• Solo Kills
• Keeps Captured
• “Skill Index” score based on a combination of RvR metrics (including RPs-per-kill and kills-to-deaths ratios, as well as some others).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with anytime and shield styles
• FnF, summoned, and charmed pets should award deathblow credit once again

King's RvR Tournament

• The Ruined Keeps of Caer Benowyc, Bledmeer Faste, and Dun Crauchon have returned to their original states. Masons and Protection Obelisks are once again available
• Doppelganger spawns have returned to their normal spawn rates and locations

Ruined Areas Update

• Relic Town Obelisk will no longer port to Folley Lake, Moydruim Castle, or the Trellebourg Fortress
• Please note: we may make further changes to these areas over the course of the Tournament.

Bonuses

• 100% bonus to RPs gained from RvR kills
• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons

• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons
• 100% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities

• 40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

• 20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

King's Top 10 Winner Prizes

• 1 Month of Game Time added to account
• 2,200 Mithril
• Exclusive Item Skin

• 2 Months of Game Time added to account
• 975 Mithril
• Exclusive Item Skin

• 3 Months of Game Time added to account
• 425 Mithril
• Exclusive Item Skin

• Reminder! Players can only win once
• New item skin is a special reward for this tournament alone

• Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches for a rare chance to get Trick or Treat or Keep-Chest potions!
  • These rewards drop without needing to be on any quest!
  • 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!

• John Tobin in Cotswold, Foa Muldisson in Mularn, and Nera in Mag Mell have studies to conduct.
  • Be rewarded handsomely with gold, realm points, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic effect! What lengths will you go to get your hands on a free pair of the wings!?
    • NOTE: This quest can be completed again this year but characters who already have the wings will not get another pair.
• Completed [Halloween] Haunt or Be Haunted quests that are not turned in by November 2nd will be forcibly removed!

• Pumpkin Head pre-set patterns, new spooky Consignment Merchant costumes, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic spell effect are now for sale for mithril at your realm's capital city's Event Shop!
  • Visit the Event Shop soon because it disappears on November 2nd!

• 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

• Level 50 players should visit the ghostly queen, Lenore, in each realm's capital city to receive the quest 'A Hallowed Lost' so long as they haven't already completed it.
  • Visit the pumpkin patches in the frontier to find the buttertoe candy pieces Lenore needs.
    • 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.
        • Buttertoe candy pieces no longer drop unless the player has the 'A Hallowed Lost' quest and hasn't completed it yet.
      • Different patches have different candy pieces available.
  • Earn a new friend for your efforts!
  • Please note that this quest is only able to be completed once per character, including characters that completed it in previous years.

 

• The 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.
  • This instance is meant to be extremely challenging and is therefore entirely optional and not required to complete the new quest.
  • Rewards include:
    • Re-skinned hallowed weapons and armor
    • Nevermore's Broken Bone
    • Hallowed Effusion of Comprehension potion
    • Otherworldly helms
    • Doppelganger and other rare mythirians
    • Supremacy, celerity, omni-healing, or omni-regen potions
    • A Scroll of Recall
    • Hallowed Elixir of Omni-Regen - new!
    • Hallowed Draught of Celerity - new!
    • Hallowed Empowering Elixir - new!

• The Castle of the Mournful King instance now uses the Loot Chest system:
  • The Mournful King and Nevermore monsters no longer drop rewards directly other than the king's remains.
  • The Mournful King now spawns the Mournful King's Loot Chest in the center of the Hallowed Ruins when defeated.
    • This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!
  • Characters can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
    • There is a greater than 50% chance to receive a re-skinned hallowed armor or weapon each day!

• 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

What is Catch Up in Caledonia Braemar?

When does the event start and end?

How does the event work?

