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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, usually abbreviated as WAR, is an MMO set in the world of Warhammer, the second of its kind.An earlier Warhammer MMO made by Climax was in development around 2003, but that first version fell through spectatcularly when it tanked at the E3 and Games Workshop pulled its funding.

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Introduction

War is everywhere in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR), the new MMORPG from the creators of Dark Age of Camelot. Based on Games Workshop's popular Warhammer fantasy war game, WAR features next generation Realm vs. Realm (RvR) game play that will immerse players in a world of perpetual conflict. Upon entering WAR, players must determine their allegiance and join an Army. Those inclined towards the side of good may fight for the Armies of Order as an obstinate Dwarf, noble High Elf, or loyal human soldier of the Empire. Those inclined towards darker deeds may side with the sinister Armies of Destruction as a savage Greenskin (Orc or Goblin), corrupt Dark Elf, or marauding human worshipper of Chaos.

RvR combat takes place on three fronts where ancient foes wage an unending war - Dwarfs vs. Greenskins, High Elf vs. Dark Elf, and Empire vs. Chaos. Players begin the game fighting their ancestral enemy, but are free to journey to other fronts to help their allies in their ongoing struggles. The ultimate goal in RvR combat is the sacking of an enemy's capital city. To do this, an army must invade and take control of the opposition's homeland. Deciding battles take place on objective-based battlefields and in instanced scenarios - point-balanced battles that make use of NPC mercenaries known as Dogs of War. For the first time, WAR's RvR system integrates both Player vs. Player (PvP) combat and Player vs. Environment (PvE) quests on the same map. Every aspect of the game, including PvE missions, is geared towards the greater war in some important way. However, players are not required to participate in PvP combat, and may aid in the RvR war effort and enjoy the game in its entirety via PvE content.

Drawing from a quarter century of highly detailed source material, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle.

Key Features

- Based on Games Workshop's popular Warhammer fantasy world. Dominated by force of arms and magic, this world provides a rich setting for hundreds of thousands of players to experience the epic nature of war and the glory of battle.

- Join one of six Armies and fight for the Armies of Order (Dwarf, High Elf and Empire) or the Armies of Destruction (Greenskin, Dark Elf, or Chaos). Wage war across three unique battlefronts.

- Next generation Realm vs. Realm game system integrating both PvP combat and PvE quests on the same map in support of the greater war.

Engage in four levels of RvR combat:

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- Battlefields: Objective-based battles in the game world

- Scenarios: Instanced, point-based battles balanced with NPC Dogs of War

- Campaigns: The invasion of enemy lands culminating in the assault on their capital city

Undertake a wide variety of PvE quest types related to an army's war efforts, including:

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- Public quests that benefit from the participation of the entire army

- Conflict quests that pit players against an enemy with opposing goals

- Branching quests that let you choose the outcome of the quest and your reward

- Xmas quests that reward exploration with high value loot

Additional Features:

- A robust combat system introduces Player Tactics (earned powers you equip prior to battle) and Morale Skills (combat options that increase in power when the momentum of battle is in your favor).

- Player models that change to reflect the relative power of a character (i.e., Orcs grow in size and Dwarfs' beards get longer). Customizable armor and a visual guild system allow a player to make their character truly unique.

- Embark on an epic quest to complete the Tome of Knowledge and unlock Warhammer lore, detailed monster information, and major story plotlines.

System Requirements

Minimum

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OS: Windows Vista/XP
Processor: 2.5 GHz P4 (single core) processor or equivalent
RAM: 1GB RAM
Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM - NVIDIA GeForce 5800 or ATI 9800
Hard drive space: At least 15 GB of hard drive space

