This is a collaboration project by LYN gamers in Warhammer Online : The Age of Reckoning. Any mistakes or new information, please post at the end of the this thread. Note that the Grammar Errors are there as I just cut and pasted the answers.





Getting the Game

1. Where do I get a copy of Warhammer online?

From Game Shops or online. Some Online retailers are :

http://www.pcgame.com.my
http://www.tsb.com.my

Or you can check the LYN Trade section for sellers.

2. Do I need a credit card/game timecard?

Yes, you need a credit card for verification. This is to ensure that :
a)You are above 18 years of age.
b)You are not, but has parental permission to play the game.
In this case, a timecard can be used as well.


Connection + Servers + Patches

1. What is the latency like for Malaysian Gamers?
Latency is around 0.3 second of delay on an oceanic server. (300ms)

2. What do you mean by changing IPs?
disconnect and reconnect your streamyx, you'll get a different set of IP everytime. Certain IP are less laggy than others.
so far for Streamyx :
60.50.xx.xx : BAD
60.48.xx.xx : good
218.111.xx.xx : sometimes good/bad
218.208.xx.xx : best and rarest IP in streamyx

3. How do I improve it?
At this moment, theres no way to 'improve' current latency.

4. When is the maintenance downtime?
Usually on Thursday 1.30am for oceanic servers but no set day/time yet.

5. Where do I get a copy of the patches?
patches are automatically downloaded from the game patcher.

6. What's the difference between Core, Realm RvR and Role-playing servers?

Core : PVE (Players can go back to lower tiers without turning into chicken but will turn to Chicken when entering lower tier RvR zones)
open-RVR : PVP (Players can go back to 1 tier lower without turning into chicken but will turn to Chicken when entering lower tier RvR zones)
RP : Role Playing server. (Same as Core but Role Playing is encouraged)

7. I have a problem connecting on, graphical issues, etc.

For any technical solutions, please goto Warhammer Alliance Technical Thread.

Looking for Players

1. Which server do you all play?

Most if not all Malaysian / LYN.net members play in Oceania Servers while some may be in US servers. Most active in Darklands and Ironclaw, some people in Anlec.

2. Which server is better?
It solely depends on your play style. Core, Open and Core RP each has it's own play style.

3. Which faction is better?
But, it solely depends on how good or evil you want to be.

4. Which class is better?
All classes are good in their own way. Choose one you find most interested in.

It solely depends on what classes you prefer to play. Majority of WAR's classes are different from other typical MMORPGs. i.e Some healers are hybrids like Disciples of Khaine and Warrior Priests, meaning they need to do damage in order to heal well. Magic DPS like Sorceress and Bright Wizards can get backlash (meaning they damage themselves while damaging the enemy). There's the Engineer Dwarf class that's lays down gun turrets. There's the Shadow Warrior (a bit like Ranger) who excels at long and medium range as well as melee fights.

5. How do I look for people for PvE?
'/who' command can see who is in your zone, at the same time you can click on the 'open parties' icon below your portrait to join any open party.

Also, most of the time as you move into a new 'chapter', if you notice on your top left of the screen, right below your avatar, there will be something that pops up for a moment informing you of "Open Parties" within your area. Alternatively click the button right below your avatar to view existing "Open Parties" in the whole area to join. There you will see the leader name, and what the party is doing (PVE, PQ or RVR).

6. How do I look for people for PvP?
'/who' command can see who is in your zone, at the same time you can click on the 'open parties' icon below your portrait to join any open party.

Also, if you're new you will progress to RvR areas. RvR areas are always just next to Warcamps. By pressing the "M" key for MAP. You will be able to see where the Warcamp is. The Warcamps are usually 3/4 way along the main road (not the dotted lines.. those are paths) from the next map.

7. What is an Open Party?
Open Party means anyone can join your party. To disallow this, right click on your name and select Party Options and uncheck Open.

Gameplay

1. What is a keybinding?

2. Where do I find a list of keybindings?

3. Can I change the keybinding?

4. How do I target enemies/friendly players better?
On Default, the TAB key cycles through your nearest targets.

5. How do I play better?

6. How do I speak to people?

7. What are Tomes and how do I get them?

Go to the 2 links below for more details on what Tomes are :

Warhammer Alliance : Bestiary Tome Unlocks
Tome Tactics

Leveling

1. How do I level up?

Quests
What you get?
Experience, equipment, crafting items, Tome knowledge unlocks.

