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Mythic has patched Warhammer Online a few times now but none of the patches or hotfixes have been significant or changed the version number until today. I won’t bother listing all the changes because you can see them here on the Herald. I do, however, want to bring up a few points that I have observed after playing the game for several hour today.What did it break?”R” No Longer Works - Looks like in the chatbox update they broke the reply feature. This has lead to a few really interesting mistells!Texture Resolutions - They’re borked. Seeing a lot of blurry textures, clay-man effects, and a complete texture draw distance scale back in capital cities. This was, to my knowledge, undocumented… unless this was the “improvements to client stability and performance” lol.Morale Abilities - Okay, it didn’t break them but they’re still having issues being unresponsive due to what I think is an interface issue.Pets - Reports are coming in from all over that pets are actually behaving worse after the patch, not improved like the notes state.What did it Fix…really Fix, not just say it fixed?Mob Pathing! Mobs are being even more responsive now and actually running away.Pounce - That nice bugged exploited annoying ability that the White Lions have that made them able to abuse scenario terrain and a whole lot of other things.Chat Box - I actually like the improvements, save for the breaking of the reply feature. Nicely done here.Healthbar fades - I’m liking the fix here. As a healer this caused quite a few deaths when healthbars would fade making me think people were full HP when in fact they were dying.Now the biggest change in the patch - the Nerf the AoE Grinding (or exp gained from killing mobs in rapid succession). Actually, it’s not a nerf at all and anyone who claims it was a nerf is just sore that they can’t abuse it anymore. Plain and simple, the ability to AoE mobs in WAR as a Marauder, Magus(sometimes), Sorc, or other heavily AoE based class was astonishing. Marauders in our guild were in their late 30’s early last week and everyone was shocked asking “how did you level that fast?” People were making incredible EXP and even gold off of this AoE frenzy and it was to such an extreme that it was more than eclipsing the level abilities of other classes - it was obviously broken. No one should be able to level that much faster than someone else regardless. Now, I’m not referring to the bug where mobs instantly respawned and could be AoE’s… Mythic suspended the jerks who abused that one and rightfully so (imo a character reset is needed).
I’m very pleased with Mythic’s change to the exp gained when killing mobs in rapid succession but wish that they would reinstate the exp bonus for killing spree’s. There some some of us who can’t possibly AoE but can definitely benefit from being able to hit that 10% exp bonus or 20% bonus occasionally. Perhaps reevaluating the killing spree system and putting it back in, but certainly not leaving it out completely.Oh, and just a note: Mythic has since removed the EXP Reduction for Killing Mobs in Rapid Succession (Or “Overkill” Reduction) because it was actually griefing legitimate players. Hopefully we’ll see it put back in quickly to prohibit anymore people from bursting to the top.While I’m talking about EXP, I just want to throw out there that Mythic needs to seriously address the exp curve in the game and consider lightening it slightly. As it stands now people are able to finish all the quests in all pairings, grind PQ’s, and participate in Scenarios and still not be high enough level to move to the next tier. In a bizarre way, Mythic has almost encouraged people to abuse the AoE grinding by giving them little alternative.Overall, the first ‘major’ patch was alright. I’m glad they came out of the gate strong. They showed that they make mistakes but at the same time they’re giving us the opportunity to see how they go about correcting mistakes. That will illustrate quite nicely what we can expect for the future of WAR patches.

Something useful information about Warhammer Online Bots - Warhammer Bots can be used to automated processes within the game and are similar to the inbuilt macros, but can perform much more complex tasks repeatedly for an unlimited amount of time.Advantages of Warhammer Online BotsBoring tasks such as leveling and farming can be automated - you reap the rewards without the workAdvantages can be taken within player versus player combatLarge amounts of gold and loot can be collected in short periods of time Disadvantages of Warhammer Online BotsFairly easy to get banned if you’re not careful (see below)Require frequent updates as Warhammer Online is patched Examples of Warhammer Online BotsWarhammer Online bots can be used in really any aspect of the game, but nevertheless here are some examples of how people would use one such bot:Leveling and looting . Navigate a small part of the world to repeatedly kill enemies (using a set order of skills) and then looting them afterwards.Auto healing . The user is automatically healed when they have less than X health, but more than Y mana.Traveling . Setting waypoints across a world so instead of having to walk long/annoying distances, you can press a button and your character will walk their themselves. Using Warhammer Online BotsBots are tricky tools to use effectively without getting caught, but I do have some advice. Firstly, always try to be at least near your computer when botting. Most bots will allow for sound notifications when another player or a game master is present on your screen so you can quickly get back to the game and reply to them if they talk to you.Varying where you bot is also very important. A proficient botter will have 10-20 different locations where they bot, and will regularly (and randomly) rotate between locations. If a level 30 hunts squigs for 3 days in a row in the same location it becomes noticeable and should definitely be avoided.Finally, botting should be used as an accessory to Warhammer Online, don’t use them to play the whole game, otherwise you’re paying $15 per month to see a few numbers on a screen go up. Play the game yourself, but as you feel the grind, switch over to a warhammer bot to get past the boring bumps in the game.