Runepriest Video

[BigBeerBellyMan]

7:01 is the duration.

http://www.war-italia.it/war/Media/p803_sectionid/6/p803_fileid/24/p803_js_on/1

The player doesnt seem too bad

[Pira]

don't know why, but the video dont even start here.

[BigBeerBellyMan]

don't know why, but the video dont even start here.


Might have something to do with either not having windows media player, or your WMP doesnt have updated drivers. that would be my guess.

[LookinGreen]

don't know why, but the video dont even start here.

Ya I could never get past 20% of it buffered. My only guess is taht it's because its on an itilian server and my IP sucks here

[Varcan]

Finally, finished buffereing after about 3-4min. Good video though, great quality picture. Unfortunately, the Runepriest wasn't grouped so didn't get to see any interplay. The guy was hard to take down as he self healed his entire health bar everytime he got a heal off. I especially liked the part at the end where a Squig Herder was raining arrows down from above. Took his health down pretty quick with a Horned Squig pitching in too. Choppa finally finished him off a bit later.

[twinoceans]

i got no problem playing it. good gameplay.

[BigBeerBellyMan]

Should check out some of the other videos on that site. theres a good hammerer one thats 12 min and a Black orc one thats 20. Good zealot one too if i remember correctly.

[Loekii]

The rock barrier was interesting.

I do hope that they CD improvements will include all aspects of the environment (noticed choppa running through the gears once or twice).

The other thing is the it seemed like there were only 12 action slots, and only about 8 actions. I wonder if there will not be a need to have multiple action bars, and multiple hotkeys/macros.

[Dan da Man]

video worked fine for me only about a 30 sec download time

And great video one of the few actual gameplay vids ive seen that have high quality.

It also made me feel tons better about the animations.

[BigBeerBellyMan]

video worked fine for me only about a 30 sec download time

And great video one of the few actual gameplay vids ive seen that have high quality.

It also made me feel tons better about the animations.

Yea i noticed the animations looked a bit better. And the good thing is... this video is from August! 6 months ago! (just think of how they could have improved in that time)

[vehemoth]

That5 video was incredible. Thanks a lot for the post.

Time to help out:

The rock barrier you mentioned is a runepriest action called "Rune of Sundering" It is a pbaoe knockback that knocks back all enemies in front of the runepriest.

The frequently used ability that made a lightning bolt strike the enemy from the sky was Rune of smiting. It is a bread and butter nuke ability.

Rune of immolation was the ability that lit enemies afire. It is a DoT.

There were some heals cast and the giant A on the ground was a master rune. I don;t speak the language or I would be more specific.

That video is the best quality runepriest video I have seen, both the player and the footage quality. Great find!

[Jtmk]

Why all dwarf class videos what I have seen are taken from female?

[Lucrece]

Why all dwarf class videos what I have seen are taken from female?

Why the hell do you care about the gender of the toon?

[BigBeerBellyMan]

Why all dwarf class videos what I have seen are taken from female?

Character customization unavailable in Beta? Who knows

[Lucrece]

7:01 is the duration.

http://www.war-italia.it/war/Media/p803_sectionid/6/p803_fileid/24/p803_js_on/1

The player doesnt seem too bad


Thanks for the site, which was in a language that I could understand as opposed to the usual French or German ;).

As for comments:

Support classes, in my opinion, are doing marginal damage instead of the "DPS" they're supposed to be capable of. The Runepriest could barely scratch the black orc, let alone the goblin shaman. I don't expect them to reach 80%, but at least 65-70% of a DPS class's DPS would be nice.

Also, I noticed the shaman did consistently more damage than the Runepriest. Couple that with the damaging requirements of the shaman, and I could see the Runepriest being forced to be a healbot, sadly.

The video quality was great; the attires look so neat. However, the Dwarf walk looks incredibly awkward, especially when they're getting hit.

I am personally fascinated by the Runepriest's background, but I'm not so impressed thus far with the amount of independence they've been afforded.

[BigBeerBellyMan]

Thanks for the site, which was in a language that I could understand as opposed to the usual French or German ;).



Italian .

[Lucrece]

Italian .

