Harnessing the potent energy of the Winds of Magic is no small matter, but in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the Dark Elven Sorceresses make it look easy. These mistresses of the arcane are the heart of the destructive forces of the Druchii armies, unleashing massive torrents of mystical power upon the foes of the Witch King. However, all power comes with a price and the Sorceresses are no exception. Lack of careful planning will cause a backlash, doing massive damage to the caster. To offset this possibility, or to even increase their power, the Sorceress can follow one of three Paths of Mastery, the secrets learned by only the most powerful Dark Elven magi.
It's nice to see the Darker side of the Bright Wizard, in all [her] glory. Despite the fact that they are descriptively relatively the same, except with different colors for their spell animations, who wouldn't prefer to use the seductive powers of Darkness as opposed to the base element of Fire?
Besides that, I wonder if Bright Wizards will be male in the majority(as most of the hype pictures of them have been male), with Sorcer-er/ess players choosing to be largely female...
bright wizards are male, sorcs are female, nuff said.
There are certain parts of the lore that say this (same as the fact that all greenskins are male).
Hell, a good portion of the classes you will actually not have choice in gender.
That being said, what little I have seen of Sorcs and BW, they are NOT the same. They have a similar mechanic (cast safe spells to build up power for dangerous ones), however what I saw from them was that the BW had more 'cast this spell and take damage' the sorc had more 'cast this spell and you might take damage' and 'if you don't meet the requirements of the spell (you must kill your target) you will misscast'.
It should be noted that I didn't see nearly as much of the BW as I did of the sorc (lvl 4 BW vs lvl 20 sorc), and this was at NYCC, so my play time was limited :P
Greenskins are asexual spores, by general consensus... and not, in fact, male. It's just that a male-like form is better designed for the growth of muscle-mass.
Also, Bright Wizards can be female, even if most are male, and even in lore, there is the occasional rare Dark Elf Sorcerer.
As far as I can remember, the only classes that we have information as being sex restricted have been:
~ Greenskins as an entire race: Not actually sex-restricted, but the characters do look more male than anything else.
~ Chaos Chosen: Male only
~ Chaos Marauder: Male only(I'm not completely sure on this one, but I think so.)
~ Dark Elven Witch Elf: Female only
So far, all other classes have been implied, or shown in concept art(such as the class descriptions on the official site) and/or screenshots, as being available to both sexes.
That said, unless they decide to make the last High Elven class *cough*White Lion*cough* a Male-only class(since it certainly wouldn't be a Female-only, considering), all Order classes will be available to both sexes.
Lastly, I will agree with you though, that they both look like fun classes. Originally I favored the Sorcer-er/ess, since Fire Magic is usually my least favorite element, after Earth that is, out of the four Primary Elements. Still, I had a bit of fun playing the Orbs game over on warhammerinfo.com(beat Ridiculous difficulty Tournament for all classes), and they were an entertaining choice there, even though the Orbs game is merely a microcosm of what the real game will be like.
Even so, since I will be starting on the Destruction side, I likely won't really play a Bright Wizard for a while(Swordmaster is the first Order class I plan on leveling eventually). Well, there is the Open Beta, where I can only hope that I can get some experience in with nearly every class anyway.
Greenskins are asexual spores, by general consensus... and not, in fact, male. It's just that a male-like form is better designed for the growth of muscle-mass.
Also, Bright Wizards can be female, even if most are male, and even in lore, there is the occasional rare Dark Elf Sorcerer.
As far as I can remember, the only classes that we have information as being sex restricted have been:
~ Greenskins as an entire race: Not actually sex-restricted, but the characters do look more male than anything else.
~ Chaos Chosen: Male only
~ Chaos Marauder: Male only(I'm not completely sure on this one, but I think so.)
~ Dark Elven Witch Elf: Female only
So far, all other classes have been implied, or shown in concept art(such as the class descriptions on the official site) and/or screenshots, as being available to both sexes.
That said, unless they decide to make the last High Elven class *cough*White Lion*cough* a Male-only class(since it certainly wouldn't be a Female-only, considering), all Order classes will be available to both sexes.
Lastly, I will agree with you though, that they both look like fun classes. Originally I favored the Sorcer-er/ess, since Fire Magic is usually my least favorite element, after Earth that is, out of the four Primary Elements. Still, I had a bit of fun playing the Orbs game over on warhammerinfo.com(beat Ridiculous difficulty Tournament for all classes), and they were an entertaining choice there, even though the Orbs game is merely a microcosm of what the real game will be like.
Even so, since I will be starting on the Destruction side, I likely won't really play a Bright Wizard for a while(Swordmaster is the first Order class I plan on leveling eventually). Well, there is the Open Beta, where I can only hope that I can get some experience in with nearly every class anyway.
I would, with our current and expansive knowledge of the Black Guard being the single photo EAMythic has supplied us with (I kid) and one other which didn't look official to me, I would include him in your list. Only because we are yet to see a female BG. Not to say there wont be one, but from what we known as of now, hes a guy only.
I hope that Mythic sticks to their guns with the whole 'destructive backlash' thing. I feel that there a great amount of sadistic pleasure to be gained by watching button mashing Sorceresses blow themselves up and then run to message boards to complain about it.
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, who wouldn't prefer to use the seductive powers of Darkness as opposed to the base element of Fire?
), and they were an entertaining choice there, even though the Orbs game is merely a microcosm of what the real game will be like.
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