regarding the playing of the "Black Orc", I don't think i want to play a pure-tank -- I would rather play the "Choppa" but since they yanked that class I need to choose something else. The CHAOS ranged spell caster riding on a demonic disk of doom looks pretty cool as well.
actually grommit the choppa was the orc mdps rather then the tank, the black orc is that green skin tank
and if you wish to play a magus (disk of doom chick), they're more utility/support rather then guns blazing (think conjy not wiz (but less pets a bit more firepower/buffs)
personally im lookin at squigg hearder/magus/sorcerer(you know me and the glass cannon types *evil grin*... maybe scoot should play the tank again, he had fun trying to hold agro in eq2 with our faes hehehe)
Yeah Ill make a healer too. I am going to pre orde like you skoot. I am so ready to see something besides a damn pit fiend and hound who puts bees on ya like winnie the poo with his hand in a hive. I will look inot getting a voice server from vent or teamspeak. Once we get some folks on servers I think we should post more on here. I am so ready to kill stuff with you guys again well actually make fun of one another while killing stuff.
I"ve already preordered to, but i dont think we'll have a server list till sometime in sept, remember make sure you got your preorder codes from wherever you ordered, if you didnt place your order again (ive heard amazon is having trouble with giving them out, no i didnt order from em, i ordered from gamestop) sometime after friday the open beta will start and you'll need the open beta code to get in and take a look at things (download opens friday, big dl, probably 10-15 gigs) dont know how many servers will be up but im guessing a fair few. Dont know if the different server types will be up yet but from what i've seen/read it looks like theres 2 server types, open and core ( or something like that) now i think if i read it right theres certain rvr or pvp areas and certain pve areas, now with open those are what they are, if you go core, anywhere theres a pvp area the entire zone is pvp rather then just that section.\
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/ good forum sorce of info and probably one of the first places you'll find complete list of skills/breakdown of job paths and such when nda is broken this week sometime (wed/thurs rumor says)
also as a side note i dont believe that those of us planning on going to war are going to be able to have our own small guild not if we want anythign to come of guild life, guilds in war are like in eq2, you get to level them, but as where in eq2 you get guild leveling from raiding and quests, in war it looks to be stuff like your guild holding keeps and such, where you need a rather large amount of people to take the keep and the money to pay guards to hold it and such. Just something to look at that while we may make lotf, i would say that once the **** hits the fan for real (higher levs a month in) it would be prudent to start making aliances with a larger guild or even merging with a larger guild or what have you as guild life in war appears to be slightly different from most mmos (mainly because of all the pvp focus)
I'm going to preorder this too and hopefully when I'm home in September I can play a bit and get some salvating going on before I have to go back to the sand pit
remember tokes, this is HEAVY pvp like 50/50 pvp/pve but the pvp is mainly battles 10v10 all the way up to a couple thousand on the battlefield. Also when you pick a side your locked into that side, you cant have destruction and order on the same account on the same server, but you can have 2 different servers one order one destruction (i know how much you 2 like to jump around)