• The Kings in each realm are offering a new quest, depending on your loyalty over the years:
  • Accounts that have accumulated 15 years of subscription time OR that were a current, paid subscription on September 27th, 2016 will receive the quest: Loyalty Rewarded
    • This quest will reward players with a unique, class-specific cloak!
    • Check out the awesome cloak art below!
    • These cloaks will unlock powerful stats and abilities as they are leveled!
    • Characters must be level 50 and CL15 to receive the quest.
  • Accounts that do not meet the above requirements will receive the quest: Loyalty Needed
    • This quest will require players on Ywain to capture a keep before being able to earn their class-specific cloak.
    • This quest will require players on Gaheris to defeat a Herald on Ellan Vannin before being able to earn their class-specific cloak.
    • Check out the awesome cloak art below!
    • These cloaks will unlock powerful stats and abilities as they are leveled!
    • Characters must be level 50 and CL15 to receive the quest.

      

• Accounts that have accumulated 15 years of subscription time OR that were a current, paid subscription on September 27th, 2016 can visit the Census Overseer NPC in each realm's capital city to receive a 15 year housing trophy.
  • Please note that Census Overseers will now properly reward accounts that have had 5+ years of accumulated subscription time with their loyalty rewards. This should fix issues with EU accounts not being able to receive the 5 year rewards.

• Any accounts that have accumulated 15 years of subscription time will receive the new title "Honored Elder" upon login. To view your character's titles in-game, type /title.
  • Going forward, any accounts that accumulate 15 years of subscription time will also receive the new title "Honored Elder".

 

• A little over one hundred accounts were issued permanent bans for either extreme usage or repeat offenses of radar hacks.
• Several dozen accounts were issued 7-day suspensions for low usage and first time offenses of radar hacks.

While we're still working towards completely eliminating radar and all other cheats from the game, this is another solid step towards that goal. Happy hunting out there!

• Level 50 players should visit the ghostly queen, Lenore, in each realm's capital city to receive the new quest 'A Hallowed Lost'.
  • Visit the pumpkin patches in the frontier to find the buttertoe candy pieces Lenore needs and get some exciting new Trick or Treat costumes for your realmmates!
    • Only the pumpkin patches in Ellan Vannin, Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, and Breifine drop the five buttertoe candy pieces she needs.
      • You'll want to get this year's Ghostly Harvest quest to help guide you to the pumpkin patches!
      • Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches to get the candy pieces.
      • Different patches have different candy pieces available.
    • Trick or Treat potions can be used on your realm-mates to give them randomized costumes!
      • These potions will be usable in RvR for the three days surrounding and including Halloween!
  • Earn a new friend for your efforts!

• A new instance dungeon, the Castle of the Mournful King, awaits those willing to brave its powerful ruler's fury!
  • Level 50 players should speak with Lenore to teleport to the instance.
  • Earn armor and weapons with stats you've seen before - but with different skins!
  • Draughts of Supremacy and Otherworldly Helms also have a chance to drop!
  • This instance is meant to be extremely challenging and is therefore entirely optional and not required to complete the new quest.

• Lenore can be found in the following locations within the capital cities:
  • Camelot: The Church of Albion
  • Jordheim: The Temple of the Aesir
  • Tir na Nog: Alainn Cuir's courtyard

