THE HERALD

Time for another installment of the Grab Bag!

Hope you’ve all worked out what realm and characters you’ll be playing in the last Caledonia event of the year, starting Monday, Nov 29th! 🙂 I’m still thinking!!

Thanks, as always, to everyone for your questions! You can submit any questions relating to current development plans, to request clarification on basic game mechanic questions, or questions on community issues through the Grab Bag Submission form. For any other feedback or suggestions please use our feedback form.

Read on for the questions 🙂
 

When killing the Green Knight for the quest recently, a question kept coming up: do the trees around him heal him or not? He runs around and ports a lot,  but we weren’t sure what heals him. Can you clarify, do they heal/help him in any way?

No, the trees are not part of the encounter. The Green Knight simply heals himself.

Hello,
With the new implementation of UI scale, most of my fights are disturbed due to UI scaling mid fight because I often use mouse look key and happens to have my mouse in the top left corner. Is there any way or plan to disable this UI scale functionality in a short term ?

Currently there is not a way to disable the UI scaling feature but we can certainly look into implementing a setting to disable it on the character selection screen. We don’t want to do an in-game setting to enable/disable it since there are too many scenarios where users could scale-up and then accidentally lock themselves out of being able to scale-down again in-game.

Can a paladin gain a bonus to evade from the evade mythirian if they have the champion evade buff?

No, when using the Champion Level ability evade/parry buffs to grant the ability to evade or parry, the evade/parry rate is capped at the buff’s value.

Does mythical evade/block/parry increase stack with the champion buff spells of the same type?

There is no Champion Level ability that increases block chance with the ability to block being granted to anyone who is wielding a shield. So the +blocking Mythirian will certainly increase their chance to block further.

The evade and parry buffs grant users the ability to evade and parry and so they will actually cap the caster’s ability to evade or parry to the buff’s values. For instance, a class like the Friar that has Evade 5 is not recommended to use the Champion Level evade abilities Faded Quickness/Nimbleness in combat as their total evade chance will be clamped to the buff’s 11% and 17% values. The same goes for the Champion Level parry abilities Soldier’s Anticipation/Retaliation on classes that can already parry. If they have a high parry specialization that would put them above the 11% or 17% chance to parry, they won’t want to use those abilities.

Hello, there is a TOA proc from a weapon RoG which gives a self damage add.
The info tells ” damage : 20% “
But when i hit for 300, the damage added from the self damage add buff is only of 10.
Is that the correct value of this proc ?

After some searching we were able to track down the proc mentioned: a 20% damage add spell, Purestrike.

Damage add damage values are notoriously inconsistent to their delves because their damage gets capped after a certain point and because they are based around unstyled damage swings. Their damage is also lowered the faster the character swings. For instance, a haste buff will decrease the damage add’s damage even while the unstyled melee swing’s damage might be increasing due to strength buffs. So in summary, yes the damage add is working correctly and consistently with all other damage adds, but it is not intended to add 20% extra melee damage to a typical melee swing.

Enjoy the weekend all 🙂

Bonus Extension

• Halloween and Anniversary festivities have come to an end, thank you for helping us celebrate 20 years!
  • The current RvR Bonuses will be extended until Tuesday November 23rd.

Live Hot Fix Notes

• Players can once again teleport to the Tower of Korazh, Deifrang, and Graoch on Ellan Vannin via the /realmwar map with the following new supply line requirements:
  • Realms must own their tower on Ellan Vannin as well as their normal merchant keep in order to teleport to the other realms’ EV towers:
    • Albion can only teleport to the Towers of Deifrang and Graoch if they own the Tower of Korazh and Caer Benowyc.
    • Midgard can only teleport to the Towers of Korazh and Graoch if they own the Tower of Deifrang and Bledmeer Faste.
    • Hibernia can only teleport to the Towers of Korazh and Deifrang if they own the Tower of Graoch and Dun Crauchon.
  • Realms may teleport to their own EV Towers by simply owning their merchant keep as before.
• The [Daily] Roaming with Friends and [Weekly] Roaming with Friends quests have had their kill counts reduced from 50 to 30 and 500 to 300 respectively.

Halloween is upon us and we look forward to seeing your costumes in RvR over the weekend (starting today!) and don’t forget that the Halloween event and 20th Anniversary bonuses, merchants, and quests end this coming Tuesday, November 2nd! 

Thanks, as always, to everyone for your questions! You can submit any questions relating to current development plans, to request clarification on basic game mechanic questions, or questions on community issues through the Grab Bag Submission form. For any other feedback or suggestions please use our feedback form.

Continue reading for the questions!
 

Is there a reason why you cant just make ToA scrolls sell for even zero coin ? Its seems like a small issue but it really is pain to have to constantly drag and drop them on the floor or even constantly destroying them. 

We’ll see about adding this to our list! In the meantime, we’d suggest setting up a keyboard shortcut for destroying items, as this can be done just as quickly as selling them.

Has there been any consideration to increase offense keep bonus realm point ticks to be 100% (instead of 50%) to match that of defensive ticks? There can be a lack of incentive to attack keeps if there are several defenders. The time spent may end in an unsuccessful attempt with little realm point reward.

