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Greetings! We will be bringing all North American and European servers offline tomorrow, June 28th 2011, at 8:00 AM EDT (14:00 CEST) for the deployment of Game Update 1.4.3. At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 1:30 PM EDT (19:30 CEST).

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

Highlights of 1.4.3 include:

Sigmartide

The Empire is about to enter into a state of celebration, as it honors its first Emperor and man-turned-God, Sigmar.  Sigmartide is a new, two-week long, Live Event, tasking players of Order to seek out corruption, cleanse the wicked, and to honor age-old bonds with the Dwarfs; while players of Destruction are tasked with sowing the seeds of Chaos, desecrating celebration altars, and making a mockery of Sigmar’s friendship with the Dwarfs. Whichever Realm you serve, this bound to be a season not soon forgotten!

RVR Accessory Sets

As an extension to the work we’ve been doing recently for items and gear balance, we’ve introduced a group of RvR accessory sets.  Designed to fit in nicely with the high-end armor sets, these new sets can be purchased for RvR Currency from the Commodities Quartermasters in the Capital Cities.  More >

Greetings,

On Thursday, 06/16, we invite you to join us in a test of the new event scenario, the College of Corruption. There will be two session of about one hour at 2 pm EDT (20:00 CEST) and 7 pm EDT (Friday morning 1:00 CEST) during which we open the College for you.

If you want to help and participate, please have your template character ready and waiting in your capital city before the start time. Feel free to organize groups as you like.

Apart from feedback about the general playability, we want to gather information about the optimal size (6vs6 or 12vs12), the Aspects of Fire, etc. You will also find our topics in a dedicated feedback thread in the Dev Discussion area which we’ll open on Thursday.

As a side note: Some of you might remember that we have announced the start of the Live Event for June 21st in the latest Community Update. But we want to have enough time on PTS and therefore postpone the Event (and the patch day) to the week around the 29th. 

We’ll see in college!

The Warhammer Herald now features the May Community Update. The latest post goes into some detail about the June release of patch v1.4.3 which will feature a new event called "Sigmar Tide". While the rest of the 1.4.3 patch will be available "soon" on the PTS, Sigmar Tide will not be featured so as to avoid spoilers.

The event ‘Sigmar Tide’ will introduce a new scenario to WAR. The College of Corruption is the attempt of the Chaos to infiltrate the Empire and corrupt it from within. Inside players fight over the control of the college while the Aqshy Activators can be used to manifest Aspects of Fire – a being of pure fire which is temporarily controlled by the player with four special abilities.

The College of Corruption scenario will be open to players of all tiers for the duration of the event, and NPCs will give the players quests to complete while in the scenario. Additionally to the College of Corruption players can seek out the Altars of Sigmar in open RvR and gain a blessing to improve their offense (by sacrificing a bit of their defense) if they possess a Skull of the Fallen.

Read more of the May Community More >

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Greetings,

From today on players on Athel Loren have the option to choose free transfer of their characters and guilds to Badlands or Karak Norn.

To facilitate this we have enabled the multi-realm ability for Badlands and Karak Norn.  This allows accounts to have both Order and Destruction characters on the server and increases the character limit to 20.  There will be an 8 hour lockout when switching realms on the server.

Please welcome your new comrades-in-arms (or enemies) and help them to settle in.