Every year, as the fog covers the land and the autumn nights herald the chill of winter, the Daemon Moon rises. For scholars, the Daemon Moon is a dangerous time of year when the threat of a daemonic incursion is greatest. For the common-folk it is a time of revelry and chaos, all in the spirit of the times. Needless to say, the scholars are right to fear what is to come, for during the time of the Daemon Moon, daemonic forces are unleashed upon the mortal realm to play with the lives of the living as they please. This year scholars have noted a disturbing lilac tinge on the Daemon Moon, an ill omen of Slaanesh's power. Slaanesh has danced his way forefront of the Chaos forces, eluding the sloth with which is brothers proceed. This year, the Daemon Moon Rises, as with all things when corruption brushes against the veil.

This is a time of year when the veil between the Realm of Chaos and the world is dangerously thin, though foolish naïve folk do not always heed the warnings of their leaders, be they pious priests, zealous witch hunters, or wizard lords. Instead the common folk use this opportunity to play pranks on each other, blaming mischievous daemons of course. They hide behind their masks teasing friend and foe alike, not knowing that lesser daemons corrupt the mind behind the mask. Humans across the Old World, from the bustling streets of Altdorf in the Empire, to the twisted alleys of the Inevitable City in the Chaos Wastes, toy with powers they do not understand. If Slaanesh is to be held at bay, you and your allies must work together to withstand the Daemon Moon Rising.

The Daemon Moon Rising will start on October 30th and last until November 9th.

Rewards

The Daemon Moon Rising is a new take on an existing live event for Return of Reckoning. Our artists have made new assets such as masks, cloaks, magus discs - all in the Slaanesh theme. Our thanks to our artistic contributors for their continued dedication to RoR.

Basic reward: Crate of Slaanesh Dyes, or Potion of Acclaim

Advanced reward: the Fiendfang item from live which buffs renown and experience; or the Mantle of Ecstasy, Shawl of Rapture - two new capes. Preview here

Elite reward: Manticore Binding Collar - an item to trade in for a mount (decay timers based on renown bracket). Mounts can be Previewed here, and magus discs Preview here.

Daemon Moon Masks: There are a total of thirteen Daemon Moon masks, they can be acquired through a variety of ways (3 via quest, 2 via PQ, 4 via random 'box' roll, and 4 from player drops) Preview here Masks decay into permanent versions without their buffs.

R'nyth the Sweet Whisperer ORvR PQ

The Dark Prince's very own favored one, R'nyth the Sweet Whisperer, has emerged from the Chaos Realm this Daemon Moon. Join your realm in battling the R'nyth the Sweet Whisperer in the Chaos Wastes, while you hold back the opposing realm. This PQ will include a handful of rewards exclusive to the PQ, such as the new Dancer's Mask of Joy and Dancer's Mask of Sorrow masks.

Pan de Monium

What are Daemon Moon celebrations without a bit of Pan de Monium? This Estalian bread is specially baked during the Daemon Moon, with bakers leaving small gifts, or tricks, for their unwitting customers. Pan de Monium can be acquired either by completing the Imp Games quest, or purchasing it from the Suspicious Masked Peddler. Pan de Monium contains over two dozen possible rewards, ranging from potions and talismans, to dyes and masks, or perhaps even a precious aegis for the lucky few. What does Pan de Monium have in store for you?

Dyes

Seven new dyes per major Chaos god, for a total of twenty eight new dyes, are available for regular purchase during the Daemon Moon Rising. As the Daemon Moon Rising is Slaanesh-themed, Slaanesh themed dyes sell for gold, while dyes associated with other gods require a small additional sacrifice. Additionally, players who participate in the ORvR public quest and acquire Bittersweet Essence can turn it in at the dye vendor for three new, and unique to this live event, specular dyes. These dyes are available only during this live event, for those who wish to expand their colorful horizons.

Dye previews are available here, but please be aware that the colors may apply differently on different base armor colors. We recommend to use an addon such as Pocket Palette to see how this dye will look on your armor.

