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Keen and Graev's Gaming
Keen and Graev's Gaming (keenandgraev.com) has great Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning news, photos, videos and more
Wednesday, Aug 12
Aion Server Choice…. ugh, not again.
My community decided early on that we really wanted to avoid the dbags and elitists but at the same time we all voiced our concern for playing on an underpopulated server; picky, I know. We decided to follow the Aion roleplaying community closely because they (among other RP communities)...
Saturday, Feb 7
Night of Murder Impressions
I haven’t been the biggest fan of the Warhammer Online live events. The event for the new tank classes was pretty good because it offered the new scenario to play in but other than that it was more of a trial run for how the rest would play out and it sorely lacked any quality [...] I haven’t been the...
Monday, Feb 2
PVE: The means to an end in WAR, but that could be fixed.
The way that leveling is done in WAR, there is only one dungeon that you can really hit ‘on the way’ to level 40 - okay, 2 if you count the sewers at level 17 but really… it’s not even worth taking the time spent to zone into the place. So with one dungeon, there’s really only one mindset that the pl...
Friday, Jan 23
Uh oh… burnout
This can be fixed! I have an immense reserve of optimism stored up. A huge part of that comes from actually KNOWING that a realm war can be more than a superficial treadmill. Dark Age of Camelot - a game made by Mythic Entertainment - succeeded in this many years ago. Surely Mythic knows what...
Saturday, Jan 10
Opinion: Brainstorming better Keep Siege reward systems
This is something that has bothered me for a long time. Several of us sit on Ventrilo almost every day and talk about how we would improve the reward system for Keep sieges in Warhammer Online - a system that also reaches into Fortress Sieges and City sieges with the PQ system. Right now the [...]
Sunday, Jan 4
Awesome times in WAR T2 this weekend
I’m really excited that I can finally report on an awesome few days in Warhammer Online. The past few days … I think it’s been 4 or 5 now actually… I’ve been having nothing but amazing experiences in WAR. Now that Happy Fun Guyz (Our guild/community) are once again thriving in Warhammer (and...
Friday, Jan 2
2 Big Questions for Mythic about WAR
Now that I’ve been devoting the vast majority of my time to Warhammer Online again, I’ve come across a few issues once again that were there before and bothered me. I had hoped these issues would have been resolved within the past month since they are, at least to me, dire. Warhammer has seve...
Friday, Nov 28
WAR RvR and WoW PvE rockin’!
Happy Fun Guyz and my Shaman have been officially moved to Dark Crag. Many members of HFG returned to play together on our new server over the past couple of days with hopes that it would reignite our excitement for the our Destruction characters. Most of us abadoned our characters in the T4...
Sunday, Nov 16
Drastic changes needed for Warhammer Online
Make keep taking meaningful by adding a Darkness Falls type dungeon. Warhammer Online, back in November 2007, was delayed in order to transform the game to align closer with DAOC’s RvR but it forgot that one crucial element… the PURPOSE. Sure, city sieges are a purpose but let’s be realist...
Monday, Oct 6
Warhammer Online NEEDS Darkness Falls
The solution to Warhammer Online’s Open RvR problem is simple: Darkness Falls. That’s right, introduce what existed in Dark Age of Camelot into a system that is trying to mimick Dark Age of Camelot. Duh, right? Warhammer Online, back in November 2007, was delayed in order to transform t...
Saturday, Oct 4
WAR 1.01 Patch - What did it break? What did it Fix?
Mythic has patched Warhammer Online a few times now but none of the patches or hotfixes have been significant or changed the version number until today. I won't bother listing all the changes because you can see them here on the Herald. I do, however, want to bring up a ...
Friday, Sep 26
GRAEV’s take on Warhammer Online.
You’re probably wondering what any of this has to do with Warhammer Online. Frankly, I didn’t expect to get into this, but I think it helps illustrate how I’ve failed to stick with a game for quite some time. Of course Warhammer Online isn’t too much of anything new either, but I do find myself e...
Friday, Sep 19
Opinion: A long time ago in several galaxies far, far away.
NOTE: This isn’t about Warhammer Online. Well, not much. I suppose it is time for another update on the state of the Graev. Several things have had my attention lately, such as Spore, Mercenaries 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Warhammer Online. I already discussed Mercs 2 and still enj...
Sunday, Sep 14
Thus the 3 year wait has come to an end…
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is finally coming out today! After a little over 3 years of waiting, several delays and a few overhauls, the game is finally launching and opening the gates for play. It’s been a bumpy road at times and even I can admit that there were times when the game’s...
