This weekend we have something a little bit different coming up on our testing servers. As some of you might remember from our Producer Letter earlier this year, we are still working on our Seasonality feature.
This weekend you will be able to test Seasonal Characters. In order to fully test this feature we will have two different seasons active. The first starts today on Friday and lasts until Saturday noon. Once the first season is over, season 2 will start five minutes later and last until Monday 6 AM UTC. In order to make testing easier, we reduced the amount of BXP needed for the Battlepass on our Testing Server.
Per design, you won't be able to purchase the exalted pass in the last 24 hours of the season.
Seasonal Characters
Seasonal Characters are a new way to play RotMG. When you create a new character, you can choose to make them ‘Seasonal'.
To find out more about Seasonal Characters, check out our Blog post.
The end of the month is approaching and this means we are ready to celebrate Halloween! Additionally, you might now be able to access our newest dungeon in Realm of the Mad God. The Sulfurous Wetlands created by MOONSHOOT! Make sure to enter the dungeon with the right attire and don't get yourself wet.
Nexus and God Reskins
Our Nexus once again received a Reskin that fits more to the theme of Halloween. Additionally, some of our gods got hit by loose spells and transformed into their alter egos.
Cube God
Cube Overseer
Cube Defender
Cube Blaster
Grand Sphinx
Hermit God
Hermit Minion
Hermit God Tentacle
Water Mine
Beach Spectre
Vengeful Spirit
Ghost Ship
Sulfurous Wetlands Dungeon
As a branch fell into the water, a faint sizzle played. Sinking deeper and deeper into the murky depths, the branch remained intact, almost as if it yearned to ingrain itself at the bottom of the acidic bog. After a short wait, it hit the mire's floor, becoming one of the many interconnected pieces of the warped puzzle. The sphere of influence grew for the now dormant heart. Solitude across the generations has led to only involuntary expansion. The failure of a curse, the madness spawned from the desire for power, both culminated to this endpoint.
Suddenly, a new energy emerged seemingly out of nowhere. The roots of the once beloved willow tree rustled beneath the muddied earth, almost as if it was reaching out to reclaim the days of old. Welcome to the Sulfurous Wetlands.
The Wetlands will be dropping from a new godlands mob: The Grand Dragonfly, with its availability being akin to mobs such as the Sting Spider, Corsair Crab, and Great Owl. It shares a similar difficulty level as the counterparts above and aims to give the area another challenging yet rewarding experience.
Special thanks are going out to everyone involved in creating this dungeon!
Leads: MOONSHOOT Design and Art: TLMaelstrom Special Thanks: Aurum, Kiddforce, Lily, MaggieMagi, Mizumi, Sues, Toastrz
Let's have a first look at the items you are going to find inside the Wetlands.
We are looking forward to your feedback about the Wetlands!
Player Titles
Added new Player Titles
The Swamp, acquired when you complete 5 Sulfurous Wetlands.
Monster, acquired when you complete 50 Sulfurous Wetlands.
Halloween Event
Let's start the Halloween season off with some Realm Events. From the 25th of October, until the 8th of November the Totalia is guaranteed in the realm 3 times. You will receive 1 Black Petunia and Raven Feather per kill. Additionally, the Zombie Horde is guaranteed in the realm and appears after the Cyclops Gods are killed.
A bunch of Chest Events will come over the next 2 weeks. The loot will be posted every time an event starts on the official Realm Discord and on our social media channels. Additionally, every final boss of a dungeon event will drop 1 Token.
Haunted Cemetery Starts on 25.10.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 31.10.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Pumpkin Master
Starts on 4.11.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 8.11.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Pumpkin Master
Undead Lair Starts on 25.10.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 28.10.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Chest Event
Cursed Library Starts on 27.10.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 30.10.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Chest Event
Manor of the Immortals Starts on 26.10.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 29.10.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Chest Event
Parasite Chambers Starts on 30.10.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 2.11.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Chest Event
Puppet Master’s Encore Starts on 1.11.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 4.11.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Chest Event The Crawling Depths Starts on 4.11.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 7.11.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Chest Event
Wine Cellar Starts on 5.11.2022: 11:50:00 UTC Ends on 8.11.2022: 12:00:00 UTC Chest Event
Free Campaign
It is also time for a new and fresh free campaign! Collect Black Petunia to gain Points in the newest Campaign, “Praise the Dead” and unlock the Rosy Gravestones, designed by Lovens!
Added Hidden Interregnum to the list of completion dungeons in preparation for future appearances.
The Shatters Rehearsal items have had their Feed Power adjusted to 900 FP.
