Ah, the joys of roleplaying. How many of you wish that RP servers had players that actually roleplayed once in awhile? Here is a WAR Herald guide that helps you on your to becoming a true roleplayer!

If the title of this article has drawn you in, then you might be a perfect candidate to give roleplaying a try!  Perhaps you are a skilled roleplayer, with years of experience at your back and hordes of characters. Maybe you simply love the Warhammer world and story, and you thought that this game would be a good opportunity to develop one character that could be living, evolving and growing in this exciting setting ...

Another round of Hot Fixes today! Lots of stat display fixes, as well as spawn and drop rate adjustments.

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• Dralel the Whitefire Matron in The Lost Vale will now properly reset after defeating all players.
• Skiv Redwarp in The Warpblade Tunnels will now properly reset after defeating all players.
• Slayer Grayoath's health has been adjusted to be more appropriate for his level.

Status: Update complete on all servers. Enjoy!

All North American servers will be coming offline at 7:05 AM EST for an update to improve server stability.  Oceanic downtime is expected to begin at 9:05 AM EST. At this time we anticipate that all North American servers will be back online by 11:00 AM EST with Oceanic servers following shortly thereafter by 1:00 PM EST.

Status: Maintenance Completed

We currently have an afternoon update for Dark Crag scheduled to begin at 4:00PM EST. This update is aimed to resolve issues with NPC's at Battlefield Objectives as well as work to improve server stability.

Another weekly site update, sharing with you the latest information regarding WAR Allakhazam, as well as reviewing important announcements you may have missed earlier last week.

Categories in this update include: News Highlights, Forum Discussions, WIKI/DB Updates, and Guide Updates.  Click "More..." below to view a summary of each category.

The Hot Fix for today should please those who encounter the Fortress Lords:

RvR

• Reduced the difficulty of the Fortress Lord encounters to be more in line with the potential numbers each realm can field in a fortress encounter. We will continue to monitor these encounters in the coming weeks and will make additional adjustments as needed.

Fortress Lords, very powerful beings that are bent on protecting their fortresses. Many groups of players have so far fought these creatures against incredible odds, some with success, while others with horrible failures.

Fortunately for those that have been less than successful to this point, Mark had a few interesting words to say about the continuing tweaks to improving this oRvR experience.

The first step in improving the oRvR experience of fortress taking went LIVE across all servers last night.  The good news is that there were lots of fortresses captured and defended.  The even better news is that there were no fortress-related crashes last night while these battles raged and were completed by the players.  Performance in these battles was also improved, but still not where we want it to be of course.

Celebration is in order for those with characters currently striving to attain a rank between 20 and 33. Experience requirements have been reduced !

It’s been a while since we’ve done a round of experience enhancements, but with the new year comes some good news for those players working their way through Tier 3 and eager to join their friends in Fortress raids and capital city sieges.

Some great Q&A goodies in this Grab Bag ! Many answers to the Recruit-a-Friend program, guild experience and other guilds updates, and more!

Q. Is the Recruit-a-Friend client different from the one you buy? 

A. Nope! The Recruit-a-Friend client is the same as the full version of the game client which is available in stores.

Another round of Hot Fixes today!

Capital Cities

• Fixed an issue with contested capital city Public Quests that was causing contribution not to clear after each completion of the Public Quest. Players will now see a more appropriate spread of contribution bonuses when a capital city Public Quest is completed.

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• The Uthorin Dreadblades at the Caledor Destruction warcamp Conqueror's Watch will now spawn at an appropriate level.