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Love is in the air as we celebrate the return of our Valentine’s Day event! Defeat the Golden Lovers as they return to wreak havoc and earn your Heart Shield!

Valentine’s event will run from today, Thursday February 13th, until Tuesday, February 18th. 

 

Valentine’s Day Event 

• A Matter of the Heart: This quest will give players of all realms the chance find the imp, Russel, located mainland side of Castle Sauvage/Druim Ligen/Svasud Faste. Complete the offered tasks from the local imp’s union in return for a Lawn Cupid trophy, experience, and coin. Be sure to speak to Lady Payne and earn your ROG Valentine’s Ring or Bracer as well!
  • ​Whitman will only provide the One-Time-Drop Valentine’s Day Present to characters who have not completed the quest: “[OTD] Valentine’s Day Present”.
• Keeping Company: This quest will be offered to characters level 45 and above and will have a unique challenge for players in Albion, Midgard, and Hibernia.  As a reward, players will receive a Tiny Compatriot Crate, experience, and coin. Visit Lailen in Jordheim, Pondar Cully in Camelot, and Harris MacCullogh in Tir na Nog to start the quest.
• Valentine’s Traditions: These quests will offer three old style quests which were part of the original Dark Age of Camelot Valentine’s Day content. Players will be able to complete the quest up to eight times, which is based on the number of times the original quest has been offered.  Players will be rewarded with a Hearts Cloak, Heart-Shaped Box, experience, and coin. Visit  Rumdor in Mag Mell, Hrolf in Mularn, or Sir Prescott in Camelot Hills to begin the quest!

Valentine’s Day: Love’s Shield
 

As the Valentine’s Day festivities spread across the realm, whispers of a sinister presence emanating from the Hibernian Maze have once again surfaced. Tales tell of a malevolent pair, their love steeped in darkness, spreading chaos and corruption as they revel in their twisted affection.

The golden lovers mini event has begun! Players can visit the following NPC’s to obtain the quest [Valentine’s] Love’s Shield:

• Albion: Lady Idris in Catterick Hamlet
• Hibernia: Yda Llonwy in Crair Treflan
• Midgard: Fathor in Godrborg

This quest may be completed once per character, and is a battlegroup encounter. Defeat Solerila 5 times, or finish the [Daily] Roaming with Friends quest twice to complete the quest.

Quest rewards:

• Heart shaped shield!
• 50% Realm Point Bonus Potion (3 charges)
• 5,000 Bounty Points
• 5,000 Realm Points

Additionally, Solabas drops the ROG Solabas’ Bracer, and Solerila drops the ROG Solerila’s Ring. These ROG’s are similar to the St. Patrick’s Day event ROGs.

Notes:

• Due to the current Map Fragments event, Solerila and Solabas have moved to the hill overlooking the Hibernian maze graveyard.
• Players who completed this quest last year can complete it again this year and obtain the shield.

Valentine’s day: Love’s End

This quest allows players who complete the Love’s Shield quest to continue to take part in the event. Love’s End requires players to defeat Solerila 3 times, auto completes but does not auto renew.

• Awards 5,000 realm points and 5,000 bounty points.
• The quest is available from the same NPC’s once Love’s Shield is completed.

Note: players will need to repatch their client to embrace the love in all it’s glory!

As Midwinter comes to an end, the Royal Cartographer is shaking off the cold and requires your assistance in resuming work on his masterpiece maps!

[Map Fragments] Plundering Maps

• Assist the Royal Cartographer in gathering intel for his work and be rewarded with 2,500 realm points for each completion, plus earn fragments that can be spent on your choice of valuable rewards! (max 5,000 fragments per character)
  • Earn the Ellan Vannin Map Trophy for your first quest completion – use it to plan out combat tactics or to bring just the right look to your favorite room in your house!
  • Want to build a full-blown war room? We’ve got you covered there too! Choose to unlock one, two, or all three of the realm Frontier Map trophies!
  • The Royal Cartographers store has been updated to include items such as a 10-charge 100% Realm Point bonus potion, new morph potions, trophy boxes, and more!
  • Trophy boxes info page will display the possible trophies in each box. 1 trophy per box /use.

