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Sunday, November 09, 2008
How to Use and Install Warhammer Online Addons

Warhammer Online addons is a great feature that was developed to enhance a player’s usability. With addons and mods they can customize their entire interface just the way they like it. It can even add additional features that EA Mythic did not create. A player can customize their user interface to their own preference.

Warhammer Online addons are often mistaken as hacks and cheats but they are actually not. They are actually fully supported by the publishers. EA Mythic created an API system which allows for players to build addons. A player with some knowledge of programming can easily create their own addon and customize all of their user interface as well as other parts of the game. Even without any knowledge of the API or programming, a player can still easily take advantage of addons already created and use them like they were their own.

To install an addon you’ve downloaded, all you simply need to do is navigate to your Warhammer  folder which by default is located at C:\program files\Electronic Arts\Warhammer. Once there you may need to create an interface folder followed by an Addons folder inside the interface folder. If these directories are already created then you do not need to worry. The addon files you’ve downloaded are usually in a zip or rar format. If this is the case, you’ll need to download Winzip or Winrar to extract the original files. Once that is done, just copy your addon you’ve downloaded into your addons folder.

Once you start the game your addons will be active. Beware when downloading an addon that requires you to run the file. There is never an addon in .exe format. These are usually viruses and Trojans used to steal your Warhammer Online account and password. Also note that some addons may be out of date due patches released by EA Mythic. Always make sure you have the most up to date version of the addon you are using. Another thing to remember is that some addons may have special slash commands that can be used in the game chat interface. You will need to refer to the manual of your addon for more information.

There are over thousands of addons already created that players can use. Some popular ones are map mods. You can find locations of mobs, items, a loot table, quest locations, NPCs and much more. Auctioneer is also another popular addon which records and analyzes data from the auction house. It keeps track of every item sold in, the price it went for, the average price, the minimum price, the maximum price and much more. There are also many great mods to help RvR and PvE battles.

Damage meters are great to help measure the amount of threat generated on a mob. This helps keeps aggro on the tank. Every player is required to synchronize their meter together in order to determine how much threat is being generated and passed around. Healers and high damage dealers will need to watch this meter to make sure they do not pass the tanks threat towards a mob.

There are also many small Warhammer addons that can be extremely helpful. Some addons may tell you when your morale bar is full and ready to be used or when an ability becomes available after a cool down. Some addons even gives you a signal or notifies you that your health bar is low or your action bar is low so that you can take action to run, heal or whatever you think may be best for your situation.

If you have been playing the game for over 2 weeks and yet still have not installed an addon then you are simply missing out on cool features that will make your life easier. From over thousands of addons and mods to choose from, I’m sure there is at least 5 that will suit you and improve your game play.

Posted at 02:30 am by tilamiles
 

Benefits of a Warhammer Online Wiki

Wikis are great sites to collaborate information, even for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. There is a ton of information in the world of Warhammer Online; over 20 different scenarios, four thousand quests, thousands of items, NPCs and much more. A War wiki is a great place to centralize that information and build a great informative community to help other players. The wiki relies heavily on the Warhammer Online community to develop its growth and accuracy of information.

Every person who visits a Warhammer Online wiki has access to edit, delete and contribute information to improve the content. It is a forever growing entity that continues to be developed by the owners and visitors. Every edit is logged in case of abuse or the previous edit was better and can be reverted. You can see as each page develops and the entire history of how it evolved. Volunteers and staff are required to monitor all the information inputted from the community to assure it meets guidelines and are of quality and not just spam.

If you’re unable to find the information you’re looking for at the time you visit, you can always check back at a later time or if you found what you’re looking you can always share it on the wiki. There is a discussion page on each content page which acts as a forum. You can request for updates, information, add comments or just chat away. You can find direct help from other members as you would on a forum.

We all know how popular Wikipedia is. They are the world’s largest encyclopedia. Their information is great but there are certain topics which are not covered in depth. With a game like Warhammer Online, their world is huge and forever changing. Patches are released approximately twice a month with new content and changes to the current environment. Without the help of a large community it does become difficult for a wiki to have the most updated information unless they have a large amount of volunteer writers or staffs who contributes to that information as well.

