This Spring has been a superb time for the world of Erenor and there have been so many events that have come and gone. In February not only was the amazing Lucius Motion Picture Awards held which saw ArcheAge's most talented creators come together and create masterpieces, but also the February Update which saw the long-awaited Larder bug fix as well as an introduction to the highly anticipated Hereafter Rebellion dungeon.
The times can be trying lately and the gods saw fit to bring forth a bounty of content for all to enjoy.
The Pawesome Festival made a puuurfect appearance on March 5th with all kinds of cute and cuddly pets for you to adopt and raise! Want to re-read about the Pawesome Festival? Read all about it here!
On March 26th running till April 23rd, ArcheAge: Unchained received the Rock n' Scroll event which allowed players to grab some brilliant rewards such as Coral or a Stormwing Pegasus, all the way up to items not introduced in the region before with the Armor Type Conversion Scrolls. Find out more about the Rock n Scroll here!
The Lantern Festival came to be soon after on April 2nd which saw the residents of Erenor give thanks to the heroes that kept the God of Destruction Kyrios distracted while the people of Auroria fled the havoc. More information here!
Not a day too soon and the double and triple events were announced on ArcheAge and ArcheAge: Unchained where players could receive double loot, honor points, vocation points and experience gained on ArcheAge: Unchained, with double loot but triple everything else on ArcheAge! Read more about that here!
Finally one of the biggest occurrences coming to ArcheAge: Unchained is the introduction of a temporary Free Trial Weekend where players who have been on the fence can dive head-first into Erenor's world and explore it for themselves, for free! The Free Trial starts from the 9th of April till the 13th of April and more information can be found here!
The future is bright and all eyes point towards the North. With a ton more exciting events coming to ArcheAge and ArcheAge: Unchained in the near future!
For a limited time, synthesize your gear for a reduced rate! Immediately after our maintenance is completed on April 9, 2020, head over to your nearest Hero Hall to receive reduced rates on synthesis for various types of gear! The synthesis party will continue going until the server maintenance on April 16, 2020.
How do I participate? The first step is to head to the Hero Hall in your faction's Capital City! If you're in the Western faction head to Marianople, Eastern faction head to Austera, and fearsome pirate, travel to Pirate Island! After locating your Hero Hall, make sure you're in the vicinity of Synthesis Fairy Jake NPC and receive the reduced synthesis rate buff!
What are the rates? Enjoy the 50% synthesis rate discount on: Hiram Guardian Gear Radiant Hiram Guardian Gear Story Quest Equipment Noryette Accessories Luminous Noryette Accessories Epherium/Delphinad/Ayanad Cloak Synthesis Costume/Undergarments Improved/Sturdy Pet Accessories Disciple's Equipment T1 Mistsong Summit Equipment T2 Mistsong Summit Weapons Enraged Red Dragon Equipment Soul Guardian
Enjoy the 25% synthesis rate discount on: Brilliant Hiram Guardian Gear Radiant Disciple Equipment Erenor Cloak Berserk Red Dragon Equipment Thunderwing Titan Equipment
Enjoy the 15% synthesis rate discount on: Glorious Hiram Guardian Gear
The following gears are excluded from the synthesis rate reduction: Erenor Equipment Radiant Erenor Equipment Wrathful Black Dragon Vigilant Hermit Plate Armor Termisia's Leather Armor Soul Liberator Radiant Noryette Accessories T2 Mistong Summit Armor
Unfortunately like all good things, this event does come to an end. This event ends with the weekly maintenance on April 16, 2020, so make sure to get your synthesis on!
Coral needs your help in Mirage Isle! Coral's troublesome bunny friends have run off and hid without their eggs! It's not much of an egg hunt without them, Coral needs you to find those bunnies and hand them their egg. Though she doesn't have the exact location, she can hint to where they might be hidden!
After maintenance on April 9th, anyone level 20 or above can participate in the daily quests provided by Coral on Mirage Isle. To get to Mirage Isle, take one of the many portals in major cities and most housing areas!
She will give you a hint to find one of her troublesome bunny friends and task you to find them and give them their egg. Once complete, you will be rewarded with Vocation Badges and a Bound Egg Basket!
Alongside the egg hunting fun, a new achievement was added - "Coral's Helper"! Complete the hunt for a troublesome bunny 6 times and get rewarded with the "Eggcellent Helper" title and 5 Bound Egg Baskets.
