Plarers can choose their own path in Warhammer.
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

The Tome is a book waiting to be written by your adventures, with every action bearing the potential to add an entry and grant rewards. Some entries, like killing 25 Dwarves are easy to uncover, while others are shrouded in mystery. Want to know how I got my stylish cape? Figure it out for yourself. Working from the Tome alone, you could endeavor to complete every Public Quest, discover every hidden lair, or be the best damn killer of spiders the world has ever seen. Just because everyone else is raiding doesn’t mean that you have to.You have to look at it as a framework for the patches and content to come, and just two weeks out, it has already set the new standard for questing with Public Quests, the Tome of Knowledge, and near-complete lack of grinding. WAR has me hooked for the next few months. That I know for sure. With an overhaul of the crafting system and a few tweaks to RvR, we’ll start talking years.

If raiding is your thing, EA Mythic has guild-building down to a science. Instead of the glorified chat rooms that pass for guilds in other MMOs, the guilds of WAR encourage teamwork and participation. As members gain XP and Renown, so does the guild, gaining access to battle standards, vaults, meeting taverns, and even the ability to claim a keep in RvR zones. If you’re not in a guild, even the capital cities gain ranks from you participation. New vendors, quests, dungeons, and places to explore are popping up all the time. In fact, the capitals are so massive that I suspect you could get all the way to Rank 40 without ever stepping foot outside.