THE HERALD

Hello all,

The newly revamped lower level dungeons and the new campaign encounter have both received some improvements. Read on for more details!

• New Quest Givers are now outside the Tomb of Mithra, Nisse’s Lair, and Muire’s Tomb that will grant players quests for each dungeon.
  • All Named monsters in these dungeons will now correctly drop their new loot.
• King Uther’s hitpoints have been increased significantly.
• The amount of monsters around King Uther have been reduced slightly
• The overall difficulty of the encounter has been toned down slightly while other adjustments have increased the difficulty for AFK players to participate and survive the encounter.
• A new repeatable quest and reward have been added to the encounter. Speak with Lieutenant Haley to receive the repeatable quest after defeating King Uther at least once.
• The Realm Rank 14 Titles for Albion have been changed as follows:
  • Archduke changed to Arch Duke
  • Archduchess changed to Arch Duchess

As always, stay tuned for more updates!

Greetings,

In an effort to increase the quality of support and streamline assistance for certain account and billing-related issues, Broadsword is now pleased to offer a new callback service to help resolve complex account and billing issues.

Please be aware that in-game issues are not part of this new initiative. Our support team will attempt to resolve all account and billing-related issues via email first. The callback service will only be offered in situations where all attempts to resolve the issue via email have been exhausted. Our aim is to lessen the amount of back and forth sometimes required in order to reduce the total resolution time of complex, account and billing-related issues.

Tentatively, the customer support team will be able to make callbacks between the hours of *12PM – 12AM EST* (noon – midnight) or *5PM – 5AM GMT*. Please keep that timeframe in mind when coordinating with the support team to setup a callback.

At this time, callbacks will only be offered in English.

Greetings all,

We have some bug fixes as well as changes to the 1.117 Pendragon notes hot and ready. Read on below!

Quests 

• The Eerily Quiet quest chain directions have been updated to provide more information on the whereabouts of the NPCs.
• The Eerily Quiet quest chain now displays its reward when accepting the last quest in its chain.

Spells

• The Prescience Node and Power Trap Convoker Abilities now share a recast timer. They no longer share a recast timer with any other Convoker abilities.
• The Battlewarder and Speed Warp Convoker Abilities now share a recast timer. They no longer share a recast timer with any other Convoker abilities.
• The Summon Warcrystal and Dissonance Trap now share a recast timer. They no longer share a recast timer with any other Convoker abilities.
• The Cast Speed Reduction Debuff on the CL15 Darkness Falls weapons has been reduced from 75% to 65% and its duration lowered from 30s to 25s.

Items

• The Champion CL15 Darkness Falls two-handed weapons now have an AF Debuff Proc and a Cast Speed Reduction Proc instead of two AF Debuff Procs.
• The Armsman CL15 Darkness Falls two-handed and polearm weapons now have a 15s, 350 Radius PBAoE, group-targeted, 10% Damage Absorption Buff Proc instead of the Cast Speed Reduction Proc.
• The Hero CL15 Darkness Falls two-handed and celtic spear weapons now have a 15s, 350 Radius PBAoE, group-targeted, 10% Damage Absorption Buff Proc instead of the Cast Speed Reduction Proc.
• The Warrior CL15 Darkness Falls two-handed weapons now have a 15s, 350 Radius PBAoE, group-targeted, 10% Damage Absorption Buff Proc instead of the Cast Speed Reduction Proc.
• A new Bounty scroll, Bounty Master’s Champion Insight, is up for sale on the Bounty Master NPCs inside Castle Sauvage, Svasud Faste, and Druim Ligen. This scroll grants 20x the amount of experience granted by the Greater Insight scroll and costs 2000 bounty points. NOTE: This scroll can only be used by level 50 players who have embarked on their Champion Levels.

Update: The event and bonuses have come to an end.

Love is in the air as we celebrate the return of our Valentine’s Day event!

This event will run from Thursday, February 12th, through Monday, February 16th and brings the following quests: 

• 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, ready to offer some interesting tasks from the local imp’s union in return for a Lawn Cupid trophy, experience and coin. This year, we’re adding an extra reward with players having the choice to receive a ROG ring or bracer in addition to the trophy when completing this quest. 

• 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 six times, which is based on the number of times the original quest has been issued online.  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 start the quest.

In honor of Valentine’s day and President’s Day weekend, we’re activating the following bonuses which will run for the duration of the event.

On Ywain:

• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons.
• 200% bonus to normal XP gain in Darkness Falls
• 100% bonus to normal BP in all NF zones.
• 25% bonus to RP in all NF zones (including The Labyrinth)
• 50% bonus to RP in Darkness Falls

On Gaheris:

• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons.
• 200% bonus to normal XP gain in Darkness Falls
• 100% bonus to normal BP gain in the capital cities.
• 100% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities.

