Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

By Snafzg To Warhammer Alliance, VN, WAR-RvR, and Warhammer Conflict - As the big four fansites leading up to launch, I want to thank you so much for giving me more than a few plugs and providing a home for many fans to learn about and discuss their favorite MMO.

By Snafzg Quality vs. Quantity No-one can deny that there is a crapton of stuff to do in WAR. Solo quests. Public quests.  Instanced dungeons. Scenarios. Open RvR. Exploring the Tome of Knowledge. Crafting. Expanding on that, there are there is a huge variety of options to choose from when doing these things....

By Snafzg Mark Jacobs: Warhammer Online Fireman EA Mythic GM, Mark Jacobs, was putting out fires over...Mark Jacobs addresses large-scale RvR performance Thank you! The oysters of Ostermark haven’t yet been able...Why does Mark Jacobs post on VN? Welcome to the new micro-blogging style for The Green...

By Snafzg All things quiet on TheGreenskin front What does one write on his Warhammer blog when he...Nehekhara is looking greeeeeeeeeeeeat! This is the first time I’ve been truly excited...Cutting back on my time in Warhammer Online This has been a very long time coming and won’t... Related posts brought t...

By Snafzg First MMO Played? Everquest 1 - but not seriously; DAOC was my first serious MMO Dark Age of Camelot Dark Age of Camelot First Guild You Really Felt Attached To? Vegr in DAOC (Midgard/Nimue) Kobold Warrior in DAOC First “Wow” Moment In A MMO? First MMO You Burned Out On? Dark Age of Camelot

By Snafzg Is Mythic Ready to Unleash the Orc Choppa? It seems so! I think every WAR blogger was a...Subscribe to DAOC = Get into WAR Beta? Interesting find in my quick browse over at the VN...My thoughts on the LotD/DF dungeon coming to WAR Please check out my latest Massively post on Nehekhara/Lands of... Rela...

By Snafzg Warhammer Online has HUGE game design issues. Mythic gave people a path of least resistance and people took it. Put aside all the bugs, balance and polish issues, and at its core, the game just isn’t designed to reward fighting other people. Other people are merely something that get in your w...

By Snafzg 1st Place - Warhammer Alliance 2nd Place - The Warhammer Vault 2nd Place - Warhammer TV 3rd Place - Curse (Warhammer) Favourite Warhammer Online Forum 1st Place - Warhammer Alliance 2nd Place - Warhammer VN Boards 1st Place - Tome of Knowledge

By Snafzg Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. So I just spent the better part of two hours earning all my achievements in the Kongregate/Warhammer Online Sweepstakes, where I have a chance to win a free copy of WAR and a 6-month subscription (will give the copy away if I wi...

By Snafzg Casual Chaos - Does Windows 7 Beta work with WAR? Find out here! High Magic - A man after my own heart: Roaming 6-man RvR ftw! Rainbow MMO - Are healers sadists or masochists or both? Warhammer Addons Reviewed - Is happy he got nominated for a Greeny! Who wouldn’t be, right!?

By Snafzg Favourite Warhammer Online News Source? polls) Warhammer Online VaultTen Ton Hammer (WAR)Da Big Waaagh!Allakhazam (WAR)Up To WARWarhammer Alliance Favourite Warhammer Online Resource Site Favourite Warhammer Online Forum?

By Snafzg The time has come to nominate your favourite Warhammer Online community sites of 2008! I will use these nominations to set up some polls next Monday (Jan 12), so the entire WAR community can unleash their votes in a no holds barred deathmatch!

By Snafzg These 7-day trial keys are non-transferrable, so there’s no point in asking for them if you’re not going to use them. If, however, you are interested and WILL use them to give Warhammer Online a whirl, just leave a comment on this page with your preferred server and realm and I’ll send out an e...

By Snafzg Here is where I may potentially reveal a bit of my newbishness about Warhammer Online, but it’s worth the risk just to get a bit of conversation going about Battlefield Objectives (BFO). Here’s hoping this incentive program isn’t already in place! I’ll look pretty stupid if it is, but I sur...

By Snafzg Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. “…that this new patch shall rekindle my love for WAR and with carrion stunties, groaning for burial.” ~ Snaffykins Shakeyspeare I gotta say, the 1.1a patch notes are looking pretty good on paper! Here are the top 10 highlights...

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By Snafzg Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. This post is only loosely related to Warhammer Online. The latest rumour in the MMO space is that EA is considering a RMT business model for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Keen is really against the idea of RMT in an MMORPG because h...

By Snafzg “In order to track characters more efficiently, we only track characters that are submitted to our tracker. By doing it this way, we don’t waste time going through every single character that was ever created. That would take days for each update and would make Mythic unhappy! Instead, we r...

By Snafzg I finally updated my Google reader; cleaning out a bunch of old sites that don’t update anymore and adding a crapload of new ones I just learned about. Here are my Warhammer Online and General MMO Gaming lists in case you wanted to check them out.

