Warhammer Tradeskills Feature: Part 1

Welcome to the first installment of an in-depth look at WAR 's Tradeskills, featuring Apothecary, Cultivation, and Butchering. Read on for all the juicy details!

Special thanks to Gary Astleford and Phillip Chan for writing this piece!

“Oooh, that's a nice one! Clear as crystal, and not a bubble to be seen in it! Where'd you say these came from, again? Tilea? How impressive! Fine, then, I'll take the lot of them. Best not be any broken ones! The last lot was half shards by the time it was delivered!”

– Gertrude Weiss, Apothecary (overheard in Altdorf's market)
Apothecary
Apothecary is a crafting production skill that allows you to create potions that apply various temporary augmentations to your characters. A secondary feature in Apothecary is the crafting of dyes. By finding a pigment and grinding it down with a mortar and pestle, anyone can create a substance which is capable of dyeing cloth, leather, or even metal! Whether a Swordmaster or a Witch Elf, all players can benefit from the abundant selection of concoctions available.

The central item of the Apothecary craft is the vial. Vials are rated depending on their quality, which ranges from Apprentice to Master Apothecary. A vial provides the necessary container for the completed potion. Any merchant or vendor in the Age of Reckoning would quickly be put out of business without an unlimited supply of such vials.

“It's not all about black cauldrons, newt eyes, or ghoul essences! Which isn't to say those bits don't have their place in the profession, mind you, but these rumors make us sound like common witches!”

– Vander “The Warlock” Kohl, prior to his arrest and execution

An empty vial doesn't make for much of a potion, so you must place a main ingredient, culled from Cultivation or Butchering, into the waiting container. There are other ingredients too: some that increase the number of potions you can create with a single vial, some that extend the duration of the potion's effects, and even some that make it possible to create something better than what you originally planned. Finally, the concoction must be stabilized. Throwing too many ingredients into a single brew makes it volatile and more difficult to concoct.

With all your ingredients in place, you can combine them together in a frenzy of maniacal whimsy, creating wondrous potions that do anything from enhancing your character to gluing your victims to the ground. So grab a vial, a main ingredient, and brew away! Be sure to experiment with different combinations, and share your homebrewed recipes with others!

“All the horrors of tomorrow are hidden in the seeds of today.”

– Chaos Proverb

Cultivation

Cultivation is a gathering skill that feeds ingredients to Apothecary. You can learn this valuable skill from specific trainers in the world. Cultivation has undergone some very interesting changes lately. For example, the merchants have tapped the market and are now hoarding seeds to sell to hapless players. How opportunistic!

Don't despair! The beauty of plants is their ability to generate seeds, thereby propagating their species. If a burgeoning grower is careful, he only needs one seed to populate an entire garden of plants that will sustain him indefinitely.

“That which grows from the soil represents a miracle from the bosom of Rhya, yet even it will sit idle and rotten if not for the gifts of Taal.”

– Father Eichmann, Priest of Taal and Rhya

Merchants in the Age of Reckoning are a shrewd bunch, and have hedged the market on the various plant-growing necessities: soil, watering equipment, and fertilizers are bought and sold across the world. Luckily, all their proceeds go to the war effort. Waaagh!

Recent reports from the front indicate that new types of plants are being discovered on a daily basis. Some are so powerful that they might become attuned to only one cultivator! How bizarre!

“A sharp knife's the most important tool a butcher can have. Fine steel is the best choice, but beware of rust. Treat the edge like a delicate flower, and oil your whetstone between each stroke. After all, it's always less painful to slice off your thumb with a keen blade than to carve out a pound of flesh with a dull one.”

– Gerard Fleischer, Journeyman Butcher

Butchering
Another gathering skill is Butchering. The Butcher's craft feeds ingredients to Apothecaries. Rather than spend time nursing seeds, a Butcher can exert his unfettered dominance over beasts in the Age of Reckoning. Kill for sport! Kill for purpose! Or kill because you want a Rhinox Horn for the rarest of brews! From the claws of the noble griffon, to the bile from the liver of a lowly boar, all beasts in the Age of Reckoning conceal some medicinal use.

“I met the most curious little man on the road to Talabheim. His cart was laden with all manner of goods: jars of tripe steeped in scented oils, unborn calves baked in clay, even the tender portions of a lion preserved in brine that was taken from the Great Ocean.

“The latter, he said, would make me irresistible once I'd imbibed it.

“Of course I bought one! It hasn't made me irresistible yet, but it did give me the bloody flux. If I ever find that filthy Halfling, I'll see his tender portions preserved in brine …”

– Overheard in the Ten Tailed Cat

Do you feel like drinking some strange animal's blood, or devouring the organs of your feral prey? You can also harness the multiplicative power of Squigs or the adamantine quality of insect chitin in your potions today!

The beasts of the Old World are fierce, but you are fiercer. Butcher them all, I say, and harvest the best bits for your own diabolical concoctions. Anything to make you meaner, leaner, and harder to kill!

Ragbag & New Black Orc Mounts

What to do with all the cash? Gold so far is pretty useless in WAR. Mythic stated they don't want gold to be that important, but there are enough players, like me, that like to trade & craft and pile riches like Stunties. Shouldn't there be more money sinks people can work on? Like really expensive, but good looking, dyes? Or how about prestigious mounts that will cost a fortune. I don't really care if they're even faster, they should just look different. Talking about Black Orcs, my vote would go to these three creatures: Juggernauts of Khorne (cloaked in sheets of steel and brass), Rhinoxen (furry Ogre mounts) or as an enhancement of the already used boar theme: Tuskgors. Which creature would get your vote? Talking about mounts: Mythic, why do we get dismounted when riding into the Apex in the Inevitable City? Am i the only one that thinks this is annoying?
Werit wrote a nice post about Creating WAR Web Tools, how to read information from webpages and use them to create an online tool. He'll talk further about this subject, so check his blog.

