Highlights
Live Event - Keg End
The wheel of the seasons has turned, ushering out the sun’s last warmth with bitter blasts of northern winds. As snow creeps down to block mountain passes and lock the Warhammer world in the icy talons of winter, the citizens of the Old World raise their mugs high; the time of Keg End is at hand. In an epic celebration fraught with boasting, toasting, and epic fireworks, the Dwarfs clear out their stores of ales, beers and other intoxicating beverages in order to bring luck in the New Year and make way for a stock of better, stronger brews.
The Holidays are upon us and, as such, Keg End returns to WAR! Welcome to a Live Event full of toasting, boasting and killing lots and lots of things.
Keg End will start on December 18th at 12:00 Altdorf time and last until January 4th 12:00 Altdorf time.
Rewards
Basic reward:
- [Party Keg], 21 day duration item that gives a 5 minute renown and XP boost for party
Advanced reward:
- Keg Tap, 60 day event slot item
Elite reward:
- Exclusive new Cloak Appearance
Completing all tasks:
- Exclusive Title – Brew Hound (Order), Broo Dawg (Destruction)
Defeating Giants in RvR lakes:
- Battlebrew Backpack and Fireworks
Quest stage 1:
- [Bottomless Stein], Trophy
Quest stage 2:
- [Last Call Keg^O], Teleport item
Golden Stein
- Find and drink from the [Golden Stein] in RvR lakes for a 6 hour +25% renown, XP and influence boost.
Realm versus Realm
City Siege
A new contribution system has been added in City Sieges. It is taking more factors into account than the old system. Some of the parameters to the system are not finalized yet, and we expect to tune it a bit after release and testing how it works in real city instances.
Ranked Scenarios
We are preparing for Season 2 of ranked scenarios and are pushing out some of the changes in advance to test them out before the actual season starts.
- Ranked solo is now split into two tiers. RR70+ players in one tier, and those below RR70 in another tier.
- The gear unlock restrictions to queue up have been removed (The item lvl 45+ restriction is still there though).
- Stalwart Soulstones can now be bought for Triumphant Emblems as well as obtained through PvE, exact price will depend on your MMR.
We understand that splitting a small population has the risk of reducing pops even more. But hopefully this should make the matches more balanced and the game mode more fun for both lower geared players and for higher geared players, and thereby increasing the number of players queueing up.
Note: We have now switched from Season 1 to Preseason 2, which has reset the MMRs back to 1500, it will update for you after playing your first game.
Combat and Careers
General Changes and Fixes
- A passive ability that describe the pet heal system has been added to the Passive Abilities tab.
Bug Fixes
- Land Mine : The damage of this ability will match the tooltip description.
Bug Fixes
- Squig Armor : This ability won't trigger a GCD server side anymore.
- Squig Armor : This ability will correctly dismount you when you use it.
- Squig Frenzy : This ability will correctly enhance pet abilities once again.
- Head Butt : This horned squig ability will now display the correct armor debuff value.
- He's a Biggun' : This tactic will correctly increase your squig pet stats. (Tooltip still not aligned)
Bug Fixes
- Shred : This war lion ability will now display the correct armor debuff value.
- Throat Bite : This ability will correctly display the additional damage dealt by the war lion in combat log.
Bug Fixes
- Daemonic Infestation : The damage of this ability will match the tooltip description.
Contents
General
- NPC health is now rounded up instead of rounded down. So you should no longer see NPCs with 0% health but still alive.
Quests
Greenskin Chapter 9
- Cry Wolf: You will now have to take Bloodclaw's Hide to Litl' Bash as a proof of its death
- Bray for the Waaagh!: You will now have to deliver the Bone Necklace taken from the corpse of Yaarghul to Litl' Bash
Performance
Server
- Some server performance optimizations have been done.
Bug Fixes
[16979] There is no longer issues turning in this quest
Hot Fixes
Hotfix #1
- Fixes for city siege contribution for DPS
- Masta Mixa in Gunbad resets properly after a wipe again
- Some small Keg End tweaks to Giants etc
