Ladies and gentlemen, Mythic Entertainment is pleased to announce the return of two noble classes to Warhammer Online. As announced today by Mark Jacobs, the Empire's Knight of the Blazing Sun and the Dark Elf Black Guard will be joining the ranks of playable characters beginning in December. These classes were part of the four that were cut from the ranks before the retail release of the game. The additional classes will be made available to all Warhammer Online subscribers without an additional fee, as part of their normal monthly subscription.

Let’s start with what we know is some truly exciting news. I’m happy to announce that in December, the Black Guard and the Knight of the Blazing Sun will officially be part of WAR. We have very special plans around their appearance and in our next newsletter we will provide full details about that exciting and rather novel event. When they were cut from the game launch plans earlier this year, I said that the Black Guard and the Knight would be part of WAR only when they were great and deserved their place alongside all of WAR’s other compelling classes. I also said that we would not charge any additional fees for this new content or put it in a separate expansion pack; that’s not how we operate. We’ve kept to that plan and with the introduction of these two classes, Mythic shows that once again we are happy to keep giving players more value for their subscription dollars than any other MMORPG developer.

Other future plans are addressed in Jacobs' State of the Game announcement, including an improved mail system, item linking, targeting and more.

• State of the Game