Live Event Shoppe

A Suspicious Masked Peddler has set up shop in the Altdorf Slums, and secluded room near the Apex of the Inevitable City. This vendor will gladly accept your gold and daemon fingers while the Daemon Moon is up, but please be aware that once the Daemon Moon falls, he too will fade from your life. Here players can buy new unique dyes, or a bit of Pan de Monium.

We've all been there: the internet hiccups mid-fight, and after you log back in you find yourself in the warcamp miles away from the fight. Not any more!

When your connection drops while you're in the world, your character now stays in the game for 60 seconds. Log back in to the same character within that time and you'll pick up exactly where you left off: same spot, same health, buffs still running, still in your group, your scenario or your dungeon instance.

• While disconnected, your character stays visible and can still be attacked and killed. If you were killed, you'll come back dead where you fell and can release as usual.
• If you're still in RvR combat when the 60 seconds run out, the existing penalty for disconnecting from combat still applies. Pulling the plug is not a way out of a fight!
• Logging out normally works as before, with no 60-second wait.
• Logging in a different character on the same account ends the wait straight away.

This is brand new, so please report anything odd, with the time and both characters' names if someone else was involved.

Chat has been rebuilt from the ground up on the server. Most of it should feel familiar, but there's a lot that's new:

• Custom chat channels: create or join your own channel with /channeljoin followed by a name. Channels belong to your realm, and you stay a member across relogs. Use /channelleave (with the name or slot number), /channellist to see your channels, and /channelwho to see who's in one.
• Your channel choices are remembered: leaving Region or Advice is remembered across relogs, and you can rejoin any time. The Region-RvR channel is available inside RvR lakes.
• Better ignore: /ignore now tells you exactly what it blocks, and you can remove players with /ignoreremove.
• No more flood kicks: typing too fast no longer disconnects you. Instead you'll see "Slow down! Think before you say each word!" and the extra lines aren't sent.

Keeping chat clean

• A line containing a banned word is no longer sent ("Your message was not sent: it contains a word that is not allowed.") and you are no longer muted for it. The filter is also much better at catching disguised spellings, and much less likely to catch everyday words.
• Players who keep flooding chat are muted automatically for 10 minutes.
• While muted, you can still talk to your party and guild, send tells and mail to your friends, and reply to people who whispered you.
• Starting tell conversations with lots of different players in a short time is now limited, and more tightly for low-level characters. Friends, guildmates and replies are not affected.

Public chat logging

Public channels are now logged for 14 days for moderation. Private messages are not stored unless they're reported. You'll see a short reminder about this in chat each time you log in.

This is a big change under the hood, so please let us know if a channel, tell or message isn't going where it should.

NPC and pet movement has been rebuilt on a brand new navigation system that covers each region as a whole, instead of zone by zone, and the way NPCs chase, fight and walk home has been reworked to match how they behaved on the original live servers.

Getting around

• NPCs chasing you now follow the ground you could walk: round buildings, through doorways, over bridges, up slopes and stairs, and across zone borders, instead of cutting through walls or stopping dead.
• NPCs stay on their own floor in keeps and multi-level buildings.
• Large creatures now take routes wide enough for their size instead of squeezing through gaps.
• Land creatures stop at the edge of deep water instead of walking along the lake bed.
• Closed keep and dungeon doors now block NPC paths properly, and destroyed doors let them through.

In a fight

• Melee NPCs now stop a short distance in front of you, as they did on live.
• When several NPCs fight the same target, they now spread out round it instead of stacking on one spot, and step back out of each other when they get crowded.
• An NPC that can only get part of the way to you waits at the closest point it can reach. One that has no way to reach you at all now gives up after 5 seconds and goes home, instead of walking straight through walls or floating towards you. Dungeon NPCs keep fighting, so encounters don't reset on you.
• A fight where nobody has dealt or taken any damage for 30 seconds now ends. This doesn't apply in dungeons.
• Fixed NPCs no longer turning to face their target after they had been stunned.

