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Originally posted by NoX

No to sice psali, ale nic takového se bohužel nekoná. Na na closed beta serverech určitě ne. Shaman házel ty healy furt stejně vysoký, ať měl Waagh! kolik chtěl. Jinak jsem taky čekal, že se to bude nějak líp scaleovat.

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Originally posted by NoX

Pochopil jsi to naprosto přesně. Modelová situace PvP u shamana je na těhle nízkejch lvl vypadá následovně: DoT, DD, DD, HoT, DD, DD, DD, direct heal, DD, DD, HoT,...

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Originally posted by lukass
Jsem ho zkousel a prislo mi to ze modelova situace je: objevim se na bitevnim poli, pribehnou dva hammereri(ty sprinty jsou ekl), dostanu stuny a spomalovacky a ani v povzdali stojici zealot me neuheluje(natoz ja sam, pres ten rachot dam max 1heal a o nakym pohybu nemuze byt rec).

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Originally posted by NoX


Na tenhle problém jsem ale narazil i u Choppy. Nahodim berserk (15sec duration/1minuta CD), tím se mi aktivujou dvě nejlepší DD specky. Přes GCD švihnu nejakou tu specky 3x a jsem bez AP. Tak tam tupě stojim, jedu autoattack, vyprší mi berserk a čekám až se mi doplní AP, abych měl něco na další berserk.

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Originally posted by NoX
Tobě by přišlo v pořádku, kdyby

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Originally posted by NoX
Tím "kdyz je clovek rychlej nepolozi ho ani dvojnasobna presila" jsi myslel sprint ke guardům, že?

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Originally posted by NoX
Shaman má (stejně jako Zealot) jednu Tactics na lepší AP regen. Je to +5 AP každou vteřinu

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Originally posted by Little
JESTE EDIT: ke zmene v patchi, nevim jestli sem si toho driv nevsiml, ale imo to pridali ted v patchi....pokud vyberete target, pod vasi postavou se objevi bile kolecko po jehoz obvodu obiha cervena sipka podle toho kterym smerem je vami vybrany target....celkem prijemna feature.

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Originally posted by Tibor

Já sem zatím naprostej WAR noob, tak si to užívám.

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Originally posted by Rashaverak

vy ste lamky az ta hra vyjde [naiv]bez bugu a skvela[/naiv] tak uz vas bude nudit zatimco ja si ji teprve zacnu uzivat

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Originally posted by Methodius

no co uz ste niekto skusili toho lovca carodejnic? ako sa to zanho hra? ake ma tahy? je to snim zabava?

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Originally posted by Tibor

Ano, mě beta omrzela. Nedal jsem tomu moc, chtěl jsem zkusit něco za chaos a náhodně jsem si vybral chosena. Dohrabal jsem se až na lvl 10.
Od té doby se nemůžu přinutit lognout. Kromě pár drobností mi to přijde stejné jako ostatní onlinovky...

EDIT: Můj účet už používá někdo jiný, takže ne, nedám.

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Run Away
Orders your pet squig to Taunt all enemies near it, making them hate it more and reducing damage they deal to everyone else for 10 seconds. Durning this time, your run speed is greatly increased, but will retrun to normal if you také any action.

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We’ve just started work on a new itemization subsystem – repairable items.

We wanted to cut down the chances of getting dropped items that are completely useless to you. While some monsters drop perfectly good weapons and armor when you kill them, some take so much punishment during the beating that they drop stuff that no longer works. We’re calling these bits of junk “repairable items” for now.

When a player finds a repairable item, they can’t use it – it’s just junk. However, the item’s tooltip tells/shows the player what that item could be turned into if they take it to a blacksmith NPC – you’ll be able what stats the repaired item will have.

The blacksmith, if he can make something from the junk, will always make something that is useable by your career. The repairable items don’t have any binding restrictions, so they can be traded and sold. Once a blacksmith has turned a repairable item into something useable, that item is bound to you.

Sometimes, a particular pile of junk just can’t be repaired into something useful for your career. In these cases, you should just sell/trade the junk to someone else. Repairable items don’t last forever. If they don’t get repaired quickly, they turn into “broken” items – which are pure junk. So, there’s no point stockpiling them. We’re also looking into ways for players to do the “repairing” themselves in the field.

