Keep Siege and XP Update
Posted: Aug 08, 2017 04:12
We want to announce the next set of changes to our setup to further encourage players to work together, fight for their realm, defend their keeps and crush enemies.
Summer XP Event
First things first - Looking to stay cool during the hot August nights? Come enjoy another bonus XP weekend!
10. August 2017 at 20:00 CEST - 14. August 2017 9:00 CEST
We will offer a +30% XP bonus during the time of the event that stacks with all other bonuses in all areas! At the same time there will be an increase of +30% money from bag of coins and chests. Your chance to get your rusty and stuck character leveled up. Don't miss it!
Keep Realm Point Pool and Siege Incentives
This update focuses on highlighting two options for advancing your character by rewarding you for participating in Realm vs Realm.
New Keep Siege Realm Point Pool
We implemented a new feature to reward defenders and attackers of a keep raid for successfully defending or attacking a keep. To encourage players to participate in keep siege and defenses, we introduce a bonus feature inspired from later versions of Dark Age of Camelot. As players are killed near a keep, bonus Realm Points are added up into a pool that is awarded on a successful capture or defense of a keep. After a keep siege has ended, stick around for 60 seconds to be rewarded what was collected up in the pool! A message will tell you when that happens.
RP For Keep Takes
To recap, on Uthgard, we award players for participating in capturing a keep. Players receive a reward that is based on the difficulty in taking that keep. This is above and beyond the bonus realm points for any defenders you may have killed during a keep siege. This has been active for some time on Uthgard and we wanted to inform you exactly how it works.
When you conquer a keep, realm points are distributed to all players in range for defeating the keep Lord itself, regardless of the number of defenders. The total realm points awarded is based on the level of each door and the level of the keep itself. You will see increased rewards based on the level of each door as well as the level of the keep.
We increased the total amount of realm points available for taking a keep. You will see an approximate maximum of 5,200 realm points for a level 10 keep with 2 level 10 doors. We changed it so that now up to 16 players get the full reward. With more players you will see a bit scaling down as the effort for more players to take keeps gets less. We also lessened this scaling beyond 16 players so you should see more RP in general for keep takes.
XP Changes - Group XP Caps
Following our lengthy discussion and also inspiration from our community Uthgard will be introducing some changes to our EXP system. The primary point of this discussion was to support players who wish to build groups and thus for them to see an additional benefit or bonus to grouping up and playing together as a community.
Uthgard will be adding a bonus to the experience cap in groups. Every player in a group enables a +5% cap increase to experience for all members of the group. That means your experience cap will be pushed up by +40% in a full group. Since all other bonuses beside the group bonus are on top of the capped experience they heavily depend on the cap. Since the group bonus (think BAF, social mobs) is used before the cap you should be targetting mobs that bring in significant group bonuses (+20% for each mob you face) so that you can use the cap bonus to its fullest.
Bonus to experience cap will be as follows:
2 players +10% bonus
3 players +15% bonus
4 players +20% bonus
5 players +25% bonus
6 players +30% bonus
7 players +35% bonus
8 players +40% bonus
There's an important limitation you should know: Only players inside the experience clamp of a group can benefit from the bonus. You notice that clamp if you get the same XP as the highest level player (provided you didn't cap already). As an example a level 41 player grouped with level 50 will benefit from the cap bonus. A level 40 player grouped with level 50 does not get the bonus. As rule of thumb the player should be not lower than -20% of the highest level player in the group. The clamp is calculated by a complicated formula and its wider in lower levels so it isn't really a fixed percentage but you get the idea.
When you get experience beyond the cap you will see it in the experience gain message. Here is an example of a FG:
You receive 8,996,782 experience for adventuring in this area!
You receive 98,964,602 experience! (20,761,804 camp bonus) (23,991,418 over cap)
Darkness Falls access
We decided that Darkness Falls will now remain open for 15 minutes after your realm loses control of the majority of keeps.
World Changes
Please be aware of the following recent world changes:
- Beliathan once again spawns.
- Battleground mobs will now drop randomly generated objects. Each BG has a 'boss' type mob that can drop additional randomly generated objects of higher stat value.
- Mobs in RvR Dungeons (Dodens Gruva, Marfach Caverns, Hall of the Corrupt, Summoners Hall) now drop more appropriate randomly generated items. Additional non-random items have been added as well!
- Players can now access a level 50 dummy mob outside the capital cities. These will help test your abilities.
- Battleground "Medal of Honor" quests have been updated for the new level ranges.
User Interface Improvements
Players will be able to see their endurance and group mates endurance in the group and minigroup windows.
We are continuing to work on enhancements and look forward to bringing them to you! Until then see you on the battlefield!
Your Uthgard Staff
Fantastic changes thank you. 
. Can't wait to try it out.