In each Capital City:

• 40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

In all Housing Zones:

• 20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

Hope you all have a wonderful love filled Valentine’s Day 🙂

Over the last few weeks there’s been a number of questions that we have been asked quite regularly, and what better way to answer them than a Grab Bag?!

Thank you to everyone who sends us questions through our feedback form, ingame, and the various forums and social media avenues out there – please keep sending them in 🙂

Without further ado, here’s your (our?) end of year Grab Bag!

Can you describe how you decide what comes first in the next patch ? People often can’t understand why glitches/problems the community complains about aren’t addressed that quickly.

We’re very glad you asked this! With the 1.117 patch we’ll be devoting a significant amount of time to fixing as many bugs and common complaints as possible.

The reasons for this are two-fold: 1) With our very ambitious 1.116 patch complete, we want to give players time to earn CL15 and obtain their Champion Weapons before we add in more end-game focused content. 2) We think that focusing our development resources on bug fixing for an entire patch cycle is something that hasn’t been done in a long time and is something that will make everyone’s gameplaying experience that much better!

Now, this doesn’t mean we’ll squash every issue, but we’ll do our best to get the worst of them. If you have something, or even a list of things (you know who you are!), that you’d like to see fixed, please send it our way by either posting about it on the forums over at Postcount.net or by submitting feedback via the feedback form!

 

Is the Casual Group Finder feature coming out soon?

Can the amount of quests in the quest journal be increased? Or allow some of the older quests to be removed?

Unfortunately the amount of quests a character has active at one time is not able to be increased at this time. Instead, we’ll be doing an audit of the existing quests and allowing several of the non-removable quests to be removable, which should free up some space.

The login procedure is very clunky and outdated. Will there be a way to see upon logging in which chars are on which server? Plus, please make it possible to change servers without having to completely restart the game!

That would be nice, wouldn’t it?! We have several ideas and plans for the patcher, but are not ready to announce a timeline yet for when those changes might be complete.

Back in old old NF there used to be a hammer, tree and cup on the map to show where large forces are, with size changing depending on how many. This was great for directing action, have you any plans to add this back in?

We’ve received feedback on both sides of this issue. It’s still something we’re looking into and are currently leaning towards adding them back in. As soon as we make a decision, we’ll let you know!

Have you ever considered adding in a new RR ability like the R5 one, but at R10 or 12? It takes a lot of time and playing to get there so maybe a reward of new class RA would be possible?!

This is something that would depend on feedback. It would certainly be another compelling incentive to get to the higher realm ranks but we’d have to look at how that would balance out against the plethora of lower realm rank players.

A lot of ROG’s on the market explorer have a bonus level of 51, can this be fixed?

Sure! We’ll increase character levels to level 51!  Only joking! 🙂

This has been an issue for some time and one that we’ve experienced ourselves. We’ll be devoting some time in the next patch cycle to get this addressed, though it will not be a retroactive change.

Could the starter guilds get an overhaul of sorts? Trial accounts can’t speak in /region or /lfg channels so can’t ask for help. The starter guilds are mostly empty so there’s no one to talk to or ask questions, share levelling, or anything. Guild bonuses would be a great help too!

We have some plans and changes in the works for starter guilds, including official Broadsword player reps, scheduled raids of all sorts, and more. Keep an eye out for more info on that later in the New Year!

The trial restrictions are staying in place for now, but we can look at something more newbie friendly and see what we can do.

Have you any plans to increase realm ranks to 14 and beyond?

Yep! Stay tuned for more details in the next patch.

Why doesn’t Broadsword get involved in the 8v8 draft?

Well, for one, we wouldn’t want to take away from the players who organised this in any shape or form, and who are doing a fantastic job with the draft. If we did get involved, the draft would almost change completely to make it official with rules and requirements. Also, if we do it for this playstyle, we would have to have a draft or tournament for all other playstyles and that’s just not manageable currently.

Have you any plans for a realm timer or, if not a timer, a loyalty bonus for those who stick to one realm and deter people from realm hopping so much?

At the moment, no, but we are always watching and evaluating population and the frontiers, so that’s not to say this is off the table for good.

Hope everyone enjoys the holiday period! We’ll be back on the Herald in the New Year so, until then, see you all in the frontiers!

Greetings all,

Midwinter has returned and 2015 is just around the corner. As a gift and special thanks to all of you, we have the instituted following zone bonuses. These will run from today, December 18th, through January 8th.

On Ywain:
50% bonus to RP gain in all NF zones (including The Labyrinth)
100% bonus to RP gain in Darkness Falls
100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons.
200% bonus to normal XP gain in Darkness Falls.
100% bonus to normal BP in all NF zones.

On Gaheris:
100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons.
200% bonus to normal XP gain in Darkness Falls.
100% bonus to normal BP gain in the capital cities.
100% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities.

In each Capital City:
40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

In all Housing Zones:
20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

Enjoy the Holidays everyone and a Happy New Year to all!

-The Dark Age of Camelot Team