-Items Team

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For this week's update, we are going to answer a few of the recurring questions regarding keeps and siege. The details will still be on the light side as many of the features won't be fully implemented when Beta re-opens. We don't want to tease you too much with juicy bits of goodness that won't be available right away when you log in.

Before I dive into that, there is one other change to RvR. We have changed the Renown splitting from its old contribution based system. Renown for killing players is now awarded to each member of a group if one or more members participated in the kill. The amount of renown given to the group is a percentage based on participation in the kill.

Now on to the Keep questions.

Will the keeps be attackable without siege? Yes, players will be able to break open the keep doors, battle the guards, fight their way to the keep lord, and try to capture the keep.

Will Keeps change in appearance based upon which race controls them? In future patches (pre-launch), the appearance of the keep will change to reflect that the enemy realm has captured it. At this time, we are not planning to entirely replace the keep with a new structure with different geometry. So, an Empire keep captured by Destruction will still look like an Empire keep, but it will change to look like it's been under siege and show some signs of its new owners.

Will there be NPC guards and a captain to kill rather than a "run up and click the flag" we see in "that other game"? There will definitely be more to capturing the keep than just interacting with an object or entering an area. There will be guards and a "lord", with the numbers of guards present based on factors players from both realms can affect. More details will be released closer to Beta re-opening.

Will there be non-typical types of keeps? (i.e. ships, trains, mountains) At this point, we aren't planning on using anything that deviates too far from a "keep" style structure.

Will keeps have multiple levels and if so, will they use ladders or stairs? The keeps will have several floors of combat space. Both the keeps and the outer walls will use stairs or ramps, with no ladders to be found.

Will Battlefield Objectives play a part in the keep system? Yes, there will be connections between the BOs and the keeps. Sorry folks, this is another one that we have to say "more details to follow later".

-RvR Team

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I'm hoping we'll get more than two options for mastery per class (i.e. a chosen that can master being more defensive, being more offensive, or being more debuffer..., or... duel vs shield, or... )

Each career will have 3 Mastery paths available to them, and the specific differences between the paths will be based on the individual careers. In general, careers that share archetypes will often share similar themes on Mastery, but it is not 100% the same.


But one thing I was expecting to see at least mentioned, but wasn't, was an ability to respec our characters?

There will definitely be a mechanism in place to respecialize your Mastery. Initially for Beta it will be easy to access and free, however there will be some cost to it in release.


hrmm, i probably missed it, but how do you earn mastery points? Is it just from when you level up?

Yup! You gain Mastery points as your rank increases. You'll begin gaining Mastery points at around 25% of the way through your career, so that you have some time to become accustomed to the career's core playstyles before you have to make any specialization decisions.


Is it a good assumption on our part to guess that you are taking a look at spells and attacks as a whole as well as adding specs?

Absolutely. Remember that we're releasing all of these different aspects of the careers iteratively, so the next pass over the careers that adds Masteries will also be a general pass over the careers as a whole.


I would like to know if you can give us any information on the UI for the Career Mastery. You mention that at certain levels you get to "unlock" skills, will these skills be visible before they are unlocked or only at the point when they become available?

The UI for the Mastery system isn't quite ready for discussion yet, but we can assure you that all of the abilities within a path will be visible right from the start. We're not going to keep the benefits of a Mastery a secret; you'll be able to see right from the beginning what you'll gain from each Mastery path.


I am interested in how this will work for the front load casters, IE Magus, and BW.. hmmmmm
Guess will be like DD mastery, CC mastery, and DOT mastery type hmmmm ?

The C&C team is actually making strong efforts to avoid a "CC Mastery". Crowd control is a powerful, necessary, and key part of gameplay, but it's also very delicate - if you're unable to control your character for an entire fight, that's horribly frustrating and simply not fun. Bright Wizards, for example, might have one Mastery for direct effects, one for longer-duration effects, and one for area effects - any crowd control abilities that they might have would be scattered through the trees as appropriate.


