Warhammer Tank

So where are the new Tanks? Heavy Metal Missing?

Is it just me or are the new Tank Classes not featuring heavily in the Heavy Metal Live event?

I figured that you'd see Black Guard NPC's and Knights of The Blazing sun roaming all over the world and would be integrated into the live event but that's not what we've gotten so far.

I must say that it's pretty non-immersive right now. Basically the live event is "go check out our new scenario", which, admittedly, is a lot of fun. But invading a beer factory doesn't exactly make me conjure up epic feelings of armies calling up reinforcements in the form of new tanks.

Perhaps the later Heavy Metal Quests will be more epic.  We shall see!  I certainly hope that they are.  I still want to see hundreds of Black Gaurds colliding with hordes of KOBS

New Tanks Live Event - You are not prepared!

So the "Heavy Metal" Live event is coming soon, on November 18th.

You can find the default information on it here.

It looks to be an event that is very similar to the Halloween "Live" event where you can get some cool stuff if you gain enough influence.

For those of you out there who are looking to roll one of these new careers you'll want to get started fast and max your influence so you can start before the masses get access.  So, book some time off from household chores and get ready for a good old fashioned grind!

In my opinion it looks like there might be a bit more variety in this event than there was in the Halloween one.  Hopefully we'll see different quests every day, kind of like the WoW instance dailies that changed around.  And, there's a new scenario to try out.  It's in the T4 Zone but everyone can participate, I assume that you'll only fight people in the same Tier as you.

During the Halloween event I found the zerg in the RVR PQ kind of boring and my inf bar didn't budge much at all, hopefully the Heavy Metal event will feel more meaningful and a bit less grindy but I'm not holding my breath.

I have a feeling I'll be rolling a Black Guard as an Alt after I get to 40 on my Black Orc.  We'll see when that happens.

Good luck to everyone who'll be trying out the Feather Knights or the Emo Elfs.

Black Guard - Brief Overview

In December of this year (2008) the Black Guard will march into Warhammer Online. This will bring the total number of tanks for the destruction side in this mmo to 3, having them stand side by side with the Black Orc and the Chosen.

There's been some suggestion that there will be a special event for the intro of the new careers. I'm hoping that this involves a couple of things, namely, a huge number of npc's marching in columns to defend their respective areas, and a swarm of NPC's that must be defeated and are difficult to defeat without the new careers being around to tank them.

The Black Guard will line up, mechanic wise, against the Ironbreaker.  The BG will build up hatred as they fight in the same way that the ironbreaker builds up grudge.  If things go the way I hope, the Black Guard will use halberds and will have the opportunity to do some AOE damage.

There isn't a whole lot of information on the Black Guard as of yet but the speculation is that they'll be a bit more offensive oriented than the ironbreaker, filling more of the roll of the Swordmaster.

I believe it'll take a while for Black Guards to get the same number of players as Black Orcs and Chosen due to the fact that both those classes are pretty cool looking and popular but over time, as a higher than average DPS tank, they'll hold their own.