Wikis have their own built in search engine for you to find the information you need but like most things in life, it is never perfect. Broadening your search term or using different spelling variations may help with what you’re looking for. For example, instead of searching for “beginning quests for Chosen” you can instead search for “quests” and see what links become available to you. Wiki engine uses a rather different engine and many people may have trouble finding the information they’re looking for even if it is available. An alternative is using the most popular search engine Google as a medium. You can search the specific site followed by the information you’re looking for. An example would be “site:domain beginning quests for Sorcerer”.

Down to the core, wikis are a great place to find and exchange information. With a great team behind the wiki would be a good start but with a large community helping it can be the best source of information for Warhammer Online. If you find something useful in a wiki then give a little back to the community who gave you that information. Become a “good internet citizen” and share your wealth of knowledge. You will be recognized in the community and will receive great respect and help when needed.

Posted at 02:29 am by tilamiles
 

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Benefits of Running Multiple Warhammer Accounts

If you own a very fast computer such as a duo core 2.4 GHZ with 2 GB of ram and a really nice video card, you can probably duo log an additional Warhammer Online account at the same time. By running two or more accounts you can have many benefits at your side. You are able to tackle down quests that are a little more difficult for solo, take down harder mobs, farm more Warhammer gold, and even swap around different characters to play when you are bored with one.

There are a few types of classes that can be mixed as 2 to create a really strong team. To break things down, the most common classes of any MMORPG includes a heavy tank, a healer type of course, the range damage dealer such as a caster or archer, a melee damage dealer, a support class with crowd control abilities, minor heal abilities or buffs and usually the least wanted class are the sneaks such as a stealther type. The most commonly build up of a duo usually pairs with a healer / support with a tank, melee or a range damage dealer.

Every group, whether it’s a group of 2, 5 or whatever numbers it may be it requires a healer or a support class. The healer is more or less the heart of the group and should be kept alive at all times. If your healer is dead, you are more or less going to go down as well. Secondly you would of course need to deal damage; tank, melee or caster dps would do just fine depending on the situation and what your plans are.

Playing 2 accounts is rather much easier than you would probably think it is. It is ideal to set up both clients on windows mode and have a very comfortable key setup. The “follow” command is your best friend. That will be first and most important command you will need to move 2 different characters around. My 2 most favorite combinations include a tank with a healer and a caster with a support class. I sometimes even mix tank with a caster as well. A caster with support combo can take down large piles of mobs faster but tank with a healer can take out much higher level mobs, usually good for bosses or special encounters. For an even faster killing you can go with double damage dealers.

Leveling 2 characters at the same time isn’t much slower than leveling 1 alone. Sometimes you can even level faster on certain games and situations. Another major benefit is if you are out in a RvR group, you have the many classes available to fill what your group needs. Sometimes your group may only have 1 spot left and they need a specific class to fill that spot. Running multiple accounts, you have the variety of options available. If you can afford an additional $10 to $15 a month, I would surely invest my money into that second account. If you want to play different classes, you can level 2 at the same time instead of leveling a new 1 over and over again. Keep in mind, with 2 different accounts, you can farm Warhammer gold much faster and sell those gold to other players to cover your account fees.

Posted at 09:11 pm by tilamiles
 

Dungeons and Dragons Online Wizard Race Guide

In Dungeons and Dragons Online a wizard can be very fun to play if you know how to properly utilize their skills and abilities. They have a large variety of spells that you can choose from and it must be chosen effectively. They have the advantage of range but their most fatal flaw is their defense and close combat. They lack the armors that a warrior or tank type can wear. Unlike most MMORPGs, the wizard is more than just a high burst damage class. To begin, let’s figure which race would be your choice.

