Many of you know I am the guild leader of Retaliation. If anyone who is going to rift is looking for a strong PvP guild to go with them, Feel free to go over and check out retaliationguild.com which is our guild website. It is currently under redesign so If you see logos and things changing don’t be surprised although most of the redesign is done. If you have any comments or question feel free to hit me up and let me know.
Rift has several interesting parts but also some discouraging ones. First I will start with things I like about the game.
There are some things I don’t like about the game as well
Overall I would say it seems like a decent game and will be some fun while waiting for some other mmo’s. I don’t think it will ever be a big game but it seems like a good way to waste time for a few months.
Warhammer Online has been an utter failure at keeping population up on their servers, and in a PvP game, that means at keeping the game alive. They also seem to not care. There are rumors of a producers letter at the end of the month. If it doesn’t have good new retaliation will be moving to rift. I just don’t feel like the developers are even invested in their own game anymore.
I will try to do a piece of rift by the end of the week as I am doing the beta at the moment. So far nothing special, but I also haven’t randomly hovered and died or got stuck on anything so it’s already one step up on my feelings about WAR.
Recently I have been playing my dok on badlands and I have realized something. The absolute best players there are on badlands that I have seen so far have not been impressive at all. Fourhundred is just about the only one that sticks out to be an actual good player. I figured I would give the badlands thing a try since I’ve been so bored on Ironrock. Not sure it’s going to keep my interest too long because the only good guilds I know are not recruiting and in general there are so many baddie destro that finding the good is just too much effort.
Maybe I’ll check back to see if anything good is going on with Ironrock lately, but I doubt there is. At this point there isn’t enough population on either side on Ironrock.
I have taken an extended break from posting lately mainly because I have steadily been playing less and less warhammer. It’s just not as fun as it used to be on Iron Rock because there is no one to kill, or destro is zerging and I put a group together go wipe them once, and then there is no one to kill again. It’s an endless cycle of boredom, so I just haven’t been able to make myself continue to log into war.
I did take a break and roll a DOK on badlands just so that I could have something to do and people to fight, but most of the time thats boring too mainly because I don’t want to go through gearing a 6th toon, it’s just not worth it to me. TOVL can diaf its buggy as hell and often is a huge waste of time. I am basically only willing to do it with a set group of people because then we have fun messing around and since I can’t get them all to reroll on badlands it just means not running tovl. There is however no orvr jewels that are as good for any class as the ones from tovl so it’s a little annoying. This is the end of this rage post
There has been tons of fun fights this week. I can’t get over how different the game has felt. I mean in the last month i have been in oRvR seriously trying to do something maybe a half a dozen times and that usually amounted to sitting on a BO or freenowning a few keeps with the guild. If it stays like this I may actually have a reason to stay subbed in this game. I miss the challenge of annihilating numbers more than your own. The one thing I still can’t stand is order. They are still only pug warband leaders that avoid fighting destro for freenown. Its like please go play hello kitty online instead, or shoot yourself, that would also be acceptable for me. I can’t believe I am saying this but I miss Heraclius……..yeah I said it. At least on PT he would lead his warband right in there to fight the destro with us.
I want to give a shout out to Infraction and his guild for always being willing to fight us. Even when outnumbered they come out and try (when not messing around on badlands) to wreck anything that they can. They are good players and can be easily underestimated, so heads up to any order out there to not assume that a 6 man can’t wreck you and a heads up to destro that these are some solid guys to listen to.
Basically I haven’t posted in a while because I haven’t been playing much warhammer…..well much for me. One of my favorite things to do in Warhammer is zerg bust. Since a zerg of destro doesn’t really exist on Iron Rock anymore ill be happy with more than a warband of destro that signs off after being wiped once. This makes my guild do scs…..endlessly……which just isn’t that fun anymore. I want to ORVR but there is nothing to kill 90% of the time. Rather than be open and tell us wtf they are going to do and when they are going to do it Mythic just plays their usual game of not telling us anything except they are planning something. I’ll give them till my sub is up at the end of the month to solve it because frankly I’m sick of Mythic’s bullshit on all fronts. I love that they are like, “but we talk to our subscribers”. Sure they talk to us about shit that doesn’t matter solely for the purpose of trying to build hype in a dying game. I’m just done giving my money to these guys who cannot deliver the “War is everywhere”. They should change that to “War is every hour in an sc spawn camp of destro or go to Badlands”.
The state of Iron Rock right now is pathetic. I mean I can log on and play all weekend long, which that in itself is hard to do with 30 min queues on scs and the rvr lakes being totally empty. Anyway, if i do manage to play for an extended period all of the good destro are gone. All playing on other servers, or not playing at all. I can do a weekend of sc’s with the most retarded groups ever (two shadow warriors and an engy in group) and spawn camp all but maybe one. It’s just not fun, sure winning is fun, but not that way. Spawn camping is just as boring to me as playing Doorhammer, Age of PvE. Without any real competition happening I am finding it harder and to log on. If it wasn’t for my friends in game I probably would have quit a long time ago now that I think about it. I think I’m going to try to log in tonight to see if I can get some kind of a fight, If I can’t find something fun to do in War soon I’m not really sure what to do.
The WAR on Iron Rock is slowly becoming a ghost town. More and more good players are rerolling on other servers just to find a fight. We can consistently queue up a group for the entire weekend and get like one real fight, and those are usually just bombing scrubs who we would roll if we were not playing on alts. The fights are quickly getting farther and farther apart. After a city flip there is literally nothing to do. You can go like 20 minutes between pops that may or may not imbalance, and oRvR is just doorhammer.
Is it time for a merge then? I’m slowly and strongly starting to feel that way. I’m not sure what server to go to though considering I’m pretty sure that none of the other servers have awesome populations besides badlands, and a majority of my guild has destro there so that wouldn’t be a good choice. I guess even merging into like Volkmar would be good though since 2 sets of shitty population will probably at least equal sc pops. Frustrated doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel when I log in sometimes though.
There are many different ways that premade warbands see pug warband leaders. Personally I have lots of experience with both leading pugs and being one. On the first servers I played on I pugged a lot, and then when Reverence (old guild) ditched me I pugged and lead a ton of pugs. Toward the end of PT I’m pretty sure that myself and Heraclius (sp) were the only real voices in t4 that were respected.
My problems with pugs on Iron Rock is that they don’t seem to realize that maybe if a warband of RR80’s come out into the lakes, maybe they might know better than your freshly rolled rr50. Now there is nothing wrong with doing your own thing in orvr, however if you are getting rolled unless you are with a premade, and the premade makes a call letting you know where they are going then go with them. Don’t make a different call because your epeen is hurt, fucking just suck it up and go with them. I learned this when I lead pugs for a few months on PT when i first got there. It’s absolutely retarded if you start wiping to just keep doing your own thing or to go to pve in another zone because you cant take the destro, all the guys in premades have done their time in pugs and for that should have earned some respect if they come out in the lakes even if they don’t do it that often.
Now I know this may bother some people, but I def needed to both vent and say this. Feel free to let me know how you feel on this. Am I wrong?
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