It’s back! Like a summer storm, Steel Lightning is ready to add a powerful force to your adventures! First offered in 2016, we know you’ll be thrilled at a chance at this mount again this year!


Steel Lightning Supply Crate [Legacy] and [Fresh]:

1 Steel Lightning Crate – 450 Credits (40 Cr lower than the previous offering!)
3-Pack of Steel Lightning Crates – 1,350 Credits
10-Pack of Steel Lightning Crates – 4,500 Credits
30-Pack of Steel Lightning Crates – 13,500 Credits

Take control of Crimson Lightning’s brother! This crate has the rare chance of offering a Steel Lightning mount, complete with Helm, Saddle and Leggards!

The Wrapped Steel Lightning from this crate is TRADEABLE! Feel free to trade it to your friends, or sell it via trade chat or the Auction House.

Scroll down for the full drop list from the Crates!



Additional great items available for Credits:

Fresh/Legacy: Auction Mannequin – 100 Credits
Fresh Start only: Melisara’s Puzzlebox – 3,000 Credits
Fresh Start only: Wrapped Melisara’s Lunastone
Legacy servers only: Naptime Yata Plushie


The Huuuuuuge Fall Sale!
We also have discounts going on for a huge list of items on the Marketplace – almost everything under the Gameplay tab! Seriously, there is to much to list here... get a cup of your favorite brew and have a browse in game!




Fresh Start: Steel Lightning Supply Crate Drops

Common:

Greedy Grimoire
Experience Grimoire
Bound Hereafter Stone
Honor Boost Tonic
Marshmallow Sugar Pumpkin
Bound Tax Certificate
Flaming Pinion
Combat Scroll: Resilience
Combat Scroll: Focus
Combat Scroll: Toughness
Combat Scrolls: Attack

Uncommon:

Companion Crust
Expansion Scroll
Building Management Title
Yellow Regrade Charm
Red Regrade Charm
Salon Certificate
Professional Tonic
Super Armor Temper
Super Weapon Temper

Rare:

Prime Weapon Temper
Prime Armor Temper
Superior Yellow Regrade Charm
Superior Red Regrade Charm
Wrapped Saving Pendant
Wrapped Steel Lightning


Legacy: Steel Lightning Supply Crate Drops:

Common:
Meditation Grimoire
Lucky Quicksilver Tonic
Honor Boost Tonic
Vocation Expertise Tonic
Greedy Grimoire
Healing Grimoire
Clear Synthium Shard
Combat Scrolls: Attack
Synthium Soap
Expansion Scroll
Specialization Snowflake
Vivid Synthium Shard

[/b]Uncommon:[/b]
Bound Hereafter Stone
Expansion Scroll
Majestic Tree
Mining Drill
Salon Certificate
Multi-Wagon Upgrade Ticket
Lucid Synthium Shard
Crest Trade Pack Storage
Special Pirate Plushie Trove
Multi-Wagon Upgrade Ticket
Language Proficiency Spellbook
Aurora Storage Chest
Indomitable Hostility Lunafrost
Indomitable Transcendent Lunafrost
Indomitable Tracker Lunafrost
Indomitable Love Lunafrost
Distorted Hostility Lunafrost
Distorted Tracker Lunafrost
Distorted Transcendent Lunafrost
Distorted Love Lunafrost

Rare:
Wrapped Steel Lightning
Wrapped Serendipity Stone
Prime Armor Temper
Prime Weapon Temper
Radiant Synthium Shard
Resplendent Armor Temper
Resplendent Weapon Temper

On October 17-18th, 2018, several ArcheAge servers will evolve to better balance populations! Read on to find out what’s coming!

The ground under your feet begins to rumble, the first indication of sweeping change in store for the lands of Erenor. Soon you will find new allies and new foes as servers evolve together!


WHEN

On October 17, 2018, servers will come down for 24 hours:
North America: 12:00 Noon PDT
Europe: 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT)
Important: Land placement will be locked until Saturday, October 20th – time is currently slated for 12:00 (noon) for each region.

The 5.0 Update will take place after the evolution, tentatively scheduled for October 23rd (EU) and October 24th (NA). Please watch for updates as we get closer to the dates!



