Return of Reckoning

Highlights

Weekend Warfront: Assault on Ekrund



The ancient Gates of Ekrund guard the only mountain pass that is wide enough to accommodate an army. For the Dwarfs, recapturing these gates and sealing them shut is of vital importance in stemming the greenskins' tide of destruction. However the Greenskins remain relentless in their attempts to break through.

This weekend the Gates of Ekrund will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in this scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.

Completing all tasks rewards the title: "Gatekeeper".


Live Event: A Stronghold Saga - Part 1 - Return to Ekrund

- This event will run for the whole of the Stronghold Saga. The Stronghold Saga will run until at least October.



Realm versus Realm

Ranked Scenarios

- Fixed issue putting players back in queue if someone else declines the pop.

- If a player crashes in a group ranked SC it no longer triggers the imbalanced SC popup. Instead the scenario continues like normal so they have time to reconnect.



Combat and Careers


General Changes and Fixes

- Weapon damage contribution for bolster now matches the formula used on live server and the values displayed in character sheet.



Bug Fixes

- Magical Infusion: Corrected the minimum level of the ability [19350]



Bug Fixes

- Murderous Intent: Corrected the minimum level of the tactic [19351]



Content

Quests

- The Vessel of Azorgaron: This Greenskin Epic Quest has been activated, corrected and reworked. You can take it from Groog Sluggins at the Greenskin Chapter 17. The short version of this quest line has been deactivated



User Interface

Backpack

- The Currency Backpack has been increased from 32 slots to 48 slots.



Tickets


[19328] The quest can once again be turned in
[19336] The drop rate of the quest item has been increased from 10% to 20%

Highlights

Live Event: A Stronghold Saga - Part 1 - Return to Ekrund



Oh glorious Karaz Ankor, how you have suffered under the relentless tide of greenskins. A dwarf never forgives a grudge, he only settles it. The time has come for the dwarfs to return to Ekrund and settle the ancient grudges inflicted upon the clans of the Dragonback Mountains. The greenskins however will not back down without a fight. Mount Bloodhorn shall earn its namesake.

The Dragonback Mountains have not seen this scale of bloodshed in nearly four thousand years. Join your realm in cleansing the mountains of the unlawful intruders who dare to claim Ekrund as theirs by right.

Speak to your Live Event herald to begin.


Weekend Warfront: Unforgiving Seas



During one of the recent battles upon the Inner Sea, one of our vessels foundered upon the rocky shoals of the Isle of the Dead. What is worse is that our enemies have done the same. Now both sides scrabble for parts from the many other wrecks so that they may escape the island before their souls are lost. We must ensure that our allies escape that dreaded place.

Two ships have run aground while moving through the storm-wracked seas of Serpent' Passage. One of these vessels belongs to the High Elves, while the other is of Dark Elf origin. Both ships carry valuable supplies that we must claim if we are to gain an edge in this war. At the same time, we must deny these resources to our enemies.

This weekend Unforgiving Seas will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Serpent's Passage scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.



Realm versus Realm

Open RvR

- Damaging enemies with oil no longer gives renown, XP or influence. This is to make the oil primarily a strategic weapon for defending the keep, not for farming renown at the cost of the keep defense.

- The renown gain from various objectives in RvR has been decreased a bit. The value from kills at these objectives was increased when the Field of Glory buff was implemented a while back, which covers the same thing.

- Supply Drop Flags have been added to warcamps in T2 and T3.




Combat and Careers

General Changes and Fixes

- Challenge stacks are now only removed on direct damage hits. Before they were also removed on dot ticks and damage procs.

- The pet position syncing, pathing during recall and movement speed during recall has been fixed. [18965]

- Fixed issue with Flame Breath potions wrongly removing some other buffs on target.

- Debolster now happens in any T1 area (except for Rank 40 Lairs). However you will still be chickened if entering an RvR area or flagging for RvR unless an event is on.

- Bolster no longer suddenly drops from 48 to 40 after level 30 and now decreases over a few more increments.



Bug Fixes

- Rune of Cleaving: Multiple dots on same target from different Rune Priests now works


Bug Fixes

- 'Ey Quit Bleedin': Affects additional targets when targeting self [19078]

- Fury of da Green: Healing others when you are targeting self [14857]



Bug Fixes

- Demon Spittle: Multiple dots on same target from different Zealots now works [19119]

- Eye of Sherian: The buff stacks on character sheet display just like it does in .getstats [19138] (pending client patch)



Bug Fixes

- Wings of Heaven: You can no longer jump away when rooted [19331]



Bug Fixes

- Lambent Aura: Affects additional targets when targeting self [19065]

- Energy of Vaul: Healing others when you are targeting self [16309]



Bug Fixes

- Force of Fury: Armor buff no longer stacks with other armor buffs. The critical hit reduction has been changed to flat reduction of 5/10/15% instead of previous values of 15/30/45%.

It was previously meant to be a percentage based reduction, but actually worked like a flat reduction. However we feel that a percentage based reduction of a percentage based stat just complicates things, and when that stat is typically 0% for most players, it didn't really make sense. So we kept it as a flat reduction, but lowered the values instead. So this is both a bug fix and balance change combined.



