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Update 10:02 AM EDT / 3:02 PM GMT: Ywain is once again open to all players.
The Ywain server will be coming down tomorrow, February 19th (5:45 AM EST / 10:45 AM GMT) to perform Amazon hosting maintenance.
This downtime should last no more than 6 hours. We appreciate your patience and understanding!
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It’s a Valentine’s Day Grab Bag! Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone 🙂
While the rest of us are out doing something special for our hunnies, Whitman the Imp has also been busy today and has managed to find himself something special that he’s sure will melt even the heart of his scorned succubus love! Avenge him for Lady Payne and steal his gift for your someone special instead! Or yourself, no judgement.
Developer’s note: Players that have already killed Whitman and completed the ‘A Matter of the Heart’ quest will need to kill Whitman again to receive his One Time Drop gift. The ‘A Matter of the Heart’ quest is not needed to receive the OTD for anyone. Limit one per character and the gift is tradable.
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 🙂
On to the questions!
Warlock’s new power cost on their highest level spreadheal is higher than for main healer’s highest spreadheals. How is that “even footing” with other spreadheals?
The comment about this putting them on “even footing” in the notes is more about general power consumption in comparison with other support classes, and not about the power cost of the individual spreadheal spells.
The higher spreadheal power cost on Warlock’s is due to list-casters having higher base power pools than other support classes from their higher acuity, their group-heal potentially costing 0 power if used with the powerless primer, and due to their access to very high power regen in the same Witchcraft specialization as their spread heal. With all of those factors considered, Warlock’s are on even footing with other support classes in terms of power management and cost when healing.
When defending the Central Keep in Molvik,attacking realms take the Siege Workshop to destroy defending siege equipment inside the courtyard. Why does regaining the Workshop by defenders not destroy attacking realm siege equipment inside the courtyard?
Owning the Siege Workshop as an attacking realm destroys all realms’ siege weapons (except for rams) inside the keep, including your own. As such, when the defending realm takes the Siege Workshop, the siege-destruction is disabled so that they can setup defensive siege weapons inside the courtyard. This does mean that the attacking realm can also setup siege in the courtyard too if they have breached the outer gate.
Unrelated to this, siege weapons are not allowed to be placed inside or on the CKs (other than via hookpoint) in the battlegrounds at any time, regardless of whether or not the Siege Workshop is active.
Do the weapons from Tuscarian Glacier still have a 10% chance to miss?
No, all weapons in the game have the same +5% bonus chance to hit now.
Is Dexterity needed for a Norse Shadowblade? If not, why is there Stats of Dexterity and Dex Cap throughout most of the King gear Lurking Shadow armor? I recall this stat having little effect on getting the “500 Dex/Qui” to get Evade rates higher for SB’s
Dexterity does still help with evade rates on Shadowblades but as you stated there can be some diminishing returns at high dexterity values. However, there is no other stat that would go on the King’s Epic gear in lieu of dexterity. That doesn’t mean we can’t come up with any other stat other than dexterity, it means that all of the other stats we want the King’s gear to cover, are already covered.
The King’s gear is setup so that when it’s equipped along with the Exemplar accessories and weapon, characters have the +101 to most relevant stats, +8-11 to most relevant skills, and 6-8% to their relevant TOAs. Shadowblade’s King’s epic gear does that already with the dexterity included.
Can you clarify the conditions for earning heal rps? I know spreadheal doesn’t give heal rps but group heal should but at times I’ve used group heal and received no heal rps. Why is this?
Sure thing! For a healer to receive realm points from healing, the following conditions must be true:
1) The target was damaged in RvR combat by another enemy player.
2) The heal spell is a single or group-targeted instant or casted heal and not a spreadheal or heal-over-time spell.
3) The healer or the healer’s group have earned realm points from kills or resurrections previously. These previously earned RPs are “pooled” and used to divvy out the heal RPs. If enough heal RPs are given out and the pool is diminished, no more RPs will be earned from heals until more are earned from kills or resurrections in RvR.
