Warhammer Online Call to Arms Interview

Ten Ton Hammer interviews executive producer Jeff Hickman about the live events Call to Arms for WAR, and balancing the two new classes.

Ten Ton Hammer: With these new classes, what is going to happen with this class mix? Players are asking, why should I play a Marauder now, because the Choppa is so good at its job. What is going to happen with these classes?

Jeff Hickman: I guarantee the same thing happens with these classes as does with every other class. We’re going to introduce it, we’re going to get a big rush and then we’ll get a big slow down, and then the core players who really love the Choppa and Slayer will stick with it and the other players will go back to what they were playing.

In answer to the question of what does this mean to the Marauder, or you can apply that to what does this mean to my Witch Hunter? What does it mean to any melee DPS class? Each one of these classes fills really the same role. If you think about it they are all melee DPS classes.

The thing is it’s about personal taste, personal play style. For example, I play a Witch Hunter. I am not going to go play a Slayer, even though the Slayer accomplishes the same goals, like killing individual targets or fighting in close. It is just not the career for me.

Witch Hunter is the career for me. Just like I would not play a White Lion, they play differently and they feel different and reality is that they are all balanced very carefully. While the Choppa or the Slayer may be better in a certain situation, the other melee DPS classes are better in other situations. It just depends upon what you want and what your play style is.