In DDO, the humans gain an extra Feat at first level which is useful to all classes. The extra feat can be used on toughness for extra hit points or dodge. A wizard class needs a lot of boost on survivability. Dwarves start with +2 to constitution and a -2 to Charisma. Con bonus gives you extra HP and adds to concentration skill which will help a wizard cast while being attacked. The Cha penalty will not hurt too much on a wizard class. Dwarfs also get a +4 bonus to Balance skill. A dwarf is ideal for pleasure and roleplay but not for stat wise. Elves begin with +2 Dexterity and -2 to Constitution. A well played wizard should not get hit much in melee combat so the extra the Dex will be very handy when it comes to avoiding traps and spell effects. Another defensive stat. Elves also has a weapon proficiency as well as immunity to Sleep and resistance to spells such as Suggestion and Hold Person. Elf is a very strong choice for a wizard class. Halflings get a +2 to Dexterity and a -2 to Strength. The Str stat does absolutely nothing for the wizard class. They also receive a +1 to AC as well as a stealth bonus. Halflings are also a good choice as they are a sneaky, small and good for party support. Warforged gets a +2 bonus to Constitution and -2 to both Wisdom and Charisma. Losing on Wisdom would hurt the most. Wisdom reduces the ability to shrug off many enchantments as well as their general resistance to many spells. A Warforged wizard gets Repair spells which you can use to act as your own cleric and damage dealer. Warforged wizards are not exactly the best class but can also have their benefits, especially when it comes to solo play.

Versatility and knowledge are a wizard’s strong points. Play with your strengths and weakness and everything about your spells function in order to master a wizards true potential. You need to be able to understand how certain spells may have different effects on different type of monsters, learn how to kite, how much damage you deal to each mob and how many nukes it will take to kill that specific mob before it reaches you into close melee combat. A well built and well played wizard and be the difference between victory and victory against an overwhelming battle in DDO.

Posted at 09:11 pm by tilamiles
 

How The Secondary Market Erupted in MMORPGs

Diablo 2 and EverQuest has been the earliest games in which players were able to trade gold, currencies, items, accounts, guides and even a power leveling service was introduced. EverQuest was the first massively multiplayer online game introduced while Diablo 2 was the first role playing game that supported a small multiplayer function through the Battle.net system. Both games provided a very unique coop play while Diablo 2 was the only game that offered some type of player vs. player function.

EverQuest was released on March 16th, 1999. The game itself is almost a decade old with over 5 different expansions along with a newer release of EverQuest 2. EverQuest 2 was released November 8th, 2004. EverQuest has been a popular game for lots of fans even as of today. EverQuest 2 players all have the desire of gold to purchase items that will enhance their characters and improve their game play with out having to spend that much time doing the boring stuff to get the gold. Even as of today, the original EverQuest is just as popular as many of the MMORPGs available now.

Diablo 2 was released on June 29, 2000. That is about 1 year after the release of EverQuest. If you’re wondering what happened to the original Diablo and why is it not listed is because the original Diablo did not have much support nor game play compared to the second release and at the point of the release of the game many players did not have efficient connections to the internet. Battle.Net has yet even become popular. In Diablo 2, gold contained absolutely no monetary value at all. There was not 1 highly demanded item that players can use to make trades, instead they had to barter in trade channels using what Diablo 2 items they have and what items players needed. There were a few items in mass quantities that were able to be used as a form of currency. These items were known as Stone of Jordan and the many different types of runes and charms in the game.

The gold and items were so difficult to obtain that there was a huge demand from players, especially those players who are not able to contribute as much time as others. This has created a high demand for the gold and items that were needed to enhance their character. They want to be able to play the game at the maximum level they can with their friends and others who are able to contribute more time. Because of this demand, many players has created either dupes or hired another gamer to do their farming and getting them the equipment and gold needed.

In Diablo 2, there were many bugs, loop holes, dupes and exploits that sellers have used to obtain these items of high demand. Farming them was simply just too difficult as the drop rate on some of these items were next to impossible. They have even created bots that will automatically move their characters and kill mobs or bosses and loot the items dropped. In EverQuest and EverQuest 2 these bots, hacks, dupes and exploits were banned quickly as there was a lot more staff watching over the game. This required the attention of low labor manual hack and slash grinding. Many Chinese players entered the market and provided the gold farming at low cost. Overtime more and more joined and the currencies has gotten cheaper and now everyone is purchasing them to save time in their life while yet being able to enjoy the game to the fullest.

