We promised we would be back with more delicious post-NDA goodies, and back we are! The fellas of ChaosCast -- myself, Keen and Snafzg -- sat down the other night to chat about all sorts of topics we previously had to keep on the down low, including: What was being in the beta for over a half year like? What feminine mysteries does Keen behold? Why does Syp always choose the hard way to do everything? Will Chaos Dog return? Is Snafzg always a cranky old coot? What are we planning to do f…  More

With the advent of a new patch, the beta servers shoved all of the playerbase to level 31 (36ish when we had the battle boosting level buff on) to test out the tier 4 combat. Unfortunately, that put a dead halt on my newbie zone "First Impressions" series (8 careers to go!), and I felt reluctant to leap into higher level content -- I wanted to save that for when I first experienced it as the game went live. But boredom, as it so often does, won out, and I quickly chose a Bright Wizard template…  More

For all my wordiness, right now I'm probably the *worst* person to talk to about All Things Warhammer. I've spent 95% of my beta experience in the Chapter 1 newbie zones, I've only once played a character over level 7, and I'm deliberately ignoring a bulk of videos, guides and other info gluts out there in exchange for having a richer, perhaps more surprising gaming experience next month. I know from history that sooner or later I'll be up to date on every skill and nuance of the game, but why…  More

There's a lot of info flying about the WAR-webs (I coin that phrase! You must pay royalties or at least a tasty cupcake to use it!) concerning dates and patches and info concerning Warhammer Online. A lot of this will probably be old news to many of you, but it bears repeating because others still are confused about what's going to happen over the next 20 days. Currently: Mark Jacobs released a series of notes concerning fixes and tweaks from the Preview Weekend 3.3 patch -- presumably, these…  More

I guess Mythic needed a dump class to gather up all the clichéd nutbars out there for the safety of the rest of us, and Shadow Warrior got the short end of that straw.What, you’re going to play Shadow Warrior?Oh, I’m sure you’ll be the exception to the Legolas-clone crowd who’s instantly attracted to anything with the word “shadow” in it, but I’m going to be over here sipping chai tea.

Nicotine the Shadow Warrior didn’t stand much of a chance with me.Bows and arr…  More

Way back when, in the yonder days of early 2007, I pre-ordered Lord of the Rings Online and got into their "founding fathers" program or whatever they called it. The biggest incentive for me to do so was their promise that founders would be granted early access to the live game client, a head start of a week or more (I forget exactly how many days). There was a level cap of 15 put into place for that time period, but it was one of the most exciting opening days of a MMO I've ever experienced, …  More

Since you're not keen on official forums and yet perfectly fine with letting Warhammer Alliance mods take up the slack by providing a forum for you to communicate with players, why don't you just go ahead and put these mods on the payroll? Added: Because the more I think about it, the more it gnaws away at me -- all of the reasons why Mythic stated they wanted to avoid public forums are pretty much reversed by their over-dependence on WHA's forums as a method of dev-player communication, except…  More

It seems to be a hot topic these days (see: /random, Keen, Tobold), and I'm just the sort of person who doesn't mind hopping on a media train now and then as long as they're serving all-beef hot dogs on the trip. The topic is: why doesn't Warhammer Online have three factions? Or could it? Or will it? This is a bizarre set of questions unless you consider that Mythic made a name for itself with a three-faction battle MMO -- Dark Age of Camelot. In it, players aligned with Albion, Midgard and…  More

Maybe this is a tad hypocritical from a guy who stores up links and posts them once a week, but shouldn't current news/blog aggregator sites like Massively keep a bit more up to date? I mean, it's Friday, and they're posting on a bug report that Mark Jacobs put up, oh, on Monday. Maybe next week they'll post about how Warhammer Online was delayed until fall 2008!  More

The trudge through the High Elf careers continued with Wotworks, a Swordmaster who loves his sword perhaps a smidgen too much.I mean, the guy cradles it like it’s his first born child, except that instead of poop and kisses it delivers a very close shave.

As a tank class – one of Order’s only two, along with the Ironbreaker – I found the Swordmaster tolerable.He’s got a big honkin’ Final Fantasy VII-type sword that he dances around and swooshes through bad guys like solidified non-…  More