WarhammerAlliance.com: Latest News from the WAAAGH! Front!

DoranM — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:34:50 GMT

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News from the WAR front has been a bit quiet as of a late. Most of the attention seems to be being put on the testing on the Public Test Server and the 1.2.1 patch. Today we've got a spotlight on new screenshots again from Ashelyn, they rock pretty hard btw, news from the Herald, and some development posts form the War Dev Tracker!

Here are the latest WAAAGH! news headlines from WarhammerAlliance.com:

Spotlight on: Screenshots!

The Spotlights are now in an open forum, so be sure leave your feedback. The Spotlight today is on Screenshots. Community member Ashelyn had some very nice ones to share.

News From the Herald
News from the US and EU Warhammer Online Heralds

Squig Herder Feature

Both the EU and US Heralds featured a write up on Squig Herders. A career that gets passed by sometimes and not rightly so. Overall a good write up.

Straight From the Source
"Straight from the Source" details important Developer Posts from that day's Tracker

Apparently there has been an issue with guilds either claiming or releasing their claim on keeps. James Nichols tells us that CSR's cannot assist with Standard Bearer issues so in game petitions will not help. He anticipates that these issues should be resolved by the time 1.2.1 goes live, which is soon.

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James Nichols also addressed cleave and other undefendable attacks. He says they have a fix and should be out by the time 1.3 is on the servers. Not quite sure what that is at this time.

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Adam Gershowitz acknowledged that the AoE radius and such is still bugged on test as well as on live.

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Originally Posted by AdamG_EAMythic

We're aware of this item, in actually AoE now has the same "grace" range for checking for hits that Direct damage and Melee abilities have. This can add up to an additional 10 feet in radius to the ability. If you want to get an idea of how much extra range this really is you can easily grab any character turn on auto attack and then back up (from a stationary monster / character) until you cannot auto attack anymore. This is essentially 0 feet range, b/c auto attack has no range on it.
We're continuing to watch how this effects RvR and the player response to the issue and will likely make an adjustment to AoE radius in the patch after 1.2.1 as part of our ongoing steps to work AoE into a useful but managable role.

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Although not WAR related, I wanted to say farewell to Dave Areneson. The co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons lost his battle to cancer yesterday at the age of 61. Both him and Gary Gygax who predeceased him last year in March have made much of what a RPG is today, in both pencil and paper as well as video games. He will be missed.

WarhammerAlliance.com New Weekly Poll Analysis Section!

DoranM — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:24:28 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted a new Weekly Poll Analysis section that will compare and contrast opinions from the War community. Polls have been posted in conjunction with WAR Vault which will provide a broader scope of user opinions. The analysis of the two sites will be done separately and then together when comparing the results. The first poll being analyzed is Last week’s poll, posted March 20th, asked you “How Much Has the Introduction of the Slayer/Choppa Affected RvR?” Options included: “It has greatly affected RvR,” “It has somewhat affected RvR,” “I’m unsure of how it has affected RvR/Waiting and seeing,” “It has only affected RvR a little,” and “It has not affected RvR at all.” The total number of votes between Warhammer Alliance and WAR Vault was 526.

Here's the results and the official WarhammerAlliance.com Weekly Poll Analysis announcement:

Welcome to the Weekly Poll Analysis! This is a new feature implemented by Warhammer Alliance, and looks at the previous week’s poll and at the results it had. Recently, Warhammer Alliance has been posting polls in conjunction with WAR Vault, providing us with a broader scope of user opinions. This analysis will look at both polls as separate entities, and then together as a general playerbase. Since this is the first of a series, please feel free to make suggestions for future posts!

Last week’s poll, posted March 20th, asked you “How Much Has the Introduction of the Slayer/Choppa Affected RvR?” Options included: “It has greatly affected RvR,” “It has somewhat affected RvR,” “I’m unsure of how it has affected RvR/Waiting and seeing,” “It has only affected RvR a little,” and “It has not affected RvR at all.” The total number of votes between Warhammer Alliance and WAR Vault was 526.

