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WarhammerAlliance.com Posts the "Mythic Madness" Bracket! Come Play!

DoranM — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:43:08 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has got their own brand of "March Mythic Madness" with their very own brackets of Mythic Developers. They have seeded 16 of the top Mythic Devs and are counting on members of the WAAAGH! Community to help determine the winners! Here's what the bracket looks like:

Here's the official "March Mythic Madness" post from WarhammerAlliance.com:

For those who don't know, the NCAA College Basketball tournament in March in the US has always been marked by Cinderella stories, exciting brackets and matchups, and the best of the schools all around the country. They don't call it "March Madness" for nothing.

In honor of this event, we're holding a Mini-March Madness Tournament, only instead of favorite teams, you're going to be voting on your favorite Mythic Developers! We've seeded 16 of Mythic's finest according to the great Google and our own forum results, and we want you to decide who wins in the tournament! We are going to be running Daily Polls from Today until April 2nd, where we will have our final head-to-head matchup to determine the Mythic Mini-March Madness Champion for 2009!

The polls work with majority of votes determining the winner, who will survive another day to match up against someone else.

If you want to see the full bracket matchups, look no further than this URL:
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/for...pictureid=8281

We'll be starting our first poll momentarily, so be sure to participate!

WarhammerAlliance.com March 18th Updates From the WAAGH Front!

DoranM — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:20:27 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted the daily news from March 18th! The post includes several updates from the Herald, recent Developer Posts, and Warhammer related news from around the net!

Here's the Warhammer Alliance official post:

News from the Herald
'News from the Herald' delivers the latests news from the official Warhammer Online Herald

Suffer Not the Heretic to Live: The Heresy of War
The tale begins with insight on heresy: war, corruption, and sin. Just after, it flashes to a man we learn is Ulrecht, a possible heretic. We find him chained up in a cell, momentarily conscious, and then struck unconscious once again. Through means of torture, the Witch Hunter Van Holsecht attempts at a forced Confession, and if Ulrecht denies his doom is surely upon him.

[EU] Beta Forums Official Release
They are pleased to announced that the Beta version of GOA's official forums are now live! As it is, only people with accounts are able to post but anyone can view. Head on over to the forums and check them out!

European Community IRC Dev Chat - 3/19/09

Mythic announced today what GOA did a few days ago, an IRC dev chat will be hosted tomorrow. They neglected to say the time, however, which is at 19.00 CET. That's 18:00 GMT, 11 AM PDT, 3 PM EDT.
Server: quake.net
Room: #wardevchateu

No guarantees on the Daylight Savings Time conversions. I hate DST...

Sounds of WAR

James apologizes for the delay, but it's here. The Sounds of WAR, music inspired by Warhammer. Kiss My Axe (While I Drink My Beer)!

Straight from the Source
'Straight from the Source' reposts all up-to-date, helpful Developer Posts

Darkland Servers Connection Issues Being Fixed
Andy at Mythic wishes to let everyone know that the server connection issues that are present with the Darkland servers are being actively worked on currently, and thanks everyone for their patience.

Casting Lag Fix in the Works

IstTirVex from the IGN posted a work around for the global cast lag and explains in detail what the problem is. In response, if you check out the source post from the Official Forums, looks like something official may be in the works,

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" We have some updates that have just entered our internal testing process and play test evaluation. These changes will be rolling up to the Public Test server as a part of our 1.2.1 version update. "

Mark commented as well, though with some differing information. You can check out the full topic from the above links.

Around the Net
'Around the Net' captures all of the latest news and interviews floating around the Warhammer community

Interview with Mark Davis featuring Live Events
'WAAAGH!' managed to snag an interview with Mark Davis, a manager of the Live Events team, which analyzes a few of the past Live Events such as 'Witching Night' and 'Keg's End', some of the possible future Live Events, and the 'Bitter Rivals' live event all while managing to twist humor and facts together for a fantastic read.

Paul Barnett: What are they up to today?
Another video brought to you by Paul, with special guest Mike from Korea! Throughout the majority of the video, Mike and Paul press hints that a large portion of 'stuff' is coming our way. From floating spheres with lines, checkered patterns, strange-titled documents, and sounds! Any clue as to what it may be? Go ahead and post your ideas!

WarhammerAlliance.com March 17th Updates From the WAAGH Front!

