THE HERALD

Long thought defeated and forgotten, the Picts have risen up and come seeking vengeance! Striking down any who dare interfere with their attempt to establish a foothold in Old Breifine. Reclaim Breifine and prove your worth but beware, with each Pictish death their rage grows stronger, if enough of them fall, their king will rise – a relentless warrior seeking to annihilate all who dare oppose him.

Players can now speak to the Emissary of Times Long Ago at their realm’s relic town for entry to Old Breifine.

The Picts

Slay Pictish Raiders, Marauders, and Beastmasters across Breifine. Dispatch the Pictish King Cruithne when he appears!

• Picts are spread out across Old Breifine and will award realm points on death, similar to Doppelgangers
• Once enough Picts and players are slain, King Cruithne will spawn in either Dun Bolg or Dun da Behnn
• Defeating King Cruithne will award realm and bounty points to the group who kill him, and a reduced amount of realm and bounty points to those within his spawn radius.

Dun Crimthainn

Dun Crimthainn is now capture-able! Take this keep for your realm and reap the rewards!

• Both Dun Crimthainn doors are closed and can be sieged with a War Ram
• Gatekeepers have been stationed around the doors for entry and exit for the realm who owns Dun Crimthainn
• Dun Crimthainn Lord has returned to the keep’s Lord Room
• Siege merchants have been added to each realm’s Portal Keep

Dun nGed

Dun nGed offers power to the realm who captures Dun Crimthainn. Control Dun Crimthainn and you control Dun nGed!

• An Obelisk is housed within Dun nGed which grants the realm owning Dun Crimthainn 10% bonus to their damage and heals, however also a 10% defense debuff
• Players must interact with the Obelisk in Dun nGed’s Lord Room to receive this buff

Turkey Legs

Players can speak with the Emain Macha Teleporter to receive the quest: [Breifine] Turkey Heist.

• This is a Turkey Leg gather quest
• Turkey Legs can be found within and outside Dun nGed
• This quest auto completes and auto renews, however the realm and bounty point reward has been reduced to reflect the quest being auto renewable

Player Kill Quests

Players can speak with the Emain Macha Teleporter to receive the quest: [Breifine] Pictish Call to Fury. This quest auto completes and players will receive the next quest in this quest chain:

• [Breifine] Pictish Call to Fury – kill 15 enemies while grouped, or 5 enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 5,000 RPS and 2,000 BPS
• [Breifine] Pictish Call to Chaos – kill 30 enemies while grouped, or 10 enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 10,000 RPS and 5,000 BPS
• [Breifine] Pictish Call to Reckoning – kill 75 enemies while grouped, or 25enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 25,000 RPS and 8,000 BPS
• [Breifine] Pictish Call to Supremacy – kill 100 enemies while grouped, or 35 enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 34,000 RPS and 15,000 BPS – starts quest chain over again

Note: Solo players will receive double quest credit for each enemy player kill in and around Dun Bolg and Dun da Behnn.

Old Breifine Bonuses

The following bonuses and buffs will be active throughout the zone of Old Breifine:

• 50% Realm Point Bonus zone wide
• 5% bonus damage for all players below Realm Rank 8
• Damage reduction to players as follows:
  • R1L0 – R3L9 – 15%
  • R4L0 – R5L9 – 10%
  • R6L0 – R7L9 – 5%

It’s time to settle old scores, create new allegiances, and unleash the bloodshed as our PvP event goes live!

For this event there are no allies, no loyalties, only death and chaos!

Will you answer Mordred’s call, or will you cower in the safety of order? The choice is yours. Choose chaos. Choose betrayal. Choose Mordred.

Players can now teleport into Old Frontiers Breifine via the Emissary of Bloodshed NPC at their realm’s relic town.

Event Quests

4 new quests have been added inside Old Breifine for this event. Speak with the Emain Macha Teleporter NPC to receive the first of these quests: [PvP in OF Breifine] Mordred’s Call to Fury. This quest auto completes and players will receive the next quest in the series.

