Warhammer is PvP first and foremost - Mythic

By Rob Fahey Published 29 May, 2008

Monsters and PvE designed around PvP.

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning producter Jeff Hickman has laid out Mythic's intent with the game pretty clearly in a new interview, explaining that everything in the game is designed with PvP in mind.

"We think of Warhammer Online as a PvP game that also has monster and PvE content," he told Big Download. "When we balance our careers, we balance the content around player versus player, not fighting monsters."

"We balance the classes against each other," he continued, "then, instead of balancing those classes against the monsters, we balance the monsters against the classes. Our philosophy is to make the best PvP game in the world and build the PvE content around it."

It's a pretty lengthy interview, and goes into a lot of depth about the balancing of the factions and Mythic's speciality, Realm vs Realm battles - well worth a read if Warhammer is sitting near the top of your wishlist.

However, for those of us who happily identify as carebears and don't generally enjoy PvP in massively multiplayer games, Jeff is keen to emphasise that Warhammer's approach is different - and you might find it to your tastes.

"There's no danger when you first enter our game," he explains. "There's no RvR unless you choose to enter those areas. It's purely up to you to play through the game how you want to play through it."

"I can tell you that my wife, who used to not be a PvP player, came into our game and enjoyed the crafting and questing. But because of how our game is designed, she was led near an RvR area, and she could look down into the battlefield and see what was going on."

"This kind of demystified it for her," Jeff claims, "and she decided to try the RvR. She then spend the next two hours on the keep pouring boiling oil on people and having a great time. There's no fear in it... It's the easiest PvP you'll ever play, and it's so much fun."

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  • paulf #1 4 years ago

    PvP is fine - ganking is however not - sounds like they have struck a good balance here, Im looking forward to this one

  • Rirekon #2 4 years ago

    When we balance our careers, we balance the content around player versus player, not fighting monsters."
    "We balance the classes against each other," he continued, "then, instead of balancing those classes against the monsters, we balance the monsters against the classes.

    I would expect nothing less from Mythic, RealmVRealm is still the most solid organised PvP environment in any MMO to date in my opinion. Admittedly I've not played AoC yet but I've not heard anything about organised PvP so we'll see.
    So looking forward to this!

  • craziii #3 4 years ago

    RvR is exactly what I am looking forward to, please don't disappoint! I am also hoping for meaty quests + epic pve encounters on top of the RvR. lets have fun when the game is finally release!

    ps: I wish there are more variety to the mounts. it just seems lacking when compare to wow, please don't bash me for this comparison.