Bug Fixes

- Shadow Leap: You can no longer jump away when rooted [19331]



Bug Fixes

- Resistance debuff on Chillwind + Shadow of Disaster no longer stacks with other resist debuff abilities.



User Interface

Old World Armory

- The server now sends armory item info properly to the client. So you can view item sets in the tome of knowledge without needing to have the items in your backpack.


Backpack

- Bind on Pickup items are now displayed as Bound to Player after being picked up.



Content

Public Quests

- Durak's Gate: The Bloody Sun Rock Lobbers are no longer champions

Quests

- Repeatable dye quests in each chapter in T3 have been added/reworked. Each contains three different dyes to choose from. However, all dyes are not new though.

Greenskin Chapter 18
- Da Belcher: This quest has been corrected
- Working Undercover: The whole quest line is now available and reworked
- Dirty Deeds: The whole quest line is now available and reworked
- Smashin' da Bony Stunties: The whole quest line is now available and reworked

Scenario

- Phoenix Gate: The middle flags drops have been moved to be at equal distance from the flags. Two statues have been added to mark the place of the middle flags drops.

General


- Fixed connection issues (timing out) for players particularly when using a VPN, Virtual Machine or software like Wine to run the game.

- Fixed issue which could sometimes cause you to not be able to respond to your own support ticket.



Tickets


[19334] Brauk no longer disappears if Skrot is killed first.
[14288] You can now collect the "Humie Steaks" from every Drakk cultist in Cinderfall
[14268] You can now kill Morg Skinripper to loot his map
[18804] The gloves have their actual appearance back
[19277] You can interact with the Mourkain Henge
[19188] The Battle Squigs are less aggressive to their herders
[19279] You are once again able to interact with the pelt to make spawn Krul'Tor
[19312] You can once again summon Uthorin Informant from the well during the last step of the quest line
[19305] The NPC is once again attackable
[19288] The correct career has been set on these shoulders
[19301] The PQ is once again fully completable
[19300] The blood can now be recovered by clicking on the cocoon
[14264] The quest marker now displays both objectives


Hotfix 2021-07-23


- Debolster will now reduce item stats and weapon DPS to match character sheet
- Debolster and bolster now scales power of item effects and item procs.
- Debolster and bolster now scales potions instead of removing them.

QnA Rerun is now available

In case you missed it:

You can now watch the Q&A with added timestamps on Youtube.

We'd like to thank you for submitting your questions, watching the Live Q&A or its Rerun, as well as for engaging with us on Saturday during the livestream.

Weekend Warfront: Thunder Valley Rampage



A battle's broken out down at Thunder Valley. Seems the greenskins have found the secret workshop where Dwarf Engineers are developin' new engines of war. Thunder Valley's importance to the war effort can't be overstated. Quick now, go join the fight. We need every warrior we can get down there!

The Thunder Valley scenario is open again for characters of all levels! This weekend only join in the joy of slaughter as enemy forces clash in this legendary locale!

This weekend Thunder Valley Rampage will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Thunder Valley scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks. Completing all tasks will grant the title: "Thunderous Veteran".




Realm versus Realm

Ranked Scenarios

Some tweaks have been done to the matchmaking to try and strike a better balance between fast pops for all MMR ranges and balanced matches. The match maker adapts automatically to different population levels and will create wider MMR brackets during low pop hours or when players have been in queue for a long time. And smaller brackets when there's more ongoing games and shorter queues.




Combat and Careers



Bug Fixes

- Fixed Exhaustive Strikes to drain 40 AP in 4 ticks of 10 AP each. Previously it was draining 60 AP in 3 ticks of 20 AP each.



Bug Fixes

- Pack Hunting won't disappear anymore when summoning a pet, or stay when switching to a different tactic [18729] [18765]



Items


- Cows should be a bit more generous with their droppings.



Content

Quests

- Fightin' Infightin': The Epic Quest (long) version of this Greenskin quest line has been activated, corrected and reworked. The short version has been deactivated



Tickets


[19268] Ranked Empire mount is not sold by the vendor
[19207] Requirements corrected
[19232] Vendors updated
[18593] Updated for a more pulverizer-esque appearance
[18590] Minus 1 is a good use of time
[18445] Requirement and appearance corrected
[17111] Found the missing Fortress Cleava
[16463] Polished some shields
[19151] The Wood Logs have been enabled
[19230] The CD on the Order and Destruction Capture points has been reduced again
[19208] Some Khaine's Altar cloaks are no longer considered as two handed items
[19220] You are once again able to interact with the Doctor Wirt's Clothes to continue the epic quest
[19256] This NPC is once again attackable

Live QnA

Watch the Live QnA - Saturday at 19:00 GMT

Join us this Saturday at 19:00 GMT on LoreMasterOfSotek's Twitch or Youtube channel, as we answer over 80 questions (split into long answers & short answers to save time). The QnA will be simultaneously live on Twitch and on Youtube, and the direct links of the livestreams will be provided on Discord before that it starts.

Raffles during the QnA

During the QnA, there will be several raffles in order to give away event items to the lucky winners. Join LoreMasterOfSotek's chat and participate using the designated bot's command. More info will be provided during the livestream.