• [PvP in OF Breifine] Mordred’s Call to Fury – kill 15 enemies while grouped, or 5 enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 5,000 RPS and 2,000 BPS
• [PvP in OF Breifine] Mordred’s Call to Chaos – kill 30 enemies while grouped, or 10 enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 10,000 RPS and 5,000 BPS
• [PvP in OF Breifine] Mordred’s Call to Reckoning – kill 75 enemies while grouped, or 25enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 25,000 RPS and 8,000 BPS
• [PvP in OF Breifine] Mordred’s Call to Supremacy – kill 100 enemies while grouped, or 35 enemies while solo – auto completes – awards 34,000 RPS and 15,000 BPS – starts quest chain over again 

Once [PvP in OF Breifine] Mordred’s Call to Chaos has been completed once, players can obtain the quest Kinslayer from the Emain Macha Teleporter. This quest requires players to kill 1 same realm enemy player to receive the title: Kinslayer.

Mordred

Killing enemy players, including betraying your own realm, fuels Mordred’s thirst for blood, drawing him to the battlefield. Those who do not reach his high standards for bloodshed will be empowered, those he deems unworthy will be punished, but all will revel in death. 

The following boons will be active within Mordred’s radius:

• Additional 50% Realm Point Bonus – note this buff stacks with any 50% OR 100% potion + a Battlefield OR Buggane potion. Battlefield + Buggane will not stack with each other, as is it in NF
• Each single kill within Mordred’s radius counts as two kills for quest credit

Mordred will initially spawn in the center of Old Breifine and make his way between all 4 keeps.

Breifine Bonuses

The following bonuses and buffs will be active throughout the zone of Old Breifine:

• 50% Realm Point Bonus
• 5% damage to all players below Realm Rank 8
• Damage reduction to players as follows:
  • R1L0 – R3L9 – 15%
  • R4L0 – R5L9 – 10%
  • R6L0 – R7L9 – 5%

PvP Specific Notes

The PvP nature of this event includes the following:

• Players may create and join cross realm groups
• Everyone not in your group is considered an enemy, and may be attacked
• Those who fall in combat will release to one of the 3 staging areas which function as safe zones where players may regroup, ready-up, and re-enter the fight
• Players may port between all 3 safe zones via the group port Obelisk
• Chat channels such as Region, LFG, and Advice will be visible to all realms
• Battlegroups and Chat groups will be unavailable for the PvP event
• Trading between realms is not allowed
• Certain spells and abilities have been updated to affect home realms, and will be reverted at the conclusion of the event

Other Updates

• The Proof of Strength event has now ended

Thanks to your courage and skill, the Doppelganger Uprising has been quelled!

To honor your bravery and dedication, every level 50 veteran character can receive a Doppelganger Trophy – a special decoration for your home to commemorate this hard-won victory. 

Claim your reward from the below NPC:

• Albion: Jain in Castle Sauvage
• Midgard: Jain in Svasud Faste
• Hibernia: Jain in Druim Ligen

Display this trophy proudly as a symbol of your valor!

Revisit Old Frontiers Breifine once more, but this time, it’s personal. Settle some scores, go toe to toe with frenemies, or just go straight up vigilante as Breifine goes PvP, Mordred-style!

Players will be able to return to Breifine next Friday, November 15th on existing characters, group with the other realms, and face them as a group. The PvP ruleset is specific to only Breifine for the duration of the event.

The PvP nature of this event includes the following:

• Players may create and join cross realm groups
• Everyone not in your group is considered an enemy, and may be attacked
• Those who fall in combat will release to one of the 3 staging areas which function as safe zones where players may regroup, ready-up, and re-enter the fight
• Players may port between all 3 safe zones via the group port Obelisk
• Chat channels such as Region, LFG, and Advice will be visible to all realms
• Battlegroups and Chat groups will be unavailable for the PvP event
• Trading between realms is not allowed
• Certain spells and abilities have been updated, and will be reverted at the conclusion of the event

Further event specifics will follow with the event live notice next week.

Recover from the sales and the turkey with our next Caledonia event!

Caledonia starts on Wednesday, December 4th at 3PM EST / 9PM CET, and runs until Monday, December 9th at 3PM EST / 9PM CET!

