Return of the Ice Dwarf Kingdom is the latest patch from Runes of Magic. With this update high level players will be able to revisit the Ice Dwarf Kingdom’s heroic parts.

With the 2nd Phase waiting in front of the huge gates of guild castles, guilds may begin to spent their harvested ressources to build special buildings in their courtyard. Together they will be able to create schools, gardens, stables or even powerful runetowers which will grant certain bonuses to all members e.g. a speed buff for mounts.

The patch notes will be released shortly. Also with this patch level 40 and 45 elite skills will be included!

Free to play Runes of Magic from Frogster announced today that it has reached one million accounts.

Frogster Press Release:

May 14, 2009 – Berlin – Frogster announces today that the online role play game Runes of Magic has now reached over a million registered users in Europe and the United States. In less than one year after announcing the game, the Berlin based publisher has been able to reach a further important milestone in the marketing of its multi-award-winning MMORPG.

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Runes of Magic is now introduces something called Public Encounters. When players are traveling through an area in Dragonfang Ridge they are “called to arms, to save [an] outpost from the attacks of massive waves of wolves under the command of “Axis” the Wolf King.” This first encounter is called “Attack on Segarth Outpost” When players are successful “repelling the attacking forces [they] will yield fortune and fame for all participating adventurers.”

If our readers are familiar with Warhammer Online this looks very similar to their Public Quests. In Runes of Magic these events cycle every three minutes so players are constantly jumping in. They have also stated that they are contemplating that they might introduce the ultimate bad guy, the Demon Lord, will be introduced to the game this way in the future.

From Runes of Magic Current News

Tomorrow, Thursday 16 April 2009, at around 8am BST (GMT+1) / 9:00h CEST the Runes of Magic servers are taken offline for maintenance and to apply a new patch.

We expect that we are done at around 11am BST / 12:00h CEST. Because the patch contains new optimised server code we would like to ask you for a bit of patience in advance should the maintenance take longer than expected.

Continue to read to see full patch notes.
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Act now and you can purchase a 7 day or 30 day mount boosting potion!

Blurb from Rune’s website:

This new potion in our Item Shop gives you the extra boost. For 7 or 30 days the new Lesser Speed Mount Potion makes your mount 10% faster.

But wait! That’s far from being all of it! Starting today we have an exceptional offer: Only between Tuesday and Friday, starting at 5pm BST (GMT+1) / 18:00h CEST for exactly 24 hours one of the following new, formerly untamed mounts will be available in our Item Shop, so you can make riding out a very special experience.

There are many free to play games out there on the internet and the quality varies, tremendously. However as of March 19th, Runes of Magic, published by Frogster, was released and surprised many people with it’s quality.

You do not need an initial purchase like Guild Wars, just download the client, patch it up and begin playing. The download process will vary depending on where you are in the world. Some U.S. mirror sites take forever while other download at a decent rate. So try a few and attempt to get something reasonable. You may have some success attempting to torrent a version of the client for a better speed.
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