Realm vs Realm

Who can participate in Realm vs Realm?

• Technically anyone can participate in realm vs realm. But with the current game design Realm vs Realm is mostly a level 32+ activity.
• To port to another realm's frontier you must purchase a necklass and put it on (then wait for the teleport ceremony). There is no level requirement (but it's recommended you be at least level 15).

Is it safe to venture into the frontier?

• So far it seems fairly safe to venture out into the "newbie" frontier (for Albion this is Forest Sauvage) with a group of level 12+ players. Remember that if you are ambushed and killed by other players you lose nothing (no exp loss, no gravestone, no item or money loss, nothing but the time it takes to walk from your last bind point to whatever you want to do next) See the exception noted below however for players that are wounded by wildlife and then killed by another player.

What does it require to capture a keep?

• Essentially to take a keep you need a group of 35+ players.
• Rumor is that to take a relic keep requires level 40+ players.

What good are Realm Points?

• Short answer: Your skills improve.

• Here is a direct quote from Mythic's patch 1.37c notes:
  
  " Here is a short description of Realm points, levels, and titles. There are 100 total realm levels, which are sub-divided into 11 ranks, each of which has a title and potentially a gift associated with it. When you gain your first Realm point (by engaging in RvR combat), you will be promoted to Rank 1, level 1. As you continue to fight in RvR, your next level will be Rank 1, level 2, and so forth. When you gain Rank 1, level 9, your next level gain will promote you to Rank 2, level 1. At Rank 2, you will gain a Realm Rank and a new title. You will gain these new titles and ranks at levels 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 70, 80, 90, and 100. So, you must be 10th Realm Level (Rank 2) before you will see your Realm Title change.

  Starting with this version, when you gain a Realm Rank, you will gain a 1 point bonus to each of your specializations per Rank. So, a player of Realm Rank 5 would have a total of +5 (i.e. one per realm rank) to all his skills. A maxed out RvR player would have a +10 to all skills. Please note that this acts just as if that player has a magic object that "buffs" skills - i.e. you will not get abilities awarded to you because of the bonuses, but for combat and other calculations, the buff will be included in the formula.

  In the (near) future, we plan on having a slightly more robust Realm Rank gifts, where you gain cash rewards for RvR combat, and at some point after that, additional skills and abilities. We'll give you all more information about that when the time comes."

Can I lose anything by being killed by another player?

• In general the answer is no. However... If you are down so much as a single hit point from monster damage when you are killed by another player, you will lose exp/con. It seems unfair, but the alternative is more unbalancing to the game – people would fight monsters, and if it looked like they were going to lose, they’d suicide on the nearest guard and gain risk free, no-loss experience. Leveling on the frontier is not meant to be risk-free – the possibility of someone taking advantage of your weakened state is a clear and present danger. The other side of the coin (enemies using the native fauna to cause you to suffer) is considered a tactic. It’s not terribly NICE, but war… isn’t.

Siege Weapons

• Siege weapons deteriorate reasonably quickly (roughly 20-30 minutes) if they are not maintained (repaired). If they are repaired they still last only about an hour before they can't be repaired any more. To repair a siege weapon requires ??? (Mythic's stating that it requires weapon crafting skill of 300+ is wrong - several of us have repaired a siege weapon with less than 300 points of weaponcrafting skill).
• Siege weapons can not be moved once built (only rotated and aimed).
• Mythic's Siegecrafting Guide
• The most common problem people seem to have with using a catapult (onager, etc) is not knowing / understanding that you must select a ground target (i.e. use F5 and your arrow keys to pick a spot on the ground in the distance).

Keep Doors

• Repairing a keep door requires woodworking skill
• Each repair attempt may repair up to 10% of the door's health (depending on your skill).
• The chance for a repair to be successful depends on your woodworking skill. (this is very much like your chance to craft an item)
• Upgrading a keep door increases the potential number of hit points a door can have. To actually gain this increase you must repair the door too! Thus upgrading a door really consists of /upgrade /repair.
• Upgrading a door depends on your woodworking skill. At Woodworking of 400 you have the skill to upgrade all the way to level 8.
• You will now come out of hiding when you use the "/repair" command, if you are stealthed.
• Rumor is that even highly upgraded doors can be repaired using cheap wood. But you need a lot more wood. For instance one Elm board is worth four Rowan boards. While it is certainly lighter to carry less higher quality wood, it can be astronomically expensive.
• Rumor: keep doors will very slowly repair themselves.
• Repairing a door now takes 20 seconds to go through the entire repair cycle. Previously, it took 5 seconds, which enabled one or two players to hold off many enemy players attacking the door.
• According to Mythic (1/25/2002) - it takes four minutes to repair a keep door. (I think this is per upgrade level) So we don't know if the 20 seconds or four minutes figure is correct.

More realm vs realm details:

- Siege weapons can now be repaired using the "/repair" command.

- Magical effects such as stun and mesmerize now "remember" if they have been cast on a player, and if cast again, the spell will last for a shorter duration than the first instance of the spell. This will effect combat vs. monsters as well.

- As of 12/22/2001 - Guilds still get no credit for capturing a keep. Mythic is still working on a fair way to give credit appropriately.

- Guild Realm points are earned as the players earn them. A player with a lot of realm points will not take them to a new guild if they switch to a different guild (they will retain their individual credit for realm points however).

Supply Keep "re-spawning" - You need to prove you can hold the fort. Right after you “win,” you are extremely vulnerable. Only the keep lord instantly respawns, along with the doors and the flags. The next NPC you’ll see will be an archer, and then guards. The supply merchant and the roaming guards of your realm are the last to spawn. For a supply keep to be fully respawned takes a bit less than an hour. Note that regular keeps have the merchants popping right away.