While Mardi Gras is a bit late this year, it’s still happening! We didn’t want to overwhelm you with tokens this year, so it’s taking place under the name “Carnival of Love” and you will be able to reuse your leftover Hearts and Love Letters and collect new ones. Love is still in the air, after all, and carnivals can incite passion in those so predisposed.
Remember that valentine’s interview with Tiffit and Kuri? Well, since we had such a good response from the community we decided to start a round of interviews between active members of the community and Deca Staff. Today we let you know a bit more about Baragon, 27, from Bulgaria .
Today we are announcing the bonus program “Story of War V.” Some of you may already be familiar with it from previous iterations, but we want to explain how it goes nonetheless:
The bonus program is a time limited event that can be accessed in the Shop. It allows players to collect Bonus Points with gold they spend in the Shop (or by directly boosting it via the Boost button) and claim Bonus Rewards. You can collect BP by purchasing Mystery Boxes, Packages and Items in the Nexus and Cloth Bazar areas with Realm gold. This time the Avarice Medallions will also have an option to reward the Mini Skin, and in two other quests you’ll be able to swap a duplicate skin for a new Mystery ST Crate of the same class.
Please note that slot unlockers and name changing do not count for the bonus program. Fame purchases do not count, either.
Two figures have been seen around the bustling nexus as of late, both from faraway lands. A bold and burly knight adorned in pelts and crude weaponry hails from a great northern land. He has been known to tell stories to passing travellers of mighty battles against his three rival clans, but is ready to lend his axe to the fight against Oryx! Conversely, an unusually square necromancer was spotted emerging from a Third Dimension portal. This creature is a creation of the Tesseract Goddess, but was rejected for its disobedience. Like the viking, it now wishes to aid in battle on the sides of the realm’s heroes, and perhaps even venture back into the Third Dimension someday.
Please check all the details about the bonus program and the next events at our blog.
Opening Oryx training grounds
Hello curious Realmers,
Yey, quite a busy Friday today! We are setting everything up so that you can have an O3 training session on testing this weekend. Yes, the testing servers will be open on Saturday and Sunday to anyone who wishes to train. Just get your testing launcher here (Steam testing environment will not be available). Of course, you might see there are other things that are a bit different when you join, we are testing after all…
We would also like to share that we have been working on different (tentative) concepts for our new class. What do you think these could be?
Please Notice: We are aware that some players are maliciously exploiting the HP scaling of bosses and we will be working towards a fix. In the meantime, we want to stress out that this is bannable. We encourage you not to participate in such actions as it will result in a suspension of your account.
Hotfix 1.3.2.1.0
Hello Realmers,
This patch introduces fixes to some issues reported after the latest release. We are also introducing a free pack today, and a fame box on the weekend to thank you for your patience. Events’ loot tables will now have additional Nil drops in them.
Fixes:
Fixed disconnection issues while logging in for some players
Fixed softlocking issues with O3 minibosses
Bonus points now show only when a campaign is available
Free pack:
1x Legendary Mystery Skin
1x Mystery ST Chest
10x Shards of the Advisor
5x Mystery Stat Pots
Patch 1.3.2.0.0 - Remember the Nil
Hello Realmers, This release makes some important changes to the realm. We are introducing Nilshards and Nildrops and renaming the ore. We are bringing new STs (for the Knight and Necromancer). We’ve also been preparing Belladonna for Valentine’s day, so expect a few tweaks.
Nilshards
In the ancient times, before Oryx was born, the paladins who guarded the Realm discovered a strange but mighty powerful source of energy: The Void. Being wary, and guided by the old precepts of the angelic realms granted to them, they developed a way of channeling the Void into crystal-like forms.
They called them “Nilshards,” as they were made of the rare Nil material.
Nil was forbidden for a long time, mostly due to the disappearance of the paladin church and all the problems it caused during the “White Titan Project,” where the Void Entity caused havok.
However, back in the times, Nilshards were used for a variety of purposes.
The first one is crafting Ores, which will provide materials for your craftings. The Blacksmith will gladly change stacks of Nilshards into Ores depending on their rarity.
Ore Naming
With the introduction of Nilshards, the Blacksmith had to sit and explain to us we have decided to change the name of the Ores themselves to better reflect the material type they grant, as we got to understand the Ores’ properties a little bit better.
Acquiring Nilshards
Nilshards would be obtainable in the Shop and the Daily Login Calendar.
Nildrops
Back in the day before Nilshards were forgotten from existence, elixirs, tonics and other consumables distilled from them were commonly used, and the paladins would use them to enhance their battle capabilities and sustain long, difficult battles when defending the Realm.