Fixed a visual glitch on Reef and Puppet Master’s Encore “Solo” keys.
Adjusted the tooltip of the Voodoo Doll Pet Skin.
The Dungeon Mods “Elite Boss” and “Tough Boss” (which affected HP and DEF of the boss) cannot appear now in exaltation dungeons that appear in the realm.
The exception is The Nest, which can still generate them.
Key refining is unaffected and you can still get these mods.
The Unity Support Gravestones should now be automatically unlocked in the Wardrobe.
Time is running and we are getting closer to the end of the year. Recently Month of the Mad God ended and also our Back to School Event found its end. Now its time to jump into the Shatters Rehearsal Event! Fight our three Shatters Bosses separately, learn their mechanics and receive some of the new loot! You can find out everything you need to know about the Shatters Rehearsal, new ST Sets, Battlepass Season 2 and so much more down below.
Shatters Rehearsal
We know some of our players might want to learn Shatters, but find learning not one but three bosses a bit overwhelming. Thinking of them, we have decided to create the Rehearsal Dungeon Mods for Shatters. Rehearsal mods cannot be accessed normally nor through key refining. For the moment you will be able to access these mods during special event periods like the one described below.
The Rehearsal Dungeon Modifiers:
They allow you to enter a portion of Shatters where you will fight one of the three bosses. The rest of the dungeon is not accessible in a Rehearsal version.
This bossfight is a modified version, its difficulty scaling is reduced from the regular Shatters and has the following modifiers across all enemies in the shatters.
20% reduce damage
15% less health
The loot of the bossfight is altered from the regular Shatters.
Shatters Rehearsal Loot
The regular loot from the Shatters will not drop from a Rehearsal Version. Instead, the Rehearsal Shatters have a chance of dropping Rehearsal version of the items. These items have similar mechanics, and albeit powerful on their own, they aren’t as powerful as their “true” counterparts from the regular Shatters.
For a list of all our changes and fixes have a look at our blog!
It has been a while since our last Public Testing session! But now the time has arrived and it's a big one. We are going to test several upcoming features and events. Additionally, even a completely new dungeon that you can fully test on Sunday!
As always it's very important for us to receive your feedback so go ahead and join our Public Testing session to help us improve the game!
The Sulfurous Wetlands Dungeon will be accessible for testing starting Sunday.
Since we have a lot of features to be tested, you can have a full look at them on our Blog.
Here is a quick summary of the features we are testing:
New ST Sets
Shatters Rehearsal
Sulfurous Wetlands Dungeon
Gravestones
Helper Panel
As always, we are looking forward to all your feedback!
Summer is coming to an end, which means that school is starting soon again or already started for some people! We are going to enable three different Chest Events to “celebrate” going back to school.You can find out more about the loot below. Back to School Event
This event features three different Chest Events. If you happen to be a History major, you can visit the “Manor of Immortals”. Some of the lecturers there have lived a really long time. For the Biology majors we’ve prepared “The Parasite Chambers”, the place is full of specimens to examine. And last but not least, for the Drama majors, we have “Puppet Master's Theatre”. Just please try to not break a leg literally, there is no insurance.
All of them are starting on the 9th of September at 12:00 AM UTC until the 15th of September at 12:00 AM UTC, you will be able to open a chest after the bosses of the following dungeons.
Manor of the Immortals
Adventurer's Belt Amaranth Nildrop Backpack Bone Dagger Chasuble of Holy Light Crystal of Fortune x10 Demon Cat Pet Skin Giant Vampire Bat Skin Grapes of Wrath Hallowed Hide Holy Water Loot Drop Potion Loot Tier Potion Lucky Clover Manor Key Mystery Cloth (Large) Mystery Cloth (Small) Mystery Dye (Accessory) Mystery Dye (Clothing) Mystery Stat Pot Potion of Attack (SB) Potion of Max Level Power Pizza Ring of Divine Faith Ruthven's Rosary Shard of the Doorwarden x1 Soulcursed Scythe St. Abraham's Wand Superburger Teacher's Pet Ninja Skin Tome of Purification Vampire Lord Skin Vampiric Cape Wine Cellar Incantation
Parasite Chambers
Abomination's Wrath Adventurer's Belt Amaranth Nildrop Backpack Crystal of Fortune x20 Doctor Priest Skin Flying Eyeball Pet Skin Garment of the Beast Grapes of Wrath Hazel Nildrop Hivemind Circlet Loot Drop Potion Loot Tier Potion Lucky Clover Mini Flying Brain Pet Skin Mystery Cloth (Large) Mystery Cloth (Small) Mystery Dye (Accessory) Mystery Dye (Clothing) Mystery Stat Pot Parasite Chambers Key Parasitic Concoction Potion of Attack (SB) Potion of Mana (SB) Potion of Max Level Power Pizza Recurring Terror Spell Scepter of Devastation Shard of the Doorwarden x1 Superburger Tome of Pain Urglemancer Mystic Skin Wine Cellar Incantation
Puppet Master's Theatre
Adventurer's Belt Amaranth Nildrop Azure Nildrop Backpack Crystal of Fortune x10 Double Viper Pet Skin Gentleman Skin Grapes of Wrath Harlequin Armor Large Jester Argyle Cloth Large Jester Cloth Lil' Backpack Pet Skin Loot Drop Potion Loot Tier Potion Lucky Clover Magician's Robe Mystery Dye (Accessory) Mystery Dye (Clothing) Mystery Stat Pot Ordinary Magician Skin Performer's Hat Potion of Attack (SB) Potion of Max Level Potion of Wisdom (SB) Power Pizza Prism of Dancing Swords Puppet Master Skin Shard of the Doorwarden x1 Small Jester Argyle Cloth Small Jester Cloth Superburger Theatre Key Wine Cellar Incantation
Art Contest
The Art Contest ended on the 7th of September. We already want to thank everyone who took part in the contest. The Team will now evaluate all the submissions and judge them together. This is going to take a little time and we will update you on the winners in the very near future.
