Happy Halloween

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 27 13:13 -0400 GMT
Trick or treat!? Due to where Halloween falls on the calendar this year, costume potions are available in the Frontier regions from now until the morning of November 1st! 

Happy hunting!

Friday Grab Bag - 20/10/2017

Posted by Community | 2017 Oct 20 15:06 -0400 GMT
TGIF! A went and windy Friday, but brightened up by another Grab Bag!

Congrats to Fantam (1st place) and Snowdog (2nd place) on giving it all in a round of great fights during our Assassin archetype 1v1 last weekend! All fights can be watched back on our YouTube channel here. Casters feature in our next 1v1 archetpye this coming Sunday (Oct 22nd, 3PM EST/9PM CET) and there is still time to signup, for Casters and all remaining Archetypes. Our tournament page has all the details, and you can sign up here!

Thanks to everyone for sending in your questions! If you have any game related questions for our DAOC Devs, please send them in through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.

Click on for the questions!

Halloween Event 2017: Trick or Treat

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 17 12:33 -0400 GMT
October is not just our favorite month because of the Anniversary, it's also Halloween! And that means haunted cities, candy and costumes, pumpkin patches in the Frontiers, and the return of the Mournful King instance!

Festivities begin today, October 17th and will conclude on Monday, November 6th.


 

A Dragon's Curse Campaign: Chapter 8

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 17 12:16 -0400 GMT
 

 

Live Server Emergency Maintenance and 1.124 Bug Fixes

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 11 17:42 -0400 GMT
Update 8:10 PM EST/1:10 AM GMT: Ywain and Gaheris servers are now open to all players!

The Ywain and Gaheris servers will be coming down immediately today, October 11th (5:45 PM EST / 10:45 PM GMT) to fix an exploit as well issue the following notes.

Servers are expected back up within 3 hours.

These notes will be live when the servers return:

  • Characters should no longer occassionally be teleported to their bind point while zephyred in water.
  • The Mythical Crowd Control stat now behaves as it did prior to 1.124, while now also affecting casted snare and stun effects in addition to mesmeriztion effects.
    • The Mythical Crowd Control stats on the following items have had their stat values restored to pre-1.124 patch levels:
      • Lesser Irrepressible Mythirian: 1 to 4% crowd control reduction
      • Average Irrepressible Mythirian: 2 to 7% crowd control reduction
      • Greater Irrepressible Mythirian: 3 to 10% crowd control reduction
      • Dragon Movement Mythirian: Remains 3% crowd control reduction
      • Freezing Conqueror Mythirian: 2 to 10% crowd control reduction
      • Otherworldly Stoic Gem: 3 to 15% crowd control reduction
      • Dark Dragon Scale: 3 to 5% crowd control reduction
      • Ring of the Cursed King: 1 to 5% crowd control reduction
      • Cape of the Pictish Hero: 2 to 5% crowd control reduction
  • Fixed an issue on Gaheris where too many bounty points were being awarded when handing in dread seals.
    • Characters will no longer crash occassionally when turning in dread seals.
  • The text string displayed when being awarded bonus realm points from the dynamic underpopulation system will no longer include the erroneous "(#%)" value.

 

1.124 Live Hot Fix

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 06 17:08 -0400 GMT
The following changes are now live!
  • The summoned pets in the Dragon Curse Campaign Ch. 6 have been improved as follows:
    • Damage mobs do more damage
      • Alb: Selan, Guy
      • Mid: Garmr, Freki
      • Hib: Cystilla, Rhogart
    • Tank mobs hold aggro much better from their NPC allies (not the player)
      • Alb: Maximilian
      • Mid: Garmr
      • Hib: Riarona
    • Selan (Alb) & Freki (Mid) now have backup healing. Salle’s (Hib) healing value is prioritized over celerity now.
  • The Mythical Crowd Control stats on the following items have had their stat values reduced. The new values below allow these items to have essentially the same net impact on crowd control reduction that they had prior to 1.124.
    • Lesser Irrepressible Mythirian: 4 to 1% crowd control reduction
    • Average Irrepressible Mythirian: 7 to 2% crowd control reduction
    • Greater Irrepressible Mythirian: 10 to 3% crowd control reduction
    • Dragon Movement Mythirian: Remains 3% crowd control reduction
    • Freezing Conqueror Mythirian: 10 to 2% crowd control reduction
    • Otherworldly Stoic Gem: 15 to 3% crowd control reduction
    • Dark Dragon Scale: 5 to 3% crowd control reduction
    • Ring of the Cursed King: 5 to 1% crowd control reduction
    • Cape of the Pictish Hero: 5 to 2% crowd control reduction
  • The Ranger RR5, Nature's Madness, should now sever the connection of enemy controlled pets more consistently. This fixes an issue where sometimes the enemy pets would not immediately have their connection severed while inside the storm's effect.