Crowds

• NPCs now steer round each other and round players while they move, so a pack runs in together instead of walking through one another. Big creatures keep more room around them than small ones.
• Once an NPC is close to its target, it stops steering and walks straight in, so steering barely slows a chase.

Pets

• Pets use the new navigation too. Your pet follows you, and chases its target, round buildings, through doorways, up stairs and across zone borders, instead of cutting through walls or getting stuck.
• Pets spread out round their target along with NPCs, instead of stacking on one spot.

Walking home

• An NPC walking home after a fight can no longer be attacked or affected by abilities until it gets there, and hitting it no longer adds to its hatred.
• An NPC walking home now finishes the walk instead of stopping short when a stun or root held it up.
• Keep and fortress NPCs no longer abandon their patrol or their walk home to head straight back to their post.

Patrols and wanderers

• Patrolling and wandering NPCs now stop while you talk to them, and walk on once you leave or after 3 minutes.
• Wandering creatures now walk at a proper walking pace instead of a slow jog.
• Patrols no longer get stuck on a waypoint they can't quite reach.
• An NPC that is stopped or sent somewhere new no longer sets off along its old route.

Line of sight has also moved to a new system. It should behave as before, with two welcome fixes:

• Walls and terrain on a zone border now block line of sight. Before, anything on the other side of a zone border was always in sight.
• Opening a door in one copy of a dungeon no longer counts it as open in every other copy of that dungeon.

If you find a spot where an NPC or line of sight acts strangely, please send us your /loc.

Guild leaders who stop playing are still replaced after 60 days, but they now get plenty of warning, and the guild goes to someone who actually still plays.

• The leader counts as active whenever any of their characters in the guild logs in.
• After 14 days away, the leader gets an e-mail at the address on their account. Another follows every week, then one a day for the last three days.
• At 60 days, the guild passes to the highest-ranked member who has played in the last 14 days, with the most recent login breaking a tie. If nobody has played in that time, the highest-ranked member seen in the last 60 days takes over. The old leader stays in the guild as an officer.
• A guild is only handed over once its leader has had at least a week's notice, and the leader's own alts are never picked.
• Guilds where nobody else has played for 60 days are left alone, and starter guilds are not affected.

Guild leaders: please make sure the e-mail address on your account is one you actually read!

Bug Fixes

• Turrets now shoot an enemy standing next to them instead of hitting it in melee, so their attacks can no longer be parried. 24616

Bug Fixes

• Pets now keep up with you while you ride Fasta, Quicka or Lazy Squiggy, instead of falling behind and despawning. 23958 24198 25390

Bug Fixes

• Wall of Fire now runs in the direction you're facing, instead of always the same direction. 25785

Bug Fixes

• Pink Horrors and Blue Horrors now shoot an enemy standing next to them instead of hitting it in melee, so their attacks can no longer be parried. 25613

Bug Fixes

• Re-casting the stance you're already in no longer makes your lion lose one of its abilities. 22175 23187

We’ve restructured our groups to better support development and community engagement.

We’ll share more about each group’s priorities, roadmaps, and goals within the coming weeks.

We’ll be recruiting community members for focus groups to help inform future development. A dedicated post will follow with details on how to get involved.

Tier 4 (Annihilator, Mercenary, Ruin) gear is no longer salvageable. As a fix to the itemization, the gear was made 'very rare' to match how armor sets are valued. However, this resulted in players being able to easily obtain 200 fragments from salvaging.

Icons for the Disciple of Khaine's abilities "Khaine's Encouragement" and "Khaine's Force" have been updated.

