Mythic hints at WAR Dwarf Slayer

By Oli Welsh Published 19 January, 2009

Also, Zone Domination on the way.

Warhammer Online developer Mythic has been entertaining itself posting videos on YouTube and sending cryptic packages to bloggers - the latter hinting that a new class, the Dwarf Slayer, could be on the way.

Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog received a parcel containing hair clippers, hair colour creme, and a note promising "more to come" on the 29th January.

This was initially taken as a suggestion that WAR might be about to introduce customisable hairstyles. Then a keen-eyed commenter pointed out that, in Warhammer lore, the Dwarf Slayer - a beserker with a death-wish, basically - takes the Slayer Oath by dying his hair orange and cutting it into a mohawk.

The Slayer has been widely tipped to be coming to WAR ever since Mythic revealed that one of the game's four cut classes wouldn't be returning.

Meanwhile, in a birthday video blog, creative director Paul Barnett has revealed a Zone Domination system in the works that will make capturing objectives in realm-versus-realm zones, as he puts it, "less rubbish".

Producer Jeff Hickman calls it a "supplemental way of capturing zones... if you can capture every keep and hold it, you have a very good chance of capturing that zone". It's intended to give players more reason to defend and hold keeps and other areas once they've captured them.

Zone Domination is expected to be delivered in the next patch, 1.1.1. More info at the Warhammer Online gamepage.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • levitate #1 3 years ago

    They need to add a lot of these things for people to stay.

  • Orange #2 3 years ago

    I suspect will be too late and not enough to tempt me back, although nice to see them implementing cool stuff for people who have remained subbed.

  • qoobah #3 3 years ago

    Yep, I'd consider coming back if they patched in more immersiveness and atmosphere. Otherwise, I'll pass.

  • sanctusmortis #4 3 years ago

    The Slayer was in the GD07 build I played, so it was pretty obvious it'd be back in later. After all, it was finished back then...

  • sneetch #5 3 years ago

    @levitate
    They need to add a lot of these things for people to stay.

    A lot of people are quite happy to stay with the game as it is, these kind of things are just icing on the cake for some of us. Delicious dead-desty flavour icing. ;)

    The RvR lake PQs alone made such a huge difference on my server.

    @sanctusmortis
    The Slayer was in the GD07 build I played, so it was pretty obvious it'd be back in later. After all, it was finished back then...

    Finished? Really? In the game maybe but I doubt it was finished. Especially as the melee-DPS class was supposed to be the hammerer and not the slayer.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #6 3 years ago

    @san - lier! The Slayer hasn't been anywhere near any public build yet, you played the hammerer (thats if you even played it at all), theres a lot of differences totally in the look between the two :)

    Either way on the MMO timelines next month will be the '6 months in' mark, where games hailed as 'broken' and 'too little too late' start pushing out some desent ideas and players start to return, happened with WoW, Eve (although they started to make a comeback a lot later) and resently AoC...

    It's never 'too little too late' for MMOs to make a comeback, a MMO is only 'dead' when the suits accounce it's closing, and as far as we all know EA are quite happy with Mythic so far :)

  • Hypercube #7 3 years ago

    They need to add a lot of these things for people to stay.

    I'm already staying. So are a lot of other people, judging from the state of the server I'm on - at the weekend I was constantly in scenarios, with maybe a wait of up to 5 minutes in between. And got into about 2 hours' worth of RvR in T3 too, which was a lot of fun.

    I think those that are staying now already enjoy it a lot, although personally I'd rather have more content than more classes - I can't spend all my time levelling up alts!

  • MikeP #8 3 years ago

    I'm staying - overall really enjoying it, and now that the initial flurry of people frantically levelling to hit the endgame has subsided I'm finding that the lower tiers are a lot busier than the first time around.

    Whether that's new people, or people rolling alts I can't say, but it does appear to be pretty lively.

  • sneetch #9 3 years ago

    @Mike P
    I'm staying - overall really enjoying it, and now that the initial flurry of people frantically levelling to hit the endgame has subsided I'm finding that the lower tiers are a lot busier than the first time around.

    Whether that's new people, or people rolling alts I can't say, but it does appear to be pretty lively.

    Yep, I'm not sure where they came from either but Altdorf was wedged on my server last night, dwarfs, humans and beard-cutters everywhere.

    Did the Altdorf sewers for the first time too on my Rune Priest, just the first instance to kill the Rat-Ogre. It was pretty short but sweet and kinda tough with only three. Fun though, I was impressed when the boss dropped pieces of kit for an engineer and an iron-breaker, two of the three classes that were in there. If that wasn't just sheer luck then it's awesome that there's no waste, no BOP stuff you can't use.

    Beats the hell out of getting shammy drops in MC as Alliance pre-BC. I wanted my stupid 'lock robes! ;)