Love is in the air as we celebrate the return of our Valentine's Day event and celebrate President's Day weekend with some RvR bonuses!
This event will run from Thursday, February 13th through Tuesday, February 18th.

Valentine's Day Event 

• 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. He's ready to offer some interesting tasks from the local imp's union in return for a Lawn Cupid trophy, experience and coin. Don't forget to speak to Lady Payne and earn your ROG Valentine's Ring or Bracer too!
• 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 eight 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.

RvR Bonuses

In honor of Valentine's day and President's Day weekend, the following bonuses are active for the duration of the event as well!

• On Ywain:
  • 25% bonus to RPs from kills
  • 50% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic and shrouded isle zones and dungeons.
• On Gaheris:
  • 50% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic and shrouded isle zones and dungeons.
  • 50% 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

Live Hot Fix Notes

Items

• Loyalty cloaks now level 50% faster.
• Enchanter's Loyalty Cloak /use1 has been changed as follows:
  • No longer provides a radius-increase to spells cast for 60s.
  • Now provides a reset quickcast ability.
• Enchanter's Freezing Vest proc Enchantment of Crystal now correctly applies to the pet.
• Champion's Dragon Curse set bonus has been changed as follows:
  • No longer provides a radius bonus to the level 33-39 debuffs.
  • Now increases the effectiveness of Level the Odds and Even the Odds magic resistance buffs by 50% in addition to the existing bonus of increasing their range from 1000 to 1500.
• Champion's Dragon Curse set is now properly identified in the Bountycraft window as Varshe's Dark Armor, Varshe's Dark Greaves, and Varshe's Dark Armguards and have the proper armor icons.

Quests

• New User Journey quest rewards no longer ask for players to select a choice of 1 armor reward and instead just grant the single armor piece directly.
• New User Journey quest rewards will now properly show up for "different realm" characters that complete the quests on the Gaheris server.
• Gaheris players will no longer be offered the Daily RvR quests in the relic towns.
• The quest Unraveling: Kingly Crisis will now always spawn the demon lord when players on the quest enter the Throne Room.
• The level 30 and level 40 Skyros Order, Naxos Society, and Melos Alliance faction quests in Mesothalassa have been re-enabled.
• The Priceless Antiques quest will now properly step when speaking with Nydimeth on step #9.
  • Players currently stuck on step #10 without a Tarnished Key can now re-interact with Nydimeth and she will advance the quest.

Ruined Areas

• All acquired teleport buffs will once again immediately be stripped from any grouped-players in the ruined areas.

Trophies

• Cleansed diamond seals (used to craft the etched aquamarine eye) are now available for sale directly from Taxidermy Supplies NPCs in housing.
  • Players with Fiery Diamond Seals may still turn them into the various trophy NPCs to receive the same cleansed diamond seal.

Siege Weapons

• Boiling Oil and Fortified War Rams now take 60% less damage from Palintones.
  • Field War Rams now take 30% less damage from Palintones.
• Palintone Ammunition's radius has been reduced as follows:
  • Default, Heavy Bolt, and Honed Heavy Bolt radius reduced from 200 to 25.
  • Toxic Bolt and Lethal Bolt radius reduced from 350 to 125.
• Boiling Oil's splash radius has been increased from 400 to 500 units.
  • This change means that either side of the outer gatehouse "nooks" will be hit by oil now.

Class Changes

Heal Power Cost Increases

• Specialization-based casted group heals now cost 50% more power to cast.
  • This change affects Bards, Clerics, Druids, Friars, Healers, Paladins, Shaman, and Wardens.
  • This does not affect baseline casted group heals or group-based HoTs or regens.
  • It also does not affect Warlock group heals as they are secondary-cast and have their power cost controlled by the primer selected.
• Spread heals now cost 100% more power to cast.
  • This change affects Clerics, Druids, Healers, and Warlocks.
    • Warlock's spread heal power cost is no longer percentage based (which was based on base power pool and costing less power than intended) and is now a hard-power cost. This puts their power cost on even footing with other support classes using spread heal.
• These changes are aimed to reintroduce power pool management on support classes and to reduce the effectiveness of non-LOS heals in certain situations, such as keep sieges.

Armsman

• Armsman now receive the Snapshot ability at level 25 for free and no longer receive it in Crossbow specialization.

Bainshee

Champion

• The red, level 40+ str/con, dex/qui, haste, and acuity debuffs no longer have a radius.
• Champion's Dragon Curse set bonus has been changed as follows:
  • No longer provides a radius bonus to the level 33-39 debuffs.
  • Now increases the effectiveness of Level the Odds and Even the Odds magic resistance buffs by 50% in addition to the existing bonus of increasing their range from 1000 to 1500.

Enchanter

Mercenary

• Mercenary's Dissolute Swings Realm Rank 5 should now correctly clear all haste debuffs on initial firing as its delve states.
  • Please note that it is intended to allow subsequent haste debuffs to land however.
     

Necromancer

• A new level 50 spell has been added:
  • Channeled Rage – PBAoE DD – 345 Spirit Damage – 2.5s cast – 300 radius – Only targets and hits enemy realm players, pets, and realm guards.

Warlock

• The level 50 PBAoE DD Spellbinder's Torrent has had its damage increased from 325 to 365 and had its snare component removed. It now only targets and hits enemy realm players, pets, and realm guards.

Valewalker

• The Vale Defense Realm Rank 5 has had its damage absorption values lowered from 2000 to 1500 for the Valewalker and 1000 to 750 for their group.
   

General Bug Fixes

• Various error and destination messaging on battleground, hub, and dungeon teleporters has been cleaned up.
• Hamish Duncana should no longer become permanently un-interactable.