Few can forge them today, as the crafts of the old paladin church are seemingly lost. However, they seem to be a piece of cake for the Blacksmith, if you provide her the right amount and rarity of Nilshards, and a little bit of Forgefire.
“Standard” Nildrops
They provide a stat boost for 5 minutes for everyone around you, and also clears negative status effects when you apply them. The stat boost depends on the Nildrop color.
They can be forged with Rare and Epic Nilshards.
“Minor” Nildrops
They are a lower version of the standard Nildrops. They also provide a boost for 5 minutes (only for you) and they cannot clear your status effects. Still, they’re a great way of accelerating your early game.
They can be forged with Common Nilshards.
“Special” Nildrops
They are hybrid versions of the standard Nildrops, born from the Blacksmith’s experiments. They require rarer Nilshards, but they provide a stronger boost to two attributes simultaneously for 5 minutes, also clearing your negative status effects on usage. They work for allies around you too! They can be forged with Legendary Nilshards.
Explosion Range: 3 -> 3.5 tiles MP Cost: 120 -> 110 Vitality: 4 -> 9 Both UTs have had slight sprite changes.
The Gardener
For this year, we are introducing a new encounter for Belladonna. His name is “The Gardener” and he is ready to take on all of you!
You will find this new encounter in the Realm around St. Valentine’s Day.
“The Gardener” will spawn somewhere in the highlands after defeating all the cyclops gods in the realm. But watch out, or you might get soaking wet and have your clothes covered in pieces of green and pink balloons!
Fixed an issue where Constructs would slowly drift out of the mountains.
Fixed the ability for Sting Spiders to be dragged infinitely
Misc
Rebalanced the Void Blade to be closer to the version the Master Rat uses (stays still for a little over a second, then accelerates with 6 tiles of range). We realize this alters some of the use cases of the weapon, but in our testing we believe this has made the item noticeably more versatile and practical, beyond just extremely niche situations and unintended instakill methods.
Removed some rock spawns throughout the realm, making the environment less cluttered
New FP Items
To celebrate love across the Realm, we are introducing a new, truly romantic pet food: the Chocolate Bonbon! This powerful, caloric treat stacks until you can finally double-click the Chocolate Bonbon x6 stack to turn it into an even tastier item: the Heart-shaped Chocolate Box. With this stackable food, you can choose a small FP reduction for an opportunity to save up on feeding costs.
New Cosmetics
Themed around love and otherwise, here are the beautiful new cosmetics about to hit the Realm.
Valentine’s Event
You will have the chance to acquire the newly 16×16-ed Valentine’s Archer set and the improved Belladonna UTs in the upcoming Valentine’s Day event, which will run from 02/10/21, 12:00 UTC until 02/15/21, 12:00 UTC. You will once again be able to collect Hearts (stacking until 10) and Love Letters (10 hearts transform into a Love Letter, which stacks until 20), but beware – this year they are not tradable. To avoid a token overexposure, these tokens will also be used for the coming SoonTM Mardi Gras Mask quests… despite the theme clash. Hold onto them!
Can you say the title 3 times without saying it wrong? What about adding “Sprinkling” (just because!) before. Ah, the fun…We are still on our spoiling spree and we want to show some sprites we have been working on. We would also like to emphasize that we are currently and actively working on countering spamming and cheating. Unfortunately we cannot reveal the full extent of what we are doing, for it would render our efforts useless. Still, you can expect some changes coming the Realm way in the next months that will try to minimize these occurrences.
You might be here to learn about the new Nilshards or to find what you’ll be able to see at this weekend’s Public Testing. Or both. We would definitely go for both. When can you expect them to be released? Well, we are public testing them… so let’s say “Pretty Soon.” We want to try it out and see not only if it works well, but also maximize fun and their usefulness for all you. Please note that using admin items on testing will lead to your account being banned.
Here are the anticipated winners list for the Speedrun we announced on the 14th of January. Like we said, the rewards will be given to the top three times of each class: a UT of choice for that class along with a skin of choice for that class (except exclusive skins and items that are no longer in the game). Rings are, of course, shared for all classes. If you are on the list, please feel free to send an email to wotan@decagames.com with the desired prizes. You can also ping deca_wotan or Baragon on discord.
Please check our blog for the list of 25 randomly chosen runners with a time below 220 seconds that will receive 1000 gold and the next events.
Patch 1.3.1.0.0: Messing with the Runes
Hello Realmers,
This patch brings important changes to the Rune System, as announced, but also to the Item Forge and some rework done on end-game dungeons.
While “cleaning” the portal monuments at the wine cellar, one of Oryx’s minions spilled a bottle of wine into the system that regulates the opening of the Sanctuary. He managed to clean it up before Oryx could see the mess, but the mechanism has never been the same since.
