Firstly the lesson for the day.
It would seem that Recount is the only addon I’m running that provides the “Armory” texture. I quite like this texture and as most Ace based mods can happily chat to each other and pinch their resources, that texture is made available to them. For me this is my primary UI bars (AGUF) and my cast bar (Quartz). After a spakattack in Naxx last night I started turning mods off willy nilly in an attempt to settle down my shitty performance. Doing so really pissed off AGUF, without a texture to use it went nuts, threw errors, reset my profile and went back to looking like some fucking circus tent.
The lesson, um.. just leave recount on m’kay (I should have just settled for turning off the sync which is spammy)
Anyway, on to the post.
My month back in WAR is over, I haven’t played that much but I certainly enjoyed it more this time around. Despite really wanting to like Destruction, the Greenskin classes left a lot to be desired, the Witch Elf was fun though. The game itself is still very clunky and unresponsive. It’s, you know, ok, but it’s failings are pretty huge ones as far as playability goes.
The RvR is a lot of fun but the unresponsive nature of the game makes it a very spammy affair where pushing buttons is more important than outskilling your opponent but even as a Witch Hunter, quite a frail class, I went up against a horde of new choppas and managed quite well.
The problem is that when you press a key to activate a skill, there is a delay between that action and what your character does. In some cases this is reflected in the cast bar but not always. I’m used to a little cast bar lag, in WoW for example I can happily predict that a spell will be going off after the cast time, cast bar display notwithstanding. I have been playing that solid for five years mind you so I should know damn well the cast times of everything. WAR operates a little differently, at least as far as I could tell, with the castbar ruling over when your action took place. It wasn’t so much a case of client>server lag as it was just shitty mechanics.
It’s a nice setting, the classes are fun, the RvR is fun, the music is great, greenskins are just hilarious but Herders and Shaman are pretty poor to play, the crafting is awful and there are server merges every five minutes but as I said, I did enjoy playing it again.
I might go back there at some point but I’m starting to consider having another look at LotRO as my next diversion. In the meantime, back to chuffing Walrus dailies.