Have a fabulous Valentine’s weekend 🙂 
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Love is in the air as we celebrate the return of our Valentine’s Day event and celebrate President’s Day weekend with some RvR bonuses!
This event will run from Thursday, February 13th through Tuesday, February 18th.
In honor of Valentine’s day and President’s Day weekend, the following bonuses are active for the duration of the event as well!
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It’s time for another Grab Bag!
We get a lot of feedback and suggestions sent in through the Grab Bag form which doesn’t go to our devs but to me, and while they are passed on, please do make sure you’re sending the right things to the right place 🙂 The love letters are fine though, you can keep sending me those.
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 🙂
Our January newsletter will be sent out later today, so make sure you are signed up!
Now, on to this week’s questions!
If I add acuity to my nightshade temp, will it boost its nuke damage ? I was told that it wouldn’t but i’m not sure. TY !
Nightshade’s casting stat is their dexterity stat, meaning the more dexterity they have, the harder their direct damage and DoT spells will hit.
Acuity is a substitute stat for the “traditional” casting stats of intelligence, piety, charisma, and empathy. It is not meant to be a substitute for ALL casting stats, even if a particular class uses a different stat than those four. If an item with acuity is equipped onto a Hibernian class that uses intelligence or empathy as their casting stat, the relevant stat will be increased. For classes that don’t use those stats, nothing will happen when equipping acuity.
So equipping an item with acuity on a Nightshade will not increase any of their stats and therefore does not increase their spell damage.
Does template conversion give health or only Endurance and Power as stated in combat log. While the weapon proc shows in combat log that health is converted.
The conversion stat converts a percentage of damage dealt to into endurance and power. So when the combat log says “X health is converted” it means that the damage amount was prevented and then used to heal your endurance and power. It does not actually heal your character’s health.
In terms of damage mitigation, one can think of conversion% like a resist% that can’t be debuffed or bypassed and works against all damage types.
Is there a cap to powercap? And what’s the best when templating between + power/ + power cap/mythical power?
Item stat caps:
Power: 25 at level 50 or character level / 2.
Power%: 50% with 25% power cap equipped, otherwise 25% is the cap at level 50 or character level / 2.
Power Cap: 25% at level 50 or character level / 2.The Power stat simply grants a point of power to your power pool per point of power stat. If a spell costs 25 power to cast, templating an extra 25 points of power would offset that single spell cast. In the current game, this is probably not an efficient stat to use in one’s template.
Power% and Power% Cap both increase the existing power pool by the listed percentage. So a class with a base power pool of 500 that has +50% power pool equipped will have 750 points of power to use in their power pool.
Mythical power regen does not affect the amount of power a class has, it simply replenishes their power at a faster rate.
As for what’s best in a template? That will largely depend on the class and what all else needs to be templated. A combination of power% and mythical power regen for heavy-casting classes is generally a good idea though!
Can you give us an official stance on the so called “solo zones” as far as them being solo only and risk/protection for these zones?
There are no “solo-only” (or 8-man-only or battlegroup-only) zones in Dark Age of Camelot. The Frontier is a sandbox that is meant to have options for all playstyles. While the ruined areas may be conducive to “solo” play over other playstyles due to how the teleportation mechanic works, they are still part of the Frontier and are not meant to wholesale prevent other playstyles from joining in the fun!
How do I undye a freezing weapon? The dye remover from npc doesn’t work.
Frozen Weapons are not dyable (or un-dyable).
Thanks as always to everyone who sent in questions!
Enjoy the weekend, all 🙂
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Welcome to the first Grab Bag of the year! Hope everyone had a lovely holiday and didn’t over indulge too much 😉
Thank you all for sending in your questions, and remember to please keep sending them in for our devs! You can submit any game related questions you have for our DAoC Devs through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game mechanic questions. Feedback/ideas/suggestions should be sent in through our feedback form.