If you are interested or missed the Art Contest, you can read all about it on our blogpost.
Syndicate Infiltration Top 10,000
Last Tuesday our Community Event ended and you guys smashed it! It is now time to announce the Top 10,000 players* who should have already received their rewards. If you have placed under rank 10 000 on the official leaderboard but you think you are missing rewards, please reach out to our Customer Support Team. Let's have a look at the rewards.
*Since several people managed to get the same amount of points, we actually have 10,177 Winners!
It is time to ring the bells for the end of the Month of the Mad God! We all enjoyed weeks full of events and fighting the Syndicate. We have received a lot of feedback regarding the Interregnum event and the Mercenaries fights. More on how we will proceed with this event in the future down below. Also, don't forget to turn in your Marks and Black Coins! We are extending the time you can turn them in, but after that they will not have any use.
Vindication
Mercenaries have been removed from the Realm, they can still appear in dungeons as a dungeon mod. You can use your Interregnum Keys that you still have left anywhere, new keys do not drop for now. Here is a detailed overview of the changes:
Mercenaries do not spawn in the realm anymore.
Mercenaries can still spawn in dungeons but now they have a dungeon mod which will be randomly selected from the regular pool of dungeon mods available. All of them are Grade A mods and they can appear in:
“Pirate Queen Ramm” can appear in Forbidden Jungle, The Hive, Ancient Ruins, Sprite World, and Snake Pit.
“Izel the Grand Shaman” can appear in Puppet Master’s Theatre, Undead Lair, Mad Lab, Abyss of Demons, Haunted Cemetery.
“Nefret the Pharaoh” can appear in Parasite Chambers, Woodland Labyrinth, Deadwater Docks, Mountain Temple, The Third Dimension.
“Black Blade Ozuchi” can appear in Fungal Cavern, Crystal Cavern, The Nest, Cultist Hideout, The Void, Lost Halls, The Shatters.
The Shady Vagrant does not appear anymore in the Quest Room nor in the realm.
Black Coins won’t drop anymore.
Interregnum Keys can be used without the Shady Vagrant being near.
New Interregnum Keys, for now, are not available. We plan to give access to Interregnum again in the future as part of special temporary events.
About Interregnum Marks and Black Coins
If you have a Hidden Interregnum Key or stacks of Black Coins, we suggest you trade them for rewards at the Tinkerer as you won’t be able to use it.
The Shady Vagrant has left the nexus and the realm, satisfied by your work. We suggest you use this time to exchange your unused Black Coins and Interregnum Marks as you won’t be able to use them anymore for the foreseeable future. While it’s possible we bring the event back at some point, we probably won’t use the same mechanic.
For that, we are extending the time of the quests by 1 week.
We suggest not keeping these items as they won’t be usable in the foreseeable future.
The following pack will be available in the shop for all players starting from today, until the 13th of September. The pack is a reward for not only reaching the goal for the Syndicate Infiltration Event, but surpassing it with a whopping 206.232 points!
As for the Top 10 000 Infiltrators, there was definitely some steep competition for top placements. Before sending out the rewards, we would need a few days to verify the final results, make sure everything is correct. Once we have the final placements and all rewards have been sent to your Gift Chests, we’ll make sure to inform you via our usual socials
Other
Quest Chests will now drop new weapons UTs.