Unfortunately we at Warhammer Alliance (WA) had only 220 votes (come on people, we need more votes!), but they yielded some interesting results. Overwhelmingly, you voted that you were waiting to see how these two new classes would affect RvR. This option held 78 of your votes, totaling 35.45% of the total votes. The “second place” options were very close—51 of you, or 23.18%, voted that the Choppa/Slayer somewhat affected RvR, and 50 of you, or 22.73%, voted that they have greatly affected RvR. It’s interesting to see how close those two are, given the substantial difference between “greatly affected” and “somewhat affected.” Following behind in fourth is affecting RvR “a little” with 23 votes (10.45%), and in fifth with 18 votes (8.18%) is that the classes have not affected RvR “at all.”

Comments on Warhammer Alliance seemed to cover a little bit of each topic. Some responders commented on faster scenarios, to new utilization of other classes. Others remarked that although it seems like there may be large changes now, later on things will probably balance out. It's important to note what class the person is while reading the comments as well. Tozen, who has a Magus, but is also playing a Choppa remarked:

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Exactly. As soon as the Choppa hits T3 it becomes food for both ranged classes and tanks while AoE healing WPs negate its damage. I'll probably stick things out to T4 just to see if Git to the Choppa' makes a big difference, but I can safely predict that the Choppa is not going to make a significant change in RvR (which is probably a good thing to be honest).

Chuck Bronsun, an Ironbreaker, mentioned that the classes are greatly effecting RvR because its deterring players from other classes:

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It has greatly effected RvR mainly because there is now one more class people would rather play than a healer. Not sure about the rest of you, but both of the servers I currently play on are desperately lacking healers on the Order side of things in every tier.
With the game not doing so great these days with subscriptions, people don't need another reason to bail.

Although not many people commented on WA, those who did gave great insight to the result of WA's polling.

Warhammer Vault’s (Vault) poll was similar in some regards, yet strikingly different in other regards. Vault had 306 total votes, with the leading response (91 votes) being that the classes “somewhat affected” RvR. In a relatively close second was “wait and see,” with 84 votes, followed by “greatly affected” with 76 votes. Interestingly, in fourth place was “not affected at all” with 41 votes, followed by “somewhat not affected” in fifth place with 14 votes.

Bearing in mind that Vault’s poll had 86 more votes than WA’s at the time of this article, there is some interesting data here between WA and Vault. WA voters believe that they need more time to decide how these classes will affect RvR, most probably because at the time of posting, as Siberwulf points out:

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Um, the class has been open to the general public (not live event completers) for all of...3 days.

However, more Vault users seemed to notice immediate effects from the classes, since they predominantly voted that it had somewhat affected RvR. Perhaps one of the reasons voted that way is because, as Nnucifera put it on WA:

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The only affect I've seen of the new classes in RvR is there are so many of them (Tier 3) that there's not enough of the other classes to go around. Like, half the warband will be choppas then we'll be lucky if we get a healer or two. Not to mention a majority of the players don't know what they're doing. Was hoping the retards would be weeded out before Tier 3.

I know I have seen my fair share of Choppas and Slayers in scenarios, and it seems like I’m not the only one!

The most interesting factor of this week’s poll is the discrepancy between WA and Vault on the “not at all” option. It seems that most voters on WA believe the new classes will have an effect over time, and in some way—whereas a significant amount of Vault voters saw otherwise. According to my calculations, 8% of WA users claimed the classes wouldn’t change RvR while 13% percent of Vault users claimed the same. This 5% margin shows a distinct difference between the thinking of WA’s userbase and Vault’s userbase.

When the results of the votes are combined, we can see the large impact that WA’s number one and Vault’s number four has. The combined percentages (based on the number of votes) are 31% for “Waiting,” 27% for “Somewhat,” 24% for “Greatly,” 11% for “Not at all” and 7% for “a little.” Simply put, it seems that this poll was too early for a concerned playerbase to adequately respond and surmise how these classes will make an impact.

Next week’s analysis will cover a poll about AoE, which came out merely hours before the 1.2.1 Preview! It’ll be interesting to see how the upcoming changes affect the results of the poll. Please make sure to go vote and comment—perhaps your comment will show up in the next analysis.

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