Saturday, Sep 13
Opinion: And now for something completely different.
Note: This is just a GRAEV update and isn’t about Warhammer Online, so just skip it if thats what you’re looking for. I’ve been pretty busy lately with a few things. Couple games, trying to come up with comic ideas, drawing said comic ideas, watching daytime TV, etc. You know, real important st...
Sunday, Aug 31
ChaosCast Episode #6
As promised when we released Episode #5 we have come back quickly with another episode of ChaosCast! We, the troublesome trio of WAR Bloggers (Keen, Snfzg, and Syp), give you our full-blown details of the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta and have a lengthy round-table discussio...
Friday, Aug 29
Keen’s WAR Preview Weekend Impressions Part 2
Tonight is the end of the Warhammer Online Preview Weekend and I find myself frantically getting as much play time in as possible. I’m unsure whether or not this is the end of the ‘closed beta’ phase entirely or if they’ll allow those of us testing to continue playing. Elder Testers (which I [...]
Keen’s WAR Beta Impressions from the Preview Weekend
The preview weekend for Warhammer Online began yesterday. This marks the beginning of the end for the beta phase of development for all but maybe the Elder Testers. While I am considered an “Elder Tester”, most everything tested there is classified and done on test servers. Unless they lift...
Wednesday, Aug 20
WAR Open Beta starts Sept. 7th - NDA down TOMORROW!
EA announced that the Warhammer Online beta begins September 7th which came as a slight surprise to me. I was expecting Open Beta to arrive around the time that the NDA was ‘loosely’ scheduled to drop. At E3 Mythic made it really clear that the NDA would be dropping around the 15th [...]
Keen’s Warhammer Online Beta Impressions Part 1
Leveling up in WAR is awesome. You have SO MANY choices. You can exclusively quest ala WoW or mix in some RvR ala DAOC or exclusively RvR. You can mix in Scenarios, Open-world RvR, PQ’s, dungeons, grinding, normal quests, and level well. The leveling in WAR feels standard to me. There are 40 level...
Keen’s Warhammer Online Beta Impressions Part 2
The cities have everything you could want. Quests (tons), shops (tons), banks (more than one), Auction Houses, DUNGEONS, Tome unlocks, legendary locations from Warhammer Lore like the Blowhole and Bright Wizard College tower thingy, and more.
Monday, Aug 11
Our WAR Guild
No, this isn’t a post about that other guild going the PvE pansy route… It’s a post to let you all know that the plans for forming a Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning guild of our own have finally come together. We (Graev, Bartlebe (a good friend), and myself) have been [...]
Sunday, Aug 3
Mythic’s big announcement? Road to WAR!
Warhammer Road to WAR This is making its rounds to all the major WAR communities out there. Last week Mythic secretly launched a website called Warhammer Road to WAR and the crafty sleuths who are just dying for anything WAR related have finally found it. According to James Nichols:
What you can expect from us regarding WAR
What you can expect from us after WAR releases It’s a slow Sunday evening so I thought this would be a good time to give our readers a heads up on what they can expect from this blog once Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning actually releases. Up to this point everything you’ve read [...]
Friday, Jul 18
E3: Everything I learned about WAR from my E3 Preview
My second piece for Warhammer has been published over at the Warhammer Vault. It’s actually my notes that I took during the preview that the Mythic dev team gave. Keep in mind that these are just from the preview and my interviews and discussions with other devs (Mark Jacobs specifically) ar...
Saturday, Jul 12
Opinion: Remember, Beta is for Chucking
There have been dozens of known additions and changes to Warhammer Online over the past two months alone. Many players are concerned that the multitude of changes being made to the game in the 11th hour could possibly lead to either another delay or, in a worst case scenario, classes being l...
Friday, Jul 11
Opinion: Mark Jacobs drops a bomb on the community
I woke up this morning and went straight to the computer to find out what Mark Jacobs’ news was going to be regarding a few major announcements for Warhammer Online. He dropped several bombs on the community today, that’s for sure. Punkbuster
Monday, Jun 9
WHA Class Poll - lots of WAAAGH!
Looking at the poll this morning it appears that the Shaman class is popular. This is my class of choice as well, which always makes me feel uncomfortable knowing it’s going to be popular. However, there may be more at work here. Massively recently revealed a lot about the classes in Warham...
Thursday, Jun 5
Opinion: Public Quests will radically enhance mmorpg gameplay
Public Quests are absolutely revolutionary. They’re providing players a whole new way of playing, rewarding, and progressing their characters through the game. Massively’s Warhammer Online coverage over the past few days has been unparalleled by any website out there. The informatio...