Posted at 09:11 pm by tilamiles
 

An introduction Guide to Warhammer Lore

Warhammer Online was created as of a result to another Dungeons and Dragons tabletop type of game where players can control their units to rage into war. Warhammer in its original form has became extremely popular fast in which many books has been published, a role playing game was developed, computer games, jewelry and much more.

The Warhammer world is based on how our own planet exists with some minor adjustments. You can actually tell where each continent would exist and look as if it had gone through an ice age. It is an old world of our own. The most fearsome battles are held in the Northern Empire of Man and the Dwarfs. Even the Elves themselves find Chaos and makes business in the Old World.

The Dwarfs Empire was the largest of its side of the World as well as their power and wealth. Unfortunately their power was weakened by Elven treachery. The Greenskins took them during their fatal state and merged through the great defensive walls of the Dwarfs. The war lasted through centuries and both races have suffered. The dwarfs were forced to flee their home but yet determined to to reclaim what they have lost. The war continues for these 2 feudal races.

The Chaos is the most evil of all races. The Empire has always been the target of the Chaos. They are what can only stand between the Chaos and the destruction of the whole world. Time and time again the Empire has defended and won the battles but the Chaos grows stronger within each battle. Their victory is not much to be glorious of as their wounded and deaths were mourned throughout each upcoming war. The Dwarfs and High Elves alliance are united because of the hard battles that they have to face. United and known as the forces of Order, they vow to diminish the Evil.

The war between the High Elves and the Dark Elves was an ancient civil war that goes further back than anyone could possibly even remember. The stories of the tragic war have gone through many chapters, but however, Malekith the Witch King of the Dark Elves was the rightful heir to the throne of the High Elves. The High Elves disallowed that fact to be as Malekith was too corrupt and unworthy to rule over their race. Malekith was determined to take the rights of the throne and had led to long battles caused by the flames of Asuryan.

In Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, each race has so much hatred which will cause the war to passionate, fierce and desperate. The Dark Elves and Green Skins side with the Chaos to take down the Order in the new upcoming massively multiplayer role playing game. Do you have the evilness inside you to side with the Chaos or are you the righteous person that believes the good will always prevails?  Either side you go with, put on that armor and pick up a sword and shear some blood in WAR.

Posted at 09:10 pm by tilamiles
 

Easy Basic Warhammer Starting Tips

Warhammer Online is another massively multiplayer online role playing game which will require lots of learning and adapting. Like most MMOs available, each game has their unique game features and styles. Warhammer Online is very similar to Dark Age of Camelot and World of Warcraft. It offers unique quests and missions that you are required to complete along with high end raids and dungeons. The distinct difference between Warhammer Online and any other massively multiplayer online role playing game is that is has a realm vs. realm system which almost no other game has. The race to hit the max level and the best equipments to defeat the opposing faction is on.

During your game play, always make sure to always have room in your bag for loot, weapons and armors fully repaired. The last thing you want is to have to head back to town to repair and wasting time in your travels. If a mob drops some nice loot and you’re out of space would be a killer on your gold. Why would you want to chuck away something because you’re out of space and a really nice item had just dropped? Don’t forget to bring some potions and stock up on consumable items to aid you in your long battles. Don’t forget to always these things checked and ready before leaving any town.

Always grab every mission, quests and kill tasks whenever available.  Often, quests you grab can be completed nearby, some which includes kill tasks. If you are already grinding on a specific mob, chances are there’s a quest that will revolve around them. In addition, many quests yield great rewards. Some of these rewards include lots of bonus exp, unique items, weapons and armors that can greatly help you through the leveling process. Biggest benefit of all they may even offer you WAR gold that you can spend on whatever you like.