Public Quest (PQ)
What you get?
Experience, Influence Points and a chance to roll for a loot bag reward for completing the PQ.

Scenarios
What you get?
Experience, Renown Points, unique items and gears from the corpse of dead player


2. Can I level up in Scenarios (PvP) or the Realm vs Ream (RvR) portion of the game?

-Yes you can, infact it would be recomanded by many to RvR as much as you can even at level 1 to earn renown while you level.

3. Where do I go for quests?

-Go to the green indicator on your map, this will show you the avalable quest and head towards the RED circle on your map for the quest objective.

Click here to view a Podcast-video about Quests from EA. Easy to view and understand.

4. Where do I go to look for more information?

-Matters on what information you are looking for acctualy, but if its questing information just look into your tome of knowledge

5. Is there a leveling guide?

-None that i know off at the moment, game is kind of new, but leveling in warhammere is not a problem at all

6. Does forming a party help?

-Forming a praty to RvR or to public quest or just to simply kill mobs and quest a little helps alot, in many ways, you can get more organised if you form a group to do public quest and also more ogranised if your RvR in a group, just make shure not to steal loots and you will be well on your way

Fight fight!

1. What is PvP?

PvP stands for Player Versus Player. You are no more bashing on AI-controlled monsters but players controlled by humans (not sure which one is the best sometimes but well... )

In Warhammer it usually means fights between small number of players on each side or scenarios

2. What is RvR?

RvR stands for Realm Vs Realm. It is a term created (and copyrighted) by Mythic in their previous game Dark Age of Camelot (DAOC Website).

It involves fights between "Realms" or faction (Order against Destruction in Warhammer) for control over Keeps or Objectives. It is supposed to be one of the main focus in Warhammer.

Each zone will have some Battle Objectives (BOs) and Keep to take over.

2.1 How do I take a Battle Objective?

You take one BO by killing the 5 guards around it and then clicking on the banner.
One of the guard is a tougher Hero so come prepared. A small group of people (3-6) can take BOs if their damage output is enough, they have a healer and someone who can moderately keep control of the monster (ie: a tank)
Try to kill the guards fast as they respawn quite quickly if your dps is not fast enough

2.2 How do I take a Keep?

For Tier 2: The keep is composed of only one big tower.

First you need to break the doors. You do so usually by using a Ram (see below for how to use siege weapons) but you can actually attack the doors like any other monster or player.
Defenders can use the oil.
Both sides also have access to several siege weapon pads to build up Catapults or ballistas (again, see below)

One the doors are down, you need to go to the 1st floor using a ramp. At this floor you will see the Lord of the Keep guarded by 4 guards. You need to kill the Lord to take over the keep

Tier 3 and 4: same as Tier 2 except the keeps also have an external walls with another door you need to break through (using the same means as for Tier 2 doors)

A brief outline of Keep Sieging is written here as well as a podcast about it.

3. How do I survive better?

Do not die

4. What is a Scenario?

Scenarios are short battles in instanced map between team of the same number of players. They are quite equivalent to the Battlegrouds in WoW.
The rules for each are quite different (Capture the Flag, Tug-of-war etc.) and explained in the loading screen of the scenario itself

5. How do I get into different scenarios in different regions?

You can only queue up for the scenario in the zone you are in. For example if you are in Ostland (Chaos Tier 2) you can only queue for the scenario Trolls Crossing.
If you want to queue up for other scenarios at the same time:
- Either travel to the other pairing (Dark Elves or Orc) and queue up there yourself
- Ask someone who is in these other pairings to party with you, you can then queue up the whole party for all the scenarios

6. What are siege weapons?

Rams: They are used to break the doors of the Keeps
Ballista-lie: Usually used to destroy other sieges weapons (1 target)
Catapults-like: Usually used to damage large group of people (AoE target)
Boiling Oil: used to damage rams trying to break through doors and players using it

6.1 Where can I buy siege weapons?

You can buy the siege weapons in all Warcamps. There is a special NPC there named "Quartermaster" that sells all of them.