WHAT

The new server names are not set yet, but we know what’s going where!

NA EVOLUTION 1: Aranzeb, Kyrios, Reckoning, Vengeance, Kraken
NA EVOLUTION 2: Conviction, Thunderwing
Nui remains as is.

EU EVOLUTION 1: Shatigon, Eanna, Prophecy
EU EVOLUTION 2: Tempest, Retribution
Ezi will remain as is.


AUCTION HOUSES
The Auction Houses will not be changing, with Merged Servers sharing an Auction House for each region as usual, and Fresh Start remaining separate.
New auction postings will be blocked for 50 hours prior to the time of the merge.

BUT WAIT, WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS!
We will have a full FAQ available for you next week, and will open an official discussion/question thread at that time. We’ll also discuss it further on our Sept 14th livestream, with Khrolan!

~The ArcheAge Team

Explore long lost mysteries and unlock the new dark power of Malediction this fall!


We look forward to chatting with you about all of this on the September 14^th livestream! Meanwhile, watch for news coming from Gamescom, where Khrolan and Socke are chatting with games media all about what’s coming for ArcheAge.

Here’s an introduction to get you started!

 

New Content

ArcheAge 5.0 – Relics of Hiram takes us to an all-new, unexplored zone: the Western Hiram Mountains. New challenges await the champions of Erenor in this stunning new endgame region. Face challenges and conquer them to attain new gear, increase your Ancestral level, and more!

 

This new expansion also introduces a brand new skill set for the first time ever in ArcheAge! Malediction allows players to use powerful dark magic to exploit their enemies’ weaknesses while empowering themselves. The 11th skillset for ArcheAge, Malediction adds 45 new class combinations for players to experience.

 

ArcheAge 5.0 – Relics of Hiram also introduces a new tier of Hiram gear for players to awaken. Complete daily quests in the Western Hiram Mountains to earn fantastic new Hiram Guardian Gear!

 

 

System Improvements

Arena Team Queueing

• Queue for multi-player arenas as a team, open or closed invites

Mount Collection Rewards:

• New categories for mount collections, mechanical + cosmetic rewards
• The awesome Andelph Drakora mount for completion of all new categories

Housing UCCs and Costume Dyeing Improvements

• User Created Content to be placed on walls/floors of houses
• Some costumes can now be tinted, replacing the previous limited color range/variants

 

System Modifications

Trade Pack Adjustments

• Auroria packs removed, pack valuations adjusted

Gear Awakening

• Cloaks and Raid Gear will use the awakening process

 

Travel with us to Hiram Mountains this fall, where new adventures await!

~The ArcheAge Team

This Friday, August 10, 2018, join us live on Twitch for our weekly ArcheAge livestream.

This week we’re hosting Trion Creator Milinky! Milinky loves to play video games – especially RIFT and ArcheAge. On this week’s stream, she’ll be playing ArcheAge and might hop into some Mistsong runs.

ARCHEAGE LIVESTREAM
Friday, August 10, 2018
1:30 PM PDT: Hosting Milinky
https://www.twitch.tv/milinky

But what about the giveaways you say? We’ve given Milinky a pair of Twilight Wings, Immortal Guardian’s Robes, and an Archeum pack to give away. Don’t forget! In order to get in on the prize giveaways, you have to be in Milinky’s Twitch chat! We’ll see you there!

It’s almost here! On August 15th, Reign Part 2 will launch on ArcheAge Fresh Start!

All of these evolutions will become available on Fresh Start – Legacy servers already have them!

- Reedwind will become available in Auroria
- The Thunderwing Tita, can now be fought, both in normal and hard mode
- Delphinad Ghost Ships will appear on the high seas

Join us on Fresh Start, or carry on your conquests on Legacy servers.

See you in Erenor!
~ The ArcheAge Team

Sleek and shadowy style accompanies this week's wardrobe offering!

The Immortal Guardian's Robes are equally suited to a formal evening dinner or secret skullduggery. Dark silks cascade from the shoulders, enhanced with a light collar of matching, hand-selected feathers. The classic hood completes the look and adds to the mystery.

