My Thoughts on the Patch Notes

Well I posted yesterday that the patch notes where out and after looking over them there are some good things and then there are some really terrible things.  I will focus on the terrible things first just to get them out of the way.

The first and worst thing they did was get rid of way to many SCs.  As the old saying goes Variety is the Spice of Life and this goes with games.  People want variety when they are playing.  Sure these 6 SCs will be open the whole time but there will be no changes what so ever and they will get boring unless they have a weekend event every weekend that brings back one of the old SCs.  If they do that every single weekend then I think it will be ok, if not then well we will see.

Another face palm is the nerf of IBs.  Now listen people still hold the misconception that IBs are OP, well they are not.  Only thing making them that is Gromil Plating, which they do need to fix, but other than that they are fine.  They didn't need to nerf cave-in.  It was fine as is.  As someone put it in a thread on WHA, "how can mythic give 2 of the 6 tanks an AoE stagger, while continuously nerfing the other tanks CC is beyond me."  I agree with this wholeheartedly.  They need to either change our AoE CC or give the other tanks more CC.

On a good note is the weapons I hope.  I will be checking them out after work to see how good they are and will be hopefully posting some screenshots of them to show you all.

The Perfect 6-Man

What is the perfect 6-man group.  There are many different group setups out there in the Warhammer Realm, such as the generic 2 tank, 2 healer, 1 mdps, and 1 rdps.  There is also the AoE bomb group.  The 1 tank, 2 healer, and 3 dps group or the melee train group.  I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect group setup.  Other people may disagree with that, but I really think that any group can excel with who ever it is in it.  

With that said there are group setups that I favor more than others.  I think my favorite group setup is starts with Me of course well a KotBS at least.  Then we go with another tank probably a IB.  Then the healers are a RP and a AM.  For dps my favorite to group is a WH and a Slayer.  Here are my reasons.

A KotBS because of our auras.  We are the best group tank in the whole game with our auras running.  I can make enemies in the area 10% more likely to be crit, while increase the healing doing to the group by 15%.  We support the whole group with our utility.  Plus with this single target group AoE stagger is king.

An IB because as a tank they have the best burst damage out of anyone.  They can also survive a lot longer with what they can run.  Plus the have gromil plating which is a very nice morale.  They also have an AoE snare which is very powerful.

A RP because they have great group heals and good single target heals.  They have the self rez ability which has saved our group many times before in different situations.  There ruins are also very nice to have.  They can also have very good survivability compared to an AM.

An AM because they are the best single target healer in the game imo.  They have an ap drain which doesn't make them run out of ap very often.  Plus they also have the viability to go dps if need be and they can be a force as a dps.

A WH and a Slayer because you can have the Slayer run up front and have all the enemies focus on him as the WH sneaks in the back to gank there healers.  The Slayer has the best survivability of any dps and with guard is hard to take down.  While the WH can just demolish any healer they are on if played right.

Well those are just my thoughts on it.  I like running with every class but I just have the must fun running with those classes not matter who it is.  If you feel like it post your favorite six man to run in.

Tank Kills Across Servers

So as I said I would I compiled a list of total tank kills of the top 10 tank for order and destro across the four american servers, Gorfang, Iron Rock, Badlands, and Volkmar.  I know it is already outdated but this will give you an idea of who is being played with how many kills and so on.  Plus I was bored and decided to do it.  A couple of things, KPRR is Kills Per Renown Rank.  I would have also liked to use RP (renown points) instead of RR (renown rank), but it would have been to hard and the numbers would have been small.  Ok here it goes, I hope I did everything right.

Knight
Avg. Kill - 38868.6  Avg. RR - 75.45  Avg. KPRR - 515
Sword Masters 
Avg. Kill - 37005.6  Avg. RR - 76.025  Avg. KPRR - 487
Iron Breakers
Avg. Kill - 40854.9  Avg. RR - 76.75  Avg. KPRR - 532
Chosen
Avg. Kill - 41542.2  Avg. RR - 76.675 Avg. KPRR - 542
Black Orcs
Avg. Kill - 28567.2  Avg. RR - 74.4  Avg. KPRR - 384
Black Guards
Avg. Kill - 26431.0  Avg. RR - 72.125  Avg. KPRR - 366

Mirrors
Knight and Chosen
Avg. Kill - 40205.4  Avg. RR - 76.0625  Avg. KPRR - 529
Sword Masters and Black Orcs
Avg. Kill - 32786.4  Avg. RR - 74.875  Avg. KPRR - 438
Iron Breakers and Black Guards
Avg. Kill - 33642.9  Avg. RR - 74.4375  Avg. KPRR - 452


