Midwinter Festival Event
- Realm Point, experience, and crafting bonuses are now live!
- Bounty points are yours if you can once more assist the surly Festival Steward and the friendly Cargomaster!
- The Frozen Medal of Honor and Frozen Cloaks of Midwinter are once again available!
- Battleground Presents are there to be gathered and are now uncapped!
- The Frozen Cavern instance makes its return!
- The Traveling Merchants have set out their wares!
- The Twelve Days of Midwinter gifts are being wrapped!
The Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 14th, 2020.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Saturday, December 21st!
Read on for more details!
Realm Bonuses
Please note: These bonuses only affect Veteran accounts.
On Ywain:
- 50% bonus to RP gain from RvR kills
- This bonus applies to all RvR zones, including battlegrounds.
- 50% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic and shrouded isles zones and dungeons
- 50% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic and shrouded isles zones and dungeons
- 50% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities
- 40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
- 20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain
- 20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
- 10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain
Midwinter Festival Event
The days grow short, a chill is in the air, and warm fires glow in our homes. The Midwinter Festival has come once again to the Realms! Visit the festival grounds to take part in the festivities and challenges.
- Level 50 characters can complete the following quest for the duration of the event:
- Visit your realm's Cargomaster at the Caer Benowyc, Bledmeer Faste, or Druim Ligen docks to obtain the repeatable '[Midwinter] Roll On' quest!
Olibar, the Midwinter Tomte, will be paying frequent visits to Castle Sauvage, Svasud Faste, and Druim Ligen seeking assistance. He seems to have lost some Midwinter presents throughout the battlegrounds. Speak to him if you wish to assist him. Players on Gaheris between the levels of 35 to 49 can speak to him to receive a special Frontier Gift Retrieval quest instead.
- Olibar's Gift Retrieval quests can now be done an unlimited amount of times!
Santa Nicholas, Lucia of the Light, and Jack Frost will arrive with gifts for the people of the realms, but there’s been a bit of a crisis: their presents were hijacked and are now in the possession of dangerous enemies. They will offer the Saving Midwinter quest to all adventurers level 48 and above. Save Midwinter and earn a Frozen Cloak of Midwinter and a Frozen Medal of Honor! Visit them at the Winter Villages outside of Ludlow, Ardee, and Vasudheim.
In Albion, Clara sets up a giant tree at the festival tents. Speak with her for information on obtaining an appropriately-sized one for your own home or yard. Nearby, Sister Samantha is collecting toys for the children of Albion. She offers some fine holiday greenery as a reward to those generous souls who answer her call.
In Midgard, Kevin somehow manages to decorate a tree all for himself. Ask him about it and he may give you a few pointers regarding your own arboreal home decorating. The Gythja of Frigg is taking donations of toys from passers-by and granting them wreaths and garlands in return.
In Hibernia, the rather small elf Noelle brings her tree to the festival grounds. She will help you start your own holiday tradition if you want one of your own. Matron Elleweh is looking for assistance in gathering gifts for the children of Hibernia, with a promise of some festive decorations in return.
The Trinkets for Tots quest is available for all levels.
The Midwinter Tree quests start at level 35, however rumor has it that there may be a more advanced challenge to follow for those of level 48 and up.
Frozen Cavern Event
- Venture to the Frozen Cavern and test yourself against the chill... and its cunning inhabitant: Jack Frost!
- Visit Njord in the following locations to enter the instance of your choice:
- Albion: near Merlin's Tower in Camelot
- Midgard: near the Burial Grounds in Jordheim
- Hibernia: near the Chamber of Magic in Tir na Nog
- Two modes exist for this instance: Normal and Challenging
- The Normal mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
- Frozen chestpieces
- Frozen and other mythirians
- Infernal sleeves
- Darkness Falls jewelry
- Supremacy, celerity, or omni-regen potions
- The Challenging mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
- Frozen weapons
- Frozen chestpieces
- Frozen mythirians only
- Darkness Falls jewelry
- Supremacy, celerity, or omni-regen potions
- In addition to having a chance at the weapons, the chance at the mythirians and darkness falls jewelry is much higher. The chestpiece chance is the same in both modes.