• For the first 4 days of the event, newly created level 1 characters will be automatically zoned into the Braemar battleground where they will vie for control against the enemy realms!
  • This will be the ONLY way to get inside the battleground zone. Once inside, characters can voluntarily leave but CANNOT return!
  • All monsters, center-keep guards, and siege weapons are removed for the event. The only way to progress is by defeating realm enemies in battle and completing the related quests.
  • Charm-pet classes will be able to create a pet to charm at their realm's portal keep.
• ​New character creation will not be disabled for this event, and players will be able to join until the event concludes.
• Experience, bounty, and realm point bonuses will be granted to both free and subscribed accounts in the battleground to help them progress!
• Earn bounty points for completing quests and defeating enemy realm players and use them to purchase level-appropriate gear as you strive to 50 and then master and champion levels!
• All characters will begin and remain in the same zone for the entirety of the event.
  • The following level caps will be in place for all characters in Braemar and will increase as follows every 24 hours:
    • Day 1 (Monday): Level 19 maximum
    • Day 2 (Tuesday): Level 29 
    • Day 3 (Wednesday): Level 39 
    • Day 4 (Thursday) : Level 49
    • Days 5-7 (Fri-Mon): Level 50
  • Characters that reach the day's level cap will still be able to earn realm and bounty points.
• Characters that are 5 levels or more below the day's level cap will receive the Caledonia Boost buff.
  • This buff greatly increases the damage dealt and greatly reduces damage received from characters that do not have the buff (higher level characters)!
  • Characters with the Caledonia Boost buff active will also DOUBLE the XP and BP rewards for themselves and their group!
  • When the level cap reaches 49 the buff will be given out to characters 3 or more levels under the cap.
• Overwhelming Force system:
  • Overwhelming Force is not active in Braemar.
• Level 1 characters first zoning in should visit the Braemar Event Coordinator NPC to automatically reach level 10 and recive 100BPs in order to purchase gear.
• Realm population will be reviewed and evaluated as the event progresses.

How far will I be able to progress?

Harvest Quest

• The realms are humming with anticipation for their upcoming feasts and local festivals!
  • Help the realms' Festival Steward recover a lost shipment of food!
    • The repeatable RvR quests '[Harvest] Lost Turkey' is now available at each realm's strength relic town at the Festival Steward NPC!
      • Earn bounty points for your efforts!
• The Harvest Event will run until Thursday, December 1st, 2022.

Farmer's Market Festival

• The Farmer's Market Festival makes its return to the following locations:
  • Albion: Ludlow
  • Midgard: Vasudheim
  • Hibernia: Ardee
• Visit the Festival Matron and go bobbing for apples to earn some house trophies!
• Let Captain Mack in Albion, Captain Marks in Midgard, or Captain Geddes in Hibernia regale you with their tales of a shark THIS big on the high seas and see if you can avenge their crews to earn the Sharkblood Bracer!
• The Farmer's Market Festival will run until Thursday, December 1st, 2022.

• Visit the Royal Cartographer in your realm's strength relic town or capital city to obtain the [Daily] Map Fragments quest.
• Assist him in gathering intel for his work and be rewarded with 5,000 realm points for each completion plus earn fragments that can be spent on your choice of valuable rewards! (max 5k per toon)
  • Earn the Ellan Vannin Map Trophy for your first quest completion and plan out your next combat tactics on it or use it to bring just the right look to your favorite room in the house!
  • Want to build a full-blown war room? We've got you covered there too, choose to unlock one, two, or all three of the realm Frontier Map trophies!
  • Or maybe some extra realm point and bounty point potions are more your speed? Need Loyalty Cloak credit? We got you!
  • Check out the Royal Cartographers full suite of choices in-game!
  • Enjoy a 25% extra realm point bonus (on top of the existing 50% bonuses currently active) in the areas of Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, and Emain Macha! 


• The Trophy event will last until January 19th, 2023.

• Bounty points are yours if you can once more assist the surly Festival Steward and the friendly Cargomaster!
• Realm point, experience, and crafting bonuses extended!
• Traveling Merchants stay extended!
• Merlof and yuletide hats return to our MTX store!
• The Frozen Medal of Honor and Frozen Cloaks of Midwinter are once again available!
• Battleground Presents are there to be gathered and are now uncapped!
• The Frozen Cavern instance makes its return, with new weapons in the most challenging dungeon!
• The Twelve Days of Midwinter gifts are being wrapped!
• Enjoy a stroll through housing to see the wreath and candle-adorned doors and windows backlighting the lovely decorations and layouts of your fellow realm-mates!

The Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 11th, 2023.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Wednesday, December 21st!

Read on for more details!

Realm Bonuses Extended

• 50% bonus to RP gain from RvR kills
• 50% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic and shrouded isles zones and dungeons

• 50% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic and shrouded isles zones and dungeons
• 50% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities

• 40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

• 20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain
   

Mithril Shop 

 

Our Event Shop is back for the season with cool items!

• Get into the spirit of the season with our Yule Hat!
• Welcome back Merlof, your frosty waddling friend!
• Complete the Roaming with Friends quest for a feathery surprise!
• Three Midwinter consignment merchants have been added to let you sell your wares with a festive flair!

Note: these items are seasonal and will no longer be purchasable once the Midwinter event ends (but will still be usable if you have them!)


Midwinter Festival Event

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.

