The Dark Hollow Saga - Event Guide

[Cinco]

The Dark Hollow Saga
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Double-Scenario Event
Scheduled for 6.11 thru 6.25

The fragile settlement of Dark Hollow needs your help!
Talk to Esmi, the founder of Dark Hollow settlement to get started:
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- You'll find her in the Dark Forest Towne.

Token Vendor Items
- Esmi sells character-bound versions of the new event vanity items:

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- She also sells Keys to the Realm, a special Pet recipe, and "Hollows" currency packs.
- Esmi will give you some background on the Dark Hollow Settlers' event if you ask.

Individual Tier Event
The "Dark Hollow Saga" is an individual Leaderboard Event with Bronze, Silver and Gold Tier Rewards!
- This is not a competitive Leaderboard Event. There are no special rewards for Top Ranked Players.
- Earn a Victory Tier to collect special prizes from Esmi on 6.25 (until 6.28, 1:30PM CT).
- Collect 10K points to unlock Bronze Tier
- Earn 30K points for Silver Tier
- 50K points for Gold Tier

Scenario Score
- Points are awarded after successful completion of either the 'escort' or 'defense' scenarios.
- Both scenarios have the same number of enemies and offer the same maximum number of possible event points per run:
- Escort
- 50 points for getting Esmi past each of her three (3) encounters (for a total of 150 points).
- 50 additional points for defeating "Amok the Armored Troll."
- Defense
- 50 points for each building that surives to the end (for a total 150 points).
- 50 additional points for defeating the "Wytch of the Wood."

Dark Hollow Event Tier Rewards
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Bronze Tier:
- One Bronze Key to the Realm
- Character-bound "Classic Forest" Vanity Set (shown above)
- 100K Gold

Silver Tier:
- One Silver Key to the Realm
- Character-bound "Classic Forest" Vanity Set
- 200K Gold

Gold Tier:
- Choice of Hard, Wild or Greedy Barky pet
- One Gold Key to the Realm
- Character-bound "Classic Forest" Vanity Set
- The "Dark Angel" Title
- 350K Gold

Dark Hollow Event Loot
Skeletons, "Amok the Armored Troll" and the "Wytch of the Wood" have a chance to drop:
- Experience Orbs (for characters below Level 110)
- Experience Kits, up to 5K XP!
- The Admiral's Funeral Dress and Bicorne vanities.
- The Dark Hollow Trader's Hat and Vest vanities (trade-friendly versions of vendor items).
- The Dark Hollow Nymph's Raiment and Helm vanities (trade-friendly versions of vendor items).
- The Classic Forest Armor and Helmet vanities (Note: these vanity items are all class-specific).
- Hollowtree Pulp crafting component.
- Witchwood Fiber crafting component.
- Dark Hollow Weave crafting component.
- Forest Life Energy crafting component (required to evolve 'Barky the Log').
- Traveling Trader's Fabric component (required to craft the Admiral's Funeral vanity).
- Epic, Legendary and Elite Level 110 equipment.
- and the Locked Dark Hollow Settler's Crate

The Locked Dark Hollow Settler's Crate costs 5 Platinum to open and contains:
- The Dark Hollow Wytch Mask vanity.
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- The Dark Hollow Trader's Hat and Vest vanities.
- The Dark Hollow Nymph's Raiment and Helm vanities.
- The Classic Forest Armor and Helmet vanities.
- Gold Stash item packs, up to 50K Gold.
- Elixir Kits, up to 5X Damage, Experience and Speed.
- Elite and Mythical equipment.
- Bronze, Silver and Gold Realm Keys.
- QTR, HEMI, and PUR 'Stat' weapons.
- Crafting recipe for 'Hard Barky' pet.
- Crafting recipe for 'Wild Barky' pet.
- Crafting recipe for 'Greedy Lord Barksdale' pet.
- Crafting recipe for the Admiral's Funeral Dress vanity armor.
- Crafting recipe for the Admiral's Funeral Bicorne vanity helm.