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A lot of players still have difficulties to understand the zone capture & victory point system. Like with the wards system, its something Mythic does not explain properly ingame or elsewhere, so people fail to understand it. I'd also advice you to either use the macro to show VPs or use an addon like Compact VPs that shows the correct amount and not rounding to 100 to cap a zone. If you want to read up on it, check here for a more detailed description how Victory Points and zone control work.

The lost map of Lost Vale challenge is going great, the next challenge will be posted later today.

PTS Patch 1.2: City Siege Improvements & More Crafting Stuff

Mythic announced City Siege Improvements with patch 1.2 in Warhammer. Seriously? C'mon Mythic, that's a drop on the hot stone named capitol raid endgame. The shift in victory point generation is a step in the right direction, but they really need to fix the empty instance grinding. Now people can only do that for two hours instead of six, but still its a large issue. The server should only open new instances once the existing ones are full and place groups automaticly into existing ones where the group fits on. I know this still leaves issues with eg. a full warband starting a new instance, but still its better to prevent farming then let people chose their own instance. Also the queue system needs to work properly. Reduced time for a contested state means less people will have a chance on invader gear tho, resulting in more raids needed to be able to advance in the other capitol raid content, as you need those superior wards. Let's hope the overall zone domination changes will result in more frequent assaults on the main cities to even this out. I saw one item from the improved purple bags from an Altdorf raid and they sure pimped that stuff. Looking forward to Altdorf raids... I won't rant further on the city sieges, did that before. Let's hope the overall package of changes will result in a fun RvR endgame, but we're not there yet.

I fiddled around with crafting on the PTS more. Still trying to figure out the best way for me to change my main to cultivating, as my Choppa will take a while until rank 40. But i guess once the changes go live I'll do one or two afternoons of grinding materials with butchering on Thulf to stock up and then switch. Those mats then have to last until my alt is high enough to provide stuff cultivating can't. Should be fine. Only problem now is, how to make enough space in my bank or bags? Guess I really have to throw away some BoP greys. :S

Meanwhile i brewed some more potions and while many of the existing pots in my bags have been downgraded it looks like the critical success tiers finally work properly. I crafted some pretty nifty potions. One other thing i realized, and think is good: The materials from the guild vendor will provide less powerful potions then eg. potions brewed with butchered mats. Check the screenshot for a comparison, had to use an extender to create the same result with less duration. The multipliers for potions are pretty straight forward to use. The lvl 1 multiplier (vendor) will give you one extra potion, an uncommon lvl 200 multiplier yields five extra potions. I tried for quite a while yesterday to get my hands on a BoP seed, but had no luck.
From the looks of it those seeds can drop of high level champs/heroes, are lvl 200 BoP and will create the mysterious hybrid potions. Despite what the patch notes said, the plants created are currently not BoP. The potions are quite powerful, but have hefty stability requirements. Here is the first screenshot of such a hybrid potion, courtesy of Djanee.


While being on the PTS i met more readers of my blog, which has been a lot of fun. I appologize if my answers sometimes are delayed, but often i have 2-3 conversations going at the same time, about my blog or the patch 1.2 changes. Today i met two fellow Black Orc players, Neil & Sauce, i want to give a shout-out to. I was really curious if the Black Orc Darkpromise gear had any changes to the models with patch 1.2 and its sad to see, there are no changes. Neil was nice enough to pose in Darkpromise and Invader for me - check out the difference. There are so many nice NPC models, when will those placeholders be changed? Darkpromise on an Orc looks like the stuff my rank three auction house alt wears. Sucks.

On further sidenotes: The overflow system was enhanced, once you make space in your bag the overflow items will automaticly go to your bags, nice. Also the stack buying has finally been fixed. When i bought stacks of mats/containers it worked every time on the PTS.

Missing Warhammer Solo Content

Missing Warhammer Solo Content? I want Mythic to fix RvR and endgame content to have fun with my buddies. You know what? Me too! BUT what is there to do in WAR when you log in during off-hours, when everyone else is busy doing stuff you're not up to right now or groups are full? Is there anything you can do solo that's fun? And I'm talking about a rank 40 character that does not have to level anymore. Sure, you can join the odd scenario solo, but it really depends on your class and some luck how that will turn out. Often it's not much fun to solo join scenarios. In oRvR chances are, you'll run into a warband and get stomped. I know what some say, its a MMO - you should play with others. But sometimes you just want to idle around and do something on your own. What options are there else or should there be?

Crafting
If your crafting skills are not maxed yet, sure you can train these... but crafting in WAR is very, very easy so that won't last long. You can start to hunt for ingredients, but you don't really need to as there are only few consumables you really need. I always run around with stacks of those potions i can use for tanking, but neither is it hard to hunt for them nor is grinding mats that much fun. In WAR there is no real hunt for recipes either, so being busy trying to acquire that odd recipe you're missing is not an option. The pre-launch proclaimed "experimental" side for crafting does not really exist in WAR.
You could try to earn money with your crafting skills, but at the moment crafted things like potions are worth pretty much nothing. Talisman makers can make a few bucks and sure you can sell raw ingredients, but nothing really gives you the "feeling" you created something valuable that is worth selling and showing off proudly at the auction house. Crafting in WAR right now is not a fun experience once you get the hang of it and the "products" are only of limited use. The ingame economy is quite broken compared to other games.