DoranM — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:37:14 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted a recent update regarding the latest news from The Herald and some recent Developer Post comments! Developer post comments today focus on the dying of armor and some of the improvements that will be made to them over the next few months, and some of the recent trouble with Guild Vaults.

Here's the Warhammer News Update:

News from the Herald
news from the European and US Warhammer Online Heralds

Server Update 3/17/09 - All Servers

All North American and Oceanic servers were back online at 12:45 PM EDT; opening up the Choppas and Slayers to everyone.

[EU] Herald: Official Forums opening and dev chat with Mytchic

GOA is opening the European official forums tomorrow. It will be in the beta phase as is the US official forums. Also, there will be a European IRC chat with some Mythic Developers this Thursday, March 19th. More info on this in the upcoming days so stay tuned!
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New Russian Server Launched!

Shallya, a new core server is open for business in Russia.

Sing a Song of Slayers!

The development team at Mythic had a visit from Eric Bloom (well-known gamer and Level 40 Sorc on Ironfist server!) and Richie Castellano – WAR fanatics and members of the legendary rock band Blue Öyster Cult

Straight From the Source
Posts and comments around the net from Mythic's dev team

Nate LaMartina, the Character Art Lead tells us in response to a concern with the dying of certain armor pieces that an improvements will be rolling out over the next few patches.

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Andy Belford, Community Coordinator addressed the bugs some people are experiencing with Guild Vaults. The issues are being worked on but no time frame on when they will be fixed yet.

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today's Spotlight on the way shortly

WarhammerAlliance.com March 16th Updates From the WAAGH Front!

DoranM — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:04:28 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted their weekly round-up with all of the updates and information you need from the past week in updates! The biggest update is that Slayer and Choppa become available to everyone next week!

Here's the Warhammer Weekly Round-Up:

This week saw the introduction of the Slayer and Choppa classes and Tier 1 once again was the place to be. Next week the classes open up to everyone so Tier 1 should still be going strong.
Mythic was also forthcoming with a couple of interviews giving insight on what to expect with WAR in the future. There were some hints as to the next major patch as well with thumb drives arriving to few select with some interesting artwork. All and all it was a good news week for WAR.

3/9

Recruit-a-Friend Improvements were implemented where existing players each receive 6 tokens that can be used to recruit friends to a 10 day free trial of WAR. Rewards for getting the new recruits to sign up include exclusive in game items as well as free play time credit.

Source Server Transfers - Round 2 was announced further explaining the server consolidation plans.

Syp scored an Exclusive Interview with Carrie Gouskos, the Production Lead for the Tome, UI, and Forum Development at Mythic. His blog WAAAGH! gave us her thoughts on 1.2, the official forums, and UI development.

3/10

A package arrived at Lagwar containing a thumb drive containing an image “WAR Exclusive Image 1”. Rainbow MMO got a similar package.

Warhammer Alliance Podcast 6: A Healthy WAR Breakfast was published which highlighted 1.2 and the Bitter Rivals event among other topics.

GOA announced it’s [EU] Final Source Server Transfers, with the closing of old source servers and consolidating them to existing destination ones.

Server Maintenance - 03/10/2009 included the server consolidation and new careers for those who unlocked the head start. The downtime was scheduled for up to 14 hours.

Anglakhel brought us today's Spotlight on: Guides - Irinia's Guide to Modern Apothecary. Check out a fantastic community resource for all those Apothecaries out there. Learn how to get the most out of your Potions and Dyes.

3/11

Mark Jacobs: State of the Game was released. Much revealed, but mush left out as well. A few interesting points made on RvR improvements in the works.

Syp at the blog WAAAGH! recently had in interview with Josh Drescher . Looks like lots of good things on the horizon.

WAR Community Promotion Initiative #8 highlight various player’s blogs insights on the game.

GOA beats Mythic with a Chaos God Guide detailing the various gods of chaos. Give blood to the blood god and enjoy the exquisite pain.

GOA released Two New Videos on the latest additions to the game.

3/12

A massive reenlistment effort began to get people back to the WAAAGH! Full details on the Call to Arms: Re-enlistment Program can be found here.

Mythic released it’s Chaos Feature to know the gods of Chaos. Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch are amongst those detailed.

With such a big patch and server consolidations as well, Mythic had some Patcher Authentication Issues.

Jon Wood of MMORPG.com interviewed Jeff Hickman . An interesting feature being added that was discussed is the "Rally Call".

