THE HERALD

A little late, but not forgotten. Protect was a popular topic recently, with many questions sent in, so read on!

If you have game related questions for our DAOC Devs, don’t forget to 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.

This week’s Grab Bag questions and answers are below!

With the coastal resource crate system being removed, will the alchemy drop rates/stacks acquired through PvE be restored to “pre-crate” levels? Any hope of just leaving the crates in game for us crafters?

The coastal keep resource crates will be removed but some of their rewards will be disbursed to new features and quests that should offset any alchemy resource supply issues!

Does Protect still work after the recent aggression changes to heals and taunt styles?

In short, yes. However, the aggression mechanics were changed such that simply applying Protect passively is not enough to keep ‘aggro’ any longer. Tanks will have to use taunt melee styles and taunt abilities (if they have them) to maintain ‘aggro’ now.

Mythical PD doesn’t appear to act like the real Physical Defense. Items like Freezing Winter Myth or the Dragon myth have PD values but it just adds it as a flat resist not going above cap. Is this intended or can you explain how exactly its suppose to work?

Correct. The ‘Myth: Physical Defense’ stat on items is an increase to the *first tier* melee resist values (Crush, Slash, and Thrust) and does not exceed resist caps. It is not coded like the Physical Defense realm ability that reduces physical damage by increasing the *second tier* melee resist values. There are no plans to change how this works.

I’m happy to say I’m a returning player after being out for about 15 years.
It’s great to see people still playing and makes me happy to see the devs showing this game the love it deserves and moving it forward so I want to say thank you!

My question is in regards to scaling UI to corresponding res. I’m on a 27″ screen and have maxed out screen res size which makes everything look so much nicer and run smoother but I haven’t been able to figure out if I can scale the UI appropriately. Is there a way to do this and if not do you have any plans to do this anytime in the near future?

This is one of many things we’d like to address with a general User Interface update. We are working towards this slowly but surely as resources allow. It’s a huge undertaking!

Any update on patch 1.123? Will there be updates to the class changes on Pendragon?

Yes! We have a 1.123B version coming very soon to Pendragon that will have additional class changes to several classes that didn’t make it into the 1.123A notes AND tweaks to several of the changes made in 1.123A based on your feedback. Additionally, and the reason for the wait thus far, is that we are also introducing the new Mithril currency and shop. We were able to squeeze in an armor, cloak, and weapon “patterning” system that will allow characters to copy the look of their existing items onto their other items (with some restrictions)! Stay tuned for the notes for the full details!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, all!

‘Tis Grab Bag time!

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If you have any curious game related questions for our DAOC Devs, don’t forget to 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.

Read on for the questions!

Where will MTX be hosted and how does that translate to the game? Will an in-game UI exist? Will a new UI be released?

At first, Mithril shops will be very similar to regular in-game stores. You’ll visit a Mithril NPC and buy its items like you do with all other in-game stores. The difference is just that the store will only accept the new Mithril currency. So no, to start there is no new User Interface window, it will just be the existing in-game store window that you’re already familiar with but down the road we may add in a new window as the amount of items for sale grows and mandates that.

Mithril currency will be purchased on the Origin.com website and will be redeemed as a code, very similar to how the Game-Time Codes work. Once a Mithril pack is purchased, users will redeem it on the accounts.eamythic.com website.

The unique thing about how Mithril will work is that once you apply the code, that amount of Mithril will be available on ALL Dark Age of Camelot accounts that exist under that EA email address login. In other words, if you pay for multiple accounts under the same email address, you’ll be able to buy a Mithril pack on the Origin store, redeem it once on the accounts.eamythic.com website and have the Mithril show up on both of your accounts in-game. Obviously, if you purchase an item on 1 account, the amount of remaining Mithril will be updated on the 2nd account.

This makes managing your Mithril funds across all of your accounts as easy as can be! That said, it’s yet another reason to secure your accounts and ensure that only you have access to them at all times.

There are many inconsistencies across the board on abilities and their descriptions or tooltips. Are any plans being made to update discrepancies players see between what an ability does versus the description? Other information might also be useful, such as block % cap, and what your character’s numbers really are.

We are quite close to releasing our item database which will contain the same delve/tooltip information that is found in the game. After that, another big project on our plate is getting a spell, style, and ability database out there so that players can have updated ability info at their fingertips. With that project, we can take a look at stream-lining a lot of redundancies in the delve code to weed out many of the inconsistencies and potentially add more valuable and straightforward information as well!

Is the guild auto promotion turned off? How long must a guild be without an active rank 0 before the auto promotion kicks in?
Are there any plans to turn it back on?

Guild promotion is turned on and working.

It takes roughly 45 days before a new guild leader will be promoted, assuming the inactive guild leader remains inactive for that period and that there are active, non-rank 0 characters in the guild available for promotion.

If you are absolutely certain it’s been longer than 45 days, please file an Emergency Appeal stating the guild name, the inactive guild leader’s name, and when you think they last went inactive. Our CSRs can then investigate to see if there is an issue with the system or that guild; or inform you that the guild has a guild leader character that has been active in the past 45 days.

