Gamer streams WAR preview weekend gameplay live

Apparently Paul Barnett and Jeff Hickman from the dev team are participating in the chat. Here is a sample:

Welcome to the 'sabanplaysgames' room
11:39 smoke2000 : btw , is it legal once the EU open beta client is released , to host it ourselves ?
11:39 Paul Barnett : pvp xp
11:40 Paul Barnett : pvp levels
11:40 Hoj : this looks exactly the same as wow =(
11:40 Paul Barnett : does wow have that?
11:40 Jeff Hickman : I would say they are wrong. We are as easy to get to know as WoW, but after that we take a turn for the better.
11:40 Paul Barnett : no
11:40 Paul Barnett : so you cant compare them
11:40 Charlie Brown_1 : What do PvE lovers have to look forward to in WAR?
11:40 repo : getting owned by people who pvp
11:40 khazoom : looks is not = gameplay
11:40 stroszek : Barnett, WoW has almost everything you mentioned :P
11:40 Mitch : lots of PvE lol
11:40 xaartax : quests, pqs, dungeons
11:40 smoke2000 : kill 10 x , go to B
11:40 Paul Barnett : oops
11:40 Paul Barnett : sorry bout that guys
11:40 Intruder : lol, Charlie have you read any quest text....great quests in the game
11:40 Paul Barnett : pressed back on the keyboard by accident
11:40 Jeff Hickman : Public Quests, RvR, ToK, Guild Leveling, LIving Cities - all set us apart from WoW
11:41 Vrain : and actually fun pVp
11:41 Mitch : are abilitys, spell etc learned or bought?
11:41 smoke2000 : bought
11:41 Foliage : Sieges!
11:41 smoke2000 : and upgraded by lvl automatically
11:41 xaartax : yer that was a welcome improvement
11:41 Conan : Sieges ! aye
11:41 Mitch : they ecspensive?
11:41 xaartax : pita having to go back to relearn a higher rank
11:41 Jeff Hickman : How about the trophy system, and the Warhammer IP in general
11:41 xaartax : mitch so-so.\
11:41 xaartax : not too expensive
11:41 warhaammmmeerr! : the warhammer ip is one of the best out there
11:41 xaartax : but not cheap enough that they may as well be free
11:42 smoke2000 : my guild was the first to destory a keep in aoc that wasnt supposed to be destroyable
11:42 smoke2000 : then we got banned
11:42 xaartax : heh
11:42 Mitch : what are drop rates like? or is that still to be founfd out?
11:42 xaartax : saw that thread on mmorpg
11:42 smoke2000 : it was ok though , with the entire pre-order mess , i had 3 age of conan boxes
11:42 Jeff Hickman : RvR Scenario popped up for Saban
11:42 smoke2000 : still got one unused , bout to throw away
11:42 Jeff Hickman : Gates of Ekrund - here we come
11:42 Intruder : Anyone know what happens if say you and your mates are RvRing, and you out lvl the area, is it instance Chickenmagic or is there a grace period so you can cont
11:43 Intruder : contineu playing with lower lvl firnds
11:43 Vrain : heres where the Dwarf own him
11:43 xaartax : =D
11:43 Val : is the US client the same as the EU? Can I use the US client to connect to a EU server while being @ EU?
11:43 smoke2000 : if settings are in xml
11:43 Mitch : ok peep gonna get ready for work but nice chatting and thx for answering us paul
11:43 smoke2000 : probably
11:43 Jeff Hickman : If you are RvR and level to a level too high for the zone, you will chicken as long as you are RvR Flagged
11:43 Conan : How fast is the combat ? AoC feels like guitar hero really ... anyone play a rogue in WoW who can comment?
11:44 xaartax : hf mitch
11:44 Mitch : bye
11:44 khazoom : aren't you glad the game turned out as it is in its current version? Things could have gone so wrong 4 years ago, http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/warhammer-online-200
11:44 Val : bb
11:44 Intruder : OK, so pretty much your out of luck until your friends catch up, gotcha
11:44 xaartax : conan i found it to be a bit slower than wow
11:44 xaartax : but there was never a point where I was just standing about going.. hmm'
11:44 smoke2000 : a guildmate of mine made a new character and got GM proportions by accident and instantly lvl 80
11:44 smoke2000 : in aoc
11:44 khazoom : http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/warhammer-online-2004/
11:45 Conan : thanks Xaartax
11:45 Intruder : Black Orc Down!
11:45 xaartax : always new targets of opportunity etc
11:45 Amana_1 : lol Intruder
11:45 warhaammmmeerr! : im curious what kind of things will be added in expansions etc, pve games give more dungeons and higher level caps but not sure about rvr games
11:45 xaartax : they won't say ;)
11:45 Paul Barnett : you will have to wait and see
11:45 Intruder : Sry, Black Orc is my favortie career
11:46 Paul Barnett : any one for witch hunter here?
11:46 warhaammmmeerr! : fair enough :P
11:46 smoke2000 : shaman here
11:46 repo : thinking shaman as well
11:46 Intruder : Anyone notice in the Dark Elf 1st PQ, that the dragons wings are showing a transparecy layer that i didnt notice laster beta round?
11:46 Jeff Hickman : Witchhunter is my career :)
11:46 smoke2000 : too much bad experience with melee classes
11:46 Paul Barnett : on the greenskins first public quest
11:46 xaartax : played one early in beta, haven't played it for ages
11:46 Paul Barnett : iguarantee shamans will come first most of the time
11:46 Paul Barnett : their super cool awesome dot
11:46 Paul Barnett : gets em up in the leed
11:47 smoke2000 : can i locally tweak my client to displauy a shaman even when i'm playing an archmage ;p
11:47 xaartax : ow

The Mitch in the chat log is not me btw. :)

Well, maybe...

You could type in any name you want in that field though.

Yeah I saw that too. Then again, Rob Pardo was in there too, asking for a job at Mythic, it was "hysterical"! ><

If it was them Paul sure knows a lot about WoW for someone who's never played it. If so I wonder where Saban works though.

Too bad streams like this aren't very good to make out details, but the PvP looked easy to get into, be it a bit meat grinderish.

Yeah.. That goes for every BG (well they are) and the likes though. See it happen much?

You find really quickly that the early bg's work ALLOT like arathi basin. Basically if your smart enough to leave 5 peeps at 2 flags and have 5 floating between the two you win. Center flags are worth more points than the other two points combined. The majority of the times you will lose will be due to people "cap and running".
Good luck getting that across to a pug though lol :)
Khaines embrace is won by keeping 2/3 on defense and sending 1/3 through the tunnel to cap the enemy flag while there zerging your defenders.