Questions of a Newbie

detectiveL

Hey everyone, I am quite interested in Warhammer Online, but there are some things I would like to know about the game before I go out and buy it.

Are there RP servers? If so, do the players on them actually RP?

Is there enough PVE for those who are kinda scared of PVP?

Is there a most populated server? (preferably RP if WAR has them.) (Is there a website I can go to research this myself?)

How is the population of the overall game?

Does the game get boring after you reach the level cap?

OK, I think that is it. Sorry about making another question post, it probably gets annoying after a while... Anyway, I appreciate everyone who helps answer these, so thank you.

 

spinach8puff

I can't answer all of your questions so hopefully another person will come along who can.

1. Yes there are RP servers, but no idea if people actually RP on them.

2. From the posts I have read this game is lacking in the PvE which makes sense in my opinion since it has always been marketed as a PvP game.

3. Server list - Warhammer Wikia. The most populated RP server is Pheonix Throne

4. If you stay on the higher population servers I'm sure they'd be fine.

5. PvE just sounds like the majority of other PvE MMOs which is generally a dungeon grind, but as for the long term enjoyment of the game I'd think it all depends how much you enjoy PvP.

 

Here's a post from someone over on the VN Boards about what happened when they got to level 40. If you skim through the wall-o-text you can find where this guy talks about end game for WAR also.

I'm not saying to play it or not to play it. Just trying to help inform you further so you can choose for yourself.

warror

If your scared of pvp don't be. You cannot get ganked in War when you are doing pve quests. If a higher tiered player trys to gank you they will turn into a chicken. The only time you can just get murdered is when you enter instanced RVR or an open RVR zone but in both cases you can go with alot of back up and youll be fine. Plus dying is not frustrating in this game. You actually get 336 exp the first time you are killed by any of the opposing factions classes. This along with other silly tome unlocks makes dying far less frustrating then it is in other games.

KirinRahl

 I know some of these have been answered before, but I'd kinda like to weigh in.

Yes, there are RP servers.  Some folks RP on them, but you get about an equal number of folks who just yak on General as usual.  Fortunately, a lot of folks consider the 'Say' chat to be entirely RP, as well as emotes, and therefore you get a bunch of 1-on-1 or small-group roleplaying.  Particularly when someone kicks it off!  I do it by being as haughty as is humanly possible when playing my Shadow Warrior.

There's a bunch of PvE, and there's no need to be afraid of PvP.  PvP is possible just about anywhere, but if you hop on the server that's been suggested and whose suggestion I will second in a big way, you won't have to worry about dying during PvE missions or anything.  Also, PvP is referred to as RvR, and they say it that way for a reason; rarely does one player just up and fight you.  For the most part, any fight you have when you're not just wandering by your lonesome in an RvR zone will be a -fight-, commonly between anywhere from six people total to, and this is pretty unusual, as many as two hundred.  I got in a big, four-warband-per-side battle over a keep just this evening, and it was a fucking riot.

Get on Phoenix Throne.  Good population, neat guilds, a lot of decent folks.  If you need a hand up and you're on Order side, give Meridius, Jainey, Jack or Marleina a yell.  I run a guild called Criminal Ravishment.  If you're on Destro side, fear us.

Overall, population is good.  On busy nights you'll get parties of several warbands (50-75 people as a rule) together, rolling around and trying to steal Battlefield Objectives and Keeps from one another.  In PvE, there's always some population, and a number of PvE Public Quests have been revamped to make them easier for a single person or a small group to complete, so even if there aren't a lot of people PvE-side, you'll have enough werewithal to work on your own.

I can't answer for the game getting boring after level cap, but I'll say this; in each zone, there's a level requirement of sorts called a Tier.  Tier 1 is levels 1-11, 2 is 11-21, then 21-31 and finally 31-40.  After you level cap, there are -still- another eighty Renown Ranks to gain, usually only through PvP.  My level 29 Warrior Priest is Renown Rank 27; you can level both at once if you RvR a lot.  Gaining those last forty RvR levels adds a number of new and different ways to build your tactics spec and also give you passive bonuses to many abilities, such as 5% extra damage to Kings or a chance to gain back AP (the game's mana/energy) whenever killing players of a certain race.  Chaos Fear Me, Greenskins Fear Me, etc.

So, overall, there's a lot to do, and a lot of different builds are viable for different playstyles.  My Warrior Priest is a healer who focuses almost entirely on combat stats.  I've pumped a lot of the abilities in the Warrior Priest tree that allow you to deal damage and give equal healing to nearby allies or a single, selected ally, so the incredible amounts I've put into Strength and Weapon Skill actually translate into health for my friends as well.  There's a lot of odd screw-aroundery to be done, and a ton of specs to try.

I don't think you'll get bored.  I certainly haven't, and to call me a jaded motherfucker would not be an overstatement.  Just the opposite, now that I think about it.

Greyhooff

I play on Burlok, I think it's the best RP server in EU at least.

You can't get ganked while PVEing, it's not like WoW or AOC where undead rogues are starved for world PVP so come trying to gank people wherever they can, there's world PVP constantly in the RVR areas, so all the fighting happens there - so don't be scared, there isn't much ganking outside of those zones, there's no incentive to do so really.

As for RP, most of the RP I see is elves RPing in the elf areas, they go and do PQs and take battle objectives while RPing, it's quite good. And cybor, lots of cybor especially late at night

Game gets boring between 30 and 35 I'd say, that's the sort of "hard levels". At 35 it starts getting more and more interesting, and there's suddenly lots to do at 40 (endgame dungeons but also lots of RVR)

vvistovv

I'm not a RP type of player, in fact, i cant stand it.  But something that stood out to me in this game are the classes.  At first, i thought that the classes were kinda weird and didnt make much sense.  But now i attribute that to my ignorance of the IP.  And after playing for awhile, the classes really grew on me.  Mainly the art style.  Yeah, you got healers, tanks, dps and such but what really caught my eye was how each one looked.  And add the detail of the armor and weapons you get to equip, in my opinion, is what made the game stand out.  Sooo, in a role playing sense, this might appeal to you in that, for example, if u have a human tank, healer, dpser (in a different game) all standing beside each other, you all almost look the same.  But in WAR, each class looks different from one another.  Sure, a witch elf (dps) is going to look like another witch elf, that's just unavoidable, but a WE will not look like any other (dps) class.    Well,  i hope thats not confusing , but again, i think it will appeal to a RP player than just the generic 'a race will look like each other except for the armor.'

Greyhooff

One other thing, I roleplay a dwarf ironbreaker who lost his true oathfriend and now oscillates between being a maudlin drunk who is borderline on leaving dwarf society in shame and becoming a dwarf Slayer (orange haired, naked suicidal lunatics with axes who go around slaughtering anyone and everyone until they die), and a vicious happy drunk keen on avenging his oathfriend with greenskin blood. Dwarf RP is great, the concept of honour and grudges adds a lot to the gameplay RP-wise

Also, I don't cybor (much), honest

Unknown

Would anyone really want to cyber a dwarf player?

KirinRahl

 I may as well answer that with 'Would anyone want to watch midget bestiality porn?'.

The answer is, frighteningly enough, -yes-.

Greyhooff

You'd be surprised, female elf archmages are up for anything it seems