Crafting the 'Evolved Log'
Get "My Barky" from Esmi just for the fun of it... or craft him into a power-pet!
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To give "Barky" a stat boost...
- Purchase "My Barky" from Esmi for tokens.
- Use "My Barky" in combination with looted crafting components and recipes to craft trade-friendly "Barky" (with Esmi's help).
- Then you can use trade-friendly "Barky," more looted components and recipes to craft one of three (3) evolved companions:
- Hard Barky
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- Wild Barky
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- Greedy Lord Barksdale
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Dark Hollow Event Tokens
- You will earn tokens for completing either of the event scenarios.
- They are listed as "Hollows" in your satchel:
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- If you have Event Tokens left over from the Birthday Celebration you can use them to purchase Hollows (exchange rate is 2:1).
- Esmi sells most items for Hollows, a few for Platinum and two 'currency conversion' packs for the Birthday Event Tokens.

How to Play
- Use the "Let's Play" option when talking to Esmi to bring up the 'Legendary Events' campaign category of your World Map.
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- Host a game with a Password to get the option to Force Start either scenario.
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Hope you enjoy saving Dark Hollow! :-)

[Flambladom]

What section are the arcane drops at

[TommyShelby]

Tysm Cinco ^.^

[beniamin]

What section are the arcane drops at

I’ve been watching your comments on the other thread too and I’m not sure if you can’t read or just want to annoy ppl.

[Tpfelblatt]

You have listed "crafting recipe for Admiral's Funeral Dress and Bicorne" as loot from locked Dark Hollow Settler's crate Does this mean that the dropped Funeral Dress and Bicorne are character-bound and have to be crafted to be made trade-friendly? And are the contents of locked and unlocked Dark Hollow Settler's crate the same?

[Vapourised]

Just confused about the locked crate.
Does it only drop mythic weapons or other mythic pieces too?

[Cinco]

Both crafted and looted versions of the Admiral's Funeral vanity are trade-friendly.
Contents of the locked and unlocked are the same. Difference is price and trade status.
Unlocked costs 100 for a single instant pull.
Locked costs 50 for a trade-friendly crate that you (or whomever you trade it to) can open for 5 Platinum.

[_Reunited_]

wow looks awesome! Will definitely return for this one. Ty STS [emoji108]

[3pc]

Cinco why did u play with the honor sets.. pvp so different now we dont like it. You have to switch it back this just ruins ffa style and everything not sure if u did dmg reduction or increased armor or something but its destroying the ends of honor pvp.

[Vapourised]

Yeah I’ve been experiencing the same issue with L100 honor sets. There appears to be a big dmg reduction.
However, 105 elite honor does not seem to have this issue funnily enough

[XghostzX]

Cinco why did u play with the honor sets.. pvp so different now we dont like it. You have to switch it back this just ruins ffa style and everything not sure if u did dmg reduction or increased armor or something but its destroying the ends of honor pvp.

+1

#11chars

[Dolloway]

Change Honor pvp back to what it was please.

Every so often it seems that the dmg modifiers get changed and dmg gets reduced drastically, making level 100 Honor pvp (and other pvp levels/gear) unbalanced. I think this has accidentally happened 3 times over the last year.

Hopefully this was just another accident and can be fixed in the update tomorrow or sooner. There is a 5v5 Honor tourney currently going on and this will no doubt affect it if not changed.

[Waug]

It's a global dmg reduction, most likely to reduce dmg at myth pvp and since it's a global modifier honor is effected, which shouldn't be the case, honor is unplayable now for most of the part and about elite, it took 9 full combos to kill one mage elite vs elite. No point.

And this global dmg reduction wont solve myth pvp, seriously. Auto dmage (arcane boat) is too high either lower it or reduce the range significantly or both. Suppressing the skill damage for auto damage is one of the worst thing to do now since buff debuffs already playing minimal role here.
I mean really what in the world in PL a high auto damage bow got 13m+ range?

2- No point rhinos almost all damage at one combo, it's ridiculous already and since even after dmg reduction rhinos will be still able to do 2hit kill because of that the difference I can clearly see will be more, rhino 2 hit kill (one combo) and it will require more skill to kill rhino.
Again what in the world rhino is doing 2 hit kill since L100 pvp?