On to the questions!
Why is there no colour code for the group members rooted?
This is for a couple reasons.
The first is that until recently there was no root-specific cure in the game. While there is a root-cure now, it’s not ubiquitous and has a recast timer and long-cast time.
Additionally, roots are identical to snares in the combat code so it would be confusing when the color-code for “root” showed on snared targets that don’t really need or want a cure.
We can take a look at adding this but it would almost certainly require some changes to how snares and roots work to differentiate them in the code and so this is unlikely to happen.
If I had an existing character that’s 15 or above but doesn’t have the 24 hours of play time for EC, if I resub and play it for 24 hours, after 180 days of not being subbed, is that character eligible for EC?
Yes, so long as the character was created prior to the launch of Endless Conquest.
Question regarding the Master Level ability Siege Wrecker from the Spymaster line, and I write: The Siege Wrecker ML ability delves this as a “Rune that does 3000 damage to siege engines (damage may vary depending on the type of siege engine) when it detonates. Breaks stealth when cast.” However, there has been multiple times where this has been cast with doing zero (0) damage to the siege. Is this normal or is there some formula where this only works sometimes?
Yes, there is a chance for the spell to fail to affect its target siege weapon (just like a spell resist). The base chance to be resisted is 10%.
As a blademaster, does my blades spec influence my damage or chance to hit with celtic dual styles? Or is 50 composite blades spec basically enough, when i only use CD styles?
Composite specialization (up to 52) is enough if you’re only using Celtic Dual styles.
Can you share more details on what we can except with 1.127 as regards EC changes, or any other plans in the works?
Our 1.127 patch will focus on some tweaks to Endless Conquest restrictions, which are still under discussion as well as several bug fixes and some updates to housing such as market explorer search functionality, full consignment merchants being automatically de-listed, wholesale texture improvements, and more!
Thanks again, all 🙂
See you on the battlefield!
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Based on feedback we’ve received since the 1.126 patch, the Dynamic Population Bonus feature is active once again!
As a refresher, here’s how the system works:
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To access the character list for a given game account, simply login to the Account Center, scroll down to the relevant account summary, and then click the new “View Characters” button:
A list of that account’s characters will then load, organized by server and including realm, class, and character level:
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The Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 14th, 2020.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Saturday, December 21st!
Read on for more details!
Please note: These bonuses only affect Veteran accounts.
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.
Olibar, the Midwinter Tomte, will be paying frequent visits to Castle Sauvage, Svasud Faste, and Druim Ligen seeking assistance. He seems to have lost some Midwinter presents throughout the battlegrounds. Speak to him if you wish to assist him. Players on Gaheris between the levels of 35 to 49 can speak to him to receive a special Frontier Gift Retrieval quest instead.
Santa Nicholas, Lucia of the Light, and Jack Frost will arrive with gifts for the people of the realms, but there’s been a bit of a crisis: their presents were hijacked and are now in the possession of dangerous enemies. They will offer the Saving Midwinter quest to all adventurers level 48 and above. Save Midwinter and earn a Frozen Cloak of Midwinter and a Frozen Medal of Honor! Visit them at the Winter Villages outside of Ludlow, Ardee, and Vasudheim.
In Albion, Clara sets up a giant tree at the festival tents. Speak with her for information on obtaining an appropriately-sized one for your own home or yard. Nearby, Sister Samantha is collecting toys for the children of Albion. She offers some fine holiday greenery as a reward to those generous souls who answer her call.
In Midgard, Kevin somehow manages to decorate a tree all for himself. Ask him about it and he may give you a few pointers regarding your own arboreal home decorating. The Gythja of Frigg is taking donations of toys from passers-by and granting them wreaths and garlands in return.
In Hibernia, the rather small elf Noelle brings her tree to the festival grounds. She will help you start your own holiday tradition if you want one of your own. Matron Elleweh is looking for assistance in gathering gifts for the children of Hibernia, with a promise of some festive decorations in return.
