Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning : warhammer news updates

Warhammer Weekend Update From WarhammerAlliance.com!

DoranM — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:03:52 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted the latest news updates for everything in the WAAGH!!! Not much from Mythic this week as they're on vacation for the fourth, but there's been some chatter around the net about LotD impressions and Tufmudda winning the special mount on his server!

Here's the latest Warhammer News from WarahmmerAlliance.com:

Warhammer Alliance News

Tome Tuesdays: Quoting Shcolar Timothy Ehrlichmann, Aeternis talks about some Land of the Dead bugs. No, not those kinds of bugs! We are talking about Giant Scarabs, Khepra beetles and Tomb Swarms.

Forum Fanatics. vbGuild is a vBulletin plugin for guilds to help organize their forumites. Unmoderated Info gives you the lowdown.

News From The Herald

All's quiet on the home front, with Mythic taking a vacation this week. Play on, my friends! May you be relaxed and refreshed when you return.

Around the 'Net

One Shard. Gotrek and Felix book review, plus some LotD impressions.

Tufmudda. Congrats to Tufmudda, who won one of the special mounts on his server, as well as his coverage of LotD.

CoTCast. Circle of Trust as a guild disbanded, but their podcast has one final tale to tell.

Warhammer Video Spotlight: Tomb of the Vulture Lord

DoranM — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:29:21 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has recently posted a new video spotlight on the Tomb of the Vulture Lord! This is part of the most recent Land of the Dead expansion which brought new PvE content to the world of WAAAGH!!!

Here's a look at the Spotlight On: Tomb of the Vulture Lord:

Werit(WCPI) has posted some fantastic footage of the Tomb of the Vulture Lord, a new RVR/PVE dungeon in the Land of the Dead which features two major boss fights within the a chilling environment full of heiroglyphed walls and skittering bugs.

In addition to minions slain and treasures found, the tomb features phased boss encounters, traps, and an element of suprise - the other faction can enter to wipe your party, so beware!

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Warhammer Online Daily WAAAGH!!! News Update!

DoranM — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:24:04 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted a daily news re-cap for all the important topics related to WAAAGH!!! The most recent hot fix cleaned up a few bugs in Land of the Dead and Gamasutra posted a new interview with Ray Muzyka about the Mythic/BioWare collaberation.

Here are the stories from the Warhammer News Re-cap:

Warhammer Alliance News
The latest happenings from your favorite WAR fansite!

WAR Community Promotion Initiative - Mythic/Bioware Reaction
WCPI #21 focuses in on the reaction to the Mythic/Bioware new grouping, as well as some other reaction throughout the 'Net.

News From The Herald
News from the Herald compiles Herald posts from the day.

Hot Fixes - 6/27/09
Land of the Dead had a few bugs to stomp, as well as some minor RvR and item-related things which were dealt with in this hotfix set.

Around the 'Net
WAR News and Interviews from the intertubes.

Gamasutra Interviews Bioware Co-Founder Ray Muzyka on the Mythic/Bioware Group
The new head of EA's MMO group talks about what the results of the new Mythic-Bioware collaboration will bring to WAR and to SW:TOR.

Warhammer Online Daily WAAAGH!!! News Updates!

DoranM — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:43:43 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted the latest news from Warhammer Online, including topics like Mark Jacobs leaves Mythic, Tomb of the Vulture Lord Goes Live, and a "Merger" Clarification about the recent BioWare/Mythic moves. Look to WarhammerAlliance.com for the latest news and information for Warhammer and be sure to vote in the latest Warhammer Poll!

Here's a look at the latest Warhammer Online News:

Warhammer Alliance News

Mark Jacobs Leaves Mythic. In a Herald post today, Mythic announced that GM Mark Jacobs left the company on June 23. Stepping in as GM will be Rob Denton, formerly Chief Operating Officer of Mythic. This caused quite a stir on the forums. Read on to see what the community thinks, and add your two cents!

News From The Herald

Tomb of the Vulture Lord Goes Live! All North American and Oceanic servers were taken offline at 9:00 AM EDT. 55 minutes later, all servers were back online, with access to the Land of the Dead up for grabs and the Tome of the Vulture Lord live.

