It slices, it dices, and every home should have their very own Dark Elf Black Guard from Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Making their debut this week folloiwng the Heavy Metal Live Event, this sturdy tank class brings additional damage mitigation to the battlefield. Very possibly changing entire sets of tactics, we've put together a quick guide to what this new and interesting class is all about.

The Black Guard of Naggarond are the favored warriors of the Witch King Malekith, and are given the sacred task of not only serving as his personal bodyguard, but as his heartless enforcers on the field of battle. Those who would become the Black Guard are taken from birth from their mothers. A Black Guard has no family ties to distract them, they are children of hatred and war and are raised from infancy steeped in battle and blood. Each Black Guard has personally sworn an oath of undying devotion at the feet of the Witch King, it is this oath that lights the fires of hatred and scorn deep in their hearts, for no warrior can be greater then the one chosen by Malekith himself.

• Quick Guide to the Black Guard