Best players of original WAR

[Zamoth]

Order:
Slayer - Woilix, Uppacut
White Lion - Tijay, Battosai
Whitch Hunter - Incomingray, Kodiak
IB - Djolle, Barrli
Sw - Malekaiaa
Bw - Mäxx
Engi - Micromachine
AM - Sulorie
Runepriest - Powli

Destro:
Choppa - Krogrosch, Discoklaus
Marauder - Galva, Donperkun
Witch Elf - Dixie, Killbrat
Black Orc - Parwun
Black Guard - Starila
Sorc - Gratulia
Squig Herder - McHamma, Rayker
Magus - Toon
DoK - Starilas, Essyldum
Shammy - Gemmi
Zealot - Razalghul, Furaa

Just my 2 cents...

[Carso]

Kruelhand Job was a beast. Anyone know what SWTOR server he plays on?

[Parwun]

No mention of Parwun? :O

I'm a long time BO player, and I have huge respect for him, and he's even on this server :O


Click here to watch on YouTube

Much love, Parwun <3

Thanks for kind words) Iam here indeed, rare on BO still...

[Highlet]

Please do not celebrate these "best players." It's because of these players and the fact that Warhammer had no effective matchmaking that WAR died. At the end of WAR's life, full premades of these players had the lakes and scenarios in full lockdown. Casuals that wanted to queue solo or pvp for fun weren't able to, as they would just end up getting roflstomped by geared and coordinated parties, discouraging them from logging in and eventually unsubbing.

Case in point: let's examine the last year of Badlands. At that time order was being completely dominated by a group of now legendary dps zealots. I am talking of the reign of forsseti, myndfreak, cyvik and others whose names now elude me since the bioware forums have been taken down. With their extraordinary aoe dps, aoe heal debuffs and ability to switch to heal mode at any point to be able to flex under pressure and be nigh unkillable, dps zealots were completely broken.

In rvr, guarded dps zealots with the odd magus to pull had a decisive advantage in lakes. The extreme aoe dps of these groups would kill any unguarded or solo rvrer in gcds. Fearful of dying, order's casual players had to stand back and many times you would see slayers just throwing axes from the backlines. Stripped of their pubbie support, while destro's pubbies were able to attack without fear, order had a massive numerical disadvantage and would always be camped at their spawn.

Dps zealots were even more ridiculous in scenarios. They had this destro-exclusive (runepriests didn't have it) ability that caused a continuous pbaoe knockback + virtually unhealable high aoe damage channel that (with tactics) applied an aoe heal debuff. With proper positioning, which destro's premades were consistently capable of, a two guarded dps zealot premade could set it up so that order that were punted by the first zealot's channel were punted into the second zealot's channel. Order was knocked back and forth between zealots, unable to cast heals, unable to fight back. All they could do was die - in droves. Scenarios were pathetic in the end. Order would often give up and remain in their spawn from the start (where they were safe from the zealot's pbaoe inside their guards), and eventually scenarios stopped popping as order gave up altogether.

Order could came up with no counter to the dps zealot comp. From pubbies to self-declared "top-tier" guilds, order players were stomped on, camped, destroyed, raped. Order either quit the game, like myrmidons a "top tier" guild that was shamefully showed up by dps healers and as a pro gaming team (they do the gw2 pro circuit now, look up ostricheggs, one of their players who won some competition) had to quit to save face, or switched to destro, in the case of such players as tankbeardz, arthem and liandel. The case of the player tankbeardz is especially galling. A kotbs and crucial member of a competitive order guild, who should have represented order and kept them in the fight, he grew tired of being farmed by dps zealots to play a magus by the name of riftbeardz. As a magus he became the buttboy for dps zealots, his sole job: rifting order into the aoe dps of the zealots for them to om nom on . What an ignoble thing to be remembered for! From intrepid solo tank and dependable guard to riftbot.

The only order player of any note was llondo, who like the also legendary xylophone before him, was a dps archmage. With the archmage's ap steal, the dps am was on the few comps that could shut down a zealot's channel and dps and swing the battle in order's favor. Still he was a drop in an ocean of bad. Unsubbing in despair at being so utterly dominated, the lakes become almost devoid of order, with almost constant aao in their favor. Now without anybody to fight, destro unsubbed in turn out of boredom. Seeing the population figures, EA made the only decision it could: it shut down the game.

