Dear Runes of Magic Community,

Servers and forums are back up again.

We are still analysing the data we have gathered so far and are looking into making changes to the item durability loss issue.

Please be so kind and refrain from reporting this issue or the individual cases of character's losing items. We have enough data on this. If you encounter technical issues, please report them in the technical forums.

Once we have more information for you, we'll keep you updated on our forums.

Thank you for your patience.

Your Runes of Magic Team

The days of the Demon Lord are numbered!

With the end of our chapter „Rise oft he Demon Lord“ a glorious fight erupts against the Lord of Demon and naga alike: Sirloth!

Together with the new raid instance, Runes of Magic is also being expanded with an additional so-called Public Encounter:

The ‘Bloodbath Valley’

This combat area for large groups, located in the Aotulia Volcano is divided into four stages – the challenge for adventurers in the high level area is to master them all. The goal in ‘Bloodbath Valley’ is to stem the threat from the Naga who are receiving support from a powerful Guardian. But on the other hand, players aren’t going to be facing the waves of Naga warriors on their own: Flaming demons as well as special commandoes of Elves will battle side by side with the allied adventurers.

The 'Flower Festival'

On a more peaceful note, it’s all starting right now with the ‘Flower Festival’, the Taborean version of Valentine’s Day. Within this in-game event amorous adventurers can plant roses or get themselves titles or costumes – including a birthday suit. In addition there’s also a new mini-game to bring a little variation to heroes' everyday routines: There’s a packed treasure chamber waiting for players who enter a labyrinthine dungeon and who single-handedly can use their wits to tackle opponents and solve some tricky tasks.

Epic Quests

Patch ‘2.1.6 – Fall of the Demon Lord’ also implements a further epic quest series in Runes of Magic. This leads players among other places, to the ‘Great Barrier’ which once kept the sinister Naga in exile. New elite skills, improvements in the hand crafting system as well as balancing also form a part of the update’s content.

Find out more on our Patch 2.1.6 microsite.

Our new features can be experienced by a brand new trailer, too.

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This week we celebrate the sixth continuous week of ice and snow in Berlin. Temperatures are below freezing but here's something hot: A brilliant summary of Runes of Magic, its content and features! Plus a place to show your fellow players who's behind that avatar of yours!

MMOVoices on Runes of Magic
A long article explaining of Runes of Magic and showing what we do right:

"RoM has made a cornucopia of brilliantly fun changes and additions to the MMORPG genre, but each of those changes are like a pebble thrown into a lake creating a ripple affect that spreads out touching and playing off all the aspects of RoM.
I don’t think it’s a stretch in any form of the word to say that RoM has swooped in under the radar and fooled us all."

Read the whole background article "Why Runes of Magic Is The Biggest Rock…" on MMOVoices

Onlinewelten.com proudly presents "Rom Faces"
Tired of hiding behind your in-game character? You want to see who the people you are playing with really are? Here's your chance: Onlinewelten.com has opened their newest project: Rom-Faces.de a gallery where you can show who you are!

Have a great week in Taborea!

Thanks to the great efforts of our Runes of Magic community, Frogster has donated 40,000 Euros to the international charity organization Save the Children.

Between 20 November 2009 and 28 December 2009, players bought almost 12,500 "Moa's Charity Steed for Save the Children". Donating three Euros for each sold mount, our users raised 40,000 Euros (more than $52,000) for the good cause.

Save the Children is active protecting children's rights all over the world and helps children in need of medical attention and provides quality education and shelter from violence. Furthermore Save the Children supports children and their families in cases of natural disasters like right now in Haiti.

In this moment, 170 helpers are in Haiti to support the children and families needing our help right now. If you want to donate directly, go to http://www.savethechildren.org/ and you ensure that the children of Haiti have a better future.

We thank you for your great support!

Hello everyone,

Well, this week we are proud to anounce that we have been awarded with a new Reader's Award and that we have been nominated in three categories of MMOSite's awards too!

Gamona Reader's Choice Award

The reader's of German gaming site Gamona have chosen Runes of Magic for "Best MMO 2009". Pretty nice, isn't it?

MMOSite Reader's Choice Award

MMOSite is calling for Runes of Magic players to vote for their favourite game in their Reader's Choice Awards. Runes of Magic is nominated as Best MMORPG, Best F2P-MMO and Best Gameplay. Note: The games are listed in alphabetical order.

GameForceOne RoM-Special

Remember that I told you of my quick visit to Gunk in Belgium? The have now released their GameForceOne Runes of Magic special on the website. Have fun! :)

Your
Runes of Magic Team

There wasn’t too much to say anymore. This was it, the final confrontation.

The strongest, most battle-hardened heroes of Taborea faced the sinister face of one of the 13 most powerful demons and ruler of the Naga and Demons alike:

Sirloth, the Demon Lord!

On his throne he leaned forward, ever so slightly, smiling wickedly at the 12 weary but eager challengers to his domain. To rule over those pitiful mortals that had dared to imprison many of his fellow brethren so long ago.

With a flick of his wrist the battle began!