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1. Harding says

   Ok i am going to review this game not just on a current quick play. I’ll go in depth as much as i can so bear with me please.

   I will be the first to say this game has had many issues and has been fighting an uphill battle on a hill made of ice. I know.. i stayed none the less (largly due to i beat GW and GW2 isnt out yet… and i am a mythic loyalist despite their many many many faults). They have had serious issues with bugs, balance and grinding, among other things. thankfully much of it has been fixed and more is coming, very soon! I won’t sit here and tell you it’s the perfect game because it’s not but i will tell you whats wrong has been wrong and whats been fixed and is being fixed now or in the future.

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   First thing, i’ve been on WAR for over a year now and i am dead sick of people comparing it to WoW. It is NOT WoW get over it.
   1. wow has been out for years… multiple expansions and time to fix stuff. WAR has been out barely a year. Compare WoW at 1 year to WAR at one year. At 1 year WAR has more content and fewer bugs than WoW… looks promising to me but most people have gotten so used to zombifying to an old game that has been in the market for years they are to impatient to wait for a new game to fix itself thus slowing down the fixing process when everyone impatiently leaves thus preventing the compony from having enough money to support all of its employies…
   2. It is PvP primarily not PvE primary… so dont bother grinding for PvE and then complaining it’s a grind fest… it isn’t you can start PvP right off the bat, no grind and if you so choose you dont even have to touch PvE at all, as you can level in PvP as well.

   Ok it’s been a year what now what then?
   1. Ok there are still bugs but they aren’t all the same they are new bugs from new content. And they are fairly minor bugs that hardly effect gameplay. Not to mention i see bugs vanish every couple of weeks as they get fixed.
   2. They have had more content added, not just simple oh hey here’s a new quest or armor piece but an entire expansion worth. Guess what. It’s free… as of right now WAR is aiming at making their expansions free, they have considered making a pay for expansion maybe (i stress maybe) somewhere down the road but likely keep it at free. Entire zones and classes have been added. And i expect new races even in the next year or… (hopefully not) two years.
   3. Revamped: The game is being revamped based on player, not developer but player feedback. RvR and PvP has change drasticaly making it run smoother and quicker… no more wasting 24 hours to take a capitol city.
   4. Revamped: Major complaint was class balance. This is gonna be fixed in the next month. They are putting through a major patch that will make the classes on order and destro sides mirror eachother more closely like they were meant to. Same skills diferent names and apearance… but same skills essentialy. Also crowd control is finaly being fixed and is no longer the mass spam nest it has been. It will be harder to get, have more requirements to trigger, and will be more limited class wise (most classes will lose most of their crowd control, tanks will gain crowd control making them better at their job).

   Leveling and costomization did suck… end game was lacking and what was with the repetitiveness?
   1. Ok if you are playing PvE and you were so sick of hitting that brick wall at one tier or another… they fixed it… leveling is much smoother like it was meant to be…
   2. Customization is getting much better. There are more trophies, armor sets (and more armor set design variation), and even mounts. granted some are a little harder to get than others but that’s how it should be… some stuff easy some hard…
   3. Even the repetetiveness as fallen down… now the live events are more frequent and more varied… dont worry though they aren’t one time only things… They plan to bring them back…
   4. end game… the end game has been revamped so much… now things are easier so you can access more of the end game content, and more end game contect has been added (for example an entire continent of new stuff)

   Ok the bugs, population and the graphics.
   1. i hear people quit due to crappy graphics. that is no longer the case. the graphics are much much better than they were in clossed beta and early game… and rumors abound about another graphics update.
   2. Graphics have been ironed out more solidly so there is far less lag… much much better.
   3. Population issues are next to mute now. Before it was sad… the server was maxed on pop, and yet you could hardly find anyone. Well they finaly fixed it. They merged most of the servers into i believe 7 servers, and raised the pop cap tramendously. I never log on and find things feal dead… lots of RvR and PvP, or PvE its amazing!!!
   4. The bugs are so much less than they once were… most of them are hardly even noticable much less effecting your play. Server stabability can get 50/50 right after a major update to the game but usualy gets fixed in 1-2 weeks… or at least lessened till they find a more permanent fix.

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   In End Note… the game is tremendously much better than it was… much much better. I did dock a star due to the bugs and such we still have but with the fixes going through right now and as fast as they are working i know this game can pick itself back up. (as long as they don’t let EA rush them anymore). I would also like to note that they are under new management now, and the new management so far is much smarter… they have been more willing to tell us the players stuff straitforward with less beating around the proverbial bush. And they listen to the players much more than before. It is also promissing to note that another major compony is jumpin on the wagon and depending on how they handle things we may see things spead up as well on the game.. Looks promissing… can’t wait to see what happens in the next year after the last years performance.