And that is how Badlands died. With a dps zealot bang. In the end, chaos prevailed and the heralds of the apocalypse: the zealots forsseti, myndfreak, cyvik and co. Your like will never be forgotten.

Even though as a chosen player I glory in our victory, I am still sad WAR was closed because of dps zealots. The devs could have just nerfed them a bit and the game would still be running today. I have not found a game like Warhammer since. I have tried WoW and have no idea why people play it and pay for the devs to make no content for years. I now mainly play World of Tanks. I encourage everybody to try Elder Scrolls Online when it goes Buy To Play next month. I played it for a month and the game is solid, the sub (to keep up multiple subs big no no) was too much for me though.

Still trolling after all these years...but no, we don't want to play war thunder with you.

[Ungrin]

In my opinion I remember a lot of the names. I can't really tell you who were the best players, because when it came down to it, the gear gap in WAR was just too much to ignore.

No matter how close the skill was between players, the person who played more, and by default, had better gear, always came out on top.

Does noone remember when def-sov first came out and that ridiculous bubble/self-heal was? I mean come on, half the people that dinged 90+ abused the hell out of that until it got nerfed.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I won't say who is good, who is bad, etc. Pretty much everyone that was mentioned in these threads got to where they were by playing a long time and out-leveling/outgearing their opponents. These people were in groups and farmed people who didn't play as much and in turn skyrocketed in renown and gear.

I mean hey, I respect them enough as people, it was great to see people rise to the challenge and hover over the rest of the casuals, but to me this game will always be 95% gear based / 5% skill based.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I won't participate in the circle jerk and just name friends off.

[Ungrin]

Please do not celebrate these "best players." It's because of these players and the fact that Warhammer had no effective matchmaking that WAR died. At the end of WAR's life, full premades of these players had the lakes and scenarios in full lockdown. Casuals that wanted to queue solo or pvp for fun weren't able to, as they would just end up getting roflstomped by geared and coordinated parties, discouraging them from logging in and eventually unsubbing.

Case in point: let's examine the last year of Badlands. At that time order was being completely dominated by a group of now legendary dps zealots. I am talking of the reign of forsseti, myndfreak, cyvik and others whose names now elude me since the bioware forums have been taken down. With their extraordinary aoe dps, aoe heal debuffs and ability to switch to heal mode at any point to be able to flex under pressure and be nigh unkillable, dps zealots were completely broken.

Still trolling after all these years...but no, we don't want to play war thunder with you.

Yeah, no kidding. I stopped reading after a bit when he started talking about how "unkillable" zealots were.

Chum, zealots got dropped in 1 gcd, by me, and a lot of other rr100 WH's during live.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say that zealots were one of the worst classes in war, just ahead of the magus/engi.

Literally, the only zealot I thought was hard to kill was the zealot we fought during our 6v6 against The Final Chapter.

That's it. 1. Uno.

[aeoric]

That would have been Bram iirc, although TK put in a good shift on Zealot for us on some occasions

Good fights - you play here now on RoR with Violet right?

/salute

[Ungrin]

That would have been Bram iirc, although TK put in a good shift on Zealot for us on some occasions

Good fights - you play here now on RoR with Violet right?

/salute

Hey Aeorix,

You were a great Marauder. Yeah it was Bram that was hard to kill. Great players all around from TFC during the final days.

I do play on RoR but I don't play with violet too much. I'm still here, play casually with WI and some of the old crew.

Glad to see you on here.

[deslage]

I didn't wanna name players in my guild so some may be blank.

Sorc: Leckz, Subziro, Vellfire, Obisent
Dok: Rookfrjosa, Fuhyn, Disintegrator,
Witch: Gagamootoos, Iyami, Hecatehex
BG: Illthayla
Choppa: Chiefwannachop, Grymloxx
Squig: Apollothirteen, Stinkyweed
Mara: Jetsan, Thyphus
Magus: Rudboy, Xtar, Fistandantelus
Chos: Kharnamatic, Brettoeli
Zeal: Marraleisse, Bram

WL:
SM:
AM:
IB:
SL:
RP:
Engi: Torgin
WH:
KOTBS:
WP:
BW:

[Lilfina]

BW: Belgara
WH: Lolih
AM: Telen
IB: Djolle
Engi: Pippu


Sorc: Elraen
Choppa: Ulfv
Chosen: Mortharion
SH: Floo
DoK: Cristasol, Lamai
WE: Luranni