I didnt even know till i just read about it.

There's lairs.

http://warhammeronline.wikia.com/wiki/Lair

Aparently there's over 30 lairs. One for each zone, if not more.These need to be found and no quest etc will lead to them so you'll need to explore. Then once you find them find out how to access or spawn the hero with triggers etc. The hero's are very tough to beat. What they drop or give you i dont know. Could be normal loot or tactics or titles or whatever.

There's Epic quests. Not entirely sure what epic quests mean though. Do they give epic reward or mean you have to visit multiple zones for them. Anyway you need to find them by accidentally comming across items or points in the game by exploring and trying.

There's also plungers of the world or other triggers that lead you to new areas or give titles etc. These you again need to find yourself, no quests etc will lead to them.

Check this page http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/warhammer-online/860606p3.html

All of this you will be alerted to by stumbling upon them and getting an unlock in your tome of knowledge.

I think its pretty cool stuff !!

yup

lairs are why i'm rolling open rvr server ;)

COOL !

Thanks for this info, now i have to explore more :O)

Yep and from what I've heard about lairs is that they'll get "triggered" by some event in the game. An example given is that someone presses a button in a dungeon a lair opens up in another zone. Another example was lairs that open only at certain times - like phases of the moon or something.

However, the devs said that their goal with lairs is to provide PvE content that is "non-thottbotable" meaning that those triggers won't get publicly known in a few days cause they ARE supposed to be hard to find... Hmm.. I wonder how are they planning to accomplish this? Rotating or random triggers? Or is this idea still on at all? We'll see soon I guess.

Originally posted by bbmcnair

yup

 

lairs are why i'm rolling open rvr server ;)

Why is that ? you are locking yourself from the lairs on T1 and T2 once you get to Rank 31 if you roll on a Open Server...

Originally posted by holonist

Originally posted by bbmcnair

yup

 

lairs are why i'm rolling open rvr server ;)

 

Why is that ? you are locking yourself from the lairs on T1 and T2 once you get to Rank 31 if you roll on a Open Server...

did you even play the Open beta?

you get chickened on core servers as well.

the difference with open rvr, is that you dont get chickened 1 tier below your level bracket. So yeah, as a lvl 40, i can go gank ppl in tier 3 lairs.

hrmmm unless they changed it when i was on the core servers, but  it chickened me when i flagged for RvR but not if i ran around unflagged.

Originally posted by markoraos

Yep and from what I've heard about lairs is that they'll get "triggered" by some event in the game. An example given is that someone presses a button in a dungeon a lair opens up in another zone. Another example was lairs that open only at certain times - like phases of the moon or something.

However, the devs said that their goal with lairs is to provide PvE content that is "non-thottbotable" meaning that those triggers won't get publicly known in a few days cause they ARE supposed to be hard to find... Hmm.. I wonder how are they planning to accomplish this? Rotating or random triggers? Or is this idea still on at all? We'll see soon I guess.

That's interesting. I think I did find somethng then. A rune never did 'something' in an out of the way place. It was quite closse to a lair that was 'locked' when I found the door earlier. Yea! Somethng to explore.

Originally posted by bbmcnair

Originally posted by holonist

Originally posted by bbmcnair

yup

 

lairs are why i'm rolling open rvr server ;)

 

Why is that ? you are locking yourself from the lairs on T1 and T2 once you get to Rank 31 if you roll on a Open Server...

 

did you even play the Open beta?

 

you get chickened on core servers as well.

 

the difference with open rvr, is that you dont get chickened 1 tier below your level bracket. So yeah, as a lvl 40, i can go gank ppl in tier 3 lairs.

Ouh the joy and bliss of ignorance , did you actually played the Beta ?! ( and btw that change on Open servers was last tuesday ) . On core servers you can do exactly the same with the bonus that you can go down to T1 and T2 PVE zones , nice to talk with such experienced ... players .

i have been following the development of the game for 1½ year aprox now, and first of all i have to say, that "lairs" is very VERY old news!!!

when that is said, yes it seems like a really cool thing to do - looking for secret buttons etc around the world. but im sure, in a few months all the secret ways to open lairs are on some sort of homepage, and there wont be anything exciting about running around, trying to get some gate open (unless they change it every month, or add more)

But no matter how great an idea it is to make lairs work that way, you wont see me running around hour after hour, to fint out someone opened that lair on another server 1 hour ago.

From what I've seen the lair bosses seem to be straight forward tank and spank fights, some easy enough to do with a tank+healer combo.

Loot from them is always a specific slot item and of rare (blue) quality. They are also for tome unlocks.

Probably some nice bonus for unlocking them all as well (title, or tactic rewards maybe).

Just a hunch, but from the only video I've seen regarding them (huge spoiler) there may be a final boss to unlock which is way harder than all the others. Well put it this way, theres a statue of a daemon in one of the final lairs.

Are lairs instanced? It would be retarded if I rolled on a open server and couldn't do the lairs because of the whole chicken thing.

I do not know if they are instanced ,  i dead that part of them is suppost to be so maybe fore alot of them all of their are or maybe that is just higher ones...

When i was testing main they were always closed (i don't think they had the content in then , but maybe i just never opened one up).