• The Ghostly Harvest Quest offers players level 45 and up a dangerous adventure in the frontiers. Speak with John Tobin on the Cotswold Bridge, Foa Muldisson outside the Jordheim North Gates, or Nera by the road in Mag Mell to begin the quest. (Note: Players who completed this quest last year will now be offered it again.)
• Treat sellers have been spotted selling sugary confections inside Meath, Erikstaad, and Caerwent.
• The consignment merchants would like to show you their Halloween spirit! Pick up the merchant and place it back down on your house porch and he will change into a Halloween outfit for you!
• Be aware adventurers! Ghosts haunt the streets of your capital cities as the pumpkin moon rises! Ghosts have also been spotted in Mag Mell, Aegirhamn, and Campacorentin Station.
• The horses you once rode have joined the spirit realm. (This affects stable and merchant horses only - not player controlled horses.)
• Something strange has happened to all of the puppies.
• The pumpkins have been carved into jack o' lanterns!
• A trio of crazy old women have been spotted selling costume potions inside Camelot, Jordheim, and Tir na Nog.
  • The costume potions last 15 minutes each and come in a variety of flavors.
  • The costume potions work best if you remove your helm and armor.
  • You cannot digest another costume potion if you are transformed into any of the monster forms.
  • The costume potions' magics are short-lived and the potions will be useless after the festivities end so don't horde them.
  • Some of the costume potions allow you to take the form of the enemy, so don't be scared if you see some in your capital city or housing zones, it's just your realm mates playing dress up!
  • The costumes and potions only work while you are in the capital cities or housing zones. You cannot use them outside of these zones and if you leave the zone while in costume, you will lose the effect.
  • As always, the days before, during, and after Halloween these potions can be used in RvR (With exception to pixies and ghosts potions, which are not usable in the frontiers ever)
• NOTE: Players will need to logout and re-run the patcher in order to see the pumpkin moon, loot bags, and pumpkin patches

• That means 3 days left to return and get 30 free days! Be sure to check out all of the Come Back to Camelot offerings HERE!
• The traveling merchants will be departing with the month's end so be sure to pick up whatever you need this weekend!
• Starting Sunday and continuing through Tuesday, the costume potions and new Trick or Treat candies will be usable in the Frontiers in celebration of Halloween!

 

• The King's Tournament will also be ending just before midnight EST on October 31st. If you haven't checked out the leaderboards yet, be sure to do so HERE!
• Remember, the realm's winner in each category will receive a statue of their character's likeness!
• We're also happy to announce an extra reward to the top 10 winners per realm in each category: their very own copy of the 15th Anniversary poster!

Even with the Anniversary month ending, there's plenty to look forward to:  

• We'll be continuing the bounty point and experience bonuses at their current values through the entire month of November!
• Realm point bonuses will be reduced from 100% to 50% but will also continue through the the entire month of November.
• Our Halloween event, including the Mournful King instance dungeon, will continue until November 8th!
• Stay tuned for details of an event during the week of Thanksgiving!
• Look forward to our annual midwinter celebration coming with a new instance dungeon later in December!
• Finally, 1.122B will also be hitting the Pendragon test server in the coming weeks and we're very excited to unveil the revamped Necromancer and much-requested RvR changes!

Another epic King's RvR Tournament has come to an end! 

The final, official leaderboards will be up later this week after our investigations to ensure a clean tournament are complete. Any participants found cheating will be removed from tonight's leaderboards and disqualifed from winning the rewards.

Remember, realm winners of each category will receive a statue made out of their character's likeness in their realm's capital city!

Additionally, all characters who ended up in the top 10 per realm, in each category will be receiving a 15th Anniversary Poster (can only win 1 per person). Once the final, official leaderboards have been announced later this week, players who won a poster will be contacted via email requesting the address they would like the posters shipped to.

If you're currently in or near the top 10 in any category, please be sure to update your email addresses on those accounts so you don't miss the notification email from us!

Edit 1 PM EST / 5 PM GMT: Ywain is once again online!

The Ywain server will be coming down tomorrow at 5:45 AM EST / 9:45 AM GMT for maintenance of Amazon server hosting.

The server is expected back up before 1:30 PM EST / 5:30 PM GMT.
 

Keep Capture Winners

Solo Kill Winners

Skill Index Winners

Each winner above will have a statue built in their likeness in their realm's capital city! These statues should be completed within the next few weeks and will grant players who pay homage to them a rewarding quest!

In addition to the above winners, we would also like to congratulate the top 10 winners in each realm, for each category, who will receive a 15 year anniversary poster (90 winners total)!

