The question keeps coming up every time I play Warhammer Online. Where is the Keep pride? Do players really care about owning, and defending keeps or do they just do it because it is part of the game?
Last night I decided to do Orvr for the first time with my Tier 3 Archmage. We were defending a keep in the dwarf lands. It was fun as we held off the destruction pushes each time. It is what defending a keep is all about. Once we received the defense tick it all changed.
It falls apart shortly after that. Why? It is all about getting bonus renown. Once we repaired both doors Destruction left the zone to take BO's in elf. Order decided to go to Empire, and do the same.
It is easier to just avoid each other, and take BO's for freenown. Who doesn't love the boredom from standing around waiting for renown ticks?
Fifteen minutes later Destruction is knocking on the keep door again. Can you guess what Order decided? They decided to keep taking BO's, and let Destruction have the keep that they defended with their lives less than a half hour ago.
Basically freenown is better than keep pride. The problem with Orvr is if gets to hard players have ten different options instead of trying to strategize. Players can go PvE, go to LOTD, do Crypts, or Tunnels, queue up for scenarios, or just stand in warcamps.
What is going to make players defend a keep at all costs, and keep the other faction attacking for hours?