• Level 50 characters can complete the following quest for the duration of the event:
  • Visit your realm's Cargomaster at the Caer Benowyc, Bledmeer Faste, or Dun Crauchon docks to obtain the repeatable '[Midwinter] Roll On' quest!
• Vanity pets. a stylish Yuletide hat, and Consignment Merchants are available in the Event Shop in each realm's capital city!
  • Celebrate Midwinter in style with the Yuletide hat!
  • Melt your heart with Merlof's goofy gait!
  • Nothing can beat a trusty owl to guide you and none's wiser than Athena!
    • Players who complete the [Daily] Roaming with Friends quest just once from now until the end of Midwinter Festival will earn this wise companion for free!
  • Three vendors have stepped up to serve as consignment merchants.
    • No longer limiting his reach to just the lands of Hibernia, Jack Frost seeks to spread his influence through the Market Boards.
    • After his successful debut last year, Merlof's ambitions have only grown, and now he wishes to help you sell your wares.
    • After years of practice, a Theurgist has successfully managed to teach one of his ice pets the basics of economics, and now is willing to lend you its services.

• Olibar's Gift Retrieval quests can now be done an unlimited amount of times!

 

• Venture to the Frozen Cavern and test yourself against the chill... and its cunning inhabitant: Jack Frost!
• 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
• Two modes exist for this instance: Normal and Challenging
  • The Normal mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
    • Frozen chestpieces
    • Frozen and other mythirians
    • Infernal sleeves
    • Darkness Falls jewelry
    • New Extended potions
  • The Challenging mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
    • Frozen weapons - including 5 new weapons!
    • Frozen chestpieces
    • Frozen mythirians only
    • Darkness Falls jewelry
    • New Extended potions
    • In addition to having a chance at the weapons, the chance at the mythirians and darkness falls jewelry is much higher. The chest piece chance is the same in both modes.
• Loot no longer drops directly from Jack Frost, instead a loot chest is spawned when he is defeated.
  • Players can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
  • This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!

Traveling Merchants

 

Traveling Merchants will remain for the event duration. 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

Twelve Days of Midwinter

 

On the first day of Midwinter, Broadsword gave to me...
 

• Login to the game and visit the following NPCs to receive a special reward each day!
  • Albion: Santa Nicholas in Castle Sauvage
  • Midgard: Kris Kringle in Svasud Faste
  • Hibernia: Daidi na Nollag in Druim Ligen
• Speak with the above NPCs to reveal your reward for each day.
  • Each day's reward will be revealed around 5:30 AM EST / 10:30 AM GMT and last the remainder of that day.
  • If you miss a day, you will be able to catch up and receive the missed rewards by visiting the NPC on subsequent days.
    • This means if you simply login on the twelfth day, you'll receive all 12 rewards!
      • Make sure you have room in your inventory!
• These rewards are limited to level 50, Veteran (subscribed) account characters and can only be obtained once per character.
• This event will run from Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 for the next twelve days, with the last day being January 1st, 2023!

• Albion: Santa Nicholas in Castle Sauvage
• Midgard: Kris Kringle in Svasud Faste
• Hibernia: Daidi na Nollag in Druim Ligen

• The Map Trophy event is now over.
• Any remaining Map Fragments will be removed upon login.
• The Ghost Keep event has begun and will last until February 21st!
• RvR bonuses will remain through the duration of the Ghost Keep event!
• A new quest has been added to this event, with new rewards!

Ghost Keep Event

• Members of each realm should make haste to their ghostly ambassador to strengthen their realm's cause:
  • Albion - See the Ancient Paladin in the Catterick Hamlet relic town
  • Midgard - See the Ancient Thane in the Godrborg relic town
  • Hibernia - See the Ancient Champion in the Crair Treflan relic town
• Players should ask the 'Ancient' NPCs for a [progress] report to be directed to the current task at hand.
  • These NPCs offer two quests during the 'supply' phase of the event that can only be obtained and completed during that phase.
  • Once a ghost keep has been triggered by a realm, the 'supply' phase ends for all three realms and these NPCs will direct players to defend or attack the appropriate ghostly keep lord!
  • Be sure to visit this NPC at each phase to ensure you pick up any available quests.
• Earn extra realm and bounty points for completing the tasks throughout each phase of the event!
• A successfully summoned ghostly keep lord will offer the Ring of the Summoned reward, along with a quest for the Ghostly Medal of Valor!
  • Please note that players who have already completed the Ring of the Summoned quest can obtain another one or exchange their existing one for another at the ghostly keep lord.
  • Players who obtained the Ghostly Medal of Valor last year can obtain one more with this event.
• The Dynamic Keep Channelers at Caer Berkstead, Nottmoor Faste, and Dun Crimthainn that can teleport players into the inner keep of their respective keeps make their return for the event.
  • The channelers will spawn when their Ghost Keep Lord is active AND the keep is actively under siege (flames on the realmwar map).
• For more in-depth information, our handy guide explains the phases of this event in detail!
• The Ghost Keep event will be available until February 21st, 2023.

