We will be getting two new classes before the end of the year according to Mark Jacobs. The Black Guard and the Knight of the Blazing Sun.

You can read all about this and more here:

http://war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en208&lang=en

Some Highlights:

• New Classes
• More Stability and Performance Improvements
• RvR-influence system
• Better Rewards
• Item Linking
• Target of Target
• Server Transfers
• New Quests
• New Lairs
• Career Buffs

Added a guild roster to the war site. See links on the left. Or click here:

http://war.the-white-rose.net/?go=roster

Deebs from Freddyshouse has posted the OB client on their torrent server, this is achieving much better DL rates than the WAR Downloader.

http://downloads.freddyshouse.com/tracker/torrents/wareuopenbeta.torrent

An issue with the WAR downloader is it can max out your upstream bandwidth which we all know is bad for overall throughput.

Source: Open Beta Download

EA AND MYTHIC ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE THAT
WARHAMMER® ONLINE: AGE OF RECKONING™
HAS GONE GOLD


Award-Winning Fantasy MMORPG Marches Toward Sept. 18th Launch


FAIRFAX, Va. - August 26, 2008 - GET READY FOR THE WORLDWIDE WAAAGH! Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Mythic Entertainment today announced that the highly-anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR), has gone gold and will open its servers on September 18, 2008 at an MSRP of $49.99 in North America.

"We've done our best to create the next great MMORPG experience, but it's the fans that will bring our world to life," said Mark Jacobs, vice president at EA and general manager of Mythic Entertainment. "The Day of Reckoning approaches and it's going to be glorious! It's time to go to WAR."

Based on the popular tabletop game from Games Workshop, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an epic fantasy MMORPG featuring innovative Realm vs. Realm™ game play that pits the forces of Order and Destruction against one another on the battlefield to determine the fate of nations.

Awarded "Best Online Game" at the recent Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, "Best PC Game" of E3 by G4's X-Play and "Best MMO" of E3 by IGN, WAR has been well-received by critics and by the gaming community as an accessible and engaging MMO title. Tens of thousands of players have already joined the battle in the closed beta, and soon the time will be at hand for players the world over to pledge their allegiance to the armies of WAR.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is scheduled to launch simultaneously in North America, Europe, and Oceania on September 18, 2008. Available for PC, WAR is rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB. For more information, visit http://www.warhammeronline.com/.

Well, it's been my home for the past 13 months, and it's been a blast, but it had to end sometime, and now is that time. The EU Close Beta has finally come to an end, the servers shut down about 40 minutes ago.

Here's looking forward to Open Beta, then the Head Start going into the Live Launch.