Warhammer Online News

This weekends warfront is now open for battle. Get your weapons & magic ready and defend or conquer the gate in Phoenix Gate scenario!

Battle at the Gate is now live and will continue until Monday, 03/28/2011.

Update 03/28 1pm EDT: The warfront has ended.

Update 5:30pm EDT: Iron Rock is once again available for character transfers.

Update 3:30pm EDT: Carroburg is once again available for character transfers. We will now take down Iron Rock for about 4 hours. During this time character transfers from Iron Rock won’t be avialable.

Greetings,

Carroburg will be offline from 11.00am Friday 25th March for 6 hours for essential maintenance. This means that all character transfers from this retired server won’t be available during that period.

We appreciate your patience, thank you.

Update 3/24 4.00pm: Volkmar is available for server transfer again.

Update 9.00pm: Iron Rock, TW Alpha, and Carroburg are available for server transfer again.

Update 9:25 am: All game servers are back online. Please be aware that the retired servers won’t be available for character transfer until 3:00 pm.

Update 9:00 am: All server are now offline.

Greetings!

We will be bringing all North American and European servers offline tomorrow, 03/23, at 9:00 am EDT / 14:00 CET for a short maintenance. At this time we anticipate that all life servers will be back online no later than 10:00 am EDT / 15:00 CET.

All retired servers will be back online no later than 3:00 pm EDT / 20:00 CET. Please note that character transfers from these servers won’t be available until then.

As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your understanding.

This weekends warfront is now open for battle. Gather your allies and head to the Howling Gorge scenario to fight over the powder keg!

Howling For Blood is now live and will continue until Monday, 3/21/2011.

Update: The weekend warfront has ended.

Greetings,

We’ve been thinking about the core strengths of WAR, and talking to the designers and wanted to share some inside perspectives with you. WAR is hardcore RvR, kill or be killed. Let’s make no bones about it, unless they’re the bones of your enemy. The combination of skill and aggression that players bring to bear in RvR in WAR is remarkable. RvR is at its most competitive amongst organized groups, however it is often its most fun when players are thrown into the mix in open warbands. Steven Engle and Keaven Freeman share some of their thoughts on careers and class balance and the campaign system of WAR’s RvR.

Update 1.45pm EST - The retired servers are currently undergoing an extended maintenance.  During that time, players may still transfer their characters from the server via the account center. 

As of today, the following servers are being set to ‘retired’ status: Volkmar, Iron Rock, and Carroburg. This will prevent players from logging in to those servers.  Any remaining characters on this server can be transferred via the Mythic Account Center via free or paid transfers.

This process will take 4 hours, starting from 9.00am 9th March.

As always, thank you for your continued support and understanding.

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Greetings,

With Night of Murder winded down and people no longer marked for death, we can look forward towards Spring and the promise it holds.

First of all though I’d like to take time to encourage people to check out the forums here. We’ve been trying to increase the communication in there and encourage open discussion, notably in the Developers Corner. A few of them were directly related to patch 1.4.1 and revolved around the Renown Cap and armor set progression. As well, we’ve started some hypothetical threads – one about a new scenario type with waves of NPC spawns; the second about the campaign and possible changes you want to see. With 1.4.1 just out the door, a feedback post about the new scenario lineup has been started so we can gather feedback to tailor the lineup further in subsequent patches. The idea is to change them up more often (every few months) so that the action will stay fresh.

With our first patch of the year (1.4.1) wrapped up, we were able to squeeze in nice things and make adjustments to the game and how players will advance through the game.  This includes tweaks to our Renown Rank caps, rearrangement of the armor sets, and adjustments to the costs and methods to buy armor and weapons.  One of the things we are continuing to take a look at are how the armor sets and innate power of the levels and Renown Ranks are interacting in the world as players rank up in every tier.
 
Looking forward, we’ve been working hard on finishing up some tweaks to Grovod Caverns and we want to get that out there with its new Skaven twist in an upcoming patch as a Warfront and if it is received well, as potentially a permanent feature.  Likewise, as hinted at before in the previous letter and in my posts on the forums, we want to bring back the Ironclad from Scurvy Dogs.
 
As far as Live Events go, the working title for our newest Live Event is SigmarTide and we are pushing forward on that for this Summer.  More news on this as we get through Spring, although you might find some hints about the event in Lore.
 
As promised in the previous Producer Letter, I want to also hit upon some stuff we have in the works.  When we started work on the Verminous Horde, we had a number of thoughts and initiatives that were in the works.  We opted to move one or two of these from being tied into that patch and instead concentrate on them after the booster was out and make them free features.  One of these features is the addition of new options for crafting.  Conceived as ‘advanced crafting’, it will build upon that foundation, but with new and exciting options.  The idea behind it is to introduce new mechanics and flesh out the offerings available via player crafting.  As we get closer to testing and launch, we’ll give more information and start discussions in the afore-mentioned forums.

Just so you know, we have a full year of Warhammer Online planned out, from events to patches, including features and fun stuff.  Along with that plan, we are looking at a number of other hypothetical things that we’d love to work on; we’ll be getting feedback on these as we move forward through the year as well.  Plus, finally, we’ll continue to look at the topics and trends that concern you, adding tweaks, changes, of fixes as we go.

Finally, I’d like to give you a teaser on some upcoming events around the EA store.  If you haven’t bought the progression or personality pack, we have an upcoming promotion around the combination pack I think you’ll like.  Keep an eye on Facebook for details about this. Plus, these guys…

Thanks again for reading, see you next month, in the forums, and most importantly… on the battlefield!

Update - 10:05 AM EST: The maintenance is over and all servers are back online.

Update - 7:30 AM EST: All servers are now offline at this time.

Greetings!

We will be bringing all North American and European servers offline tomorrow at 7:30 AM EST/13.30 CET for a short maintenance. At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 12:30 AM EST/18.30 CET. As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.