Friday Grab Bag - 10/06/2017

Posted by Community | 2017 Oct 06 16:46 -0400 GMT
Welcome to another edition of the Grab Bag!

Just a quick update on our upcoming 1v1 Tournament, based on feedback and requests we've pushed the date for Archers to the end of the tournament archetype rounds, now scheduled for December 3rd (3PM EST/9PM CET). Every other date is as is. The date for the overall final has also been set for December 10th, 3PM EST/9PM CET. Our tournament page has been updated with all the details, and there's still plenty of time to register for all archetypes :) Sign up here!

If you have any game related questions for our DAOC Devs, please send them in through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.

This week's Grab Bag is below!

Live Client Update

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 05 12:50 -0400 GMT
This client update should address issues that certain players are seeing with character facings; especially in melee combat. We've also noted many of the other small fixes that have gone up since 1.124 has gone live.

Please note, players already online must log out and run their patcher to receive this update.
  • (Client) Fixed an issue causing certain players and monsters to get their character facings slightly offset from their expected direction.
    • Please note that a slight stutter may be seen with characters stopping suddenly once again, but it should still be much improved from prior to 1.124.
  • (Client) The underwater idle animation is once again the correct animation.
  • Fixed an issue where players could get the Solo Road quest again prior to their daily lockout timer.
  • Several issues with Hibernia's Curse Campaign Chapter 6 have been corrected:
    • The barriers should correctly despawn when progressing through the chapter.
    • The marauders will now correctly take damage from equipped soul weapons.
    • The avriel will no longer respawn when defeated.
  • Atlantean Glass purchased from the Currency Exchange NPC will keep it's value at 20,000 after zoning. It also now stacks with itself up to 60,000.
  • Players should no longer get teleported randomly when running near the forge located behind Albion's Milegate in Cathal Valley.
  • Soul-infused boots regen should once again co-exist with Omni-Regens.

1.124 Live Server Downtime

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 04 06:30 -0400 GMT
10:30 AM EST / 3:30 PM GMT: Ywain and Gaheris are now open to all players.
The 
16th anniversary zone bonuses are now live!
The
item database download has also been updated to 1.124's version, including skill types for weapons.


The Ywain and Gaheris servers will be coming down Wednesday,October 4th, at 5:45 AM EST / 10:45 AM GMT to deliver patch 1.124!

Click the button below for the full notes and please be advised that there have been several changes to these notes based on feedback from the Pendragon version!

Highlights


  • Check out the brand-new Realm Rank 5 abilities for Hunters, Rangers, and Scouts!
  • Faster action returns to Ellan Vannin!
  • Earn more Realm Points from kills!
  • Mithril-based item durability repair is here!
  • Character movement has been greatly improved!
  • Several requested bug fixes such as the tooltip-delve crash, +range auras, item stacking issues and much more!


 

Test Server Downtime - Pendragon Patch 1.124

Posted by John Thornhill | 2017 Oct 03 13:09 -0400 GMT
Pendragon is now open to all players! 

Please note: Pendragon will be switching over to FFA/PvP ruleset on Friday, October 6th, prior to the start of the 1v1 tournament.


The Pendragon test server will be coming down today, October 3rd, at 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT to update the existing 1.124 version there with the latest changes.

Highlights


  • Check out the brand-new Realm Rank 5 abilities for Hunters, Rangers, and Scouts!
  • Faster action returns to Ellan Vannin!
  • Earn more Realm Points from kills!
  • Mithril-based item durability repair is here!
  • Character movement has been greatly improved!
  • Several requested bug fixes such as the tooltip-delve crash, +range auras, item stacking issues and much more!


Important Note:
  • We highly suggest separating out your normal game directory from your Pendragon game directory *before* patching and testing on Pendragon.
    • If you do not do this, you *will* experience issues when patching back to live.
      • To force the live client to fix these issues, you will need to delete the mft.myp in your game's directory and run the patcher again.
For those interested in testing on Pendragon, follow the character copy process here!

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