Everyone needs a boost every now and again, and adventurers are no different. From April 30th until June 4th we've worked together with the quest givers in Reedwind, Sungold Fields, Exeloch, Western Hiram Mountains, and Eastern Hiram Mountains and convinced them to double their quest rewards! That means double the infusions and double the awakening scrolls!

What quests count?
Great question Adventurer! The quests that have been doubled in this event follow:

Guardian of Reedwind
Guardian of Sungold Fields
Guardian of Exeloch
Raiders of Reedwind
Raiders of Sungold Fields
Raiders of Exeloch
Mutated Animals
The Abyssal Legion
Animal Control
Millennium Mammoths
Black Forest Treants
Stop the Abyssal Legion
Haradium Abominations

Remember, these double rewards won't stay forever so let's get busy!

It's the time of year where the Daru need help caring for this year's batch of eggs! Tend to your own egg and keep it content by sensing what it's in need of. Eggwarden Dolbu will certainly reward you for your assistance helping them during such a busy and important time!

After maintenance on April 30th, Ahnimar will be granted a Festival Period lasting until May 14th at 1 AM UTC where anyone Level 30+ can participate in daily quests for the Daru Festival. To get to Ahnimar, take the World Gate in Diamond Shores, Marianople, or Austera!

First, meet with Tarini in the Community Center to begin your task of assisting with the Daru's precious eggs in the Lotus Song Garden! After speaking with the Eggwarden Dolbu, take your Daru Egg Cradle for a spin through the Incubator, and tend to its every need in the Hatchery. A happy egg will take a 10-minute nap after which it can be returned to Dolbu where you will be rewarded with Daru Festival Coins to exchange for various goods in Mirage Isle! Neglectful egg-sitters beware: after 10 hours, these Egg Cradles will expire.

And there's plenty more to do after you've nurtured your egg! Assist the Daru further by constructing more incubators, protect the eggs from the Skyfins who are threatening to crash the festival, and search for treasure 3x per day for Ian!

Doing your part and assisting the Daru can contribute to 16 event-related achievements. If you're lucky enough to get an Astra-Blessed Egg, you'll be rewarded with an Astra-Blessed Crate, a shiny new title, and a Mini Egg Cradle for your house.

Now for the rewards! You can exchange your Daru Festival Coins for the following goods at the Festival Gift Exchanger in Mirage Isle:

The Great Mission - 15 Daru Festival Coins and The Great Mission Scroll #1,#2, and #3
Daru Crest Frame - 50 Daru Festival Coins
Hoverbloom Flowerbed - 25 Daru Festival Coins
Daroccoli Flowerbed - 25 Daru Festival Coins
Daru Streetlight - 20 Daru Festival Coins
Daru Statue - 20 Daru Festival Coins
Fencey-Fence Post - 15 Daru Festival Coins
Fencey-Fence - 15 Daru Festival Coins
Mossy-Moss Armchair - 30 Daru Festival Coins
Mini-Cradle - 20 Daru Festival Coins
Lotus Leafy-Leaf - 25 Daru Festival Coins
Adventurer's Winged Elixir - 5 Daru Festival Coins"

These Daru Eggs hatch soon, so please lend a hand before May 14th!

A new season of the ArchePass has arrived and with it come some unique, useful and awesome new rewards! The newest iterations of the Vocation, Equipment and Combat Passes will last until the 2nd of July so don't delay!

What can I get?
Each pass contains some really great items so let's list some of the more prominent ones!

In the Vocation ArchePass there's the return of the Fortune Box on Level 13, Level 28 and Level 38 which has a chance to receive a payout anywhere between 20 and 1000 gold! A neat surprise at Level 22 brings a temporary Seaskimmer Speedboat along with a batch of 100 Bound Eco-Friendly Fuel! The grand prize is 4 of the Multi-Wagon Upgrade Tickets, perfect for if you've been holding off on upgrading your lil' Cart!

In the Premium path for the Vocation Pass, kick back and relax with the Rowdy Shore Leave Outfit, the very-well received Sylvas Nocturne costume pieces make a return and the grand prize is the brand new Ancient Riddler Costume!

In the Equipment ArchePass, we bring bottles of Moonlight Juice on Level 8 and Bound Lucky Elixir on Level 3 ready for you hard-grinders to farm the mobs away and increase your Loot Drop %. A highly requested but very controversial reward on Level 17 brings a Bound Gold Cat Create which contains either Bound Melee, Magic, Ranged or Healing Gold Cat Undergarments. Eventually, lead on up to the grand prize of Chadwick the Bold, a hamster who knows no fear!

In the Premium path for the Equipment Pass make your way to the beach with the Spotless Shore Leave Outfit and give thanks to the weapons of old with the Hasla Weapon Skin Crate. If that's not your style, later on in the Pass there is a Glider Customization Crate where you can choose from the Golden Astra Wings or the Dawnbreak Dove glider skins and eventually the final reward being the Black Nobles Whimsey Costume!