The Spotlight on Fan Art by Ariwyn Spotlighted Monsters with some awesome pencil drawing of a Choppa, and the Photoshopped version afterwards. All of you Choppa lovers, and Choppa haters, make sure you check it out!

3/13

WARDB.com began testing a new feature on the Warhammer Alliance forums. Many to come, but the first one involves a character avatar that will be visible on a poster’s comments. Good stuff.

If you're one of the people who were force-moved to another server with the recent closings, and are having problems switching to another server with your free Server Transfer, James mentions that it should be fixed with today's Account Center maintenace.

Ariwyn once again brings you the Friday Folly, this time highlighting some images from Josh Drescher's Tumblr in honor of his puke-your-guts-out trip in Korea.

A Re-Enlistment Reminder from Mythic, if you re-enlist your eligible for a 10 day free day look. Now that that the bugs have been worked out the free character transfer service, now’s a good time to come back and see what’s been happening with WAR.

3/15

WAR Community Promotion Initiative #9 - 03/15/09 brings you more insights from the WAR community blogs.

Frank “Phoenix Red” Sanchez gives us a different perspective. The WAH, 3/15/09 - The Hate of the Game's Address gives some opinions as to what the State of the Game address is missing.

Was the more news? Probably, and there will be a lot more coming down the pike as 1.2 has been up and running for a week now and the new and returning players log in to play the new classes and their feedback comes.

Warhammer Online WAAAGH! News Update from WarhammerAlliance.com

DoranM — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:50:06 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted a daily news update for everything WAAGH! Recent news includes Part 2 of Trade Skills Features, a few Hot Fixes, an official Re-Enlistment Reminder, and some interesting stuff from the Around the Net section!

Here's the official WAAAGH! Daily News Update:

News from the Herald
'News from the Herald' is designed to bring you the latest updates from the official Warhammer Online Herald

Trade Skills Feature: Part 2
The second write-up, following the 'Trade Skills Feature: Part 1', Gary Astleford and Phillip Chan once again bring it back to briefly tell about Scavenging, Talisman Making, and Salvaging. A definite worth-reading piece for those new to them!

Oceanic Server Maintenece
All Oceanic servers were brought down at 4:45 PM EDT for an Immediate Server Maintenance, and will be brought back up at approximately 8:00 PM EDT. Also at this time, the Account Center is undergoing a maintenance at 6:00 PM EDT which shouldn't last more than one hour.

Hot Fixes
Another set of Hot Fixes for this weekend, fixing a few items and the rate at which Guild experience is earned*.
(* This is a temporary fix, and will be resolved in the near future.)

Re-Enlistment Reminder

A reminder from Mythic, if you re-enlist your eligible for a 10 day free day look. Now that that the bugs have been worked out the free character transfer service, now’s a good time to come back and see what’s been happening with WAR.

Around the Net
'Around the Net' delivers the Interviews and News from various forums, blogs, and places in the Warhammer community

Warhammer Online: Going down?
This Editorial, brought to you by ZAM, analyzes a quote from Mark Jacobs back in August 2008:

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The corollary to that is if you've seen a game consolidate servers, you know it's in deep, deep trouble - that's not a healthy sign for an MMO," he said, citing Sony's January-released "Pirates of the Burning Sea" as a recent example. "It will be the same for 'Warhammer.' Look at us six months out. Look at us six weeks out. If we're not adding servers, we're not doing well."

Does this predict Warhammer Online's future, with their recent closing of 63 server due to lack of population, the past layoff rumors, and the heavy decline in players since release?

Straight from the Source
'Straight from the Source' reposts official Developer Posts that could be helpful

If you're one of the people who were force-moved to another server with the recent closings, and are having problems switching to another server with your free Server Transfer, James mentions that it should be fixed with today's Account Center maintenace.

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Friday Folly: Because We Just Can't Pimp Josh Enough

Ariwyn once again brings you the Friday Folly, this time highlighting some images from Josh Drescher's Tumblr in honor of his puke-your-guts-out trip in Korea.

WarhammerAlliance.com March 12th Updates From the WAAGH Front!

DoranM — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:20:23 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted an update from the Herald. Updates include a massive effort by Warhammer Online to get players back to the game, informative posts and insights from Mythic/EA Devs, rumors about what might be up and coming, and a spotlight on recently updated fan art! To comment on these and all updates visit the WarhammerAlliance.com for the best coverage of Warhammer Online!

