Events

EXP Double Event Live

For an hour and a half, every monster in the world is worth twice the experience. It runs three times a week, on a rotation deliberately spread across the week and the clock so that nobody's timezone gets left out: a weekday morning, a Friday evening and a Sunday afternoon. 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. A double experience window is the cheapest level you will ever gain; 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.