THE HERALD

Happy December! Time flies when you’re having fun, and the Grab Bag is always fun! 🙂

Before we get on to the questions, our November newsletter went out earlier this week so check your inboxes! If you haven’t signed up yet, all is not lost, you can sign up via this link. In the meantime, you can view the full newsletter, and past issues, in your browser by clicking here.

Congrats to Romanvs (1st place) and Rauk (2nd place) for advancing through the Heavy Tanks 1v1 archetype! Archers are the next and final archetypes to go head to head before our overall 1v1 final. Tune in to our official Twitch channel on Sunday, Dec 3rd from 3PM EST/8PM CET to catch all the fights!

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.

Clicky clicky on the more link for this weeks questions 🙂

Is there a simple fix to center Spell Buff/Effect Icon Grid Settings on higher resolution settings?  Is there a settings in the character .ini that sets the first pixel location horizontally for the first and subsequent rows so that these are centered for us on the UI?  Looking up and far to the Left to see if Helgha stripped my dex/qui isnt natural.  Thank You!

Unfortunately there is no way to center the buffs on larger resolution windows. We have this, among many, many other updates, on our list for UI/UX improvements to make to the client!

Will we ever get the option of other payment methods for accounts, such as PayPal?

Paypal is a valid option on the Origin.com payment portal for the Game-Time Codes. Unfortunately, for direct monthly subscriptions, Paypal won’t be potentially available until our work with EA on the Account Center update is complete (hopefully by the end of next year).

How do you change your email address linked to your DAoC Account??? There is no way that I can find on the account manage area. My old email is no longer active and can no longer access it so i need to update my info.

Since you do not have access to your old email address, there is not a way to change the email on our Account Center or on Origin.com as EA, for security reasons, requires access to the existing email before allowing it to be changed.

However, if you have the Secret Word to your account you can contact our billing department at support@darkageofcamelot.com and verify your account information with the Secret Word, explain your situation with the email address to them, and request that it be changed to another email address. Please note that you *must* verify your account ownership with the Secret Word before our billing team will change any account information.

If one does have access to their existing email address, they can simply visit Origin.com, sign-in, and edit the email address in their profile.

Will the 10 percent melee resist charge on the OW belt add to RA Physical Defense?

The melee resist charge on the Otherworldly belts adds to a character’s melee resistances. The Physical Defense realm ability directly reduces melee damage received by the given percentage. So in short, the two abilities will stack, but one does not directly add to the other.

Can you explain a bit about the dummies at the relic towns? I’ve been told the level 50 one is with 0 resists and the level 1 when attacked displays the maximum damage I can do with that spell/style – is this accurate?

What you’ve been told is essentially correct. The level 50 training dummy has 0 resists and behaves as a normal yellow monster for damage purposes.

The level 1 training dummy, when attacked by a level 50 character, will essentially display the damage cap for that style/spell since the level 1 training dummy is so far below your character’s level that it removes any variance in damage and should always show your highest damage potential.

Please do note that the training dummies are still monsters though and that while most damage-related combat functions can be tested against them, some others will not work; such as resist piercing which only works vs player targets.

That’s it for this week, I’m off to start putting up the decorations!

Have a great weekend all! 🙂

Two quick, but exciting notes for you today!

• [Daily Quest] The Solo Road
  • Quest objectives changed as follows:
    • Earn 1 solo kills in the Ruined or Maze areas
    • Earn 5 solo kills anywhere in the Frontiers
  • This change will allow solo kills in the Ruined or Maze areas to count for both steps of the quest, so if fighting there, it will be possible to get just 5 total solo kills and complete the quest. This change should address some of the issues players were seeing with getting credit when on the 2nd step of the quest.
  • Players that already have the quest should be able to relog and the objectives will update in their journal to the new values and restrictions.
• Crafted armors and weapons now have a recharge cost of 10g per charge.
  • This change will allow players to recharge crafted gear at Recharger NPCs. 
  • Characters currently in-game may need to zone or relog to have their already-crafted gear update properly.
  • Crafted gear can still be recharged at no-cost by Alchemists.

