Heroes!
The fated merge is here! After putting the vote to the community, Kil’jaeden and Area 52 are merging into a single Hybrid Risk Realm!
Based on the player polls, Heroes on both Kil’jaeden and Area 52 have expressed their desire to see realms merged. This carries with it some hefty changes to the combined realm which will ensure all Heroes can continue to enjoy Ascension however they like:
Realm Overview
- The Merged Realm will be Hybrid Risk
- Heroes who want nothing to do with High Risk can stay in No Risk mode and never worry about it.
- A Pure PvE Mode is in development for No Risk
- This means you will be able to toggle off PvP in a No Risk ruleset
- Heroes who enjoy High Risk can still play in it
- The Hybrid Risk System also allows Heroes interested in both risk modes can swap at their leisure.
- The merge will double the population
- Both Kil’jaeden and Area 52 have roughly the same population, and the merge will double the pop.
- Experience Rates are the same
- The Character Archive will increase name availability and stability
- With the successful Character Archive realm in place, tons of new names will be available on the merged realm
- Realm Restarts should be around 3 minutes, and crashes will be less frequent
PvE
- PvE content remains unchanged. Raid gear is Soulbound
- Raid Gear no longer drops in the High Risk open world
- Only Bloodforged PvP gear drops which is a PvP only variant
- Bloodforged gear gives a massive debuff when you enter a Raid with it
- Burning Crusade Dungeon Gear is Soulbound
- Green items are Unbound
PvP
- Heroes will be able use Fel-commutation to insure all equipment slots in High Risk
- Heroes now have the option to risk only gold in the High Risk Open World
- Bind-on-Pickup items cannot drop in High Risk.
- Soulbound gear drops, but it becomes Bloodforged
On Tuesday, October 6th, we will be bringing both realms down for maintenance to conduct the merge! There is a lot of character data between these two realms and we expect maintenance to be lengthy. When the realm goes live again, Heroes can look forward to meeting new allies, slaying new enemies, and continuing their legend on the new realm!
See you there, Heroes.
