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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1017810/12_Month_Patron_Bundle/

Make enforcing secrecy look good!  For a limited time, get TWELVE MONTHS of Patron Benefits and a slew of brand-new exclusive items for your characters.  Don’t miss out, because once it’s gone it’ll be recognizable only as deja vu...

LIMITED-TIME BUNDLE INCLUDES:

  • Secrecy Enforcement Agent outfit (Featuring Faction Insignia)
  • Gadget: Hypnotic Memory Suppressor
  • Sprint: GLIDR (Gyroscopic Lightweight Intuitively Driven Robot)
  • 360 Days of Patron Benefits

Lifetime Members of Secret World Legends may still purchase this bundle to receive the cosmetic items.
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Take a friend.  Or four!  Occult Defence is now open to teams of up to 5 agents, with tons of balance changes, tweaks, and even new challenges to face!

You can sign up for the updated Occult Defence mode by going to the Activity Finder (Shift+V) and looking for "Occult Defence -> Multiplayer"

Look for new accomplishments and achievements within Stonehenge, and see if you rank on leaderboards!

Wait, leaderboards?

That's right -- You’ve asked for them, now they’re finally here: Leaderboards are available for tracking the top 100 for total monster kills and Occult Defence performance!  You can see how many successful defences, total waves completed, highest wave completed, and now STREAKS for completing waves without stopping.

Do you stack up? See the rankings at [https://leaderboards.secretworldlegends.com]!
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Gruß vom Krampus! In the spirit of the season, we’re flipping on sales and bonus events all through the rest of the month! Here’s what’s happening:

  • All Imbuers, Catalysts, and Agent Boosters are 25% off until January 2nd
  • Bonus AP and SP is active now through the December 21
  • Empowerment bonus event runs December 21 – December 26
  • No Limits bonus event runs December 26 – January 2

Events will flip at ~9:00 AM US Eastern.
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Behold a winter wonderland! Starting December 12th through January 2nd, Krampusnacht returns to Secret World Legends! 


THE KRAMPUS
Who’s that dancing on the icy roof – stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof? The Krampus Gate is wide open, ushering an invasion of a foe most hairy and vile: The Krampus! Krampus and Hel (in all her glory) all return this year, and we need you to put an end to their meddling!


CHAMPIONS AND CIPHERS

Elusive, powerful creatures have emerged from the shadows in strange sightings across the world; it’s up to you to hunt them down and get to the bottom of their appearance!

Accept bounty missions from the Paragon activity board in Agartha to begin your task!

...and will you crack the code in the NEW Investigation Mission?


WINTER CACHE RETURNS

The Winter Cacheis back! This arctic and frost-themed cache features an Outfit, Pet, Mount, and a full set of Extraordinary Weapons! 

Winter Cache replaces Oni War Cache in the world. Oni War Cache, as with all previous caches, may still be traded and opened for their advertised contents.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnAQczsHnpo&feature=youtu.be

A STEP IN TIME
We stand at the end of all. Chaos and darkness reign, the ravaged remains of Gaia now infested with extradimensional interlopers known only as The Wandering Others. Something, or someone, has called upon you to enter this timeline and race to the end. At what cost, or for what reason, is unknown. It’s up to you to discover the truth.

Dark Agartha is accessible once you reach Level 50. To begin your expeditions, visit a Bounty Board in regular Agartha to be assigned a mission that guides you to the entrance.

There are no jump pads nor easy access points to this platform – you’ll need to take a leap of faith. Gaia may not necessarily want to stop you from entering, but certainly doesn’t wish to assist you getting there!





LIFE, UH, FINDS A WAY
Once inside the portal, you’ll find your path impeded by turbulent energies. While your first visit is free, repeat attempts require a fee to cross into darkness. The price: a portion of your Anima, in the form of AP and SP.