We can certainly consider this but under the current system we do want to favor incentives for defense whenever possible since they are usually the outnumbered force. However, perhaps a better long-term solution would be to base this bonus multiplier on the population of attackers vs defenders instead of hard-set values. We’ll be looking into this!
 

When will the DF imp stores be available again? I thought these were going to be converted to BP’s at some point, per the patch notes where DF was changed to a BP system…

When will the Dragonscale merchant’s items be added to the bp crafting list?

This conversion will occur when the existing alternate currencies are mostly used up. Even though it’s been a while, there is still quite a few atlantean glass, dragon scales, aurulite, and blood seals out there. Additionally, all of these can be converted to and from each other at the Currency Exchange NPC in each realm’s capital city and used at their respective stores.
 

What are the exact conditions that consider a kill (or a series of kills) as RP farming? What is the precise definition of RP farming? What actions must a player take to avoid being in a position of RP farming? What actions would lead to a RP reset or a ban?

While we’re happy to provide some general context, RP farming can come in many forms and is always handled on a case by case basis. It also falls under our “spirit of the game” (#16) clause in the Rules of Conduct.

In general, realm point farming could include any actions where characters are acquiring realm points without participating in normal or intended Realm vs Realm (or Realm vs Environment on Gaheris) gameplay. What this typically looks like is one or more characters repetively killing one or more other characters who make no attempt to fight back but that is by no means the only definition or criteria.

A good rule of thumb if you’re considering any action that could potentially be a violation is to err on the side of caution: if you have to ask, it’s probably not a good idea!

Can we see the level of a keep on the /realmwar map?

We’d love to hear feedback on this but our instinct is to keep this data hidden. It would become too easy to identify which keeps or towers to go after if players could see their levels from the /realmwar map even if it may also help defending realms to monitor their own.

Hope everyone has a safe, fun, and happy Halloween! See you in the frontiers!

It’s time for another Grab Bag!

Lots of info out this week as we celebrate Dark Age of Camelot’s 20th anniversary! Bonuses, merchants, new quests, new mounts, new cosmetics, and more! Our Halloween event also started yesterday and with everything ending November 2nd, make sure you don’t miss out on anything 🙂

Thanks, as always, to everyone for your questions! You can submit any questions relating to current development plans, to request clarification on basic game mechanic questions, or questions on community issues through the Grab Bag Submission form. For any other feedback or suggestions please use our feedback form.

Continue reading for the questions!
 

Is it intended that assassin (60%) snare poison stack with side snare (40%)?

Currrently, yes it is intended. These have always stacked with each other, even prior to the Envenom changes. We of course would love to hear feedback on if you think these shouldn’t stack or if the snare poison’s snare% should be reduced or if it should be kept as is!

Using my bard heal proc buff had me wondering if heal procs, class abilities not uses, apply to/on pets? Either charmed or class pets.

Yes, most group-based abilities apply to members of the group and their pets and the Bard’s group heal proc is no exception. Both charmed and summoned pets receive the Bard’s heal proc buff and melee attacks against those pets from monsters or players will have a chance to trigger a heal.

Hey there

Is it just missing or am I missing a further update on this?

Thanks for this report, the studded version of the Mighty Eyes do indeed drop in Albion.

The delve for this item has been updated and it has been added to both the traveling merchant stores and the Bountycraft menu (make sure to run your in-game patcher to get this update)!

4 – I am curious if there are any plans to update some of the more underutilized/undertuned Realm Rank 5 abilities–specifically, the Warlock R5, Burning Cauldron, and the Bainshee R5, Sonic Barrier. The Warlock Rank 5 does very low damage on a ten minute cooldown after a delay. As for the Bainshee R5, it appears to have no effect on you or your caster groupmates. It seems out of place that most Caster Rank 5 abilities are designed to be defensive and these are not.

In short – yes!

Improving some of the underutilized class Realm Rank 5 abilities is on our list. We’d love to hear some ideas about how you would improve them!

One Teammate mentioned, that Thanes direct damage spells would benefit from adding points into dexterity. Others mentioned that adding piety would increase damage while dex only increase casting speed but not damage per one single cast. Which is correct?

For casting classes, there is one stat (in the case of Thanes it is Piety) that increases the damage of each cast and then they all use the Dexterity stat to increase the speed of their casts.

So from a per-cast perspective, Dexterity does not increase the damage of a single casted spell. However, more Dexterity means more spell casts so it will increase the damage per second of a spell caster.

That’s it for this week! Hope everyone is enjoying all the activity so far 🙂
See you in the frontiers!

We have loads of content, news, updates, rewards, and more coming later this month in celebration of Dark Age of Camelot’s 20th anniversary and we’d like to kick off the celebration with some fabulous RvR bonuses!

Anniversary bonuses will last from today until November 2nd, 2021.

Bonuses

On Ywain:

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

On Gaheris:

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

In each Capital City:

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

In all Housing Zones:

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

Anniversaries are always a time of celebration and this month Dark Age of Camelot celebrates our 20th anniversary! Look for notices throughout the month, and especially around the 10th, for news and details of how we’re celebrating this amazing milestone 🙂

On with the Grab Bag!

