Warhammer

Warhammer Online is one of the small handful of games that continues to make steady progress throughout the years of its life despite a less than stellar launch. MMORPG.com's Som Pourfarzaneh gives a nod to that fact and has our latest re-review of WAR. Check out what Som discovered about WAR and then let us know what you think in the comments.

As we mentioned in our Review and Re-Review, WAR didn’t have the best launch and experienced a mass exodus of players that resulted in several server merges, a streamlining of starter areas, and the general feeling that very few people are playing the game outside of the free trial area. Mythic has done excellently in responding to player feedback about the structure of the game’s World PvP, known as Open Realm vs. Realm (ORvR), added a bunch of new content, and made the Tier 1 starting area an endless free trial, doing a pretty bang-up job in trying to keep the existing population happy and bring in new players.

Read more of Som Pourfarzaneh's Warhammer Online: Come for PvP, Stay for WAAAGH!.

WAR's PvP is still some of the best.

Cool winds blow across the empty fields of Reikland, wiping away the memory of sun-bleached grains and summer days. Thoughts turn now to the long, bleak nights of the coming winter, and the foreboding darkness that accompanies the death of another year. The sickly green visage of the Chaos moon begins to flicker and change, and the superstitious people of the world hide themselves away behind locked doors, and pray not to fall prey to the foul terrors of the Daemon Moon.Now, with the war in full swing, the horrors of the Daemon Moon are worse than ever. Malevolent creatures borne out of the fabric of Chaos itself descend upon the world like daemon locusts, intent upon devouring the souls of every living creature they encounter.The Daemon Moon shines its baleful light down upon the world. The screams of countless tortured victims mingle with the howls of their daemonic tormentors. Who will stand against the hordes of Chaos?

The Daemonball Rally Public Quest

In the war-torn lands of the Old World, festering like a boil, rests a terrible artifact of the Daemon Moon’s first rising in long-ago times. Built of the very stuff of chaos and the essence of nightmares, the Daemon More >

Update 3:40pm EDT: The fix is now live.

We are about to apply the following hot fix to all servers. Please be aware that the location of the foreman is about to change in T3 and T4 – this might effect ongoing sieges. We’ll update the Herald when the update is live.

Realm vs. RealmIn response to player concerns over the way Keep Foreman generate New Outer Doors, the following changes have been made:

1. Foreman in T3 and T4 have been moved to the outer wall, into the room directly above the outer door *
2. The time it takes for Foreman to process a New Door order has been increased to 90 seconds
3. Messaging has been added that will go out to everyone in the area alerting them to:
• when a new door has been ordered

  

• an update at every 30 sec mark of the process

  

• a notification when the Foreman’s ordering has been halted

  

• a notification when the Foreman restarts the ordering process from the beginning

  

• if the Foreman was killed while processing an order

 

• if the Foreman successfully completes processing the order

4. The Foreman will now enter his cower state when the keep door is attacked by a ram **

* Having the Foreman in More >

The sounds of celebration and battle can be heard throughout the Old World. Fireworks, cheers and the roar of battle rings in the ears of combatants from both Realms…but there are murmurs across the land of ancient powers being called forth and resources being gathered for the frontlines closest to the capital cities..

It’s been a wild three years for WAR.  Over the course of these three years the battle has shifted numerous times.  From the gleaming sands of the Land of the Dead to the dank and dark Skaven caverns beneath the Old World, blood has been spilt in numerous locales.  The clash of steel has been heard in every land and in every manner as the warfront continuously ebbs and flows.  But, the battle is far from over and War continues to be everywhere.

As we push forward into our fourth year, we’d like to take a moment to thank our players for their continued and earnest support over the last three years. We’re doing 10 days of bonus to XP/RP to celebrate the anniversary starting today. Anyone can get out and enjoy this bonus and share in the festivities, perhaps grabbing a few fireworks from the dead bodies of More >

The Elven God of the Hunt has stalked the mortal lands since time immemorial. Year in and year out, the High Elves gather to honor Kurnous with a sacred hunt, where the best of the best try to prove themselves Master Hunters in the eyes of the greatest hunter of them all.

But with the war raging on, the practice has faltered … and the God of the Hunt is angry. No longer do skillful mortals hunt to feed their families; instead, hardened soldiers scour the woods and meadows of all available game. No longer do hunters observe the sacred rites; they kill only to test their skills, and leave their prey to rot on the battlefields…

The God of the Hunt can brook no more! The hunter’s moon has risen! The horn of Kurnous has sounded! Let those who honor the ancient traditions pay heed—and let all who slaughter with abandon tremble!

Groups of six players can test their mettle against the ultimate quarry in the new instanced dungeon: The Hunter’s Vale—the hunting grounds of the Spirit of Kurnous! But be warned, the sacred vine portals to The Hunter’s Vale are located only in RvR battlefields, where the More >