WOT, Choppa is on PTS!

All right, all you girls and gits, the Choppa is officially in a playable format once more. Log into the PTS and give it a try. It has changed quite a bit from beta, but still has a familiar feel to it. I’m so excited for the Choppa to go live, I’ve been collecting “Orc, Goblin” items that the class may find useful.

So, I logged on and created my choppa yesterday. Wow….. Absolutely amazing. This class is awesomeness incarnate. It truly is DPS all the way through. It has very little along the lines of utility, the only thing coming close it, Path of the Wrecka is made for smashing though tank walls. This will also be the class that will have the 1,000 rez’s title before 40.

RAGE! Interesting mechanic, so you start off like a BlackOrc (survivability/damage), but quickly move up Marauder status. Then finally you start to glow red and have that damage/survivability of a WitchElf. At the point your ‘zerk you have no survivability. I was getting hit for over 300 damage by slayers fully enraged (My weakness + Their rage damage) in t1 lower than rank 5. When Mythic said you’ll be rez’n these guys a lot, they were not kidding.

Now, I did view over the trees and abilities. Though the Choppa has some nerf bait moral abilities, they really have no moral builders. But in the end, I foresee a few abilities that are going to be whined about and nerfed (Some maybe rightfully so). One thing I did notice, they have TWO tactics that raises Strength, and one of them will also raise Weapon Skill (another very important skill for MDPS).

Though, we won’t get a good review of these guys for some time, as the test server spends a lot of time crashing, making it nearly impossible to get one into T2. We won’t see the impact they or the Slayer have in the game until some time after release, and the 40’s start trickling in.

Until then,
Oi, Mythic, fetch me CHOPPA!

Lore taking another one for the team?

In the summer of 1989 I picked up the game Space Hulk. From that day I was hooked. GamesWorkshop has had some of the best stories and lore I have ever come across. I played table top WHFB and WH40K up until recently. It’s a game that has stuck with me, always keeping me wanting to know more about the fluff.

Imagine my surprise in 2006 when I learned about Mythic picking up the MMO rights. All I could think of was “How are they going to butcher the lore”. In the end they did all right. Of course female Dwarfs aren’t on the front lines, male Sorc’s (the few that exist) are in hiding, and contrary to popular belief there truly are female Chosen.

I can understand that the Sorc’s were kind of an accident. Really no excuse for the dwarfs, except the fear of having an entire race on Order gender restricted. Now I’m excited to hear the return of the Choppa, but worried that lore may “take anther one for team” on the Slayer.

Frankly, I have nothing against female players or characters. Heck, my wife plays WAR as a Witch Elf and Blackguard. But by lore, there are no female slayers. Dwarfs are a dieing race (whether though lack of offspring or Greenskin caused accidents), and would never allow a female of the race to wantonly take the slayer oath and seek death. Dwarf woman are the ones that pass down the lineage. No respectable dwarf would allow a woman of the clan to take the slayer oath, and if the crime was that bad, another male dwarf, most likely one of her sons would take the oath in her stead.

Please Mythic, don’t allow the lore to take any more hits than it has to.

EDIT: Recent Vids have Devs stating that there will not be female slayers, or as other call them, Slaydies).
Current WarHammer Alliance discussion topic on it.