Here's the official update from Warhammer Alliance:

News from the Herald
News from the official Warhammer Online site Herald

Call to Arms: Re-enlistment A massive reenlistment effort is under way to get people back to the WAAAGH! Full details on the Call to Arms: Re-enlistment Program can be found here.

Select Server Downtime - 3/12/2009 Select servers were brought down again for a third day in a row to complete the server mergers. All servers have since been brought back online.

Chaos Feature Get to know the gods of Chaos. Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, Tzeentch are amongst those detailed.

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"Only fools believe themselves able to understand Chaos, for it is neither human nor understandable. The mortal scholars and mystics that dare debate about its nature only succeed in drawing the attention of the vile creatures upon them; they call down terrors and doom upon themselves and those they love. Many wise men were carried, alive and screaming, into the morgues of the Inevitable City, where they could eternally “debate” with demons of torture. Some scholars claim that Chaos, in its multifariousness, has spawned an endless number of gods. Others say all those seemingly different deities are nothing but aspects and manifestations of a single supernatural being: the nameless horror, the abomination, the unspeakable beast, the Undivided Chaos. But its true nature exceeds each and every imagination. No mortal can ever hope to understand such madness and he who values his very soul should strive to remain ignorant about the gods of Chaos; their fights, their rivalries, their endless wars."
- Unknown author

Read More on the Herald

Straight from the Source
Informative posts and insights from the Mythic/EA devs

Grab Bag Questions Needed! has once again been posted by Jess. This one is slated to be wide open, no holds barred, anything about WAR Grab Bag; well, anything that's been announced or currently in the game now that is.

On the Horizon
Rumors about what might be up and coming

Mythic Producer Destin Bales on the Dev Tracker made an interesting comment about possible up coming features to aid in searching for and finding a guild.

The question was asked:

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This is probably something everyone already knows, but I have been playing WAR for about a month and I have leveled a bunch of different characters to level 10 and found that I like my WH, which is now level 20. I want to find a guild I can join with to work together as a group, but I have no idea how to do that.
Can you tell me the obvious solution I must be missing?

Destin replied:

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We have some excellent in-game features in the development pipeline regarding this question!

Don't know what, but what I've seen in other games it may include website functions, in game search, top 100s, etc. This is all idle speculation and only time will tell.
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Around the Net

MMORPG.com interviewed Jeff Hickman recently. An interesting feature being added that was discussed is the "Rally Call". All in all, a good read.That's it for now. Check back for any updates as we get them.

Spotlight on: Fan Art!

Ariwyn Spotlighted ll Monsters ll awesome pencil drawing of a Choppa, and the photoshopped version afterwards. All of you Choppa lovers, and Choppa haters, make sure you check it out!

WarhammerAlliance.com - News from the Herald and PTS Forum Update

DoranM — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:42:00 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted an update on recent Warhammer Online news from the Herald! A quick rundown shows that Mythic is bringing back the Grab Bag, keeping Character transfers open, and some special new rewards! They're also working on getting the PTS forums up and running and should have them up soon.

Checkout the original post:

Grab Bag No. 11 - Bitter Rivals
Mythic once again brings you the Grab Bag, answering your burning questions about the upcoming content.

Free Character Transfers Open
Earlier today Mythic re-opened the Character Transfers for some of the low-population servers. Initial post can be found here.

Breaking News: Hard Work Does Pay Off
Are you active on the Warhammer Online forums? Do you play your Choppa or Slayer with a passion? Not only are you entitled with the fun of testing the new content and forums, but you also might be getting some more rewards. Head over to the above link to see what you can reap!

European Public Test Server: Live
Magnus_GOA announced that the European Test Server finally went live, so following the above link will bring you to his post and a link to allow you to read further about the test server!

Here's the update about the current status of the PTS Forum:

From the Customer Service category we have: PTS Forum Status

Hi everyone,

Some players may be unable to login to the forums currently. We're investigating the cause for these authentication issues and have no ETA at this time.

We will have the forums up as soon as possible as we are eager to hear your continued feedback on 1.2 and the new careers.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation while we correct this issue. For now enjoy the new careers on PTS or have fun RvRing as the weekend picks up!

Obviously concerning the recent announcement about the in-game items we're giving away this downtime won't hurt your chances of winning if you participate throughout the weekend and next week.

Thank you!

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