A Facelift

If you’ve been playing Warhammer for any amount of time, you’re most likely aware of their main webpage, their forums, and probably the “Realm War” portion of the site. I remember when it was first launched, it was a very cool, interactive idea that provided a pretty slick interface for the community and hobbyists to check out the game while not able to actually play the game. For those of you familiar with World of Warcraft, it was a somewhat similar version of their Armory. The Realm War, is a tad clunky, and lacking in a few areas, but it’s so close to being a very refined and great tool for the game, that I wanted to go in depth on some areas it could improve. If you visit the forums of the game at all, I made a suggestion with some of the same ideas I have in here, so give it kudos if you like what you read.

There are a lot of things that it does right. It allows you to look up characters, guilds, racial pairings, and even rankings based on different criteria. The campaign interface is great, with lots of interactivity and little flourishes of style and smoothness all over the place. The searches are fairly thorough, and provide you with who your looking for as long as you know something about your desired subject. The leaderboards give you rankings on everything from guild-leader kill to renown gain for all time, and in the last week. It all works, as in it functions, and in a lot of places it’s even got a cool factor going on. But there are areas that need work, and improvement, which I’ll go over as I talk about each different system.

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