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Warhammer Online: Shaman Tips and Strategies

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:53:00 -1100

So you’ve been toying with which class to experience in Warhammer Online. Each class of course has its own strengths and weaknesses not to mention its own game mechanics. Shamans are no exception and their constant balance between the Greenskin gods of Gork (Damage) and Mork (Healing) create a very entertaining, and challenging playstyle.

First thing you need to know about Shaman, is that they are easily the “weakest” healers on Destruction. They are not designed to take damage and under no circumstances should they be trying. Their primary role is healing, and as a Shaman you should never forget this.

Warhammer has done a great job of making healing fun and providing mechanics that benefit you for offensive action as well, but at the end of the day, you are a healer and if your tank dies because you are DPSing, you WILL hear about it. That being said, causing damage has its benefits for Shamans.

By unleashing attacks on the enemy, you increase the power of Mork’s WAAAGH! This will in turn decrease the casting times of heal spells, or make instant cast spells more powerful. As soon as you cast a heal spell, your Mork’s WAAAGH! will return to normal.

By healing, you will increase Gork’s WAAAGH! This has the opposite affect and increases your damaging spell. Again, casting a damage spell will reset your Gork.

This mechanic creates unique opportunities for Shaman and you will constantly be shifting back and forth between heals and damaging spells to be as effective as possible.

Tips:

Heal. This may seem obvious, but you might become obsessed with your ability to cause damage. This is NOT your role and you will NEVER out DPS other DPS classes (unless they’re horrible former Order players).
Unless you have Mork WAAAGH! built up, your HoTs should always be cast on your dying group mate first to get their health regeneration going. Save your big heals for well timed battles.
Use your offensive spells in between heals, but NOT if your heals are needed immediately.
Stay in the back. You are a squishy caster and should never be caught between two groups.
Do NOT draw too much attention. Due to your nature, you will be a prime target in RVR. Casting “Bunch o’ Waaagh” will concentrate a green stream of WAAAGH! from you to your enemy, creating a ton of attention not just from the enemy but also from your group mates who will wonder why you’re not healing the tanks dying in front of you.
Use “Don’ Feel Nuthin” to create a shield around your target to help with your healing. This is VERY effective if you are trying to keep multiple group mates alive and need to divert your attention away from your current group mate.

Strategies:

As a Shaman you will want to stack your stats in the following order: Willpower then Wounds then either Toughness (survival) or Intelligence (increases magical damage).
Keep to the back of your group and keep your front line fighters alive. You will want to make sure your tanks are safe first, but keep an eye on the health of your fellow casters as well. Sorcerers will be your largest DPS in your group, but their game mechanic has a tendency to hurt them very badly. Keep them and other DPS alive in between healing your tanks to keep your group as effective as possible.
You are not a DPS class, but since DPSing does help your heal spells, whenever you aren’t healing or are required to heal, throwing in a few damage spells is a good idea. If your Mork WAAAGH! is maxed out, throw a DoT into the crowd.
Warhammer allows you to target an enemy and an ally at the same time. This is especially useful with spells like “Bleed Fer’ Me”. This spell will cast a DoT on your enemy, and at the same time, a HoT on your ally. This spell is on a 10 second timer, but whenever possible, you should have this on someone.
Shaman are equipped with a Resurrection spell on a 6 second cooldown. Keep an eye on your allies and if you weren’t able to keep one alive, resurrect him/her as soon as possible so they don’t respawn all the way back to the spawn point.
At Rank 20 you will get your Group Heal. This is a very powerful spell that has the potential to change the tides of any battle. In a large group battle, everyone will be taking damage. In those situations, start spamming this spell to do your best to keep everyone alive. However, keep in mind this will NOT heal a single target as much as your other spells, so switch back to single heals and HoTs as required.

Also, check out the Squared addon (http://war.curse.com/downloads/war-addons/details/squared.aspx) to help make keeping track of everyone’s health easier.

Feel free to share any more tips & strategies you might have for this exciting and amusing class.