Each Bound Egg Basket allows you to choose between the following Eggs: Green Egg - Move Speed +10% for 1 hour Blue Egg - All Stats +70 for 1 hour Purple Egg - Skill Damage and Healing +4% for 1 hour Yellow Egg - Combat Skill Cooldown -10% for 1 hour Orange Egg - Received Damage -5% for 1 hour
Please note that only one Egg buff can be applied at a time, so choose wisely!
Hop to it and help Coral save Easter before she disappears on April 16th!
Spring. The season when many trees are blossoming and early flowers are pushing through the earth in an explosion on glorious colors and fragrant scents. When birds return home and chirp happily to greet the early rays of sunlight. When there's a playfulness in nature and a sense of joy energizes the air.
What does Spring mean to you? Now's your chance to capture that sweet feeling of spring in our 'Spring Screenshot Contest'! From April 7, 2020, and April 14, 2020, show us what Spring means to you!
What do I do?
Take a screenshot in-game that gives you the Spring feeling! From blooming flowers, baby animals playing with wild abandon or...you get the idea! Submit your image via Twitter using the hashtags #gamigotrees and either #ArcheAge or #AAUnchained to indicate the game version you play. The best screenshot will be selected as a winner for their game version!
What can I win?
One winner each will be selected from ArcheAge and ArcheAge: Unchained who will receive a Princess Greeniette Chroma costume as a reward. In the event there are no entries from one game, two screenshots from the same game will be selected.
When will the winners be selected?
The ArcheAge team will select and vote on winners that will be announced on April 16, 2020. The winner will be contacted on Twitter via Direct Message and will be announced on Twitter, Steam and our Blog.
What are the rules?
All screenshots should be in the theme of Spring.
Entries should be submitted via Twitter using the hashtags #gamigotrees and either #ArcheAge or #AAUnchained to indicate the version of the game where you'll receive the reward if you win.
All submissions must be received between April 7, 2020, and April 14, 2020, at 23:59 UTC.
Rules and Terms of Service apply (No Nudity, Racism, etc.)
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The following conditions govern the course of the “ArcheAge Screenshot Contest” (“Contest”) as organized by gamigo US Inc., 350 Marine Park Way, Redwood City, CA, 94065, USA (“Trion”).
1. Eligibility, Participants and Participation
(1) Participation in the contest is free. Participants must be at least twelve years old. If the participant is under the age of eighteen, the parent or guardian must have given their consent to participate in the competition.
(2) “Participant” means anyone who is eligible to participate pursuant to paragraph 1 and who complies with the terms and conditions of participation set forth in these General Terms and Conditions between 4/08/2020 and 4/15/2020, 22:59 UTC (“Participation Period”).
(3) The task of the contest is the independent creation of a screenshot in Archeage (""Screenshot""), which deals with the topic ""Spring in Archeage"".The task of the contest is the independent creation of a screenshot (“Screenshot”) that represents the feeling of spring in ArcheAge. The may use their character(s) and/or other available in-game items to that end. The screenshot must not be sexist or show nudity. The screenshot shall be posted on Twitter and contain the hashtag #gamigotrees and also the hashtag #ArcheAge or #AAUnchained, based on the version of the game.
(4) There is no limit how many entries each participant may submit. Entries submitted outside of the participation period will not be considered.
(5) Employees of Trion and companies associated with Trion, as well as relatives thereof, are allowed to participate but are excluded from receipt of any prizes.
(6) Trion may present (“Presentation”) the screenshot in form of Twitter retweets.
2. Winners and Prizes
(1) Trion will select a total of two (2) screenshots from all valid entries - one for ArcheAge and one for ArcheAge: Unchained. The “winners” are those participants who created these selected screenshots.
(2) In the case that one version of the game does not receive any submitted screenshots at all, Trion will instead pick a second winner from the submitted entries for the other version of the game.
(3) Trion will inform the winners by 4/16/2020, 22:59 UTC of their win by contacting via the Twitter account used for the entry (“Notification”). The winners will receive prizes as part of the contest announcement. Trion reserves the right to replace individual prizes with equivalent or superior prizes. The winners will be announced in various social media such as ArcheAge Discord, Twitter, Facebook, Website, Steam, and our Forums (“Announcement”). The winners will be announced on the official ArcheAge Twitter account.
