Scurvy Dogs is live!

The first of WAR Weekend Warfront is live, Scurvy Dogs.  Along with the new Ironclad scenario, it brings its own set of tasks and rewards.  For a look at the task list and elite reward, continue on!

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Night of Murder Task List

Night of Murder is Warhammer's take on Valentine's Day.  The only hearts you will find here are impaled on a blade.  This event was introduced last year with some mysterious letters.  This years event is similar to the previous with the marked opponent mechanic.  Read on for the task list.

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Coming Soon to WAR: Scurvy Dogs

A few days ago, I was searching for information in order to upgrade my Fight Finder add-on.  During the search I stumbled upon some evidence of new content for WAR.  Read on for some details about WAR's new Live Event, Scurvy Dogs.

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Werit at WAR: Daemon Moon Rising

Most of my WAR playtime this week has involved the current Live Event, Daemon Moon Rising.  I think this has been one of the best Live Event's yet.  It has sparked quite a bit of RvR with the PQ and bringing the back High Pass Cemetery scenario.  See for yourself after the jump.

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Wild Hunt Task List

The Wild Hunt has begun! Here is the task list for the latest live event.


The one in red is pretty interesting, as you can click on it.

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Success at Nordenwatch

Over the weekend, Mythic surprised us with a mini Live Event, Struggle for Nordenwatch. It wasn't very complicated, they opened up a tier 1 scenario for everyone, gave it +10% Experience and Renown and added a task list with a Title reward. It could not have been too much work on their part, but it turned out to be a lot of fun.

I did manage to complete all of the tasks and become the Master of Nordenwatch. At first I thought that completing 20 scenarios was not going to be doable. On Sunday though, the scenarios started to pop pretty fast and I completed them. Overall I made some good Renown and got some tokens.

Ever since hitting 40, I have pretty much avoided scenarios except when needed to lock a zone. Now that we have zone domination, I never queue up. This weekend, I played a lot more WAR than planned and most of the time in Nordenwatch. The scenario itself is fun at 40 and the renown was very nice.

I think that it is safe to assume we will see more events like this in the future. Personally, I'd like to see something like this once a month, maybe even more frequently. They don't have to give us a task list each time, just a +XP/Renown bonus would get me to queue up and the fact it is a scenario I have not played in a while.

Alternatively, they could give us a task list. It should be expanded upon so it will take several weekends of that scenario to accomplish. Since it takes so long, a nice reward should be at the end of it, not just a title. I'm not sure if players have the patience to complete an event which may take half a year.

These kind of mini events will be crucial to WAR's success. They add variety to an otherwise static experience. I know what many people are thinking out there, Tor Anroc as a 40? I say bring it on (not just because I'm a punter), it'll be fun to see what it is like at 40. Besides, it's only for a weekend.

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Nordenwatch Task List

Mythic announced the Struggle for Nordenwatch Event today. It isn't a full fledged live event, but still a nice surprise. The Tier 1 scenario, Nordenwatch, has been opened up for all tiers. Bonus XP and Renown are also given for fighting there.

Here is the task list:


It runs from now until 8 AM EDT May 4th. I will certainly be checking it out.

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Beyond the Sands Improvements

While Beyond the Sands was a good Live Event, there are a couple ways that Mythic can improve them in the future.

RvR Public Quests. In this event, the Fallen Kings PQ required a realm to collect 2 our of 3 artifacts and bring them to a central location. Once that is done, the boss is triggered. The problem with this setup is that it actually encourages people not to fight over the boss. It is much easier just to go to another zone and complete it without any interference.

During the Witching Night live event, they also had a RvR PQ. In this one, you had to kill X amount of players to trigger the boss. The result was some huge fights between dozens of players. This setup encouraged players to fight and they did.

There is a flaw to using player kills as a PQ stage; lower tiers may not have the population to support it. For them, another task (kill X amount of skeletons) could be added to allow them to trigger the second stage of the PQ.

Hopefully in future events we will see PQ's that result in some pretty large battles.

Quests. The live event quest line was a very nice addition, one I hope we see in most upcoming events. Maybe it's just me, but Chapter 3 (for Order) became very confusing. I think part of the problem was that it involved Thunder Mountain and Dragonwake. The quest giver was in both zones at the same time. I actually never realized he was in DW until the last quest, so I kept going back and forth.

In future events, I'd like to see them stick to a single zone or pairing. At the very least, the quests needs to be play-tested more to work out confusion and bugs.

Other than those two things, I thought the event worked out great. I can't wait for Rise of the Tomb Kings in about a month!

