Welcome to the Warhammer Online Grab Bag, where your friendly neighborhood community manager will answer the most popular, and most interesting, questions in a new regular feature. Many things aren't yet certain, so try to be patient with us. Trust me - we're as eager as you are to see the features finalized, so that we can hear what you've got to say.
A: At the simplest level, morale only builds when you are actively participating in a fight – either by dealing damage or by healing a target that is dealing damage. Beyond that, there are many factors that can impact morale – your own tactics and the tactics from your group members, proximity to allied players of certain careers, group buffs, debuffs from enemies, etc.
A: Absolutely not permanent - Players earn tactics from standard advancement as well as progressing in RvR and via the Tome of Knowledge. As they move through their career, they’ll earn FAR more tactics than can ever be slotted at once (the same holds true for morale abilities). Players can slot and re-slot tactics as they see fit. The only limitation is that tactics CANNOT be changed out while you’re in combat. Players will also be able to prepare numerous “load outs” for their tactics that they can toggle between easily, rather than having to adjust specific tactics over and over. Make sure to check out this month’s podcast for more details!
A: Yes, but we’re doing it in a way that will allow players to have a degree of choice when it comes to the trophies they receive, so it won’t be a simple matter of looting the trophy from a player’s corpse.
A: Yes. Ranged damage of all kinds is broken up into resistance categories (as are all forms of damage, for that matter). Careers (not just magic users) will be weaker or stronger against specific sorts of damage depending on their baseline resistances as well as armor and tactics they are currently using.
A: Aside from armor and trophies which will visually indicate how advanced you happen to be, the Tome of Knowledge has an entire “Bragging Rights” component that will be accessible by other players so they can see just how much of a badass you really are.