(4) Trion will ask the winners in the notification to send in their ArcheAge account name, email address or ID in response to the announcement up to the 4/19/2020, 22:59 UTC at the latest (“Response”). Responses that Trion receives late or does not receive at all will lead to loss of entitlement to the respective prize. To the extent that the prizes concern the receipt of digital content, this will be added to the named account of the respective winner within a week of receipt of the response.
(5) A cash payment and/or payment of the prize in physical goods as well as an exchange and/or transfer of the prizes to third parties are all excluded.
3. Rights of Use and Indemnity
(1) For the purpose of participation in the contest, Trion grants the participant the free-of-charge, non-exclusive, revocable right to use the ArcheAge title and the ArcheAge characters for the creation of the screenshot.
(2) For the purposes of the presentation, the participant grants Trion the free-of-charge, non-exclusive, irrevocable right to use the respective screenshot without limitation of time and place. This includes the rights of exploitation and reproduction, as well as the right to make the screenshot publicly available and grant usage rights to third parties, in so far as this is necessary within the context of the presentation.
(3) By submitting their entry, the participant provides assurance that they produced the screenshot themselves, guarantees that this does not infringe on the rights of third parties and indemnifies Trion against all claims from third parties based on the infringement of third party rights in connection with the screenshot.
4. Data Privacy
(1) Trion will retrieve, process and use the provided personal data of each participant (this includes the core data of the account, the email address and ID provided by the winners) within the scope of the applicable legal data protection requirements and exclusively for the purposes of holding the contest (this includes the review of the right to participate and compliance with the rules as well as the announcement and the presentation).
(2) The personal data collected will be stored for the duration of the contest and then subsequently deleted once it ends. The presentation which, for reasons of transparency, is principally always kept permanently available for retrieval, will not be deleted within this period unless otherwise requested by the respective winner. To the extent that legal retention requirements stipulate longer-term storage, the affected data will be deleted at the latest following the expiry of such obligations and will only be processed for the purposes of compliance with these retention requirements.
(3) Further information on the handling of personal data by Trion can be found within the Privacy Policy.
5. Disclaimer
Trion, its bodies, employees, and subcontractors are liable exclusively for wilful intent and gross negligence, regardless of legal basis, and in cases of ordinary negligence, only for the violation of essential contractual obligations and limited to foreseeable damages, as far as not precluded by other compulsory statutory provisions. These limitations do not apply for the loss of life, personal injury or damage to health.
6. Final Provisions
(1) The participant agrees to these Terms and Conditions with their entry.
(2) In addition to these Terms and Conditions, the General Terms of Use also apply (“Rules”).
(3) Should a participant infringe upon the rules during the execution of the contest, or such an infringement be proven thereafter, their eligibility to participate may be revoked.
(4) Trion reserves the right to end the contest before the end of the participation period, if for technical or legal reasons its proper execution cannot be guaranteed.
(5) The contractual relationship is governed by German law to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the referral regulations of international private law. If the participant has as his usual domicile a location in another country within the European Union during the extent of the contest, the validity of the strictly applicable legal regulations of the country in question shall remain unaffected by the choice of law made in the prior sentence.
(6) In the event that any individual provisions of these Terms and Conditions become ineffective, the remaining provisions shall remain effective and binding. Statutory rules shall take the place of the ineffective provision.
Are you feeling trapped indoors and struggling against boredom? Well, your favorite games have just the event for you to get that adrenaline flowing! Beginning April 3rd at 7 PM UTC (12 PM PDT) and lasting until April 6th at 5 PM UTC (10 AM PDT), you will have an increased rate of obtaining Loot, Experience and Honor Points, as well as Vocation and Kyrios badges on ArcheAge: Unchained.
Double Down in ArcheAge: Unchained! All ArcheAge: Unchained servers will be able to double down and receive a buffed rate on the following: 2x Loot Drop Rate 2x Vocation Badges 2x Experience Gained 2x Honor Points Gained 2x Kyrios Points Gained*
These events are piping hot and will flame out on April 6th, so get as much loot as you can cram into your bags NOW!
*The increased rate on Kyrios Badges will be removed from the event due to issues of it not working as intended and not granting the increased amount.
