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Line 1: {{work}} '''''Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning''''', usually abbreviated as [[Fun with Acronyms\|WAR]], iswas an MMO set in the world of [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]], the second of its kind. An earlier Warhammer MMO made by Climax was in development around 2003, but that first version fell through ~~spectatcularly~~spectacularly when it tanked at ~~the~~ [[E3]] and Games Workshop pulled its funding. Several years later, the license was ~~aquired~~acquired by Mythic Entertainment, who chose to develop it in a graphically brighter, more accessible format than their predecessor. It was released in late 2008 to record breaking sales, and ~~recieved~~received great critical acclaim. Unfortunately, early issues in server stability and a population thinned out over too many, combined with the release of the second ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' expansion at the height of these problems, led to it losing much of its early subscriber base and having large reductions in its development team. Nonetheless, it ~~maintains~~maintained a strong core playerbase ~~and~~until ~~continues~~its toshutdown beon ~~maintained~~December ~~and~~18, ~~updated~~2013. Like in Mythic's previous MMO, ''[[Dark Age of Camelot]]'', the emphasis iswas in [[Player Versus Player]] and their trademarked Realm versus Realm system. There are two sides with three races each: Order (the human [[The Empire\|Empire]], the [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same\|Dwarfs]] and the [[Our Elves Are Better\|High Elves]]) and Destruction (Chaos, specifically Tzeentch's followers, the Dark Elves and the [[Our Orcs Are Different\|Greenskins]]). Every race has four unique classes open to them, leading to quite a bit of variety and some ''serious'' [[Alt-Itis]]. Most of the universe's general tropes can be found on the main [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] page. {{tropelist}} * [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Some options available for Witch Hunter's ammo. * [[An Adventurer Is You]]: Every race has a tank, a ranged DPS, a melee DPS and a healer. * [[Badass Bandolier]]: Witch Hunters * [[The Beast Master]]: White Lions for the High Elves, whose pets are...[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|well, yeah]]...and Squig Herders for the Greenskins. * [[Bald of Awesome]]: Male Warrior Priests, and a possible option (though not compulsory) for females. * [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: How the Witch King is controlling the Orc leader, Grumlok, and his goblin shaman lieutenant, Gazbag. He also increased their power tenfold while he was at it, so it's not all bad. ** Though it's implied in the Greenskin story arch that {{spoiler\|he may not be as in control of Gazbag as he believes.}} * [[Breast Plate]]: Mostly averted since the armor for both genders is almost identical, but played straight with Witch Elves (which are female only) and Sorcerers which have far more revealing armor models for females. To lesser extent, [[Walking Shirtless Scene\|Dwarf Slayers]] who are bare chested but in practice have 'medium' armor. As comparison, Witch Hunters' longcoats are considered 'light' armor. At least we're not expected to believe that the skimpy clothing of the Witch Elves and Sorceresses actually provides protection - both careers are lightly armoured and die if you poke them. Line 22 ⟶ 21: * [[Death Seeker]]: Slayers * [[Drop the Hammer]]: The dwarfs love these, and Warrior Priests. * [[The Engineer]]: The Dwarf Engineer, obviously, who can build gun turrets. * [[Eye Beams]]: Archmages' Radiant Gaze ability. * [[Femme Fatale]]: The Witch Elves. Being married to a psychotic God of Murder and ready to treat any man who lays a finger on them to an agonizing death doesn't stop them having special abilities to reduce incoming damage just through their massive hotness. Line 37 ⟶ 36: * [[Nice Hat]]: Standard issue for Witch Hunters. Even their class icon in PVP is a [[Nice Hat]]. And Knights of the Blazing Sun, with massively glorified helmets pimped out in multicolor peacock feathers. The Swordsmasters highest-level armour set has you wearing a unicorn on your head. * [[Ninja]]: Shadow Warriors are ninja elves. * [[Not the Intended Use]]: The flee ability is most often used to get from point A to point B faster. Line 51 ⟶ 50: * [[Shout-Out]]: A couple to [[World of Warcraft]]. One of the Scenarios is The Guns Of Nordenwatch, named after the Warcraft quest The Guns of Northwatch, and the '/charge' emote in this game is something like 'X orders you to charge. Who does he think he is?' to Warcraft's 'X orders you to charge'. Also [[Stop Poking Me]] is present. Although that is probably a reference to ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'' The [[Black Knight\|Black Guard]] career has an ability called [[Monty Python and ~~The~~the Holy Grail\|None Shall Pass]]. A quest in one of the Greenskin tier 4 zones is called "I Smish on your Grave", presumably after the infamous "video nasty" [[I Spit on Your Grave]]. The Greenskin Choppa ability Git To Da Choppa is a reference to ''[[Predator]]''. ** The Choppa also has a career mastery called Red Goes Faster! which is a reference to Warhammer 40k, where orks would paint their vehicles red. Because of their psychic powers, red vehicles actually do go faster just because the orks believe that they should. Line 59 ⟶ 58: * [[Stop Poking Me]] * [[Sword and Gun]]: Witch Hunters * [[Third -Person Seductress]]: Witch Elves again. * [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: Of the "kill X number of monsters" in disguise variety, since in this MMO every bear actually ''has'' an ass. * [[Wrench Wench]]: Female Dwarf Engineer is pretty literal example. Line 66 ⟶ 65: [[Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game]] [[Category:Warhammer Online]] [[Category:Licensed Game]] [[Category:Cancelled Online Games]] [[Category:Microsoft Windows]] [[Category:Mac OS]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]