| | | | | | | | | | | | Welcome to Warhammer Online's December newsletter; we are a festive 50 this month! We have plenty to celebrate: Call to Arms Re-Enlistment Campaign, Endless Trial and Keg End for starters. WAR Patch 1.3.3 is out in time for the holidays and we explore it in depth here. So get your beer stein ready and your axe in hand for all the WAR goodness you can handle this holiday season. Read on for details of these stories and more as the battle rages on in Issue 50 of the WAR newsletter! In This Newsletter... | | Call to Arms Re-Enlistment Campaign | | | Endless Trial | | | WAR Patch 1.3.3 Is here | | | Live Event: Keg End | | | WAR Novel – Forged by Chaos | | | Allies of WAR: Dark Age of Camelot™ | | | All the monthly WAR goodness that you know and love! | | | | | | Call to Arms Re-Enlistment Campaign! | | | | Comeback to the WAR!
Haven’t played WAR in a while? WAR has never been better, so come back and enjoy the 10 day free days of game time when you reactivate your account. Blow off the dust from your axe and see for yourself. - WAR runs faster than ever
- WAR has never been more stable
- New RvR improvements for Tier 4
- The New User Journey makes starting a new character a joy!
- 10 days to see for yourself, FREE!
From December 16 – 23, Mythic is inviting back players who have previously closed their accounts (before December 16th) to come back to experience what WAR now has to offer. WAR runs faster, smoother and is more stable than ever. See for yourself the improvements to Tier 4 with the removal of fortresses and the new Under Dog system and get into the action faster than ever with the all new WAR Report. We will also reward you with 3 in-game rewards when you log in:  | The Libram of Insight +15% to XP, Renown, and Influence; limited uses |  | The Signet of Cursed Company – turn into a Skeleton! |  | Kemmler’s Arthritic Hand for action point regeneration | Not only that, but all players will receive a 20% XP, Influence, and Renown bonus while playing over the holidaty season across all servers! So what are you waiting for? Come back and slay something; it’s on us! Read more about Re-Enlistment >> | | | | | Play WAR forever. For free!
Not sure what to do with yourself this holiday season? Well check out WAR’s Endless Free Trial: - Free. Forever!
- Play 24 careers to rank 10
- Conqueror Tier 1 Empire vs Chaos
- Survive the new Hunter's Vale dungeon
- Smite your foes in Realm vs Realm combat!
The new WAR Endless Free Trial replaces the original 10-day trial, and gives new and returning players the opportunity to play any of the 24 different careers to rank 10 to find the right one for you when you choose to subscribe. 
Players can explore Empire vs Chaos Tier One, and the newly added tier one dungeon, Hunter's Vale, or battle other players in the instanced scenarios Nordenwatch, Khaine's Embrace and Gates of Ekrund.  Endless free trial players will embark on the recently introduced New User Journey, which features enhanced tutorials and new community elements, such as a "new player" guild, to streamline the transition of new players into WAR and its vibrant community of players and enjoy daily organized events. Smiting your foes in Realm vs Realm combat has never been easier. Check out our New Player Guide.
Available now, the new streaming endless trial client is a seamless way for new users to get into the game. After an initial download of just over 1GB, additional content streams in the background as required while playing. All closed 10-day free trial accounts have been converted to open endless free trial. Read more about the Endless Free Trial >> | | | | | | | | 1.3.3 is here! As promised last month, this simmering brew of bug fixes, balance changes, and new features has landed in time for the holidays. Enjoy all that the Underdog System and WAR Report have to offer. It's the 'go to the action button' and it's hot! We've also added lots of pretty this month, with the addition of Bloom and HDR lighting to the game. Mmmm, eye candy! Not only that, but don't be surprised to see exploding color in the sky. Yes, fireworks are back this Holiday Season for Keg End.
Highlights: - The WAR Report – The WAR Report window will give players a snapshot of the action taking place throughout the world. The window will give you not only a list of current events, but a means to teleport to the closest warcamp, chapter hub, or flight master! This instant action teleport will be available every 8 hours.
- The Underdog System –This system is intended to aid the Underdog faction on a given server. Underdogs will essentially be granted a ramping RvR handicap that makes it easier for an under-populated realm to take objectives and cap zones. This system is tied directly to city captures and does not last forever – It will decay over time if not used. In other words: Underdogs get out on the battlefield and start smacking some skulls together, the time of your revenge is at hand!
- Keg End – Fireworks and ale. What more needs to be said?
