Mythic working on expansion and 'new-new classes'

by Kyle Horner Oct 28th 2008 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Warhammer Online, News items

If you go to Paul Barnett's personal blog, you'll discover two enticing things. One, there's a lot of videos with him doing his thing in a pretty much unfiltered manner. And two, you can grab sneak peeks at upcoming Warhammer Online updates and fixes in general. Today Paul posted a video in where he flashes a sheet of paper filled with his thoughts on expansions and new careers, but not just one's we've heard of apparently. Nope, Paul quickly points out that these are "new-new careers" before Mr. Josh Drescher (also featured in the video) pulls the latch shut on that topic. Oh, how they love to tease us.

So now we're left the with a question: Are these new-new careers to possibly replace one of the old ones, or for an eventual expansion? We wouldn't be surprised if they were for both, honestly. Don't put it past Paul -- a man who just finished having a wonderful time playing D&D over the weekend -- not to have oodles of careers ideas written on pieces of paper. Check after the break for the latest video update.

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Tags: career, dungeons-and-dragons, ea, electronic-arts, expansion, josh-drescher, mythic, mythic-entertainment, paul-barnett, war, warhammer, warhammer-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Pandanapper said on 12:40PM 10-28-2008

To sum it up:
"Here you go fatty! Here's a snickers! Oh OH! PSHYC!"

I'd hate you people if I didn't love you already. -.- Don't freeze your butt off in Russia! :D

Fess said on 12:52PM 10-28-2008

I wish they'd take the time and patch in a little something called 'Fun'. As is, the game bores me to tears.

Tasogare said on 1:58PM 10-28-2008

It's a lot of fun when you get good PvP going, but the PvE content is definitly a grind fest at higher levels. That'd be the reason I'm not 40 yet.

DeathMutant said on 2:06PM 10-28-2008

Comments like that always puzzle me. Why do you play a game that "bores you to tears"?!

I suspect that you are just grinding away in PvE or scenarios believing that is all there is to WAR. If so, you're right, that is boring but you're missing out on the "real" reason to play WAR: RvR (not just PvP).

Granted, on some servers it can be difficult to get some RvR action going so try a more populated server or an OpenRvR server. After WotLK goes live Mythic will, most likely, be merging servers anyway to help with the population distribution plus there is upcoming free server transfers -- so hang in there!

Fess said on 2:16PM 10-28-2008

Unfortunately, I'm -not- currently playing. Bought the game on launch day, and chose not to go with a subscription at the end of the free month. As it stands, I'm waiting to see how it pans out, but as it stands...it just wasn't fun enough to spend my money on in its current state. Which is sad, considering how genuinely excited I was about this game. I really *wanted* to like it.

Wjowski said on 2:07PM 10-28-2008

...They should probably stick to working on the classes they already have instead.

DeathMutant said on 2:48PM 10-28-2008

There are still "role gaps" with some races, like a Dark Elf tank and Dwarf melee DPS, that need to be addressed first. Once they fill those, however, I agree with you in that they need to polish the existing classes more before adding new ones.

JP said on 5:40PM 10-28-2008

I like how he says "going through -ideas-" for and an expansion and new-new classes...

... and it's reported that they are working on it.

lolmassively.

Iconic said on 3:02PM 10-28-2008

They've already sort of hinted before that the first expansion would probably include new races. Since careers are tied directly to race (there are no human ironbreakers, for example), isn't it common sense that there would be "new-new" careers?

In other words, there is literally NOTHING to report.

Pandanapper said on 3:16PM 10-28-2008

What a lot of you don't realize is that they will be working on the current classes and current game content/problems. But even as they do this, if they wish to have an expansion come out in a timely manner they have to work on that now as well. Blizzard did the same thing once WoW was released. They've even been working Lich King since before Burning Crusade even came out. It's foolhardy to think that they can wait till everything is fixed and content updated then crank out a working expansion in such a short time.