For some people, the meta-game of speccing and respeccing is the most fun

Don't forget about things like Tactics! Not only will you have made decisions about Masteries, which are longer-term and more fundamental decisions about the direction you want to take your character, but you'll also be making fight-by-fight decisions on which Tactics to use. Let us diverge a moment away from Masteries, and briefly mention another change that you'll be seeing when the Beta reopens: When it comes to Tactics and Morale, you'll have to make fewer choices about what to -purchase-, and more choices about what to -use-. The Mastery paths will have some Tactics and Morale that you'll have to purchase, and those will be very specifically focused on that path - but outside of those, your career's normal Tactics and Morale will -all- be granted to you.


I'm not entirely certain I understand a certain facet of the system. Is it true I could get full mastery in all three mastery paths, but not get all the skills associated with that tree?

Let's throw out some "most-extreme-case" scenarios here for you:

* If you ignore every supplemental ability in every Mastery, and only invest your points into Masteries, then you'd be able to either take all three paths up to 75% of their maximum level, or two paths up to 100% and the third at 0%.
* If you take one Mastery up to its maximum level and purchase every single supplemental ability in that path, you'll end up with around 25% of your points left to distribute into the other paths.
* If you try to distribute your points as evenly as possible, both increasing Mastery levels and purchasing supplemental abilities in all three paths, then you'll end up with each Mastery at about 45% of its maximum level, and about 45% of the supplemental abilities available to each line.


Not sure if this has been asked yet or not...but I had a quick question. Will masteries effect stats or anything else besides skills in any way?

Stats are not effected by Mastery directly - there may be some Mastery Tactics or Actions that give you access to improved stat buffs, but the core allotment of stats stays the same. Gaining additional stats is predominately done via equipment. That being said, there may be different sets of gear that are more or less attractive to different mastery paths.


I guess I'm just confused how not speccing into something makes your base spells for that tree equivalent to level 20-25, but it's still only a 30-35% difference if you spec 100% into it. That seems like conflicting numbers to me.
Unless there's only a 30% difference between a level 20 and 40, but that brings up a whole other set of issues.

To keep it short: the 30 – 35% is the general number you see after you factor in the fact that a rank 40 Character will have rank 40 stat bonuses & gear, which will make an ability stronger then the same one cast as a rank 25 player with rank 25 gear and stats. Don't confuse -player- levels with -ability- levels! That 30 - 35% number is when you compare two rank 40 players of different specs - comparing a rank 40 player to a rank 25 player, even if they're both using rank 25 abilities, would be a MUCH larger gap because of stats, gear, etc.


I think the worry comes about the system comes from the number of actions to choose from within a line. If most of our choices are tactics/morale then this does little. On the other hand, if within each path is a large number of good actions to pick from then I think this system has a good chance.

Some numbers to hopefully put your fears to rest:

* 25% of each careers Base abilities are Core, the other 75% tie in to Mastery Paths (25% each)
* If you’re really fond of purchasing Actions/Abilities you can get 10 – 25% More actions via mastery purchase. That being said, we’re not releasing final numbers at this time but every career will have 20+ actions no matter how they spec.


I sincerely hope each specialization is viable in both pve and pvp. Its more about the style in which you are most comfortable with to achieve your goal.

We absolutely agree. The Mastery paths are designed to emphasize different facets of the careers, -REGARDLESS- of whether you're playing in PvE or RvR. From a design point of view, we make a strong and intentional effort to have all of your abilities be useful in both realms of play - for example, look at our Taunts. The differences should be in personal choice and playstyle (a tank who's focused entirely on defense will be the person blocking off a bridge at a strategic chokepoint, whereas a tank who's focused entirely on offense will be the person leading the charge when the battle line advances - won't it be interesting to see what happens when the two collide?).

-Combat & Careers Team

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Are there any plans for abilities (either core or purchased) to impact non-combat gameplay? Abilities such as: (non-combat) Travel enhancements, Group Assembly abilities, Downtime reduction abilities, other beneficial abilities to make the out-of-combat experience more fun?”

We've absolutely discussed and looked at non-combat abilities, but combat-based abilities are a notably higher priority. We'd certainly like to flesh out ability lists with non-combat / utility / "flavor" items, but in a world at war, keeping yourself alive and taking down the other poor sod have to be primary focuses for now.

