Overlord Forever

I made Overlord to give world PvP more reasons to happen: territory to take for your faction, a keep to defend with your guild, and a reason to come back when the other side takes it :)

You don’t queue for anything. You head out, find the fight and take ground, and the other players running the addon see it on their map.

This page is for WoW Forever. If you play Retail, you’re looking for Overlord Retail.

Seven fronts

Arathi Highlands, Loch Modan, Durotar, Ashenvale, Elwynn Forest, Redridge Mountains and Hillsbrad Foothills: each one is a path of capture points between two capitals. Take a point and the next ones open up.

To capture, turn on PvP and stay on foot inside the circle for 2 minutes. If the enemy matches your numbers, your progress starts going backwards, so bring friends.

The enemy capital comes last and takes 8 minutes. Take it and you win the front, which adds to your faction’s domination for the week. What you conquered stays yours, capital included, until the other side comes and takes it back.

Keeps and outposts for your guild

Five keeps are open at all times, with no siege schedule: Stonetalon Mountains, the Wetlands, the Badlands, the Barrens and Mulgore. Hold one for 10 minutes and it belongs to your guild until the enemy takes it or the week ends.

Eleven outposts work the same way, but in 5 minutes. There’s one on each front, plus Savix Chapel in Silverpine Forest, Aeythyr Lodge in the Eastern Plaguelands, Lesi’s Bear Cave in Darkshore and Anad’Ora Moonwell in Feralas. Holding a front’s outpost helps your whole faction: enemies need 30 more seconds on that front’s ordinary points.

Platinum

Stand in a mine’s circle to earn Overlord platinum. Mining an ore node there gives you a bit more. It’s an addon resource and has nothing to do with your character’s gold.

25 platinum buys you Attack (your next capture is a minute shorter) or Reinforce (the next enemy capture on one of your points takes a minute longer). Neither works on capitals.

One front is featured each day, and every honorable kill there gives you extra platinum.

Finding a fight

The panel shows every front, the capture in progress and where people have been fighting lately. The Next Objective card tells you where to go, and the world map and minimap show the way.

PvP Groups lets you post a group or sign up for one, with an objective, a place, a size and a minimum level. The leader’s invite arrives as a normal game invite.

Call to arms sends a raid warning to every Overlord player of your faction. The whole faction shares one call every 4 hours, so make it count. A party or raid leader can also take Command and become the faction’s General, shown on the map, the minimap and their nameplate. Everyone hears about it when the General falls!

The week’s five best enemy killers are your Nemesis: they wear a skull on their nameplate, and the chat warns you when one shows up. You also get an alert when a guild goes on a rampage, on either side. You can turn these alerts off.

Rankings and the weekly reset

Every open-world honorable kill counts, at any level, on a front or not. Battlegrounds, arenas, dungeons and raids don’t.

The leaderboard has players, guilds with a rating that mixes kills and captures, keeps and outposts, plus a search box. Every week, your region’s reset starts a new campaign: rankings, domination and the war map start over (Tuesday in the Americas, Wednesday in Europe, Thursday morning in Korea and Taiwan). Last week’s champions go to the Hall of Fame.

Overlord Rank

This one survives the reset. There are fifteen ranks on a tab of your character sheet, earned with Glory from kills and captures, and a rank never drops once you have it. The highest ranks also ask for top finishes in your faction’s weekly ranking, and from rank 11 other players can see your badge next to your name and on your nameplate.

Your rank is saved on your computer only, for that character. If you lose your addon data, it’s gone.

How it works

Nothing runs on a server. Captures and rankings travel between players through an addon channel, your group and your Battle.net friends, and friends on the other faction help pass news between Alliance and Horde. There’s no community to join and nothing to set up. Right after you log in, the map and the leaderboard may need a little time to catch up, and the dot in the panel’s header tells you how the network is doing.

Each region and each ruleset (PvP, Normal, RP, RP-PvP, and Hardcore when it arrives) has its own campaign. Overlord shares news across layers, but it can’t put everyone in the same copy of the world, so group up to fight beside allies on another layer. It goes quiet in instances.

Getting started

Open the panel with the minimap button or /ov show, pick a front and go. The in-game guide has everything else, and keeping the addon updated keeps you on the same map as everyone else.

• /ov show opens the panel
• /ov guide opens the guide
• /ov lb opens the leaderboard
• /ov groups opens PvP Groups
• /ov map switches the world map between full, compact and hidden
• /ov sync asks other players for a catch-up
• /ov on its own lists every command

The interface is available in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese.

Found a bug? Tell me your addon version, where you were and what happened. A screenshot or the error text helps a lot, and I do read the comments :)

Thanks to everyone who tested the beta, organised fights and sent feedback!

See you out in Azeroth :)

Troma