Shatters' Archmage will be immune to Dazed status effect.
The Nexus is back to its old version.
Fixes
Some sheaths and lutes were incorrectly tagged which interfered with the loot system in some cases, altering their drop chances in some particular enemies. This has been fixed.
The Lightshow Scepter was missing a label, which meant it could not be used to forge an ST Ability in the forge. This has been fixed.
Changed Ice Cave’s Inner Cave map to avoid the very infrequent bug where a player could become stuck in the wall.
Visual fixes on several icons, particularly some lore books.
Fixed an issue with the Dye Mask on the Tidal Wave Kensei Skin.
Resolved an Issue with an Error Message appearing when claiming all milestones in the Battlepass.
The limit for player names was increased from 10 to 15.
Modded Keys now display the percentage of value of chance to generate a particular mod.
The daevite progenitor is now receiving the 150% boost when using the flames of genesis.
Fixed a visual issue with XP Boosts when changing characters.
The Burial Blades tooltip now only shows the info about 2 Bullets not 3.
Fixed an issue with the Frost Ronin Samurai Skin Sprites.
Known Issue
When using a booster the Icon showing the time left on the booster will not appear.
Month of the Mad God is still running wild now that Act 3 has started! We decided to start a Community Event where you, the players, work together to reach a milestone. Additionally, you will fight to reach the Top 10000 for even more rewards.
Event
Starting on the 25th of August at 12:00 UTC until the maintenance mode on the 6th of September starts you will be able to collect points toward a community goal. You will be able to review your progress on our Infiltration Leaderboards which will update every day. You can find the Leaderboards here.
Your target? All the Mercenaries from the Syndicate are either in the Realm or in the dungeons. You will get 1 point for each Mercenary killed, regardless if the enemy is Izel the Great Shaman or Nefret the Pharaoh.
The goal for the community? Reach 800000 points combined as a Team.
Rewards
If the Community Goal is reached at the end of the event, everyone will receive a Free Pack in our shop with the following Content:
A special “Syndicate Infiltrator” Title Syndicate Henchman Assassin Skin Syndicate Henchman Sorcerer Skin Storm Caller Rusted Barrel Golden Lucky Clover x2 Unsigned Parcel x2 Black Coin x20
Additionally, the Top 10000 Players will receive the following rewards at the end of the Event even if the Community Goal is not reached! Please keep in mind that the rewards for the top players will be sent out directly to their Gift Chests.
A unique “Master Of Disguise” Title Syndicate Infiltration Sorcerer Skin Syndicate Infiltration Assassin Skin Potion of Life (SB) x15 Potion of Mana (SB) x15 Golden Lucky Clover x3 Unsigned Parcel x2 Black Coin x30
We would like to share an update with all of you regarding the Battlepass launched with the MotMG. As we initially stated, this is a first for us and we have been carefully monitoring it over the past two weeks. Additionally you can have a look at the Chest Event Content for the Void and the Cultist Hideout which are starting today!
Battlepass
Based on the feedback we received and the data we were able to collect and analyze, we are planning on a first optimization with these new points to reach (see table below). We would also like to point out that the level 76 of the Battlepass is the full completion point. The three higher levels are to be considered as extra and won't need to be completed for the Battlepass to be considered done.
Thank you for your feedback so far on the Battlepass. Please keep it coming.
Events
Once again we have new Chest Events coming up! Here is the loot you can expect.
Month of the Mad God is running wild and for this week’s update, we had a look into the ongoing issues you reported. We resolved several issues from feeding pets that are really in need of some food and adjustments were made to the Interregnum fight.
Also, don't forget to have a look at the Month of the Mad God News to keep yourself up to date with the next upcoming events!
We also did not forget about the ongoing Vault Issue. The Team is still working very hard on this problem. Unfortunately, Database related issues are tricky and we have to make sure that a potential fix for this issue doesn't mess around with your accounts.
Interregnum Improvements
Wanderer: Quiet AoE has been extended to all phases.
Wanderer: Shadows should no longer hang around too long after weirdchase.
Wanderer: Fixed a problem where she didn’t move back to the center before the final attack.
Wanderer: Shapes Ring was slightly too big.
Wanderer: Fixed issue where wanderer would sometimes create some tiles that increased movement speed.
Fixed some broken interactions with Trickster’s ability and certain Interregnum-related items.
Pirate Queen’s Brigandine now has its proper 5 dex instead of 4
Fixed Desync issue on mercenary portals.
Removed duplicate T14 armor drop from Wanderer in the Interregnum
Increased drop rate of stat potions from Mercenaries in the Interregnum
Cursed and Exposed Effects no longer stay forever on a target.