20+ ability's per career is a little low for a game of this size but as long as they are 20+ differant ability's I guess I would be happy. I hope theres no fire1, fire2, fire3 type thing going on here If the number is infact 20 (not saying it is) thats only 5 base/core ability's and 15 ability's gained from spec ? or from spec,morale,and tactics combined ?

Players will NOT be purchasing the same ability over and over and only getting Rank 1, 2 and 3 versions of it. Each career will end up with around ~20 guaranteed unique actions between Core and Base. After that, they can purchase addition supplemental abilities which will increase that number by around 10-25% depending on how you choose to spend your Mastery points. Overall we expect most players to have somewhere in the mid to high 20’s of action activates (this does not include Morale).

You mention cost to respec, so it will be the only method? buying it from our trainer? no chance of dungeon mobs dropping them?
- Going by DAoC's specing ways and obviously is the way you guys are describing, the more we spec in X line, the base spells of X line get better, so if X line has a CC spell, by increasing the spec of X, will it make the duration of the CC last longer like it does in DAoC?

1. Don't take "cost" too literally - Spending coin, investing time, and performing tasks are all "costs" of one type or another. As was mentioned previously we have yet to determine the cost of respecialization yet. For now it’s free so we can get the specialization smoothed out first. =)

2. When you increase your Mastery, you'll -generally- see values increase, not time factors. In other words, the amount of hit points returned by a heal-over-time would increase, but the duration would likely remain the same. For effects like Crowd Control (CC), it's not likely that you'll see direct increases to the time, but other aspects may increase (for example, a melee attack which stuns would keep the same stun duration, but the damage from the melee hit would keep on increasing). This is not to say we won’t consider increasing duration values, but we are starting with other aspects of the abilities first.

I can understand how hard it would be to create several 100 skills an make them at least semi original, But is there any fear's of funneling people into taking those "cookicutter" tree specs?

Well, here's the thing - we're fully aware that someone, somewhere, will sit down and write up a multi-page dissertation with graphs and numbers to "prove" that one specific Mastery layout is "the best", and word-of-mouth will result in lots of people using that layout (for a few weeks, anyway, until the process repeats again). It's simply human nature, and that's fine. The C&C team's goal, however, is to ensure that every Mastery layout is viable and functional, and suited to -someone's- playstyle. Trying to fight against the players who are going to actively go looking for "cookie cutter" layouts is fruitless (and as vocal as they may be on forums, they're honestly the minority) - instead, we're simply making sure that every decision is usable, even if it’s not optimal. We’ll constantly be adjusting each of the lines from Beta until the game shuts down in 3011, and depending on the type of situation and the current stage of balance different builds will be considered “Cookie Cutter” for min/max players. There is very little we can do about that, it’s the inherit flaw in having specialization systems in general, and the primary reason we allow for Respec.

Does that means we will get specific tactics/morales at specific lvl (like core abilities) or will we still be able to choose which one we want to pick first?

You'll be getting Base tactics and Base morale abilities at specific ranks, along with your Base actions. Those tactics and morales will be given to everyone of each career, and your decision will be more based on which to -use-. Then, above and beyond those, there will also be Supplemental tactics and morales available from Masteries, and you'll have to invest in the given Mastery before they can be picked up. Also keep in mind the RvR tactics and Tome tactics are also optional, so you get further choice with those as well.

I personally felt like the Tactics and Morales needed a bit more structure in the order they become available to use. For example, I didn't like the idea that you could pick a Rank 4 Morale before picking up Morale Abilities for slots 1-3. It's partially a matter of a sensible progression in power and partially a matter of making it friendly to new players.

We agree, and as the careers are getting measured and fitted with their Masteries, we're also restructuring the order in which Morales become available. You'll begin to see your Morale appear in rank order, and rank 4s will become somewhat rarer and more impressive.

20+ can mean 21, or 567478368. I was hoping for a bit more than that.

Another question in addition, will there be any significant variation in ability number between archtypes or even the classes within each archtype? For instance in beta there were some classes with 9 or so more abilities than other classes, I know that was a product of some classes being more 'finished' than others, but is there any real variation between the above with mastery abilities? i.e. do healers get say 2 mastery abilities per line, because they have more 'baseline' abilities?