By Snafzg Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. I have decided to summarize my thoughts on problems in ‘Warhammer online: Age of Reckoning’, and possible improvements or solutions. This is for the most part a subjective view (my opinion) so if you only care for objective s...

By Snafzg TheGreenskin blog has been officially blathering on about Warhammer Online for just over a year, so I thought it might be fun to go back to our roots. When this site first launched, I held a commenting contest giving away several MMO Calendars. Let’s do it again!

By Snafzg One of the more common Warhammer Online gripes around the community lately is centered around WAR’s lack of immersion and game world. Simply put, many people feel like they are “playing a game” when they play WAR and are not experiencing the same kind of immersion they’ve felt in past MMORP...

By Snafzg Another high point was the launch of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, which now boasts 800,000 players on 1.2 million units sold. REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal second quarter en...

By Snafzg Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. You should read the whole darn thing if you care at all about the game you’re playing, but here are the top ten highlights in order of appearance: The first major patch (1.1) will drop later this fall. The Blackguard and the Knigh...

By Geoff Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. By: Geoff Lately, as I have been logging into Warhammer Online, I have begun to notice a certain sort of tranquility that I have with the game. I log on, do some quests, maybe pvp a little bit in either the scenarios or open world,...

By Snafzg Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Of people who left WoW for WAR have returned: Q: Did you notice a drop off in World of Warcraft users when Warhammer Online launched? Paul Sams: Not significantly, we’ve certainly had some of that happen, which is the same thi...

By Snafzg We’re not there yet, but we will be shortly! October 31, 2008 marks this blog’s first full year of writing about Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Coverage has ranged from game speculation and personal commentary on a variety of game announcements and MMORPG design concepts when WAR wa...

By Snafzg Cicadymn Part Ten of Ten - Know Your Gods is an original Warhammer Online lore series by Cicadymn (Sam). The day has finally come when we finish the Know Your Gods segment! Granted there is always more to learn about in the rich fantasy world of Warhammer, but for this series we have reached th...

By Snafzg Here’s a collection of stuff I’ve been meaning to write about all week but never got around to: GamerDNA made their Warhammer Online Character Data API publicly available. This is the same API that was used to create their signature generator. Hop on over and see what you can make with it.To of...

By Snafzg Having the most stable MMORPG release in history is a great accomplishment, but it will be be considered meaningless if they can’t keep people in the game. Great, I can play the game for hours on end without a crash or server queue… but I’m constantly annoyed by a barrage of little bugs to accu...

By Geoff Recently, with the release of Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, and the upcoming release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK from here on out) it seems that siege weapons have become the “next big thing” for MMOs that wish to delve deeply into PVP oriented gameplay. However,...

By Geoff Before I begin, I want to go ahead an point out that, yes, I know Warhammer Online was built from the ground up with PvP in mind and that WoW was not. However, after being in existence for 4 years I think WoW has had more than enough time to catch up in that department and that any faults to their PvP...

By Snafzg Stay tuned for more adventures to come! These will get a bit shorter (possibly) as time goes on as I’m not raking in 7 ranks worth of stuff to write about in each gaming session. And so starts a new blog category: WAR Diary. Last night was the first real chance I had to play Warhammer Online, and gi...

By Snafzg Here’s a list (with some unreads because I haven’t gotten to them yet): /random (2) (0)A Touch of Tentacle (0) (0)a wall of text (3) (1)Ancient Gaming Noob (5) (0)Archmagery (6) (0)Bloghammer Online (3) (0)Boathammer (3) (1)Book of Grudges (18) (2)Chaos War Host (0) (0)The Cogworks (0)...

By Snafzg Sotek - The god of Lizards, Serpents and vengeance. He is popular thanks to the fact that there is a temple to him in every city as was ordered by the powerful Slann-Mage Preists. It is said that he chased away the threat of Skaven from their homeland.Chotec - The Lizardman god of the sun. Ironical...

By Snafzg ————————— Plain and simple, this new chicken mechanic screws with the fundamentals of RvR in Warhammer Online. The game was built one way and this does nothing to enhance it. It takes away from it. Did Mythic leave this until the last minute and realize their mistake?

By Snafzg The PopCultureOfDestruction has a really cool article talking about the rock stars that helped create such massive hype for Warhammer Online. He examines it from the early development up until the present, by painting us an accurate picture of what Paul Barnett, Jeff Hickman, Josh Dres...

By Snafzg And so, on the 7th of September, the open beta was launched. In the US no big problems arose. The American registration site handled all traffic and the beta test simply started. Not so in Europe. It went so far as to having Mark Jacobs of Mythic feeling the need to involve himself in the debacle an...

By Snafzg Here’s a description of city siege from Mark Jacobs himself: Once the city is captured 2 public quests unlock and players are able to explore the PvE dungeons within the city. (expanding the amount of PvE content available to the server.)

