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THE HERALD

  • General

    Halloween Event – 2014

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    Jthornhill

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    UPDATE: The Halloween Event has come to a close.

    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 of course… the Pumpkin Moon!

    Festivities begin Tuesday, October 14 2014 and will conclude Monday, November 3 2014.

    Follow  the jump for a list of all the activities happening this year:


    • 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)

         
  • General

    13th Anniversary Bonus Weekend

    Created by

    Jthornhill

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    Oct. 14th Update: The weekend bonuses have returned to normal.

    Hail friends!

    It’s been a fabulous 13th Anniversary Month so far but today is the actual birthday of our beloved Dark Age of Camelot! To celebrate, the following bonuses have been applied and will run until the morning of Tuesday, October 14th.

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

    On Gaheris:
    100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons.
    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

    Good Hunting this weekend, and we’ll see you in the Frontiers!

  • General

    Come Back to Camelot and Game Time Codes

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    Jthornhill

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    Greetings friends!

    We’ve had lots of requests to show how to receive the 13 free days for re-activating after 9/24/14 with Game Time Codes during the Anniversary Month’s Come Back to Camelot Campaign. Well, here’s a video outlining the process:

    For those of you who have already re-activated after 9/24/14 with Game Time Codes by using the “Activate Key” option on the Account Center and did not receive your free days, fear not! Your accounts have been flagged and will receive the 13 Free days prior to your new subscription running out.

    Happy Hunting!

  • General

    Account Center Down for Maintenance

    Created by

    Jthornhill

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    Update: The Account Center is back online! Thank you for your patience!
    Friends,

    The Dark Age of Camelot Account Center is coming down for a brief maintenance at 2:30pm EDT/5:30pm GMT

    Service will be restored as quickly as possible but is not expected to be down for more than 30 minutes. Thank you for your patience while we resolve the issue!

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    Get your DAoC T-Shirts Here!

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    Jthornhill

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    Greetings friends!

    We’ve been receiving feedback for a while now asking when DAoC T-shirts would be available again. With the 13th Anniversary month here, we decided it would be the perfect time to offer them!

    We are offering three different versions of the shirt – one for each realm – through Custom Ink’s Booster program. This means the shirts are only available for purchase for the next 25 days, or until November 1st, and in order to get your realm’s shirt, at least 50 others must be sold. All proceeds will go towards future Event Rewards.

    Which realm will get their shirts ordered first!?

    Albion                        Midgard                        Hibernia
                        

    *Please note that the shirts will look slightly different than they appear in these links. The Cup, Hammer, and Tree will actually be located on the left sleeve and the Broadsword logo on the back will be plain white text like the rest of the shirt.
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    King’s Tournament Leaderboard Correction Notice

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    tsaad

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    Players, since this is our first King’s Tournament, we expect there will be a few kinks to work out. Here’s the first of hopefully few.

    We’ve been tracking and checking the leaderboard numbers all day and we recently discovered a mistake in our script such that it considered RPs earned by some players yesterday as valid for the tournament. This isn’t fair and we’re going to correct the situation now.

    To be clear: no data is changing; no earned RPs have been lost. We’re simply making a change to our tournament script to ensure that we exclude any RPs earned before 12:00 AM October 1, 2014 from consideration.

    When we make the change, you’ll notice a big shift in the current King’s Tournament rankings on the next hourly update. This is expected and the new rankings will be correct and official.
     

  • General

    Announcing the Come Back to Camelot Campaign and September Newsletter

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    Jthornhill

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    Friends,

    We’re happy to announce our Come Back to Camelot campaign in celebration of the 13th Anniversary of Dark Age of Camelot! We aren’t just celebrating the game though, we’re also thanking every one of you for a splendid 13 years, here’s to 13 more!

    All accounts that were inactive on or before September 24th, 2014 are eligible for 13 free days! Simply login to the account center, re-subscribe, and the 13 free days will be applied to your account automatically! This campaign will run until October 31st.

    In conjunction with the campaign, the newsletter makes its return with tidbits on what we’re doing for the month of October and on what we have planned for the upcoming 1.116 patch. Be sure to visit both the Come Back to Camelot Campaign and the Camelot Newletter for more information!

    All the best and thank you again!
    -The Camelot Team 

  • Patch Notes

    October Anniversary Rewards and New Race/Class Pairings

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    Jthornhill

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    Greetings all!

    Today marks the beginning of our 13th Anniversary month. In celebration of our birthday, we have instituted the following Hot Fix notes on Ywain and Gaheris:

    • Players can visit the Royal Accountant outside their realm’s Throne Room in the capital cities to receive the 13th Anniversary Housing Tapestry.

    Albion characters can visit Traurig in Camelot for the trophy.
    Midgard characters can visit Oropyehho in Jordheim for the trophy.
    Hibernia characters can visit Droevig in TIr na Nog for the trophy.

