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March 5th, 2010 | 
Author: Bright Future For A Bloody Game!
On Febuary 24th, an unexpected piece of news hit the Herald, Carrie Gouskos is becoming the new Franchise Producer for Warhammer Online. Although Warhammer has been in rough waters lately, from what I’ve heard they have been gaining a good amount of subs later with the new RvR changes (woot!) which were part of Carrie’s first goals, and they went over well, I think with Carrie Gouskos joining the team, Warhammer is going to have a real bright future with some good (and much needed) updates!
After doing a bit of reading in Patch 1.3.4, it seems as if the some of the PvE of Warhammer Online is going to be switching gears to become more RvR oriented, which is a great step in the right direction in my opinion, how it will affect Warhammer in the long run is still up for debate.
In patch 1.3.5, things are going to be a lot more friendly to casual players, making it so they can actually compete in City Sieges and RvR in general, and still get a good amount of rewards, as I play WAR pretty casually lately (may change with all these nice updates coming out), I think these changes are going to help bring in a lot of new subs.
In Patch 1.3.6, is going to improve the auction house, which is one of the things I hated most about Warhammer, it seemed to me as if it were thrown together hastily at the last minute, however I’m no programmer :-p, but I can tell by using it that it doesn’t work as intended.
So you can see, with Carrie Gouskos, Warhammer is finally seeing changes that should have been added long ago, let’s just hope they keep their promises and keep the updates coming!
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The big game that couldn’t… can Warhammer Online pull up ‘er britches and keep on truckin’? We take a look at this MMO’s status today.
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Tags: Land of the Dead
General Changes & Bug Fixes
- Ambient Dust Devils can no longer be damaged by area-of-effect spells.
- Lair Glyph objects can no longer be damaged with area-of-effect spells.
- Test monsters have been removed from the Necropolis.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from using the effects from their pocket items.
- Players will no longer be branded cowards after successfully purging a Land of the Dead instance.
- Players will now correctly receive a loot chest after successfully defending a Land of the Dead instance from invasion.
Quests
- Four Tombs for Four Pillars: Raven’s Wing will now spawn properly in the waypoint location for the associated steps of this quest chain.
- The Keys of Zandri: Aloysius Roemer will now spawn properly in the waypoint location for the associated steps of this quest chain.
Combat & Careers
General
- Fixed several cases where the tooltip descriptions of character abilities were not updating their values based on stats.
- Fixed an issue that was sometimes preventing rear-positional attacks from activating.
Shadow Warrior
- Bullseye: This Tactic will once again function correctly. Note that the tactic will need to be un-slotted, then re-slotted to begin working again.
White Lion
- Pounce: Fixed an issue that could, in some cases, send the White Lion character back to its bind point when this ability was used.
Warrior Priest
- Divine Strike: This ability will now heal the Warrior Priest if the Warrior Priest does not have a defensive target set.
This the most recent list of hot fixes applied to WAR:
General Changes & Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could in some cases prevent players from interacting with the supply crates associated with the Beyond the Sands Live Event.
- Fixed an issue where players who had completed all 12 Live Event tasks for Beyond the Sands were only receiving credit for completing 10 tasks. Please speak to your Event Herald in The Inevitable City or Altdorf to correct this issue and receive credit for the two remaining tasks.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the Beyond the Sands Live Event not to be active in Avelorn on the Dark Crag server.
- Nehekharan Treasure chests revealed by the Aviator Goggles will now drop their intended loot upon death.
- Depot Crates for the Live Event located in Ekrund, Marshes of Madness, The Badlands, and Thunder Mountain will now appear in greater numbers.
Patch 1.2.1 hit live servers on the 16th. This patch brings with it many changes and upgrades so I have included the final patch notes below:
Highlights
Keep Upgrade System
Own a Keep? Want to keep it? Want to get more out of it? Then the new Keep Upgrade system is perfect for you! Guilds that own a Keep can now purchase upgrades to bolster their hold’s utility and defenses in a variety of ways.
Once a Keep has been claimed, a guild member with sufficient permission can speak to the Guild Keep Agent on the upper level of the Keep to choose what upgrades to purchase. These upgrades require a periodic maintenance fee and some are available in multiple levels. Once purchased, upgrades will take time to be completed. This process can be monitored via the new Keep Upgrade Interface. Upgrades will decay if funds are unavailable to pay their maintenance or if a guild member chooses to stop paying for the upgrade.
Combat Responsiveness Improvements
We are always working to improve the overall responsiveness of our game client and server. With version 1.2.1 players will see some significant improvements including the following:
* Casting times have become more accurate under normal play conditions, and players should no longer see a significant “stretch” or “pause” when casting spells in low or moderate latency situations.
