WARDojo - Warhammer Online Blog

In the near future you will be able to copy any one of your existing characters over to the new public test server and try out the latest patch before it hits the live servers.

I’m not a very big fan of test servers myself, I think I tried the WoW test server like twice and didn’t play very long either time I was in there.

Let’s get go through some highlights of Patch 1.05:

“Each career has been reviewed, and we have made many changes to improve career balance and playability. Players who belong to one of the following careers will need to speak to their trainers in order to re-train their Career Mastery abilities:

• Black Orc
• Bright Wizard
• Chosen
• Engineer
• Ironbreaker
• Magus
• Shadow Warrior
• Sorcerer
• Squig Herder
• Swordmaster“

The game has been out less then two months and we’re getting class overhauls? Seems drastic and extremely early to me.

“Players are now able to set their rally points in warcamps.”

Now no matter where you are, you can either book back to your rally point or scroll back to the viper pit and fly anywhere you like. They’ve taken long distance travel nearly completely out of the game. What’s the next step.. maybe they’ll give us a point and click map where we can just click anywhere and bamf we’re there instantly.

“Root effects, with the exception of morale roots, will now grant a 5 second immunity from all roots to the victim when the effect breaks, and in addition will no longer stack with other roots.

Root effects will now properly have a chance to break whenever a player takes ANY damage. This includes individual tics of Damage over Time spells.”

Peace out OP roots.

“To promote population balance among the various scenarios, we have added a feature that reduces the number of times a scenario can launch in a short period of time. This will give scenarios which are launched less frequently an opportunity to catch up in the queue population and launch more often.”

Forced to play scenarios other then Serpents Passage.. sounds cool but I just wish people would get out and RvR.

This patch is huge and I could go on and on about it, but it’s best if you go read it for yourself.  For my Sorcerer the big change is my DOT’s got buffed but of course that can change anytime on the Public Test Server.  But I guess unless you’re into testing more then you’re into playing there’s not much use worrying about it.  For me, I’ll wait for official patches and ignore most of what happens on the PTS.