Time to dive into another Grab Bag! 

Heavy Tanks are up next in our 1v1 tournament this Sunday (Nov, 12th). Congrats to Axv (1st place) and Waltr (2nd place) for advancing through Light Tanks! Wondering what this is all about? Our tournament page has all the details, and you can sign up here for the remaining Heavy Tanks and Archers archetypes. Getting ever closer to that overall final!!

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.

Clicky clicky on the more link for this weeks questions 🙂

What does the proc on the Enchanter Aurulite (Shrouded enchanted) do exactly? It states that “your pet gains new abilities”, but there is no information as to what exactly it does. Thank you.

Each of the following abilities are unlocked on the respective underhill servant for 30s when this proc goes off:

Underhill Stalker and Compatriot: Gains a snare style.
Underhill Ally – Gains a defensive snare-proc.
Underhil Companion – Gains a cold damage snare/nuke.
Underhill Zealot – No effect.

We’ll update the delve on this robe to clearly show these effects, thanks!

Will there ever be a time that you will add a DAoC message box (mailbox) or some type of box to leave short messages or trades to other players?

It’s still on our list! We have many other things that we’re working towards right now (more on that in a coming Producer’s Letter!) – but after those things? This is right near the top.

Why does the Spear follow-up style to Tracking Spear not exist? And if it’s never going to exist why not remove that it has a follow-up?

Poof! (Wyvern’s Talon now follows up Hawk’s Talon and Tracking Spear’s delve has been updated to reflect that, thanks!).

I was wondering if you could bring back assassin missions? They were a great thing to do when action slowed down or guild wasn’t online.

There are no plans to bring back assassin missions. We do, however, have some other RvR quests in the works that will similarly give players something to do while they wait around for their friends to log on.  Additionally – Doppelgangers are always available and also provide realm point bonuses for defeating them!

Why aren’t there anti-camping mechanics up in the new ruined areas?

This is something we want to wait on until we’ve had time to observe behavior in the areas for a few weeks (at least). Depending on how things go, we’d rather not add in hardcore anti-camping mechanics if they aren’t absolutely necessary because RvR should remain as unfettered as possible.

We are looking at several options though:

• Actively prevent camping by casting direct damage or some other spell on characters that remain in the area for more than X seconds (potentially only grouped characters)
• Strip the Buggane’s Folly buff (or prevent it from working) on players who enter the ruined areas
• Add in objectives and incentives elsewhere that encourage groups and small-mans to venture to other areas

We’re also open to ideas from you all so please submit them via the feedback form if you have them!

Thanks for your questions everyone, enjoy the weekend! 🙂

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We’re back with another Grab Bag to end the week. As always, thanks for everyone for sending in your questions, keep ’em coming!

Our 1v1 tournament is back this Sunday (Nov, 5th) with the Hybrid archetype. Congrats to Goinghurd (1st place) and Evoenia (2nd place) for advancing from the Casters round!  Wondering what this is all about? Our tournament page has all the details, and you can sign up here for all remaining archetypes.

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.

Continue reading below for this weeks questions 🙂

Hi, I been trying to get back into DAOC knowledge and for my melee class I have been told that RvR blocking % cap is at 60% yet in a Grab Bag August 1, 2008 it says block % cap is 75% which one is correct? Or when did this change take place?

The shield block cap was lowered to 60% in patch 1.96. That cap only affects RvR block rates, not PvE, and does not include the Engage ability.

I want to ask about LEG weapon, it count on spell resists, so does spell piercing works with it too?

No. Spell piercing only works on casted or procced spells (i.e. melee style procs). Legendary weapons change the damage type of a melee hit, and therefore do not take into account spell piercing.

Are you planning any addition keep warfare changes or RvR improvements?

Yes! As stated in the 1.124 notes we would like to make keeps more difficult to take. Additionally we are looking at improving the new ruined areas added to the game in 1.123, alleviating some of the stealth-camping going on around objectives, as well as some improvements to the battleground experience!

