Creative gag hints at new Warhammer Online class reveal on Jan. 29th

by Kyle Horner Jan 18th 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Warhammer Online, News items, Rumors

We've known that it was likely Mythic wouldn't be bringing back one of the original melee DPS classes to Greenskins and Dwarves. Of course that doesn't mean the two races won't even have a new class -- as evidenced by the mind games Mythic is now playing with the Warhammer Online community.

The box contains orange hair dye, a hair trimming kit and the ominous note that says, "More to come 1-29-09" How is this significant? Take a look at some official Warhammer Dwarven lore:

"A notable aspect to Dwarf culture is the Slayer Oath. A Dwarf who has suffered a great shame, loss, or humiliation will dye his hair and beard orange, and cut it into a Mohawk using pig grease to stick it in place."

Was this a little bit blunt? Maybe, but we don't mind, since it's got us excited for a possibly very awesome new class for Warhammer Online. We only hope that when the Greenskins get their melee DPS class it's as interesting as this announcement.

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Tags: dwarf, dwarves, ea, electronic-arts, keen-and-graev, mythic, slayer, war, warhammer-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Vrain said on 1:27PM 1-18-2009

I'm having alot of fun in LOTRO at the moment, but a Slayer might entice me back to WAR earlier than I had thought.

Holgar said on 2:07PM 1-18-2009

The one and only class that could tempt me to retry Warhammer.....I give it a 10% chance of making the game become worth playing in six months.

Abriael said on 3:37PM 1-18-2009

It was pretty much a given, but nice all the same :D

Graill said on 4:05PM 1-18-2009

Ahh, yet another patch called an update to add something that should have been from the start. And people wonder why MMO's fail all the time. Then again the warhammer devs believe people are mushrooms.

swiecki said on 6:04PM 1-18-2009

I'm predicting a slayer hero class.

I maaaaaay have some inside info....

Kamokazi said on 11:59PM 1-18-2009

Yeah me too. I also read the 'inside info' (aka article).

Wjowski said on 6:21PM 1-18-2009

Yes ladies and gentlemen, thrill as the dev team patch in classes that were supposed to be in the game on release day!

Brian said on 6:14AM 1-19-2009

Sadly for the Greenskins they don't have anything as awesome as the Slayer that isn't already in game. The Slayer isn't just a big thing for Dwarves it's a gigantic thing in Warhammer. If Wrhammer had an equvalent to WoW characters like Arthas and Tyrande and Illidan then Gotrek the Dwarven Slayer is one of them. WAR would certainly be a lot more successful with them. Just be prepared for WAR to have an overload of them similar to DKs in WoW.