Each of the top 10 winners will receive an email requesting the address they'd like the poster delivered to - please follow the email's instructions carefully!

If an account has multiple winning characters in the top 10 of multiple categories, the highest placed character among all of the categories will win the poster and the rest will be passed over as only 1 poster per account will be sent out. This means that some of those that finished just outside the top 10 could yet win a poster!

If you won, or even if you're close to winning, please ensure that your account's email address is up to date with a valid, working email and be sure to keep an eye on your spam filter over the next week:  if we don't get a reply, we can't send you your poster!

Congratulations again to everyone and thank you all for participating!
 

Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Broadsword!

To celebrate the holiday, please enjoy the following bonuses from today until the morning of Monday, November 28th:

• On Ywain, there will be a rotating +125% Realm Point bonus in the zone of Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, OR Breifine. This bonus will rotate among these 3 zones every 4 hours, with 1 zone having the bonus at a time. When the bonus is disabled, the zones will be set back to the current amount of +50% RPs.
  • Keep an eye out for the broadcast messages mentioning which zone currently has the bonuses when in the frontier region!
• On Gaheris, all three capital city regions have been given a +125% Realm Point bonus.

Enjoy!

Realm vs Realm

• The siege tower hookpoint on the northeast corner of Dun Crimthainn should now be visible when shift+right-clicking on the keep and showing the hookpoints.
  • Please note that if you're currently logged in, you will need to logout and run the patcher before this change takes effect.
• The siege tent at Nottmoor Watchtower will now spawn correctly.
• The teleporter NPCs at each strength relic town no longer give incorrect information about the length of the portal timer. All portal ceremonies are 60s so long as the safe port supply line is open.

Class Balance

General

• Several icons have had their widgets, borders, and icons adjusted and fixed.
  • Please note that if you're currently logged in, you will need to logout and run the patcher before these changes takes effect.

Bonedancer

• Bonedancer “Totem” have been changed as follows:
  • Only one totem spawns at the target location, but effects are still radius based.
  • Totem effects now trigger as soon as the totem is cast, and continues to subsequently pulse as normal.

Druid

• Cloak of the Loyal Druid has had its disease cure rate reduced to every 15 seconds, down from every 30 seconds.

Enchanter

• The “Enchantment of …” spells now properly overwrite themselves on groupmates.
• The Underhill Ally’s health regeneration buff has been removed.
  • This conflicted with the Bard’s heal song. The melee resistance buffs from the ally and its healing capability offer enough utility without needing to increase the regen buff’s value.
• The level 48 PBAoE spell now does its correct damage.
• The Loyal Enchanter class cloak /use add-radius ability now properly affects the group.
• The Enchantment of Mana ability should properly function for all classes now.

• The Revert Form ability now correctly shows up in the abilities list.
• Necromancer ‘Ground’ abilities have changed as follows:
  • Only one ground storm spawns at the target location, but effects are still radius based.
  • Ground effects now trigger as soon as the ground is cast, and continues to subsequently pulse as normal.
• Chthonic Form changes:
  • Now properly grants its parry and weaponskill buffs at all levels.
  • Now properly releases summoned pets at all levels.
• Decrepit Form’s health regeneration has been scaled throughout level progression. The level 50 regeneration remains unchanged.
  • This will lower regen rates throughout the lower levels, mainly to balance out the previously very high regeneration rate in battlegrounds.
• Power Lock now correctly stuns the Necromancer while grappling and draining its target’s power.
  • You cannot purge this stun, and it does not provide an immunity.

• The first tick of the Selfless Devotion RR5 now correctly fires.

World

• Several quests' text has been adjusted to direct players to the strength relic towns instead of Caer Berkstead, Nottmoor Faste, or Dun Crimthainn for turn-ins.
• The Chapter 5 of the Otherworlds Campaign now correctly grants credit to groups who are not part of a battlegroup as well as to battlegroups.
• The correct Royal Accountant NPCs are now found in each realm's strength relic town.