What are the maximum caps for mythical stats like overcap strength, overcap resists, cc-reduction, power regen, mythical dps and others?

Here’s a shorthand list first with explanations following:

Mythical stat caps – 52
Mythical DPS – 10
Mythical Power, Health, Endurance Regens – 50
Mythical Crowd Control – 50
All others – uncapped

As the supply of items with the uncapped mythical bonuses is increased in-game, we’ll be applying caps to them as well. For now, there simply aren’t enough of those bonuses available where a cap is necessary.

Here’s some more detailed information on the mythical stat caps from the 1.118 patch notes:

• Mythical item stat bonuses and their caps have been changed in the following way:
  • Mythical stat cap items previously introduced have allowed players to exceed the traditional item stat caps of 101. However, until now, these mythical stats caps were uncapped. With the coming Otherworlds campaign and more mythical stat cap availability, the overall stat cap from items is now set to 127 (or 75+52).
  • This stat cap of 127 can be reached either solely with mythical item stat caps (75+52=127) or in combination with traditional stat caps which still have the same +26 limit.
    • Traditional stat caps are still only able to go up to +26 stat cap at level 50.
    • Mythical stat caps are able to go up to +52 stat cap at level 50, but cannot exceed the new 127 stat cap threshold even if used in combination with traditional stat caps.

I recently transferred some characters from Mordred to Ywain but stats like kills and such didn’t come with, can these be returned or are they gone for good?

Characters that transferred over from Mordred should still have their kills, deathblows, and keep/tower capture stats. If for some reason they do not, Customer Support can restore these values so long as they can locate the original transferred character on Mordred. In some rare cases, this may not be possible so please be understanding.

That’s it for this week!

Have a great weekend everyone 🙂

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!

Costume potions are available at the Crazy Old Lady merchants in each realm’s relic town or from obtaining Trick or Treat potions at the pumpkin patches!

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!

When do you think we’ll see the new helms teased in the newsletter?

We’ll have some new cosmetic items launching within the next couple weeks! And remember: race, gender, and name respecs will be coming early next year with transfers coming later in the year. In the meantime, if you’re not signed up to our monthly newsletter, you can do so here.

What is the chance to hit a piece of armor?  My friend said it was 40% chest, 20% arms, 20% legs, 10% head, and 5% for boots/hands.  Can you comment on this?

Your friend is very close! Here are the chances for each armor slot to be hit by melee:

Chest: 40%
Legs: 25%
Arms: 15%
Head: 10%
Feet: 5%
Hands: 5%

I been taking some time to read and have found out that real-time chat.log has been disable. Is there a reason why? Can it be considered to be real-time once more? If you can have it real-time chat.log it would be great!’

Real time chat-logging is still enabled! It sounds like you may have accidentally disabled the chat logging feature though. The default key to toggle it on and off is CTRL+L. If you changed that, you can go to /keyboard and scroll down to the chat section to see the key used to toggle it.

I have several old artifacts from years back. I no longer use those since new items have changed the dynamics of templating my toons. How can we sell back our *Cloud Song, Goddess Necklace , Harpy’s Feather Cloak and so on. Several items are taking up room in my personal vault and those won’t allow you to put in a regular vault.

Once you have earned or purchased artifacts, they can easily be re-obtained from the Artifact Replacement NPC in the Hall of Heroes at no charge to you. Given that, if you do not wish to use them any time soon and want to remove them from your inventory, the best course of action is to destroy them (Shift+D by default).

I understand the reasoning on only allowing one char per day for the king but if you could extend this to maybe 3 it’d allow more toons to get the rewards, or increase the number of weapons that drop each run?

We will look at increasing the amount of rewards each run-through grants, thanks for the feedback!

Can you give us an idea on what we can expect with 1.125 and what’s coming next?

We’ll have a Producer’s Letter coming out in the coming weeks that will announce our upcoming plans, features, and some additional news!

Oohhh, exciting! 

‘Til next time, see you in the frontiers 🙂