The link kinda hinted at it; luckily, I can speak Italian ;D.

[BigBeerBellyMan]

The link kinda hinted at it; luckily, I can speak Italian ;D.

lol i thought you were asking what language it was. my bad :p

[Loekii]

I would not use this video as a measure of the DPS of any class. If it is from August, odds are that the DPS numbers have changed a number of times already.

[Dunhill]

Ive seen a lot of videos from these conventions and playtesting, and (i kid you not) every single video of a scenario i see, the order wins.

There's still a lot of balancing to be done.

[Dunhill]

Why the hell do you care about the gender of the toon?

Ooh! We struck a nerve i see. I bet your some 15 year old that will play a female character for the reason of "i dont want to look at a mans all day".

Well i care about the gender of my character, and i will play males due to the fact that i can relate to them better. If you want to play a female, whatever, thats fine. But dont berate someone whose making a harmless comment that can only be seen as sexist if the person criticizing it is self-conscious of something. Personal perhaps?

I, like the poster you wrongfully chastised, do wonder why a majority of the runepriest videos are of females. We want to see more of them with males so we can see how our soon-to-be avatars will look.

Attack elsewhere, elgin thagi!

[BigBeerBellyMan]

Well i care about the gender of my character, and i will play males due to the fact that i can relate to them better.

This also happens to be the reason why there are less women in positions of superiority in the workplace. Its not because the person doing the hiring/promoting is a sexist, its because they can relate to people more like themselves. (Random fact i learned a few semesters back in a Principles of Supervision class;))

[Hurak]

I'm Hopnig the damage will improve a little bit more but then maybe the Runepriest was all out specced to do healing. Cause i saw like 150 damage going on in there while the Runepriest was doing around 40-60. It shouldn't be that much where its just crazy difference. But then it is in development and the runepriest didn't have many abilities in that podcast. Who knows maybe they changed alot of things about the runepriest without us knowing. :rolleyes:

[Lucrece]

Ooh! We struck a nerve i see. I bet your some 15 year old that will play a female character for the reason of "i dont want to look at a mans all day".

Well i care about the gender of my character, and i will play males due to the fact that i can relate to them better. If you want to play a female, whatever, thats fine. But dont berate someone whose making a harmless comment that can only be seen as sexist if the person criticizing it is self-conscious of something. Personal perhaps?

I, like the poster you wrongfully chastised, do wonder why a majority of the runepriest videos are of females. We want to see more of them with males so we can see how our soon-to-be avatars will look.

Attack elsewhere, elgin thagi!

Haha, of all the asses I'm looking for, that of any female is not my aim. ;)

There are plenty of videos with male runepriests, all with the same attire.

I'm curious as to how you can "relate" to any non-human figure in the first place.

[Jtmk]

Meh stop the BBQ, I was just wondering... For a change you see woulda be nicer to see how men are doing it : P

[RX_Odhinn]

I'm Hopnig the damage will improve a little bit more but then maybe the Runepriest was all out specced to do healing. Cause i saw like 150 damage going on in there while the Runepriest was doing around 40-60. It shouldn't be that much where its just crazy difference. But then it is in development and the runepriest didn't have many abilities in that podcast. Who knows maybe they changed alot of things about the runepriest without us knowing. :rolleyes:

this is actually my biggest concern at this point. I'm well aware that runepriests are the more defense oriented of all the support classes, but it has been mythic's goal all along to produce classes that can all deal damage. So when I watch videos of the Warrior Priest and Zealot in particular and see them hitting for an average of 200 damage and sometimes landing those big critical hits of 400+ (Highest hit I've seen so far came from a zealot who crit for 568 ) I do get a bit nervous. I would be fine if the runepriest had less damaging abilities, and only less attacks than all the other support classes, but to give him less attacks and lower damage is kind of a bummer.

To be fair though, we are still in development, and trying to compare any kind of damage at this point could be considered foolish. I guess we'll just have to wait until we can test drive everything.