World of Warcraft to Warhammer Online: The Transition

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:50:00 -1100

As many pople know, I take time away from this site during my waves of World of Warcraft addiction. That being said, I finally broke free of my WoW addiction only to be introduced to Warhammer Online.

First thing you need to know, a lot of people in WAR spend about 80%+ of their time comparing WAR to WOW. Frankly, this is stupid. WAR has only been out for a handful of months, while WOW took years to master into the money making machine that it is today.

That being said, who is WAR for right now? Right now, if you're interested in balanced PVP that feels rewarding (i.e. you actually get things from it instead of grinding for a month to get a pair of gloves) then WAR is for you. If you like "raids", questing and the occasional PVP encounter with little satisfaction, then WOW is your game.

WOW is by far the dominate player in the PVE world and will continue to hold that crown for some time to come. However, one thing that WOW has always lacked, is properly balanced PVP. I mean lets face it, a freaking priest should not stand a chance in melee combat with a warrior, yet that does not seem to be the case in World of Warcraft.

WAR changes that. Made by Mythic Entertainment, the creators of Dark Age of Camelot, they have many years of experience with PVP. DAOC introduced us to Realm versus Realm combat, and WAR continues the RVR trend in shining fashion. While truefully a lot of kinks are still being worked out, RVR is exactly what it sounds like. Certain types of classes are not suppose to stand a chance against other types of classes. In this style, we create the need for team work.

For example, a caster is extremely powerful at long range, but the second they get into a melee encounter, their going to get eaten alive. Unlike WoW, where a mage can dominate any class, a sorcerer in WAR is in serious trouble if a Slayer starts beaten on him/her at close range. At the same time, while a "tank" in WAR is hard to kill, he's going to have a very hard time killing anything too.

All this being said, WAR's PVE content is lacking. However, they have introduced something new to the MMO world and that is Public Quests. While a lot of people get frustrated some times with the loot distribution rules, the idea of PQs is really cool. Basically. set areas on the map have kill quests which are ALWAYS active and repeatable at all times. Anyone can help complete them at all times as well, creating a "psuedo-group". There are normally multiple phases of this quests and when it is complete, loot is distribute via a "magical" chest. You get extra points depending on how much you contributed to the group effort and are awarded according to those extra points and a random roll. It is a very addictive idea, extremely innovative and it keeps the "grinding" feeling to a minimum.

The great thing is, you get experience from everything in WAR! Questing, public quests, scenarios, RVR, etc. You name it, you are constantly leveling your character further reducing the "grinding" feeling.

All this being said, there is so much to do in WAR between questing, public quests, RVR, scenarios and the usual slew of professions that grinding doesn't even cross your mind.

WOW is always going to have its place with its millions of followers, but those looking for a change and some honest to god team effort PVP should check out Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning.

Lord of the Rings - Conquest - Archer Tips and Strategies

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:18:00 -1100

Lord of the Rings - Conquest provides an assortment of character classes to accomodate many types of play styles. If you're the kind of player who likes to hang back and pick people off from a distance, than this is your character.

Check out some of these tips and strategies to improve your game:

As obvious as this sounds, keep a distance from the main battle. You're pretty much useless at close range.
If you do get stuck close to the fight, you do have a melee kick that will knock an opponent down. If you're surrounded though, shoot a fire arrow straight down and this will give you time to get out of danger.
You do more damage when zoomed in, and ALOT more damage when you get a headshot off when zoomed in. So sit back from the fight, zoom in and start picking heads off.
Healing is the hardest thing you'll have to do. You can't heal yourself, and the orbs that drop from enemies you kill should be far away if you're following the tips above. Every now and then you're going to have to sneak in to pick up some health orbs, or find a friendly mage to throw a heal your way.
Use your poison arrows to slow down and injury enemies that are coming toward you.
Use your fire arrows an flammable targets, like Ents, for a pyro show and extra damage.
Fire arrows are also great for knocking down a group of enemies or knocking someone off a horse.

Lord of the Rings Conquest Review

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:00 -1100

Score: 7/10

The new Lord of the Rings game, made by the creators of Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2, brings a fresh new look to the over populated Lord of the Rings gaming world.