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Patch Notes 04/02/2021
Highlights
Weekend Warfront: Factory of War
The Reikland Factory is one of the most important manufacturers of arms and ammunition for the armies of the empire. Without it they will be forced to fight with sword and shield alone!
Take the Warehouse and the Machine Shop for your realm! Carve a bloody swath of destruction through your enemies and emerge victorious from the Steamtank Plant!
This weekend Factory of War will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Reikland Factory scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.
Realm versus Realm
General
- Supply boxes now spawn with more spread around the flag.
Combat and Careers
General Changes and Fixes
- You can no longer spot enemies in stealth after you have died.
Contents
Public Quests
- Fixed and issue with some objects not being interactable or attackable at some PQs.
Dungeons
- Pounce and pull abilities will once again work as they should in dungeon zones.
User Interface
Settings
- A new tab has been added to the Settings window called 'Server'.
- You can now toggle whether or not you see enemy appearance armour in the Settings -> Server. (default on)
Note: This setting will be taken into account for new players who come into visibility and not existing players on your screen.
- The .vfxdisable command has been moved into the Settings -> Server options. (default off)
Thu Feb 04, 2021 10:33 am View the latest post
Patch Notes 29/01/2021
Highlights
Weekend Warfront: Stonetroll Slaughter
Small contingents of Order and Destruction forces converge upon the main north-south route through Troll Country in an effort to secure the strategic trade route for their respective sides … without attracting the attention of wandering trolls.
The Stonetroll Crossing scenario is open again for characters of all levels! Take control of the Troll Pacifier for your realm! Charge forth, and remember: the only good troll is a dead troll.
This weekend Stonetroll Slaughter will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Stronetroll Crossing scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.
Realm versus Realm
General
- You can no longer be attacked by other players while inside a warcamp or chapter camp. Dots applied outside of a warcamp or chapter camp will continue ticking while inside the warcamp or chapter camp.
- The door in the throne room when Altdorf is attacked can no longer be opened and lead you under the map (in the water..)
Fortresses
- Fixed issue causing fortress flyers to not be interactable after last weeks patch.
Combat & Career
Bug Fixes
- Cave-In: This ability will now function as intended: Knocks down your target for 3 seconds and dots them for 5 seconds based on your grudge meter.
- Shield Sweep: This ability will now correctly return 10 grudges per enemy hit.
Balance Changes
- Treacherous Assault: The 30ft pounce component has been removed from this ability.
-NEW: Shadow Leap: A 30 ft pounce 'opener' core ability that additionally snares your target on landing.
Bug Fixes
- Magnetic Repair: This passive buff was broken, and is now functioning correctly. Yes, we do see the major irony in this bugfix.
Bug Fixes
- Wind of Insanity: This ability will no longer drain AP twice when channeled.
Bug Fixes
- Heaven's Fury: Tooltip updated to match the actual duration.
- On Your Guard: This ability will now deal physical damage instead of elemental damage.
Bug Fixes
- Quake: Tooltip updated to match the actual duration.
Bug Fixes
- Blindside: Fixed an issue from Patch 1.4.8, which broke the visual requirement on this ability. The issue prevented the ability from 'greying out' / 'lighting up' despite being in the correct position.
- Thin the Herd: Fixed an issue from Patch 1.4.8, which broke the visual requirement on this ability. The issue prevented the ability from 'greying out' / 'lighting up' despite being in the correct position.
- War Lion: Fixed an issue with the pet summoning ability, where your pet was removed and the War Lion ability would show a cooldown, but your War Lion pet was still spawned. This only affected White Lion pets.
Balance Changes
- Coordinated Strike: This ability has had its Primary Stat Multiplier increased back to 1.4.8 value.
- Blindside: This ability's Primary Stat Multiplier has been reduced back to its 1.4.8 values , and the base damage is increased instead. This allows the ability to scale better with mastery points and interact better with toughness, as other DoTs do.
- Shattering Blow: This ability's Primary Stat Multiplier has been reduced back to its 1.4.8 values , and the base damage is increased instead. This allows the ability to scale better with mastery points and interact better with toughness, as other DoTs do.
- Pounce: Ability moved to Core abilities from Path of the Guardian.
- Throat Bite: This ability is now available at 5 points invested in Path of the Guardian.
NOTE: Some of these may show the wrong mastery path, or incorrect tooltips until another client hotfix.
Bug Fixes
- Razor Strike: This ability will once again use the correct animation.
Animations
- Flurry: Animation has been swapped with a more suitable one.
- Fierceness: Animation has been swapped with a more suitable one.
- Inevitable Doom: Animation has been swapped with a more suitable one.
Balance Changes
