Warhammer Online reveals the classes of the Skaven

I was on the Warhammer bandwagon and bought it when it released. I was very disappointed with the speed of the game. The movement speed, the character model fluidity, the combat speed. It just seemed like a very sluggish game. I doubt something that core to the game design would ever be updated. Its a shame, but it just isn't for me.

Its nice to see they have a following and some content updates. Still, for a game to have come out swinging hard against WoW as its demise, it is unfortunate for them they fell so far behind.

Very nice! but they should be the third faction that this game needs. I do not understand this game... when I get to do actual pvp it was great and the most fun game, but the population is an issue and this race could have been the thing that this game needed but as a playable faction not as mercenaries!... lord does not support it.

If this had come out a year ago I would probably have kept playing. Too many other MMO's I like now. I have to agree with AROD that a 3rd faction would have made this game great.

these rat-mans things is better than nothing,...but not enought to bring me back to the game. I think a F2P model might be the only way to save WAR at these pont

It's funny. I really liked the game at first, then slowly drifted away and the server mergers didn't help. I was on the two most popular RP servers, playing opposite sides. So the first one got merged and one server-stable went into server-limbo. Hard to play after that, especially since I was starting to drift and I lost where the guilds I was a member of went.

Needless to say, I may try out Skaven, at least for a month, but I don't think I will be around for much longer than that. Like many opinions, while this is a good addition, it really should have been a third faction (I like a challenge, but faction uneveness gets boring for either side you are on). I think I am going to be dazzled by the models but when I start doing the PvP (if I can find any!) and PvE, I am most likely going to see similar play mechanics and eventually walk away.

I hate to be pessimistic, but that's seems what is likely to happen with other players, too. Maybe this will surprise us, but I am not reading any clues that it will.

Hmm didn't know rats were the next populare things in the world.... Just goes to show what PR can do... "I want to play a rat!!"

To more serious note. War does not have the content - the replayabilty, the technical ability nor the funds and dev team to compete in current MMO world. As a subscription based game it is on the verge of collapsing... beeing carried by endless trials while few hundred players bother to actully spend months farming in higher tiers.

War had a chance like year ago to switch to free to play model and quite a big group of players would probably kept in touch with the game. Now on the other hand... those ppl are gone elsewhere and will not be returning to play a hoverhyped rat. Im sorry but WAR has been dominated by poor development making disissions from day one. They continue to do so with this "RVR patch" and every day the game becomes less and less atractive to play.

Is this a 3rd faction?

I'm interested, I've always enjoyed Skaven, I hated WHO when it first arrived, it didn't feel like Warhammer to me, it felt like WoWHammer.

But, I do love myself some giant rat people, so we'll see.

Hmm, its been awhile since I did the pen and paper Warhammer game, so maybe things like the miniature game passed me by and made my info obsolete.

But that being said, I never thought of the Skaven as a tech using race.

Am I out of date here or is Warhammer Online getting a bit goofy?