GOA unveils enormous WAR update

By Robert Purchese Published 29 January, 2009

New classes, dungeon, battleground.

GOA has announced that a great big "Call to Arms" update for Warhammer Online will go live from March.

Top of the bill are re-instated classes Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer. Both are mirrors of one another: berserk, up-close brawlers with little regard for their own safety.

These will be introduced properly in March, but players can get a head start with the new classes by completing a live Bitter Rivals event slightly earlier. This event opens a Chaos-themed Twisting Tower RvR battleground, too.

The other big feature will be a Land of the Dead zone, home to an enormous new Tomb Kings dungeon that Mythic claims to be the spiritual successor to Darkness Falls from previous MMO Dark Age of Camelot. Here, remember, all factions fought openly - albeit after starting from separate corners of the immense underground chasm.

There were also tokens to collect from hellish enemies that could be spent on equipment sold by imps. And the further down players descended the much more difficult life became, culminating in an enormous boss encounter with the Legion - a screen-filling monster made up from thousands of corpses.

The Land of the Dead will be openly contested, then, and whoever controls the area will unlock the numerous public quests and instances associated with the zone.

The Land of the Dead opens fully in June, but realms will need to complete two previous live events for access. The first, Beyond the Sands, has yet to be detailed, but will happen in April.

The second event, Rise of the Tomb Kings, unlocks the Land of the Dead for each faction, and takes place in May.

On top of all this, Mythic will be finally implementing official Warhammer Online forums, adding extra Realm Wars functionality to the website, and offering a free trial versions of the game.

Plus, this Call to Arms update is just the first of the "live expansions" planned for Warhammer Online.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Clive_Dunn #1 3 years ago

    Imps, Legion and multi realm dungeons, hmmmm.

    Spiritual successor or rehash of old content. YOU DECIDE.

  • DFawkes #2 3 years ago

    Tomb Kings? Colour me interested. I've been wanting to get into regualrly playing an MMO again, but every day there's new news. "LOTRO has free week!" "WoW has some new stuff!" "Eve is still good!"

    I guess until I just chose one and sub, I'll be of 2 minds forever. But a Tomb King area certainly makes me think WAR is a good idea.

  • MikeP #3 3 years ago

    There's no mention of trolls, Clive.

  • levitate #4 3 years ago

    Sounds interesting. But by the time they ship all these content updates WoW will have done the same and nothing will have changed. Not that I really care anymore, I've stopped playing both games.

  • Dizzy #5 3 years ago

    Hmmm... diving back in!

  • biscuittooth #6 3 years ago

    @ Clive

    I think you are getting the wrong end of the stick - the writer was merely listing the salient features of the Darkness Falls dungeon in DAoC, not stating what's going to be in the WAR version.

  • Gl3n #7 3 years ago

    Sounds excellent!

  • dylman #8 3 years ago

    Free trial at last! /looks doubtfully at 20Gb monthly download limit...

  • itchencmt #9 3 years ago

    I agree it wouldn't have the same creatures/monsters as DAoC, they just dscribed what was in that Dungeon as they are not going to reveal what is in the WAR dungeon.

    Although it would be undead, it would be creatures based on WARHAMMER, so for me i would suspect:

    Ghouls, Zombies, Skeletons, Wraiths, Wrights, Ghosts, Mummies.

    Maybe Liche's, vampires (poss but unliky as they dont reside in THE LAND OF THE DEAD) and many more possibly undead types that are unqiue to the TOMB KINGS.

    All the above are creatures in Warhammer, there can be some varity as some undead Wrightes, skeletons can be more tougher than others as they may have been guards or elite troops in they former lives.

  • orakio #10 3 years ago

    Opens up the door for an undead race as well