Warhammer

Last week, Wayback Wednesday revisited Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning with the Mythic crew including Keaven Freeman, Kevin Calvert, and Tim Chappell. Check out their epic adventures in WAR. WAAAGGGHHH!

WAR is based on the Warhammer fantasy IP from Games Workshop. WAR pits the armies of Order versus the armies of Destruction and is a realm versus realm focused game; however, WAR also contains your standard fantasy genre MMO tropes. While WAR is one of the middle aged MMOs on the market it has made two rather important contributions to the genre that have been central to a number of recent MMO releases.

Read (and watch!) more of Rob Lashley's Warhammer Online: Wayback Wednesday with the Mythic Crew.

A public quest.

Greetings! We will be bringing all North American and European servers offline tomorrow, March 7, at 8:00 AM EST (14:00 CET) for the deployment of Game Update 1.4.5a and a hardware maintenance on Badlands.

At this time we anticipate that the European servers will be back online no later than 1:00 PM EST (19:00 CET).

Badlands is expected to be back online no later than 4:00 PM EST (22:00 CET).

As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

• We’ve added additional information on the current status of the Relic and Fortress ownership to the game.
• The Advanced War Report window will now show this expanded information in a convenient window.  This includes the current location of the Relic, Claim status for the Fortress and sub-areas, etc.
• The Advanced War Report can be accessed via the /adwar command or via a new icon on the mini-map.
• The Fortress Generals have been moved around in the Fortress to make defense more strategic.
• There are now magical barriers up near the Fortress Guardian that will stay up until the guardian has been defeated.  Once defeated, the barriers will drop until a reinforcement Guardian appears.
• A new ribbon icon More >

We have improved the way to contact our Billing Support for Warhammer Online. If you have a problem that you need help with you can either email support@warhammeronline.com, or visit help.ea.com. This website offers you a form to make sure that all necessary information get to our billing advisors.If you are based in the US, this website allows you to leave your phone number for us to call you back. We are actively pursuing expanding phone support outside the US.

To use help.ea.com, login with your EA Account and click on ‘Talk to a Game Advisor’ on the right side of the page. On the following page please enter:

1. Enter Warhammer Online as the product
2. Select “Billing/Purchasing” as the category
3. Select either PC or Mac as your platform
4. Select the contact option and enter your details

The Warhammer Online Herald has been updated with the news that the annual Night of Murder event has made its return. The event is scheduled to run from February 9th through the 22nd and features special quests and rewards.

Players pick up the "Marked for Death" quest in every warcamp, scenario, and capital city.  They are also asked to keep an eye out for those NPCs and enemy faction players who are marked for death and to kill them when seen. Players can also be the ones marked and should be on the watch for killers in their midst.

Rewards include:

• Basic – Butcher's Blessing (+10% xp/renown/damage/incoming healing) and lasts for 3 in-game days
• Advanced – Well-Mounted Skull (Places a pike next to the body of a fallen foe, topped with their head.)
• Elite – Khaine's Caress (event-slot item with career specific stats)
• World Drop – Lobbin' Noggin & Burning Blood Potion

Find out more on the Warhammer Online Herald.

To address an issue with the way players get to contested cities the following fix was applied:

• While the Cities are contested, there is now a Portal available to teleport players closer to the city and a return-trip Portal to teleport players back. These are located in the Fortress zones, near the spawn location of the attacking Realm’s siege equipment. The return-trip Portal is near the gates and both portals will disappear when the City is no longer contested.