By Snafzg Here’s a realm breakdown. Greenskins and Chaos are still in the lead, but not by much. This isn’t surprising since these two realms are the poster boys of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning marketing and are arguably the most popular in the tabletop game as well.

By Snafzg Part Eight of Ten - Know Your Gods is an original Warhammer Online lore series by Cicadymn (Sam). So we’ve talked about many different gods in the Warhammer fantasy world. We’ve gone from the bloodthirsty Khorne, the conspiring Tzeentch, the holy Sigmar, and the powerful Asuryan. You might...

By Snafzg I’ve always been addicted to the meta game of fully planning out my character using third-party products in MMORPGs. I was a big fan of Kort’s Spellcrafting Calculator for DAOC, WoW-Head’s talent tree builder for World of Warcraft, and now WarDB and WAR Character Planner for Warhammer On...

By Snafzg Please post any questions or comments below! The way Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is designed, you won’t need a step-by-step leveling guide to hold your hand through every single quest, /location, and technique. Leveling in WAR is very easy (yet still time consuming) if you split y...

By Snafzg I can’t wait for our guild to decide on a colour scheme, emblem, and heraldry. This stuff is totally awesome! Alas, we come to my final two beta videos for Warhammer Online. I will continue to work on more in the future, but these are the last you can expect for about a week. Mastery Interface The m...

By Snafzg Thanks for submitting all your questions! You’ve definitely kept me busy these past weeks! This has been filed under “Game Speculation” because we’re technically still in beta and things could change! Let’s get right down to it!  Here are your questions about Warhammer Online beta: Gu...

By Snafzg It is very important to have a PC capable of running Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) in large-scale RvR situations because that is what the game is all about. Nothing is worse than dying to another player because your system lagged or froze completely. Even if you are only intereste...

By Snafzg I have broken down my list of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta impressions by positives and negatives to keep things simple and provide you with a balanced (and biased) point of view (it is my blog, right?). Everything is summed up in the conclusion paragraph.

By Snafzg I may also pick up a craft just for fun. I haven’t really done that in an MMORPG before either. Scavenging and… Talisman Making perhaps. Just to be different! Over the course of my Warhammer Online beta journey, I managed to play each of the greenskin careers in several different tiers. I’ve pla...

By Snafzg Realm vs. Realm isn’t just PvE or just PvP… it is the combination of both. RvR is participating in a public quest to kill 100 dwarves faster than the competing enemy public quest to kill 100 orcs. Whoever wins, moves on to stage II. RvR is also gaining control of your enemies’ keeps so you can push t...

By Snafzg Massively just reported that open beta for Mythic Entertainment’s highly anticipated Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will begin on September 7, 2008. That date puts open beta three weeks from now and 11 days before release, which pretty much confirms what Mythic has said all along: B...

By Snafzg I have many ideas written down, but these strips take me a really long time to do. To be honest, my interest comes and goes with this feature, so I’ll only post them when I have a strong urge. I’m sorry for any fans out there, but I don’t want to take time away from features I really enjoy on the site t...

By Snafzg So, if you are looking for a more refined and less brutal god - if you are looking for one who can see into the very depths of your soul and judge your cleanliness - or if you seek a god to grant you untold power on the battlefield or through your spells and swordsmanship, then these gods are your b...

By Snafzg Here is my new Warhammer Online gaming computer! All skus are from NCIX.com, which is a very reputable online seller up here in Canada. It took a little while to arrive, but everything seems to be working perfectly! Thanks UPS! For real this time!

By Snafzg I do however want to offer up some hypotheses as to why Gamestop and many others have been releasing seemingly random and conflicting release schedules. Hypothesis 1 - We’re pulling it out of our … Gamestop and others don’t actually have official confirmation from Mythic and are simply tr...

By Snafzg Do you have any questions about Warhammer Online beta? Post the questions here and I’ll be sure to answer them once the NDA drops! Feel free to ask about anything, but know that so far my main area of expertise (if you can even call it that) is greenskins. Shocking given the title of this blog, I...

By Snafzg EA Mythic GM, Mark Jacobs, was putting out fires over at VN today. Not that the fires were big mind you, but he did address a few concerns surrounding the Teen vs. Mature ESRB rating, Radar/Cheating prevention, and Raising the Bar for the MMORPG Genre.

By Snafzg There was some confusion last week when Josh was quoted as saying “Warhammer Online will have 5 years worth of content built into the game at launch.” What he really meant was that WAR is built with scalability in mind for 5 years into the future.

By Snafzg I had the fine privilege of being asked by Chip Mosher of BOOM! Studios to review Warhammer: Condemned by Fire #1 and provide my readers with a sneak-peak of the first 5 pages (below the review). If this book title doesn’t ring a bell, it’s the upcoming BOOM! release that contains a chance to w...