Warhammer Solo Content
Once you hit rank 40 there are not many quests still worth doing. Most likely you'll have solved all existing epic quests with rank 37 or right after. Why not have some loooong and epic rank 40 questline to immerse in? In Age of Conan you had this very long and character defining main quest line you were following all the way up to max. level. Some epic rank 40 questlines with a good story to tell, a few nice rewards along the way and some epic challenges would be great. In AoC there were many instances for that questline you had to enter solo and no one else could help you with. Some of them had good challenges concerning the appearing fights and you had to utilize your character properly to beat them. Talking about those instances, why not have a duo dungeon? I know many play with their girlfriend/wife or best friend. A challenging dungeon for two players could be fun as well. Could be like an epic PQ, maybe 30-40min long, repeatable once a day. And i really don't care if you can only find social clothing in there, just want something unique.

Tome unlocks
Of course there are tome unlocks you can hunt as well. But most are pretty useless when it comes to character development and just fluff. I like fluff, but killing thousands of NPCs (for the unlocks not everyone has) is not that much fun. And once you scouted the existing world there is not so much more to see.

Beside renown, right now there is only so much to do when soloing. Shouldn't there be at least some things to do? I really hope they'll pimp crafting some more. I read in some comment from a dev that they'll have another look at crafting (especially apothecary) again. Let's hope they'll fix the highest tier potions and maybe add some fun (transformation, speed, etc.) potions. IMO it should be possible to advance your characters devlopment solo in some more ways. And if its an epic questline that's highly entertaining, that's fine with me as well. The rewards can also be of a cosmetic nature... new dyes, cool cloaks, trophies, maybe some character customizing stuff you can apply like the CE stuff. Do you log in sometimes to discover everyone else is busy/offline? What do you do? What do you WANT to do?

PTS Warhammer 1.2: Hybrid Potions, Black Orc Skills and Dungeons

The weekend on the PTS has been great. I met a bunch of new people that poked me due to reading my blog or entered crafting discussions we had in the test-guild chat. Due to this, i was able to get up to speed much faster about all the changes and test different things better. Thanks for sharing guys, you rock! One thing that has been *very* confusing is that often tooltips and skills are not consistent and there is some talk about the US running an updated test server version compared to EU. Since some skills did change quite much, its hard to tell what the current status on them is. But like you know, all of the PTS findings can change until they go live. One more thing i realized for a new UI change: When there is RvR fighting going on in an area you'll see it on your map. If you enable the small HUD campaign tracker, it will show there as well.

I was asked about the difference between Butchering & Cultivating for Apothecary supply. Well, from the looks of it both professions will be able to supply you with the needed stabilizers without a problem. Butchering offers ingredients for Armor & Toughness potions, which cultivating doesn't. Cultivating on the other hand has the new rare BoP seeds now. For base supply both would do, what you take up will probably depend on which things you need and if you can be arsed to grow seeds. I was linked some more of the new hybrid potions and made a screenshot collage for you guys - really awesome potions. On a sidenote: Buff potions now have a cooldown of 5min, so no different potions gulping right before a boss fight. And NO, force shield/absorb potions do not prevent falling damage sadly. ;)

Some wierd graphic bug makes the texture on the new mounts reload every few seconds. Also to other players it looks like you drop off the mount for a splitsecond.

I had some time to play around with some of the new/updated Black Orc skills. While its still unclear in which state they'll make to live, some of the changes are really great. Overall damage got improved and even so with a tank spec and sword'n'board. Some of my favorites I'd like to point out: Stop Hittin' Da Runts - all new, gives 40AP whenever a warbellow triggers. Awesome new tactic, never run out of AP again when you have it. Works together with Can't Hit me! - you'll be able to keep it up a lot even without any +AP regen gear. Wot Armor? applies the armor reduction in one hit now, with the fitting tactic for 30secs plus toughness reduction. Big Slash is now 360 degree, together with Keep it Goin'! its a good AoE damage dealer. Shut Yer Face together with Can Youz Hear Me Now? does around 500dmg usable every 15s. Very nice finisher, not sure if its intended as the tooltip suggest it only increases the dmg up to 350dmg. Overall after all the changes there are many more viable specs possible and you'll have enough tricks up the sleeve to find one that will fit your playstyle.

Like the patch notes said, they went over Mount Gunbad and Bastion Stair again to add some nice quests & loot. While i did not have time to join any dungeon crawls to look for new drops, there are a few quests for each dungeon you might find interesting: Each Dungeon has one quest for different jewelry items (Mount Gunbad, Bastion Stair), some other items and also for timed special talismans (offensive & defensive). The jewelry items might even be good for high level chars, i know I'll get the block ones for my tank. When i tried the boss in Mount Gunbad he had some pathing issues, resetting him back to 100% health, but hopefully that will be fixed before it goes live. The quests for the special talismans are not repeatable from the looks of it.

Tip of the day: The PQ loot bags from city sieges will have new loot with 1.2, should you still have any, keep them! The purple one will have an epic jewelry item (example), the blue ones a weapon and the green ones a cloak. The items are now useful for a rank 40.

The Quest for 7 Warhammer Seeds

The Quest for 7 Warhammer Seeds - Zeronova scours Ravenraid, Salzenmund and Beeckerhoven in Chapter III and IV portions of the Chaos vs. Empire pairing to find 7 skill level 25 seeds. In the process, she acquired almost 50% of the experience points toward level 12 on kills alone. It can be safely said that the various Empire spearmen, trackers, guards, greatswords, handgunners, and the like, have a good chance of dropping skill level 10 leeches for apothecaries. I can attest to this by virtue of accumulating 2 full pots (stacks) of leeches - 40 of them.


