Hi all!

[Hopasaurus]

So I just discovered this today due to Reddit...was a huge fan of the concept of this game when I heard about it years ago. Due to RL things, such as being deployed and what not, I never really got a chance to actually play the game. At work at the moment, so I haven't had a chance to download the client and what not. I guess I just want to ask you all, what I can expect from this experience?
What are some of the social aspects of this game?
How are the RvR fights going?
Biggest concern...how is the community? On a scale from 1-10...1 being the most toxic.
Good balance of classes?
DAE read these.... haha =D

Thank you all in advance for answers. I will do my best to log back in asap to find out what secrets you all hold for me.

-Peace

[Dana]

Welcome here

[Kacia]

Welcome. I hope you love the game as much as me. As an answer to your questions....

Social experience. Most people use /advise as the faction only chat. /say can be read by both factions in the area. I like it cause you really get to know the other side and of course some trash talk. Most of it is friendly trash talk but now and then it's not.

Rvr swings back and forth right now. One day order dominates the next is destro. Order seems more fond of large scale cooperation while destro prefers smaller premade. My suggestion is have a main on both sides and play to the balance. Go where you find the most fun.

Community ill give a 7. Most of the people are nice and helpful and being new to the order side I've realized they are not the assholes a lot of people paint them to be lol. It's like real life most people are nice but you always run into a few douchebags. I gave it a seven because of the whining and complaining that takes place on a daily basis....you know the type "that class is op, devs are bias to order, rvr is broken" remember this is alpha still working out the kinks and ignore the whiners lol

[betozg]

I actually never played WAR before (on live) but loved the lore, the mechanics of the game and the classes, and that is why Im here with 2 characters rank 26, im building a new one...
Answering your questions...
what I can expect from this experience? A lot of PvP (scenarios and Realm vs Realm) this game is very focused on PvP, so if you like PvP, you will love WAR

What are some of the social aspects of this game? like Kacia said, some friendly trash talk, but some roleplaying too (not in Advice chat), which is fine, Im not into RolePlaying, but I like to see it around. In general, Most of the people are willing to help.

How are the RvR fights going? great, specially in peak hours, you can expect huge battles
Biggest concern...how is the community? On a scale from 1-10.... 8 as I said, most of the people are willing to help, some random people have given me gear I didn't ask for... with my 3 characters, not a coincidence

Good balance of classes? there are some issues, but in general, the classes are balanced

[Razid1987]

First of all: Welcome! \o/

what I can expect from this experience?

You can expect a promising project, with a world of potential. The devs are active on the forums and priotize PvP (RvR) over PvE. They are basically listening to the player's discussions, suggestions and thoughts on these forums, and then try to implement the closest thing possible to that. Polls are often made by players, to find out what people think about certain subjects and people are very passionate about this game. You will find heated debates and stuff like that, but it just goes to show actually how much people care.

What are some of the social aspects of this game?

Well, in live there was what was called Public Quests (PQ), which are basically areas where players could do specific tasks, such as farm mobs, click on stuff and other things to get what is called Influence (Reputation, if you know WoW).
You could then head to the Rally Master for that given chapter/PQ and get a reward (either a potion, or some gear). There are 3 stages of rewards for each Chapter, and you'd get better rewards for each stage you'd farm to.
On this server however, many aspects of the PQs don't work, so you can only get Inf by farming mobs, and many of the rewards are simply not that good, and takes a very long time to get. So yeah, it was a social aspect in live, but not so much here

There are also Scenarios (Battlegrounds from WoW), where you just sign up from your minimap, and then get in queue. After some time, a pop-up will appear and you can join (Remember to join an actualy group in the SC so you will get healed!). You'll then be with 11 other players, fight 12 from the opposite faction over battle objectives (BOs). Remember you also get points for kills

Other than that: Get in a guild! I can't emphasize this enough! Your guild is your family in this game: You fight along side them, and you die along side them. You are helpless alone in this game.

How are the RvR fights going?

It's overall pretty even I'd say. Right now however, it's pretty Order dominated in the ORvR lakes. We have certain problems with players switching faction whenever they see the smallest sign of defeat (Called Crossrealmers or xrealmers). Order seems to be zerging quite a lot lately, while Destro seems to focus more on 6-man roaming or doing SCs. Order also seems to be more European, and Destro American.

Biggest concern...how is the community? On a scale from 1-10...1 being the most toxic.

Erhm... It really depends on the day, lol. If you have a day where one faction completely steamrolls the other, the salt levels get up pretty high and you can expect to see whine-threads within a few hours. I also personally athink people can seem a bit arrogant and toxic. Trolling isn't that normal however. Trashtalking can be a bit of a issue from time to time. Some people (Especially Destro) can be pretty biased and/or dishonest, when it comes to talking about balance among the classes across the factions.
But with that being said, it only takes one bad experience to over-shadow all the good ones. There are lots of amazing people here too (players and devs alike), and there are made amazing threads, and posts every single day. People really do care, and want a as good game as possible.

Good balance of classes?

People say that the balance right now is pretty good here in Tier 2 (Level 26), but there's also quite a few whine-threads about "Order is OP this" and "Order is OP that". I honestly feel there are advantages to Order, but it's nothing to whine about. If you're a great player, you'll do great. No matter what faction.
I do believe certain classes (and their mirror class across faction) do need some tuning down. I usually call these classes "the power classes", and they were dominating in most of live, and we can already start to see it here, too. But I think it would be silly to make big changes until we get to Tier 4, simply because we don't fully know the effect or how the balance actually is there. Who are these power classes, you might ask? Order: KotBS, Warrior Priest, Slayer, and Bright Wizard. Destro: Chosen, DoK, Choppa, and Sorc.
Now, that's just my opinion, and it's important to note that I only want their AoE sightly tuned down. But I guess you'll have plenty of time to figure out your own opinions

Enjoy, good luck and WAAAGH!!!!

[betozg]

mmm... well, destro have Maras... but I agree nothing to whine about, classes are pretty balanced imo

[Gerv]

It is what you make of it, push out the trolls and use your ignore button and play the game how you want. If so you will have a great time.