   January 9, 2010, 1:31 pm
2. Shea says

   Conceptually, Warhammer Online is a stellar game. With a PvP and casual driven experience in the forefront, this is a game that seeks to entertain. Unfortunately, the develops decided to recycle their 9 year old game engine that was previously used in Dark Age of Camelot. The engine lacks many things that make a game such as World of Warcraft addictive and enjoyable. Not only is it hard to tell what abilities you’re using when you use them, but the game runs very poorly even on good computers. The worst part is that even though it runs poorly the graphics aren’t appreciable. The audio is above average but music isn’t utilized nearly enough. A very average MMORPG experience that I cannot recommend personally.

   January 9, 2010, 6:46 pm
3. Bates says

   The designers of this game did everything that they could to make it fun. Unfortunately, you cannot dictate fun to people who play online. It is a good game with nice features and exciting realm versus realm fighting. But the rules are rather restrictive, the end game fighting is repetitive. Most nights the ‘war’ is an endless excersise in keep-swapping with zergs basically chasing each other’s tails. I had hoped to see lots of open field warfare and there is some, but most fighting is channeled into keep fights – which can be fun, if that’s what you’re into.

   Me, I’ll be moving on to a less restrictive ‘sandbox’ type pvp game. But this game will provide several months of fun for anyone who is new to the genre.

   January 10, 2010, 1:33 am
4. Shortell says

   This game was everything I expected and more. You tired of waiting week after week for raids in WoW?… Tired of having nothing to do after you’re geared out?.. Try this game. The pvp is great.

   I was skeptical about buying collector’s, but I’m a fan of the 40k series so I JUST HAD TO, ya know? The hardcover graphic novel is now sitting on my shelf of prized possesions.

   January 10, 2010, 6:55 am
5. Pauli says

   Warhammer Online is a great PvP game. You can get in to PvPing right at level 1 and level up through PvP.

   January 10, 2010, 1:27 pm
6. Lieberman says

   While the Guide is useless, the Atlas is just ‘mostly’ useless. There is a little real information on the maps, some of the most important information is missing. One of the poorer efforts from Prima; rushed to get it out at game release, I suspect. Not recommended.

   January 10, 2010, 6:56 pm
7. Froelich says

   Not much good to say about this. The pages are quite dark and difficult to read and to make matters worse the text is really tiny. They have added in some key locations to the map that will be useful but not worth this price. Don’t bother with this. In a matter of a week or so much better and clearer information will be available on the web.

   Prima stop putting out sub-par game books and get with the program. I would have loved to have a good game atlas : (

   January 11, 2010, 12:44 am
8. Darahdgian says

   I bought this knowing that it would be out of date before the game launch. Prima has been pretty good in the past about updates. It would appear they fired all the people responsible for keeping their customers happy. Missing and false/misleading information, and no way to find any updates on their page, if they exist.

   January 11, 2010, 7:26 am
9. Phuong says

   I bought both of these products in anticipation that they would list quest locations, lore unlocks, maps of instances, etc.. instead I received some half hearted “story” describing each character class to show the skills they have which was not orated very well.

   The books showed some locations of lairs and lore locations, it was done by showing you the same map you can see in game with a super tiny number placed on the map. Absolutely no directions on how to arrive at some of these locations other than a very unhelpful red arrow pointing to the location in some maps.

   As for the Atlas…yeah, it lists each location but does not give good strategies and again the horrible use of red arrows to “help” point you in the way you should go.

   All in all, if you are interested in the maps and some help with finding lore location then you will find some use from this, but I would recommend that you save your money and just do a few searches online for better and more accurate information posted by those that are playing the game now.

   January 11, 2010, 1:30 pm
10. Kipp says

    good info. & maps i give it 4 stars.

    If your new to the game get the books.
    If you bin playing the game you know what the books are and dont have to buy the books. or you can buy tham for the in-game code.

    The plus about the books are a in-game code. Item code
    10% bunus to XP for two hours.

    January 11, 2010, 6:42 pm
11. Johansen says

    Got the Prima Guide and Atlas at a really good deal from Amazon. Guide and Atlas are very colorful, good paper-quality and I love the specific class-languages. It explains classes, zones and mobs very good. I still think, that they could have done a little bit better on the maps, imo.

    January 12, 2010, 12:59 am
12. Biggle says

    The atlas alone is worth it. The maps are crude, but easy to follow and locate things such as flight masters etc..

    The other book is a comprehensive guide to playing the different types of characters as well as getting the most out of your character.

    I very much recommend these books for a little gaming edge!

    January 12, 2010, 7:25 am
13. Ogawa says

    These books are very good looking and give a lot of lore and such, but very little info about the game itself. The game guide is just a little better than useless, no info about game mechanics, proffessions, rvr combat, ect.

    January 12, 2010, 12:53 pm

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