The Trinkets for Tots quest is available for all levels.
The Midwinter Tree quests start at level 35, however rumor has it that there may be a more advanced challenge to follow for those of level 48 and up.
Frozen Cavern Event
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…
Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 14th, 2020.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Saturday, December 21st!
A Happy Midwinter to all from the Dark Age of Camelot team, and we’ll see you in the Frontiers!
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Welcome to our end of year Grab Bag! Many questions answered below, including a quick word on what’s to come for Dark Age of Camelot in 2020! (ohhh, aahhh)
Don’t forget! Our Midwinter event starts Tuesday, December 17th and our 12 days of Midwinter gifts returns on Saturday, December 21st! Make sure your bags are cleared out 🙂 Hope everyone enjoys the holiday period and we’ll be back with the Grab Bag in the New Year!
Thank you all for sending in your questions, and remember to please keep sending them in for our devs! You can submit any game related questions you have for our DAoC Devs through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game mechanic questions. Feedback/ideas/suggestions should be sent in through our feedback form.
Continue reading for all the news!
For returning players, is there an easy way to find out what archive server or Ywain server you have characters on? Besides having to log in, get to a server, check each realm, quit and logging in again and repeating the process for each server.
Currently the only way to see a list of all of your account’s characters and their server is to send an email to support@darkageofcamelot.com. They’ll get back to you as soon as possible with that list (please be sure to include the account name in your email and to email them from your account’s email address).
However, as soon as next week there will be a new “View Characters” feature on the Account Center that will list out all characters on an account by server!
If I decide to upgrade my Free to Play Account to a subscription account for a month, will the account once again return to a free to play account once the subscription runs out?
Not immediately. There is a 180-day limit before any recently subscribed account will be eligible for Endless Conquest, as described in our FAQ and Features Table.
Question on the animist. When I cast multiple Briar Detonation or Briar Storm (Pet PBAE), the Harbinger War pet seems to have it’s own casting speed that does not match my own. It also appears that it does not cast all the spells I do(since I cast a lot more faster). How is the animist and the pet suppose to work for this circumstance?
These spells do call the pet to cast them but in this case the subsequent pet-casted spells are instant-cast. However, if the pet is currently in melee combat, it cannot immediately cast any spells (this is how all monsters/pets work) and instead queues up its next spell based on its swing time. All of the queued up spells will fire upon the end of the swing timer but this can result in some of the Animist-casted PBAoEs being delayed if the Animist casts multiple spells during the pet’s swing timer. When the pet is set to passive or is not in melee combat, all of the PBAOEs will fire immediately after the Animist’s casts with no delay.
Is it true that for temping maximum life 600, we need be 400bonus cap hits and 600normal hits to reach that 600 in template? Or temp 600? How do you get to 600?
At base, a character gets a cap of 200 hits and would need to include +400 hits cap in their gear to be able to reach the 600 hits cap. Then they’d also need to have 600 hits from their gear.
Has Jari the pig trophy mob been removed from the game? I have been looking for him 2 to 3 times per day for over six months. I have tried looking during the day and at night; I have tried not killing any pigs and I have tried killing all the pigs; I have tried just killing Wilbur.
None of these strategies has worked so far. Thank you.
Jari has not been removed. Killing the boar piglets and wild sows and waiting for Jari to spawn is your best bet!
On the Item Search I found this Mauler staff but the only info on where to get it ingame is “Mauler Test Store” – what is this and where to get the staff? https://tools.camelotherald.com/item/view/59131
A sharp eye! This looks like a test object that was missed from our filter. It does not drop anywhere in-game. We’ll filter this one out in the next update, thanks!
We used to get dragon scales for killing Nosdoden and the other 2 SI dragons in the dungeons, obviously dragon scales were removed in place of bp’s but the SI dragons don’t drop bp’s – is this intended??
