Production Build #19.0.0

Release 19.0.0 is now live!

The Season of Frost is upon us! Gather your friends and bundle up before leaving the frozen nexus to seek adventure in the frigid air. Try your luck with our newest in game event: The Avatar of the Forgotten King! This ancient monolith pulses with an ancient evil and can open a portal to our most dangerous dungeon- The Shatters! Stay tuned for exciting new holiday releases over the next two weeks!

Two New Chilly Weapons!
Keep an eye out for two new holiday skinned weapons! Much like the Skull-splitter, these are re-skins of tier 11 weapons and can drop anywhere in game that drops tier 11 gear.

The Bow of Eternal Frost

This frosty bow fires bolts of cold so frosty it freezes the air around them into a pretty little snowflake.. a snowflake that will cleave your head in half.

Frostbite

This polar sword has a red hot blade but glows with an enchanted frostfire. It shoots frostbolts that will melt through your foes.

Changes:

• The Shatters Encounter has been released! Confront the Avatar of the Forgotten King to drop the Shatters portal!
• New UT Wizard spell has been added to the game! Shred through waves of foes with the "Tablet of the King's Avatar!"
• The Shatters Loot tables have been adjusted. Now the dungeon drops more loot (yay!)
• The Bridge at first boss in the shatters now takes longer to close (no lollygagging!)
• The nexus has been updated and switched to the Frost Season Theme.

Bug Fixes:

• Bug Fix: Guild member online notification now appears correctly.
• Bug Fix: /server now returns the correct information.
• Bug Fix: Remapped Nexus escape to R and Center Camera to Z on macs for new players.
• Bug Fix: Resolved disconnect at Forgotten King in the Shatters.

Info About the 12/18 Downtime!

Greetings!

Wednesday around 8:00 pm we took the servers down because we were aware of a game issue that we did not want to spread. Right off the bat we should clear some things up.

Was The Shatters encounter bugged? Will there be a Rollback?
Nope. The Shatters encounter is hard guys. It is working as intended. There will be no Rollback.

What happened with the skins?
The skins that appeared in many players gift chests were the result of a server glitch and were not intended to be released. We brought the servers down to remove these unauthorized items before they were traded further and caused more problems.

We thank you all so much for your patience, and we applaud those who bravely charged the Avatar of the Forgotten King. Just as the Shatters will take time to master, so will the encounter. Keep in mind this content is intended to be absolute endgame material.

In the meantime, we apologize for the downtime and hope you enjoy our new holiday content, and continue to brave the improved Shatters dungeon. For more info on our latest patch, please read here.

Thank you,
The Realm Team

A Thank you to our Community Artists!

As you may know, Realm features an art tool where players can create and submit their own art for realm. Sometimes we will use this art to implement into the game. We think this is a great way for the community to contribute and see their work in game, and the art is fantastic!

We wanted to take this space to thank the artists who's work you may see in recent content:

• Uomo: Some of the wonderful trees in the Winter Nexus
• paulo: For the Slime Archer and the Slime concept, and the Gentleman skin.
• thq32df: For creating the Brigand skin for the Rogue.
• dg: The sweet redesign of the Mystery Box "?"

Huge News from the Realm Team!

We are thrilled to announce that we have had an opportunity to participate in the Steam Winter Sale! This means that you will be able to exchange your Steam Winter Sale Badges for awesome in game items!

Firstly, this only applies if you play Realm on the Steam Portal. Kabam.com, Kongregate and RealmoftheMadGod.com do not apply.

For those unfamiliar with the steam winter sale, this is how it works:

• For every Winter Sale title you spend money on, you will be awarded collectible Steam Cards.
• These cards come in multiple sets. If you collect a full set, you can exchange it for a badge.
• These badges earn you free loot for a random participating game!
• Trade with friends and other steam members to get the special Realm Items!

For more details on the how the Steam Winter Sale and the Steam Cards work, please read here!

Without further ado, let’s get to the exciting part: Announcing the steam rewards!

Players will be able to cash in those steam badges to gain these brand new skins! You can be the envy of every hero in the realm, strutting around in your new fancy skin, slaying monsters with precision and style! Check em out!

Happy Holidays From Kabam! Enjoy a FREE skin!
The season of frost is here and it is time to rejoice! As we look back on our time working on Realm, with all of its ups and downs, I know this team will be looking back fondly. To the community members that supported us, helped us, gave us feedback - we hope you will remember it fondly too. As a thank you for sticking with us, we would like to offer every player a free iceman knight skin!

These skins are limited to 1 per account, but any account may purchase them!

This skin will only be available through December 25th!

Once you purchase the skin, you may need to visit your vault and reload the game for the skin to appear.

Enjoy!

1/9/14 Hotfix patch notes:

Addressed a number of issues around fame farming, as well as several fixes and adjustments to the Avatar of Forgotten Kings (Shatters event), and a few bugs fixes - the most noteworthy being a fix for anyone having issues with redeeming skins from the Steam event.

Changes:

• Targets and Dummies no longer contribute to Accuracy bonus
• Ocean Trench Deep Sea Beast no longer gives XP / Fame
• Sea Horses no longer give Fame / XP
• Jackal Warriors, Veterans, and Assassins no longer give Fame / XP
• Jackal Lords now give increased Fame / XP
• Avatar: Encounter bullets changed to larger bullets to better represent their collision boxes
• Avatar: Defeating the Avatar is no longer required to close a Realm
• Avatar: Resolved some stacked bullet issues in Avatar Encounter (Fireball Phase)
• The Shatters: Increased Health on loot chests and increased size, lowered Threshold

Bug Fixes:

• Claiming a Steam skin will now correctly redeem and unlock the skin.
• "Trade has timed out" message will no longer incorrectly appear if the trade is still active.
• Multiple loot bags will drop to support more than 8 item drops.
• Typo in Guild Promotion Text updated to support all promotions correctly.

1/13/14 Hotfix (Release 19.1) patch notes:
We removed the ability to link accounts between Kongregate / Web and Steam / Web. This was done to prevent issues for players getting accounts hacked / taken over via the linking. We are working on a solution to UNLINK accounts, more info on that tomorrow (1/14/14).

Changes:

• Linking for RotMG.com accounts to Steam and Kongregate will not be allowed as of this update. Current linked accounts are not changed in any way.
• Starting Gold for new players is now 40 from 50.
• Frostbite Sword and Bow of Eternal Frost are now UT and will no longer drop from enemies.