[3pc]

It's a global dmg reduction, most likely to reduce dmg at myth pvp and since it's a global modifier honor is effected, which shouldn't be the case, honor is unplayable now for most of the part and about elite, it took 9 full combos to kill one mage elite vs elite. No point.

And this global dmg reduction wont solve myth pvp, seriously. Auto dmage (arcane boat) is too high either lower it or reduce the range significantly or both. Suppressing the skill damage for auto damage is one of the worst thing to do now since buff debuffs already playing minimal role here.
I mean really what in the world in PL a high auto damage bow got 13m+ range?

2- No point rhinos almost all damage at one combo, it's ridiculous already and since even after dmg reduction rhinos will be still able to do 2hit kill because of that the difference I can clearly see will be more, rhino 2 hit kill (one combo) and it will require more skill to kill rhino.
Again what in the world rhino is doing 2 hit kill since L100 pvp?

We want pvp back to how it used be, take it all back!

[Cinco]

Changes to Honor were not intentional. We are looking into what might have caused this change (as nothing was deliberately changed in the data that governs Honor balance).

[tintindu]

Hard for LVL 10- 20

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[Ifeast]

For Escort please reward us tokens once we kill all the mobs, waiting for the wagon is slow. Also for Defense, the end screen is in the middle of our screens so we cant see the loot.

[Futumsh]

For Escort please reward us tokens once we kill all the mobs, waiting for the wagon is slow. Also for Defense, the end screen is in the middle of our screens so we cant see the loot.

If you patch, the defense end screen can be minimized.

[Flambladom]

More drops, only been 1 day and everyone has everything

[Dolloway]

Not sure I understand how points are scored for each run. It honestly seems random unless I'm missing something?

I've mostly been running Escort. According to this post, players receive 50 points for completing each encounter for having Esmi's wagon survive for a total of 150 points and an additional 50 points for killing Amok, making the total points able to be received for a run 200.

However, I'm getting a seemingly random number of points between 200, 250, 450, 500, 550, 600 (650?), 750, and 800. Probably others too, but these are numbers that I have noticed thus far.

I'm fine if you decided to increase the points players are eligible to receive each run, but I still don't understand why it's seemingly random between 250-800 points. I'm doing the same thing each run.

Edit: Sometimes when I remake the map, it seems like I earn an extra 50-100 points at random as well.

[Faq]

Not sure I understand how points are scored for each run. It honestly seems random unless I'm missing something?

I've mostly been running Escort. According to this post, players receive 50 points for completing each encounter for having Esmi's wagon survive for a total of 150 points and an additional 50 points for killing Amok, making the total points able to be received for a run 200.

However, I'm getting a seemingly random number of points between 200, 250, 450, 500, 550, 600 (650?), 750, and 800. Probably others too, but these are numbers that I have noticed thus far.

I'm fine if you decided to increase the points players are eligible to receive each run, but I still don't understand why it's seemingly random between 250-800 points. I'm doing the same thing each run.

Edit: Sometimes when I remake the map, it seems like I earn an extra 50-100 points at random as well.

Same for me, in four consecutive runs of escort I got 650, 300, 250, 550 points. Possibly an explanation as to why is it is so easy to reach gold tier? Only took about 2 and a half hours.

[Cinco]

Same for me, in four consecutive runs of escort I got 650, 300, 250, 550 points. Possibly an explanation as to why is it is so easy to reach gold tier? Only took about 2 and a half hours.

Seems like there is an issue with the awarding of points. I will take a look.

In the meantime - enjoy! ;-)

[Cinco]

Event point inconsistencies are now fixed.

[3pc]

Can we add better stuff in the chests please? They seem like a flop only selling at 20k in cs.

[Dolloway]

I've been trying to help a friend level up. It seems that he cannot drop experience kits, or they're very rare in comparison to 110s dropping them. Is it true that players under level 110 cannot drop them at all?

As of right now, it seems like it might be more advantageous to run on a level 110 and farm experience kits in order to level up another toon instead of actually farming orbs on the toon under 110. I'll have to try myself on a lower level toon later on, but this is just a quick observation I've noticed after running on my 110 with a friend who was leveling up.

