Battle for the Nexus [Feb 27th to Mar 2nd] & Deca Recap

[Nevov]

Copied from an official Reddit post:

r/RotMG - Battle for the Nexus & Deca Recap

Heya Realmers,

We are happy to see a lot of you liked the newest balance changes that we released yesterday. Thank you all for your feedback, keep it coming!

In the meantime, it’s time to defend the Nexus! Once you defeat Oryx 2, you will have a chance to avenge your fallen comrades. The Event will run from February 27, 2020 12:00 PM (UTC), February 27, 2020 1:00 PM (Europe: Brussels), February 27, 2020 7:00 AM (America: New York), February 27, 2020 4:00 AM (America: Los Angeles), February 27, 2020 11:00 PM (Australia: Canberra) until March 2, 2020 12:00 PM (UTC), March 2, 2020 1:00 PM (Europe: Brussels), March 2, 2020 7:00 AM (America: New York), March 2, 2020 4:00 AM (America: Los Angeles), March 2, 2020 11:00 PM (Australia: Canberra).

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We also wanted to take the time to recap what has happened in the past 2 + months, what was added, reworked, what events we focused on and hope you enjoyed!

• At the beginning of the year, the first Oryxmas Bonus Program ended. We want to say thank you to the thousands of players who participated, thanks to whom we can now see plenty of Saber Wielder Warriors running around the Realms.
• A lot of dungeons were polished in January.
• We hosted the first (ever) guild speed run competition in awhile. It wasn’t perfect but we’ve learned our lesson and will try to make it better next time.
• The first three new ST sets (the Pirate Warrior, the Messenger Priest and the Horticultural Huntress STs) started to drop across dungeons. We recently introduced another 3 new ST sets into the game - the Crystal Kunoichi (Ninja), the Magmatic Mystic and the Acidified Assassin ST Sets. Make sure to stay updated on our Reddit page to find out where and when they will also start dropping in-game!
• In the beginning of February, there was another PT testing session for the new, upcoming class - the Bard. We plan to introduce it into the game very soon!
• For Valentine’s Day, Belladonna’s Garden had a makeover rework which included a few new UT items.

Alongside the balancing changes that we mentioned above, we are even more excited about things we want to introduce in upcoming months, so stay tuned and enjoy Realm!

Starting with… the March Login Calendar.

Oh, and… do you remember these?

image: January death stats

(tall image, right-click view to expand)

larger split image provided by Mynamerr:

[Original image (non-split): https://i.imgur.com/R6mqoDf.jpg]

Stay strong and have fun, Realmers!

[JimdaFish]

I’d also like to see an Enemies Killed by Players graphic sometime; it would be awesome to see how players spend their time in the game!

[Nevov]

Have to say the drop rates in Battle for the Nexus are stupidly low, for what are in essence nonsense/vanity items. And I think contributed to this feeling a very unworthwhile event seeing others complain about it in-game.

I mean I enjoy the dungeon for intrinsic value, and I already have the items from the old days, but I only got one drop all weekend, the bow from O2 Deux, nothing from any of the others, and I’m showing now at 120 completions across characters (counter was only added in 2017), which just seems pointlessly mean given the items are basically useless. Should really be dropping a lot higher rate, IMO.

(For a refresher, when Kabam first released the dungeon, the items originally dropped at what I’d call “sensible rates” for some time, Kabam then nerfed the drop rates possibly to about 1/10th of what they had been before, and I believe they’ve remained at this low rate ever since.)

[Nevov]