Yey, quite a busy Friday today! We are setting everything up so that you can have an O3 training session on testing this weekend. Yes, the testing servers will be open on Saturday and Sunday to anyone who wishes to train. Just get your testing launcher here (Steam testing environment will not be available). Of course, you might see there are other things that are a bit different when you join, we are testing after all…

We would also like to share that we have been working on different (tentative) concepts for our new class.
What do you think these could be?

Please Notice: We are aware that some players are maliciously exploiting the HP scaling of bosses and we will be working towards a fix. In the meantime, we want to stress out that this is bannable. We encourage you not to participate in such actions as it will result in a suspension of your account.

Hello Realmers,

This patch introduces fixes to some issues reported after the latest release. We are also introducing a free pack today, and a fame box on the weekend to thank you for your patience.
Events’ loot tables will now have additional Nil drops in them.

• Fixed disconnection issues while logging in for some players
  
• Fixed softlocking issues with O3 minibosses
  
• Bonus points now show only when a campaign is available

• 1x Legendary Mystery Skin
  
• 1x Mystery ST Chest
  
• 10x Shards of the Advisor
  
• 5x Mystery Stat Pots

Hello Realmers,
This release makes some important changes to the realm. We are introducing Nilshards and Nildrops and renaming the ore. We are bringing new STs (for the Knight and Necromancer). We’ve also been preparing Belladonna for Valentine’s day, so expect a few tweaks.

In the ancient times, before Oryx was born, the paladins who guarded the Realm discovered a strange but mighty powerful source of energy: The Void. Being wary, and guided by the old precepts of the angelic realms granted to them, they developed a way of channeling the Void into crystal-like forms.

They called them “Nilshards,” as they were made of the rare Nil material.

Nil was forbidden for a long time, mostly due to the disappearance of the paladin church and all the problems it caused during the “White Titan Project,” where the Void Entity caused havok.

However, back in the times, Nilshards were used for a variety of purposes.

The first one is crafting Ores, which will provide materials for your craftings. The Blacksmith will gladly change stacks of Nilshards into Ores depending on their rarity.


With the introduction of Nilshards, the Blacksmith had to sit and explain to us we have decided to change the name of the Ores themselves to better reflect the material type they grant, as we got to understand the Ores’ properties a little bit better.

Nilshards would be obtainable in the Shop and the Daily Login Calendar.

Back in the day before Nilshards were forgotten from existence, elixirs, tonics and other consumables distilled from them were commonly used, and the paladins would use them to enhance their battle capabilities and sustain long, difficult battles when defending the Realm.

Few can forge them today, as the crafts of the old paladin church are seemingly lost. However, they seem to be a piece of cake for the Blacksmith, if you provide her the right amount and rarity of Nilshards, and a little bit of Forgefire.

They provide a stat boost for 5 minutes for everyone around you, and also clears negative status effects when you apply them. The stat boost depends on the Nildrop color.

They can be forged with Rare and Epic Nilshards.

They are a lower version of the standard Nildrops. They also provide a boost for 5 minutes (only for you) and they cannot clear your status effects. Still, they’re a great way of accelerating your early game.

They can be forged with Common Nilshards.

They are hybrid versions of the standard Nildrops, born from the Blacksmith’s experiments. They require rarer Nilshards, but they provide a stronger boost to two attributes simultaneously for 5 minutes, also clearing your negative status effects on usage. They work for allies around you too!
They can be forged with Legendary Nilshards.

Check out the new STs at the blog

We have made a few balancing tweaks to Belladonna in preparation for Valentine’s Day. Here’s what changed:

• Reduced the radius of Bella’s berry bombs
  
• Reduced the damage of the Bella Bud wiper attack (150 -> 100) in exchange for a short Stun effect
  
• Fixed the rare possibility of a stacked shot occurring when the wiper attack transitions to its faster mode.

• Perennial Cranium

Heal: 25 -> 40 HP
MP Cost: 130 -> 115
Cooldown: 2 -> 0 seconds

• Hanagasaku

Explosion Range: 3 -> 3.5 tiles
MP Cost: 120 -> 110
Vitality: 4 -> 9
Both UTs have had slight sprite changes.