Once you’ve hit the second chapter of Warhammer Online, pick up a profession as soon as possible. Grabbing a trade skill will help you earn extra gold and benefits. If you grab a gathering profession you can gain extra resources and items that you can sell to earn Warhammer gold. If you pick up a crafting profession, you use items you loot and craft them into useful pieces to aid you on your journey. There are potions, powders and other magical items that can be crafted which will give you buffs and other benefits.

Quest and level with friends or guilds. It’s always good to travel in a group as you can aid each other when needed. There are many different classes that can offer different benefits. A class can take lots of damage has weak attacks, a caster on the other hand would be the opposite. A healer is always efficient to keep the tank healed up and ready for battle. Having an area of effect class is always beneficial as well as you want to be able to kill large groups of mobs with a few powerful blows. A group effort will yield more exp on kills than on single kills. If you’re in trouble a friend is always available to help. Plus, wouldn’t you find it boring playing a game alone than with a friend?

Posted at 09:10 pm by tilamiles
 

Warhammer Online Farming Guides

Players selling guides for massively multiplayer online role playing games are becoming more and more popular each day. Warhammer Online is the newest game and players are trying as hard as possible to push out the quickest guide to sell to players. If you really think about it, can another player possibly know that much more information than another that they can charge another player an overpriced $19.99 just to read their guide?

The game is too early for any player to really develop any guide that can contain that valuable of information that another can offer considering the game has yet to even be released. Why pay for information when many sites even provide that information for free. Majority of the information these paid for guides are scraped off other sites, blogs and forums and combined, compacted and reworded to become their own guide.

As the game is set to be released on September 18th many players will be pushing hard to level their characters as fast as possible as well as farming as much gold as they can on the process. Warhammer gold is valued the highest during the start of the game when every player is striving to get as much of it as possible into their own hands.

Some good pointers that will give you a bit more advantage over another player, pick up a profession and complete as many quests that is convenient and within your reach. Picking up a trade skill early on the game can give you a big advantage, especially a gathering profession. A gathering profession such as butchering, scavenging, magical salvaging or cultivating can grant you great bonuses during your early journey. By utilizing all your resources early in the game and continuing it will yield rewards later on the game. Rather than achieving the max level then going back to level up your profession you can gain all that benefit and sell your extra resources while leveling your character up.

Completing quests as you’re grinding on mobs to level will increase the benefits. Chances are if you are killing a specific mob in the game, there is also a quest that will tell you to do the same. Why not kill those mobs and complete the quests at the same time and reap additional rewards. Many quests will provide you with additional exp that will help you level faster. Some other quests can also offer gold and special items such as potions, powders, weapons and armors. By getting these items through quests you can save your gold and not have to purchase them yourself. Along with that fact, the rewards also tend to be much better than the quality that you are able to get anywhere else within your level.

These are some very basic tips that can definitely give your game an extra boost. Keep in mind that there really isn’t a guide worth paying for at this early on the game unless it’s an official guide from EA Mythic themselves. Save your cash and use free WAR farming guides and leveling guides. At this point they are just as effective.

Posted at 09:10 pm by tilamiles
 

Will Warhammer Online Gold be Available for Sale?

Many Warhammer Online players in the open beta or the head start program are already impatiently waiting for sellers to carry Warhammer gold. When a game is first released it usually takes an average store about 2 weeks before they are able to supply any type of gold. Even if the store has them by then, it would not be in high abundance for the entire market and the price for the gold itself would be pretty hefty due to the high demand. It is obvious having more gold than another player in the game can yield great benefits, especially when you are in a realm vs. realm situation. Your goal is be able to maximize your gears quick and head out and destroy your enemies.

Warhammer Online is currently the most highly anticipated massively multiplayer role playing game for the last 2 years. Experts expect it to be a great battle against the current king of MMORPGs, World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft currently holds 10 million subscribers world wide. Warhammer Online is expected to have close to half that population. At this point, Warhammer Online is still a long battle away but has a great advantage going their way.

The advantage Warhammer Online has is the long history of a successful MMORPG in the past, Dark Age of Camelot. Dark Age of Camelot has dropped in subscriber base heavily over this year, but we’re almost certain those players will be moving to the new Warhammer game. Another great advantage is that Warhammer Online will have a realm vs realm system that World of Warcraft was unsuccessfully able to create. World of Warcrafts player vs player system could not compare to what Dark Age of Camelot has and what Warhammer will enhance to their previous system.