- Big Bouncin': Removed the screen shake component from the VFX, this might have caused serious lag.
- Not So Fast: The knockdown effect duration has been lowered to 2 seconds.
- Squig Leap: Ability moved to Core Abilities (was: Path of Big Bouncin').
- Bounce: This ability is now available at 5 points invested in Path of Big Bouncin'.
- Shootin' Wif Da Wind: The critical damage increase is reduced from +50% to +35%.
Content
Pathfinding
- Pathfinding has been enabled in all Dungeons, Open Realm vs Realm, Scenario and City Zones. Note: Temporarily disabled due to issues.
Dungeons
The Mount Gunbad Goblin population has decreased a bit, making the experience faster to complete. Additionally, the NPCs will roam the instance, and no longer stay still.
Public Quests
- Fixed issue with mobs not respawning after PQ is fully completed.
- Many High Elf & Dark Elf PQs have their original voice lines added.
Quests
- Dwarf kill collectors once again are willing to pay for what you kill.
- Greenskin kill collectors once again are willing to pay for what you kill.
- T3 RvR scout quests have been reworked.
Greenskin Chapter 12
- Human Irritations: This quest line has been reworked and is now available until the end
- Wot's Inside o' Dis?: This quest is now available from the Stunty Skeleton in Black Fire Pass
User Interface
Quests
- Time limited quests now show the time limit in the UI before accepting them.
- The quest accept dialogue should now show Repeatable Quests as it did on Mythic. (blue icons instead of green)
Group
- Pet information will now be shown on the group UI, allowing you to see health and click to select (and be available to third party addons).
Art
- Bottomless Stein Trophy will now display the correct appearance for all careers.
Bug Fixes
- Consumable items with a cast time, such as teleportation scrolls, are not consumed anymore if you abort the cast before the cast completes.
[18386] On Your Guard aura reflect dmg
[18383] Agymah's Lair Issues: Flagging For RVR, Stage 2 not showing up correctly, MOBs not respawning
[18381] Reikland PQ ' The enemy within ' not working properly.
[18377] Is IB's Shield Sweep not giving additional grudge
[18374] Chosen: Bottomless Stein Trophy Not Displaying After Given Correct Appearance
[18367] Razor Strike Incorrect Animation
[18363] Bottomless Stein not showing when equipped
[18359] Engineer-ability-Hip Shot
[18340] WL Ability Blindside
[18288] 1 Accusation Absolution doing uncharacteristically low damage
[17898] [IB] Cave-In DoT duration doesn't match TT.
[14215] [Quest] Two Heads are Better Than One (Black Fire Pass, destro) Quest marker switched
Fri Jan 29, 2021 5:05 pm View the latest post
Patch Notes 20/01/2021
Survey Results
- Appearance change survey
- Ram visibility change survey
Highlights
Weekend Warfront: Days of Doom
The ancient site known as Doomfist Crater is one steeped in myth and lore. Now Order and Destruction forces converge upon the broken landscape, determined to deny their enemies access to whatever treasures may lay buried beneath the surface.
This weekend Days of Doom will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Doomfist Crater scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.
Completing all tasks gives the title: The Doomed
Realm versus Realm
Fortress
- Fortress trainers wear Invader gear now.
Combat and Careers
General Changes and Fixes
- Healing from life tap proc effects will now count on the player triggering the proc instead of the caster of the buff. This makes it consistent with how damage and healing procs work.
- Pets, Turrets & Daemons are now spawned in closest valid position from the spot you tried to summon in. This means that if you stand on the edge of a wall and summon a pet, they will summon on the wall next to you, rather than looking like they are on the ground below the wall.
Contents
General
- Several pathing issues identified in last patch have been fixed.
- Server improvements to how NPCs in PQs, Forts & Dungeons are handled. Not much visible change right now, but these NPCs now support many new features that we will make use of in the future.
Quests
Greenskin Chapter 12
- Fatal Eviction: You will now have to collect the Stunty Bashas from the Hammerstriker Railguards at the Grimbeard Station
- Two Heads are Better Than One: This quest line has been reworked
Items
- Satchels and Boxes containing dominator gear renamed in accordance with whats inside.
Bug Fixes
[14215] The quest markers have been corrected
Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:24 pm View the latest post
[SURVEY] Appearance change
In-game Survey is live
Following the recent update which made the appearance gear only be shown to members of the same realm, we've taken extra actions to understand different perspectives.
Once in the city, you will receive a survey.
Please fill that survey so we could deeply dig into the statistics and perspectives, in order to address your discontent in a proper way.
Survey translations
- Russian translation
- German translation
- French translation
- Spanish translation
- Italian translation
Survey results
The results will be shared with all of you and in details. We understood how much this means to you and for that, we'd like to be transparent regarding the given feedback.
Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:04 pm View the latest post
Patch Notes 15/01/2021