- Bloom & HDR – The game client now allows users to enable Post Processing effects to heighten the visual experience of WAR. This will add bloom and HDR (High Dynamic Range) lighting to the game world. Users will experience a visually harmonious and enhanced feel in the game world through these two rendering techniques.
Read more about 1.3.3 >> | | | | | | | | Cheers, Beers, and Jeers in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Get into the holiday spirit with WAR’s next live event – the Dwarf New Year’s festival of Keg End. Running from December 16th through to the 4th of January, Keg End is a festive extravaganza packed with great new items, monsters, events, and challenges for all players to master. Keg End is filled with the things Dwarfs like best – Beer, Boasting, and things that explode. Whether you’re letting off fireworks as you charge into RvR or searching for beers on a pub crawl, there’s plenty to do for Order and Destruction alike. Search out the Legendary Golden Stein to benefit from its damage boosting aura of Frothy Goodness, or compete with your friends to partake in the best bit of bragging the Warhammer World has ever seen.  Keg End will, once again, have you /boast-ing at your adversaries. Make sure you set it to a macro because there are rewards to be gained if you do it just right. You can also grab a free beer and /toast your comrades in arms to receive special unlocks.
Keg End is here, with the mud and the blood and the beer! | Live Event: | Keg End | | When: | December 16th – January 4th, 2010 | | What: | Kill Giants and claim the year's brew for yourself so that it may be drank properly. Seek out the Legendary Golden Stein and with its liquid courage slay the enemy on the open battlefield. | | Rewards: | Basic – Exclusive in-game title: "Brew Hound" for Order and "Broo Dawg" for Destruction
Advanced – Party Keg (deploys a keg that allies may interact with to increase morale gain rate)
Elite – Keg Tap – Event Slot item with Career-specific stats Rare World Drop Item – The Battlebrew Backpack (one for each tier in which they are found) Rare World Drop Item – Dwarf Keg Handler for Order and Goblin Bar-Back for Destruction. Your own personal keg toting servant! | 
Read more about Keg End >> | | | | | | | |
| Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning for the Mac is finally here! WAR on Mac is available to new subscribers via digital download at Gametreeonline.com for $19.95 and includes 30 days of game time. Current subscribers are able to download the Mac version free of charge for use with existing accounts at www.warhammeronline.com/download. “We couldn’t be more excited to officially bring Warhammer Online and our intense Realm vs. Realm combat to Mac gamers" said Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. “We welcome Mac users to experience the thrill of WAR and take up arms with their PC brethren." Read More About WAR on the Mac >> | | | | | WAR Novel FORGED BY CHAOS – OUT NOW! | |
Mythic Entertainment and The Black Library are pleased to bring you Forged By Chaos, the third book in the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning novel series.
The Forces of Destruction wage war upon the civilized lands and the Raven Host is poised to march upon the Empire in an unstoppable tide. To ensure victory against the Order of the Griffon, the power of the Winds of Chaos must be fully unleashed. But to work such awesome magic, the marauder Kormak must dare the Bastion Stair, portal to the Realm of Khorne, and defy the Blood God’s wrath. The warriors of the Raven Host are not the only ones with an interest in harnessing Chaos. Treacherous Dark Elves and brutish Orcs would each seize the power for themselves, while a desperate Imperial army races to deny all of their foes the dread might of Chaos. Penned by Black Library writer, C.L. Werner, Forged by Chaos Iis now available in all major bookstores and from the Games Workshop website. For more information, visit The Black Library at www.blacklibrary.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allies of WAR: Dark Age of Camelot™ | | | |  Dark Age of Camelot: Darkness Rising™ and Labyrinth of the Minotaur™, the fourth and fifth retail expansions to the epic fantasy MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot, are now available at no charge to all subscribers.