This beautiful outfit is available on Legacy and Fresh Start servers at 2,500 Credits.

Lucius's Lunastone decreases enemies’ Physical and Magical Defense -60 each time you damage them. This effect can stack once per second, up to a maximum of 7 times.

• Wrapped Lucius's Lunastone, 1250 Credits
• Lucius's Lunastone, 600 Loyalty Tokens

Inoch's Lunastone decreases received Damage -0.3% when damaged by an enemy. This effect can stack once per second, up to a maximum of 7 times.

• Wrapped Inoch's Lunastone, 1250 Credits
• Inoch's Lunastone, 600 Loyalty Tokens (Fresh Start only)

 
The Immortal Guardian's Robes, Inoch's and Lucian's Lunagems are all available from August 2 through August 16th, 2018.

We bring a new permanent edition to the store this week too: the Hiram Hunter Pack! A must for everyone, and available once per account, per day!
A mere 250 Credits gains you 2 Bound Lucky Elixers, 2 Adventurer’s Assorted Ribs, and 2 Adventurer’s Goblet of Honor.

It’s way too hot to go outside, unless you head to the mountains… this week in ArcheAge, we bring the mountains to you with the Alabaster Manticore Crate!

Invoke cool mountain breezes and icy glaciers in the middle of summer. The icy shimmer of the Alabaster Manticore Crate holds great promise.

You have a chance at a wide range of useful and valuable items, and a few rare crates will contain the wild Alabaster Manticore! Icy blue with bright red horns and tail tip, this mount will turn heads anywhere.

The Alabaster Manticore Crate is available on both Legacy and Fresh Start, at 450 Credits each.

Don’t fancy the mystery of crates? Manticore breeders have bred an Alabaster Manticore mount for direct sale as well, on Legacy servers only, for 650 Loyalty.

To go along with the wild-maned Manticore, we offer the Mountain Tribe Costume. Fur-trimmed and as savage as the wilds they sprang from, this outfit willmake you feel fierce enough to take on any foe! Available for 1900 credits, a fair price for such dedicated artisanal effort by remote Mountain craftsmen.




APEX SALE!

But wait, there’s more! Enjoy this summertime Apex Promotion!
From 7/26/18 to 7/31/18, enjoy the following bonuses on your Apex investment:
1 APEX – $9.99, 7.49 GBP, 9.99 Euros (this is the Standard Price)
5 APEX + 1 Bonus APEX – $49.99, 37.45 GBP, 49.95 Euros (Buy 5, get one free)
10 APEX + 3 Bonus APEX – $99.99, 74.90 GBP, 99.90 Euros(Buy 10, get 3 free)

Dress like a real champ thanks to this epic new outfit.


Sale Duration: July 19 - August 2


The Fresh Start version of the Reedwind Champion Crate (450 credits) can possibly include the following items:

• Common Drops:
  
  • Greedy Grimoire
    
  • Experience Grimoire
    
  • Bound Hereafter Stone
    
  • Honor Boost Tonic
    
  • Marshmallow Sugar Pumpkin
    
  • Bound Tax Certificate
    
  • Flaming Pinion
    
  • Combat Scroll: Resilience
    
  • Combat Scroll: Focus
    
  • Combat Scroll: Toughness
    
  • Combat Scrolls: Attack
    

• Uncommon Drops:
  
  • Companion Crust
    
  • Expansion Scroll
    
  • Building Management Title
    
  • Yellow Regrade Charm
    
  • Red Regrade Charm
    
  • Salon Certificate
    
  • Professional Tonic
    
  • Super Armor Temper
    
  • Super Weapon Temper
    

• Rare Drops:
  
  • Prime Weapon Temper
    
  • Prime Armor Temper
    
  • Superior Yellow Regrade Charm
    
  • Wrapped Saving Pendant
    
  • Reedwind Champion Costume
    
  • Superior Red Regrade Charm
    

The Legacy version of the Reedwind Champion Crate (450 credits) can possibly include the following items:

• Common Drops:
  