From the 2nd of April until the 23rd of April, light up the sky in memory of the brave Aranzeb in the 2020 Lantern Festival.
After the maintenance, watch Gweonid sparkle in the night sky as the zone turns to a festival period to let the East and the West come together as one in peace to honor the fallen during the fall of Auroria.
In Austera, Marianople and Diamond Shores find the Festival Worldgates to take you to Gweonid Lake and talk to Fennelly to start off your lantern building adventure!
Giving thanks!
The Gweonid Lantern Festival is about giving thanks to the heroes who gave their lives to fight Kyrios while buying time to allow Nui to save the inhabitants of Auroria to escape and you can also give thanks for their sacrifice!
From NPC Denissi you can begin making your lantern and from NPCs Rojuni and Yallie there are more ways to earn Lantern Festival Coins!
3 times a day, the mysterious Yata Lantern appears, visit Mellius at 1 PM, 7 PM, and 12:00 AM UTC in Europe, or 11:00 AM, 5:00 PM, and 10:00 PM PDT in North America to find out what to do with it – he’ll stick around for an hour each time!
Use the Lantern Candle around the Dimmed Yata Lantern in order to light it up into a Lit Yata Lantern! Once the lantern is lit, your quest will be completed and you’ll be awarded 3 Lantern Festival Coins, 1 Glimmershine Essence, and a special Gweonid Elixir buff offering +3% Evasion, +41 Attack Speed, and -4% Cast Time for 1 hour.
I'm thankful for... rewards!
Everyone loves being rewarded for what they do, so here's what you can get with your Festival Coins!
ArcheAge: Unchained awakens with the Rock ‘n Scroll Event starting on March 26th until April 23rd.
Get your Ruby from the Marketplace for 50 Gilda Stars (you can get 2 per account) and game on!
For every hour you play, you’ll be rewarded with a Gem Upgrade Scroll which you can use to have a chance to upgrade your Ruby to a Garnet, then a Topaz and so on so forth until you get the coveted Prismatic Diamond.
These scrolls work the same way as an awakening do, so there’s always a chance to fail! Worry not, adventurer. The longer you play the more scrolls you get to try and try again!
But what do I do with these gems?!
Great question! Here’s the answer, timely adventurer!
Find the Gem Exchanger in Mirage Isle (down the stairs then directly on your right!) and open it up to find all of the lovely rewards you can gain from your precious minerals.
If you managed to gain what you wanted, you can turn any unused scrolls in to the trader for 1 Gilda Star, recycling is fun!
For those of you on the Legacy version of ArcheAge, worry not! This event will be rockin’ its way over to you soon!
• The Superior Serendipity Stone Crate is missing the last 4% in its tooltip. • The Nightfire Glider’s Ability “Glider Charge” is not canceled when trying to close the glider. • Coral’s jump actually is more of a hop while moving. If you stand and use it, you can use the full range of the jump, though.
Please note: The Event Gem that you need will be purchasable for 50 Gilda Stars through the Marketplace after today’s Marketplace Update.
Who loves cute fluffy animals? That’s right, everyone! The Pawesome festival is here with plenty of adorable animals for you to take care of. Maybe you’ll get to keep one for yourself! There are enough cuddly costumed critters to go around for everyone, including cute kitty cats, precious puppies, elegant elks, and yata-tastic yatas!
After maintenance on March 5th, Windscour Savannah will be granted a Festival Period for you to enjoy this beautiful festival to your heart’s content!
In the Marianople and Austera Hero Halls and on Diamond Shores there will be a portal that leads straight to the heart of the Festival where you can begin your mew-tiful journey.
Completing the quests from Nairamdal, you can get some pets of your very own that you can give items to, once they have their item of choice they have a chance to turn into a new kind of costumed critters such as a Pirate kitty or an In-bread Corgi!
As well as cute pets, you can also earn Festival Coins! You can turn these into the Festival Exchanger on Mirage for: Animal Friend Picture Crate – 5 Festival Coins Wooden Pet Bed – 20 Festival Coins Playful Pet Cushion – 20 Festival Coins Cozy Pet Bed – 20 Festival Coins Tufted Pet Tower – 20 Festival Coins Pet Leash – 70 Festival Coins
We proudly present to you our newest update - and it is chock-full of great, amazing content. In it, you'll find something for each and everyone, no matter what it is you love most about ArcheAge and ArcheAge: Unchained.
