Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

By Keen As promised when we released Episode #5 we have come back quickly with another episode of ChaosCast!  We, the troublesome trio of WAR Bloggers (Keen, Snfzg, and Syp), give you our full-blown details of the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta and have a lengthy round-table discussio...

By Keen Tonight is the end of the Warhammer Online Preview Weekend and I find myself frantically getting as much play time in as possible. I’m unsure whether or not this is the end of the ‘closed beta’ phase entirely or if they’ll allow those of us testing to continue playing. Elder Testers (which I [...]

By Keen The preview weekend for Warhammer Online began yesterday. This marks the beginning of the end for the beta phase of development for all but maybe the Elder Testers. While I am considered an “Elder Tester”, most everything tested there is classified and done on test servers. Unless they lift...

By Keen I’ve seen a lot of talk going on about the level of tactical gameplay and strategy that can be used in Warhammer Online compared to other mmorpgs. The truth to such claims is really staggering. I have been trying to discover and apply as much strategy as possible over the past couple weeks and w...

By Keen As promised, here is a look at the class that I have played the most during the Warhammer Online Beta. I’m going to give you guys my thoughts and impressions as I have experienced them first hand. Don’t think of this as the end all be all of Shamanism and don’t think of [...]

By Graev I suppose I should also toss my experiences into the mixed-bag of Warhammer Online Beta Impressions, at the very least to differentiate myself from my brother, so people can stop making comments that infer we both jump in fanboy rage at the same time. Graev can form his own opinions? Shocki...

By Keen EA announced that the Warhammer Online beta begins September 7th which came as a slight surprise to me. I was expecting Open Beta to arrive around the time that the NDA was ‘loosely’ scheduled to drop. At E3 Mythic made it really clear that the NDA would be dropping around the 15th [...]

By Keen Leveling up in WAR is awesome. You have SO MANY choices. You can exclusively quest ala WoW or mix in some RvR ala DAOC or exclusively RvR. You can mix in Scenarios, Open-world RvR, PQ’s, dungeons, grinding, normal quests, and level well. The leveling in WAR feels standard to me. There are 40 level...

By Keen The cities have everything you could want. Quests (tons), shops (tons), banks (more than one), Auction Houses, DUNGEONS, Tome unlocks, legendary locations from Warhammer Lore like the Blowhole and Bright Wizard College tower thingy, and more.

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By Keen No, this isn’t a post about that other guild going the PvE pansy route… It’s a post to let you all know that the plans for forming a Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning guild of our own have finally come together. We (Graev, Bartlebe (a good friend), and myself) have been [...]

By Keen Warhammer Road to WAR This is making its rounds to all the major WAR communities out there. Last week Mythic secretly launched a website called Warhammer Road to WAR and the crafty sleuths who are just dying for anything WAR related have finally found it. According to James Nichols:

By Keen What you can expect from us after WAR releases It’s a slow Sunday evening so I thought this would be a good time to give our readers a heads up on what they can expect from this blog once Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning actually releases. Up to this point everything you’ve read [...]

By Keen My second piece for Warhammer has been published over at the Warhammer Vault. It’s actually my notes that I took during the preview that the Mythic dev team gave. Keep in mind that these are just from the preview and my interviews and discussions with other devs (Mark Jacobs specifically) ar...

By Keen We were then introduced to the incredible additions Mythic has made to character customization. Mythic has taken the approach of Macro Customization by taking a page out of the FPS genre where a character’s silhouette says it all. “We want you to feel like you can look like your class right f...

By Keen There have been dozens of known additions and changes to Warhammer Online over the past two months alone. Many players are concerned that the multitude of changes being made to the game in the 11th hour could possibly lead to either another delay or, in a worst case scenario, classes being l...

By Keen Speaking of past problems in Dark Age of Camelot, Mark Jacobs had this to say to mmorpg.com: “we decided to focus our energies on two capital cities; one for Order and one for Destruction, and make them fabulous, said Jacobs. “Not good, not great, but fabulous.”

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By Keen PvE.  It’s something that I have almost neglected completely in my discussions surrounding Warhammer Online.  Why?  I suppose there are several reasons.  The first is that I love RvR and how the entire game is centered around the concept of taking territory from the other realm and killing...