  • Lucky Quicksilver Tonic
    
  • Honor Boost Tonic
    
  • Vocation Expertise Tonic
    
  • Healing Grimoire
    
  • Meditation Grimoire
    
  • Greedy Grimoire
    
  • Clear Synthium Shard
    
  • Combat Scrolls: Attack
    
  • Synthium Soap
    
  • Expansion Scroll
    
  • Specialization Snowflake
    
  • Vivid Synthium Shard
    
  • Bound Hereafter Stone
    
  • Salon Certificate
    

• Uncommon Drops:
  
  • Multi-Wagon Upgrade Ticket
    
  • Lucid Synthium Shard
    
  • Majestic Tree
    
  • Mining Drill
    
  • Crest Trade Pack Storage
    
  • Special Pirate Plushie Trove
    
  • Language Proficiency Spellbook
    
  • Aurora Storage Chest
    
  • Indomitable Hostility Lunafrost
    
  • Indomitable Transcendent Lunafrost
    
  • Indomitable Tracker Lunafrost
    
  • Indomitable Love Lunafrost
    
  • Distorted Hostility Lunafrost
    
  • Distorted Tracker Lunafrost
    
  • Distorted Transcendent Lunafrost
    
  • Distorted Love Lunafrost
    
  • Reedwind Champion Costume
    

• Rare Drops:
  
  • Wrapped Serendipity Stone
    
  • Prime Armor Temper
    
  • Prime Weapon Temper
    
  • Radiant Synthium Shard
    
  • Resplendent Armor Temper
    
  • Resplendent Weapon Temper
    

If you're a Legacy player, you may also pick up the Reedwind Champion Costume for 400 Loyalty!


Sale Duration: July 12 - July 26
Imbued with the power of the Demon Queen herself, Orchidna.

• Wrapped Orchidna's Dream Lunastone
  
• Orchidna's Snakeskin Shroud - Costume

You may also pick up Orchidna's Dream Lunastone for 600 Loyalty! This lunastone increases Physical and Magic Defense +60 when attacked, and it stacks up to 7 times.


Sale Duration: July 19 - August 2
Fly high and stylish with this combo sale. Get the Wrapped Cumulus Magithopter and get the Naryana Warrior's Garb as a bonus item!

• Wrapped Cumulus Magithopter
  
• Narayana Warrior's Garb (Bonus item)

Sale Duration: July 19 - August 2

• Expansion Scroll x1
  
• Expansion Scroll x3
  
• Expansion Scroll x10
  
• Expansion Scroll x30
  
• Character Slot Scroll (Legacy Only)
  
• Family Growth Ticket
  
• Family Name Change Ticket
  
• Guild Name Change Ticket
  
• Proficiency Decrease Certificate
  
• Saving Pendant
  
• Saving Pendant x2
  
• Migration Scale
  
• Migration Scale x2
  
• Auction License
  
• Salon Certificate
  
• Gender Swap Certificate

Sale Duration: July 19 - August 2
Enjoy the thrills of being a rocketeer with this retro-tech jet pack magithopter.



- The ArcheAge Team

Buy one, get one on tons of charms, including Superior Red Regrade Charms.


Sale Duration: July 12 - July 17
Stock up on charms for the future of your gear aspirations! This sale will be on both Legacy and Fresh Start servers.

• Blue Regrade Charm
  
• Green Regrade Charm
  
• Yellow Regrade Charm
  
• Superior Yellow Regrade Charm
  
• Red Regrade Charm
  
• Superior Red Regrade Charm

- The ArcheAge Team

The first part of the fresh start’s next phase is coming, complete with playable Warborn and Dwarves.

This next phase is the first part of two releases. It's so jam-packed it had to be split up! Read on for an overview of what this phase contains. The level cap is moving up to 55 and Delphinad is now available. Look out for our Friday livestreams for a deeper dive into these updates.

Short of both stature and temper, most Dwarves have little time to waste on niceties. Industry is the watchword of their people, and, as a result, they have managed to become Erenor’s technological powerhouse thanks to the might of their deadly war machines. As master artificers, the Dwarves possess an enhanced machinery crafting speed. In addition, they are able to call forth their mechanized battlesuits – the Juggernaut – and increase their combat abilities. With the Dwarves comes the Airain Rock and Aubre Cradle zones - housing and all!