You read that right! Starting on Wednesday, players will spawn into Caledonia and be able to reach level 30 from the Event Coordinator NPC. From there, the event will follow the same leveling format as all previous events with the below level caps in place for all characters, increasing as follows every 24 hours:

• Day 1 (Wednesday): Level 39 maximum
• Day 2 (Thursday): Level 49
• Days 3-6 (Fri-Mon): Level 50

Please note that this will be a normal RvR rules Caledonia, NOT PvP!

Be there or be square!

Get ready to sweep the Frontier clean with our fantastic new mount, the Enchanted Broom! Get into the Spirit of Halloween as you defeat your realm enemies! 

Get your very own Enchanted Broom by visiting the below NPC’s in your realm’s capital city!

• In Camelot: Event Shop or Mithril General Merchant by King’s Throneroom entrance
• Jordheim: Event Shop or Mithril General Merchant in the main Assembly Hall
• Tir na Nog: Event Shop or Mithril General Merchant near the statues in the Alainn Cuir area

Players will need to repatch to see the new awesome Broom mount.

It’s time for the Pumpkin moon to rise again! Haunted cities, candy and costumes, pumpkin patches in the Frontiers, and the return of the Mournful King instance await you!

Festivities begin today, October 24th and will conclude on Wednesday, November 6th.

Pumpkin Patch rewards

• Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches for a rare chance to get Trick or Treat or Keep-Chest potions!
  • These rewards drop without needing to be on any quest!
  • 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!

Haunt or Be Haunted

• John Tobin in Cotswold, Foa Muldisson in Mularn, and Nera in Mag Mell have studies to conduct.
  • Be rewarded handsomely with gold, realm points, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic effect! What lengths will you go to get your hands on a free pair of the wings!?
    • NOTE: This quest can be completed again this year but characters who already have the wings will not get another pair.
    • Quest completion requirements have been reduced
• Completed [Halloween] Haunt or Be Haunted quests that are not turned in by November 6th will be forcibly removed!

Event Shop

• Pumpkin Head pre-set patterns, spooky Consignment Merchant costumes, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic spell effect are now for sale for mithril at your realm’s capital city’s Event Shop!
  • Visit the Event Shop soon because it disappears on November 6th!

A Ghostly Harvest quest

• 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

A Hallowed Lost Quest

• Level 50 players should visit the ghostly queen, Lenore, in each realm’s capital city to receive the quest ‘A Hallowed Lost’ so long as they haven’t already completed it.
  • Visit the pumpkin patches in the frontier to find the buttertoe candy pieces Lenore needs.
    • 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.
        • Buttertoe candy pieces no longer drop unless the player has the ‘A Hallowed Lost’ quest and hasn’t completed it yet.
      • Different patches have different candy pieces available.
  • Earn a new friend for your efforts!
  • Please note that this quest is only able to be completed once per character, including characters that completed it in previous years.

Mournful King Event

• The 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.
  • This instance is meant to be extremely challenging and is therefore entirely optional and not required to complete the new quest.
  • Rewards include:
    • Re-skinned hallowed weapons and armor
    • Nevermore’s Broken Bone
    • Hallowed Potions
    • Otherworldly helms
    • Book of Recall
    • New! Greater Revealing Potion – Rare – (Stealth Lore, 3 charges)
    • New! Black Lion Potion – (Dreamsphere self morph, 3 charges)
    • New! Wolf Potion – (Maddening Scalars morph, 3 charges)
    • New! Sobekite Potion – (Atlantis Tablet morph, 3 charges)
    • Readded! Supreme Draught of Invigoration – (30 charges)

• The Castle of the Mournful King instance now uses the Loot Chest system:
  • The Mournful King and Nevermore monsters do not drop rewards directly other than the king’s remains.
  • The Mournful King spawns the Mournful King’s Loot Chest in the center of the Hallowed Ruins when defeated.
    • This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!
  • Characters can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
    • There is a greater than 50% chance to receive a re-skinned hallowed armor or weapon each day!

• 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