MajorGibs gaming clan

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:35 am**

Has anybody looked at this game? Yeah, I have been ignoring it for about a year - but I saw the commercial on TV and thought it looked nifty.

Have been watching the videos over on their site, and it is kind of hit and miss. I do like the Ascended Class System they have though.

WoW dumbed down and the ACS thing looks nice and complicated, lol.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:21 am**

Never even heard of it.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:30 pm**

I had been ignoring it for about a year I guess, only paying attention during the time they were discussing the Siembieda trademark lawsuit (used to play a lot of Palladium Books paper RPGs back in the day).

Then over the past weekend, I guess it was, I saw the We're not in Azeroth anymore commercial. Decided to go look at their website.

It is funny how much the UI looks like the WoW UI, but then again - the WoW UI was not exactly original. I think the graphics are light years ahead of the WoW graphics... but still, it was not really enough for me to give it any kind of look.

Then I saw the Ascended Class System: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtL8_TkpGtE

And compared to the dumbing down of trees and classes in WoW, yes this, definitely grabbed my attention.

Doubt I will get in, but I registered at the site for their next beta segment.

Posted: **Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:30 pm**

I have a VIP Beta Key that can be used 24 more times if anybody is interested. It is posted elsewhere if you know where to look or drop a message.

Posted: **Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:16 pm**

So I have tooled around with a few toons so far, and I have to say though some of the base mechanics are the same old same old (they kind of are in all games); the thing that drew me to the game - the Ascended Class System is pretty damn neat.

Outside of EVE and early UO, I've never really felt like I could make the character that I wanted to make.

Sure, you are confined by your base class - Warrior, Rogue, Cleric, Mage... but hey, that is what most of us that dabbled in PnP started with as well. I actually prefer the way they handle this compared to DDO.

I am a little concerned about how balance will play out and how easy it might be to gimp a toon based on the options, but having those options is a treat.

Posted: **Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:48 am**

Beta6 is coming up this weekend:

Planar War - Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (18:00 GMT) through 10:00 AM PST (18:00 GMT) on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011

Posted: **Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:34 am**

So what's the setting of this thing?

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