What challenges await you in Dark Agartha? Intense, one-on-one battles with The Wandering Others, each fight designed to challenge the wits and skills of even the most seasoned agents! You may expect four such encounters in each foray into Dark Agartha, followed by a fifth and final encounter with a certain someone…

Now, even when attuned to the timeline, your link to Dark Agartha is tenuous…at best. As such, you only have 17 minutes to complete your mission! Additionally, dying loosens your foothold in the timeline, allowing you three total attempts in Dark Agartha before you’re ejected. Should you fail to complete your run, you may re-attune yourself to the timeline (and pay the AP + SP) to try again.



SHUFFLE THE DECK
When you triumph in Dark Agartha, you may re-enter the next day…and face new challenges each time! Actions taken every day affect the future, causing a different timestream to be attuned every day, randomizing and shuffling – not only changing what creature you may face, but their skills and supplemental effects during the encounter. While the final challenge is always against the same entity, the way they engage you may yet differ.

This also means you may face the same type of adversary on different days, but how you approach the challenge may change altogether.



THE EDUCATION PROTOCOL
Dark Agartha is intended to be a serious challenge for hardened players, but there’s ways to gain the upper hand. An ill-fated Custodian at Dark Agartha’s entrance holds a stock of consumable items you can purchase to assist in your mission! These items range from extra lives, extended time limits, and temporary power boosts.

What can you expect out of Dark Agartha? To begin, you can look forward to Elaborate Glyph Imbuers that can jack your Glyphs up to a new, 4th power tier!

Later, you can expect a similar treatment for Talismans, too…




We hope you all take in the terrible beauty of Dark Agartha and the universe as we know it turned into a rotting graveyard. Good luck in the timestream, and we’ll see you soon enough for the holidays!

-THE SECRET WORLD LEGENDS TEAM
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NEW
Dark Agartha
The rift is open! Dark Agartha challenges you to a race against time in a world fallen to an apocalyptic fate. The Wandering Others - denizens of the now-ravaged hollow earth - await your descent in intense one-on-one encounters designed to truly test your mettle. Powerful rewards await you, should you overcome the gauntlet…

GENERAL
  • Attempting to use the Sanguine Kitty item will give you 250 Anima Shards if already owned.
  • Mysterious Jack-o'-lantern can be consumed for Anima Shards.
  • Item power now correctly scales with pips. This may mean that some players using 1 or 2 pip talismans, weapons, or glyphs may see their item power on the character sheet decrease slightly after the patch. The stat increases provided by items has not changed - only their contribution to a character's overall item power.
  • Activity Finder now checks your character's highest known item power instead of your current item power.
  • Using Immutable while Last Rites is equipped will no longer disable both death protection effects.
  • Disabled the New Dawn Collector's Edition popup on login. If you still wish to purchase the Collector's Edition, the icon to open it is still present on the topbar.

DRESSING ROOM
  • Black Watchmen coat and hoodie items will now display the correct colors.
  • Male characters have correct previews for the Carapace of Gaia head and hand pieces.
  • Army combat pants Blue/Filth has correct preview icon for male characters.


AGENT NETWORK
  • Stonehenge is more likely to reward agent Lady of the Mists.
  • Jeronimo missions have standard mission timers.

ACTIVITY FINDER
  • Players must now be alive to enter activities.
Oct 31, 2018
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A mysterious path in Agartha has opened. Initially discovered by the Lost Conquistador, the question isn’t just *where* the portal led, but to *when*.

WITNESS - Dark Agartha, a telling of a possible apocalyptic future.

Launching November 14.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnAQczsHnpo
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Samhain is here!  Join us around the fire from October 11 through November 1. 

As the boundaries between our world and the next blur, prepare for a month most morbid. What shall bump in the night? Numbers, numbers… what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?



THE BROADCAST
New to Secret World Legends is The Broadcast , beginning with a phone call from Dave Screed. Travel the world and unravel the Numbers Station phenomenon! What secrets does The Presenter keep? If you’ve completed the story up through Black Sun, Red Sand and are Level 50, you’ll receive a message from Dave Screed to start the mission. You may also seek him out directly in NYC if you choose!

Seasoned agents can look forward to scaling difficulty modes, as seen from the recently-released Faction Ranking missions and Occult Defence!