Current subscribers will receive the expansions as part of an automatic update to their existing game client. For players that are new to Dark Age of Camelot, or for those interested in returning to the world, they can download the new 14-day free trial which now features all five retail expansions, including Darkness Rising and Labyrinth of the Minotaur. In addition, seasoned veterans of Dark Age of Camelot can now return to Midgard, Hibernia and Albion and play free for a limited time. The Come Back To Camelot campaign allows former players with closed accounts for 90 days or more receive 10 days of game-time free when they update and reactivate their account. Download the Free 14-Day Trial >> 
Well if that wasn't enough we have word from the Producer of Dark Age of Camelot, Mark Davis, on the newly released 1.100 patch. Hello everyone! Version 1.100 is coming to town, and we’re excited to tell you about it. Version 1.100 introduces Dragon Scales, a new type of alternate currency that drops off all of the dragons, including Goldestandt, Cuuldurach, Gjalpinvulva, Xanxicar, Nosdoden, Myrddraxis, and Draco, their minions. These Dragon Scales can be bartered for Draconic Stones, Dragon remains, and Dragon treasure. The Dragon’s aren’t exactly going to part with their scales easily, so would-be Dragon hunters beware! Also, the Midwinter Festival kicks off from December 17th through January 14th and brings celebration and decoration to the coldest and darkest times of the year. Tavern Keepers decorate their buildings with festive adornments. Citizens of each Realm will set up decorated evergreens in the festival grounds and offer to part with holiday greenery for those who provide them with assistance. The Realms will be visited by Olibar, the Midwinter Tomte, Santa Nicholas (Albion), Lucia of the Light (Hibernia), and Jack Frost (Midgard) each who come to bring Midwinter cheer and gifts. Players may also participate in the Trinkets for Tots quest to round out this season of giving. And I’m still looking for the Lurikeen who put a lump of coal in my sock last year! Of course, there are more items in this version such as the attention we gave to Ice Wizards, Maulers, and Vampiirs, but we’ll leave those to the patch notes. Until then, happy RvRing to all and to all good night! Read the 1.100 Patch Notes >> | | | | | Allies of WAR: Ultima Online™ | | | Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss 
Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss™, the 8th expansion to Ultima Online, has been released, introducing the new playable Gargoyle race! Players can find expansive new areas to explore, including Ter Mur, the Gargoyle homeland, and the Stygian Abyss – the largest dungeon area ever introduced to Ultima Online. Available via digital download only, Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss revolves around the introduction of the playable Gargoyle race. Players will also find expansive new areas to explore, including Ter Mur, the Gargoyle homeland, and the Stygian Abyss – the largest dungeon area ever introduced to Ultima Online. This sprawling dungeon will contain new boss monsters of unparalleled difficulty, including the Medusa, Primeval Lich, and the Stygian Dragon, as well as Player vs. Player zones where adventurers will be turned against one another. Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss is be available via UOGamesCodes.com and the EA STORE™: - Stygian Abyss Expansion: $29.99
- Stygian Abyss Expansion & 30-Day game-time: $39.99
Read More Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss >> | | | | | Allies of WAR: Dragon Age™ | | | | Here's a taste of two awesome new ways to enjoy the Dragon Age: Origins universe: The second Dragon Age: Origins prequel novel – Dragon Age: The Calling and the Dragon Age Tabletop RPG! The Next Prequel Novel for Dragon Age: Origins! Having reclaimed the throne, King Maric finally allows the legendary Grey Wardens to return to Ferelden after two hundred years of exile. When they come, however, they bring dire news: one of their own has escaped into the Deep Roads and aligned himself with their ancient enemy, the monstrous darkspawn. The Grey Wardens need Maric’s help to find him. He reluctantly agrees to lead them into the passages he traveled through years before, chasing after a deadly secret that will threaten to destroy not only the Grey Wardens, but also the Kingdom above. Read More about Dragon Age: The Calling >> Calling All Tabletop Heroes: Play the Dragon Age Pen and Paper RPG! Brought to you by Green Ronin, the company that created A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying and Mutants and Masterminds comes a journey into a world of violence, lust and betrayal. 
Dragon Age is a tabletop roleplaying game of dark fantasy adventure based on BioWare’s™ video game. Designed by award-winning author Chris Pramas (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Freeport), the Dragon Age Pen and Paper RPG features an all-new game system that's both easy to learn and exciting to play, the perfect portal to tabletop roleplaying. Based on the highly anticipated Dragon Age: Origins computer game, Pramas has brought all the rich fantasy world created by BioWare to the tabletop. So gather your friends, grab some dice, and get ready to enter a world of heroes and villains, of knights and darkspawn, of gods and demons… the world of Dragon Age! The Dragon Age RPG will be available in hobby game stores, as well as bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders this September. You’ll also be able to buy it online from the Green Ronin Online Store, Amazon.com, and similar outlets. Read More about the Dragon Age RPG >> | | | | | | |  | | *While code and product supplies last. Skaven skin cloak codes and Mythic Store only valid for North America. 'Warhammer' ©/™ and/or ® GW Ltd. Newsletter © 2009 Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved. EA and the EA logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Please know that at Mythic Entertainment, we don't want to send you information you don't want to receive. If you no longer want us to contact you, please click here to be removed from our mailing list or to change your preferences. You can also write to: Privacy Policy Administrator, Electronic Arts, 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065. Legal Notices Privacy Policy Updated Terms of Service | |
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