* Accuracy of the spell cast UI has been improved. The display will now show 1/2 second increments and will no longer “stretch” time to compensate for latency. Instead, players will see a pause after the bar has filled completely if they are in a high-latency environment.
* Continued improvements to animation and visual effects performance have been made. Players will see smoother transitions between animations and significantly less stuck visual effects, especially when chain-casting abilities.
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General Changes & Bug Fixes
- All players may now take the field of battle with two new Careers: The Orc Choppa and the Dwarf Slayer!
- The Bitter Rivals Herald has been removed in conjunction with the end of the Live Event.
- The following crafting potions have been re-enabled:
- Curator Tonic
- Green Thumb Tonic
- Reclaimer Tonic
- Fixed a number of recently-discovered crash issues which were affecting client stability.
- Fixed an issue that could in some cases cause guild heraldry on cloaks not to display.
Capital Cities
- Trial accounts will now receive the proper error message when attempting to access the guild taverns.
Combat and Careers
Engineer
- Electro Magnet: Having the Immovable buff cast on you while casting Chaotic Rift will no longer prevent you from pulling in valid targets.
Starting on Thursday March 5, 2009 final transfers of characters from the following servers will all be consolidated onto Magnus, and these servers will be closed.
- Tor Achere
- Tower of Doom
- Ungrim
What will transfer over with my character?
- All items in your character’s inventory (equipped or otherwise) and bank vault
- All character info (quests, Tome Unlocks, etc.)
- Friends lists
- Guild info, including the entire guild, guild vault, and guild association
- Ignore lists
What will not transfer over with my characters?
- Items that are currently listed for Auction
- Guild alliances
- In-game mail and attachments (both in your inbox and en route to your inbox)
What could make the transfer fail?
If you have characters on Magnus that are of the opposite realm as your characters on Tor Achere, Tower of Doom, or Ungrim, you will not be able to transfer your characters. Also, if a character’s name is not allowed, or you have no open characters slots on Magnus, the transfer will not be able to complete.
What should I do if the transfer does not complete?
In the event that a transfer cannot be completed, you will need to perform the transfer manually by logging into Account Management.
What if I don’t want to be on Magnus?
Starting on March 11th, all characters still present on Tor Achere, Tower of Doom, and Ungrim, along with all the characters that have transferred over to Magnus will be permitted a one-time free transfer to any other server of the same type, regardless of level.
A Call to Arms has been issued to all players of WAR with the announcement of the first live expansion for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Call to Arms will introduce an incredible array of new content to the game, including two highly anticipated new careers (the Orc Choppa and the Dwarf Slayer) and a new dungeon zone called Land of the Dead, set in the desert realm of the Tomb Kings.
The Call to Arms live expansion, set to roll out for FREE over the next few months, will also include three in-game live events, a new RvR Scenario, added functionality to the Realm Wars section of the WAR website, the opening of the official WAR Forums, and a new free trial version of the game.
Call to Arms Live Expansion Schedule
- Call to Arms: Bitter Rivals Live Event: Successful completion of the live event allows head start access to the new Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer careers. The event will also introduce a new Chaos-themed RvR Scenario, Twisting Tower which will only be available during this event which begins on Feb. 24th.
- Call to Arms: Beyond the Sands Live Event (April): The promise of great riches and powerful weapons comes from the south.
- Call to Arms: Rise of the Tomb Kings Live Event (May): The race between Order and Destruction begins to unlock the Land of the Dead for their Realm.
- Land of the Dead Opens (June): The deserts of Nehekhara open to players with the addition of a new RvR-gated dungeon zone. To gain access to the Land of the Dead, opposing Realms must battle for control of the zone to access dozens of new Public Quests, instanced lairs, and a massive new Tomb Kings dungeon to plunder in search of the Casket of Souls.
We are all totally excited about this new content and we can’t wait to start playing around with the new classes!
Content
- The Deathclaw Cold Ones that assault the High Elf Chapter 22 hub will no longer attack players.
Quests and Public Quests
- Betrayal from Within: Adjusted the waypoints on this quest so that they correctly lead players to the Bastion Stair entrance.
- Broken Core: Fixed an issue which was preventing Squig Herder players from completing this quest because they could not choose a reward.
- Eyes of the Spy: Fixed an issue with the Raven Caller quest item which sometimes allowed more than one raven to be summoned.
- Bitter Blood: This quest will now reward players with an appropriate amount of experience for its level.