- The Normal mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
- Loot no longer drops directly from Jack Frost, instead a loot chest is spawned when he is defeated.
- Players can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
- This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!
Traveling Merchants
Players can find the merchants at the below locations. Happy Shopping!
In Albion: Just outside of gates of Castle Sauvage in Camelot Hills
In Midgard: Just outside of Svasud Faste in the Vale of Mularn
In Hibernia: Just outside of Druim Ligen in Connacht
Twelve Days of Midwinter
On the first day of Midwinter, Broadsword gave to me...
- Login to the game and visit the following NPCs to receive a special reward each day!
- Albion: Santa Nicholas in Castle Sauvage
- Midgard: Kris Kringle in Svasud Faste
- Hibernia: Daidi na Nollag in Druim Ligen
- Speak with the above NPCs to reveal your reward for each day.
- Each day's reward will be revealed around 5:30 AM EST / 10:30 AM GMT and last the remainder of that day.
- If you miss a day, you will be able to catch up and receive the missed rewards by visiting the NPC on subsequent days.
- This means if you simply login on the twelfth day, you'll receive all 12 rewards!
- Make sure you have room in your inventory!
- This means if you simply login on the twelfth day, you'll receive all 12 rewards!
- These rewards are limited to level 50, Veteran (subscribed) account characters and can only be obtained once per character.
- This event will run from Saturday, December 21st, 2019 for the next twelve days, with the last day being January 1st, 2020!
Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 14th, 2020.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Saturday, December 21st!
A Happy Midwinter to all from the Dark Age of Camelot team, and we’ll see you in the Frontiers!
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Agreed.
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Please can we get something focused on bringing the population back up, (maybe an xp bonus for free accounts so they can lvl and join rvr for the holidays). Can we move the frozen rewards to some sort of rvr event reward. And give us some time to login during the holidays (don't give/end a event on the same day)
Plenty of us.
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Instead we will all sit by and watch their F2P collapse and destroy the game we love b/c they won't make changes "over the holidays."
I just think it would be nice if they change some things up each year (if you look at the metrics the population surges around the holidays and people tend to get more kills (cant look at RP as they are scewed with bonuses). I have not imperial data for why this is but I would assume it has to do with some middle age people having more time off and trying out something they did when they where younger or something. however i felt the RVR the last few years have been lacking (im blaming this on PVE event, or new items that have ruined some returning peoples enjoyment).
think, you subcribe around now, make a few level 50's or play a bit update a temp a bit or something and during the time of the year you figured there would be the most action you find NF dead and alot of people sitting around confused at where action is, telling you they are waiting for a group to form for this PVE thing, and saying you "need" to get this item as its a limited time thing, its easiest to get now, it is so good).
yes you can get them with BP now, yes less people are probably going to do it but why did you include it again? cant we get a well thought out RVR event that gets action going all day long and has that "fun" factor for the new returning group that wont get in the leet groups or be a 1v1 beast?
I dont know what that would be but its not the exact same thing as last year but with 2/3's the pop or less
Jesus, i know people have to work 365days a year.
So you say, it is wrong that many people are on vacation now?
As they stated, they will make changes to EC next year, i thought they just will not work between the years.
Because otherwise I dont really understand what takes so long to make some changes.
Vast majority of changes to DAoC are not easy or quick changes, they take time.
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I believe that is the point. They are adding yet another place for solo/small mans etc... to hunt. I think it's perfect that way. I doesn't make it too easy to just rack up BPs (still fairly easy) and stimulates pvp.
I agree. There is already a quest (line) to make bps in PVE. This one promotes a reward for a risk... in an rvr zone
Make sure you have room in your inventory!
Just an FYI you need to have more than 12 spots free in inventory (For example Day 3 reward is 3 silver boxes and 2 is 2 buff pots (hero and sup)).