Gorfang Order
Knights 
Avg. Kill - 35965.6  Avg. RR - 74.5  Avg. KPRR - 482
Sword Masters
Avg. Kill - 36534.9  Avg. RR - 76.8  Avg. KPRR - 476
Iron Breakers
Avg. Kill - 39966.0  Avg. RR - 75.7  Avg. KPRR - 523
Order Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 37488.8  Avg. RR - 75.7  Avg. KPRR - 495
Gorfang Destro
Chosen
Avg. Kill - 30520.3  Avg. RR - 74.8  Avg. KPRR - 408
Black Orcs
Avg. Kill - 25411.3  Avg. RR - 71.8  Avg. KPRR - 354
Black Guards
Avg. Kill - 19184.7  Avg. RR - 70.3  Avg. KPRR - 273
Destro Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 25038.8  Avg. RR - 72.3  Avg. KPRR - 346
Gorfang Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 31263.8  Avg. RR - 74  Avg. KPRR - 423

Badlands Order
Knights
Avg. Kill - 35645.3  Avg. RR - 74.1  Avg. KPRR - 481
Sword Masters
Avg. Kill - 38912.9  Avg. RR - 76.2  Avg. KPRR - 512
Iron Breaker
Avg. Kill - 34431.8  Avg. RR - 75.9  Avg. KPRR - 458
Order Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 36330.0  Avg. RR - 75.4  Avg. KPRR - 482
Badlands Destro
Chosen
Avg. Kill - 49310.0  Avg. RR - 77.4  Avg. KPRR - 637
Black Orcs
Avg. Kill - 33748.0  Avg. RR - 76.5  Avg. KPRR - 441
Black Guards
Avg. Kill - 36073.0  Avg. RR - 74.4  Avg. KPRR - 485
Destro Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 39710.3  Avg. RR - 76.1  Avg. KPRR - 522
Badlands Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 35182.8  Avg. RR - 75.75  Avg. KPRR - 502

Iron Rock Order
Knight
Avg. Kill - 38157.5  Avg. RR - 75.1  Avg. KPRR - 508
Sword Masters
Avg. Kill - 34830.7  Avg. RR - 75.4  Avg. KPRR - 462
Iron Breakers
Avg. Kill - 44242.9  Avg. RR - 77.1  Avg. KPRR - 574
Order Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 39410.4  Avg. RR - 76  Avg. KPRR - 519
Iron Rock Destro
Chosen
Avg. Kill - 39463.2  Avg. RR - 76.2  Avg. KPRR - 518
Black Orcs
Avg. Kill - 27225.9  Avg. RR - 73  Avg. KPRR - 373
Black Guards
Avg. Kill - 26176.3  Avg. RR - 70.6  Avg. KPRR - 371
Destro Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 30955.1  Avg. RR - 73.3  Avg. KPRR - 423
Iron Rock Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 35182.8  Avg. RR - 74.6  Avg. KPRR - 472

Volkmar Order
Knight
Avg. Kill - 45706.0  Avg. RR - 78.1  Avg. KPRR - 585
Sword Masters
Avg. Kill - 37743.7  Avg. RR - 75.7  Avg. KPRR - 499
Iron Breaker
Avg. Kill - 44778.7  Avg. RR - 78.3  Avg. KPRR - 572
Order Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 42742.9  Avg. RR - 77.4  Avg. KPRR - 553
Volkmar Destro
Chosen
Avg. Kill - 46875.3  Avg. RR - 78.3  Avg. KPRR - 599
Black Orcs
Avg. Kill - 27883.7  Avg. RR - 76.3  Avg. KPRR - 365
Black Guards
Avg. Kill - 24389.9  Avg. RR - 73.2  Avg. KPRR - 332
Destro Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 33016.3  Avg. RR - 75.9  Avg. KPRR - 435
Volkmar Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 37879.6  Avg. RR - 76.65  Avg. KPRR - 494

Total Server Order Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 38993.0  Avg. RR - 76.1  Avg. KPRR - 512
Total Server Destro Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 32180.1  Avg. RR - 74.4  Avg. KPRR - 433

Total Server Tank Total
Avg. Kill - 35586.6  Avg. RR - 75.25  Avg. KPRR - 473

Ok there you have it.  A few things.  No surprise that Chosen is at the top then IBs and Knights.  I am kind of surprised with how high RR Knights are.  My server is basically at the bottom of the list which makes me sad.  Destro tanks need to pick it up to catch the order tanks.  We have a commanding lead.