Unlike previous Lord of the Rings games, this game is focused more on multiplayer. The single player campaign is still intact and can be played through and enjoyed in a single sitting, but the real meat of the game comes with the online multiplayer.

With the traditional game modes like Deathmatch and Conquest there are two new modes that stand out: Capture the Ring and Ringbearer.

In Capture the Ring, a single ring exists on the map and two opposing sides much capture it and take it to the enemies base. An interesting twist on the traditional single flag capture the flag modes, forcing one team to go to the opposing teams base, and spawn points, is an interesting and action packed twist.

Ringbearer is more of a "fun to mess around with mode" that lets one player be Frodo and everyone else as Wraiths trying to kill him. You get points for being Frodo on a time basis.

The ability to choose which side, good or evil, to play is interesting too. Pandemic Studios has kept with the theme of heroes and allows players to take on the roles of the famous heroes like Gandalf to the not as famous, but equally deadly, Witch King. Playing as a Hero does give you a feeling of super power but appopriately doesn't make you invincible, so watch your step.

Overall this game plays well, involves enough dynamics that a well organized team truely does have an advantage and will keep you interested for awhile. On the downside, this isn't the Roleplaying Game you might be expecting and is more like a Battlefront with swords, nor does it really give you any senese of accomplishment that you might be expecting from an RPG. But thats because its not an RPG..

Guitar Hero: Metallica

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:15:00 -1100

Having wondered myself why there was never enough Metallica on Rockband and/or Guitar Hero, we'll all be happy to know our wishes are being answered.

By this April (scheduled release date of 3/29/2009) you can be rocking out Metallica and over 20 other bands.

Get ready to melt faces with the track list below:

Metallica Tracks

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Other Bands Tracks

Alice In Chains - No Excuses
Bob Seger - Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross
Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon - Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate - Evil
Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain - Mother of Mercy
Slayer - War Ensemble
Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Sword - Black River
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town

Rock Band - No Doubt's Album "The Singles 1992-2003"

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:53:00 -1100

Been hoping for some great tunes for Rock Band with a female lead for quite awhile now. Its great to see that this album is finally being released.

The tracks will be available on December 9, 2008, for the Xbox 360 and December 11, 2008, for the PS3.

Track list includes:

1."Just a Girl"
2."It’s My Life"
3."Hey Baby"
4."Bathwater”
5."Sunday Morning"
6."Hella Good"
7."Underneath It All"
8."Excuse Me Mr.”
9."Running"
10."Spiderwebs”
11."Simple Kind of Life”
12.“Don’t Speak”
13.“Ex-Girlfriend”

Gametrailers.com Opens their Gears of War 2 Launch Center

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:43:00 -1100

Check out the launch center over at GameTrailers.com. They have some pretty cool videos, diaries and other media to get you stoked for the release in less than 3 days!

If I only I had a team of 10 developers to build me a launch center!

See the Launch Center For Yourself

Zombies Invade World War II in Call of Duty Bonus

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:39:00 -1100

Check out this video of a Zombie bonus level in the new upcoming game COD5: World at War.

"Activision has released a new trailer showing off a zombie-themed bonus level contained in Treyarch's upcoming World War II shooter Call of Duty: World at War."

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Fable 2 - How do I get my Pub Games Items on to my Main Character?

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:33:00 -1100

I've been asked this question a lot lately. For those of us who honestly played Pub Games and unlocked a bunch of the items, there isn't a lot of documentation on how you actually get those items.

First things first, you have to go into Fable 2 and create a character. Save that character and exit the game.

Secondly, go into Pub Games and merge your Pub Game character into your Fable 2 character.

Thirdly, and this is where most of us get confused, you won't have the items right away. In order to collect the items, you have to find a game master. Any game master should do, but in my specific case I went to the game master in the Bowerstone market pub.

Just talk to the game master and he'll hand over all of your items. Enjoy!

Obama and Palin Becoming Playable Characters in Mercenaries 2

wardymore.nospam@nospam.mycurrentgame.com (Admin) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:30:00 -1100

Now this is just funny. It's hard to believe either candidate allowed this?

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