Warhammer Online Preview Weekend, Here I Come!!

I’ve finally caught WAR fever!  I can’t wait to login to the Preview Weekend that starts on Friday.  My indecision regarding which class to play as my main is the biggest culprit.  I’ve been reading my favorite blogs, roving game site class guides and watching way too many YouTube videos, in search of my new darling.  I’ve changed my mind so many times that I’ve resorted to a prioritized list of classes to test drive during the preview event.

I’m going to be out of town on business during the Open BETA through the first day of the Head Start so I want to be able to hit the ground running when I start playing.  I’m not in a hurry to level but much like Age of Conan where I spent two weeks re-rolling until I found my favorite class, I expect to have to try several classes in WAR as well.  Why?  I’m finding the variety and slight twists on traditional classes plus choosing a faction enjoyably problematic.

I’m not going to be racing to the max level.  That’s not how I play my main.  I would however, like to keep up with my blogger mates in Casualties of WAR.  I think the RVR and Public Quests are going to bring out more of the group-play in me.  So girlie must needs to keep up.

I’m almost decided that I’ll be playing Destruction, but I do have two Order classes in my list of test drive classes.  I’m so stoked to get a chance to play everything on my list that I’m taking Friday off from work!  I’m supposed to be off on Fridays during the summer but I’ve only had time to pull that off once since Memorial Day. BOOOOOOOOOOOOO  HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS on Corporate America.

In order of preference, here the classes I’m going to play during the preview:

1. Greenskin Shaman – Yes, I know. I said I couldn’t play anything this ugly but the class looks fun to play in RVR.  My only concern here is if it has the offensive power to also do some solo PVE?
2. Chaos Magus – It’s ranged DPS caster that floats around on a pimped-out disc.  C’mon, how cool is that to be floating around above the masses. Plus I think I saw some stationary pets in a video.  Even if they're of minor use pets are fun.
3. Dark Elf Sorceress – DE Sorc had been my first choice for ages if I decided to go evil.  Character model looks great and I suspect she can pump out the damage.
4. Dark Elf Disciple of Khaine – This class only made it into my list because I think I will enjoy healing in RVR so I think I should give it a try if the Shaman doesn’t suit me.
5. High Elf White Lion – I’ve since learned that this is a melee pet class not the standard hunter I was anticipating.  However, if I want a traditional pet class, this is the one.
6. Dwarf Engineer – I’ve NEVER EVER contemplated playing a stunted mistress of the dwarven persuasion and I still wouldn’t be if a commenter hadn’t mentioned that they have turrets.  If I hadn’t been so averse to rolling an alt in AC2, I always wanted to try the Tatiana for the stationary turrets to help with farming.  I seriously doubt that all of the other classes I’ve mentioned will bomb so greatly that I ended up here as a main.  But I suppose, stranger things have happened.

So that’s my WAR Preview Weekend class line up.  What’s yours?

Comments

[Mirage]

Well, in recent days, I've actually been rethinking this alot. At first, long time ago as a matter of fact, me and my friends decided we would split up our initial group into the archetypes, and I was going to play a Gobbo Shaman, since we needed healers, and I really wanted to be a Greenskin. After awhile though, I've been caught in a triangle between the Shaman, the Black Orc, which seems to be so freakin' awesome, or the Dark Elf Sorc. ((I just say Sorc. so that I don't tread on the ground of gender)). With the preview weekend, I'll probably end up test driving all of the Destruction classes, but probably won't get to play much, since I'll be writing stuff down and taking pictures so I can pour information on my friends.

[Syah]

I'll be waiting to read your comments after the preview Weekend Sylah, since I have been in closed Beta and we were running on the lowest resolution, but even with this in mind I haven't been in awe (graphically speaking and also in the character creation department). I tried different classes and races.
Quest-wise it's fast paced and some of the quests really are innovative. The map is a jigsaw - not the regional map but the world map(never figured out how that works).

So far I'm having mixed-feelings about the game. But to all people claiming this is a WoW-clone it definitely isn't (not even the graphics can be compared). The game will mainly be focused on RvR.

[Relmstein]

I think I might try Squig Herder just because I haven't played an ugly in awhile. Now I just need to come up with a goblinish name.

[Saylah]

@Syan - I was excited about the map at first thinking it was like AOC. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a cluster. Guess they didn't have any human factors person reviewing the interface. One thing that is confusing is the stoplight metaphor they're using. Green means, I think so far, that a new quest is available at that NPC. Orange means you've completed a quest with that NPC. Yellow means you have an uncompleted quest with the NPC. That's what I think it means anyway after about an hour of playing.

Instead of changing the icon for the quest completion state they're changing the colors but that scheme is confusing. I see green on the map and start running toward that NPC thinking I can turn in a quest but when I get there I smack-head because it's a new quest instead. Oh well, we'll get over it.