And yes, she killed lots of other things too - wolves, boars, sprites, spiders, deer, rats, birds, and well…she probably should have taken Butchering and not Scavenging…

All of this netted some vendor level 1 seeds; 2 level 15 seeds, and 1 skill 25 seed…meanwhile prices in AH for skill 25 seeds are starting to go…up - now 2 gold for one.

She found lots of other useful stuff…dirt, water, talisman components, potions and so forth… Lots of leeches. And Mudmaggot LIKE LEECHES. Especially LOTS and LOTS of LEECHES. Why? They’re great for healing potions. But, more importantly - you want enough healing potions that you can put them on your action bar and know that it’s not going to have to be replaced every time. A stack of 10 or 20 healing potions is a nice thing to have.

So - standardization of healing potions is very useful in PVP for non-healing classes. I tend to keep the “heal over time” potions for my healers - between their own heals, heal over times, a heal over time potion, and their morale abilities - they can go on suicide-take-the-flag missions in scenarios and maybe even have half-a-chance of living.

Ahhh….and that was the limit of my patience for grinding, so I turned to the web to learn a few interesting things. There’s a goblin that offers a quest - reward is only for about 100 xp and a seed - cultivating it continues to produce new seeds (provided one doesn’t get a critical failure). Also, level 1 seeds can get you to skill level 50 - it just takes a while longer. And, that is the route I’m going to take…

Warhammer online Invincibility Exploit

Use the print screen jump on any building located near the red dot in the image below. Face the wall, and be staring at the building on a flat side(harder to do on corners of walls). Make sure you are not at an angle (or you will travel down the wall while doing the print screen jump). I find it best to print screen jump on what looks like a support strut running up the side of the wall. Spam print screen and jump alternating VERY fast. Do it the right amount and you will end up falling into the building/into the water beneath the world.

From there you just swim around and attack everything. Monsters in CH15 PQ don't evade bug. Easy farming for inf+chest rewards.

You will need to decide when to stop stacking the printscr+jumps to properly fall into the building. I cannot tell you when to stop because it's different for each persons computer(the printscreen jump bug relies on interface lag that causes your jumps to stack onto each other while near an almost verticle surface : It relies on how long it takes your computer to screenshot)

It takes some practice to get print screen jumping working. Warhammer online Invincibility Exploit does work. For those who are not used to print screen jumping it may take a long time or you may end up on the roof of the building instead. I can reproduce this exploit and will provide screenshots later.

3 Warhammer online Cheats

Explosive Snotlings After Live Event
Go to Black Crag and at 16k, 40k you will find there is still a spot with explosive snotlings spawning. You can get 1 more chance at a battle brew backpack.

White Lion Parry Exploit
You can get 100 percent parry with a white lion. Put the riposte tactic on and summon your pet 10 times. You should have 100 percent parry after this.

Squig Armor Exploit
If you stand up against a postern keep door and put on your squig armor, nobody will be able to open the door with you standing there.

Warhammer Builds: Shadow Warrior template

This will be a "Distance" Warhammer build, concentrating on ranged and ranged AOE attacks.

• Ballistic Skill = Increases ranged damage
  
• Wounds = adds to hit points
  
• Initiative = Increases your chance to dodge ranged attacks, detect stealthed opponents and makes it more difficult for enemies to critically hit you.

The 25 points will be placed as follows: (There will be a few extra points due to RvR rewards, however we will not use them here)

15 in "The Scout"

Buy the following skills in the "The Scout" tree for one point each:

• Enchanted Arrows
  
• Glass Arrow
  
• Festering Arrow
  
• Guerrilla Training
  
• Fell The Weak
  
• Rain of Steel

Skills in the tree you do not buy: "Leading Shots".

The last 4 points will be put in the "Assault" tree. Any additional points should also be placed in "Assault", there is no reason to buy the bottom skill in the tree.

80 RvR points to be placed in:

• Marksmen level 1 = 1 point
  
• Marksmen level 2 = 3 points
  
• Marksmen level 3 = 6 points
  
• Marksmen level 4 = 10 points
  
• Marksmen level 5 = 14 points
  
  
• Impetus level 1 = 1 point
  
• impetus level 2 = 3 points
  
  
• Sharp Shooter level 1 = 2 points
  
• Sharp Shooter level 2 = 4 points
  
• Sharp Shooter level 3 = 6 points
  
  
• Sure Shot level 1 = 5 points
  
• Sure Shot level 2 = 10 points
  
• Sure Shot level 3 = 15 points

The purpose of this build is to be able to stay in the back and deal out decent single target and AOE damage to thin out the healers and nukers.

Here are the planned active morale skills:

• Level 1 = Lileath's Forgiveness
  
• Level 2 = Unshakable Focus
  
• Level 3 = Explosive Shots
  
• Level 4 = Rain of Steel

Slotted Tactics can be changed "on the fly", as long as you are not in combat. Since there are 5 quick slots available, I would use each one in a different situation. One for PvP fight, one for PvE Group, and one for PvE solo. Here is my choice for a "PvP fight":

• Steady Aim
  
• Guerrilla Training
  
• Instinctive Aim
  
• Enchanted Arrows

Build Strength:

Decent ranged DPS, including above average AOE damage.


Build Weakness:

No melee skills, as such STAY at range using this build.

Warhammer online guide: Shaman PVP Guide

Warhammer PvP Guide for the Shaman:

This guide took a lot longer then I expected, I figured about a week, however it has been about two weeks. I wanted to make sure I did not make any mistakes with the Shaman as I am not heal spec'ed like most people believe I should be.

