Character Copying. By Pop Culture I Meant Geek Culture.

Seeing this post over at girlirl, while being a good commentary on the lack of character customization in WAR, also made me want to challenge that notion. And I'm going to do it the only way I know how: recreating characters from pop culture.




Here's the Hulk, but this one was a gimme. You can't give orcs hair so it wasn't perfect but all you really need him to be is big, green and shirtless so this one is a success.










This here is the face of Everquest, Firiona Vie. This was the closest ponytail style, but I think using a Sorceress would have made for a closer stance. Just pretend that the sword is a staff and we're good to go.












It's the gamedom's favourite lawyer Phoenix Wright! I found that the Bright Wizard had the most unique hair and beard options. There was, sadly, nothing to match Apollo's hair though.






It's Wolverine! To be honest, that Bright Wizard hairstyle just wrote itself. Too bad he didn't have any non-ridiculous sideburns to choose from. It's was either foot-long mutton chops or nothing. Think of him as Wolverine if he was conceived back when that beard was in fashion. Which, come to think of it, was always.







This Saber actually came out pretty close, even though there was no 'tiny nose and mouth' option. WAR is definitely not anime-friendly







As a bonus though she even got Saber's invisible sword.










Gerard Way was easy to recreate once I started using girls. This was expected.







As a special one I'll show you what a fair portion of people tried to do anyways. A BW Goku. To test this I searched for Goku on Realmwar under just Bright Wizards. 9 Gokus, 5 Gokuus and 17 Ssjgokus. This isn't even counting the other classes, or names like Sephirothxgoku.








Speaking of which... Pretty close eh? And I used a male character and everything. This was not expected.





In summary, I found that the only thing you could really customize was the hair, scars and eye color so I think my challenge failed. It was definitely underwhelming to someone who just came off of Fallout 3 (My guy looks like a Mythbuster). All of this doesn't matter though cause we all wear helmets right?

State of Scenarios. Curse You Mishka

This isn't just a screenshot to show you how good of a healer I was (not hard to do being the only destro healer). This is really a screenshot to show you what low level scenarios are like, win or lose: Warrior Priests. It really is true that everyone and their mum is rolling a WP nowadays. What this means is that, after the next class balancing patch, if they get nerfed, how many people are going to ragequit? Unless a substantial amount of them are just alts. But if that isn't the case then Woe be to Mythic, because the backlash will be terrible.

As an aside, Order in that scenario was so PUG-tastic it was unreal. No one attacked me, the only healer, except for one Witch Hunter. I was 4 of his 21 killing blows.

Here's another screenshot to show how bad (or good, depending on your view) soloing has gotten.

Naked in Altdorf. Dresscode I Can Get Behind

So on my way to get my mount in Altdorf I noticed this Greatsword just having an off-day. It seems that she got the casual Friday memo, but didn't understand that "wear less armour" still meant that she had to at least put on some platemail. Instead she opted for a cape and some pasties (If you click on the picture, you can see that the pasties are of the star-shaped, wardrobe malfunction variety).

Unless this is a new dress code so that Order can out-sexy the witch-elves. Which is working.