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Only-WAR Exclusive Guild Interview - Halcyon Affinity!

This time in our Original Only-WAR Exclusive Guild Interviews, we bring you an interview with Halcyon Affinity, an Order guild that's been around since November of 2004!

HA was formed in November of 2004 by long time Everquest raiders and Everquest II Beta testers on the server Antonia Bayle. Our complete domination of that server went unchecked for over a year, and well into the expansions. Contested content was not an issue of server firsts for us anymore, as we competed on the world stage for firsts in raiding, levels, discoveries, and achievements. In SOE Magazine Sony ranked us #3 Worldwide in 2005. After leaving Everquest II, HA has since dominated servers and competed on the world stage in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, World of Warcraft, and recently begun a chapter in Age of Conan. Our complete history can be found on our website.

Make sure you check out their interview with us and after, click on their link to their homepage and give them a deeper look! They may be just what you're looking for in an Order guild!

WARHerald Guild Highlights

From the WARHerald :

This week’s Guild Highlights feature is Guild Advancement. In Warhammer Online, a guild is not just a group of like-minded players; it’s an entity in itself capable of gaining experience and moving up through the ranks with the aid of its members. Guild Experience Points (GXP) are earned through the actions and accomplishments of the guild’s members. Guild experience points are the equivalent of character experience points. As specific thresholds of prestige points have been accumulated, the guild advances to the next Guild Rank.

Capital Cities FAQ

WAAAGH!

We now bring you the final part of our FAQ series on this past Friday's announcement. This FAQ focuses on capital cities and what these changes mean for the campaign and you as players.

These answers are in direct response to many of the questions we've seen throughout the community and should help to address any confusion that's out there.

You can find yesterdays FAQ on Careers and PunkBuster by Clicking Here.

Thank you,
- The Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Team

DISCUSS HERE!

Career Changes and PunkBuster FAQ

Greetings!

With Friday's announcement we know there have been many questions floating around. We've been spending the weekend reading your feedback and questions on these changes and have compiled an FAQ to address many of them.

We will also be posting an FAQ on the changes to Cities as well that will give you more insight in the the mechanics behind the new Campaign system and how we made our decisions.

Click here for the original article discussing these changes @ MMORPG.com

CLICK HERE to Discuss!

The Realm War!

Seems the wait is also over for that big old boarded up 'Coming Soon' sign on the WARHerald!
Check out The Realm War!

Only Two Capital Cities and 20 Careers at Launch!

As you all know, the W.A.R. World was rocked and shocked this morning with the announcement that the game will release with only 2 cities and 20 Careers at launch. To show the magnitude, this cuts The Orc Choppa, The Dwarf Hammerer, The Knight of the Blazing Sun and the Dark Elf Black Guard. It also cuts out the High Elf City, The Dark Elf City, The Greenskins City and The Dwarf City leaving us with just Altdorf and The Inevitible City. Obviously everyone has alot to say, so let's just get right down to it.

As always, we promote voicing yourselves, saying what you need to and expressing your opinions (and we ALL have ALOT to express right now) but we also expect you to voice them clearly, productively and constructively. This news, as much as it makes an impact, is NOT clear grounds for senseless mindless flaming garbage here. So we WILL ban on sight anyone that does so.

You're upset? So is everyone else. And everyone else is expressing it maturely. Do the same and get your point across about the Cities HERE and the Careers HERE.

The OW Eternal WAR RP Server Effort

In case you've been living in a cave, we here at Only-WAR have been coordinating the first and largest Role-Play Server Coordination effort for Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning. With things kicking into high gear as of the latest Newsletter talking about the Guild Beta and all, we have decided that it's about time we REALLY started promoting this effort. It's something many of us have been working on for years, it's the first of it's kind and we want to let you all know as much as we can about it!!

To the left is a new block we have turned on where all of the important links to this effort can be found!

Eternal WAR Server

Are you part of the Only-WAR Community and want to play on the same server as all of your friends here? This is where you will find all of the information you need on the FIRST and LARGEST Role-Play Server Coordination Effort for W.A.R.!

· The OW Eternal WAR RP Server FAQ

· The Eternal WAAAGH! (Destruction Alliance)

· The Conclave of Light (Order Alliance)

My Big Fat Opinion Updates!

Today we bring you two brand new My Big Fat Opinion Articles!!

One of them has been going on for awhile now and W.A.R. Official Updates kept it off the front page, but here it is now! From Thrakus!

My Big Fat Opinion on: Class Balance

Now this is a topic that has been one of the bigger fears for WAR, and most MMO's with any kind of PvP in general.

The dreaded class balance. "Nerf this, this class is OP, the healing is too weak". These kinds of statements tend to flood MMO forums like the plague.
It tends to be the vocal minority, but unfortunately the old saying has always applied "The squeaky wheel gets the grease".
Then all of us enjoying the game as it stands get affected by these people who want their class alone to shine whether by strengthening themselves or weakening the competition to a ridiculous point.

For WAR this is a HUGE issue since there are some many classes and the focus of the game is RvR.
So now class imbalance doesn't become just a small itch on your neck, it's a big pulsating tick that can suck the fun out of a game faster than Vanguard can fail.

And we have a new one from Alluvian!

My Big Fat Opinion: Elitism & Guilds

Greetings all.

With the upcoming Guild Beta for WAR I thought it would be worthwhile talking about two topics that can (at times) lead to a lot of argument if not handled properly. Elitism has always been an issue in social games (MMOs in particular) and it often seems that complaints of elitist behavior get directed towards Guilds. As such I thought it would be worthwhile to bring forth my own opinions on Elitism (The Good and Bad kinds) and how I think these issues can affect Guilds and how Guilds are perceived.

Be sure to check them both out and their corresponding threads to discuss the issues at hand!!

Only at Only-WAR!!

Only-WAR Exclusive Guild Interview - Divinity!

Continuing on with our Original Only-WAR Exclusive Guild Interviews, we have for you a great guild that has joined up in our Only-WAR Community recently...

Divinity!!!

How long has your guild existed(exact dates if possible)?
On June 13th 2008 Divinity was re-born. I say reborn because I brought this name over from a once very feared and respected DAoC (Dark Age of Camelot, Mythics first RvR MMO) guild on the Mordred server. Divinity was created there once the then top guild, Retribution, started falling apart due to conflicts in leadership. For a while Divinity ruled the server, and it was honestly some of the best times I ever had over at DAoC. Although I was not the GM when it was created, I was one of its founding members, and although I could have chosen another name easily I wanted to honor the name of the guild and the time I spent with them.

Be sure to check out the rest of Divinity's interview and their WebSite if you are interested in joining one of the strong Order guilds we have the pleasure of having a part of our Community!

Continuing unparalleled Guild & Community Support...Only at Only-WAR!

Ideazon "Pick a Fragmat Contest"!!

Only-WAR, EAMythic and Ideazon are asking for YOUR help! Below are images of Fragmat Mousepad Designs, and it's up to YOU to vote in this poll and make YOUR favorite dominate the others!!

Start: NOW!!

End: July 16, 2008

Details: Communities will vote on their favorite design, the winning design is determined by the total percentage score from all participating fansites. The winning design will be printed onto all Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Fragmats.

Fragmats are high-quality mousepads created by Ideazon, the makers of the ZBoard and Merc Stealth keyboards.

So...Take part...make a difference...PICK YOUR FAVORITE!!!

VOTE HERE!!