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.
You liked spoilers, we like spoilers… seems like a good match! Today we want to tell you about the changes we are making to some of your favorite dungeons. We are introducing a variety of polish, balance and quality of life changes, focused mainly on endgame dungeons.
Check out the blog to get to know what all the changes will be.
Hello Realmers, Oryx is feeling generous today and there are dungeons dropping 1.5x the loot. You can also get blueprints and start forging new items on Item forge.
Tomb of the Ancients and Parasite Chambers will be dropping 1.5x the loot and XP from 01-21-2021, 12:00 UTC to 01-25-2021, 12:00 UTC.
But that’s not all: you will have the chance to circumvent randomness and acquire some Superior Blueprints for marks from these dungeons, as well as a previously unobtainable Paramount one.
For the duration of the event you will be able to complete the following Tinkerer quests:
Infested Assembly: Exchange 3 x Mark of Geb and 3 x Mark of Parasitic Horrors for a Blueprint of choice: Blueprint 39, Blueprint 41 or Blueprint 43 (Repeatable)
Ancient Crafts: Exchange 3 x Mark of Geb, 3 x Mark of Parasitic Horrors and 2 x Mark of Oryx to obtain Blueprint 26 (Once per account)
With these blueprints you will be able to forge (or reduce the forgefire costs for, in case you get more than one):
“I feel the need, the need for speed” - Remember this iconic quote from Tom Cruise’s first Top Gun movie? Well, we do. And we do feel the need for speed inside the realm too. So we decided to organize a Speedrun Competition on Testing this weekend. Who will be the “Maverick” of RotMG? The competition will start on Friday, the 15th at 15:00 UTC, and finish on Monday, the 18th, at 08:00 UTC.
Oryxmas is over. Long live Oryx. 2021 looks brighter than ever. This is a small update to have the Realm return to normal, make some Item Forge adjustments and fix some minor issues. Please remember that although the Oryxmas Campaign is over, you still have until Jan 14th (Thursday) at 12 PM UTC to claim all the rewards that you have unlocked. This week we are announcing a Speedrun contest that will take place on the Testing server during the weekend, but we’ll give you more details on that on our Thursday blog post.
Item forge tweaks:
Adjusted daily Forgefire charged value to 300.
We plan on adding new high-end items to the Item Forge, but at the same time we are gathering data and trying to adjust and balance the values of materials. We realized we will need a new tier for these high-end items, which will require more materials. This will happen in a future update and we’ll keep you updated on it. Also, we are happy to put the forge to more use and consider different options for new craftable items.
Other Changes:
Removed Jack Frost from the realm
Removed Oryxmas tokens
Added Third Dimension Key to the Epic Mystery Key description
As promised, we are sharing with you some of our plans for the first quarter of 2021. If you want to take a look at what we did last year, please check our 20 minute (or the 20 second one, if you're really in a hurry) recap video that counted with the help of our content creators.
The biggest release of the year is planned for Month of the Mad God, which this year is planned to take place in August. You can expect some big changes to item and dungeon systems… but before that, in Q1, you can expect:
Account security improvements;
MANY client polishing changes and bug fixes, including the proximity XP issue;
New ST sets for the Knight and Necromancer;
Dungeon reconstructions of the Sprite World and Deadwater Docks, and perhaps something extra too!;
Releasing one new class. We have three candidates so far… and will be releasing more details soon;
New in-game notification system which will be separated from the chat, similar to how forgefire and blueprint unlocks appear.
And remember, this is just what we can reveal by now. There will be a lot more changes. Some of them, highly requested. We’ll keep you updated as soon as we can.
The Oryxmas spirit hasn’t left the building yet, so, after showing you the highlights of 2020, we decided to start the year with a treat: unlocking up Oryx’s Sanctuary from 01/06/21, 12:00 PM UTC until 01/12/21, 12:00 PM UTC
Apart from that, we’ll have chest events running in The Crawling Depths, from 01/06/21, 12:00 PM UTC until 01/10/21, 12:00 PM UTC and on The Shatters, from 01/08/21, 12:00 PM UTC until 01/12/21, 12:00 PM UTC.
We would also like to tell you that, in the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, we lowered the shadowmute threshold values. You’ll see more bots, but will get less false positives. We are still working on a way to fight bots in the game, and can assure you that it will be addressing that in the first quarter of 2021.
But maybe we can tell you more on friday, with the return of the friday news post after the holidays.
The Oryxmas season is here in full force! In our largest update since MotMG, we’ve got a Santa’s bag worth of new content to share. The expansive and long-awaited Item Forge, enhanced consumable usage with Quick Slots, three completely remade dungeons, a brand new Cube God dungeon, new godlands foes, a festive campaign for the holiday season, and more still!
Oryxmas is approaching and it’s time to feast! Have you ever wondered what’s in the Superburger? On the Power Pizza? And what exactly is contained in an Atomic Taco? What is the Oryx Cookie even made of? (And please don’t make jokes about Ambrosia…)
This time we are not talking about Item Forge. An unprecedented contest is here for you to show off your cooking skills! Just like playing a game, cooking requires creativity, planning, coordination and mechanical skill.
For this contest, you will create a recipe for one of the Food Items in the game. Write down the steps and ingredients and take a photo of the finished dish along with a note containing your In-Game Name! After that, of course, you’d do well to share it with your friends and family…
The best cooks at DECA will be judging your entrées entries, with street food chef Fidelow as the head judge.
Learn how to enter the contest and what the rewards will be at our official blog.
And we would also like to share our Advent Calendar for Oryxmas 2020 with you.
Loot multipliers, Chest Events, The Grinch and the one you kept asking for: we are opening the Santuary from the 6th to the 12th of January.
Also, I would roam around the Realm while the Oryxmas Campaign lasts… you never know what sort of presents might randomly drop… (wink, wink).
Hoping that the AMA session we had yesterday was useful. Please remember to follow our instagram account @Rotmg_exalt. There are certain things we are only going to share with you there. Here’s what you may find on the Public Testing session:
Item Forge
The Blacksmith
The interface
Crafting items
Fireforge
Blueprints
Oryxmas campaign
Jack Frost
Reconstructed Dungeons
The new Third Dimension Dungeon by Aurum (don’t miss the post about this one on Monday)...