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7	''Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning'', usually abbreviated as [[FunWithAcronyms WAR]], is an MMO set in the world of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', the second of its kind. An earlier ''Warhammer'' MMO made by Climax was in development around 2003, but that first version fell through spectacularly when it tanked at the E3 and Games Workshop pulled its funding. Several years later, the license was 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 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 ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' 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.
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9	Like in Mythic's previous MMO, ''VideoGame/DarkAgeOfCamelot'', the emphasis is in PlayerVersusPlayer and their trademarked Realm versus Realm system. There are two sides with three races each: Order (the human [[TheEmpire Empire]], the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarfs]] and the [[OurElvesAreDifferent High Elves]]) and Destruction (Chaos, specifically Tzeentch's followers, the Dark Elves and the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Greenskins]]). Every race has four unique classes open to them, leading to quite a bit of variety and some ''serious'' AltItis.
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11	Unfortunately, the game was [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames shut down]] on December 18th 2013, as the licence agreement Mythic had with Creator/GamesWorkshop came to an end at that time.
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13	Fortunately, it is being saved from [[KeepCirculatingtheTapes Lost Forever]] by the folks at [[http://www.returnofreckoning.com Return of Reckoning]]; it is still very early in testing however.
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15	Most of the universe's general tropes can be found on the main ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' page.
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17	!!This game provides examples of:
18	* TwentyBearAsses: Of the "kill X number of monsters" in disguise variety, since in this MMO every bear actually ''has'' an ass.
19	%%* AbnormalAmmo: Some options available for Witch Hunter's ammo.%%Are?
20	* AchievementMockery: There's a series of titles unlocked by failure, including dying via mobs up to a million times ("the Tragic"), being killed up to 100,000 times by enemy players ("the Feckless") or falling to your death 5,000 times ("the Pancake"). In addition to this there are specific titles for being killed by each enemy class, drowning in lava and several other dubious rewards that people nonetheless wear with pride.
21	* AnAdventurerIsYou: Every race has a tank, a ranged DPS, a melee DPS and a healer.
22	* AgeOfTitles: "Age of Reckoning" is used as a subtitle.
23	* AllWebbedUp: Several quests go into a town overrun with "Silkens", giant mutant spiders that wrap victims in cocoons. One of them is to [[KillItWithFire burn the cocoons]] of marauders who have [[YouHaveFailedMe proven too weak]] to the cause [[FateWorseThanDeath by being cocooned as food/gestation units]] and need to be destroyed to ensure the weakness is purged. Another is to gather the blood of a prominent villager and anoint a banner with it -- the villager happens to have already been cocooned, so you need only stab him and gather the blood from the twitching, prone cocoon.
24	%%* BadassBandolier: Witch Hunters
25	* BarbarianHero: Every Chaos character would be this in some fashion, as they are essentially a society of demon-worshiping Vikings. While not really in the game itself, but one of the tie-in novels has Kormak, a Chaos Marauder that is the living, breathing personification of this trope.
26	* TheBeastmaster: White Lions and Squig Herders, who go into battle accompanied by their namesakes.
27	* BigGuyLittleGuy: The Greenskins faction leaders, Grumlock and Gazbag, are a hulking Orc warboss and a diminutive Night Goblin shaman who rides on his shoulder.
28	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: 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. That said, it's implied in the Greenskin story arc that [[spoiler: he may not be as in control of Gazbag as he believes]].
29	* BurnTheWitch: Witch Hunters. Especially the "Burn Away Lies" ability which has that picture as the tooltip.
30	%%* CatapultToGlory
31	* CanonForeigner: Of the Destruction leaders, only Malekith the Witch King is a preexisting character in ''Warhammer'' canon. Tchar'zanek, Grumlok and Gazbag are wholly original characters created for the game.
32	* ChainmailBikini: 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, [[WalkingShirtlessScene 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.
33	* CombatMedic: The game has a liking for this trope. While both Warrior Priests and Disciples of Khaine can heal from a distance, their abilities work best when they can smash shit up to power their healing.
34	%%* DanceBattler: Swordmasters.
35	* DeathSeeker: Slayers, Dwarfs who failed at upholding an oath and found the shame unbearable enough that they relinquished everything they had, dyed their beards a bright red and swore an oath to die in battle. They go into battle wearing no armour, and because of the darkly humorous nature of the setting, tend to survive.
36	* DevelopersForesight: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in what was dubbed the "plungers of the world" during dev-vlogs. Plungers, in this case, referring to [[StuffBlowingUp Looney-Tunes style explosive detonators]]. When play-testers find secrets like "If you jump from exactly this spot, aim yourself so you hit that tree on the way down, slide through the gray patch of dirt, and use a dash right before you land, you can run around on an infinite field of nothingness," most game designers put up an InvisibleWall or InsurmountableWaistHighFence rather than make it reasonably unreachable. These guys put in little do-dads like said plungers, an achievement for getting there, and (if you were lucky) a pretty explosion that blew your corpse all the way back to the graveyard, since that was the only way to get out of the glitch-hole. Why exploding you instead of say, teleporting? [[RuleOfCool Because big explosions are awesome.]]
37	* TheEngineer: The Dwarf Engineer, obviously, who can build gun turrets.
38	* EvilCounterpart: Nearly all of the playable classes for each side have a counterpart on the other who shares their gameplay gimmick, usually with some mechanical tweaking to alter the playstyle involved. For example, the Knight of the Blazing Sun and Chosen are both tank characters with support auras; but while the Knight's auras are usually buffs for teammates, the Chosen's auras are debuffs that apply to surrounding enemies.