Realm vs Realm

• Keep keys can once again be turned into the supply chests at Caer Berkstead, Nottmoor Faste, and Dun Crimthainn.
• Hookpoints on Caer Berkstead, Nottmoor Faste, and Dun Crimthainn towers should once again spawn correctly.

Class Balance

• Traitor's Dagger pet procs are now correctly prevented from working in Light Tank pet-proc stance.
• The spell icon for the Siege Alacrity chant now appears correctly.

• The dread lord's magic resistances have been reduced slightly.
• The fossil healer's heal values have been reduced slightly.
• All heal-pet target's health thresholds to begin healing have been reduced from 90% health to 75% health.

• All heal-pet target's health thresholds to begin healing have been reduced from 90% health to 75% health.

• The siege damage, protection and haste chants should properly affect group-mates now.

• The Enchantment of Mana buff's delve now correctly indicates that the proc hits the target as well as the targets in its radius.
  • The Enchantment of Mana delve has been reduced from 325 to 275 damage.
  • Enchantment of Mana now has a 60s RUT.
• All heal-pet target's health thresholds to begin healing have been reduced from 90% health to 75% health.
• The Mana Barrier magic ablative line of spells can no longer be right-click removed to avoid the immunity timer.

• The siege damage, protection and haste chants should properly affect group-mates now.

• Chthonic Form should no longer drop randomly.
• Painworking's lower level versions of parry-chance buffs now correctly overwrite the Chthonic Form's innate parry buff.
• Nethersbane is now correctly removed from the Necromancer's inventory on logout.
  • This item is also removed on equip if not 50 painworking specialization.
• A bug causing the Death Servant line of bolt spells from doing much more damage than other bolt type spells has been corrected.
• The Spirit Form stealth lore detection radius is now affected by the Necromancer's Death Servant specialization.
  • This will result in lower general detection radius unless fully specialized in Death Servant.
• All heal-pet target's health thresholds to begin healing have been reduced from 90% health to 75% health.

• The melee tri-resist buff now stacks with item-based melee resist buffs.

• The siege damage, protection and haste chants should properly affect group-mates now.

• All heal-pet target's health thresholds to begin healing have been reduced from 90% health to 75% health.

Class Balance

• The Dread Lord pet rear stun style's duration has been reduced from 9s to 6s.

• The amber simulacrum pet has had its defenses reduced.
  • This means the pet will die much faster than before to melee damage, making this a higher risk/reward pet.
  • Its offensive damage remains unchanged.

• The self strength/constituion and dexterity/quickness combination buff should now properly buff both effects even when sheared of one effect.

• The Enchantment of Mana buff has been changed as follows:
  • The proc rate has been reduced from 100% to 33%
  • The pbaoe damage proc now scales with the level of the Enchanter.
    • This results in lower damage values before level 50.
    • The damage from the level 50 version remains unchanged at 275.
• The Enchantment of Zeal buff has been changed as follows:
  • Its re-use timer has been increased from 5m to 10m.
• The Heal Effectiveness buffs have had their durations reduced from 45s to 30s.
• The underhill stalker pet has had its defenses reduced.
  • This means the pet will die much faster than before to melee damage, making this a higher risk/reward pet.
  • Its offensive damage remains unchanged.

• The level 50 Deathsight ability, Bringer of Death, has had its duration reduced from 30s to 20s.
• The Chthonic Form's hitpoint and armor factor increase once again stacks with other HP/AF increasing abilities like the Spear of King's /use.
• The Chthonic Form's AF buff is now given out below level 50 at the following levels and values:
  • Level 20-34 receives a 25 AF buff
  • Level 35-44 receives a 75 AF buff
  • Level 45-49 receives a 125 AF buff
  • Level 50 receives the same 250 AF buff
• The plated fiend pet has had its defenses reduced.
  • This means the pet will die much faster than before to melee damage, making this a higher risk/reward pet.
  • Its offensive damage remains unchanged.