The first thing I wanted to make sure of before writing a guide is that I was at least in tier three, this is easily made with the Shaman, as he is almost in tier four:

I also wanted enough actual PvP experience, so my second goal was to participate in at least 1k kills, since I am approaching 3k that was no problem at all:

The Good:

Extremely versatile class, switching damage dealing to full healer in the switch of slotted tactics. Decent survivability for a healing class. The ability to leech AP really extends the power that the class can deal, either by healing or damage dealing.

The Bad:

While I can deal out decent healing, I cannot even think about coming close to a virgin heal spec'ed Zealot, I believe this would still be true even if I went with a virgin heal build on the Shaman.

The Ugly:

Face it, you are a goblin! There are only two Goblin classes in WAR, healer and ranged DPS, both of these are prime targets for enemy players. When they see a Goblin, they look for a staff or bow and react accordingly. The only class that gets more focus fired upon then my Shaman is my WE. When you notice your front line starting to collapse, you need to MOVE ASAP.

Decent Skills:

'Ere we Go' = Adds damage to your groups next attack. This is probably the skill that I really need to use more of, instant and useful. If you are in "heal mode" and you have no targets that need healed, this is the first spell you should fire off.(Assuming you are in a full group)

Yer not so bad = Leeches your current target for AP and gives that AP to yourself. Awesome skill here with a short cool down. You should pop this anytime your AP gets close to 50%, and then just mana burn.(I guess in WAR mana burn would actually be "AP burn")

Brain Bursta = this is your staple damage spell, nothing special however, it is mostly used in PvE.

Big Waaagh = This has a short cool down and should be one of your second most used spells anytime you are in "damage mode" in PvP.

Life Leaka = instant and modified by a slotted tactic ability in damage mode. At level 29 the tactic removes 150 Willpower and 150 Intelligence for 15 seconds. Useful against healers and nukers, if they are not attacking you they are attacking your teammates, so it is always useful.

Bunch o' Waaagh = Channeled damage, this is my "thought you could run" spell. I always use this when my target has 20% or less of their health. Usually noob players(Yes, there are a decent amount of noobs or unskilled players in PvP in tier three) always try to run away way too late.

Da Waaagh is coming = this attacks acts like a "chain lighting" attack in Diablo 2. Hits one target then branches out to hit two more and branches one other time to hit yet another two targets. ONLY use this when you are hitting someone that has 4-6 people around them. It is an extremely inefficient spell if you only have one target that is alone.

Eeeek = Knocks back EVERYONE within it's range, and also knocks you in a random direction. Awesome ability, however it will cost you your life if used often in places like Tor Anroc.(It is still usually worth it however) You cannot predict which direction you will be knocked in, however you will know where your enemies are going. If you line up face to face they will be knocked straight back, line up to their left and they will be knocked back far to their right. Think of you as a "gallon of water", when you click the ability the "gallon" hits the surface of the water and a wave goes out, originating in the middle, that "wave" is your knock-back and is exactly how this spell works.

Mork's Buffer = This is an hour long buff that adds to all resists for an hour,(For your whole group) you really need to get in the habit of using this automatically anytime after you die and are brought back to life.

Gather Round = What "seems" to be a lobie group heal. Costs a really expensive 65 AP! I have noticed however then when slotted for healing,(tactics = Plus to WP and plus to % to crit heal) it does a very decent heal, as much as 250% of the heal listed in the tooltip. Using this spell if you are damage spec'ed is a total waste.

Bigger, Better, An' Greener = greatly interruptible direct heal spell. You really will not use this a lot. You should use your shield and your big HOT, before this is even thought about. The ability bar does get knocked back quite a bit if you take any damage while trying to use this ability.

Bleed Fer' Me = instant, 24 second low damage DOT spell, however it does heal your defensive target for the full amount. I only use this if I know the enemy target is going to be alive for awhile.(Such as a tank class) It does help quite a bit if you have already used your shield and big HOT, and you are under attack. Of course if you are not under attack, simply use "Bigger, Better, An' Greener".

Gork'll Fix It = A small direct heal with a little better HOT for 9 seconds. Use this instead of "Bigger, Better, An' Greener", if you are under attack.

'Ey, Quit Bleedin = a 30 AP spell that heals for 1130 over 15 seconds at level 29. This will be your most used spell, whether you are healing or doing damage. If you are tactic slotted for healing, this will do an average of about 1500 over 15 seconds making it heal 100 health every second on average.

Don't Feel Nothing = instant shield that mitigates 500 damage at level 29. Another very commonly used ability.

General Notes:

I really have two "modes" for my Shaman, I must choose one before I enter PvP. I either choose "damage mode" or "healing mode". If in damage mode I slot "Divine Fury"(Adds 25% more damage at the cost of 20% of your healing power) and "Leaky Brainz".(Life Leaka will now also reduce your target's WP and INT by 150 for 15 seconds) If I am in healing mode I slot "Discipline" (Raises WP by 116) and "Extra Special Mushrooms".(Raises your chance to crit heal by 10%)

As I have said before I was a little concerned that by doing a damage build, I would actually greatly gimp my healing abilities, this turned out to be incorrect. A Zealot, spec'ing in healing and being a dedicated healer in a PvP scenario usually averages between 70k and 100k in healing. Being damage spec'ed and entering a PvP scenario slotted for healing and with nothing on my mind but healing, I usually average between 40k and 60k in healing.(Not as good as a Zealot, but certainly not gimped.)

