Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

By Keen My community decided early on that we really wanted to avoid the dbags and elitists but at the same time we all voiced our concern for playing on an underpopulated server; picky, I know.  We decided to follow the Aion roleplaying community closely because they (among other RP communities)...

By Keen I haven’t been the biggest fan of the Warhammer Online live events.  The event for the new tank classes was pretty good because it offered the new scenario to play in but other than that it was more of a trial run for how the rest would play out and it sorely lacked any quality [...] I haven’t been the...

By Keen The way that leveling is done in WAR, there is only one dungeon that you can really hit ‘on the way’ to level 40 - okay, 2 if you count the sewers at level 17 but really… it’s not even worth taking the time spent to zone into the place.  So with one dungeon, there’s really only one mindset that the pl...

By Keen This can be fixed!  I have an immense reserve of optimism stored up.  A huge part of that comes from actually KNOWING that a realm war can be more than a superficial treadmill.  Dark Age of Camelot - a game made by Mythic Entertainment - succeeded in this many years ago.  Surely Mythic knows what...

By Keen This is something that has bothered me for a long time.  Several of us sit on Ventrilo almost every day and talk about how we would improve the reward system for Keep sieges in Warhammer Online - a system that also reaches into Fortress Sieges and City sieges with the PQ system.  Right now the [...]

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By Keen I’m really excited that I can finally report on an awesome few days in Warhammer Online.  The past few days … I think it’s been 4 or 5 now actually… I’ve been having nothing but amazing experiences in WAR.  Now that Happy Fun Guyz (Our guild/community) are once again thriving in Warhammer (and...

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By Keen Now that I’ve been devoting the vast majority of my time to Warhammer Online again, I’ve come across a few issues once again that were there before and bothered me.  I had hoped these issues would have been resolved within the past month since they are, at least to me, dire.  Warhammer has seve...

By Keen Happy Fun Guyz and my Shaman have been officially moved to Dark Crag.  Many members of HFG returned to play together on our new server over the past couple of days with hopes that it would reignite our excitement for the our Destruction characters.  Most of us abadoned our characters in the T4...

By Keen Make keep taking meaningful by adding a Darkness Falls type dungeon. Warhammer Online, back in November 2007, was delayed in order to transform the game to align closer with DAOC’s RvR but it forgot that one crucial element… the PURPOSE.  Sure, city sieges are a purpose but let’s be realist...

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By Keen The solution to Warhammer Online’s Open RvR problem is simple: Darkness Falls.  That’s right, introduce what existed in Dark Age of Camelot into a system that is trying to mimick Dark Age of Camelot.  Duh, right?  Warhammer Online, back in November 2007, was delayed in order to transform t...

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Mythic has patched Warhammer Online a few times now but none of the patches or hotfixes have been significant or changed the version number until today.  I won't bother listing all the changes because you can see them here on the Herald.  I do, however, want to bring up a ...

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By Graev You’re probably wondering what any of this has to do with Warhammer Online. Frankly, I didn’t expect to get into this, but I think it helps illustrate how I’ve failed to stick with a game for quite some time. Of course Warhammer Online isn’t too much of anything new either, but I do find myself e...

By Graev NOTE: This isn’t about Warhammer Online. Well, not much. I suppose it is time for another update on the state of the Graev. Several things have had my attention lately, such as Spore, Mercenaries 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Warhammer Online. I already discussed Mercs 2 and still enj...

By Keen Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is finally coming out today!  After a little over 3 years of waiting, several delays and a few overhauls, the game is finally launching and opening the gates for play.  It’s been a bumpy road at times and even I can admit that there were times when the game’s...

By Graev Note: This is just a GRAEV update and isn’t about Warhammer Online, so just skip it if thats what you’re looking for. I’ve been pretty busy lately with a few things. Couple games, trying to come up with comic ideas, drawing said comic ideas, watching daytime TV, etc. You know, real important st...

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 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.

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 Enjoy! And please feel free to ask questions about my impressions of various aspects of the game. We were shown a lot. The Vault has published my writeup for the Warhammer Online preview at E3 2008! “In light of the recent announcements that Mythic would be cutting four classes and four citie...

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 I woke up this morning and went straight to the computer to find out what Mark Jacobs’ news was going to be regarding a few major announcements for Warhammer Online. He dropped several bombs on the community today, that’s for sure. Punkbuster

By Keen Putting my paranoia aside, I’m actually looking forward to PvE in Warhammer Online.  The Bastion Stair looks amazing.  The dungeon has a decent story and looks like it will provide a very rich and meaningful experience.  Yep, I can tell that just by looking at the pictures and videos.  I’m yea...

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 fool me twice, shame on me. That’s the new approach I’m taking as I watch Warhammer Online’s development unfold. Taken at face value it sounds very simple, but it’s quite easy to be swept up into innocently believing one little thing will or will not be in the game [...]

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 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...