Warhammer Online: Exclusive Interview #12

Joshua Drescher, Adam Gershowitz and James Nichols of EA Mythic team up to answer the latest set of questions on Warhammer Online: age of Reckoning. Population balance, respecs and other topics get their attention in this twice-a-month series.

WarCry: What tools will be available to help guilds manage their teams?

EA Mythic: We have an extremely robust set of Guild tools that will allow leaders and officers to efficiently manage and coordinate their members. These tools include a Calendar system, news feed, and an in-depth roster feature. These, plus the addition of the living guild system (your guild actually gains levels and benefits), make guilds an integral and rewarding part of the game.

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I like that they made the Mastery system not just a different path for resistances, but I'm worried they traded one problem for another. Anyone who specs for AoE will have two problems, in that AoE attacks are notorious for making it very difficult on the tank to manage agro, as she can't just focus on one or two targets at a time.

One solution would be to make more AoE agro-gaining abilities available for tanks, but that would merely put the tanks into easy mode. All in all, speccing AoE has traditionally only been good for very special situations in PvE (grinding and swarms of mobs with very low HP) and for medium-large scale PvP. Will this be different in WAR, I wonder?

Well like the answer to the first question said, you can respec your mastery too. So perhaps people can go AoE for RvR battles and respec for PvE runs.