Base abilities will be roughly the same for each career: around 20, and we will add additional actions to the Base if we feel it’s necessary to make the class play well - but that is our starting number. Beyond those, every career will have the exact same amount of Mastery and Supplemental options available. After a career gets redesigned for Specialization you should see 90% of the careers having a similar number of total abilities.

I guess what I was getting at was is there/will there be a situation where a gained Mastery ability is clearly superior to a baseline ability, be it through more damage or the same damage but with added effects, or same damage but less energy, and so forth. So basically will (certain?) Mastery abilities replace the existing 'baseline' abilities, or are they intended to be supplementary abilities?

The Supplemental abilities are exactly that - they supplement the Core and Base ability set, and aren't replacements. If they were simply replacements, then they'd essentially just be "Smash Rank 2", and that's no fun. =) The Supplemental abilities from any given Mastery will generally be things that help focus the career more towards the theme of that Mastery, or provide new tools relating to that Mastery, or open up more options for the player, etc. One thing to note is that you might get, say, a Heal or a Nuke that is a lot better then your base one. However, it may have a longer cooldown timer, or require the target to be below 50% Health, etc., so it doesn’t just replace your defaults.

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1)Will there be any ways to get mastery points besides leveling up? Maybe add in a few quests throughout the world that let you get extra mastery points? Or for some other achievements, as well.

For now, you'll only gain them via increasing your rank. More then likely you’ll never get additional Mastery points outside of leveling - RvR and Tome rewards have their own ways of increasing player power up and beyond Mastery.

2) Will there be gear with + to masteries? Will masteries be able to go over level (or whatever they are capped at if it's not equal to level), with appropriate scaling in the power of skills?

The system has been designed to allow for flat bonuses to Mastery Level or Bonuses individual abilities levels via Items and Item Set bonuses. How far we take this has yet to be determined.

3) Will players be able to access individual skills that must usually be purchased within masteries without investing points in that skill, through the use of items that have a + to that skill (similar to Diablo)?

No. If we hypothetically grant that you'd be able to increase your Mastery level without investing points, you wouldn't gain access to Supplemental abilities which would otherwise still be locked.

4) Will all masteries for all classes be meaningful choices, or will there be some classes where the choices between masteries are along the lines of "sword, axe, or hammer", with just marginally different style effects?

The Masteries all focus around the question of, "how do you want to play this character?", and are meaningful and impactful decisions. The difference between using a sword, axe, or hammer is fairly cosmetic - an example in terms of Masteries might be closer to "defensive abilities with a one-handed axe and a shield, versus offensive abilities with a greatsword, versus positional attacks and debuffs with hammers".

5) Do individual skills within each mastery have multiple tiers as well? For example, if under "fire mastery" you have a supplementary skill called "fireball", could you put multiple points in this skill to make it more powerful, or do you just put a maximum of one point into any given skill, and then boost its power through raising the mastery?

The latter. You only need a single point to unlock an ability, and then it scales along with your rank and Mastery.

6) Do skills have a requirement on the level of mastery that you must have before you can purchase them? If you're character is max level, but has 0 points in fire mastery, could you purchase any ability in fire mastery, or would you need to first put a certain amount of points into fire mastery to unlock certain higher level fire mastery skills?

The Base abilities in a Mastery are granted to you as your rank increases. The Supplemental abilities that are available to you are based on your Mastery level.

7) Along the lines of the previous question, do individual skills within masteries have other skills as prerequisites, creating an overall skill tree structure, or is each skill individual and seperate within a mastery, not having any other skills as prereqs?

We're currently looking at not having any prerequisites other than the appropriate Mastery level, but a cascading tree is always a possibility for the future, we want to see how players respond to these changes before developing any further adjustments to the system.

8 ) Will all classes get exactly the same number of mastery points? Or will some classes that are deemed to require a greater number of abilities be given more points (similar to the DaoC system with 1.0x, 2.0x, etc, classes)?

Every career has the exact same amount of Mastery points (and similar amounts of abilities).

9) Will masteries contain anything besides actions, tactics, and morales? For example, any background/passive boost effects?

