Witch Hunter Rules!

My first impressions with Warhammer Online weren't necessarily the best. It certainly plays a lot like WOW, but the PVP aspect seemed to one-sided that my interest immediately dropped.

However, you don't drop 60 bucks on a game to stop playing it after one night. So, I created a Witch Hunter and tried setting up shop in a different area and see how that went.

I have a confession to make, I absolutely loved the Witch Hunter class. It's rogue-like sensibilities, followed up with some pretty cool finisher moves involving sticking some gun into an enemy's face and pulling the trigger, really appealed to me.

At the same time, doing the scenarios stopped being completely one-sided and things seemed to improve all around out just after a day with it. I didn't play it much yesterday, but Saturday I played it for a good part of the day and I had a lot of fun with it.

The best part of the game at the start is the amount of options available for starting characters to progress with your character. BGs (or whaterver they are called), seem pretty good for earning XPs. Questing, and RVR objects seem to be useful and provides a bit of variety. On the flip side, while the BGs seem much more even now; RVR is still 100% dominated by destruction. Here it's a combination of population, and high level intruders. This weekend there were lots of 20-21s operating in the T1 RVR zones--all of the Destro, where the average Order guy was level 7-10. So when you couple that with the fact that Destro usually outnumbered Order 2 to 1 in the area (some times worse), it became something of a pain to complete all of the PVP quests in the area.

So far, ganking hasn't seemed like a big deal. PVP fights definitely seem to last longer (at least they do at low level), and there doesn't seem to be lots of ultra-high damage abilities leaving you completely vulnerable in a situation like that. In AOC, I was frequently 1 or 2 shotted by stealthed characters who'd gank me just as I finished off some PVE mob; but that hasn't happened to me even once in Warhammer.

Unfortunately, I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with the game at this point. I'm liking Witch Hunter, and I know Destro's Witch Elf is similiar. I'm also a little nervous about being on a Open RVR server. Even as one-sided as RVR was this weekend on my server, it being Open RVR didn't seem to hurt it so bad. Of course, it'll probably get a lot worse when bored higher level pukes start messing around with the low levels. So it's kinda hard to say what's going be be best right now.