• Fixed Focused Fire, Lots o' Arrers and Rain of Steel continuing to hit for their full duration even after the target left range, line of sight or the caster's facing, and not draining AP while channelling.
• Fixed fighting keep lords and other keep NPCs keeping you generating morale indefinitely.
• A channel that breaks because your target moved out of range or sight, or because you ran out of action points, now tells you why. 22170
• Detaunting a creature that isn't fighting you no longer makes it attack you. 22307
• A tank taking Guard damage now enters combat with the attacker. 22939
• Range bonuses for ranged attacks, such as Scout Stance's, now also apply to ranged auto attacks. 23798
• Vehement Blades will no longer trigger multiple times when the target does an AoE attack.
• Whazat Behind You?! now only reduces outgoing damage to the detaunted player rather than everyone. Now triggers on being hit rather than on being attacked.
• Tooltip fixed of Daemonic Withering. 25797

• Fixed dungeon mob packs that had reset being pullable one at a time, and a DoT on a reset mob dragging the whole pack back into combat.
• Fixed NPCs continuing to play their cast animation after their cast was interrupted.
• Fixed NPCs sliding forward on your screen while stunned or rooted and then snapping back afterwards.
• Fixed NPCs walking back to their spawn being pullable, and turning to their old facing, before they had actually arrived.
• Fixed NPCs that had been teleported or respawned not turning to face their target.
• Fixed the Orc fortress lord fighting without his Hatred aura after the first reset.
• Wildwood, in the Treekin Twins fight in Hunter's Vale, no longer keeps spawning Half-Hewn Spites after a wipe. 24148
• Completed single-boss dungeon runs, such as the Bastion Stair boss instances, now keep their boss kill in the dungeon records. 25652

• Fixed rooted players being unable to turn.
• Fixed fall damage sometimes not applying (or using the wrong height) when you jumped or stepped off a ledge right after landing.
• Fixed lava damage in Tor Anroc being avoidable by jumping repeatedly. 16342
• Fixed logging out or crashing while dead in The Maw, or in combat in Migliod's Menagerie, putting you on a mountain. You now respawn at the point linked to the area you were in. 20064 25113
• Pulling players through a one-way barrier is now blocked. 25167

• Tier 1 supplies can no longer be returned at the enemy warcamp's banner. 14965
• Returning supplies in a Tier 1 zone is now announced in RvR chat, as it is in Tiers 2 to 4. 18796
• Fixed the city siege objective "Fires Extinguished" being misspelled. 16058

• Fixed inviting a grouped player who is in a scenario to your party doing nothing.
• Fixed party members who released to a distant respawn point showing as "distant" on party frames until the group changed.
• Fixed /assist on a group member not working after a teleport until they retargeted something.
• When a player moves to another scenario party or leaves, the party they left now loses their guard, runes and marks. 15680 17192 25054

• Fixed queuing for another scenario while an invite was waiting declining that invite and giving you a quitter penalty.
• Fixed queuing for several scenarios at once sometimes failing just as a quitter penalty expired.
• Fixed the scenario timer showing the wrong total duration.
• Fixed the scenario scoreboard showing every player's career under its male name (mostly visible on French and German clients).
• Accepting a scenario while in the Winds of Chaos no longer teleports you back to the Inevitable City with a quitter penalty. 19602
• Accepting a scenario while your War Report was still casting no longer pulls you straight back out of the scenario with a quitter penalty. 25736
• .surrender now tells you how many seconds are left until a vote can be started. 25338

• Capturing a fortress now counts once towards capture-fortress quests, instead of once for each group member nearby, such as The Gauntlet. 22414
• An unfinished quest that was saved before its objectives were changed is now dropped at login, so it can be taken again with its current objectives, such as Crypts Resanctified. 22758
• A timed quest whose objectives were all done in time no longer fails when the timer runs out on the way to hand it in, such as On Your Marks... 22879
• Emoting at a friendly NPC now counts for the quest even when you still have an enemy targeted, such as Stunties is Fer Bashin'. 24628
• Clicking a loot object for a quest, such as the shards in Faith is Madness or the seeds in Shedding Layers, opens its loot window again. 24718 24738 24956 25053 25250
• Items picked up before their objective opens now count once it does, such as the halfling in The Bloody Maul. 25207
• Quest objects can no longer be used before the step they belong to, such as the Display Pike in Legend and Infamy. 25555
• Items you already carry now count towards a quest's collect objectives when you accept it, such as the book for A Token of Home. 25594
• Making a party public on your own, or moving between parties in a warband, no longer counts towards the party-joining Tome unlocks. 17229
• Going into water or lava unarmored counts towards its Tome unlocks again. 23218
• Tome tactic fragments from bestiary unlocks now count towards their tactic. Fragments you've already earned are counted when you log in. 24137