Since I am a "must win at any cost" type of player, sometimes I find myself in a PvP scenario where I must continuously utilize my abilities, such as running up to the Order and Eeeek'ing them, forcing them to take a lava bath.(In Tor Anroc) Since I am not a noob and know how to play my class, I can also use my Shaman as a utility toon such as flag/bauble holder. I try to do what the team needs to win, whether it is healing, damage, or utility.

Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about the Shaman!

Warhammer Online build: Warrior Priest

This build was based on the following guidelines:

Frontline combatant, while still being able to heal. This was actually a difficult build, which is why it took me awhile to complete it. I did not want to give you a build that was raw DPS as this would gimp out your healing abilities. This build gives above average DPS with a hardcore "auto healing" pumped in. Please note that you "must" be using the buffed up skills 90%+ of the time you use any skill.(Another words ALWAYS use a skill in the "Grace" tree, or a core ability in the "Grace tree" unless it is a necessity to use something else like a rez.)

The Warrior Priest:

Prime stats: (In order of importance)

(It is very important that STR takes precedence over Willpower for this build to work as intended. Please note that the more damage you do, the MORE healing you put out)

• Strength = adds to melee damage.
• Willpower = adds to healing power.
• Wounds = adds to HP.

The 25 points will be placed as follows: (There will be a few extra points gained through RvR rewards, however we will not use them here) (Also note that this "caps out" a tree, I really do not like putting "all my eggs in one basket", however I cannot argue that the points could be better placed elsewhere)

15 in "Grace"

Buy ALL the skills in the "Grace" tree. I was going to leave out "Sigmar's Vision" however that is your highest skill for DPS output.(Tied for first place anyway)

The last 3 points will be put in the "Wrath" tree. Any additional points should also be placed in "Wrath".

80 RvR points to be placed in:

• Might level 1 = 1 point
• Might level 2 = 3 points
• Might level 3 = 6 points
• Might level 4 = 10 points
• Might level 5 = 14 points
  


• Resolve level 1 = 1 point
• Resolve level 2 = 3 points
• Resolve level 3 = 6 points
  


• Discipline level 1 = 2 points
• Discipline level 2 = 4 points


• Spiritual Refinement level 1 = 5 points
• Spiritual Refinement level 2 = 10 points
• Spiritual Refinement level 3 = 15 points

The purpose of this build is to be able to be a frontline combatant, with the ability to heal decently.

Here are the planned active morale skills:

• Level 1 = Divine Favor
• Level 2 = Rampaging Siphon
• Level 3 = Penance
• Level 4 = Avatar of Sigmar

and the planned tactic slots: (assuming you are in PvP, PvE tactics would be a little different)

Leading the Prayer
Greave of Sigmar
Restorative Burst
Grace of Sigmar

You can see this build here

Warhammer Build - Bright Wizard Aoe Template

This Warhammer online build was based on the following guidelines:

- Had to be AOE.
- Emphasis was on PvP.
- Personal safety and achievement is meaningless, as long as the team wins.


The Bright Wizard:

Prime stats: (In order of importance)

• Intelligence = adds to magic damage in Warhammer online
• Wounds = adds to HP in Warhammer online
• Willpower = adds to % to disrupt spells in Warhammer online

The 25 points will be placed as follows: (There will be a few extra points gained through RvR rewards, however we will not use them here)

15 in "Conflagration"

Buy the following skills in the Conflagration tree for one point each:

• Annihilate
• Fiery Reserves
• Spreading Flames
• Backdraft
• Conflagration of Doom

Skills in the tree you do not buy: "Explosive Force" and "Wildfire"

The last 5 points will be put in the "Incineration" tree. Any additional points should also be placed in "Incineration", there is no reason in Warhammer online to buy the bottom or second to the bottom skill in the tree.

80 RvR points to be placed in:

• Acumen level 1 = 1 point
• Acumen level 2 = 3 points
• Acumen level 3 = 6 points
• Acumen level 4 = 10 points
• Acumen level 5 = 14 points
  


• Resolve level 1 = 1 point
• Resolve level 2 = 3 points
• Resolve level 3 = 6 points
  


• Sage level 1 = 2 points
• Sage level 2 = 4 points
  


• Focused Power level 1 = 5 points
• Focused Power level 2 = 10 points
• Focused Power level 3 = 15 points

The purpose of this build is to put out massive AOE DPS.

Here are the planned active morale skills:

• Level 1 = Mage Bolt
• Level 2 = Ruin and Destruction
• Level 3 = Scintillating Energy
• Level 4 = Conflagration of Doom

and the planned tactic slots:

• Endless Knowledge
• Fan The Flames
• Fiery Reserves
• Devour Energy

You can see this build here .

Warhammer Black Orc Mastery Build

Since this is going to be a hardcore 1H/Shield build, your three top stats will be:

Toughness = reduces incoming DPS(Not a stat, however armor will be what you are looking for on gear)

Wounds = adds to Hit Points

Weapon Skill = Adds to parry% and armor penetration%

The 25 points will be placed as follows: (There will be a few extra points from RvR rewards, however we will not use them here)

15 in "Da Toughest"

Buy the following warhammer skills in the Toughest tree for one point each:

• Less Stabin Me
  
• Ya missed me
  
• Not in da face
  
• Mor' hardcore
  
• Can't hit me
  
• Can't touch this

Skills in the tree you do not buy: "Stop Hittin Da runts".

The last 4 points will be put in "Da Boss". Any additional points should also be placed in "DA Boss", there is no reason to buy the bottom or second to the bottom skill in the tree.