Winners Tables

• Statue of Barbaa, Challenger
• Statue of Assassi, Vanquisher
• Statue of Xuuu, Victor

• Statue of Leetsongs, Challenger
• Statue of Petsmartsupplies, Vanquisher
• Statue of Oomzer, Victor

• Statue of Dwalami, Challenger
• Statue of Mahm, Vanquisher
• Statue of Prissymistress, Victor

 

Valentine's Day Event 

• A Matter of the Heart: This quest will give players of all realms the chance find the imp, Russel, located mainland side of Castle Sauvage/Druim Ligen/Svasud Faste. He's ready to offer some interesting tasks from the local imp's union in return for a Lawn Cupid trophy, experience and coin. Don't forget to speak to Lady Payne and earn your ROG Valentine's Ring or Bracer too!
  • ​Whitman will only continue to drop his One-Time-Drop Valentine's Day Present reward to characters who have not completed the quest: [OTD] Valentine's Day Present.
• Keeping Company: This quest will be offered to characters level 45 and above and will have a unique challenge for players in Albion, Midgard and Hibernia.  As a reward, players will receive a Tiny Compatriot Crate, experience and coin. Visit Lailen in Jordheim, Pondar Cully in Camelot, and Harris MacCullogh in Tir na Nog to start the quest.
• Valentine's Traditions: These quests will offer three old style quests which were part of the original Dark Age of Camelot Valentine's Day content. Players will be able to complete the quest up to eight times, which is based on the number of times the original quest has been issued online.  Players will be rewarded with a Hearts Cloak, Heart-Shaped Box, experience and coin. Visit  Rumdor in Mag Mell, Hrolf in Mularn, or Sir Prescott in Camelot Hills to start the quest.

Note: players will need to repatch their client to embrace the love in RvR!

Catch Up in Caledonia Event

• Day 1 (Monday): Level 19 maximum
• Day 2 (Tuesday): Level 29
• Day 3 (Wednesday): Level 39
• Day 4 (Thursday) : Level 49
• Days 5-7 (Fri-Mon): Level 50

What is Catch Up in Caledonia?

When does the event start and end?

How does the event work?

• For the first 4 days of the event, newly created level 1 characters will be automatically zoned into the Caledonia battleground where they will vie for control against the enemy realms!
  • This will be the ONLY way to get inside the battleground zone. Once inside, characters can voluntarily leave but CANNOT return!
  • All monsters, center-keep guards, and siege weapons are removed for the event. The only way to progress is by defeating realm enemies in battle and completing the related quests.
  • Charm-pet classes will be able to create a pet to charm at their realm's portal keep.
• ​At 3 PM EST / 9 PM CET on Friday, March 10th, character starting locations will reset to their default zones and no new characters will be able to join the event. Everyone still inside Caledonia will be able to continue progressing for the remainder of the event's duration.
• Experience, bounty, and realm point bonuses will be granted to both free and subscribed accounts in the battleground to help them progress!
• Earn bounty points for completing quests and defeating enemy realm players and use them to purchase level-appropriate gear as you strive to 50 and then master and champion levels!
• All characters will begin and remain in the same Caledonia zone for the entirety of the event.
  • The following level caps will be in place for all characters in Caledonia and will increase as follows every 24 hours:
    • Day 1 (Monday): Level 19 maximum
    • Day 2 (Tuesday): Level 29 
    • Day 3 (Wednesday): Level 39 
    • Day 4 (Thursday) : Level 49
    • Days 5-7 (Fri-Mon): Level 50
  • Characters that reach the day's level cap will still be able to earn realm and bounty points.
• Characters that are 5 levels or more below the day's level cap will receive the Caledonia Boost buff.
  • This buff greatly increases the damage dealt and greatly reduces damage received from characters that do not have the buff (higher level characters)!
  • Characters with the Caledonia Boost buff active will also DOUBLE the XP and BP rewards for themselves and their group!
  • When the level cap reaches 49 the buff will be given out to characters 3 or more levels under the cap.
• Overwhelming Force system:
  • There is no overwhelming force enabled for this current event.

How far will I be able to progress?