You don't experience this civil war through PvE content alone -- of which there is plenty -- you also take this arguably exquisite war between brother and sister to the RvR battlegrounds and instanced Scenarios. The lovely thing about Scenarios is that they can be accessed directly on your user interface and from anywhere in the area that they're set in. This allows you to keep playing at your preferred pace while waiting on some good old objection-based PvP gameplay to start up. One of the things I noticed while playing through the first tier of Warhammer Online's Dark Elves is that you can mix and match your gameplay as you see fit. The game won't punish you for it. In fact, it almost feels like it's happy to oblige. I often found myself participating in Public Quests while waiting for a Scenario to fill up. Plus, as an added bonus, the game drops you back where you were once the Scenario is finished. It's all very slick.

All right, so here's the negative paragraph. Even with all the great things that I experienced in the Dark Elf starting zone, I could definitely feel a void where the Black Guard should have been. Unfortunately, the loss of the Black Guard and Choppa is made to seem worse having seen the art and read the concept designs for both classes. I know these guys could have been -- or are going to be -- awesome. I was planning on playing both of them, actually.