Last July, Mythic Entertaiment upset fans of the then still-in-development MMO Warhammer Online when it announced that it was cutting four of the planned player classes for the launch of the game last September. However, in the first ‘State of the Game” address on the game’s official community web site, Mythic’s head man Mark Jacobs announced, “….in December, the Black Guard and the Knight of the Blazing Sun will officially be part of WAR.” He added, “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. “

The two new class additions will be added to the game for free; the State of the Game update covers a lot of ground on additional features coming to Warhammer Online but Jacobs adds at the end, “Fellow WARriors, we have a lot more big surprises coming your way that I will address in my next State of the Game message and it’s going to be a doozie”