Titles are now automatically claimed after unlocking them from the Battlepass
Fixed an issue where specific pets were not able to be fed. They can now get healthy again.
Players with 0 Gold are now able to claim the free Titles.
Titles no longer show in the Trading window.
When called out by enemies, the player title will no longer show.
You can now kick players with active titles.
Keyper has his original name and is no longer named “Keyper of the Arena”.
Dimensional Wanderer Pet got a visual update.
Fixed a typo in the Frost Prince Summoner Skin Tooltip.
Fixed an issue with the dye mask for the Syndicate Assassin.
The Mad Punk Vocalist Bard Skin got new updated sprites.
We have updated the Interregnum and Nexus maps with more polished sprites.
The strip of tiles at the top of the Sewers’ boss room should no longer slow down the player.
The warning shots for the Forgotten King roulette phase should now always be visible even when far away during firing.
Many incorrectly applied minion labels on LH boss objects should now be fixed.
Murderous Megamoth should no longer leave behind a single vomit tile when the knight pattern is used.
O3 counter tornado should not have a stacked shot anymore and should behave the same as the non-counter version.
The gate to O3 on the Beisa map no longer spawns a tile inwards.
Dimitus should now leash near the realm portal and not be able to wander too far into inconvenient places.
Leucoryx candles in the dark phase should now properly move into place just like in the light phase.
We have changed the sprites on Accelerator consumables. A big thanks to DynamoX for providing part of the sprites.
Fixed a problem in the new Nexus map where Wall of Fame could not be accessed properly.
The Construction Summoner Skin now has 500 feed power like the rest of the construction skin set.
All T7-T9 subweapons should now spawn in a public bag when dropped from your inventory.
The T8 Tachi is tradeable now.
The T10 Spellblade has its second shot’s damage corrected to 50-65.
The dungeon mod version of the Wanderer should now be leashed within 18 tiles of the dungeons exit portal so it cannot be dragged too far through the dungeon.
The dungeon mod version of the Wanderer should now have an additional 5 seconds before it spawns and should also wait for any event chests to be gone before spawning.
The enemy spawner behind the Archmage boss room has been removed, no more jesters throwing bombs over the wall.
Fix for Black Blade Ozuchi throwing beach ball looking grenades.
AoE trees in Black Blade Ozuchi Realm fight now have a slight delay before they activate.
Fixed the tooltip for Ores and Lore items showing “must be equipped to use”.
Fixed an Issue where Lightshow Scepter would not reduce maximum mana while wearing the full set.
Fixed an Issue where the tooltips of Valor and Warmonger displayed incorrect stat down values.
Corrected the descriptions of several titles to ensure they show how to unlock them properly.
Removed unlock requirements on some titles which did not need them.
New UTs are now getting properly filtered in the forge.
Hama Yumi and Crystallized Worm Spellblade updated to drop in white bag instead of red.
Fractal Blades, Burial Blades, Beekeeper’s Flamethrower, Crystallized Worm Spellblades now added to collections for their respective dungeons.
The purple parametric bullets from both versions of the wanderer should no longer stack up.
Events
Have a look at the next Chest Events starting today in Fungal and Crystal Cavern!
It has been a while since we asked you to show us your best Art Skills. We already receive several new cool things every week on our social media channels so why not turn this into a little competition?
Starting from the 10th of August until the 7th of September you will be able to show us your best and greatest Skills when it comes to creating Art! This can be anything from drawing something nice to baking cookies. The only and most important rule is, it has to be Realm of the Mad God related. We are not going to judge or include cosplay in this competition.
Prizes
Rank 1: Skin of choice* - 8000g - 3x Apple of Extreme Maxening
Rank 2: Skin of choice* - 6000g - 2x Apple of Extreme Maxening
Rank 3: Skin of choice* - 4000g - 1x Apple of Extreme Maxening
Rank 4: Pet Skin of choice* - 2000g
Rank 5: Pet Skin of choice* - 1500g
Rank 6-10: 2 Candy of Choice - 1000g
Bonus: Random Winner picked from all entries: 1000g
To make sure everyone has a chance of winning even if you are not blessed with creating Art, we will pick 1 random winner from all entries.
*You can choose from skins that are obtainable from the shop.
To submit something, please follow this Link to Google Forms. You will need to provide us with your IGN and a link to your Art.
Some basic rules: 1: You have to own the copyright for the Art. 2: Anything sent in after the 7th of September won’t be included in the competition. 3: By sending in your Art you allow us to highlight it on our social media channels. 4: DECA can remove any entries if they violate our ToS or Age Rating.