The Warhammer herald has been updated with information on WAR's public test server, and highlights of the 1.1.0 Patch which adds two new classes, the Open RvR Influence System, revamped public quests, and more. The Public Test Server is coming soon, so in the meantime we wanted to provide you with instructions on how you can get onto the server as well as how to copy your characters and jump right into testing. The purpose of the Public Test Server (PTS) is for the players to help us refine and test the latest version of the game by experiencing the changes firsthand and providing feedback and bug reports to Mythic. As such, we want to remind you that the content introduced to this server is still considered "in development," and that bugs and issues not found on the LIVE server may ...

Raiding is going to start for many players soon, if it hasn't already. Hunters, even with the major overhaul of the pet system, every single pet will not maximize your raid potential. While many hunters probably have a gorilla leftover from levelling using the new Volley, that's not really the pet you want for a high level instance. Having just hit 80, and with the call from your guild going out soon, you should probably go ahead and tame that raid pet. This article will show the main pet options and inform hunters where to get them. While pet levelling speed has been increased by 30%, it's still a drag to grind mobs just to help fluffy out. Though if your levelling pet is going to be your raid pet and he's only a level or two behind, there's no reason to not just take him along to the ...

It is with great pleasure that I announce that we are in the initial stages of organizing another Alliance PVP Tournament. There have been a few threads on the forums over the last few weeks while we have been finalizing this, and I have been itching to reply to each one with this news! As with previous tournaments, it's going to have excitement, explosions, extravagant setups, exotic dancers and plenty more (well maybe not exotic dancers; we will see how we go on that one!). This blog is the "early warning blog" to let you all know that it's on so you can plan accordingly. Fancy a Date? The tournament will consist of six days of competition - the same as previous tournaments. One key difference is that it will take place over three weekends and not two, which means that ther ...

To pick up where we left off, we saw how our fictional Eve Corporation, Plasma Creations uses taxes to bring in the ISK to pay for its overhead costs through the use of taxes. Like any corporation though, you will want to bring in a steady stream of profit in order to expand and develop into an even more prestigious corporation. The first thing we need to do after we determine our standard overhead costs is to find out our operating costs. Operating costs differ from overhead costs because they are more pliable and fluctuate more often, usually based off of the current market in EVE. In Plasma Creations we have four divisions within the corporation: Mining Manufacturing Logistics Security

CCP has announced that they will be extending their newer and more robust buddy program for EVE Online until January 5th. Our recently announced, revamped Buddy Program has proven to be so popular that we have decided to extend the program through the Christmas season. From now until 5 January 2009 you can invite your friends to EVE Online for a special 21-day trial. If they become subscribers, you will get 30 days of game time added to your account.

Combat is about. Combat. You go in; you smash or slash face and kill them first before it goes the other way. But seriously, Combat is the tree meant for Rogues who don't want to take the path of the Dagger. It also happens to be the tree with the highest energy regeneration to make up for its few damage-upgrading talents this tree has and improves on a number of your interrupt skills, granting them length or giving them interrupts, making this a suitable tree against casters, though it offers some support against melee classes. Tier 0 Improved Gouge Ranks: 3 Effect: Increases effect duration of Gouge by (0.5/1.0/1.5) seconds. 5 seconds is how long you need to avoid hitting and being hit to get out of combat and reenter stealth. Gouge only gives you 4 seconds. Improved Go ...

Cooking and fishing are two of the secondary professions available to players in World of Warcraft. Many people find these worthwhile skills to raise as one can catch fish, which can then be cooked and turned into a great source for stat buffs. Cooking and fishing are excellent professions to level up together. One catches fish, raising the fishing skill and then cooks them up, raising one's cooking skill. Of course first one must obtain the skill to level up these professions. With the Wrath of the Lich King, there is a new land in the World of Warcraft, Northrend and the maxed out skills in our professions are no longer maxed out. Four fifty is the new three seventy-five.

Now is your chance to win an exclusive set of in-game items for your Age of Conan account including the brand new Snow Mammoth player mount! Falling snow, chilling winds, icy plains and snow covered forests - Winter is upon us. To celebrate this special time of the year, Funcom is giving away tons of great prizes. All you have to do is send an e-mail to contest@ageofconan.com with the subject "Season Give-away". Please provide the following information in your e-mail: your name, your address, your telephone number and your Age of Conan account name. With a bit of luck you might win a whole set of in-game items for your Age of Conan account. Each set contains: * The brand new Snow Mammoth * The War Mammoth * The Killer Rhino * Ring of Acheron * Drinking Cape * Bag of Holdin ...

As announced a few weeks ago, we will merge the Age of Conan servers before the Christmas Holidays. Today we want to give you some detailed information about how these merges will happen and what this will mean for you, the players. We will be spreading the server merges over the next few weeks so not all the servers will be merged at the exact same time. It is important to us to ensure that the merge process goes as smooth as possible. Therefore it is vital that we spread out the work rather than doing these complicated processes all at the same time in order to minimize possible risks. The first servers that will be merged are the US servers 'Bloodspire' and 'Hyperborea'. The list of servers for the next merges will be published shortly. It is important to know that during t ...

Funcom has announced the launch of the largest free content expansion to date for Age of Conan. The new content update introduces a number of new areas and adventures including Ymir''''s pass and The Amphitheater, a new dungeon which promises an epic confrontation. Durham, USA - November 14th, 2008 - This week Funcom updated the ''Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures'' live servers with the largest gameplay content addition since launch. By visiting the vast, new outdoor area of Ymir''s Pass players will now be able to find new quests to solve, new characters to meet, new monsters to slay and a dramatic new storyline to unravel. The update also includes a new dungeon - The Amphitheater - that holds one of the most epic and memorable monster encounters ever created for the game. "This is a ...