The folks at Warhammer Online have prepared a new dev diary by Lead Artist Russell Chamier, who tals about creating the new Reikland Factory RvR scenario. RvR is the core of this game. This is illustrated by the fact that the game facilitates making a new character, queuing into a scenario at the tender age of rank 1, and putting fools to the sword. You could easily gain the first 10 ranks of your career doing just that. I love the idea of people experiencing RvR before the T4 campaigns. Nobody shows up late to the party at rank 40 and says, "Ok, what's this RvR noise about?" The war should be felt throughout your time spent here. Thus, when the Live Team was tasked with creating post-launch content in the form of scenarios to complement the new classes, I was pleased to be a part of ...

Mythic entertainment has announced that they have begun free character transfers on select source and destination servers. Greetings! The Free Character Transfers have begun! Players of the following realms are now able to login to the Mythic Account Center to begin transfer of their characters. Please be sure to read all instructions carefully! There are cases where you may lose items if you do not properly prepare your character for transfer. This also applies to the Guild Transfer functionality.

MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood writes this analysis of the new PQs introduced as a part of Warhammer Online's first Live Event, The Witching Night.The new PQs aren't your standard three stage wonders, scattered across the realm. These PQs pit realm against realm and are located in four RvR lakes (one for each Tier) spread across the racial pairings. These new quests would seem to be serving a double purpose for Mythic. First, and probably most obviously, they provide players with something new and exciting to do within the Live Event. The second purpose of the new PQs would seem to address an issue that many players have been bringing up since launch: empty RvR lakes. For whatever reason, RvR lakes simply haven't taken off (at least from my experience in the first two tiers of play ...

Mythic Entertainment has announced new changes to how experience rewards are handed out in Warhammer Online, with increases to the amount of renown earned from healing, and experience for players who capture battlefield objectives. As the battle for the Warhammer world rages on, we continue to listen to your feedback and look for ways to improve the game. Among our highest priorities is making RvR as rewarding an experience as possible, and with that in mind, we are pleased to announce Phase IV of our ongoing Experience Enhancements. Today, as you may have read in the 1.0.4 Patch Notes, we have made the following changes to experience rewards: . The successful capture of an enemy battlefield objective now rewards the capturing players with experience. . In response to player feedbac ...

Mythic Entertainment has announced details of Warhammer Online's new Heavy Metal in-game event, as well as details of the new Knights of the Blazing Sun and the Black Guard classes. All of which will be implemented in the game in November. The Age of Reckoning has dawned Across the Old World and on the island home of the High Elves, bitter enemies clash in bloody skirmishes and mighty battles. For the soldiers of Order and Destruction, there is no respite and no mercy. Now, the warring factions will gain new allies in the form of the fearsome Black Guard and the cunning Knight of the Blazing Sun. These heavily-armored soldiers race to the battlefront to anchor their realms' defenses and ensure that for every inch of ground given, the enemy pays in bitter blood. With a thunderous w ...

Mythic has posted the patch notes for update 1.0.4 for Warhammer Online, which among other things, activates the game's Halloween events. - The Witching Night live event has begun! For details, see the Warhammer Online Herald. - With the arrival of 1.0.4 we are now one step closer to offering Character Transfers from low population servers to medium population servers and the final stages of testing have begun. We're excited to share all the details, keep an eye on the WAR Herald for more information and to find out how you can help us test the Free Character Transfer service in the coming days! - We have added three new guild rewards in the form of dungeon teleport scrolls. Each scroll can be purchased from a guild quartermaster, and is a single-use item that will teleport the pl ...

MMORPG.com Warhammer online Correspondent Asaf Younsian writes this quick opinion piece throwing in his two cents about the population imbalances in Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.After a smooth launch and a lot of buzz, we're starting to see dents in Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online world. As it's not my intent to go on and list them, I wanted to narrow it down on one specific problem that might cause a series of problems that might very well drop the entire game a notch - Population imbalance between the different factions. First, let's take a look at what this imbalance means and how it affects the world: Most (if not all) servers seem to have a population of around 60% Destruction oriented characters and only 40% Order. While those numbers may ...

The WAR Herald has been updated with another edition of the Grab Bag, which answers player questions about Warhammer Online. Q. I have spent three points in a Mastery path, but have not received the first Mastery ability. The bars have reached the ability, but there is nothing in my spellbook. Am I doing something wrong? A. Reaching the ability on the bar unlocks the ability to be purchased. From there, you must spend another point to purchase the ability. You can do this by clicking on the ability to highlight it, then clicking the train button. When you do this, it should spend a point and the ability will appear in your ability book.

MMORPG.com Warhammer Online Correspondent Patrick Buckley writes this guide to the early stages of the gathreing professions in Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Warhammer Online: A new game, a new adventure, a new set of professions to explore and max out. And now, here's the question that is on everybody's mind. Where can I go to max out my profession the fastest? The answer to this question: Nowhere. That's right, in WAR; there is no place to easily max out your profession compared to another one. There are, however, places you can go that seem to be slightly better for leveling. At least it seems so for two out of the six professions. WAR has a total of six professions at this current time. Scavenging, butcher, and salvaging are the three "gathering" professions while ...

Mythic Entertainment has announced that they have increased the amount of experience gained from defeating other players in open RvR from to a bonus of 100% over the experience gained from defeating players in scenarios, effectively making players killed in open RvR worth double the amount of experience as their scenario running counterparts. With the addition of the new region-wide and RvR-wide chat channels we have seen a marked increase in Open RvR participation. In order to encourage this trend even further, we have made an additional adjustment to the experience awarded for killing enemy players in an Open RvR area. Previously we increased this amount by 50%. As of today, that bonus has been raised to 100%. With this change players killed in Open RvR will now be worth double the ex ...