[Barab]

BigBeerBellyMan thanks for the RP video...good stuff

[Darner]

Really nice vid! Cheers m8

[Daedarin]

this is actually my biggest concern at this point. I'm well aware that runepriests are the more defense oriented of all the support classes, but it has been mythic's goal all along to produce classes that can all deal damage. So when I watch videos of the Warrior Priest and Zealot in particular and see them hitting for an average of 200 damage and sometimes landing those big critical hits of 400+ (Highest hit I've seen so far came from a zealot who crit for 568 ) I do get a bit nervous. I would be fine if the runepriest had less damaging abilities, and only less attacks than all the other support classes, but to give him less attacks and lower damage is kind of a bummer.

To be fair though, we are still in development, and trying to compare any kind of damage at this point could be considered foolish. I guess we'll just have to wait until we can test drive everything.

Have you thought about lvl difference, which is not shown anywhere in the videos?

[RX_Odhinn]

Have you thought about lvl difference, which is not shown anywhere in the videos?

Its hardly an issue in what we're watching. Everyone is playing pre-made characters with basic gear for whatever level they are. Chances are, since the developers put these characters in as a means for people to have fun and test the classes and all the conventions, that they are all the same level. Also, the fact that mostly all these videos takes place in a scenario makes darn sure that they are at least all within a small level range....my guess is that they are all the same level. Maybe someone who has actually been to a game convention and got to play hands on and come in and verify for sure what level the characters they had to choose from where.

[Barab]

Good to see collusion detection in for foe and friend alike. good stuff

[BigBeerBellyMan]

Good to see collusion detection in for foe and friend alike. good stuff

I didnt see any CD between players in this video. I miss something?

[Seabee]

I really enjoyed the video. The runepriest looks fun to play but healer buffer then some damage seems to be how it played then. The shaman video in the same section has the shaman doing a lot less healing but was that play type or character design.

If the runepriest is a better healer I suspect lower damage is fair. Still lots of beta to change things.

[Barab]

I didnt see any CD between players in this video. I miss something?

you say players running threw each other ? I didnt.. I saw at one point the RP squeeze out between orcs and Dwarfs and several times bumping into each other I thought.

[LookinGreen]

At the start of the video it doens't even look as if there is any cd. It looks as if the shaman has no problem walking through the runepriest.

[Barab]

At the start of the video it doens't even look as if there is any cd. It looks as if the shaman has no problem walking through the runepriest.

Yes I saw that. Maybe the Shaman, since he is short, has a smaller CD box. It looks like though during the rest of the fight there is full CD occurring though.

[BigBeerBellyMan]

Yes I saw that. Maybe the Shaman, since he is short, has a smaller CD box. It looks like though during the rest of the fight there is full CD occurring though.


I wouldn't be so sure of that, the video was filmed in August of last year, and as far as we know it, the convention test servers did not have CD at that time.

[Barab]

I wouldn't be so sure of that, the video was filmed in August of last year, and as far as we know it, the convention test servers did not have CD at that time.


Perhaps but to me it looks like the Orcs and Dwarfs other than that shaman have CD going on. Though maybe it just looks like it to me or I want it to look like CD is in.

[Roargh Growler]

Finally a video where it just looked freaking awesome.
And this is supposedly 6 months old ?

To talk about the RunePriest.
I loved the gameplay mechanic of the runepriest.
Got me interested to see some more of it !

[Barab]

I wonder if the runes laid on the ground can be seen by the opposition ?

[Daedarin]

But Odhinn aren't you refering to different videos for the Runepriest and Zealot. That is different videos and most probably also a level difference.

[RX_Odhinn]

But Odhinn aren't you refering to different videos for the Runepriest and Zealot. That is different videos and most probably also a level difference.

This is the video I am referring to. Its long, but certainly worth the watch if you havn't seen it yet. http://files.filefront.com/FJV+2007+Gameplay+PvP/;8641080;/fileinfo.html

All the footage is shot within the same scenario, so I'm going to go ahead and assume that all the characters shown are roughly, if not exactly, the same level. You can clearly see the minimal damage Runepriests are capable of doing as compared to every other class, and yes every playable class is featured in the video.

