Events

EXP Boost Live

For four hours, every monster in the world is worth 25% more experience. It runs four times a week, at fixed times deliberately spread across the week and the clock so that every region gets one in its own evening: a weekday evening for Asia, a Friday evening for Europe, a Saturday evening for Asia and a Sunday afternoon for the Americas and Europe. There is nothing to sign up for and nowhere to travel to — the server announces it to everyone and the bonus applies wherever you are hunting. If you are pushing a level, this is the window to hoard your potions for.

Apocalypse — the coming of Abaddon Live

Once a week the deep maps open and the Apocalypse begins: a twelve-hour window in which a chain of infernal grounds — Infernia, Procella, the Maze and the halls beyond — can be entered, and only then. The event is a countdown made of corpses. Clear the horde on a map and the way onward opens; clear the next and, when the last of them falls, Abaddon itself appears.

You are never guessing how close you are: a counter on your HUD tells the whole server how many monsters are still standing between it and Abaddon. Bringing that number to zero takes a crowd, and killing what walks in after it takes a better one. It is the one fight on this server that no build, however finished, wins alone.

Why events matter

Events are where the server plays together instead of in parallel. An EXP Boost window does not level you on its own — it makes the hours you were going to hunt anyway count for more, which is reason enough to plan a week around it; an Apocalypse is the only content sized for everyone online at once. Both are also the fastest way to meet the people you will end up guilding with — showing up is most of it.