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MMO PC News by Oli Welsh

17 October, 2008

Mythic has announced that it's bringing two new classes to Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning "this winter", which we guess means by Christmas.

The careers - two of the four that were cut, along with four capital cities, from the game's original launch plans - are the both heavily-armoured tanking classes: the Empire's Knight of the Blazing Sun on the Order side, and the Dark Elf Black Guard on the Destruction side.

The Knight of the Blazing Sun is described as a tactical leader using Battlefield Commands, while the Black Guard is simply "the embodiment of hatred and disdain".

The arrival of the two new careers will mean that every race in the game has a damage-taking tanking archetype. Of the originally planned careers, only the Dwarf Hammerer and Greenskin Choppa, both melee damage-dealers, will remain on the cutting room floor.

For more on WAR, check out the gamepage.

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Gl3n
17/10/08 @ 14:10
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Woot! christmas seems a little far off, but great that they've actually announced something concrete sounding.
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17/10/08 @ 14:20
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Personally I there is a whole lot more interesting information contained within the 'State of the Game' article this information comes from than the addition of these two classes - comments about an RvR influence system to match the PvE influence system, improving RvR gear drops and their drop rates, 14 new quest chains, 2 new Lairs, more Tome unlocks and 'much love' for a majority of classes.

Link to the article here
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17/10/08 @ 14:20
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War is a great MMO, altough i'm not a big fan of the genre WAR is, in my opinion, better then WOW.
Oli [staff]
17/10/08 @ 14:24
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Wickerman, this infomation comes from a press release but I've now seen the article you mention - thanks.
mikeck
17/10/08 @ 14:26
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Good to see the four other capital cities coming to the game ...

edit - damn I misread that. Thanks for the article link though, seems like there is indeed nothing but love coming to us WAR players :D
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Wickerman
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Heh no worries Oli - thought there had to be a reason you only mentioned the classes as opposed to the REALLY juicy stuff!
MrChallacombe
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I am massively impressed we get this about 3 months after release.
Still need an Orc melee dps class tho.
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My server is already dying. It used to be very busy, queue to get in etc etc - but now, public quests have just 1 or 2 people, RvR scenarios are all but dead. This is for Order btw.

And thats the problem with WAR. It relies too much on groups and those groups are going

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