39	%%* EyeBeams: Archmages' Radiant Gaze ability.
40	* FemmeFatale: 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.
41	* FlamingSword: Knights of the Blazing Sun and Chosen have these in some variations. Bright Wizards can also buff party members with this.
42	* GlassCannon: Many of the ranged DPS classes, especially the Bright Wizard and Sorcerer. The Witch Hunter and Witch Elves have the highest single target damage in the game, bar none, but die at the drop of a hat.
43	* GodIsEvil: The "Faith is Madness" questline for the Empire has you meet [[spoiler:the (implied) avatar of Sigmar himself. He is a very... extreme guy]]. An avatar of a god, however, is simply a piece of the god and only represents certain aspects; there's another confirmed avatar of [[spoiler:Sigmar]] who is one of the only completely good characters in the setting.
44	* HandOfGlory: One of the destruction quests in Ostland is making a Hand of Glory from a candle sacred to [[CrystalDragonJesus Sigmar]] and the severed hand of a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Ghoul,]] Faethel the Ragged. Being a {{MMORPG}}, the PlayerCharacter has to go out and gather the parts themselves.
45	* HornyVikings: Much like their tabletop counterparts, the Chaos faction is an entire race of bloodthirsty daemonic Vikings. Chaos characters even start out in south Norsca as tribesmen.
46	* HorseOfADifferentColor: Cold Ones (giant lizards) for the Dark Elves, wolves for Goblins, boars for Orcs. The other races just get horses (Chaos Steeds for, er, Chaos, Elven Warhorses for the High Elves or plain horses for the humans). Dwarves get a horse of a VERY different color, steam-punk personal helicopters that allow them to hover a few feet off the earth but act as a mount in every mechanical way.
47	%%* KillItWithFire: Bright Wizards, BurnTheWitch, MolotovCocktail, FlamingSword, Flamethrowers, you need to ask?%%Yes, clarify.
48	* KnightTemplar: Most of the Empire, as should be obvious to anyone who knows the setting. Especially the [[BurnTheWitch Witch Hunters.]]
49	%%* MagicKnight: On the side of Destruction there are Disciples of Khaine and Chosen, and on the side of Order there are Warrior Priests, Knights of the Blazing Sun, and Swordmasters.%%How are they Magic Knights?
50	* MasterSwordsman: Swordmasters, the High Elf mêlée damage class, are elves who have trained for centuries to master the use of the two-handed greatswords and have become some of the most skilled swordsmen in the world.
51	%%* MolotovCocktail: Used by Engineers, the Dwarven ranged damage class.
52	* {{Ninja}}: Shadow Warriors are ninja elves.
53	* NotTheIntendedUse: The "Flee" ability is most often used to get from point A to point B faster.
54	* OrgasmicCombat: Present and quite over the top. If those kind of screams disturb you, ''do not'' roll a female character.
55	* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains:
56	** Armour for female characters of the Order faction is invariably practical, or at least not revealing (most of them are exactly the same for both sexes). Female Zealots wear a skirt and bra ''thing'', Dark Elf Witch Elves run around in their underwear and Sorceresses (just the females) wear revealing robes. Two aversions in the Chaos Magus and Dark Elf Black Guard careers, where both sexes are pretty well covered and ''definitely'' villainous, as are Disciples of Khaine.
57	** Male Zealots go [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]]; ironically, females have more covering due to this.
58	* PistolWhipping: The witch hunter's gun will also be used as a melee weapon in melee combat. There is even an ability called 'Pistol Whip'.
59	* PlayingWithFire: Bright Wizards. Let's see, for your three mastery paths you have "burn stuff more quickly", "burn stuff more effectively over time" and "burn lots of stuff at once". Yeah, they're one of the most popular classes. The core mechanic of the class also involves improving your ability to set other things on fire by setting yourself on fire (as in, actually adversely affecting your own health pool).
60	%%* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Chaos, Greenskins, Dwarfs, the Empire -- pick your poison.
61	* PurelyAestheticGender:
62	** Most Order classes (except Slayers) and a few Destruction ones.
63	** Averted with Chaos Chosen and Marauders; mostly because in the former, they're horrifically mutated and covered in unholy armour (though in the greater background there is at least one case of a female Chaos Chosen). It's odd why Marauders can't be women, though. Female Marauders are even present as N.P.Cs.
64	%%* ReverseGrip: Witch Elves
65	* ShoutOut:
66	** A couple to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. One of the Scenarios is "The Guns Of Nordenwatch", named after either the ''Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft'' quest "The Guns of Northwatch" or the book ''Literature/TheGunsOfNavarone'' (or both), 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, StopPokingMe is present.
67	** A quest in one of the Greenskin tier 4 zones is called "I Smish on your Grave", presumably after the infamous "video nasty" ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave''.
68	** The Greenskin Choppa ability Git To Da Choppa is a reference to ''Film/{{Predator}}''.
69	** The Choppa also has a career mastery called Red Goes Faster! which is a reference to ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', 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.
70	** In Norsca you meet a sorcerer named [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Majere]] who happens to have golden-hued eyes with slit pupils. Not hourglass-shaped but still close enough.
71	* SquishyWizard: The Bright Wizard class is probably the squishiest in the game. Sorceresses/sorcerers for the Destruction side fill the same role.
72	* StopPokingMe: Aside from the annoyed dialogue ensuing from clicking on other characters repeatedly, clicking your own character enough times unlocks titles.
73	* SwordAndGun: Witch Hunters, who use a flintlock pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
74	%%* ThirdPersonSeductress: Witch Elves again.
75	%%* WrenchWench: The female Dwarf Engineer is a pretty literal example.

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