Highlights
Weekend Warfront: Unforgiving Seas
During one of the recent battles upon the Inner Sea, one of our vessels foundered upon the rocky shoals of the Isle of the Dead. What is worse is that our enemies have done the same. Now both sides scrabble for parts from the many other wrecks so that they may escape the island before their souls are lost. We must ensure that our allies escape that dreaded place.
Two ships have run aground while moving through the storm-wracked seas of Serpent' Passage. One of these vessels belongs to the High Elves, while the other is of Dark Elf origin. Both ships carry valuable supplies that we must claim if we are to gain an edge in this war. At the same time, we must deny these resources to our enemies.
This weekend Unforgiving Seas will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Serpent's Passage scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.
Realm versus Realm
City Siege
- Warlord locations will now be shown on map during stage 2.
- Fixed an issue causing pet to not recieve champion size when you're chosen as King Champion. Note they only increase size for better view and only receive wound buff but no any other champion's buff.
Open World Campaign
- Siege ram locations are now shown on the map for all players in the same zone/region. The intention is to increase fighting in the zone and the danger in bringing the ram to the enemy keep. If it doesn't work out as intended it might get reverted.
Fortress
- If you die in an inactive fort you will respawn in the previous zone. 'No need to respawn in an inactive fort.'
- Fort Siege Camps only spawn if the fort is active. 'The attackers haven't pushed that far yet, so why do you need a safe spot there?'
Combat and Careers
General Changes and Fixes
- All mastery path abilities and tactic will use the proper Minimum Rank. Some abilities never been updated after swap / rework .
Bug Fixes
- Sneaky Git : This tactic will now also work if you slot it while already in Squig Armor.
- Squig Armor : Fixed an issue preventing Squig armor stat buff to stack with Liniment or Potion.
- Indigestion : Fixed a typo in the tooltip.
- Summon Squig : This ability won’t trigger an error message with He’s a Biggun’
Bug Fixes
- Empowered Alteration : This tactic will correctly Tick 4 times.
Bug Fixes
- Fury of da green : The tooltip will display the correct Heal value.
Bug Fixes
- Assault Stance : Fixed an issue preventing Assault stance stat buff to stack with liniments or Potions.
- Swift Strikes : Fixed an issue with the animation.
Bug Fixes
- Energy of Vaul : The tooltip will display the correct Heal value.
Bug Fixes
- Shatter Limb : The buffline will display the correct CD time increase.
Bug Fixes
- Turrets : Fixed an issue causing them to stop working if you ressummoned the same turret.
- Electromagnet : This ability effect will correctly trigger after one second delay instead of 2.
Bug Fixes
- Cleansing power : This tactic will correctly cleanse yourself too.
Bug Fixes
- Daemons : Fixed an issue causing them to stop working if you ressummoned the same minion.
- Chaotic Rift : This ability effect will correctly trigger after one second delay instead of 2.
Contents
General
- Cross realm /say and /shout is now enabled when not flagged for PvP. This was added on request from the role playing guilds.
- You can now click the 'You were added by X as a friend' messages to add them as a friend.
- New items will now be filtered into the correct bag via the 'Item Preferences' on the right of each bag section.
- Appearance gear will now only be shown to members of the same realm: A tradeoff to properly reorganise how data and packets are sent, to reflect how it was on Mythic (adjusts performance).
Pathfinding
As some of you may remember we did some pathfinding tests last year. We are re-enabling them on a zone by zone basis. This means that pets and npcs should no longer walk through walls or walk up walls.
Here are the zones where pathfinding is currently enabled.
Zone:
- Barony of Nordland
- Norsca
Scenarios:
- Gates of Ekrund
- College of Corruption
- Reikland Factory
Dungeons:
- Mount Gunbad
- The Sewers of Altdorf
- Sacellum Dungeons
- Bastion Stair
- Temple Crypts
- Skaven Tunnels
- Bloodwrought Enclave
- Bilerot Burrow
- Bastion Stair
This list will change during the week.
Quests
Greenskin Chapter 12
- Smash 'Em Wolves: Longfang and Scarred Snowclaw wolves will now also count toward the quest
- Gobbos in da Trees: This quest can now be completed by all classes
- Moonfang Teef: You will now have to collect the teeth of the Moonfang Spottas
- Empire kill collectors once again are willing to pay for what you kill.
- Chaos kill collectors once again are willing to pay for what you kill.
Public Quests
- Vulgar Display of Power: This PQ is once again completable
Items
Beastlord/Keeper Set
- Repeatable quests have been added for the tokens. They are given by the corresponding vendors. 'The intended way via RvR quests remains faster. This is meant for those who lost their tokens from crashes.'
Bug Fixes
[17395] This quest can now be completed by all classes
[18296] Ironbreakers no longer own all the gems
[18320] Additional guards have been sent out to protect the warcamp
[18307] Chest peaces of Warboss Will are no longer a staff
Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:54 pm View the latest post