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It’s Friday, and that means it’s Grab Bag time! 

Don’t forget to check out our May newsletter and make sure you get your vote in on our template poll, and test your DAoC knowledge in round two of our picture quiz! Let us know how you did 🙂

As always, thanks everyone for your questions, keep ’em coming! You can send in 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.

We have some updates below for everyone who’s been asking about realm timers(!), so read on!

If you use the curse boots, like Soul Infused Greaves, it blocks the Shaman spells “Friggs remedy” and the group version “Fungal regeneration”. Is this intended?

Thanks for the report! We’ve added this to our Bug Tracker and will take a look at how best to tackle it.

There is a house by mine that has been up for repossession for over a week saying 5 days until repossessed, when does it kick in?

House repossession is currently disabled. There was a minor issue with the condemnation flag not always being removed when accounts re-subscribed.  Before those houses became erroneously repossessed, we went ahead and disabled repossession entirely for the time being. Houses that are currently condemned should remain in their existing state until we re-enable the process, but won’t ever get repossessed. When the process is re-enabled, all erroneously condemned houses (due to active subscriptions on the house owner’s account) will refresh and no longer show as condemned. Additionally, houses that should be condemned will start ticking down their timer again and once again be repossessed.

The process won’t be re-enabled until the next server downtime so there will be ample notification prior to this process being turned back on.

Would buying a keycode for Darkness Rising (New/old stock boxed) online grant the pre-order horse armour? Or is there any other way to get it?

Potentially an old Darkness Rising pre-order keycode could grant it, but only if it’s never been redeemed on another account before, so it would be a bit of a risk if you’re purchasing one from somewhere. Other than that, there is (currently!) no other way to get the “Mythical” saddle or light/medium/heavy horse armor.

We’ve been submitting feedback about the desire for realm timers for a while now, any chance they are coming with Endless Conquest?

After previously discussing that we were working on a Realm Loyalty system, we’ve been monitoring your feedback closely!

It turns out that many of you would prefer a realm timer over a loyalty system, and after some deliberation, we are going to do just that!

With Endless Conquest we will be implementing a short (30 minutes or less) realm timer to subscribed accounts in lieu of any loyalty system. EC-accounts will have a longer realm switch timer (in the 4 hour neighbourhood). Additionally, the realm switch timer will be changed to only be triggered if the character earned realm points and/or a player kill during their play session. This will allow players who are not participating in RvR to still switch realms freely while mostly resolving the major complaint of large-scale forces “realm-hopping” or “bandwagoning”.

We know that adding any additional realm switch timer will upset some of our players who enjoy switching back and forth at will. While this solution isn’t perfect for all play-styles we think it’s a happy-medium and one that should help reinforce realm loyalty with the impending influx of fresh recruits with Endless Conquest!

As always, we look forward to your continued feedback!

On last week’s grab bag you stated, “The first of those will be a “Classic” + Shrouded Isles + Housing server that will only progress to newer content if its player-base votes to do so.”

When stating “classic” does this mean “Old Frontiers” ? I just want clarity on if this is an Old Frontiers type of server or just classic chars and rulesets.

To be determined. Once we’ve released Endless Conquest we’ll be engaging the community on those nitty gritty ruleset choices to see which one you’d like to see the most! Whichever version the first alternative server ends up being, there’s a good chance to be another with other options further down the road.

Only 11 days left on the [Manx] Loyalty Rewarded quest – so get your Gem of Swift Travels and 50k BPS or Level 35 token quickly!

Enjoy the weekend all 🙂

Welcome to this week’s Grab Bag! As we’re heading into the end of the month our May newsletter will be hitting your inboxes soon, so make sure you’ve signed up!

As always, thanks everyone for your questions, keep ’em coming! You can send in 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.

What can cure snare?
It happened to me several times where I snare an opponent, but it seems that there is something that cures snare (beside of purge or sos).
The spell effect looked like they use “draught of omni-heal”.

Yes, there are 3 classes that each have a casted “root/snare cure” ability:

• Shaman – Level 16 Cave Magic specialization:
  • Escape Hold – 10s cast – 1500 range – 300s Reuse Timer – Single-targeted cure of root and snare effects.

• Cleric – Level 13 Smiting specialization:
  • Blessing of Movement – 10s cast – 1500 range – 300s Reuse Timer – Single-targeted cure of root and snare effects.

• Druid – Level 13 Nature Affinity specialization:
  • Free Wind – 10s cast – 1500 range – 300s Reuse Timer – Single-targeted cure of root and snare effects.

 
 
For a long time charmed pets take a portion of rps gained from kills and solo credit, are there any plans to change this?

No, there are currently no plans to change how realm points or solo kill credits are awarded. 
 
 

Would it be possible to get some of the old trophies from the roundtables added in some way? Maybe the bp merchant? There was a gargoyle, marble table, and a playing card wall decoration from the Las Vegas and Virginia roundtables.

