Felt like a bit of a change, again, so I’ve been playing my Black Orc the last couple of days. He’s only L40/R3X and the last time I had played he was specced for a great weapon, which sucked obviously thanks to no stats to support it. So this time I respecced for a proper tanky shield style and chucked my few renown points into defensive stats. I figured I’d be more useful if I played guardbot and got as much CC as possible, which turned out to be quite correct. I’m no big killer, but I’ve been able to make myself useful and the groups I’ve been in have worked out quite well... Apart from when facing the Order mega zergs, which apparently don’t exist! :P Yet somehow we had AAO all night in every zone yesterday, go figure…
Anyways, I
think I am enjoying playing the Black Orc, they’re a pretty solid class, have some great abilities and look mean as foooooook. When it comes to fulfilling a PvP tank role, just looking at the CC options in my current spec I’ve got:
- 2x single target knockbacks
- AoE knockback
- Snare
- Morale single target root
- AoE root
- Knockdown
- Silence
- Morale AoE Silence
Then there’s a load of buffs, debuffs and more, which I must say is pretty damn good really. It is a bit of a shame though that it’s all wrapped up in the hideous plan mechanic that Blorcs and Swordmasters are lumbered with. It’s a system which will always feel like a hindrance rather than something enjoyable to use in itself. Though perhaps if the Blorc had all those abilities available all the time it would be a bit too powerful?
My Chosen in a relative spec has:
- Knockback
- Knockdown
- AoE Stagger
- Snare
- Morale single target root
- AoE root
Certainly it looks like the Blorc is some way ahead, even taking into account that the Chosen's AoE stagger is a particularly potent ability when used well.
Still, using the plan system frustrates me, but as the abilities go off and evil things happen, it pleases me greatly. Oh damn it Mr Blorc Designer Dev Type Person, I can’t work out if the class annoys the shit out of me or smothers me in waaaghy goodness.
/confused
Lol poor you, was it only Altdorf twice yesterday? ;D
ReplyDeleteSome decent scraps in Praag last night, but agreed, was all a bit zergy.
Highlight was the whole alli vent channel rejoicing when somebody finally took down Gemmi :)
I only played during the evening, so didn't see any Altdorfs mate. Not seen one for days actually, seems like they all happen outside of the times when those of us with 9-5 style jobs.
ReplyDeleteMust be bloody students and unemployed folks doing the Altdorfs :P
...when those of us with 9-5 jobs get to play...
ReplyDeleteI'm in the same boat mate, strictly an evening player. Don't take me too seriously, my tongue was placed firmly in my cheek (not sure what the emote for that is hehe).
ReplyDeleteSurprised how good the BO sounds (not played it myself). Some good cc there. I was under the impression it was a class that needed some serious Mythic love.
If the Blorc was perfect, if you had every single awesome skill available at all times, would it still be any fun?
ReplyDeleteJust wondering here, never took one past rk15.
Turino - no worries, I took it in jest, was just saying is all. I think since returning I've only done 3 Altdorfs and 1 IC. The times I play at quite often see us with AAO, but then whenever possible we are doing small scale roaming trying to fight around both side's zergs. Whilst we might have multiple KF groups running, we tend to run them separately as small scale wa always our preferred style. Let the glory boys have their warband zergs of doom :)
ReplyDeleteSara - That's a good question. I think it probably would be a bit meh, as they can hit quite hard too it would quickly step into ez-mode boredom.
[shakrah]
ReplyDeleteThe mechanic works well enough on SM I find, if you take it as an offensive deployment: it feels natural. On the BOrc, it is a defensive deployment, so by nature feels more like building spoilers after spoilers.
Got a SM to 40/40, got a BOrc out of T1....