Notice that each Siege Weapon can only be used in its own tier. A Tier 2 weapon can only be used on the Tier 2 weapon Pad so you cannot use a Tier 2 Ram to assault a Tier 4 keep

7. How to use the siege weapons?

Rams: 4 people. The first to use it will start the "swing".
You need to click when the cursor is as close as possible of the mark but never AFTER. The closer you get from the mark the more powerful the swing will be. If you go pass the mark, the power will only be 50%. It's kinda similar to many old school golf games actually

Oil: Just click and it will pour down the oil

Ballistas-like: just aim and left click to fire

Catapult: it will fire where the purple marker is. Use the mouse wheel to move it up or down. Left click to fire

8. How do I play better in PvP / RvR?

Stay with the group. Try to act smart by doing what you are supposed to do.
Heals if are you are healer.
Tanks should go in front, Guard people getting fired upon, try to stop enemies, ie: be annoying for the opposition
Dps: Pew Pew... but do not get stupid. You are not as tough as tanks. Going in the middle of a group of enemies and blaming the healers when you die is stupid. This is not a game for solo actions.

Gearing up

1. What are the different levels of gear?

-There are a few diffrent level of gears,the ones i know are:
a.Green(are easy to come by drop rate is quite high)
b.Blue(harder to come by and drop rates are lower then green,but stat's and bonus are better/higher then green ones)
c.Epic(Even much harder to get compared to blue, but its worth the find high stats also high bonus)
d.Myth(iv only seen the tag in an auction house never seen it my self before)

2. How do I get PvE gear?

PVE gears are easly obtainable trough many ways some known ways are:
a.Influance grinding
b.Farming
c.Quest rewards
d.Public Questing(PQ)
e.Grabing them off the auction house

3. How do I get Renown Gear?

Only one way to get the Renown gears or also known as RvR or PvP gears. that is trough RvRing and also doing some PQ(public quest) or also assulting a keep/fortress, this would earn your renown in due time accoring to your renown rank you can get higher level gears that would be purchaseable from the Renown Gear Vendor.

4. What are these "tiers" or "pairings" I keep hearing about?

Tiers: Warhammer zones are separated by Tiers depending of your current level.

Level - Tier
1-11: Tier 1
12-21: Tier 2
22-31: Tier 3
32-40: Tier 4

Pairing: The tiers zones are separated for each races and this is named Pairing.

For example for Destruction each tier will have Chaos, Dark Elves and Greenskins pairing.

So when people are referring to Tier 3 Chaos pairing, they are referring to the Tier 2 Chaos zones (High Pass and Talabecland).
Tier 3 DE (Dark Elves) would refer to Avelorn and Saphery maps
etc.


Crafting

1. What are the different Gathering professions?

2. What are the different Crafting professions?

3. Which one is better to take up?

4. How do I make money off it?

Macros + Addons

1. What is a macro?

2. What is an addon?

3. Where do I find a list of macros?

4. Where do I find addons?

Others

1. Where's the bank?

2. Where's the Auction House?

3. Are there any other sites that I can find more information about the game?

*faq in progress*

QUOTE

Many thanks to the following contributors :

Sichiri
Gormaz
Jas2davir
farkinid
azxel

This post has been edited by myremi: Oct 10 2008, 01:24 PM

err, you gotta. uncheck the "merge posts" in the reply menu.

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Added on September 29, 2008, 1:32 ambut i've already reserved it! Ha Ha!

This post has been edited by XaVieRGizmo: Sep 29 2008, 01:32 AM

Don't think it's possible because the LYN owner fix it as such.

just put everything in here and I'll have it all compiled then made sticky.

I know lah... I just need to find some time during the Raya Holidays to do it.

no rush la... go out and eat some raya cookies instead of "working" la

oh ya.. you missed out on a few that I could think of... (sigh.. monday...)

- Battlefield Objectives
- Public Quests
- Dungeons (Instances)
- Core Abilities, Renown Abilities etc

Ta. BTW, can you fill in the answers too? Need help before I go out of my mind.