Once the mindless servants of Orchidna, the Warborn were unleashed upon the world as bloodthirsty beasts. Beneath the rage and fury, however, lurked captured souls, wielded like weapons against their will. Now they seek to redeem the sins of their past. Hale and hearty, the Warborn move faster while carrying a trade pack. In addition, by calling on their tainted blood, they are able to improve their combat abilities by transforming into a monstrous Ravager. Swing by Sunbite Wilds and consider owning some of this newly available property!

Don't be fooled by the beauty of this place - it is absolutely the hardest dungeon in ArcheAge. You'll fight mean Oni, and collect Porcelain Jars filled with Jade Shards. Combine 12 of these into a Jade Orb, which can contain useful drops. If you can make it past the Oni prepare yourself for difficult boss battles against Aria, Sojung, and Dochul. This dungeon is also famous for the gear, which may help you become as formidable as the beasts that protect it!

There are more ways to get you and your packs from place to place now that T2 cars and the Farm Freighters (8 slot) are available. The release of Fishing Boats opens up another way to enjoy ArcheAge - Sport Fishing. (You can read about the fishing rework below.)

Trade packs have been divided into 4 economic categories, which affect how much they are worth the moment they're crafted, and how fast their value decays the longer they go undelivered. Depending on where they are crafted, they will be given a different category.

• Luxury - Solzreed Peninsula, Two Crowns, Cinderstone Moor, Solis Headlands, Villanelle
  
• Fine - Dewstone Plains, Lilyut Hills, Marianople, Mahadevi, Tigerspine Mountains, Falcorth Plains
  
• Commercial - Gweonid, Aubre Cradle, White Arden, Airain Rock, Karkasse Ridgelands, Arcum Iris, Ynystere, Silent Forest, Sunbite Wilds
  
• Preserved - Halcyona, Sanddeep, Hellswamp, Ahnimar, Windscour Savannah, Rookborne Basin, Perinoor Ruins, Rokhala Mountains, Hasla

In general, the further a zone is from a trade outlet, the more time a player has to turn the pack in.

The material investment for each pack has been updated as well - Raw materials have been reduced, while processed materials have been increased slightly.

Multipurpose Aging Larders have also been adjusted and now require more stone bricks and iron ingots to be created.

ArcheAge is known for its sea-life activities - Pirating, raising sunken ships, transporting through dangerous waters, fishing, and massive battles with other ships and powerful creatures.

Fishing is finally back, and it's been revamped a bit. All of the previous fishing rods have been retired, and a new permanent rod has been introduced! The new basic Fishing Rod can be upcrafted into two different trees - Flexible: reduced bite waiting time, and Sturdy: deals more damage to sport fish.

In order to participate in Sport Fishing you'll need to craft only one type of lure, which will give your rod the ability to Sport Fish for 2 hours.

The rates have also been adjusted, both how often different sizes appear, and how much they are worth. The appearance of smaller fish has slightly increased, but so has the reward for them!

The Fishing Contest on Mirage has also been updated. Only 1 type of rod (obtained via quest "Becoming the Fisher King") can be used, it doesn't consume Lures, and can only be used for 1 hour. Furthermore, participants now can fish during a 12 hour window, allowing everyone to participate when convenient. It's also more likely to hook the highest tier fish!

DGS is a formidable ocean foe known to be quite lucrative, but now it's changing from packs worth gold to Stone Slabs that can be turned in for Charcoal Stabilizers at a Shadow Merchant! At a 130% sale rate, one Stone Slab will generate 60 Charcoal Stabilizers. Each DGS drops 30 Stone Slabs. With two ships spawning a day, the maximum number of Stone Slabs in the world will be 60. That's about 3,580 Charcoal that can potentially be added to the economy every day!

The labor and materials required to raise sunken ships has been increased to balance the higher chance to obtain a rare pack.