In the Combat ArchePass, stock up on Radiant Infusions or Abyssal Enhancers with the Radiant Infusion Supply Kit on levels 8, 17 and 22! Sharpen up your gems at Level 33 with 15 of the Luna Charm Rank 1 items with some Awakening Scrolls being granted at Level 37 from the Improved Hiram Awakening Scroll Ticket (Choose from 7 Sacred Hiram Awakening Scrolls, 5 Blessed Hiram Awakening Scrolls or 3 Divine Hiram Awakening Scrolls!) For this pass, the grand prize is the Firran of Rookborne's greatest achievement, the Black Eagle Glider Companion.

For the Premium path, turn heads wherever you go with the Shining Shore Leave Outfit. If you want to spruce up your look, there's also a Salon Certificate so you can look your best, however you fight! The grand prize is the outfit of the unforgettable hero who took down Kyrios himself, Melisara! The Royal Assassin Costume arrives as the Combat pass' final reward!

Known Issues:
The 4th, 9th, 14th, 24th, 29th, 39th and 44th rewards for all passes are in Korean. They are a box that contains a choice of either a Vocation Point Potion or an Honor Point Potion of various ranks.

You! Yes youses with the goofy smileses!

I arrived here on the 16th of April but I need to leavses on the 30th of April!

My names is Chad! It means ""never giving up"" in humanses speaks. I needs your help!
We Daru has founds a big big opportunity to have business with humanses because we founds out that humanses love... Watermelons!

Humanses love it so much that we can'ts keeping up with deliverings! But yous a big strong humanses, you can help, yes?

Well... I guess I can he-
Perfects!

First, find the Watermelon Merchant in the humanses big city in Austera, Marianople or Diamond Shores for you piratey humanses.

Then gets the Order Receipt and put it in the big machinses!

Once you dids that, you gets a quest letter, yes? Clicky click on it and pick up your watermelon! No stealsies though, if you puts it down or loses it, it will go poof!

If you're a Haranises then yous better take it to somewhere in Haranya! If yous a Nuians then somewhere in Nuia is where you go, yes? If yous a scary piraty humanses then take it and set your sailses for Auroria! Your quest bookie book can tell you more...

If youses successful, you gets 2,000 of either those Honor or Vocation Pointses and 10 Watermelon Tokenses! Careful, these tokenses only lasts for a short times!

I has a list of alls the rewards you can gets!
Ancestor's Coinpurse - 5 Watermelon Token
Bound Lucky Elixir - 5 Watermelon Token
Bound Double Hunting XP Elixir - 5 Watermelon Token
Watermelon Popsicle - 10 Watermelon Token (Limited Time Item)
Radiant Hiram Infusion [5] - 15 Watermelon Token
Hiram Awakening Scroll [3] - 15 Watermelon Token
Decrystallization Scroll - 20 Watermelon Token
Radiant Hiram Awakening Scroll - 30 Watermelon Token
Yellow Lucky Cat - 30 Watermelon Token
Watermelon Swimwear - 70 Watermelon Token"

Be quick humanses! I will only stick around until the 30th of April! Remember that all of the Tokenses will also expire then too!

From the 9th of April till the 13th of April, discover your legendary self for free with the first-ever limited-time event ArcheAge: Unchained free weekend!

For players who want to start their heroic adventures on EU, they can find themselves lost in adventure from 5 pm UTC on April 9th till 5 pm UTC on the 13th of April.

For the players who wish to begin on the NA servers, the gates are thrown open at 10 am PDT on April 9th and closed at 10 am PDT on April 13th.

Tell me more!
Players can partake in the free weekend through Glyph or Steam using the voucher code "AAUWEEKEND2020 " and if you decide you want to continue your adventure and purchase ArcheAge: Unchained, you can continue exactly where you left off!

Be aware of the following though:
If you purchase the game on Glyph, you won't be able to install it from Steam but luckily wherever you decide to purchase the game from you can continue your character from where you left off!

What else should I know?
To ensure there are no shenanigans, labor regeneration on accounts that partake in the free weekend will be temporarily disabled for the duration of the free trial unless you decide you want to buy the game.
Worry not, adventurer!
You can still hunt to your heart's content, partake in all quests and almost all aspects of the game and anything is possible with friends!

Want more information, click here!
Join the Official Discord to find like-minded adventurers here!

Begin your journey to be the adventurer you want to be in the fight against the evil that vows to destroy Erenor here!

Please note: After the trial period is over, the accounts will lose their access within the next 24 hours.

The game will be available at discounted price until the 16th, check out the steam-store for more

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!


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!


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.


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.

• 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.