Yes, this is intended. There are numerous other areas to get Bounty Points now (RvR, Darkness Falls, Curse Campaign, and TOA Bounty quests) and Nosdoden drops other rewards too!
If I as a fire wizard hit a leather user with a fire DD will I hit harder than a Eld not using fire damage if the DD value was the same?
(question in regards to resist table)
No, armor resist tables only work against melee attacks.
The turkey legs have been a very nice addition to the game.
It’s sparked a lot of small man action for my friends and me, while almost giving people an RVR-focused way to slowly collect bounty points through a little leg work. Has there been any consideration to keeping the quest, or adding a quest like it, in the game?
The Supplies for the Cause quest is a permanent style quest that offers the exact same reward as Turkey Legs and involves a similar goal of collecting supplies or rubble from the maze and ruined areas in the Frontier. Additionally, we’ll have other event quests that are identical to the Turkey Leg collection quest, including one coming next week with the Midwinter event!
I need Flames of Prometheus and the only way to get them is through Atlantean Glass and the only way to get that is by exchanging Diamond Seals in DF for them. I don’t have Diamond Seals anymore and I don’t have enough glass to get the Flames of Prometheus – how do I acquire this item?
Altantean Glass, Dragon Scales, Aurulite, and Blood Seals are still plentiful on the Market Explorer in housing. And if one of those currencies becomes unavailable there, there is still the possibility to convert it from the other currencies at the Alternate Currency Converter NPC in each realm’s capital city. As time goes on and those alternate currencies do dwindle out we’ll be adding in alternate ways to purchase these Flames, and other items like it, but we’re a long way away from those currencies running out at this point.
Any status on when we can expect the new website? I think it would go a long way helping new and returning players to have updated utilities such as a character planner and template builder. The current database has been a great addition.
We agree and work continues on the new website! We’ll be focusing on those tools first and then launch the new website when most are completed. The next web-tool coming is the template builder; followed by the character planner, leaderboards, Realm War status, and housing directory!
Any updates on plans for next year?
In the first quarter next year we’ll be continuing our response to Endless Conquest feedback as well as delivering numerous bug fixes and some other goodies in the form of a 1.127 update.
Afterward, our alternate server proposal will then be our major developmental focus. Our original proposal of a subscription-only ‘Classic + Shrouded Isles + Housing’ server that advances (vote-based) through DAoC’s subsequent content is still the plan. We’ll be sharing the details of that server’s ruleset, like which Frontier it will use and what other changes will be involved with it, as we get through 1.127! Depending on how this alternate server goes, we will be launching subsequent versions (perhaps with some fun variations) with a more forced progression.
With that said, Ywain will continue to be the primary long-term focus as we view it as THE game. With Endless Conquest and the ability to play for free we’ve seen a great number of returning and new players out exploring our beloved world and more importantly, endlessly battling each other in the Frontier and battlegrounds!
While alternate servers may seem like a shift away from Ywain in the short term, in the long term they will be another boon to the game as a whole and to Ywain. New and returning players alike will have a chance to start fresh on the new servers, learn or re-learn the game, gain realm rank and eventually transfer over to Ywain with their established characters, which will continue to grow Ywain’s population over time. In addition to the momentum from Endless Conquest and this future momentum from these alternate servers, we are also in the midst of an investigation into bringing DAoC onto Steam! 2020 is going to be a great year for Dark Age of Camelot and with these plans coming to fruition, there will be many more ahead!
An exciting year ahead, for sure 🙂
Don’t miss our Saturday night giveaway stream on our official Twitch channel this Saturday (December 14th) as I’ll be giving away a ton more Mithril than usual AND have a Max Character Boost also to give away (level 50, ml10, cl15 token) !! Stream starts at 10:30PM GMT / 5:30PM EST.
We wish everyone a happy holidays and a safe and happy New Year!
Here’s to 2020!
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It’s that time of season when the leaves have changed color and are steadily falling, when the wind arrives with a chill, and the bounty of the year’s harvest is ready to be served and celebrated!