For this year, we are introducing a new encounter for Belladonna. His name is “The Gardener” and he is ready to take on all of you!

You will find this new encounter in the Realm around St. Valentine’s Day.

“The Gardener” will spawn somewhere in the highlands after defeating all the cyclops gods in the realm. But watch out, or you might get soaking wet and have your clothes covered in pieces of green and pink balloons!

To see what the Gardener Drops check out the blog

• Fixed an issue where Constructs would slowly drift out of the mountains.
  
• Fixed the ability for Sting Spiders to be dragged infinitely

• Rebalanced the Void Blade to be closer to the version the Master Rat uses (stays still for a little over a second, then accelerates with 6 tiles of range). We realize this alters some of the use cases of the weapon, but in our testing we believe this has made the item noticeably more versatile and practical, beyond just extremely niche situations and unintended instakill methods.
  
• Removed some rock spawns throughout the realm, making the environment less cluttered

To celebrate love across the Realm, we are introducing a new, truly romantic pet food: the Chocolate Bonbon! This powerful, caloric treat stacks until you can finally double-click the Chocolate Bonbon x6 stack to turn it into an even tastier item: the Heart-shaped Chocolate Box. With this stackable food, you can choose a small FP reduction for an opportunity to save up on feeding costs.

Themed around love and otherwise, here are the beautiful new cosmetics about to hit the Realm.

You will have the chance to acquire the newly 16×16-ed Valentine’s Archer set and the improved Belladonna UTs in the upcoming Valentine’s Day event, which will run from 02/10/21, 12:00 UTC until 02/15/21, 12:00 UTC. You will once again be able to collect Hearts (stacking until 10) and Love Letters (10 hearts transform into a Love Letter, which stacks until 20), but beware – this year they are not tradable. To avoid a token overexposure, these tokens will also be used for the coming SoonTM Mardi Gras Mask quests… despite the theme clash. Hold onto them!

The drop distribution for the Hearts and Love Letters can be checked at the blog.

Can you say the title 3 times without saying it wrong? What about adding “Sprinkling” (just because!) before. Ah, the fun…We are still on our spoiling spree and we want to show some sprites we have been working on.
We would also like to emphasize that we are currently and actively working on countering spamming and cheating. Unfortunately we cannot reveal the full extent of what we are doing, for it would render our efforts useless. Still, you can expect some changes coming the Realm way in the next months that will try to minimize these occurrences.

Please check out the spoilers at our official blog

Hello curious Realmers,

You might be here to learn about the new Nilshards or to find what you’ll be able to see at this weekend’s Public Testing. Or both. We would definitely go for both. When can you expect them to be released? Well, we are public testing them… so let’s say “Pretty Soon.” We want to try it out and see not only if it works well, but also maximize fun and their usefulness for all you. Please note that using admin items on testing will lead to your account being banned.

Learn all about Nilshards and what is expecting you on the public testing here.

Here are the anticipated winners list for the Speedrun we announced on the 14th of January. Like we said, the rewards will be given to the top three times of each class: a UT of choice for that class along with a skin of choice for that class (except exclusive skins and items that are no longer in the game). Rings are, of course, shared for all classes. If you are on the list, please feel free to send an email to wotan@decagames.com with the desired prizes. You can also ping deca_wotan or Baragon on discord.


Please check our blog for the list of 25 randomly chosen runners with a time below 220 seconds that will receive 1000 gold and the next events.

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.

Check out the blog for a complete list of all the changes.

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.

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):

• Blueprint 39 unlocks: Demon Blade, Esben's Shaman Attire, Conducting Wand
  
• Blueprint 41 unlocks: Sealed Crystal Skull, Snake Charmer Pungi, Spectral Cloth Armor
  
• Blueprint 43 unlocks: Ring of the Sphinx, Candy-Coated Armor, Scholar's Seal
  
• Blueprint 26 unlocks: Orb of Aether, Celestial Blade, Spell of Recurring Terror

We would like to assure you that our team is working on fixing the disconnections that have been happening. Thank you.

“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.

Check out all the details at our blog post.