If we do decide to make these trophies available again, we would do so in a way that maintains their rarity.

We’re not quite convinced that selling them for bounty points (or possibly even Mithril) would achieve that, but would love to hear some more feedback on this!
 

 
On Alb, does the Goblin-forged Bracer of Speed (2 style dmg, 2 melee speed, 20 hits, 13 Quick) still drop in Tepok’s Mine? If not, in which dungeon? If so, off which mob? I’ve killed every named/unnamed mob in there, too many times to count, and I’ve never seen it drop (and I’ve spent WEEKS trying).

Yes, the bracer is still dropped off of the mob named Savant as well as normal mobs like the goblins, goblin shaman, and skates in Tepok’s Mine.
 
Don’t forget that our Item DB includes information on where each item is dropped or obtained from! Please note that an advanced text editor program is required to view the JSON file (we prefer Notepad+, which is free to download).
 
 

Are there any plans to bring a classic server back or at least one without ToA?

Yes! Once Endless Conquest has launched we’d like to introduce some alternate ruleset “progression” servers.

The first of those will be a “Classic” + Shrouded Isles + Housing server that will only progress to newer content if its player-base votes to do so.

Depending on how that server goes, we’d love to be able to introduce various other alternative ruleset servers.

That’s it for this week. Don’t forget about the RvR bonuses and I hope everyone has a safe and fun Memorial Day weekend!

Update 8:45 AM EST / 1:45 PM GMT: Ywain is once again open to all players!

The Ywain server is coming down now to perform emergency server maintenance to fix an issue with accessing capital cities and some PvE regions.

This downtime should be completed in under 2 hours.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we resolve this matter!

Welcome to this week’s Grab Bag!

No additional notes this week, but plenty of info in the answers below!

As always, thanks everyone for your questions, please keep ’em coming! You can send in 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.
 

Now onto the questions!

Since the stacking of the otherworldly ring and dream conqueror has been fixed, any plans on bringing them back to the original delve since they were nerfed because of said stacking?

The HP/AF values were reduced across all items and classes (in Patch 1.125) because they were over-performing a bit and because most of the item /uses could already stack with the class-based HP/AF abilities. The value changes were not made because of the items stacking with each other.

The change to the dream conqueror band was simply made to make it consistent with all other item-based HP/AF /uses. We therefore have no plans to revisit these values.

So there’s a weapon model that looks similar to a khopesh in real life, On Hib there’s 3 1 handed weapons with the skin but there’s 0 on mid. An example of the model on hib is the Arcanite Blade of Silent Oblivion. Why is it that mid doesn’t get their own version of the 1 hander.

The kopesh is an Egyptian-inspired weapon that was introduced in Trials of Atlantis. So there is already a model of this blade available to each realm: Qebehsenuef’s Blade of Dread. Happy hunting!

However, please be aware that there are several realm-unique weapon models in-game that we want to keep as realm-specific. Those models help add flavour and highlight differences to each realm and that’s something we will always try to maintain.

In the newsletter you mentioned keep dynamics coming to the frontiers in May, can you expand on that? Will it be similar to the molvik changes?

Similar yes, but not identical. The idea of several objectives outside of the under-sieged keep itself that can be controlled and captured by small forces will be the same, but the objectives will control and affect different aspects of the keep than they do in Molvik.

We don’t want to give away everything just yet, but it won’t involve every keep in the frontier and it will be a temporary event. Depending how the event and the reception to the objectives go, they may be added as a permanent feature down the road!

When spellcrafting a cold legendary, I added 3 gems for 60 hits, 29 dexterity, and 29 quickness….when trying to later spell craft the 4th slot (7% heat resist) it wouldn’t allow it. Why is that?

Unfortunately, it sounds like this may have been an “old” version of the cold legendary weapon which only has 3 spellcraft slots instead of 4.

When we added the new versions, we couldn’t force previously crafted items to have different stats, so there are still old versions of these legendary weapons out there.

The new versions of Legendary Weapons all have +3% melee or spell damage, +10 Armor Factor, +3% style damage or 3% cast speed, and 4 spellcraftable slots. The 3% style damage or cast speed are not on the old versions, so be sure to look for them before purchasing or spellcrafting the item to make sure it’s a newer version.

Can we get an update on how progress on Endless Conquest is going?

We’re continuing to work hard at it and still expect to deliver it this year!

That’s all for this week!
Enjoy the weekend 🙂

Update 4:18 PM EST / 9:18 PM GMT: Ywain is once again open to all players!

The Ywain server is coming down now to perform emergency server maintenance to fix a crash in New Frontiers.

This downtime should be completed in under 3 hours.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we resolve this matter!

Update 11:35 AM EST / 4:35 PM GMT: Ywain is once again open to all players!

The Ywain server is coming down now to perform emergency server maintenance to fix an issue with accessing battleground and certain dungeon regions.

This downtime should be completed in under 2 hours.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we resolve this matter!