The Supplemental abilities are currently a mix of actions, tactics, and morales. Remember Tactics really are the major passive boosts in the game, you can just have the flexibility to adjust them on the fly instead of having to go respec your character to change them.

10) Will certain masteries or certain skills within masteries allow you to unlock access to additional types of equipment? For example, would you ever need to invest a point in say "dual wield" under "weapons mastery" to be able to wield two weapons at once, or anything along those lines?

No; neither Masteries nor Supplemental abilities will fundamentally change your character's equipment options.

The only thing that worries me about AoE CC is the fact that there was no diminishing return mechanic in the last beta session. Will there be such a mechanic ? Or will it be tied into one of our Mastery Lines ? Or will it be based off of our overall resistance to that type of damage ( physical , elemental etc.. ) ? Sorry if this got a little off topic.

This is going a bit beyond what we're ready to discuss at the moment, but we're still experimenting with reductions and immunities. At the moment, we're currently leaning towards a diminishing-returns system of some type, but it's still in the works.

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With so many careers and so many weapon types, we wanted to make it easier for players to find stuff that they could use from monster drops. So we’ve included a new family of items into the monster drop tables.

Now whenever a monster drops an item, there’s a chance that it will be a busted-up pile of junk. Yeah, you killed that monster so totally that you broke some of its loot. These items need to be repaired before they can be used.

If you mouse over one of these items, the lower part of its tooltip shows you what the item will become if you get it repaired. If you take the item to a special craftsman, he will turn it into something you can use. These repair NPCs are at every warcamp. The repair NPCs care about what career you are – they can turn each repairable item into different things depending on your career. So, a particular item will get repaired into one thing if you’re a Warrior Priest and a different thing if you’re a Bright Wizard – but the result will always be something YOU can use.

These repairable items don’t have binding restrictions. When they get repaired though, you’re stuck with it.

Sometimes however, the item just can’t be turned into something suitable for your career. This happens about a quarter of the time. In this case, just trade the item to a buddy of a different career … or just sell it.

Repairable items are so badly damaged that you need to get them repaired fast. If you don’t get them repaired quickly, they become “broken items”, which have no use whatsoever … yet. So, if you find a bunch of repairable items, there’s no point stockpiling them – they’ll eventually turn into scrap.

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Hello all,
We have some news for you but sadly it’s not the news you were hoping for. Unfortunately it is necessary to delay the re-opening of beta until next week. This is due to some last minute issues that cropped up as EA Mythic were going through the final checklist. Until these few, small problems have been ironed out, we aren’t able to re-open the beta servers.

The teams are working flat out on this, there are always plans in place to deal with the unexpected and while this will change the schedule slightly it won’t affect the quality of the final product. Like you, we believe that the game has to be delivered in a high quality state, even in beta. As soon as we have more information for you regarding this we’ll be sure to let you know.

Thanks for your understanding and your patience, the Old World is almost ready to welcome you once again!

For myself I'm on holiday after today until the new year. I'm going to spend Christmas with my wife's family in Colorado and Las Vegas. I'll try and keep up with things on here and I'll be checking in with the rest of the team at Goa as often as I can but... Vegas....

In any event the other Community Managers - Sterntaler, Citseko and the others - will keep you up to date on what's going on until I get back on New Year's Day. If you have urgent problems then PM one of them, otherwise I'll deal with it when I get to it.

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The second career will be the previously unannounced Disciple of Khaine. Dark priests of the Bloody handed god, The Disciples of Khaine can be found on the frontline of any Druchii assault. Using wicked ritual blades a Disciple harvests the essence of their enemy and offers it to Khaine in exchange for fell blessings and dark powers. These dark gifts allow the Disciple to tend to the needs of the Dark Elven host, mending bones, suppressing pain, and even raising critically injured warriors to fight again. For the Disciple of Khaine is the Shepard of war, ensuring the bloody slaughter can continue in the name of their dark god.

In small combats the Disciple is a master of shifting the balance of a fight, what they reap from their enemies they give to their allies. What was once you’re strength will soon become their own. Disciples must be watched carefully and their fell magic countered in short order or you will find your very essence trapped in servitude to Khaine.

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