PvE against gigantic scary world bosses or PvP on the high seas? Check! Solo adventures if you're more the lone wolf type? Check! Adjustments to the Aging system for all you crafters and traders? Very much check! New Exploration Spots to discover? The check is unreal!
New World Boss - Charybdis
The sea beckons to you, Adventurer, but will you heed her call? Look forward to some of the most intense naval action you've ever seen! Get ready to face the terrifying sea monster that is the mighty Charybdis, the terror of Whaleswell Strait. An Ancestral 15 world boss with nearly 17 million(!!!) HP, she will certainly not be easy to defeat. Find out more about the lore around Charybdis right here.
New Solo Dungeon - Hereafter Rebellion
Kyrios' Crimson Army are knocking down the gates of White Arden, and the Arden Guard needs your help! Test your mettle and protect the holy land of White Arden by aiding its Guard and saving Wandering Souls from their impending doom in this all-new solo dungeon experience! However, you're not entirely on your own: 6 elite NPCs, each with their own unique quest line and motivations, can be summoned to your aid.
Level requirement: 55+
Naval Arena - Stillwater Gulf
Stillwater Gulf is open once again and awaits the toughest, hardiest captains and their crews to battle for supremacy. Escape the Grudge's Veil and defeat as many enemies as you can within 60 minutes to earn yourself Kyrios Badges and Radiant Infusion Supply Kits. Or feed the fishes down in Davey Jones' Locker!
Aging Larders, Exploration Points, Ancestral Skills, and So Much More!
Tired of all the fighting? Like to just sit back and relax for once while watching some honey age? We have made some exciting changes to the Aging Larders that should be right up your alley! Or, if you're not one to sit around and do nothing, why not go out and discover the new Exploration Points that were added to the Western and Eastern Hiram Mountains? You could also hone your skills to the extreme with the new Swiftblade Ancestry Skills and others.
Of course, that's by far not all! We've got much more amazing stuff: Resistant Pet Accessory, Guild Buff changes, news for Pirates, to only name a few. Read our entire Patch Notes on our forum right here.
Love is all around us this month and soon Valentine’s Day will be upon us! To celebrate the romantic holiday, we want you to show us what you love about love!
Beginning on February the 13th and lasting until the 20th, dive into the world of Erenor and show your love in the Valentine’s Screenshot Contest.
What do I do? Share a screenshot of yourself and the person you care the most about in ArcheAge and ArcheAge: Unchained showing us what love means to you both! No more than two people should be in the screenshot.
What’s the theme? Love of course! Platonic, romantic and everything in between; show us what love means to you! Up to 2 people can participate per entry.
What’s the prize? Three (3) lucky winners will be randomly selected who will each receive the beautiful Date Night Costume that’s perfect for their very own date night!
When are winners announced? The winners will be selected and announced by the CMs on February 20, 2020, at 5 PM UTC on Discord, Twitter, Forums, The ArcheAge and ArcheAge: Unchained Facebook pages, and Steam
What are the rules?
No more than 2 people can be in your screenshot. Make sure you are both tagged!
Entries be submitted via Twitter using the hashtags #LoveArcheAge and #ArcheAge or #AAUnchained
All submissions must be received between February 13, 2020, and February 20, 2020, 14:59 CET
Normal rules apply (No Nudity, Racism, etc)
TERMS AND CONDITIONS The following conditions govern the course of the “ArcheAge Screenshot Contest” (“Contest”) as organized by gamigo US Inc., 350 Marine Park Way, Redwood City, CA, 94065, USA (“Trion”).
1. Eligibility, Participants and Participation (1) Participation in the contest is free. Participants must be at least twelve years old. If the participant is under the age of eighteen, the parent or guardian must have given their consent to participate in the competition. (2) “Participant” means anyone who is eligible to participate pursuant to paragraph 1 and who complies with the terms and conditions of participation set forth in these General Terms and Conditions between 2/13/2020 and 2/20/2020, 14.59 CET (“Participation Period”). (3) The task of the contest is the independent creation of a screenshot (“Screenshot”) showing up to two ArcheAge characters and be dedicated to the theme of love. The screenshot must not be sexist or show nudity. The post shall be posted on Twitter and contain the hashtag #LoveArcheAge and also the hashtag #ArcheAge or #AAUnchained based on the version of the game. (4) There is no limit how many entries each participant may submit. Entries submitted outside of the participation period as will not be considered. (5) Employees of Trion and companies associated with Trion, as well as relatives thereof, are allowed to participate but are excluded from receipt of any prizes. (6) Trion may present (“Presentation”) the screenshot in form of twitter retweets.
