THE HERALD

Following on from yesterday’s Patch 1.123b notes, this week’s Grab Bag answers questions sent in or asked around the forums regarding the changes and new MTX store!

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I’m excited by the new pattern system and have tried it on Pendragon, having fun switching looks and patterns, but I’ve noticed some items that I want to pattern are not dyeable, such as the Otherwordly helms or Freezing items – can these be made dyeable? Also does the level requirement on items like these prevent my low level toons from patterning the look?

Enabling the pattern to overwrite the item’s dye settings is something we’ll look into! It may be that this limitation remains for the release of patch 1.123 though. For the requirements on patterning items, yes the ability to equip and use the item (along with matching the 2 items’ armor types or weapon damage types) is required before it can be patterned. This means that low level characters that want to equip and pattern high-end gear can only do so if there are no level, champion level, or other requirements preventing their equipping that gear. Even still, there are a lot of high-end items that do allow lower level characters to equip them!

I’m curious to see how the 20% attack speed reduction (ASR) effect follow up style works in conjunction with the 16% asr parry style itself. Does the 16% ASR effect from the parry style will negate the 20% ASR effect from the follow up or not?

The 16% ASR applies initially, then the follow-up style overwrites it with the 21% ASR version. Once the 21% version is up, the 16% version will not apply again until it has dropped because it’s not more powerful than the 21% version. You will see the combat message: “Your target already has that effect.”

Legendaries only come in one type, so is this meaning that leggies can’t have different skins at all if we have to match them sword for sword and heat for heat? Or can we swap them between thruster and slasher legendaries?

Correct, legendary weapons will not be able to be patterned to different weapons, including to other legendary weapons or to any physical-damage weapon. This is to ensure that the weapon you see and recognize on your enemy is dealing the damage type that it normally deals; so as not to disrupt normal combat tactics.

With the new PvE campaign starting, and many quests in the frontier, is there any plans to increase the amount of quests our journals can have, and also allow us to remove more quests like the epics/champion quests, and such?

There are no immediate plans to increase the amount of room in the journal, unfortunately. However, we will definitely be taking a look at all of the unremovable quests in-game and seeing about drastically lessening their number for you!

That’s it for this week, guys. Stay tuned to the Herald next week for info on our Item Database! 🙂

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!

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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.