• This quest is no longer a daily quest and is now repeatable.
• The quest requires players to kill 5 treasure hunters plus either 8 enemy players or 3 enemy players while solo. Gaheris note: On Gaheris this quest requires players to kill 15 treasure hunters.
• Treasure hunters are located at the maze and near the coast line of Caer Sursbrooke, Hlidskialf Faste, or Dun da Behnn.
• Credit for killing enemy players can be obtained anywhere in the Frontiers.
• The event area in which the event is active will rotate on a weekly basis, beginning with Albion’s maze and coast.

[Map Fragments] Treasure Hunting

This is a repeatable gather quest requiring players to find 7 treasure chests at the realm’s maze area.This quest awards realm and bounty points and will auto-complete, but will not auto-renew. 

Sometimes the cake is not a cake! Treasure chests can be deceiving. One may find a random surprise when gathering these chests in the form of a King’s Chest (2 /uses)!

• A note about MTX Race/Name/Gender Respecs: Please remember that accounts can only have one of each respec active at a time. If you should be awarded a Race, Name, or Gender respec, it is recommended that you use it prior to using additional charges of the chest or collecting treasure on other characters. They do not stack!

The Trophy event will conclude on February 20th, 2025.

The 21st of December is here, and what better way to celebrate the holiday spirit than grabbing some gifts from our Twelve Days of Midwinter gift giveaway!

On the first day of Midwinter, Broadsword gave to me…
 

• Login to the game and visit the following NPCs to receive a special reward each day!
  • Albion: Santa Nicholas in Castle Sauvage
  • Midgard: Kris Kringle in Svasud Faste
  • Hibernia: Daidi na Nollag in Druim Ligen

• Speak with the above NPCs to reveal your reward for each day.
  • Each day’s reward will be revealed around 5:30 AM EST / 11:30 AM CET and last the remainder of that day.
  • In order to obtain your gifts, you must have the required number of inventory slots available for that day’s rewards.
  • In some cases, a multi-item reward will be stackable, and will require only one free inventory slot. Please refer to the list below for the days which will require more than 1 free slot:
    • Day 2 – Requires 2 free inventory slots
    • Day 4 – Requires 4 free inventory slots
    • Day 5 – Requires 5 free inventory slots
    • Day 9 – Requires 3 free inventory slots

• If you’ve skipped one or more days, you will be granted each previous missed day’s rewards in addition to the gifts for that day.
  • If you wait until the twelfth and last day of the giveaway to receive your gifts, you will need 22 available inventory slots, so please make sure that you have enough free space!

• These rewards are limited to level 50s on veteran accounts, and may only be obtained once per character.

• The Midwinter Giveaway will run from today December 21st, 2024 for the next twelve days,until January 1st, 2025!

Happy Midwinter to one and all from all of us here at Broadsword!

• Return of the mini event to defeat the chilling evil on Ellan Vannin!
• Help the dock Cargomaster recover his lost yuletide decorations!
• Merlof and yuletide hats return to our MTX store!
• The Frozen Medal of Honor and Frozen Cloaks of Midwinter are once again available!
• Battleground Presents are there to be gathered!
• The Frozen Cavern instance makes its return along with a new 2H Hammer: Frostbreaker!
• The Twelve Days of Midwinter gifts are being wrapped!

The Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 9th, 2025.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Saturday, December 21st!

Read on for more details!

Midwinter: Icy Dread

Venture across Ellan Vannin to where the cold now forms and shatter the icy grip that threatens to plunge the lands into eternal frost! Unite and brace yourselves, for the time has come to confront the evil that lurks in the heart of winter’s embrace.

Players can visit the following NPC’s to obtain the quest [Midwinter] Icy Dread:

• Albion: Lady Idris in Catterick Hamlet
• Hibernia: Yda Llonwy in Crair Treflan
• Midgard: Fathor in Godrborg

This is a daily quest and is a battlegroup encounter. Defeating any one of these three mobs will complete the quest and award you with a useable crate where you can receive one of the following:

• Cross Realm Trophies
  • including the long lost DAoC round table housing decoration!
• Various Potions
  • including a new Cauldron of Restoration, Midwinter Effusion of Comprehension, and Midwinter Effusion of Omnipotence
• Midwinter themed MTX items
• Great-Lion, Great-Wolf, and Great-Elk mounts
  • own realm only
• Random Anniversary and Midwinter reward

Note: the quest mobs are tough, so bring friends!

