Warhammer Online News

It appears a lot of us have been misled with the contribution system in Warhammer. A few bloggers like Wizards & Wenches and Wall of Text are frustrated with the recent topics on Warhammer Alliance and VN Boards, which give us some insight in how to contribution actually works (or fails to work).

Once considered a great feature which was certainly better than the solutions found in other MMO games, today it’s revealed as a system based on luck and random numbers.

At one point, a player joined the warband in the last few seconds of the lord fight and just managed to get into the area of influence. He did nothing and came 3rd. As the warband obviously did enough to class him as having done something, he counted as having contributed. We told him to do nothing special the next keep, and sure enough, he came 3rd before the roll.

Whenever you zone in, or log into a zone, you will make a hidden roll. Lets say i roll a 1000, i can go to a keep, do absolutely nothing, maybe hit the hero 1x and I will get 1th on contribution. The same thing will happen with the 2nd keep in that zone, and the 3th keep etc.. as long as you dont log or zone out.

It’s quite frustrating to know that no matter how hard you try, you can be beated by players who contributed nearly nothing. On the other hand, perhaps it’s better to know: from now on, I won’t loose my hair over it.