• The spirit valkyrie pet has had its defenses reduced.
  • This means the pet will die much faster than before to melee damage, making this a higher risk/reward pet.
  • Its offensive damage remains unchanged.

• The level 50 Immolation lifetap will now only heal the Valewalker and its group one time when used.

• The Frozen Medal of Honor and Frozen Cloaks of Midwinter are once again available!
• Battleground Presents are there to be gathered!
• The Traveling Merchants have their winterly return to the realms!
• A new challenging instance awaits those willing to brave the cold!

Midwinter will start today, December 14th, and will run until January 17th, 2017.
 

Read on for more details!

Frozen Cavern Instance

• Venture to the Frozen Cavern and test yourself against the chill... and its cunning inhabitant: Jack Frost!
• Two modes exist for this instance: Normal and Challenging
  • The Normal mode has a chance to drop the following rewards:
    • Newly re-skinned chestpieces!
      • These chestpieces are from existing items but they've been given brand new procs!
    • New mythirians!
    • Infernal sleeves!
    • Darkness Falls jewelry!
  • The Challenging mode has a chance to drop the following rewards:
    • Newly re-skinned chestpieces and weapons!
      • These chestpieces are from existing items but they've been given brand new procs!
    • New mythirians!
    • Infernal sleeves!
    • Darkness Falls jewelry!
    • This mode also drops much more loot!

• Visit Njord in the following locations to enter the instance of your choice:
  • Albion: near Merlin's Tower in Camelot
  • Midgard: near the Burial Grounds in Jordheim
  • Hibernia: near the Chamber of Magic in Tir na Nog

Traveling Merchants

Several popular items have also made their return, including Darkness Falls Weapons and many more! 




Players can find the merchants at the below locations. Happy Shopping!

In Albion: Just outside of gates of Castle Sauvage in Camelot Hills
In Midgard: Just outside of Svasud Faste in the Vale of Mularn
In Hibernia: Just outside of Druim Ligen in Connacht

Midwinter Festival

The days grow short, a chill is in the air, and warm fires glow in our homes. The Midwinter Festival has come once again to the Realms! Visit the festival grounds to take part in the festivities and challenges.
 

 

Our Knight Podcast last Sunday took a look back over the past year's changes as well as looked forward to what's coming in 2017.

Knights Luvly, Maceric, and Cyrric were joined by DAoC Producer John Thornhill during the podcast, which is now available on our official YouTube channel!

Watch it below!

World

• The difficulty of the Frozen Caverns' challenge mode has been reduced.
  • The mechanics of the encounter remain the same but some of Jack Frost's damage has been toned down slightly.

Class Changes

• Several pets have been fixed to correctly take magic damage.
• All of the Mythirians from the Frozen Caverns instance can now be equipped correctly.
• The Speed of Sound Realm Ability no longer drops when hit by certain Slow abilities.
  • All other slows were already correctly not affecting Speed of Sound.

• The Amber Simulacrum pet's run speed has been reduced slightly.

• The Underhill Stalker pet's run speed has been reduced slightly.

• The Plated Fiend pet's run speed has been reduced slightly.

• The debuff value on the Frozen Edge rear style has been reduced from 45% to 35%.
• The Deathseeker follow-up style has been adjusted as follows:
  • Its damage has been reduced from 100/tick to 75/tick.
  • Its frequency has been reduced from 2s/tick to 2.5s/tick.
    • Its duration remains at 10s.
• The following instant damage over time spells' values have had their damage adjusted:
  • Level 37 - Freezing Clench reduced from 74/tick to 64/tick
  • Level 47 - Freezing Howl reduced from 132/tick to 112/tick
• Netherbane's damage over time proc has been adjusted as follows:
  • Its damage has been reduced from 185/tick to 145/tick.
  • Its frequency has been reduced from 2s/tick to 2.5s/tick.
    • Its duration remains at 10s.

Spiritmaster

• The Spirit Valkyrie pet's run speed has been reduced slightly.