The passes through Mount Bloodhorn, the Dwarf versus Greenskin Tier 1 zone, were once inhabited by Dwarfs and hoped to be the beginnings of a prosperous trade route to the lands south of the Empire. Now those hills and forests are infested with Orcs and Goblins, and those travelers lucky enough to survive the hordes of Greenskins are likely targets for the bandits that prowl the road.
Surrounded by a swath of carnage and sparkling stumpies, Gorkazatan of Volkmar server fame lets out a battlecry and prepares for his next opponent. The sight of this Black Orc charging across the battlefield would make even the bravest of warriors leak a little in their pants.
No MMO experience is complete without sprinkles of gold seller spam, and this screenshot doesn’t fail to disappoint in that department.
Hello, my name is Ysharros and I am an altoholic.
Technically, I prefer the term Altophile since it’s less pejorative, but it’s also less amusing. Either way, I am someone who makes–and plays–more than one…two…okay, many characters in online games. To be perfectly frank, I was making alts back in college when I played several AD&D chars, sometimes at a time; on evenings when you only have one DM and one player, you have to get creative. I don’t play multiple characters at once in MMOs, or this would be a piece about multi-boxing, but my AD&D days aren’t so far away…spiritually, anyway. My alts aren’t slapped together with no thought or with one punch of the Randomize All button; they’re crafted with care, attention, and love.
There’s one thing you need to know about altophiles if you’re a monophile (serial or otherwise) or if all the alts you usually make are bank or craft mules: we enjoy and play all our alts. Or at least, the vast majority of them.
That’s why a real altophile is usually taken aback by the question, “So what’s your main?”
See, this is the problem. What is my main? Hrm…the character I made first? The one most people know? The character who’s highest level? The one I play most? The one I enjoy most?
The question itself is reductive to an altophile, because from what I’ve seen, most of us don’t stratify our characters in that way. Monophiles have one main character, even when they have alts, and most of the questions’ answer would be: “Bob the Great, of course! Fred the Less-Regarded is just for later/holding stuff/making stuff/when my spouse plays and I need a lower level character.” There is very rarely any question in anyone’s mind as to what a monophile’s “main” character is, which may be why monophiles remain so puzzled by altophiles, and altophiles find it hard to explain themselves to monophiles.
So, the 1.01 patch broke a bunch of mods this week and made some other mods unnecessary. Inside we have forty-four new mods and an old mod.
Oh yeah, there are new assist mods this week. Yes, that’s right–if you don’t like any of the dozen existing assist mods, maybe this week you’ll get lucky.
WaaaghBar is a bar mod for WAR; I’ve been waiting for this. If you aren’t familiar with bar mods, they provide a bar across the top of the screen and allow you to configure what appears on the bar. Right now, WaaaghBar can display gold, experience, influence, and renown.
It seems to need a little work. The current version does not hide or move the UI elements at the top of the screen, so everything overlaps and I can’t read anything.
an Empire keep ripe for the taking
Welcome back to the burning grounds. I’ll advise you to watch your step today; broken bodies still litter the ground. There was a battle here of late. Many casualties, but such are the joys of our line of work, no? Ah, the dead fought with such ferocity over something as small as a keep–a rise of stone–and but a pebble in the wake of years. And yet in battle they persisted, each earning their own fiery death bed. Look through the hazy veil between life and death and you may still see them, lining the walls of their castle, stark defenders of things destined to fail. The proud and the waiting. Soon, such keeps will make the biggest pyres of all.
Another week has passed, and hopefully we’ve all ranked up our miniskirts and graduated to full blown armor. Except for on the weekends when you just have to let loose (just kidding, Khaine; no need for murder now). As we gain rank and influence, we’re drawn to silhouettes against the horizon; vast buildings rising from the lands like the clawed fingers of Death itself. Keeps. All in all, these masterfully crafted buildings mark the culmination of each tier of play. They’re important to every player, but only one faction can control them at a time, which makes them a hotbed of open-world RvR. They also include PvE, as players must defeat randomly spawning guard mobs, champion level defenders, and, ultimately, the Keep Lord.
When a guild hits rank 15, they’re able to claim a keep for their own and proudly display their heraldry for all to see. Attaining a keep is no small task, and holding it poses an even greater challenge. At all hours, the opposing faction plots to remove your hold from power, ousting you from your crowning achievement and giving them access to the goodies held inside. It’s in your interest to take a keep and to hold it; however, doing so may be harder than you think.
Numerous pages of the parchment had been read aloud already, but there was still more to be told…
From ranks elf to zwanzig:
Smite (Rank 12)
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45 Action Points | No range |
| 1s cast | 5s cooldown | |
| Builds 45 Righteous Fury | ||
| A sweeping blow which deals 62 damage to all enemies in front of you, up to 40 feet away.
