Sneaky Herder

Diiiing RR40

2009-02-04T15:05:00.001-08:00

Yeah, i reached Renown Rank 40 today! Going from 37 to 40 in just 2 days. There was not much grinding to get that, there was some really nice warband vs. warband action spread all over the T4 zones. We took some keeps, and again i did not get a single bag in about ten T4 keeps. Not a single gear change for my herder in the last two weeks. Ok 7,2k hitpoints is not that bad. I don't die as much as before since i am sentinel geared.
This leads me to another point.
The contribution system in keeps is just fucked up. And that's an issue which is in the game since september 18th. Did you ever try to do nothing in a keep raid? I mean really nothing, not even shoot at a door or the keep lord. I tried this three times vs. undefended keeps, and well, i got two gold bags from that. How stupid is that?

Oh, and i crafted a +12/2d wounds talisman today. Cool thing for skill level 90!
I also met a dwarf wielding a HUGE hammer, haha!

I cried a lot about that damn dwarf engineer skill. It's like an electromagnet, sucking up to six enemies within 65 foot range to him, disabling you for 5 seconds. Oh and after that, he roots you for
another 6 seconds. PHUN!!!1. €dit: After some difficult google research, i figured out that the skill is really called electromagnet. I always knew that dwarfs suck.

Patch 1.1.1 came out today also. No major changes in Orvr, they were all postponed to patch 1.2 which will follow in a few weeks. A new Live Event starts on Feb. 6th, the 'Night of Murder' and the Keep Lords/Battlefield Objective Seargents give quests now. Kill 20 Players while defending Castle X. Hooray, i waited for this!!

Zerging in Eataine

2009-01-24T03:34:00.001-08:00

I told you that i'm trying to hit RR40 at the moment, well it's a long way. I was part of a warband rolling over Eataine, zerging in front of the Order Warcamp there. As i am a sneaky gobbo, i usually shoot in peoples backs.

The Quick Shootin' Herder is fun to play, although it lacks a bit burst damage. My Run n' Shoot usually hits for about 500 dmg non crit on a squishy class. Most of the time, gobbo attacked players have Yer Bleedin' and Rotten Arrer on them, which leads to about 600 dmg per Run n' Shoot in combination with the 2 DoTs. I have not skilled 1s Plink and have only 6 points in Path of Big Shootin', but my Plink hits Mobs for 1054! Maybe i should get some serious data about how hard i'm hitting players with Plink. I have a hard time at the moment thinking on respeccing for Big Shootin', which would lead to the standard What Blocka-Plink-Plink-Plink-Dead rotation, which is also fun.

Oh, i was in Bloodwrought Enclave again (my second time) and i got Sentinel Squigkickas! That makes 5 out of 6 Pieces in just two runs, i guess i'm one lucky guy.

Fellow Herders!

2009-01-21T17:28:00.000-08:00

I decided to create this blog because first of all i'm a little bit bored at the moment and second, i always wanted to write about games. This blog is about 'Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning' and the Squig Herder, the class i play on [DE] Middenland Server.

I started playing end of September 2008 and hit level 40 in mid-december. Yeah, i'm not that fast, who cares. At the moment i take part in the large Zerg battles in T4 open RVR and trying to climb up the reknown ranks. It's just damn slow. At the moment, i am RR35. I was very surprised when i read this. Um, well, congratulations on having no life.

Ok, nerdstuff now. I'm specced in Quick Shootin', what comes with the advantage that one can fire off sneaky gobbo arrers in peoples backs while on the move. Yeah, you lack some burst damage, but you still kill a lot and thus it's that much fun. As long as you can stay out of melee at least. If into melee, fire off your Point Blank and hope he won't come again. If your morale 1 isn't up yet or another guy or the guy you just fired away is on a second attempt, you're wasted.

Oh, and i was in the Bilerot Burrow and Bloodwrought Enclave the other day, recieving 4 parts of Sentinel set in only one run. Yay!