1. Where do I get a copy of Warhammer online?

From Game Shops or online. Some Online retailers are :

http://www.pcgame.com.my
http://www.tsb.com.my

Or you can check the LYN Trade section for sellers.

2. Do I need a credit card/game timecard?
Yes, you need a credit card for verification. This is to ensure that :
a)You are above 18 years of age.
b)You are not, but has parental permission to play the game.
In this case, a timecard can be used as well.


Connection + Servers + Patches

1. What is the latency like for Malaysian Gamers?
Latency is around 0.3 second of delay on an oceanic server. (300ms)

2. What do you mean by changing IPs?
disconnect and reconnect your streamyx, you'll get a different set of IP everytime. Certain IP are less laggy than others.
so far for Streamyx :
60.50.xx.xx : BAD
60.48.xx.xx : good
218.111.xx.xx : sometimes good/bad
218.208.xx.xx : best and rarest IP in streamyx

3. How do I improve it?
At this moment, theres no way to 'improve' current latency.


4. When is the maintenance downtime?
Thursday 1.30am for oceanic servers.

5. Where do I get a copy of the patches?
patches are automatically downloaded from the game patcher.

6. What's the difference between Core, Realm RvR and Role-playing servers?
in WoW Term ;
Core : PVE (stricter PVP rules. Turns you into chicken if you're too high level for that RVR zone)
open-RVR : PVP (can PVP anywhere, and higher levels from the next tier can still come to lower tiers to grief/gank/assist)
RP : Role Playing server. (If you don't know what is Role-Play, don't join)

Looking for Players

1. Which server do you all play?
most active in Darklands and Ironclaw, some people in Anlec.

2. Which server is better?
The less congested the better, in this case, Ironclaw.

3. Which faction is better?
Order at the moment, due to population imbalances. YOu don't really wanna queue for 30mins on peak hours just to get in game.

4. Which class is better?
All classes are good in their own way. Choose one you find most interested in.

5. How do I look for people for PvE?
'/who' command can see who is in your zone, at the same time you can click on the 'open parties' icon below your portrait to join any open party.

6. How do I look for people for PvP?
'/who' command can see who is in your zone, at the same time you can click on the 'open parties' icon below your portrait to join any open party.

7. What is an Open Party?
Open party the party is listed publicly on the 'open parties list' and anyone can join in at anytime.

0. What are these "tiers" or "pairings" I keep hearing about?

Tiers: Warhammer zones are separated by Tiers depending of your current level.

Level - Tier
1-11: Tier 1
12-21: Tier 2
22-31: Tier 3
32-40: Tier 4

Pairing: The tiers zones are separated for each races and this is named Pairing.

For example for Destruction each tier will have Chaos, Dark Elves and Greenskins pairing.

So when people are referring to Tier 3 Chaos pairing, they are referring to the Tier 2 Chaos zones (High Pass and Talabecland).
Tier 3 DE (Dark Elves) would refer to Avelorn and Saphery maps
etc.

1. What is PvP?

PvP stands for Player Versus Player. You are no more bashing on AI-controlled monsters but players controlled by humans (not sure which one is the best sometimes but well... )

In Warhammer it usually means fights between small number of players on each side or scenarios

2. What is RvR?

RvR stands for Realm Vs Realm. It is a term created (and copyrighted) by Mythic in their previous game Dark Age of Camelot (DAOC Website).

It involves fights between "Realms" or faction (Order against Destruction in Warhammer) for control over Keeps or Objectives. It is supposed to be one of the main focus in Warhammer.

Each zone will have some Battle Objectives (BOs) and Keep to take over.