World of Warcraft gold prices will probably not be able to drop down too much anymore as many of the current Chinese farmers will be moving to a new game to profit off of. You can expect Warhammer Online to have a great market for the Chinese farmers. That will also include an abundance of Warhammer gold that will be available for sale. Mythic has never quite been fully against players selling their currencies, at least not for Dark Age of Camelot plats. We hope Mythic also now known as EA Mythic will be just as lenient towards players that are interested in purchasing and selling War gold. Even if they should be against players selling, Chinese farmers will yet continue to provide gold to players as it is difficult to constitute and prevent their actions.

There are many Chinese farmers that uses illegal techniques of obtaining gold but yet there are always some that will follow the game and will only use legal methods of grinding for gold. Beware of who you purchase the gold friend. Often, the lower the price, the riskier it is to make that purchase. Always choose a more prestigious store over a store providing a cheaper price. Use services your friends have used to avoid risking your account getting banned.

Posted at 09:09 pm by tilamiles
 

World of Warcraft Gold Exploits Explored

There are many websites available that claims they have all the exploits to World of Warcraft, all the dupes, the hacks and tricks that can make you all the gold you need in the game. Do you honestly believe that is possibly true? First things first, an exploit is a bug in the game that players can utilize to give them some sort of advantage. Some may yield great benefits and bonuses while some may possibly do almost nothing. Hacking a game with 10 million players is rather quite tough; Blizzard would obviously have a very large development staff in order to create an environment for that many players. So the question again is, why do these sites claim to have such exploits or hacks?

There are numerous reasons why these sites may claim or even have them available. Many players get greedy when a site claims they have a World of Warcraft gold dupe that can make them 1000s of gold within minutes. Imagine, if you had found a site that claimed they can get you a 1000 gold in a minute, wouldn’t you want a piece of that? The average player can only obtain about 100-200 gold per hour. You would be filthy rich in World of Warcraft and can buy anything you want or need. Along with that, gold itself has monetary value. 1000 wow gold is valued at about $25.00 in real dollars. Making $25.00 a minute isn’t too bad eh? That’s $1,500 in 8 hours, wouldn’t you think a bit fishy? Why would some person you don’t know give you that type of valuable information?

So you must wonder what benefits do these sites have? Well, there are a few different type of sites that offers these World of Warcraft exploits. The most popular of them all are the ones who will charge you for them. The average site would charge by subscription and you have access to all their exploits, tricks, cheats, hacks found. Usually a yearly subscription instead of monthly, how often does one really find a new exploit and is able to charge the same amount for a small new addition? Another method they use is they proclaim they have this godly hack or whatever they’ve just found and is selling it for the famous “$24.99 but if you act now, only $12.99” or “get it now before Blizzard patches it”. Majority of these are just plain scams, they are more than likely to have already been patched or has never even worked. If they do work, they are probably not as efficient as they claim to be.

Then there are those sites that are offering them for free. They go on and on about how good it works and there is no purchase necessary. Free to download and use. Noticed, the word “download”? Yes that’s right, download. You’re looking to download a hack but instead you get hacked yourself. You lose all your precious World of Warcraft gold and valuable belongings you have worked hard for because you got a tad greedy and wanted it all. There have been many players who have been scammed by downloading hacks and exploits. They infest your computer with backdoors, Trojans and sometimes just a bunch of pop ups that will harm your computer.

Yet if you are lucky, there are a small handful of sites that are honest and will provide you with the free hacks and exploits you have been searching for. Usually these tricks they offer does not provide much of a benefit or does not give much benefits and Blizzard probably figures there are a ton more important stuff that needs work on than these small fixes. Either way, exploits are illegal and you may get banned if caught using them. If you should decide to use them anyway, at least get yourself a virus scanner and avoid having your account stolen.

Posted at 09:09 pm by tilamiles
 

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