhh, I still like it, but only as a game with Warhammer THEMES, i try to separate my train of thought from fluff/tt when i play it.

What server do you play on I'm on norn

I left the game because it was so unbalanced, especially for SW, has this changed at all because they look like an interesting class they just don't perform against anything, my only joy was being assault specced and hunting down healers with Shadow sting and the other dot, the problem with this what that I had no stealth so getting to any squishies without getting totally destroyed by Sorcerers was impossible. Oh and a WE killed me in 3 secs fact.

It seemed that all of the highelf classes were underbalanced compared to the druichii counterparts, SW get pwned by sorcerers and witch elves, admittedly the Sword master is better than the Black guard, White lions are different to Witch elves and Archmages are just plain terrible, and are completely different to DoK's so I can't really compare. The game just seemed so unfair on my poor little SW.

I play an archmage with the path of Asuryan and have a blast, everyone gets angry at me for not healing them though

Healer the most wanted and least thanked of all the classes.

If you win, it's cause the tank killed it.
If you lose it's cause you allowed the tank to be killed.

Which makes you a winner.