Warhammer Online Weekly Roundup - 3/8/2009

[DarkGreenLord-WHA]

With the end of this week comes the end of the Bitter Rivals event. Starting next week the head start begins for those lucky enough to have gotten the elite reward in the event; so there will be Slayers and Choppas galore.

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• 3/3 The event Call to Arms: Bitter Rivals and Patch 1.2 goes live. Last minute changes were done even afterward making it a fun release, frustrating for some, and a blessing to others.
• 3/3 Crafting Changes - Scavenging With the major changes to both Butchering and Scavenging in relations to Apothecary skill, players were given the ability to exchange their current level of Scavenging for an equal level of Butchering.
• 3/3 Spotlight on: UI Mods by Anglakhel reviewed the UI mod State of the Realm.
• 3/4 WARDB Updates - Build A Slayer/Choppa Today! The new careers now have a career build to to help you decide what your Orc or Dwarf should do with all of those new power and path choices.
• 3/4 WAR Community Promotion Initiative #6 - 1.2 Sound-off Wednesday's WCPI focused on the many WAR blogs take on the new live event and 1.2.
• 3/4 [EU] Cross-Rule transfers
• 3/4 Zone Control and You! Mythic details the new system and gives some numbers to help us make some informed decisions on how to flip zones.
• 3/4 Source Server Character Transfers Today announced the final days of some source servers, after which today all characters remaining will be transfered to the Magnus server.
• 3/5 State of the Game From our Dev Tracker we get information on the current state of the game from Mark Jacobs.
• 3/5 Spotlight on: Screenshots by Ariwyn on Thursday focused on some of Nateum's Photoshop Magic.
• 3/5 WAR Free Trials 10 day free trials were opened up to everyone.
• 3/5 Witch Hunter Feature from Mythic and the GOA, players give their insight on the class.
• 3/6 WAR Community Poll - What's the Best Part of Bitter Rivals?
• 3/8 WAR Community Promotion Initiative #7 - 3/8/09 Todays WCPI talks about talisman making, 1.2, and more on the WAR blogs.

GOA announced it's way to improve the overall game experience, cross-rule server transfers.
A lot for one week, and much more in the next two with arrival of the new classes. Get to da choppa!