No new info for KotBS and WH?

[Sir Athanasius]

Hello everyone, new poster here! :D

I have been watching the various videos from Leipzing as well as reading everything related to the new info that has been made public in German. However, as an Empire fan myself, I am a little concerned that there is no new info for for the KotBS and Witch Hunter classes (not to mention the Chosen and the Marauder that so many people are waiting for).

At the first day of their presentation swordmasters' and witch elves' have a small gameplay demostration video available, while the fans of the classes mentioned above have been left with no new info for quite some time now. I know elves are more popular than the human faction(s) of the game and that elf fans have been waiting for longer but shouldn't there be a demo video for KtoBS fans too? ;)

In short, does anyone know when we can expect more info for the tanking and melee dps classes of the Empire and Chaos?

[U4godlike]

leipzig isnt over but they never made any promises when it comes to the 4 order chaos melee classes but yea god i really am intrested to see what they mean by "battle commands" so much speculation... i hope its something innovative =]

IMO empire will be the most popular on order (but thats just my opinion <_<)

[AlienOverlord]

In short, does anyone know when we can expect more info for the tanking and melee dps classes of the Empire and Chaos?

This is a very worthy question. I haven't seen any info about those classes being played at Liepzig :(

[ChosenOne]

Well if the rumor mill is true, empire and chaos are now in the beta. Which means the two empire and chaos classes that are not released yet are being fleshed out and worked on as we speak. Perhaps in a few weeks we will get what we have been waiting for.

[dynamo112]

Although personally I like the Elfs so far (yeah yeah it's because there are in game models of them in action. :rolleyes:), i'd much rather them tell us the elf careers that are going to be in and then give us some in-depth information on the careers we know about so far. The reason why they had the Elfs up and running and modeled in the game was to show off at a big gaming convention something new and big that's going to be in WAR, mainly for publicity reasons. *crosses fingers* PLEASE give us some more info and game shots of the 4 melee empire/chaos careers. The other Elf careers can wait. :(

[Vegetta]

Id like to see some pvp/ rvr vids that is for sure - actually I would like to see animations movies like the DE & HE ones they just released for all of the classes

[Veridun]

I've just played a KoTBs earlier today, from rank2 to rank3. I must say that the damage done isn't much, but his defense is good. (DPS/Tank class)
For example take the mobs that I head on 1v1, rank3 vs lvl 3 mob (equal),
my normal sword hits em for like 9-11 dmg, but for hp wise, I can go on 2-3 mobs in a row w/o having to stop to regen hp back to full.
But at least I finally can get to 'touch' this game.

No no before you guys go on about what NDA, I'm not from the beta, never was, just got the chance to play it, as in try out.

For classes done, the Empire's was the BW and KoTBs, didn't see the other 2 classes. Hmm the BW seems to move about on some board or something.

[Vikingkingq]

It is rather annoying that we've seen so little of the KotBS/WH, although the same is true for the Marauder and Chosen. Basically, they just aren't ready yet, or at least weren't ready until recently given Veridun's post. As for the videos, that's a recent innovation - original intro videos didn't have a bluescreen behind Paul where they could project a video clip, it was just him standing against a wall and talking.

That being said, I really really hope they start demoing the Witch Hunter at various events, because we know so little about their gameplay.

Oh, and Veridun, any word on the abilities of the KotBS?

[Flegler]

For classes done, the Empire's was the BW and KoTBs, didn't see the other 2 classes. Hmm the BW seems to move about on some board or something.

No running animation, or are you confusing it with the Magus?

[Veridun]

Not really on the abilities, like I said I got to play a rank2, while trying it out got it to rank3.
So basically I was using On Your Guard defensive stance while fighting mobs, spamming Smash, and auto-attack, using some throw range attack b4 melee range. That's all. I didn't see the talent sheet though, but saw the 'spellbook'.

As for the running animation, I think my cousin got a picture of that, but I was sure the guy's in robes, holding a long polearm of some sort, and he satnds on a shield/board floating around (as in moving around). Now you said it I think it's the Magus, but the magus is a class?

I'll try load a couple of pictures I took here soon, they're still on my handphone. :)
Yep not beta once again, it's from the Games Convention Asia 2007 here in Singapore, which is where I'm from, EA has an office/head branch here, which is good =D

[Flegler]

Not really on the abilities, like I said I got to play a rank2, while trying it out got it to rank3.
So basically I was using On Your Guard defensive stance while fighting mobs, spamming Smash, and auto-attack, using some throw range attack b4 melee range. That's all. I didn't see the talent sheet though, but saw the 'spellbook'.
Interesting, thanks. What were you throwing with the ranged attack? Knives?

As for the running animation, I think my cousin got a picture of that, but I was sure the guy's in robes, holding a long polearm of some sort, and he satnds on a shield/board floating around (as in moving around). Now you said it I think it's the Magus, but the magus is a class?
Yep, the Magus is the Chaos caster class. Bright Wizards wear red robes and go on foot.

[Veridun]

Yep, think it was knives, it says basic throwing weapon.

Oh Chaos Magus... pardon me, I didn't really look at the forces of Destruction side.

Ok in short, I played a KoTBs, a dwarf Engineer... the other peeps I saw were playing Chaos Magus, Goblin shaman (I think), and that's all I believe.

Oh so that minus out the BW for the Empire. 1 class per race they allow, total of 4 races, excluding the elves. Btw, I didn't know Chaos look like normal humans, haha. Saw this 'magus' or was it, like a farmer at the char creation screen on another screen.

In short, the game is fun though.. how I love those dwarfs, they make em square and great!

[Vikingkingq]

Not really on the abilities, like I said I got to play a rank2, while trying it out got it to rank3.
So basically I was using On Your Guard defensive stance while fighting mobs, spamming Smash, and auto-attack, using some throw range attack b4 melee range. That's all. I didn't see the talent sheet though, but saw the 'spellbook'.


Interesting....

so, On Your Guard - how does it work? Boost armor? Boost block/parry/etc?
Smash - sounds like a basic attack, but what's it do?

And thanks for posting the info.

[Veridun]

Interesting....

so, On Your Guard - how does it work? Boost armor? Boost block/parry/etc?
Smash - sounds like a basic attack, but what's it do?

And thanks for posting the info.

I didn't really read the tooltips of the abilities, just glance through them.
Here's what I can remember:
On Your Guard (it's like a stance, only 1 active per time), increase dodge/parry/block chance) and I believe this stance when ON reduces your movement speed as your in a defensive mode. The animation's nice, quite similar to the wow paladin's bol, or rather the same.
As for smash, I believe it's like additional damage. I auto attack for like 9-11 white dmg, while smash whacks for like 18-21 yellow dmg (but it's still considered physical dmg).
It says action points 0 or something, so I can just spam it.

Just give me another day or so, I'll paste those 3 pics I took while playing here.