80 RvR points to be placed in:

• Fortitude level 1 = 1 point
  
• Fortitude level 2 = 3 points
  
• Fortitude level 3 = 6 points
  
• Fortitude level 4 = 10 points
  


• Reinforcement level 1 = 5 points
  
• Reinforcement level 2 = 10 points
  
• Reinforcement level 3 = 15 points
  
  


• Focused Power level 1 = 5 points
  
• Focused Power level 2 = 10 points
  
• Focused Power level 3 = 15 points

The purpose of this build is to "be all you can be" in the tanking department. A Marauder can out DPS a Black Orc in the 2H department, and the Black Orc can easily out survive a Marauder in the tanking department, as such we will concentrate on the Black Orc's advantage in this build.


Here are the planned active morale skills:

• Level 1 = Champion's Challenge (both you and target are rooted - no more running away from you)
  
• Level 2 = Raze
  
• Level 3 = Distracting Bellow
  
• Level 4 = Can't Touch This

Slotted Tactics can be changed "on the fly", as long as you are not in combat. Since there are 5 quick slots available, I would set each set to a different use. One for PvP fight, one for PvP heal, one for PvE Group, and one for PvE solo. Here is my set for a "PvP fight":

• Mor' Hardcore
  
• I'm Da Biggest
  
• Unstoppable Juggernaut
  
• Less Stabbin' Me

Build Strength:

HUGE DPS Mitigation

Being the main tank you are going to get whacked on and whacked on hard. With this build you are able to knock back targets a medium distance almost at will. This build also increases your block and parry% past the first action in your combos, as well as reducing the cool down of you Juggernaut ability and increasing your hit points by 1600.

Build Weakness:

A little less DPS

You will not be able to put out as much DPS as some other builds, however you will be able to take a lot more DPS. As with any class, a healer friend will greatly increase this builds usefulness.

Warhammer Witch Elf Mastery Build

This Warhammer Witch Elf Build is going to be a little unconventional. Most players that play a Witch Elf will probably go hard in strength to raise their DPS, in this build we will concentrate on Weapon Skill. Here are the top three stats for this build:


Weapon Skill = adds to parry % as well as armor penetration %
Strength = adds to melee DPS as well as auto attack DPS
Wounds = adds to Hit Points

The 25 points will be placed as follows: (There will be a few extra points from RvR rewards, however we will not use them here)

15 in "Carnage"
Buy the following skills in the Carnage tree for one point each:

Elixir of Insane Power
Pierce Armor
Swift Blades
On Your Knees!
Blade Spin

Skills in the tree you do not buy: "Sharpened Edge" and "Broad Severing".

The last 5 points will be put in "Suffering". Only place 4 points in the actual tree and buy the skill "Kiss of Doom". Any additional points should also be placed in "Suffering".

80 RvR points to be placed in:

Blade Master level 1 = 1 point
Blade Master level 2 = 3 points
Blade Master level 3 = 6 points
Blade Master level 4 = 10 points
Blade Master level 5 = 14 points

Might level 1 = 1 point
Might level 2 = 3 points

Assault level 1 = 2 points
Assault level 2 = 4 points
Assault level 3 = 6 points

Reflexes level 1 = 5 points
Reflexes level 2 = 10 points
Reflexes level 3 = 15 points

The purpose of this Warhammer Witch Elf Build is to be an overwhelming threat to any class, and be able to deal with the retaliations of slicing through the front lines of PvP.

Here are the planned active morale skills:

Level 1 = Sever Nerve
Level 2 = Force of Will
Level 3 = Death Reaper
Level 4 = Blade Spin

Slotted Tactics can be changed "on the fly", as long as you are not in combat. Since there are 5 quick slots available, I would set each set to a different use. One for PvP fight, one for PvP heal, one for PvE Group, and one for PvE solo. Here is my set for a "PvP fight":


Swift Blades
Riposte
For the Hag Queen!
Kiss of Doom

Build Strength:

NO WEAKNESS:

Let's face it, your job as a Witch Elf is to run through(or use stealth) the frontline to get at the healers and casters. But what happens when you do this? Most likely you will always get agro from one or more melee classes. Having a huge parry chance with an auto attack when you do parry will greatly help your survivability. Add a 50% chance to knockdown on your frenzies, and the 50% chance for your Kiss to proc, will really come in handy in the end game PvP. This build will also help with solo confrontations. Some may argue that going with a heavy strength/crit build would be better, however you would be putting "all your eggs in one basket", and if your crit gets dodged/parried/blocked it is useless. Here every time you parry an attack the attacker is hit with an UNDEFENDABLE attack. Even though the Carnage tree already gives you massive armor reduction abilities for tank battles, Weapon Skill ALSO adds to armor penetration, besides the increased chance to parry.

War weapon skill is bascially worthless

Warhammer Online Weapon Skill might be "O.K" for armor penetration, however it massively sucks for parrying. As such, I respec'ed and changed three levels in Warhammer Weapon Skill and put the points in strength.

Here we can see the three levels of Weapon Skill with a 6.7% chance to parry:

After I respec'ed we can see the MEANGINLESS difference of 1.2%! As far as I am concerned, for a WE, WAR Weapon Skill is worthless:

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Warhammer Black Orc Healing bug

Warhammer Black Orc Healing bug

Da Toughest

A grand war cry to proclaim yourself da toughest! All your attacks gain a 25% chance to increase your wounds by 57 for 10 seconds. You will be healed by the amount increased.

You may only have 1 War Bellow active at a time.

Right now, you can click off the Da' Toughest proc buff.
When it procs, it gives you a 10 sec wounds buff and heals you for the same amount.
Clicking off the buff will remove the wounds buff, the healing obviously stays as it is not a maintained buff effect. This allows it to proc more often than 10 seconds. Likely not intended. It takes a lot of micromanagement to PvP well while clicking off buffs so much, especially as a tank class, but it makes for some nice extra healing if you do it correctly.