• Fixed timed items from vendors, quest rewards and item links showing their expiry counting down before you owned them.
• Fixed trade-in vendors offering swaps for items your career can never use (e.g. a Choppa being offered a Witchstaff trade).
• Right-clicking an item in the backpack overflow slot now moves it back into your bags. 11937
• A charm or a shield can now only take the appearance of another charm or shield. Appearances that no longer fit, such as a sword's look on a charm, have been removed. 20812
• A city bank no longer shows another city's bank items in the rows you haven't bought yet. 22950
• A merchant now tells you why a broken item can't be repaired yet, such as the rank its repaired item needs, instead of doing nothing. 23951
• Changed Weapon Skill to Initiative on Healer Torment Cloaks (random world drops) 15992 15993
• - Removed the wrong German localization text for the City-Watch Engineer's helm. Goodbye Ranch.25874

• Fixed crafting items such as seeds not showing in the crafting bag for characters without a trade skill.
• Butchering or scavenging a creature no longer pays out its money a second time. 24801
• Taking an item from, or closing, an object's loot window no longer uses the object again. 24944
• Until now, dying to an NPC gave nobody anything. The enemy player who did the most damage now gets the credit. XP, renown, influence and the loot drop chance are scaled by the share of the damage that came from players. 23109

• Fixed very full mailboxes failing to open; the mailbox now shows up to 100 mails, unread first, and tells you if the mail server doesn't respond.
• Fixed Take All in the mailbox not showing the items it had already taken when your bags filled up partway through.
• An attachment that doesn't fit in your bags now stays in the mail, instead of being lost. 23825

• Fixed "Remove Ignore" in the Social window not working, and /ignoreadd on someone already ignored un-ignoring them.
• Your AFK message is now sent as an auto-reply to anyone who /tells you.
• Fixed "/sp 3 text" sending to your own party with the "3" left in the message, instead of to scenario party 3.
• Fixed emotes from NPCs too far away to see showing up in chat.
• Many in-game notifications (keep door destroyed, zone locks, guild and quest errors) now appear in your client's language.
• Death messages now name the ability that dealt the killing blow, and a pet's killing blow names the ability that summoned it instead of "Unknown". 23407
• Fixed Discord sometimes showing a level in the hundreds.

• A second yes/no question, such as an alliance invite, is no longer answered "No" by the timer of the question before it. 15871
• Shift + right-click now empties a morale slot. 23206
• Fixed keep heraldry on the map going wrong in long play sessions.
• Fixed the auto-loot in RvR setting not being saved.

• Fixed buff and debuff visual effects replaying their application animation when a player came into view.
• Fixed some NPCs and mounts drawing flat white or see-through near lights.
• Using an ability while mounted now plays its cast animation once you've dismounted, instead of on your next cast.
• Character select now shows items with an appearance applied in the item's own colours. 15774 16005

• Deaths caused only by your own side, such as a Talabec Dam keg carried by an ally or Kurnous in Hunter's Vale, no longer show up as kills on the killboard. 22255 22691 22771
• Dying to an NPC no longer records a PvP kill on the killboard by an enemy who hit you earlier, for example in a scenario you've since left. 23597
• Skirmish kill damage on the killboard no longer includes the victim's damage to themselves, such as a Bright Wizard's backlash. 23147
• The killboard's item search now shows every career's own armour, shields and weapons, including Squig Herder, Engineer, Magus, Warrior Priest, Disciple of Khaine and Choppa gear. 22276 23076 24627
• The Armory can show hidden quests again, such as The Wrong Type of Winds. 24947

• Fixed a crash when loading models after playing for a long time.
• Fixed a crash when exiting the game.