THE HERALD

Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Broadsword!

To celebrate the holiday, please enjoy the following bonuses from today until the morning of Monday, November 28th:

• On Ywain, there will be a rotating +125% Realm Point bonus in the zone of Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, OR Breifine. This bonus will rotate among these 3 zones every 4 hours, with 1 zone having the bonus at a time. When the bonus is disabled, the zones will be set back to the current amount of +50% RPs.
  • Keep an eye out for the broadcast messages mentioning which zone currently has the bonuses when in the frontier region!
• On Gaheris, all three capital city regions have been given a +125% Realm Point bonus.

Enjoy!

The 2016 King’s RvR Tournament has ended and we’re happy to announce and congratulate our official statue winners! Check out the final leaderboards to see where you ended up!

Keep Capture Winners

Albion – Jynnxx, the Heretic, with 174 captures
Midgard – Ciannie, the Huntress, with 210 captures
Hibernia – Commanderling, the Enchanter, with 472 captures
Overall – Commanderling, the Enchanter

Solo Kill Winners

Albion – Kenco, the Infiltrator, with 418 solo kills
Midgard – Sixed, the Shadowblade, with 775 solo kills
Hibernia – Roxzie, the Valewalker, with 510 solo kills
Overall – Sixed, the Shadowblade

Skill Index Winners

Each winner above will have a statue built in their likeness in their realm’s capital city! These statues should be completed within the next few weeks and will grant players who pay homage to them a rewarding quest!

In addition to the above winners, we would also like to congratulate the top 10 winners in each realm, for each category, who will receive a 15 year anniversary poster (90 winners total)!

Each of the top 10 winners will receive an email requesting the address they’d like the poster delivered to – please follow the email’s instructions carefully!

If an account has multiple winning characters in the top 10 of multiple categories, the highest placed character among all of the categories will win the poster and the rest will be passed over as only 1 poster per account will be sent out. This means that some of those that finished just outside the top 10 could yet win a poster!

If you won, or even if you’re close to winning, please ensure that your account’s email address is up to date with a valid, working email and be sure to keep an eye on your spam filter over the next week:  if we don’t get a reply, we can’t send you your poster!

Congratulations again to everyone and thank you all for participating!
 

Another epic King’s RvR Tournament has come to an end! 

The final, official leaderboards will be up later this week after our investigations to ensure a clean tournament are complete. Any participants found cheating will be removed from tonight’s leaderboards and disqualifed from winning the rewards.

Remember, realm winners of each category will receive a statue made out of their character’s likeness in their realm’s capital city!

Additionally, all characters who ended up in the top 10 per realm, in each category will be receiving a 15th Anniversary Poster (can only win 1 per person). Once the final, official leaderboards have been announced later this week, players who won a poster will be contacted via email requesting the address they would like the posters shipped to.

If you’re currently in or near the top 10 in any category, please be sure to update your email addresses on those accounts so you don’t miss the notification email from us!

There are just 3 days left of our month-long 15th Anniversary celebration!

• That means 3 days left to return and get 30 free days! Be sure to check out all of the Come Back to Camelot offerings HERE!
• The traveling merchants will be departing with the month’s end so be sure to pick up whatever you need this weekend!
• Starting Sunday and continuing through Tuesday, the costume potions and new Trick or Treat candies will be usable in the Frontiers in celebration of Halloween!

 

• The King’s Tournament will also be ending just before midnight EST on October 31st. If you haven’t checked out the leaderboards yet, be sure to do so HERE!
• Remember, the realm’s winner in each category will receive a statue of their character’s likeness!
• We’re also happy to announce an extra reward to the top 10 winners per realm in each category: their very own copy of the 15th Anniversary poster!

