Been playing WAR again for a few months.
Destro on Karak-Azgal, and iv been enjoying it.

Jinnee: So... Where is the RvR happening? Also, class balance? IB still the only useful tank? Black Guard still a piss? AoE still ftw? Archers still sucky... and so on?

Though I read the WHA forums, and this is only from Azgal perspective, from what I can tell: There is not as much RvR as there used to be back in the day. People do solid RvR when they push for city, else they farm scenarios for the scenario weapons. So those pop alot. What you find on KA are certain guild that dedicate themselves primarily to RvR, and have alot of rvr fights, which are decent and fun.

IB's are still awesome tanks, but kotbs seems to the flavor of the, errr, year. Iv seen some insane kotbs. There are alot more Blackguards than there were, all the BG's iv chatted to are happy with the class.
AoE is pretty much still ftw... Not as badly though. You get people who run 6 - 10 man bomb squads, and wipe Warbands+. Seen it happen quite often, but, it takes a fair amount of setup and co-ord, so its not something good ol pugs can do like before... ie stacking Rain of Fire / Pit of Skill. Iv seen a few SW's do insane dmg. Iv seen a 4k Festering Arrow crit, but imo SW are still quite gimp over all. Not sure bout SH, only heard complaints of being too squishy :/


Jinnee:... did they hire someone to develop the game further on? Cause it is in 1.3.5 version or something. After how many years? The game is dead, makes me sad, because I loved it at first

Iirc, Bioware is taking over for the expansion. I might be mistaken but im pretty sure i read that a while ago. Eventhough its down to 2 servers, i can def say the game is not dead. There are tons of players in all t1 / t2 / t3, and more in t4.
Forts have been removed from the game for quite sometime now, due to lag I think. Theyr planning on bringing em back in 1.3.6.
Cities have changed drastically, theres detailed explanation in patch notes, but the main points are that City Sieges are now 100% PvP fueled, no more PvE in them, and they are 24v24 instances.



All in all, come play WAR gais

Ok, downloading the endless trial now, and see with my own eyes if WAR has improved or not.

BTW, Semper Dius went Destruction right?

If I come back, which will most likely not happen, I would just continue my last char.

I always did good dmg with my SW imo. (aoe build so high dmg in scens and keeps)

Here is the latest news letter that came out today

http://img.war-europe.com/syndic_img/newsletter/2010/04_april/monthly/04_apr_2010_en.html

I'll maybe play a bit. Can't get into anything else atm.

The only good thing I noticed so far, are the desperate attempts to bring more players, which resulted in what, hopefully, could one day become a standard: No box needed. You just get the endless trial and if you like it, you just pay the sub and have all the fun.

The SD guild on still exists on Order, Karak-Norn.
But no one is playing in it, so youl be better off joining a random guild for the time being -_-

Kiwi still plays on Norn quite actively as far as I can tell, so if you plan on playing Order, give him a shout.

If you plan on playing the trial though it doesnt really matter which server you choose.

I attempt it, but didnt like it. Couldnt get into it. Guess I'll just wait for Tera/GW2/Soul&Blade.

I'm with Shirou...I felt no desire to level what-so-ever.

I'm gonna try some Runes of Magic