WAR: Adding the Choppa and the Slayer
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

Looking back over the original design ideas for Warhammer Online, the developers had planned for each race to have four careers associated with it.Before launch though, we learned that four of those careers had been cut and would wait until they were completed before being implemented into the game. Those four careers were: Empire Knight of the Blazing Sun, Dark Elf Blackguard, Orc Choppa and Dwarf Hammerer.These new classes are set to roll out some time in March after an event similar to the one that introduced the Knight and the Blackguard, allowing early access to those who earn it. The event is going to be called Bitter Rivals and will include a new Scenario: The Twisting Tower.

While they bent the rules a little bit with the lore, they feel that they have worked out a good way to implement it and worked ways around all of the other things.“We always talked about doing a slayer,” Hickman began, “and we had lots of difficulties and concerns about how we can meet the lore, what we could do. It was actually ultimately one of the things that caused us to pull back on the Hammerer. We were never really satisfied with what we had with the Hammerer. We always wanted him to be a Slayer but because of the issues we had, we just couldn’t do it. Once we pulled back and looked at it again… We said, ‘you know, we’ve got to approach this with Games Workshop again, we’ve got to look at the lore again, we’ve got to dig deep because it’s the right thing to do for the game.”Since launch, the fourths for both Empire and the Dark Elves have launched and been successfully integrated into the game. Today, we learned that the Greenskins and Dwarves will have their day in March, but there’s a bit of a catch. Instead of the Hammerer, Dwarf fans will be treated to another Melee DPS class, The Slayer.