2.1 How do I take a Battle Objective?
You take one BO by killing the 5 guards around it and then clicking on the banner.
One of the guard is a tougher Hero so come prepared. A small group of people (3-6) can take BOs if their damage output is enough, they have a healer and someone who can moderately keep control of the monster (ie: a tank)
Try to kill the guards fast as they respawn quite quickly if your dps is not fast enough

2.2 How do I take a Keep?
For Tier 2: The keep is composed of only one big tower.

First you need to break the doors. You do so usually by using a Ram (see below for how to use siege weapons) but you can actually attack the doors like any other monster or player.
Defenders can use the oil.
Both sides also have access to several siege weapon pads to build up Catapults or ballistas (again, see below)

One the doors are down, you need to go to the 1st floor using a ramp. At this floor you will see the Lord of the Keep guarded by 4 guards. You need to kill the Lord to take over the keep

Tier 3 and 4: same as Tier 2 except the keeps also have an external walls with another door you need to break through (using the same means as for Tier 2 doors)

3. How do I survive better?
Do not die

4. What is a Scenario?
Scenarios are short battles in instanced map between team of the same number of players. They are quite equivalent to the Battlegrouds in WoW.
The rules for each are quite different (Capture the Flag, Tug-of-war etc.) and explained in the loading screen of the scenario itself

5. How do I get into different scenarios in different regions?
You can only queue up for the scenario in the zone you are in. For example if you are in Ostland (Chaos Tier 2) you can only queue for the scenario Trolls Crossing.
If you want to queue up for other scenarios at the same time:
- Either travel to the other pairing (Dark Elves or Orc) and queue up there yourself
- Ask someone who is in these other pairings to party with you, you can then queue up the whole party for all the scenarios

6. What are siege weapons?
Rams: They are used to break the doors of the Keeps
Ballista-lie: Usually used to destroy other sieges weapons (1 target)
Catapults-like: Usually used to damage large group of people (AoE target)
Boiling Oil: used to damage rams trying to break through doors and players using it

6.1 Where can I buy siege weapons?
You can buy the siege weapons in all Warcamps. There is a special NPC there named "Quartermaster" that sells all of them.

Notice that each Siege Weapon can only be used in its own tier. A Tier 2 weapon can only be used on the Tier 2 weapon Pad so you cannot use a Tier 2 Ram to assault a Tier 4 keep

7. How to use the siege weapons?
Rams: 4 people. The first to use it will start the "swing".
You need to click when the cursor is as close as possible of the mark but never AFTER. The closer you get from the mark the more powerful the swing will be. If you go pass the mark, the power will only be 50%. It's kinda similar to many old school golf games actually

Oil: Just click and it will pour down the oil

Ballistas-like: just aim and left click to fire

Catapult: it will fire where the purple marker is. Use the mouse wheel to move it up or down. Left click to fire

8. How do I play better in PvP / RvR?
Stay with the group. Try to act smart by doing what you are supposed to do.
Heals if are you are healer.
Tanks should go in front, Guard people getting fired upon, try to stop enemies, ie: be annoying for the opposition
Dps: Pew Pew... but do not get stupid. You are not as tough as tanks. Going in the middle of a group of enemies and blaming the healers when you die is stupid. This is not a game for solo actions.

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Sep 29 2008, 10:54 AM

but I'm a moderator... not a contributor!


1. Which server do you all play?
Most if not all Malaysian / LYN.net members play in Oceania Servers while some may be in US servers.

2. Which server is better?
It solely depends on your play style. Core, Open and Core RP each has it's own play style.

3. Which faction is better?
It solely depends on how good or evil you want to be.

4. Which class is better?
It solely depends on what classes you prefer to play. Majority of WAR's classes are different from other typical MMORPGs. i.e Some healers are hybrids like Disciples of Khaine and Warrior Priests, meaning they need to do damage in order to heal well. Magic DPS like Sorceress and Bright Wizards can get backlash (meaning they damage themselves while damaging the enemy). There's the Engineer Dwarf class that's lays down gun turrets. There's the Shadow Warrior (a bit like Ranger) who excels at long and medium range as well as melee fights.

5. How do I look for people for PvE?
Most of the time as you move into a new 'chapter', if you notice on your top left of the screen, right below your avatar, there will be something that pops up for a moment informing you of "Open Parties" within your area. Alternatively click the button right below your avatar to view existing "Open Parties" in the whole area to join. There you will see the leader name, and what the party is doing (PVE, PQ or RVR).

6. How do I look for people for PvP?
If you're new you will progress to RvR areas. RvR areas are always just next to Warcamps. By pressing the "M" key for MAP. You will be able to see where the Warcamp is. The Warcamps are usually 3/4 way along the main road (not the dotted lines.. those are paths) from the next map.