Hiram gear came out fairly recently, and now it's time to give players access to the Awakening mechanic! Awakening to Radiant Hiram Gear will set the it back to Rare, but allow it to be upgraded as high as Divine. It still employs a synthesis style upgrade system, using other Hiram gear or the new Hiram Infusion item - available from Enraged Abyssal Legion drops, for gold or credits (limited quantity) in the Marketplace. The bonus stats on this gear can now be rerolled using Serendipity Stones!

To Awaken a celestial Hiram gear you'll need 10 Hiram Awakening Scrolls and 300 Labor. Hiram Awakening Scrolls have a 10% chance of success and can be found from Enraged Abyssal Legion Monsters in Reedwind, Exeloch, and Sungold Fields, or by completing one of the 3 new daily quests offered by the Hiram Heralds.

You may also combine 1 Runscribe Quill, purchased with Prestige or Loyalty, with 50 Hiram Awakening Scrolls to create 1 Sacred Hiram Awakening Scroll, which has a 50% chance of success.

Dungeon gear is also moving to the Synthesis upgrade system and can be Awakened to a tier 2 state, much like Hiram Gear. It can even drop as tier 2 gear! Don't worry, any prior items that are discontinued can still be upgraded through the Mirage Salvage Forge, if you have the correct mats.

Equipment from Greater dungeons or higher may be used as synthesis mats for dungeon gear.

Greater dungeons an be upgraded as far as Divine, Serpentis & Sea of Drowned Love as far as Epic, and Mistsong as far as Legendary, unless it has been awakened or a Taris piece, then it can go up to Eternal!

(Aria's Autograph has been retired)

Having enough armor of the same grade grants the player an Armor Set Buff. (Grand & Rare armor set buffs added) All of these buffs have been reworked to provide health and mana, with specific bonuses to the grade-incremented value depending on armor type - Cloth: Mana, Leather: Skill Damage, Plate: Health. The attack stats have been changed to Skill Damage percent and Healing percent increase.

In order to open up weapon choice options, each weapon will have a different attack speed and attack type combination that may draw different classes to different weapons.

Attack Speed: - The base attack speed for each weapon type.

• 0.8 sec for Dagger
  
• 1 sec for Katana, Sword
  
• 1.1 sec for Shortspear, Axe, Nodachi, Greatsword
  
• 1.2 sec for Club, Scepter, Longspear, Greataxe
  
• 1.3 sec for Greatclub, Staff

Attack Type: - The type of damage done by each weapon type.

• Piercing (Stronger vs Plate) - Swords, Spears
  
• Slashing (Stronger vs Leather) - Dagger, Katana/Nodachi
  
• Crushing (Stronger vs Plate) - Axes, Clubs, Scepter/Staff

The Battle of the Golden Plains is a war that breaks out for control of Halcyona between the two major alliances – Nuia and Haranya. Players push one another across the fields towards the other group's base, attempting to break in, destroy the cannons inside, and take down their base's crystal before the same can be done to them. Here are some of the changes:

• Removed the War Golems
  
• Reduced the duration to 30 minutes
  
• Added participant count restrictions

On Fresh Start servers the battle can support 150 Nuians and 150 Haranyans (0 Pirate or Player Nation)
Players who are in the zone, or which to participate in the battle will be moved to the Battle Queue, which will immediately grant them access to the event if the faction is below their cap. If the faction is not below their cap, they will be kept in the queue and allowed entry to the fight if other members of their faction leave. Players who have the Queue tag will not be able to enter Mirage Isle or Dungeons.

On Legacy servers the battle will allow as many as the zone can support, including Pirates and Player Nations. Player Nations should be allied with their chosen NPC nation to avoid being attacked by guards.

The Kraken is a deadly sea naval boss that spawns on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Fresh Start now has faction restrictions:

• On Tuesdays, only Haranya Alliance members may attempt this raid.
  
• On Thursdays, only Nuian Alliance members may attempt this raid.
  
• On Saturdays, any group may attempt this raid.

Going forward Scented Leaves and Royal Seeds will not drop from single-plant harvesting. However, they will be available as drops from harvesting Bundles!

There will be plenty more details in livestreams, on the forums, and in the patch notes. So stay tuned to be part of the discussion!
- The ArcheAge Team