In a new YouTube video posted today, Rick “Sapience” Heaton speaks to Aaron “Rowan” Campbell concerning some of the features of mounted combat. Within the video Rowan answers questions such as how will non-DPS classes translate into mounted combat. He also goes into the three stances, giving us more information about how they will affect players and their skills. Also, Rowan gives us a live demonstration on how the combat works. Seeing this video makes me want to delve head-first into the mounted combat system and fight some wargs!
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July 17, 2012
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July 3, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Hey, here is an idea… lets show gameplay footage from like 6 feet away on a 28inch screen and zoom in for like 10 seconds total.
lol who am I kidding….
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July 3, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Their description of Minstrel healing in mounted combat is interesting. It sounds a lot like BC spamming with an AOE component. Can’t wait to get my hands on this.
July 3, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Thank goodness! I thought I was going to have to suffer through agonizing minutes of actual in-game footage to give me some limited education about what it might actually look like to play Mounted Combat! It was far more interesting to watch two aging men talk to each other; although those 10 or 15 second bursts of actual screen time were painful to endure.
July 3, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Gliredhel LOL!
July 3, 2012 at 3:20 pm
i wish they would answer what burgs are going to be doing
July 3, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Ditto
July 3, 2012 at 5:54 pm
From the brief(for a reason I fear) glimpses there, about the same as everybody else.
Swing at empty air and magically still scoring a hit.
Really getting a bad feeling on this. This close to release and still no real info to be had.
Mounted combat shouldn´t only introduce new mounts but also new weapons for use on horseback.
Or at least better integrate and boost the two-handed long reach ones.
July 5, 2012 at 4:34 pm
. . . or LMs. I can’t imagine wielding a huge staff on mounted combat is going to be easy. What about our sword and staff?
July 3, 2012 at 4:35 pm
ACK!!! Did you see how his horse died at the end?!?!?! ACK!!!
July 3, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Ack!!
July 3, 2012 at 4:54 pm
I predict that as someone with no depth perception to speak of, mounted combat is going to make the game a lot harder to play for me. Sigh.
July 3, 2012 at 7:04 pm
looks fun, not as epic as you would think but still fun.
July 4, 2012 at 1:22 am
what about wardens?
July 4, 2012 at 5:17 am
Wardens will cry the orks off their wargs
July 4, 2012 at 5:06 am
It’s a joke, and not a good one.
July 4, 2012 at 7:20 am
One handed gameplay? That was a source of smut in my wow guild, so wasn’t possibly the best comment.
If we still play as our class then they’re surely pushing us into the pigeonholes for the mount types that have been mentioned before this. If guards are going to be using tanking skills then that kind of forces them into the heavy horse, doesnt it?
The combat we “saw” was the cappy riding away getting hit a few times before wheeling round and one shotting the goblin. hmm.
At 4.20 they mention the warg packs like on the moors, that’s possibly ok if the majority of the buggers aren’t stealthed until you’re on 10%hp.
July 4, 2012 at 9:15 am
I hate to say it, but this video that was intended to get me excited for mounted combat has kind of done the opposite. Maybe it’ll be cooler when you’re in a fellowship, and maybe it’ll be more fun when you’re actually controlling the toon instead if watching someone else, but this video just looked … lame. Dangit! I really wanted to like this, but I am just not excited by it. I hope that subsequent videos make me feel differently.
July 4, 2012 at 1:19 pm
That video is awful, hopefully better ones are on the way. I want to see what my RK will do on horseback.
July 5, 2012 at 4:45 pm
I wonder if you can put a healing stone on the back of your horse like a mobile ambulance