Warhammer is like an MMO action movie. Explosions going off everywhere, people flying, catapults slinging, cannons shooting.
They only let us play the starting zones but the game really hammers home the point that your a member of an army fighting a war. The war is everywhere.
Public quests are really great and really fun. Public quests are special quests that anyone can take part in at any time, you just go to the area that the quest is in and the objective will pop up on your screen and also what stage of the quest. After the quest is done a window pops up and numbers start spinning like a slot machine to determine who contributed the most to the quest. If you did good then you get a loot bag and you get an item. ALL THE ITEMS (if your lucky enough to get a loot bag) are made for YOUR character.
So say your a tank class and you come in first, you don\'t have to worrry about getting rewarded with an item ment for a wizard. Its nice to know that no matter what you WILL get either an item for your character, something for one of your crafting skills, or simply money if thats what you want.
The quests themselves are very fun aswell, one of them at its final stage a giant troll comes marching out of a forest knocking down trees on players and what not.
There are many moments of \'Hey, thats pretty cool\' in this game. Its like an Arcade MMO. Its action, action, and more action.
Then there is open world pvp which is also very fun. I took part in a keep siege and had to command a battering ram with 5 other players to break the door down while dozens of other players were fighting around me. It was going good until the people in the keep we were attacking dropped boiling oil on the battering ram and killed us instantly. But it was still awesome.
Also if PvE is not your thing at all. The PvP XP is so good that you could level from lvl 1 to 40 from PvP alone without any problems.
Warhammer claims to have 20 classes (which technically it does) but EVERY class is mirrored by another one on the opposing side. Meaning the Dwarf Runepriest is almost identical to the Chaos Zealot. They have the same play mechanics, just different names. So there is actually only 7 types of classes to choose from..
Tanks
Melee DPS
Ranged DPS
Stealth
Magic ranged DPS
Healer DPS hybrid
Healers
Those classes are spread out amongst 20 different character models, so once you know what you want to do its more of a choice of how you want to look. I assume they made it this way because no one can cry \'Nerf!\' every 2 seconds because the armies are equal.
I didn\'t play any of the healer classes, but they can keep themselves alive long enough to make their way back to their allies for assistance. Healers are definatley not people you pick on for 1 shots. The tanks in this game actually feel like tanks. They take such an insane beating when they got their shields out. You can survive for longer than you\'d imagine even with 8 people beating on you at the same time.
The great thing about tanks comes with the collision detection in the game. I was a Chaos Chosen tank and I was defending a keep with a Black Orc tank and we had healers and ranged dps behind us. We set up on the stairway leading to the top of the keep after the enemy had broken its way in. Me and the Black Orc were like a wall of meat and metal. The enemy can\'t run through us and pick on the squishies behind us. They have to kill us to get through. It was one of the times I had the most fun.
Think of that scene from 300, the first fight scene of the movie where the persians charge the spartans and the just slam into the spartans shields while the dudes behind stabbed them. I didn\'t know how they would make tanking fun in a PvP game but I have to say it was a total blast.
We only got to play in the first 2 starting zones of each class. But in the first 20 levels (which is as high as it would let us go) there was already 6 different battlegrounds to que up for and play. The BG\'s were also fun, the ranged from capture the flag, to king of the hill, to kill the carrier type objectives.
The actualy gameplay is similar to WoW (nothing at all like Conan) in a lot of ways but also has a lot of stuff that make it different. Something familar and something new. The black orc for example uses attacks which open up bigger attacks which lead to his best attacks. The bright wizards get to rain down fire on people however they will build up combustion inside themselves and they have a spell that gets rid of combustion. You get about 10 combustion for every spell you cast with a maximum of 100. At 100 if you use it you get a small instant crit. However if you do not use your combustion and if it is at 100, the next time you go to use a spell there is a high chance you will blow yourself up. As a wizard I probably killed myself more than anyone else simply by not playing attention.
There are dozens of PvE quests and there are dungeons to play in, but I didn\'t do any dungeons cause I was just having so much fun in PvP. But there are PvE things to accomplish if you need a break from the hectic PvP.
All in all i\'ve had a AWESOME first experience with Warhammer. I can only speak for myself and as someone who can\'t get enough PvP, it seems like this game was tailor made for me. Can\'t wait for sept 18th.
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