By Keen Looking at the poll this morning it appears that the Shaman class is popular.  This is my class of choice as well, which always makes me feel uncomfortable knowing it’s going to be popular.  However, there may be more at work here.  Massively recently revealed a lot about the classes in Warham...

By Keen Why they’re doing this damned podcast in the first place Some stunning and not so stunning revelations from the May newsletter New community sites you should throw your eyeballs at (Book of Grudges, Da Big Waaagh!, and WaaagHead) The Wiki Invasion - RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! The NDA - frustrati...

By Keen Public Quests are absolutely revolutionary. They’re providing players a whole new way of playing, rewarding, and progressing their characters through the game. Massively’s Warhammer Online coverage over the past few days has been unparalleled by any website out there. The informatio...

By Keen The Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning May newsletter info has leaked out which means it’s time to find the bib! *begins drooling*  This month there are several interesting bits of information which you can explore on your own in the links below, but the big feature of this newsletter is d...

By Keen I was reading the Age of Conan and Warhammer Online boards when I saw that a topic existed on both boards asking this simple question: “Having played AoC, are you more or less excited for WAR?” The question is very simple and the answer can be a short. However, having played Age of Conan and [...]

By Keen This year, two competing MMOs are set to be released that have a lot to offer large-scale PvPers. Because of its recent PvP stress test, Age of Conan is currently the most talked-about, and later this year, we will see the release of Warhammer Online, perhaps WoW’s biggest challenger given...

By Keen At this point I have to believe that anything is possible in Warhammer Online. The last High Elf class could be a pink bunny with laserbeam eyes and exploding hobbit pets. I wouldn’t be surprised. Open RvR could be done away with completely and I wouldn’t be surprised. The game could be sold to Bl...

By Keen I feel strongly that if Mythic wants to maintain the level of hype they’ve seen over the past two months then they need to be much more forthcoming. The monthly lore updates on the Herald aren’t going to be enough. The exclusive forum posting on WHA isn’t going to be enough. We, the community for...

By Keen Well, I didn’t think it possible. Mark Jacobs, GM/VP of EA Mythic, responds to the massive feedback on Mythic’s plans for official Warhammer Online forums. He has a lot to say… a lot. Here’s a little taste from his novel: “The age we are living in is definitely a different one. I’ve [...]

By Keen It’s been said more than once that this is another of WoW’s responses to Warhammer. I’ve read everything from “You can’t make money in WAR!” to “GG WAR, It’s over. WoW remains king!”. Maybe I’m confused. Have you people even bothered to educate yourselves on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning...

By Keen Lots of comparisons lately between Warhammer Online and World of Warcraft.  In case the horse isn’t dead yet maybe a few more solid whacks will do the trick. I found a link to a blog and site I’ve never seen before that recently interviewed Josh Drescher.  The interview is phenomenal.  I tip my h...

By Keen “Since Mythic was bought out by Electronic Arts, simply making a more modern update to their groundbreaking Realm-vs-Realm MMO, Dark Age of Camelot, was taken from the table. EA/Mythic is just as large a company now as Activizard, and their goals are just as large to match.”

By Keen Arenammo}leobassist: How important the PvE content will be to the PvP/RvR content, Will the best itens, money be in the PvE, or it will only be a EXTRA to the game experience? [WAR]Wheeler: The best gear is gained via RvR actions, ...

By Keen Making a new MMO isn’t easy.  Making a new MMO breaking away from the usual mold is even harder.  In an interview Josh Kurtz (Stargate Worlds World Builder) said that the team at Cheyenne Mountain is going to take a different approach in their game to make it different than WoW and other MMOs in...

By Keen In DAOC the solitude of your realm while PvEing created realm pride. You grew closer as a realm community and that made you fight harder to defend your lands. Please Mythic, stick with what we know works. I can’t resist the urge to speak my mind on the subject of Warhammer Online PvP Flagging in P...

By Keen Also, looking at the last question it seems that cloaks will in fact be in the game.  I’ve never seen it clarified one way or another and now it seems that we know Warhammer will have cloaks. Over at WarCry Matt Lowery posted the 7th part of his interview with the Warhammer Online Development Te...

By Keen What 3 mistakes will you never make again in a MMORPG? I found this topic on the Warhammer Vault message boards that posed this question to that community.  What 3 MMORPG mistakes will you never make again?  At first it seems like a simple game or perhaps an outlet for some creative thinking t...