Brief reminder the christmas raid is ending tomorrow, Monday at 12:00 PM (EST). As per Bongo's previous blog, so too will the christmas job leave tomorrow.

In addition to this, I'll be removing the daily and weekly rewards from the raid tonight at midnight. It doesn't really make sense for it to still drop the daily/weekly while it's active only for 12 hours at the start of a new week.

For those who asked, I haven't forgotten about the fact that a christmas public event was promised. I decided that rather than invest time in a short term public event..event, I'd want to invest that time in a new permanent public event that people can take part in as an alternative to The Ritual. I have some interesting mechanic ideas but feel free to PM me or bring them up in the raid forum if you have any suggestions for a public event in terms of mechanics. The only requirement is that it should be reasonable for people on slower connections too.

Happy hunting!

~Aldo

A Very Merry Realm is back in action and is active until January 6th, Monday noon (EST)

It has a weekly limit of successful attempts set at 70 and a daily limit at 12.

You might be wondering: 12 daily does not add up to 70 if you did it every day in a week.

It's 12 for two reasons:

a) I want to limit the number of times people do it in a day too so that Bob can get some rest.
b) It's 12 so that if you miss a couple today or tomorrow, you can still max out your weekly limit by maxing out your daily limit on the other days.


Drop tables for Granny, Santa, and the Phantom santa have been updated. It's very close to what I posted in the Raid forum thread with some minor changes.

Normally I'm very secretive about these things but since this has been discussed anyway and I'm generous, I'll share a few tidbits:

1) Granny's guaranteed drop is now an Epic Blueprint and she also has an Ab Dye in her table.
2) Santa's guaranteed drop is... a form of energy (I imagine this is going to be controversial)
3) Phantom santa also has a (generous, imo) chance to drop Ab Dye too on the final kill.

I did mention you will see the use of Phantom Essence soon... it's not directly tied to this raid but very soon you shall know. Perhaps the answers lie somewhere else?

As always, let me know if any bugs arise. I've tested things here and there but the raid system has been through a lot of changes since Day 1, especially over the last couple of months. While almost all changes have been backwards compatible, just let me know if anything comes up.

~Aldo

A group of committed players just logged a sub-minute completion time on The Ritual public event.

The timing: 56 seconds, 606 milliseconds

Congratulations to the following new proud owners of transcendent broken bottles:

Bongo, Pillage, hunter8, UnicornBob, Billy2131, Varamin, matt770, Merlin, and Mary.

I would like to make a special mention of Pillage who set out on organizing this initially and tried to bring everyone together. This was just
really awesome to watch as players basically kept trying over and over, changing up strategies, and most importantly working together in order to log a sub-minute.

This is what I always enjoy seeing the most in Legacy and hopefully there will be more opportunities in the future to do the same in other places.

As a reward for this completion by members of our community, in addition to our annual A Very Merry Realm xmas raid coming back around Dec 23rd, I will also be releasing a small public event for all to participate in. I have a pretty interesting idea for it that I hope works out so look forward to that!

~

The Shadress event raid will go away at Sunday night - 11:55 PM game time.

The next (non-event) raid that will be released will be Strange Hives III, for those of you who have unlocked it. I've been a bit busy irl + sick now but it should be available at some point next week.

~Aldo