I was wondering how Mastery of Focus and Wild Power affect the Creeping FnF damage turrets and pet-delivered “direct” damage spells.

For the DD spells I assume those realm abilities work exactly like they do for other caster’s DD spells. But for the DD turret pet I am not sure if WP has any effect at all (as they are pets). And will the MoF decrease the miss chance for FnF pets?

Wild Power and Mastery of Focus realm abilities only affect the Animist’s “bomber” direct damage abilities, which are technically fired by pets. The Fire and Forget forest heart pets are not affected by the Mastery of Focus or Wild Power realm abilities. Those pets can critically hit by training the Wild Minion realm ability, however!

I am an old school player from EU-Server Stonehenge and have been playing for a total of 15 years now. To be honest, I have absolutely no overview, how many characters I have created on all the several servers. Therefore I was wondering, if there will be a website and/or a client feature, to get an overview for all of my toons on all the different servers and in addition on the old archived servers aswell!

This is a feature we would really like to add to our account center website but unfortunately is not quite ready yet. However, our CSRs are happy to give you a rundown of where your characters are. Simply file an Emergency Appeal in-game requesting a rundown of your accounts’ characters and their server locations. In most cases, that information will be emailed to you within a couple days. The CSRs will only provide the location of level 50 characters as accounts sometimes have many dozens of non-50 characters. If you do want to know where your non-level 50 characters are, just be sure to explicitly state so in your appeal, and they’ll name the servers in their reply!

Happy Friday all! 🙂

Update 9:12 AM EST / 2:12 PM GMT: Ywain and Pendragon are once again up and open to players!

The Ywain and Pendragon servers will be coming down Wednesday, May 31st at 5:45 AM EST / 10:45 AM GMT for maintenance of Amazon server hosting.

The servers are expected back up before 11 AM EST / 4 PM GMT.

Happy Friday all (yay!)…following on from yesterday’s Patch 1.123a notes, today’s Grab Bag answers some feedback and questions from around the community!

If you have any curious game related questions for our DAOC Devs, don’t forget to 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.

Read on for the Grab Bag!

Will you be adding map points for the new ruined areas in Hadrian’s/Emain/Odin’s, and will these areas be capture-able or just as is with quests and objectives?

We will be updating the realmwar and normal zone maps so that these new additions are shown prior to patch 1.123 going live. Adding dynamic indicators will only happen if we do end up making them capturable points. For now, they are meant to be locations with quests and objectives but not capturable points. This is because we want to really focus on these areas being for smaller groups or individuals and not full-groups and battlegroups. Making them capturable lends more to the latter. That said, it’s not out of the question and we welcome any feedback on these new areas!

If you haven’t taken a look at them, you can find them at the following locations:

-South of Caer Berkstead up on the previously impassable terrain area in Hadrian’s Wall.
-East of Bledmeer Faste on top of the western-most plateau in Odin’s Gate.
-Between Dun Bolg and Dun Crauchon on the previously impassable terrain in Emain Macha.

With Celerity on Minstrel reaching 37%  as a chant, are there any plans to increase the Skald celerity?

The Minstrel’s celerity buff is not quite a chant. The Minstrel has to pull out their instrument, not get interrupted, and play the song (ala their mesmerisation song ability) before being able to swap back to their weapons and benefit from celerity for the remainder of the 15s duration (which is a minimal benefit on a 1-handed class). This mechanic is exactly how the other new Minstrel songs work as well. The Skald damage add + celerity is an always-on song. Right now, considering Skalds are a 2-handed class and given what else they received this version, we have no plans for upping the celerity value.

As per the notes: “Stealthed characters should update more frequently so that there is less “ghosting” of them when they go in and out of clip-range.”….. Will this have any impact on stealth detection?

Marginal, if at all. This is a bug fix where sometimes stealthed characters who left another player’s detection range would stick around for an extra 5-8 seconds in that location with their last known heading. This change essentially reduces that time to 2-3 seconds. Reducing it further would have an impact on detection, which is why we didn’t!

Can you please explain the reasoning on the Archer and Assassin changes?

With the introduction of the Use Limitations and adjustment made to ablatives values across the board, some of the damage openers needed to be toned down. This is why Perforate Artery and Critical Shot were both reduced in damage.

The removal of Called Shots was also partly related to the item changes but was mostly due to feedback requesting their removal and returning Critical Strikes to an opener and style-chain-based damage line.

Are we going to see changes to the classes mentioned previously that didn’t make it into the 1.123A notes like Champion, Thane, Reaver, Valkyrie, Valewalker, etc?

Yes, patch 1.123 will have 2 major Pendragon versions prior to going live. The one yesterday was the first and the next one should include class changes for the mentioned classes in just a few short weeks. However, the changes will be a bit more minor in scope as most of them are already performing well at the moment.

That’s it for today….see you on Pendragon! 🙂