2. Winners and Prizes (1) Trion will select a total of three screenshots from all valid entries. The “winners” are those participants who created these selected screenshots. (2) Trion will inform the winners by 2/20/2020 23.59 CEST of their win by contacting via the Twitter or Facebook account used for the entry (“Notification”). The winners will receive prizes as part of the contest announcement. Trion reserves the right to replace individual prizes with equivalent or superior prizes. The winners will be announced in various social media such as ArcheAge Discord, Twitter, Facebook, Website, Steam, and Forum (“Announcement”). (3) Trion will ask the winners in the notification to send in their ArcheAge account name, email address or ID in response to the announcement up to the 03/05/2020, 23.59 CET at the latest (“Response”). Responses that Trion receives late or does not receive at all will lead to loss of entitlement to the respective prize. To the extent that the prizes concern the receipt of digital content, this will be added to the named account of the respective winner within a week of receipt of the response. (4) A cash payment and/or payment of the prize in physical goods as well as an exchange and/or transfer of the prizes to third parties are all excluded.
3. Rights of Use and Indemnity (1) For the purpose of participation in the contest, Trion grants the participant the free-of-charge, non-exclusive, revocable right to use the ArcheAge title and the ArcheAge characters for the creation of the screenshot. (2) For the purposes of the presentation, the participant grants Trion the free-of-charge, non-exclusive, irrevocable right to use the respective screenshot without limitation of time and place. This includes the rights of exploitation and reproduction, as well as the right to make the screenshot publicly available and grant usage rights to third parties, in so far as this is necessary within the context of the presentation. (3) By submitting their entry, the participant provides assurance that they produced the screenshot themselves, guarantees that this does not infringe on the rights of third parties and indemnifies Trion against all claims from third parties based on the infringement of third party rights in connection with the screenshot.
4. Data Privacy (1) Trion will retrieve, process and use the provided personal data of each participant (this includes the core data of the account, the email address and ID provided by the winners) within the scope of the applicable legal data protection requirements and exclusively for the purposes of holding the contest (this includes the review of the right to participate and compliance with the rules as well as the announcement and the presentation). (2) The personal data collected will be stored for the duration of the contest and then subsequently deleted once it ends. The presentation which, for reasons of transparency, is principally always kept permanently available for retrieval, will not be deleted within this period unless otherwise requested by the respective winner. To the extent that legal retention requirements stipulate longer-term storage, the affected data will be deleted at the latest following the expiry of such obligations and will only be processed for the purposes of compliance with these retention requirements. (3) Further information on the handling of personal data by Trion can be found within the Privacy Policy.
5. Disclaimer Trion, its bodies, employees, and subcontractors are liable exclusively for wilful intent and gross negligence, regardless of legal basis, and in cases of ordinary negligence, only for the violation of essential contractual obligations and limited to foreseeable damages, as far as not precluded by other compulsory statutory provisions. These limitations do not apply for the loss of life, personal injury or damage to health.
6. Final Provisions (1) The participant agrees to these Terms and Conditions with their entry. (2) In addition to these Terms and Conditions, the General Terms of Use also apply (“Rules”). (3) Should a participant infringe upon the rules during the execution of the contest, or such an infringement be proven thereafter, their eligibility to participate may be revoked. (4) Trion reserves the right to end the contest before the end of the participation period, if for technical or legal reasons its proper execution cannot be guaranteed. (5) The contractual relationship is governed by German law to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the referral regulations of international private law. If the participant has as his usual domicile a location in another country within the European Union during the extent of the contest, the validity of the strictly applicable legal regulations of the country in question shall remain unaffected by the choice of law made in the prior sentence. (6) In the event that any individual provisions of these Terms and Conditions become ineffective, the remaining provisions shall remain effective and binding. Statutory rules shall take the place of the ineffective provision.