What will you play in WAR?

whatduck

With the NDA well lifted all us non beta testers have had a good chance to look at the spells/abilities/career masteries that will make up each career's game play.

So has anyone decided which career they're gonna play? I'm thinking of going Shaman, looks like a really fun class with good versatility and survivability and I've always had a soft spot for healers.

hairyheretic

Chaos. Sorcerer most likely as first choice, Chosen as second. Probably the Squig Herder as a third place.

Gunmonkey

Swordmaster or Archmage, can't decide on which :rolleyes:

death1234567

Chaos definitely. Squig Herder most likely as first choice, Shaman as second. Probably the Black orc as a third place might have to throw Sorceress in there somewhere too... sooo many options can't cope...

Funky

thinking a shaman here, the rank 1 morale ability(gork says stop or something?) is pretty sick and i just think Eeeek! is the most fun ever.. sending people flying 300 feet away into a river or npcs etc is just too much fun

Static M.e.

Chaos Marauder or Chaos Sorceress

WellyJ

Black Orc, 100%

whatduck

Funky wrote: »

thinking a shaman here, the rank 1 morale ability(gork says stop or something?) is pretty sick and i just think Eeeek! is the most fun ever.. sending people flying 300 feet away into a river or npcs etc is just too much fun

Yes alot of the morale abilities look pretty sick, guess thats why they're on 60 min cooldowns.

R0ot

Chaos, some big horned fecker with a huge ass sword, or something. :pac:

toxick

after playing as a tank/healer for all the mmos, i think im gonna go with a caster, still need to read up about the diffrent classes ect.

Funky

whatduck wrote: »

Yes alot of the morale abilities look pretty sick, guess thats why they're on 60 min cooldowns.

60 second cooldowns :X

Kiith

Its a toss up between Magus, Maurader or Black Orc for me. Or a Shaman. Or a Disciple of Khaine....ah, i dunno. I'll try them all and see.

xeni

Rune Priest if Order, Zealot if Destruction.

bubonicus

Chosen.

Niska

Ironbreaker or White Lion.

Jim

Maurader I think. But will definatly be rolling a Green Skin toon at some stage just for the lolz.

Ivan

Was seriously looking forward to Archmage, but all my friends are playing chaos... so I guess I'll just be a sheep and play with them

WellyJ

Ivan wrote: »

Was seriously looking forward to Archmage, but all my friends are playing chaos... so I guess I'll just be a sheep and play with them

If your friends are playing Destruction they are probably a lot cooler than you.

Being a sheep might work out better for you in this case

Kiith

I can see the population being seriously in favour of Destruction in this. They certainly seem to be pimping them more.

Ivan

Kiith wrote: »

I can see the population being seriously in favour of Destruction in this. They certainly seem to be pimping them more.

What makes you say that?

whatduck

Funky wrote: »

60 second cooldowns :X

Sure its 60 sec cooldown? Would make much more sense indeed but next to every morale ability on wardb is says 60m cooldown.

PS: Gogo destruction Irish guild!

EDIT: They changed all the morale abilities on wardb to now say 60s cooldown, must have been a typo.

sunzz

For me it's going to between a witch elf and a herder.

Static M.e.

Is anyone going to play hardcore in the first week or two? or are you taking it easy?

Jim

Static M.e. wrote: »

Is anyone going to play hardcore in the first week or two? or are you taking it easy?

I'll be starting a new job the week before so will probably play as much as pos for the first week or so and see how it goes from there.

death1234567

Static M.e. wrote: »

Is anyone going to play hardcore in the first week or two? or are you taking it easy?

Its released on Ryder cup weekend so I will defo be taking it easy. Not really into hardcore anyway, I don't think its much fun playing 5+ hour sessions.

sunzz

^^ Agreed, it only gets fun into the 11th hour.

Mac daddy

Chaos Sorcerer is the only that appeals to me at the moment from reading up about the different classes.

Then again ArchMage would be my second choice in the end all comes down to looks for most people.
Example is the shaman man they look great, but not my cup of Tea class wise.

toxick

Mac daddy wrote: »

Chaos Sorcerer is the only that appeals to me at the moment from reading up about the different classes.

Then again ArchMage would be my second choice in the end all comes down to looks for most people.
Example is the shaman man they look great, but not my cup of Tea class wise.

sorry if im incorect but arent sorcerer Dark elf classes? the ranged DPS for chaos is Magus?

WellyJ

toxick wrote: »

sorry if im incorect but arent sorcerer Dark elf classes? the ranged DPS for chaos is Magus?