Thanks, as always, to everyone for your questions! You can submit any questions relating to current development plans, to request clarification on basic game mechanic questions, or questions on community issues through the Grab Bag Submission form. For any other feedback or suggestions please use our feedback form.

Continue reading for the questions 🙂
 

Can you elaborate on the benefit of damage add buffs / spells whatever, primarily the melee damage add and the differences between the shaman one, for example, and the champion level versions. some are matter some are spirit etc. I also found an item with an 11.3 damage add buff, I’m assuming this is melee damage add bonus, so why is it not a physical damage versus say for instance what a reaver gets to greatly buff their styles?

Yes, all damage add buffs only affect melee swings, not spell casts and they are simply a way to add a small amount of damage to each melee swing. Damage adds’ damage type can theoretically be either magical or physical but neither type matters in terms of the actual damage dealt to a target.

The overall damage of damage adds is determined by the base, unstyled damage of a melee swing, with typical damage variance (which can cause lower damage melee hits to sometimes have higher damage add damage than some high damage melee hits). The damage adds’ damage is then hard-capped, not affected by resist buffs OR debuffs on the target, and is relatively static even as the damage of the overall melee swing increases. For this reason they are more beneficial to faster swinging classes and especially dual-wield classes.

There are some special damage add types like the Blademaster’s “Triple Wield” that provides a negation from being critically hit (in melee) for its duration in addition to its traditional damage add component as well as the Master Level “Faultfinder” damage add which deals high damage against object-only targets like doors. The other class, item, and champion level damage add abilities work as described above.

Is it intended that a realm can rebuy the protection obelisk even if the keep is under siege and one was already destroyed? Same for using the keep level upgrade tokens and using them if the keep is under siege.

Yes, this is currently intended. We’re open to changing this but once the inner keep’s door is opened it is be possible to kill the Master Stone Mason and prevent any further upgrades. We also don’t want to prevent realms from applying upgrades when a keep siege first begins if we can help it.

I understand that mentioned in 05/05/2017 grab bag, only Str, Con, Dex, and Qui buffs affect pets. Is this for both summoned and charmed pets? How does haste affect either type of pet and does haste work from Ring of Conflicting Forces ( https://tools.camelotherald.com/item/view/41012 ) ?

Yes, all pets whether summoned or charmed are affected in the same way by concentration buffs. Haste buffs do affect the melee swing speed of pets just like they do players; with normal concentration haste buffs, like the one from the Ring of Conflicting Forces and celerity spells both increasing the melee swing speed of pets.

What is the definition of a class ability – can you provide examples? What would the master level battlemaster 10th ability fall under?

In terms of categorization we think of “class” abilities as any non-realm ability a class trains at their trainer or earns for free as they level. So some class ability examples for a heavy tank would be Metal Guard, Fury, or a weapon style.

A Master Level ability, while still usable by a class or classes, is categorized separately since it is earned differently and not precisely part of the class itself. The same goes for realm and champion level abilities. If you need to spend realm skill points (or champion ability points) to acquire the ability, it’s a realm ability (or CL ability), not a class one; regardless of whether or not the ability is class-specific.

This may seem like a finer point, and to a large extent these categories don’t really matter when looking at classes as a whole, but when it comes to balance decisions it’s important to separate abilities into these different categories as each type can be a lever we use for balance.

For example, changing a Master Level ability like Bodyguard might be a class-defining ability for many Paladins or Warriors (among many other classes) but it’s not a “class” ability since those classes could choose a completely different Master Level path and, more importantly, because changing the Bodyguard ability to “balance” Paladins would affect so many other classes. So instead we treat something like Bodyguard as its own separate Master Level ability that is part of the Battlemaster ML path and if we wanted to hypothetically change it, we would need to ensure that its change would be balanced across not only the other ML paths but all of the classes it can be used by (including ones that can but don’t typically specialize in the Battlemaster path).

If instead, continuing the example, we wanted to adjust a Paladin’s armor factor chant, we would start the balance discussion at the ability and extend it to the class as a whole. We may look at other classes too and how they interact with the AF chant, but the discussion largely centers around a class (or at least 1 class archetype typically) and its impact on balance instead of around an entire ML or CL path and their impact on balance.

And sometimes the line blurs, like with the free RR5 realm abilities, which are class-specific realm abilities. FYI – we categorize these as class abilities too due to their uniqueness and because they do not directly cost realm skill points to earn.

Hope that helps!

Why can MTX mask patterns only be used for class specific armor types? For example, a lot of savages use the curative sunburst leather helmet since there is no available studded version therefore we are handicapped in customizing our character.

Armor patterns are clamped to a class’ highest equippable armor type in order to try and preserve class-silhouetting in RvR. Yes, a Savage could wear an actual cloth robe and equip a caster staff to try and fool enemies but their effectiveness would be very diminished too if they did. We don’t want to open the door for players to do this in look-only while actually still wearing their best equipment. Yes, sometimes this will overlap with and prevent patterning “usable” items but we feel that there’s still a great amount of room for customization within the patterning rules as they exist!

Thanks everyone, enjoy the weekend! 🙂