DAILY EVENT LOGIN REWARDS
Trick or Treat! Well, mostly treats. Get yourself some fancy spooky extras just for logging in during the event, including a FREE Pale Horse mount for the first day! Login rewards include a Mysterious Jack-O-Lantern locked by a mysterious force – defeat Jack during a Public Raid to open one!

JACK CAME BACK, THE VERY NEXT DAY
The insidious Jack of the Lantern has once again set his sights on the heart of the world tree, thirsting for its Anima and to claim its power as his own. Not without its defense mechanisms, Agartha has isolated the threat and now it’s up to you to rally together and take Jack head-on!

Every hour, a portal near the center of Agartha opens, leading you and fellow agents deep in the tree’s branches where Jack has been captured. In this 40-person raid, combat statistics are normalized through the Equal Footing effect, so anyone can hop in and contribute! The only prerequisite is to have reached Jack Boone in the main story.

When you defeat Jack, you are empowered with an Anima Surge, allowing you to open a Mysterious Jack-O-Lantern obtained from your daily event login rewards.

EXCLUSIVE EVENT ITEMS FOR SALE
Special Halloween-themed cosmetic items are now available, ONLY during the event! Once the event vanishes into the night, so too will your ability to purchase these items!
Oct 10, 2018
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https://youtu.be/3XL2B8v7Y5g

NO BONES ABOUT IT, BABY! The Oni Bone Cache features brand-new cosmetic items themed around all things demonic, including a new mount, pet, and all-new outfit and weapon models inspired by the nine Oni clans.

Potential Contents:
  • Herald of Carnage pet
  • Oni War Hawg mount
  • Oni Warrior Skin outfit
  • Oni Bone Weapon Mk.III
  • Extraordinary Weapon Mk.II+
  • Purified Weapon Distillate
  • Purified Talisman Distillate
  • Purified Glyph Distillate
  • Purified Signet Distillate
Additional contents:
  • Pure Anima Potions
  • Third Age Fragments

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NEW
ONI WAR CACHE
NO BONES ABOUT IT, BABY! Featuring nine new Extraordinary Weapons (each with their own unique effect!), a new outfit, pet, and mount, The Oni War Cache has deployed across the world, replacing the Agarthan Cache as drops in the world. Existing caches may still be bought, sold, and opened via Cache Keys as normal.

AGENT NETWORK

  • Special assignments now provide Intel, Supplies, and Assets
  • Missions that require 2 types of resources (Intel, Supplies, or Assets) now give more resources on completion
  • Agent Vanity Reward Bags reworked:
    • When the loot roll decides you will receive a weapon skin, it now always selects an unowned weapon skin. If you have all weapon skins it informs of this in chat. Note that having all relevant weapon skins owned does not prevent the loot roll from rolling the weapon skin category.
    • When the loot roll decides you will receive a sprint, you will now always receive the sprint item regardless of whether you already have the sprint added to your Sprints list.
    • Added three more variants of the Shocking Steps sprint
    • Renamed the existing Shocking Steps sprint to Shocking Steps, Blue

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ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Afraid of the Dark will no longer fail to award when using a proc-heavy build
  • Afraid of the Dark now informs immediately that the achievement has been failed on killing the first enemy if there is no way the achievement can be successfully completed any more in the current instance


MISSIONS
  • Into Darkness - Dying during the final encounter will now always respawn near the final encounter


SCENARIOS
Occult Defence
  • Bonus items/shards for completing multiple waves are now added to the loot table after every completed wave, instead of every 3rd wave.
  • This also fixes an issue where the bonus tier for completing 3 waves was incorrectly awarding too soon, making it seem like there was no bonus loot at that tier
  • The chance to get Signets, Gadgets, and Agent Dossiers now increases based on the last wave completed
  • Monsters that stay alive for more than 5 minutes now slowly grow more powerful


MONSTERS
  • Incubus - Wildfire now only deals damage once per second, the damage area better matches the visuals, and stops dealing damage when the Incubus dies (no more invisible fire)
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