    • Players can now make the following Race/Class Pairings:

    Albion
    Avalonian/Necromancer
    Highlander/Heretic
    Inconnu/Wizard
    Korazh/Reaver

    Midgard
    Troll/Warlock
    Valkyn/Thane
    Frostalf/Bonedancer
    Deifrang/Skald

    Hibernia
    Sylvan/Champion
    Shar/Warden
    Elf/Animist
    Graoch/Valewalker

    NOTE: If currently logged in, players will need to log out and run the patcher to be able to obtain the tapestry or create the new race/class pairings.

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    Celebrating the 13th Anniversary with the first ever King’s RvR Tournament!

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    Jthornhill

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    Friends and Realm mates,

    In celebration of our 13th Year Anniversary, the Dark Age of Camelot team is pleased to announce our first-ever King’s Tournament!

    Sponsored by King Constantine of Albion, King Eirik of Midgard, and King Lamfhota of Hibernia, winners of the tournament will win their very own statue in-game, stylized after their character and placed in their realm’s capital city!

    The Kings are looking for champions to inspire their realm to even greater glory! Will you be one of them!?

    Interested? Find out more HERE!

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    Picking Up The Torch

    Created by

    tsaad

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    Greetings friends,
     
    I couldn’t be more excited about the future of Dark Age of Camelot! Talal has been a great ambassador of the game and a visionary leader. I only hope to partly fill his shoes and carry on the torch he has made so bright.
     
    For those that don’t know, I’ve been the Lead Designer on the team for quite some time now and am intimately familiar with our current and future plans. Speaking of those plans, I’d like to outline the next patch cycle for you as well as the general focus and resources of the team for the foreseeable future.

    Click the ‘More’ Link to continue!

     
    October 13th Anniversary Month
    We will be doing some exciting things for Camelot’s 13th birthday:

    • A marketing campaign and Come Back to Camelot promotion to attract new and veteran players back to the game
    • New Race and Class pairings
    • A 13th Anniversary Housing Trophy
    • A surprise, never-before-done event with never-before-seen rewards

    I’d love to spill the beans today, but the details of the surprise – and everything else will have to wait until next week!
     
    1.116 Patch and Schedule
    ​With the added focus on the Anniversary, we’ve decided to extend the release of 1.116 to the end of November/early December time-frame. We’ve been hard at work on 1.116 for a month now but this extension will give us the time we need to launch a polished version and deliver on our very ambitious promises. Speaking of those promises…

    • ​Champion Level 15 is coming along well and features a new quest line to obtain it. You’ll also be able to earn it through normal means such as XP and RvR!
    • With CL15, we’ll also be doing some re-balancing of the existing Champion Level abilities and adding completely new ones!
    • New Champion Level 15 Weapons and Art are coming, and we think you’ll be pleased!
    • Darkness Falls is getting revamped! Bigger, better encounters with new rewards and updated loot.
    • A Casual Group Finder is being introduced to allow players that want to jump in and RvR a way to find a group very quickly – with just the press of a button!

    These changes and more will be going into the 1.116 patch. As you can see, it’s quite a lot of content, so I hope you can understand why we’ll need just a bit more time to get it right.
     
    Future Plans
    With 1.116, we’ll be introducing the first major “UX” (User Experience) feature in a long list of planned UX features that will help modernize Dark Age of Camelot.
     
    The plan going forward is to introduce 1-2 of these features each patch while keeping a focus on updating existing content and introducing completely new quests, encounters, and loot! Tweaks to New Frontiers and a sprinkling of Class Balance changes can always be expected of course, but our focus is going to be updating and modernizing the user experience of Dark Age of Camelot for the foreseeable future.
     
    A partial list of planned updates include:

    • ​Market Explorer Search Enhancements
    • A Map + Quest Journal combination and revamp
    • Tooltip Item Delves
    • Right-click to equip or swap inventory
    • Ability list management and Quickbar functionality
    • Guild and Social Management tools
    • In-game Mail

    Again, there are many more user experience features we’re investigating and would love to hear your thoughts on the list above, as well as any other ideas you may have!
     
    Community Outreach
    Carol Kenny, our Community Manager, has done a great job of re-invigorating our community and she is going to be stepping it up even more in the coming weeks and months! Here are some of the plans:

    • ​We will be working with our internal Knights of the Roundtable members to shift their focus towards more community engagement and assistance.
    • The Grab Bag is getting a make-over and when it’s back we think you’ll find it much more useful.
    • We are going to continue to create in-house “How-To” videos to help returning players get back on their feet.
    • We’ll start to leverage live player-streaming and player-made videos about the game. Stay tuned for more details on this if you are interested in participating!
    • Updates to the Herald with Archived Server character search, Realmwar updates, and Leaderboards!
    • Starting with 1.116 we’ll also be introducing a new FAQ in conjunction with the patch notes that addresses some of the “Why?” that goes along with the “What?” in the patch notes.

    Thank you all for your love of and dedication to this game and the amazing community you’ve created around it. I plan to help foster and grow it for many years into the future!
     
    John Thornhill
    Producer
    Dark Age of Camelot