Well Iain Compton from the European WAR team has given the vaguest answer the world has ever seen (slight hyperbole):

We don’t have a firm ETA for that part of the site yet but it will definitely be open before the open beta begins. As soon as it is open there will be news announcing the fact and, no doubt the regular community sites will also be reporting on it too.

What we now realize is that that part of the site will be launched at some point. Great, we should be able to pinpoint the date now! (sarcasm is great, right?)

Not sure if this is under NDA (if it is I’m sorry, but I didn’t sign anything as I’m not in the beta), but it’s interesting and I don’t like pretending certain news doesn’t happen. My aim is to report on everything that may interest Warhammer Online fans, which is what I’m doing now.

Anyway, I’ve got word that the recent focus phase, which dealt with Tier 3 combat has ended (or will be ending very shortly). The phase lasted for just over a week apparently, and it makes sense that the next phase will move onto Tier 4 (although that is not confirmed, just speculation).

This message was delivered to current beta testers:

The beta servers will be closing down this evening at around 17:00 BST (18:00 CET). This will bring to an end the current Tier 3 focus test and allow the technical teams to prepare the way for the second part of this phase. This will require a few days of downtime and we will bring you more details of what you can look forward to next over the course of this week. Thanks for all your feedback and testing, keep an eye on the announcements for more details as we have them.

Good to see that the test is progressing nicely (it seems).