7. What is an Open Party?
Open Party means anyone can join your party. To disallow this, right click on your name and select Party Options and uncheck Open.

Thanks Sichiri and Gormaz.

For everyone, I'm also looking for pictures so that we can post it up as well to help new players.

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Added on September 29, 2008, 10:53 amTa azxel. Becoz of a moderator, more reason to help contribute some info too mah!

This post has been edited by myremi: Sep 29 2008, 10:53 AM

I added some additional questions (0, 2.1 etc.) for clarity. Stuff like Tiers and pairings are some concepts a bit confusing at first

Questions "how do I not die" are so generic I could not answer properly, someone else can feel free to add more into them if needed

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Sep 29 2008, 10:56 AM

rushing around for meetings. I'll update this when I have some free time tonight or during the Raya Holidays.

Sorry for the delay yeah. But keep the Questions and Answers coming.

Leveling

1. How do I level up?
-you can level up in many ways 1 would be by questing and the 2nd way is by RvRing, but if you want faster results just RvR and quest at the same time this will increase the speed you level by alot! and 3rd that i know off would be the public questing/PQ way in which u will earn influance which would then lead to getting some cool gears, and you can also stand a chance to win a bag which could drop green all the way to epic gears, and the expirence gained from public questing is quite good also.

2. Can I level up in Scenarios (PvP) or the Realm vs Ream (RvR) portion of the game?
-Yes you can, infact it would be recomanded by many to RvR as much as you can even at level 1 to earn renown while you level.

3. Where do I go for quests?
-Go to the green indicator on your map, this will show you the avalable quest and head towards the read circle on your map for the quest objective

4. Where do I go to look for more information?
-Matters on what information you are looking for acctualy, but if its questing information just look into your tome of knowledge

5. Is there a leveling guide?
-None that i know off at the moment, game is kind of new, but leveling in warhammere is not a problem at all

6. Does forming a party help?
-Forming a praty to RvR or to public quest or just to simply kill mobs and quest a little helps alot, in many ways, you can get more organised if you form a group to do public quest and also more ogranised if your RvR in a group, just make shure not to steal loots and you will be well on your way

I think the most important part of the guide has been left out.

TECH SUPPORT

1. Please refer to Warhammer Alliance Tech FAQ for most technical problems.

Its very comprehensive and a little too large to recreate on this forum.

Thanks guys.

azxel, I think it's probably 80% good enough for a sticky. Will be a work in progress I think.

Gearing up

1. What are the different levels of gear?
-There are a few diffrent level of gears,the ones i know are:
a.Green(are easy to come by drop rate is quite high)
b.Blue(harder to come by and drop rates are lower then green,but stat's and bonus are better/higher then green ones)
c.Epic(Even much harder to get compared to blue, but its worth the find high stats also high bonus)
d.Myth(iv only seen the tag in an auction house never seen it my self before)

2. How do I get PvE gear?
PVE gears are easly obtainable trough many ways some known ways are:
a.Influance grinding
b.Farming
c.Quest rewards
d.Public Questing(PQ)
e.Grabing them off the auction house

3. How do I get Renown Gear?
Only one way to get the Renown gears or also known as RvR or PvP gears. that is trough RvRing and also doing some PQ(public quest) or also assulting a keep/fortress, this would earn your renown in due time accoring to your renown rank you can get higher level gears that would be purchaseable from the Renown Gear Vendor.

This post has been edited by Jas2davir: Sep 29 2008, 07:22 PM

Updated

you know, this thread is the best thread for a newbie, It answered all my General Questions i had about the game, and i had to open a thread about it


+++++ on this thread

LOL! Thanks! Although, it was about 15 min brainstorming the type of questions.

Also, we have great contributors. They filled up the other 50% of the work.

TBH, I didn't expect this many answers so fast. Coz usually LYN forum about Games can be pretty quiet.

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Added on September 30, 2008, 12:00 amAlso, I haven't gotten my shammy past level 9 yet. >.< So not exactly a good example set here.

This post has been edited by myremi: Sep 30 2008, 12:00 AM