Western Lands: two zones and quests against the clock

The Western Lands are two new zones: Firefly Village for quiet growth and the Silent Lands for those who do not mind company. They work differently from the usual farming spots: monsters drop nothing directly, all rewards come from completed quests.

Getting there and what to do

• Entry through the Dream Stone or the teleport rune (2 August).
• Quests against the clock. Pirate Ingrid gives a quest with exactly 15 minutes on it: kill as many monsters as you can and hand it in before the timer runs out. After handing in you receive experience, spirit and silver for every monster killed (2 August).
• The first quests are open from level 1 to 65, and quests from level 60 to 105 were added in the combat half later (2 August, 5 August).
• Daily quests on leaders. One per day, and at low levels the target is picked at random from several bosses. You may do it in a squad, the timer is 3 hours and it keeps running even after you log out. Reward: experience, spirit, silver and Ash of Origin caskets (4 August).
• Quest texts were rewritten: the exact reward, the time limit and the hand in conditions are visible right away (4 August).

Elite monsters

• Runes show the strength. Elite versions appear among the ordinary monsters: blue runes circle the fivefold ones and red runes the tenfold ones (26 August).
• They hit harder but count for many. Such a monster deals 5 or 10 times more damage and has more health, but on death it counts as 5 or 10 ordinary ones towards the quest (26 August).
• They live 10 minutes, then an ordinary monster takes the spot again. For newcomers monsters from level 2 to 17 never become elite (26 August).

Bosses

• Twenty targets. Difficulty was set for 10 weekly bosses and 10 mini bosses of the combat half, with daily and weekly quests tied to them (6 August).
• Group credit. Bosses from daily quests count when killed as part of a squad (6 August).
• Predictable respawn. Bosses no longer vanish mid fight, and a killed boss returns strictly on its own timer (24 August).

Life in the zones

• Monsters do not attack first, and ordinary creatures respawn quickly (7 August).
• Flying pets work in Firefly Village and fly across the whole zone (5 August).
• Guild orders. Squad, guild and alliance gathering works in Firefly Village and the Silent Lands (22 August).
• Pirate Ingrid trades Sealed Stones, sorted into level tabs (20 August).
• Auto path leads to the nearer of the two Ingrids instead of across the whole map (22 August).
• Bound Crucible resources. Handing in a quest has a chance to give boxes with Crucible of Origins resources. The boxes, the resources, the crafted forms and the finished gear are bound to your character (2 August).

For long farming sessions in these zones the built in game helper on Ctrl and F12 is allowed.

The dates in brackets are the updates the change shipped in. These news posts come out later than the changes themselves: there was simply no time to write them.