Realm Resource Handicap Live. Today marks the first example of the Realm Resource Handicap system. Realms previously locked out from LotD will gather resources at an accelerated rate.

Daily Devs

"Merger" Clarification. Andy Belford clarifies:

"Mythic is not "merging" with Bioware.

Mythic and Bioware remain independent EA studios within a larger MMO/RPG group.

Thanks!"

Tweet, Tweet!

Josh Drescher's response. "One word response: BioWAAAGH!!!"

Warhammer Alliance Daily WAAAGH!!! News Updates!

DoranM — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:10:46 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has released a WAAAGH!!! news update for the latest and greatest topics related to Warhammer Online!
Hot topics this week include the latest Community Poll, the PTS Event & Exclusive In-game Item now available, and the Blog Challenge FAQ which is a massive undertaking by Mythic to send out special codes to several fansites in order to get the community working together to solve the riddle and earn an in-game prize!

Here's the official Warhammer Alliance News Update:

Warhammer Alliance News
The latest happenings from your favorite WAR fansite!

Hotplate: Last night our very own PhoenixRed pondered developer silence. He posits that Mythic’s silence regarding exploits of the game is breaking trust. Do you trust your results in oRVR? Be sure to check it out and add your views to this important subject.

Bloggers Got Mail: Tome of Knowledge is the first to report having received a goodie package from Mythic. Pay attention to this post, folks. Do a bit of detective work and you could win a fabulous in game item. Be sure to check ToK for all the photos, including the diary entry (which will help unlock clues for navigating the LotD). Many thanks to Tome of Knowledge for sharing the goods!

Community Poll: What are you most looking forward to about Land of the Dead? Let us know in the Community Poll.

Tome Unlock Tuesdays: Who said anything about HNT? Here are some great Tome unlocks you can get for doing things in your WAR skivvies!

News From The Herald
News from the Herald compiles Herald posts from the day.

Rise of the Tomb King’s Blog Challenge: As mentioned above, Mythic is giving away exclusive in-game items through an online puzzle. Over the next three weeks, various blogs will receive different decoder fragments. Put together, these fragments will form a “Rosetta Stone” of sorts, allowing you to translate the hieroglyphs of five (5) Tomb King Cartouches. Translate a Cartouche and you’ll have a code to unlock a unique Scarab Amulet reward. You’ll have to be quick, though, as each Cartouche only has 1,000 Scarab Amulets. That means a total of 5,000 Amulets in all. This contest is for North America. EU players have their own contest, and details will soon follow on www.war-europe.com. Unfortunately, this program isn’t available to our Russian WARmates.

May 2009 Newsletter Correction: As many of you probably noted, the May Newsletter arrived full of cheery news about the upcoming 1.3 patch. Thing is, the newsletter was drafted before Mythic decided to postpone “most of the Combat and Career changes in Patch 1.3.” Yes, they did say “most,” not “all.” More on that later.

PTS Event & Exclusive In-game Item: The Tomb of the Vulture Lord is now open in Phase III of PTS! The WAR begins Tuesday the 9th and Wednesday the 10th at 7 PM. Testing will be open all week, but anyone who logs on and participates the next two nights between 7 PM EDT and 12:00 AM EDT will be awarded the Shroud of Imrathepis. What is the Shroud of Imrathepis? Why, it consists of:

"Linens taken from the burial shroud of Prince Imrathepis. Those who wrap the burial shroud about their body are protected from harm regenerating minor wounds and injuries.”

Daily Devs
Daily Devs compiles all the important Dev Tracker posts from the day.

What Changes: Andy Belford let us know that crafting changes are still in place for Patch 1.3. He also teased that “We should have some updated patch notes later today for everyone to peruse.” As of this posting, those notes have not been posted, but do keep your eyes peeled!

Blog Challenge FAQ: James has posted a helpful FAQ for the blog challenge. The Scrab Amulet doesn’t have any stats. It is just for funsies. They won’t tell us which blogs get hieroglyphic clues.