There is another way which Warhammer Online brings MMORPG to the casual masses .
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

The other way in which Warhammer Online brings MMORPG to the casual masses is scenarios. At any time, even at level one, you can join a PvP scenario. These scenarios pit two teams against each other in a separate battlefield with a unique objective. They run the whole gamut of PvP concepts: capture the flag, capture and hold, capture and kill… mostly capture and then do something. You gain experience points for killing other players just like killing monsters, and you also gain renown rank, the PvP rating mechanism in WAR. Once you’re done with the scenario, you’re dropped back right where you left, so you don’t have to miss a beat in your questing between scenario matches.

Scenarios are ranked by ‘pairing.’ Pairing is a somewhat obscure concept in WAR that makes a lot more sense when you look at the map. Every two zones are ‘paired’ and each ‘pair’ is roughly ten levels. So you do levels one to ten in the first two zones. The opposite army (eg: high elves and dark elves) do the same levels in the same zones, but backwards (one team starts on top and goes down, the other team starts on the bottom and goes up). Anyways, all this is to say that you’ll always face similarly-leveled foes, those in your current pairing. The scenarios are level-capped, once you’re too high you can’t participate anymore.