Builds an additional 15 Righteous Fury for each enemy that you strike. |
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Prayer of Absolution (Rank 14)
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No cost | 150 ft range |
| Instant cast | 10s cooldown | |
| Only one Prayer may be active at a time. | ||
| You chant a bolstering prayer, increasing your group’s armor by 330. | ||
Purify (Rank 16)
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No cost | 150 ft range |
| Instant cast | 5s cooldown | |
| Requires 25 Righteous Fury. Target must be Cursed or Hexed | ||
| You purify an ally, removing one Curse or Hex. | ||
Recently, I was contacted by Marz, the webmaster of myWARspace.com, asking if we would be willing to do a review of his website. I thought to myself, why the hell not? Karma is a powerful force, afterall.
myWARspace is a social networking site; think MySpace or Facebook for Warhammer Online. However, it is not run by a company or corporation. It’s a fansite created for gamers, by gamers. Here are some if its advertised features:
The Warrior Priest of Sigmar
“Vale Fairamount at your service.”
The Warrior Priest bowed before his audience. Whilst doing so, he revealed a rolled up parchment. The parchment had seen many seasons, just like its holder.
“Within this parchment are my reports within the past month of our war against The Raven Host. They are not pretty, but they are essential in turning the tide of this struggle,” said Vale as he unrolled
the parchment.
He began to read aloud the reports…
The Warrior Priest career of WAR is a healer. However, the career doesn’t just heal–far from it. It is a melee/healing hybrid, which brings an assortment of buffs to provide and debuffs to apply. It is not a DPS or Tank career, although it can do both, but not like the roles of those careers where this is their primary role, i.e. Ironbreaker (Tank) and Bright Wizard (DPS). The Warrior Priest is the Swiss Army Hammer of the Order careers.
From ranks eins to zehn:
Welcome once more to the Art of War. Here we’ll be dealing with the Empire versus Chaos Tier 2 Scenario, Nordenwatch.
Nordenwatch is an island off the coast that both sides must approach by ship. The sights to see are the dock area for Order, the Lighthouse (flag), the ruined Fortress (flag), the pillaged Barracks (flag) and the beach where those smelly chaps from the other side have landed. The entire island is therefore a rough C-shape with the Fortress occupying the hill in the middle.
As usual, the tactics and comments are written from an Order perspective, but directions are easily inverted, and the comments tend to apply universally.
When you get to the Nordenwatch Scenario, you are presented with two immediate paths. For Order, you can either take the path dead ahead and run to the Lighthouse or the path slightly to its right and make a dash towards the Fortress. Similarly, you can (and most do) just run past the Lighthouse to the Fortress. For Destruction, you have the same options with slightly less hills. The Barracks flag is dead ahead, but at what appears to be a further dash over flat land, and the Fortress is beyond it.
The crossing from the Lighthouse to the Fortress is over a small bridge. Control of the bridge can really ruin the other guys day. Keep it in mind.
Last night, early in the morning, I embarked on a desperate mission. It was risky, untested, and deathly serious. It was a mission of Peace.
A fellow guildmate and I began our mission in the treacherous troll country. We started our journey by staking out the areas where people congregated so we could begin our mission of friendship. Public Quests were the perfect spot.
At first, the reactions were, as to be expected, a little hesitant.
We reached out with arms of brotherly love and friendship. As we all know, love always prevails.
Hammer of War Online is proud to present its Grand Opening Screenshot Contest. Granted, we’re three weeks in now, but we figured we could still get away with holding a grand opening contest. We are taking submissions from the 1st of October 2008 to the 31st of October 2008.
For those of you who are new to Hammer of War Online, we are an up and coming blog slash community devoted to bringing you the latest tips, tricks, and inside scoop on Warhammer Online. We currently have ten very talented bloggers writing for us. Think WoWInsider for WAR. We also accept submissions from anyone interested in contributing to the cause.
That’s where this contest comes into play.
We currently run a column called “View from the Front” where we publish user-submitted screenshots. That means some of your contest entries may be featured on our front page.
Sign up for an account on Hammer of War Online. Post your screenshots to the Screenshots Gallery along with a title and description anytime during the month of October. Easy cheesy. Make sure you rate your favorite screenshots, and ask your guildies to vote for yours, as the rating of your screenshot will play a factor! Tell us your character name and server, and we’ll make sure you get the recognition you deserve if your screenshot gets published on the front page.
Now we get into the meat and potatoes. Johnny, tell ‘em what they can win!
Third Prize: A Warhammer Warrior Priest miniature. Paint it to match your online character, and set it on your desk or on your nightstand to watch over you while you sleep. Note that this includes one unopened Warhammer miniature figurine.
Second Prize: A Prima Player’s Guide and Atlas combo pack. Impress your friends and the opposite sex with your superior knowledge and skills. Learn the ins and outs of every career and area in Warhammer Online.
First Prize: A 60-day game card. That’s 86,400 minutes of possible playtime provided to the winner. As the Kool-Aid Man would say, “OH, YEAAHH!”
For the official rules and legal mumbo jumbo, click here.
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