Yep you are right,

The problem is, that a lot of people are using "Chaos" to describe the Destruction faction.

No idea why this is happening.

Order and Chaos being opposites perhaps?

toxick

WellyJ wrote: »

Yep you are right,

The problem is, that a lot of people are using "Chaos" to describe the Destruction faction.

No idea why this is happening.

Order and Chaos being opposites perhaps?

ahh i see, thats intresting now, that people call the destruction faction as Chaso.

After reading through the profiles of the classes etc, i have to say sorc or herder for me.. more then likely the sorc.

hairyheretic

I should probably have said Magus rather than Sorcerer, but I would say Chaos for Chaos, Greenskins for Greenskins and so on.

The Dark Elf sorceress does sound interesting as well though. It's a toss up between that and the Squig Herder for my 3rd choice after Magus and Chosen.

toxick

the herder just looks really fun to play tho. defintly my second choice.

Maximilian

It's going to be a Bright Wizard for me. I think I'll probably end up trying very many classes on both sides though. They all seem interesting and distinct from each other.

Spear

Maximilian wrote: »

It's going to be a Bright Wizard for me. I think I'll probably end up trying very many classes on both sides though. They all seem interesting and distinct from each other.

Bear in mind you can only have characters from one realm at a time on any given server.

Kiith

Only one character per realm, or you can only pick one side (i.e. Order/Destruction) per realm? One character per realm seems like an odd choice.

hairyheretic

Hopefully he means one side, rather than just one race. Having to spread my characters amongst 3+ servers would be a right pain.

I've no objections to playing Disorder on one server and Order on another.

Spear

hairyheretic wrote: »

Hopefully he means one side, rather than just one race. Having to spread my characters amongst 3+ servers would be a right pain.

I've no objections to playing Disorder on one server and Order on another.

Yes, order only or destruction only on a server, regardless of race.

KoKane

In the beta you are limited to 10 characters total. Wonder if that will carry over.

Played Sorcerer early on in beta and thought it was ok, PVE wise I was doing most DPS all the time nearly, but pvp it didnt feel so effective.

Doing Magus atm and so far so good

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The shots of his face close up are to show how he changes to grinding his teeth angrily. Those close up shots, his face isnt like that by default. If you target someone his upper lip moves and he gets pissed off looking, lol

You can see the few graphic bugs still with items showing through each other, the cloak mainly is the culprit at the moment, armour sticks out through it.

Maximilian

I like his frisbee.

KoKane

The one with Eyes and Teeth is actually a Mount.

String

After being the good guys in that "other game" and regreting it Im going to be destruction this time!

Cant decide between a squig herder and black orc!

Drakar

Everyone and their mother seems to be planning to avoid playing the "good" guys.

hairyheretic

Evil will always triumph over Good, because Good is stupid

Actually I expect that in the fullness of time I will try out a Shadow Warrior, Engineer and Runepriest, but I have a thing for playing evil armies, and Chaos has been my primary force in pretty much every GW game over the last 20 years

Blood-Martyr

Witch Elf and Zealot I think for me. Then its a tie-up between Chosen or Black Orc for the last spot..

Wreck

Drakar wrote: »

Everyone and their mother seems to be planning to avoid playing the "good" guys.

Apparently it was the same with WoW pre-release, but what tends to happen is alot of the casual players who don't post on forums or play in betas end up choosing the 'good' guys.

Dcully

I tend to go with healers but like some dps too so might go with a shaman.
In Age of conan i loved the priest of mitra as it was the best healer and decent dps with great aoe.
Pity the game was so buggy.

Maximilian

Dcully wrote: »

I tend to go with healers but like some dps too so might go with a shaman.
In Age of conan i loved the priest of mitra as it was the best healer and decent dps with great aoe.
Pity the game was so buggy.

I suspect you are going to have the same problems again trying to decide on a main

Dcully

Maximilian wrote: »

I suspect you are going to have the same problems again trying to decide on a main

LOL tell me about it
Atleast with the open beta i cant get past lvl 20 so i can try out a few classes.

Cravez

IF i get this game, i would opt to either the Human Warrior Priest or Witch Hunter for the good guys or the Chaos Chosen for the baddies

whatduck

Think I'll probably go for a DoK as my main now, been reading more and more about the class and it looks neat.

wideband

I was looking at the DoK too but it seems a little weak may go with a Zealot, I hate to many choices In that other mmo, I loved Druids, but there is nothing that resembles it in Warhammer.