[Cinco]

There is a much better chance for kits at 110. Lower level characters have a chance to drop orbs and it’s much more likely that they’ll get an orb as opposed to a kit.

[crephestus]

Cinco, there is an error in an item from the Esmi store. the Gold Realm Key Kit does not open the farm zone. I made the purchase earlier today, the zone is not unblocked and the elixir continues to count down. I was collecting for many hours in order to buy this key and I had a loss of 9 k of hollows. ;(

[3pc]

Cinco, there is an error in an item from the Esmi store. the Gold Realm Key Kit does not open the farm zone. I made the purchase earlier today, the zone is not unblocked and the elixir continues to count down. I was collecting for many hours in order to buy this key and I had a loss of 9 k of hollows. ;(

It only lasts 5mins which is a big shame, but yeah it countsdown no matter what so at most u can get 2 runs in just host and rejoin no time to do anything else.

[Dolloway]

It only lasts 5mins which is a big shame, but yeah it countsdown no matter what so at most u can get 2 runs in just host and rejoin no time to do anything else.

They should last for 30 minutes or so, or should be much more common than they currently are. Using 9000 tokens to get one Gold Realm Key that lasts 5 minutes seems like a significant waste of tokens.

You get 25 tokens per Escort or Defense run. This means it takes 360 runs to farm enough tokens to purchase one Gold Realm Key that only lasts 5 minutes. How long are Escort or Defense runs? Let's hypothetically say 2 minutes to keep it on the low side, probably more. That means a player has to farm at the very least 12 hours to get enough tokens to buy one Gold Realm Key that lasts only 5 minutes. That seems like a very bad deal to me.

EDIT: I thought about it a bit more.

To put it into further perspective...

With 9000 tokens you can buy 90 of the unlocked Hollow Crates which I think give you one item. This means you'll gain 90 random items and those 90 random items will probably be worth more than the 2.5m or so you would have gained with the Gold Realm Key.

[crephestus]

Today I used a total of 5,000 hollows to open 50 lootbox. There are many items in the box, in large quantities I won Elixirs, Elite items, small amounts of gold (250, 500, 1000) and some vanitys that unfortunately are devaluing in the market due to the high quantity, in addition many players prefer to get the items by playing the event. With the exception of the Wytch Mask, Admiral Funeral, Barky and their rarer upgrade Recipes, it is not so easy to sell event items in the CS store.

I didn't find lootboxes so viable since they are random items and in fact there are many, and luck is not always luck's on our side.

Unfortunately in a time of five minutes can be done just two runs in the gold farm, but I believe that with items that give gold bonuses like the Green Godpeed amulet 400% you can make a higher amount of gold.

I recommend that you do not buy the key until you fix the bug that the gold farm does not unlock.

[Cinco]

The Bronze, Silver and Gold Realm keys appear to work just fine. I verified each on my alts and had no problem entering each zone. Are you sure you know where to look (Hosting Legendary Events Campaign, turning the page, etc.)? If you are still confident that it “doesn’t work” please explain the steps you are following to locate, host and enter the Gold maps. Thanks!

[crephestus]

On the 12th in Ursan Weald, just before the update, I bought the Gold Key, opened the Legendary Event map and went to the right golden arrows until I reached Gold Tier Treasure. It was locked. I went to shadow cave, tried there again and opened legendary events, Gold Tier Treasure and nothing. I opened my Avatar, went to Elixir Burffs and the elixir was counting before entering the farm dung. The elixir is over, I continued my run, hours later I emailed the suport.
I don't know if it was a glitch or a bug. I was very sad and discouraged after it happened because I never had such a that kind of problem .

[Cinco]

On the 12th in Ursan Weald, just before the update, I bought the Gold Key, opened the Legendary Event map and went to the right golden arrows until I reached Gold Tier Treasure. It was locked. I went to shadow cave, tried there again and opened legendary events, Gold Tier Treasure and nothing. I opened my Avatar, went to Elixir Burffs and the elixir was counting before entering the farm dung. The elixir is over, I continued my run, hours later I emailed the suport.
I don't know if it was a glitch or a bug. I was very sad and discouraged after it happened because I never had such a that kind of problem .

