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.

Knights of the Blazing Sun - Brief Overview

It was announced recently that the Knights of the Blazing Sun are going to be quickly reintroduced to Warhammer Online.  Classy Gamer seems pumped and seems ready to take up this class with conviction.

I think that, despite the feathers that some people denigrate, this is going to be a popular class.  I don't really like the look of the SwordMaster, and I have never really enjoyed playing dwarfs, so when I roll my first Order Tank, the KOBS will probably be it once they go live.

The Knights of the Blazing Sun are a "minor" order in the Warhammer universe but fill that classic good guy tank look that order needs. Bright, shiny, and mustached they are set to provide the armies of order with leadership on the battlefield.

KoBS are designed to be the "mirror" of Chosen, providing buffs to their party, and by placing debuffs on the enemy. I'm not certain if their mechanic will work exactly the same way as the chosen does, where they throw up an aura, that takes 12 seconds to fall after a new aura is put up.  This allows the chosen to "twist" the auras and keep a couple up at a time.

KoBS will likely use commands or something slightly different than auras to achieve their effect.  They'll likely have a dps specialty, a tanking specialty, and a utility spec.  They'll probably be seen with a two-hander as often as they are with a sword and board if they're anything like Chosen.

Don't expect there to be a million KoBS mains when they come out but it is reasonable to expect that some players, including a fair number of Swordmasters, will respec. Over time I predict they'll be fairly popular if they look anything like the image on the right.

I'll post more information here once it becomes available.  KoBS didn't appear in Beta for very long so there is little information out there on them and I suspect they've gone through substantial changes.

I'm super pumped about this class and the fact that they're making it in game so soon.