Even with the Anniversary month ending, there’s plenty to look forward to:  

• We’ll be continuing the bounty point and experience bonuses at their current values through the entire month of November!
• Realm point bonuses will be reduced from 100% to 50% but will also continue through the the entire month of November.
• Our Halloween event, including the Mournful King instance dungeon, will continue until November 8th!
• Stay tuned for details of an event during the week of Thanksgiving!
• Look forward to our annual midwinter celebration coming with a new instance dungeon later in December!
• Finally, 1.122B will also be hitting the Pendragon test server in the coming weeks and we’re very excited to unveil the revamped Necromancer and much-requested RvR changes!

October is not just our favorite month because of the Anniversary, it’s also Halloween! And that means haunted cities, candy and costumes, pumpkin patches in the Frontiers, and this year… some exciting new tricks and treats to enjoy!

Check out the teaser video for a peek into the new content with more details listed below!

Festivities begin today, October 18th and will conclude on Monday, November 7th.

• Level 50 players should visit the ghostly queen, Lenore, in each realm’s capital city to receive the new quest ‘A Hallowed Lost’.
  • Visit the pumpkin patches in the frontier to find the buttertoe candy pieces Lenore needs and get some exciting new Trick or Treat costumes for your realmmates!
    • Only the pumpkin patches in Ellan Vannin, Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, and Breifine drop the five buttertoe candy pieces she needs.
      • You’ll want to get this year’s Ghostly Harvest quest to help guide you to the pumpkin patches!
      • Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches to get the candy pieces.
      • Different patches have different candy pieces available.
    • Trick or Treat potions can be used on your realm-mates to give them randomized costumes!
      • These potions will be usable in RvR for the three days surrounding and including Halloween!
  • Earn a new friend for your efforts!

• A new instance dungeon, the Castle of the Mournful King, awaits those willing to brave its powerful ruler’s fury!
  • Level 50 players should speak with Lenore to teleport to the instance.
  • Earn armor and weapons with stats you’ve seen before – but with different skins!
  • Draughts of Supremacy and Otherworldly Helms also have a chance to drop!
  • This instance is meant to be extremely challenging and is therefore entirely optional and not required to complete the new quest.

• Lenore can be found in the following locations within the capital cities:
  • Camelot: The Church of Albion
  • Jordheim: The Temple of the Aesir
  • Tir na Nog: Alainn Cuir’s courtyard

• The Ghostly Harvest Quest offers players level 45 and up a dangerous adventure in the frontiers. Speak with John Tobin on the Cotswold Bridge, Foa Muldisson outside the Jordheim North Gates, or Nera by the road in Mag Mell to begin the quest. (Note: Players who completed this quest last year will now be offered it again.)
• Treat sellers have been spotted selling sugary confections inside Meath, Erikstaad, and Caerwent.
• The consignment merchants would like to show you their Halloween spirit! Pick up the merchant and place it back down on your house porch and he will change into a Halloween outfit for you!
• Be aware adventurers! Ghosts haunt the streets of your capital cities as the pumpkin moon rises! Ghosts have also been spotted in Mag Mell, Aegirhamn, and Campacorentin Station.
• The horses you once rode have joined the spirit realm. (This affects stable and merchant horses only – not player controlled horses.)
• Something strange has happened to all of the puppies.
• The pumpkins have been carved into jack o’ lanterns!
• A trio of crazy old women have been spotted selling costume potions inside Camelot, Jordheim, and Tir na Nog.
  • The costume potions last 15 minutes each and come in a variety of flavors.
  • The costume potions work best if you remove your helm and armor.
  • You cannot digest another costume potion if you are transformed into any of the monster forms.
  • The costume potions’ magics are short-lived and the potions will be useless after the festivities end so don’t horde them.
  • Some of the costume potions allow you to take the form of the enemy, so don’t be scared if you see some in your capital city or housing zones, it’s just your realm mates playing dress up!
  • The costumes and potions only work while you are in the capital cities or housing zones. You cannot use them outside of these zones and if you leave the zone while in costume, you will lose the effect.
  • As always, the days before, during, and after Halloween these potions can be used in RvR (With exception to pixies and ghosts potions, which are not usable in the frontiers ever)
• NOTE: Players will need to logout and re-run the patcher in order to see the pumpkin moon, loot bags, and pumpkin patches