[Daedarin]

This is the video I am referring to. Its long, but certainly worth the watch if you havn't seen it yet. http://files.filefront.com/FJV+2007+Gameplay+PvP/;8641080;/fileinfo.html

All the footage is shot within the same scenario, so I'm going to go ahead and assume that all the characters shown are roughly, if not exactly, the same level. You can clearly see the minimal damage Runepriests are capable of doing as compared to every other class, and yes every playable class is featured in the video.

I see your point. And If the magus players saw that it seems like a Zealot can out dps them, they are going to make all hell break loose...

[BigBeerBellyMan]

This is the video I am referring to. Its long, but certainly worth the watch if you havn't seen it yet. http://files.filefront.com/FJV+2007+Gameplay+PvP/;8641080;/fileinfo.html

All the footage is shot within the same scenario, so I'm going to go ahead and assume that all the characters shown are roughly, if not exactly, the same level. You can clearly see the minimal damage Runepriests are capable of doing as compared to every other class, and yes every playable class is featured in the video.


OMG i must find the artists of the first song. That was F'in chill!

[Lucrece]

OMG i must find the artists of the first song. That was F'in chill!

It's in the end credits. I've tried D/L'ing the song, but it's such a remote piece that most file-sharing mediums don't have it.

[The Black Death]

Im worried about the damge =\ all i saw was rock barrier that pushes u back healing and running....doesnt seem like it can do any damage at all..i thought they said every class was going to be able to deal damage

[LookinGreen]

This is the video I am referring to. Its long, but certainly worth the watch if you havn't seen it yet. http://files.filefront.com/FJV+2007+Gameplay+PvP/;8641080;/fileinfo.html


Out of curiousity what are the arrows at the bottom of your toon in that vid. Are they pointing towards your group members?

[RX_Odhinn]

Out of curiousity what are the arrows at the bottom of your toon in that vid. Are they pointing towards your group members?

Yes, they are showing you the direction of anyone in your group. Every once and awhile you'll see a red arrow pop up too. That seems to be locating the direction of incoming damage.

[vehemoth]

Im worried about the damge =\ all i saw was rock barrier that pushes u back healing and running....doesnt seem like it can do any damage at all..i thought they said every class was going to be able to deal damage

This is like seeing a picture of half of a hoof and assuming a giant horse is a sickly half eaten zebra. Don't worry yourself or spread your concern to others.

Runepriests will have multiple damage spells as well as offensive support and proper tactics and morale to go with it. In fact the ability used most in this video is an offensive spell called rune of smiting which causes a lightning bolt to land on an enemies head. There is also Rune of Immolation which provides a DoT and with a proper tactic lowers the enemies armor (if it has not since changed) making them more vulnerable to you and your allies. Rune of Sundering (the damage+ knockback) is just another example of the Runepriest's offensive capabilities to name a few. A runepriest that masters into offense will have more damage to their offensive spells, more spells to choose from and improved offensive support. In short, they will do more damage, make thier allies and them do more damage and make the enemy vulnerable at the same time, while still being able to heal (assuming that offensive support goes into an offensive mastery). Fear not for the Runepriest shall be on par with the other healers in damage.

[RX_Odhinn]

Fear not for the Runepriest shall be on par with the other healers in damage.

Bold statement considering the mountains of evidence that contradict you. Sure, a Runepriest will have offensive abilities, but they will indeed do less damage. Being the superior defensive class of the order side it is only fair that we sacrifice some offensive power, so I highly doubt the RP will be on par with many of the other healers. To say that a Runepriest can just increase the amount of damage he does through career mastery, tactics, and moral abilities without considering that every other hybrid class can do that as well, is only looking at half of a story. If runepriest's start out with lower damage potential then they will end with lower damage potential....as compared to lets say a Warrior Priest that specs for damage as well.

I'm not upset that Runepriests will do less damage than every other career in the game, but I am upset that the damage they do seems to be nearly ignorable in every video to date. I think we'll be more of an annoyance to the enemy through our superior support and soft controlling abilities, not through damage. Fear not, the Runepriest will do less damage but he will make up for that by being an immensely powerful support career.

[vehemoth]

They also have offensive support abilities. When I say on par I mean comparable and not necesarily = to. What you are saying is that we may not have the same offensive potential but in going for offense we will ultimately give up the least of our potential in healing of other healing careers that do so. I agree.