Done some nice pvp yesterday exploiting this

p.s

also was first at healing in few scenarios :P

Warhammer Tradeskills Information

Warhammer Online is retaining a very similar warhammer tradeskill profession such as the older massively multiplayer online role playing games. In World of Warcraft, gathering professions were first introduced but now Warhammer now currently has more gathering tradeskills than crafting. There are currently 4 gathering skills and only 2 crafting skills. The 4 gathering skill consists of cultivating, magical salvaging, butchering and scavenging. The 2 crafting profession currently available is apothecary and talisman making.

The Warhammer cultivating tradeskill in WAR allows the player to grow their own weeds and fungi which are used by the apothecary for ingredients. Cultivating requires seeds and spores that can be otained from monsters, scavenging and from most merchants in cities and towns. A pot is needed as well obviously. To get better results from cultivating, you can add soil, water and nutrients. The better you treat your plant, the better your plant will treat you.

The Warhammer magical salvaging tradeskill in WAR is the ability to break magical items into small magical fragments. These magical items can be obtained from PvE, RvR, quests and variety of other places. When salvaging an item, you can choose the type of stats to extract from that item. Along with the fragments you will also get what is known as essences. Both fragments and essences are used to make Talismans.

The last 2 gathering trade skills in WAR is butchering and scavenging. They are very similar in many ways, both skills are used to gather resources from a dead mob that has already been completely looted. Butchering is used on non-sentient mobs while scavenging for the more socially active mob, in another words, beast or humanoids.

The Warhammer apothecary trade skill uses ingredients found through cultivating and can turn them into potions, powders or lotions. It would be wise to be able to pair your characters or friends with different professions to gain the maximum benefits off each profession. There are many different type of potions and can provide various abilities. Some can add very low stats but have long durations while another of the equivalent level have higher stats but shorter duration.

The Warhammer talisman making profession hasn't been fully released yet but it allows you to create talismans. Talismans are known as the minor items of power which can be attacked to certain armors, weapons and grants permanent bonuses to that item. Only rate and powerful items are able to have talismans placed onto them. To create a talisman, you will need a contain along with the magical fragments and essences received from a player with the magical salvaging profession.

Every profession will yield its benefits. Gathering professions are better during the beginning of the game since you do not have any resources to craft nor yet may want to spend that gold to level up your crafting. A gathering profession can definitely reap its reward early. The crafting skill may be what you prefer mid to end game when you have all the resources at your hand. Whichever profession you should decide to go with, it's always best to pick one up early on the game. You can learn these trade skills from a trainer as early as the second Chapter of each faction.

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Warhammer Witch Elf template build

This build is going to be a little unconventional. Most players that play a Warhammer Witch Elf will probably go hard in strength to raise their DPS, in this build we will concentrate on Weapon Skill. Here are the top three stats for this build:

Weapon Skill = adds to parry % as well as armor penetration %
Strength = adds to melee DPS as well as auto attack DPS
Wounds = adds to Hit Points

The 25 points will be placed as follows: (There will be a few extra points from RvR rewards, however we will not use them here)

15 in "Carnage"
Buy the following skills in the Carnage tree for one point each:

Elixir of Insane Power
Pierce Armor
Swift Blades
On Your Knees!
Blade Spin

Skills in the tree you do not buy: "Sharpened Edge" and "Broad Severing".

The last 5 points will be put in "Suffering". Only place 4 points in the actual tree and buy the skill "Kiss of Doom". Any additional points should also be placed in "Suffering".

80 RvR points to be placed in:

Blade Master level 1 = 1 point
Blade Master level 2 = 3 points
Blade Master level 3 = 6 points
Blade Master level 4 = 10 points
Blade Master level 5 = 14 points

Might level 1 = 1 point
Might level 2 = 3 points

Assault level 1 = 2 points
Assault level 2 = 4 points
Assault level 3 = 6 points

Reflexes level 1 = 5 points
Reflexes level 2 = 10 points
Reflexes level 3 = 15 points

The purpose of this build is to be an overwhelming threat to any class, and be able to deal with the retaliations of slicing through the front lines of PvP.

Here are the planned active morale Warhammer skills:

Level 1 = Sever Nerve
Level 2 = Force of Will
Level 3 = Death Reaper
Level 4 = Blade Spin

Slotted Tactics can be changed "on the fly", as long as you are not in combat. Since there are 5 quick slots available, I would set each set to a different use. One for PvP fight, one for PvP heal, one for PvE Group, and one for PvE solo. Here is my set for a "PvP fight":

Swift Blades
Riposte
For the Hag Queen!
Kiss of Doom

Build Strength:
NO WEAKNESS:

Let's face it, your job as a Warhammer Witch Elf is to run through(or use stealth) the frontline to get at the healers and casters. But what happens when you do this? Most likely you will always get agro from one or more melee classes. Having a huge parry chance with an auto attack when you do parry will greatly help your survivability. Add a 50% chance to knockdown on your frenzies, and the 50% chance for your Kiss to proc, will really come in handy in the end game PvP. This build will also help with solo confrontations. Some may argue that going with a heavy strength/crit build would be better, however you would be putting "all your eggs in one basket", and if your crit gets dodged/parried/blocked it is useless. Here every time you parry an attack the attacker is hit with an UNDEFENDABLE attack. Even though the Carnage tree already gives you massive armor reduction abilities for tank battles, Weapon Skill ALSO adds to armor penetration, besides the increased chance to parry.

Build Weakness:

NONE

No build is "perfect", however at this time I could not find any weakness, if this changes, I will let you know.

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