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Beyond the Sands Verdict

It has been a busy week for Warhammer Online due to the Beyond the Sands Live Event. I think this was a record amount of posts for me. So for Friday, I'll take it easy.

Q: What did you think of Beyond the Sands?

Overall, I thought it was one of the better live events. The Quests and story was engaging and there was plenty of RvR action. There are areas for improvement but nothing too major.

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Sight beyond sight

Thundercats, Ho! It would seem we have a Thundercats fan on the dev team. Aviator Goggles, grant me sight beyond sight...




Have you received your Aviator Goggles, Elite reward from the Beyond the Sands Live Event, yet? If so, you may be wondering what to use them for. Other than looking stylish of course.


The tooltip says that the goggles let you see hidden Nehekaran treasure. The question is, is there treasure to be found in the game yet? The answer is yes! I thought the goggles would only be useful in the Land of the Dead, but I was wrong.

So to find the hidden treasure you put on the Aviator goggles and you should get the 'sight beyond sight' buff. Without the buff, the treasure will remain hidden. Next step is to run around and look for it. When you find a treasure chest, it will look like this.


In order to open it, just use an attack. Once opened, it can be looted just like anything else. So far I have only found one item in it, a Silver Scarab.


Seems like this may be a basic token for use in the Land of the Dead. I do wonder if there is a common (white) version though, as this says trivial, it seems not. Once you loot the chest, it does become visible for everyone to see.

Many treasure hunters work alone and for good reason. If you loot a chest in a group it will be rolled on. So you may want to consider that before you set out on your quest.

Where can you find the treasure? This is hidden treasure.... I'm not going to come out and tell you exactly. I will tell you that I have found chests in tier 4 zones in the vicinity of the Fallen Kings PQ's. It could be in other places though.

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Fallen Kings PQ

Mythic must of heard my wishes and here we have a RvR Boss Fight PQ, you're welcome. What do you mean they had to have it put together before my post this morning? So for you poor saps in an office, far away from your WAR client, here is the deal.

It has 2 stages. The first stage is to get 2 artifacts to the Sarcophagus. There are 3 total, you can see them on the map.

No, you can't pick it up and go hide in a BO or Keep. If you do, they will go back to their crates.


Once you get 2 of the artifacts back to the Sarcophagus, you advance to Stage 2.


The Liche Priest is a level 40 Hero who is none to pleased that we woke him up. Well that's just too bad, we want your bags! He has his own version of napalm, but it involves scarabs.


The swarm consumed one of my allies... what a way to go. We got wiped on our first try. The 2nd attempt we did manage to defeat him, as we had a lot of healing. Overall the boss was not very hard. That is how it should be though, since most of the time your enemies will be lurking.

One important thing to remember: The PQ chest will spawn in your Warcamp, not on the scene.

It was a fun fight, I am looking forward to playing it when more folks on both sides are around.

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Day 3: Beyond the Sands Live Event (Full)

Mythic has filled in all the pieces for Day 3, April 22nd.

Fallen Kings PQ? Sounds like a boss fight, nice!

Learn more about the Fallen Kings PQ here.

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Live Event Quests

Where have you been all my life? Seriously, the quests in Beyond the Sands have been a very nice addition. In prior events, the tasks were really just basic kill quests or go get X amount of this. Now we actually have a quest chain and other quests included. The rewards are good: gold and exp.


The added story really adds some flavor to the live event. It all feels like it is leading up to something big. Mythic, I really hope there is a nice monster encounter at the end of this quest line. Back during the Halloween event, there was a big RvR boss fight that a lot of people enjoyed. I hope we see something similar for the final days of beyond the Sands.

Have you see the airships flying off in the distance? If not, try to look up every now and then, they are a pretty nice sight.

So far, the RvR has been pretty good with the Live Event. It is really a simple formula if you think about it. Put something the players want in an RvR lake and they will fight over it. That's what I have been seeing so far and it's resulted is some fun fights. A diversion from the greater campaign is nice.

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Day 2: Beyond the Sands Live Event

Full list at: http://werit.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-3-beyond-sands-live-event-full.html

Here is the task list for Day 2, April 21st.

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Beyond the Sands Lookout List

Here is some stuff to be on the lookout for while you are out in the lakes...





The crates don't seem to do much yet, other than disappear. Also the monsters that guard them in some cases do not agress... so they are easy pickings.

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Day 1: Beyond the Sands Live Event

Full list at: http://werit.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-3-beyond-sands-live-event-full.html

Beyond the Sands has begun! Here is the task list for Day 1, April 20th.




And the Elite reward is...


Hidden Treasure? Count me in!

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