Mithril Shop 

 

Our Event Shop is back for the season with cool items!

• Get into the spirit of the season with our Yule Hat!
• Welcome back Merlof, your frosty waddling friend!
• Complete the Roaming with Friends quest for a feathery surprise!
• Three Midwinter consignment merchants have been added to let you sell your wares with a festive flair!

Note: these items are seasonal and will no longer be purchasable once the Midwinter event ends (but will still be usable if you have them!)

Midwinter Festival Event

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.

• Level 50 characters can complete the following quest for the duration of the event:
  • Visit your realm’s Cargomaster at the Caer Benowyc, Bledmeer Faste, or Dun Crauchon docks to obtain the repeatable ‘[Midwinter] Yuletide Lost‘ quest!
    • This quest is a gather quest that awards realm points and bounty points per turn in.
    • This quest now auto completes.
• Vanity pets. a stylish Yuletide hat, and Consignment Merchants are available in the Event Shop in each realm’s capital city!
  • Celebrate Midwinter in style with the Yuletide hat!
  • Melt your heart with Merlof’s goofy gait!
  • Nothing can beat a trusty owl to guide you and none’s wiser than Athena!
    • Players who complete the [Daily] Roaming with Friends quest just once from now until the end of Midwinter Festival will earn this wise companion for free!
  • Three vendors have stepped up to serve as consignment merchants.
    • No longer limiting his reach to just the lands of Hibernia, Jack Frost seeks to spread his influence through the Market Boards.
    • Merlof’s ambitions have only grown, and now he wishes to help you sell your wares.
    • After years of practice, a Theurgist has successfully managed to teach one of his ice pets the basics of economics, and now is willing to lend you its services.

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.

• Olibar’s Gift Retrieval quests can now be done an unlimited amount of times!

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 (Note: this quest has been changed). 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 (Note: this quest has been changed). 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 (Note: this quest has been changed). 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.

• Venture to the Frozen Cavern and test yourself against the chill… and its cunning inhabitant: Jack Frost!
• Visit Njord in the following locations to enter the instance of your choice:
  • Albion: near Merlin’s Tower in Camelot
  • Midgard: near the Burial Grounds in Jordheim
  • Hibernia: near the Chamber of Magic in Tir na Nog
• Two modes exist for this instance: Normal and Challenging
  • The Normal mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
    • Frozen chestpieces
    • Frozen and other mythirians
    • Infernal sleeves
    • Darkness Falls jewelry
    • New Extended potions
  • The Challenging mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
    • Frozen weapons including the newly added 2H Hammer: Frostbreaker
    • Frozen chestpieces
    • Frozen mythirians only
    • Extended potions
    • In addition to having a chance at the weapons, the chance at the mythirians is much higher. The chest piece chance is the same in both modes.
• Loot does not drop directly from Jack Frost, instead a loot chest is spawned when he is defeated.
  • Players can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
  • This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!

On the first day of Midwinter, Broadsword gave to me…
 

• Login to the game and visit the following NPCs to receive a special reward each day!
  • Albion: Santa Nicholas in Castle Sauvage
  • Midgard: Kris Kringle in Svasud Faste
  • Hibernia: Daidi na Nollag in Druim Ligen
• Speak with the above NPCs to reveal your reward for each day.
  • Each day’s reward will be revealed around 5:30 AM EST / 10:30 AM GMT and last the remainder of that day.
  • If you miss a day, you will be able to catch up and receive the missed rewards by visiting the NPC on subsequent days.
    • This means if you simply login on the twelfth day, you’ll receive all 12 rewards!
      • Make sure you have room in your inventory!
• These rewards are limited to level 50, Veteran (subscribed) account characters and can only be obtained once per character.
• This event will run from Saturday, December 21st, 2024 for the next twelve days, with the last day being January 1st, 2025!

Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 9th, 2024.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Saturday, December 21st!

Other Notes:

• Doppelganger realm points and spawns have been increased slightly

A Happy Midwinter to all from the Dark Age of Camelot team, and we’ll see you in the Frontiers!