Warhammer OnlineFollow

I am a long time WoW player, three years now, but to be perfectly honest, I am bored with it. The raid grind is getting old (ok, it IS old). The only time you feel a real accomplishment in killing a raid boss is in the first few times, after three times it is on farm, and in fantasy farmboys want to become heroes not the other way around.

So, I love PvP, but in WoW, it feels, well, meaningless. Killing the oppsosing faction leaders has little reward and no one really gives a f---. In every patch the battlegrounds get worse and worse, beating AV used to mean something, but now it's just who can get to the other side the fastest. So I havent played since late Feb. and I'm getting the itch for an MMO.

AoC is being released, however, I'm not to sure if many of my RL friends would be interested in jumping ship to that since many say it is a sinking ship. I'm not writing it off completely, but it is hard to join without other people I know and hope to have any real success beyond being a rank and file guildie who has to do six kara runs before getting the gear I need.

But way off on the horizon is Warhammer. For the last few days I have been absorbing info on it. I am loyal by nature andhad shunned it so far out of devotion to WoW, but since WoW has yet to show any devotion to me, I am going to call it quits soon. What really entrances me is the PvP, or RvR as they seem to refer to it.

I love the idea of Keeps. I have never played Dark Age, so the concept is new to me (my MMO's have been FFXI and WoW). The thought of having my own castle, with guild of course, just sparks that childhood dream we all have had of being a king. The overall goal of sacking a city also arouses my interest. I want to rape and pillage and loot and plunder and burn (in game ofcourse, rape in RL is wrong;)).

I also like how even as a healer, you are not stuck in the background. As a druid pre-TBC I suffered through far to many screens filled with nothing but health bars, I never even saw Rag during the fight. So the hybridization of the game as I see it is a good thing. The races seem to actually have their own unique qualities in that you don't have the same set of classes strung through them all.

Also, a lot of people I know seem to have their interest perked as well. So I could much more easily be a meaningful person in a guild and if not be king of the castle, I could atleast get to stand next to him. When it comes out, I think I'll join, WoW is stagnant.

I am totally only in it for my own personal agenda since I will be playing this game, but I care.

WAR looks to be as solid a game as Lotro, and I believe will likely be at or slightly above Lotro's subscription base.

Edited, May 19th 2008 8:26pm by Allegory

Sorry, I just hear too many of the "WoW PvP sucks, WAR PvP is awesome!" arguments and I'm rather disenchanted with it. I will almost certainly be trying WAR myself (I do have the CE preordered), but I'm trying to reserve judgment till then.