Customer service will be able to help for sure. At what point in this process did you go open the Gold Key and see the message that the Elixir was active? I’m curious but CS will also want to know so they can address the issue. Thanks!

[3pc]

When are u adjusting to PL to fit on the iphone 10 and 11’s? I just got the 11 and this is terrible for me playing wise lol everything is shifted to like the left.

[crephestus]

Customer service will be able to help for sure. At what point in this process did you go open the Gold Key and see the message that the Elixir was active? I’m curious but CS will also want to know so they can address the issue. Thanks!

Seconds after buying at the store I equipped my gold farm set and activated the elixir, the message appeared and immediately afterwards I confirmed with the appearance of the elixir emblem in the upper left corner. I don't remember the exact minutes the event occurred but it was between 9:00 9:30 AM as soon as I completed my first 9k of hollows.

I emailed support
Thank you very much Cinco.

[Ilovepve]

Thanks a lot cinco it was Definitely worth farming new vantiys they look amazing

[dmt]

Thanks a lot cinco it was Definitely worth farming new vantiys they look amazingindded. they look good :)

[ceanizeu]

There is a much better chance for kits at 110. Lower level characters have a chance to drop orbs and it’s much more likely that they’ll get an orb as opposed to a kit.

There is NO, zero chance for xp kits at lvls under 110. Yea orbs, someone that need xp getting 150xp orb and 110lvl max lvl gets 2500xp kit, fair af.

[Kebageok]

On the 12th in Ursan Weald, just before the update, I bought the Gold Key, opened the Legendary Event map and went to the right golden arrows until I reached Gold Tier Treasure. It was locked. I went to shadow cave, tried there again and opened legendary events, Gold Tier Treasure and nothing. I opened my Avatar, went to Elixir Burffs and the elixir was counting before entering the farm dung. The elixir is over, I continued my run, hours later I emailed the suport.
I don't know if it was a glitch or a bug. I was very sad and discouraged after it happened because I never had such a that kind of problem .



I had the same problem as this guy ... I was very nervous when I activated the key gold and I couldn't find the map. My first reaction was to log out of the account and search for information with some friends on the Whatsapp app. In about 15 minutes later, they responded by saying that there was an arrow and I would have to click on it ... I entered as quickly as possible to see if it was true, but the map they indicated was blocked. So I decided to look at the elixir's page to see if there was something wrong and there really was. My key gold elixir is gone, sold out! And I want to take advantage of it ... All my time playing and making hollows tokens was worthless. Although logging out of my account I imagined that the elixir time would pause, but apparently he kept counting. Tic tac, tic tac ...

It is sad that you want something so badly and for a moment your opportunity goes away from nowhere !!!

I sent a ticket to support and maybe I can be rewarding.

[Evil Weirdo]

What will be in the vendor after the event?

[Devaux]

Love the event. Love the loot. Dont like that most hosted games are locked and you have to sit for about 10 minutes sometimes just to fill (or get even just 1 player) to join so that you can force start. Wishing that it was scaled event or had solo mode. Hopefully there will be a xp event sometime soon...or 2x xp even...been stuck behind for years now lol

[Lalaanica]

A bit sad when I come online and not one game is available, can we for some better loot from these crates?

[Maosachic]

Love the event. Love the loot. Dont like that most hosted games are locked and you have to sit for about 10 minutes sometimes just to fill (or get even just 1 player) to join so that you can force start. Wishing that it was scaled event or had solo mode. Hopefully there will be a xp event sometime soon...or 2x xp even...been stuck behind for years now lol
you can solo, ive solod probably 60-70k

[3pc]

Not really sure what the point it was to have the “classic green” sets as loot considering they are already incredibly cheap, pretty much worthless gold or in fact any tier vanitys. Would of at least been somewhat cool if it wasnt. Hope during tmr’s cooldown we can see some vanity weps added for these new sets or something different.