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If it's not the tanking economy, the depressing election or Hannah Montana, then it's the ominous tides of black pessimism that's seemingly descended upon the Warhammer community -- especially if you keep tabs on as many blogs as I do (and forums, but hey, forums don't count, unless you want to feel slightly superior about yourself in comparison to the blathering trolls that lurk at those depths). Everywhere you go, it seems, the Voice of Doom is booming loud and clear: "Warhammer is in trouuuu…  More

Da Bloody Twenty is a weekly countdown of the 20 most interesting, well-written or weirdest Warhammer Online articles and posts… to me.

Twenty... Welcome to the Community: Obsessive Focus, Tome Addict, Highs and Lows of a Chaos Zealot, Garrison of War, WarGuru! Nineteen... "WAAAGHkin" @ Doppler - Happy Halloween! Eighteen... "Mythic Working On The Expansion And New-New Classes" @ Massively - New-New? Oh, I thought he said Gnu-Gnu. A gnu once bit my sister... Seventeen... "WAR PvE" @ /rand…  More

Looking ahead to 2009 and beyond, in terms of MMOs, it kind of struck me: all of the major upcoming MMOs with growing hype and massive IP potential... few to none of them are in the fantasy genre, which is downright amazing to me. For as long as I've been following MMOs, fantasy has been the bedrock staple of the field, dominating all with sheer numbers and subscriber dollars: Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars,…  More

And hey, I didn't even talk about 1.04's patch notes (which to my eyes aren't anything special outside of Witching Night)! In a most excellent, most triumphant counterswing to Wrath of the Lich King's November 13th debut, Warhammer Online is coming out swinging on November 17th with its anticipated major content addition: the Heavy Metal live event, leading up to Patch 1.1. Two live events in as many months is pretty impressive, in my opinion, and Heavy Metal comes as a surprise, as we all mor…  More

Paul Barnett, to TTH: "I have to give a hearty 'Well done!' to people that play Dwarfs. I have a very simple theory about the people that play Dwarfs. Dwarfs are generally played by people who have come to terms with who they are. Most of the people I've met who like Dwarfs basically look like Dwarfs. Where as people that play Witch Elves don't look like Witch Elves. There's more of a reality mask with the Dwarfs. These folks go 'I'm short. I'm bearded. I like beer. I think I'm going to be a Dwa…  More

Upon a guildie's suggestion, I've been plowing through a cool little site called Waralytics, which purportedly tracks all sorts of stats pertaining to Warhammer Online's population and class makeup. (From their FAQ: "All data is pulled from the Realm War site. Right now there is a major problem with the Herald not updating regularly. Also, it appears that it updates some guilds on each server, but not others. These statistics are drawn only from GUILDED players. From my observation…  More

So are all game blogs taking a leave of focus to diverge into political blogging?  Because today's been a heap of "Hur?" as I've made my rounds.  I guess I should start drumming for the TRUE underdog, the REAL candidate for change, the RADICAL maverick, the lipstick KING: Syp.  Nevermind that I'm not 35, on any ballot, interested in politics, or affiliated with either of the two major parties (which, let's be honest here, are BOTH borked beyond belief and need nerfs all around).  Syp!  The …  More

So today we got a few more details about Warhammer Online's first "live event" (you've been playing the dead events, I guess), Witching Night.  You can read about it here and here, but for the Cliff Notes version, here's the salient details: Witching Night will come with Game Update 1.04 It will last from Wednesday (that's tomorrow!) Oct 29 through Sunday, November 2 -- five days total. There will be four new PQs, one for each tier (Chrace, Troll Country, Black Fire Pass and Caledor). The …  More

With last week's Grab Bag #3 highlighting Warhammer Online's myriad of gear sets, Mythic's opened a huge window into WAR's city siege end game. Basically, there's going to be several end-game sets, each of which you have to obtain (or at least have a few of the pieces) to survive and contribute to the various stages of city siege and capture. Snafzg expressed some fretful hand-wringing over the news, but I'll back him up by adding this: I hate armor sets. Hate. Hate. Hate them. Syp no like…  More