Master's Shadow
Every week the best player gains a dark reflection. The master earns while the Shadow lives, and the hunter who deals it the most damage claims a trophy.
Once a week the server picks a master: the character who gained the most experience in the last 7 days. A monster called Master's Shadow then appears in a random lair. It looks like the master, wears their outfit, introduces itself as the master's reflection when you look at it and fights with the spells of the master's vocation, the stronger the higher the master's level.
The current Shadow, the race for the master title and the history of all hunts are on the Shadow hunt page.
When the Shadow appears
| Stage | When |
|---|---|
| master draw | weekday no. 6 (1 is Monday, 7 is Sunday), at 18:00 server time |
| Shadow lifetime | 48 h of server uptime |
| hint | every 15 min |
The Shadow lives until somebody defeats it or its time runs out. Out of combat it slowly regains strength, so hunt in a group and do not let go.
Who can become the master
The master is the character with the most experience gained in the 7-day window, provided that:
- it is at least level 100,
- neither it nor any other character on its account was the master recently (cooldown in weeks: 1),
- neither it nor its account has an active punishment or one issued in the last 30 days,
- it is not a team character and is not hidden on the website.
The first draw takes place only once the world has a full experience history. If nobody meets the conditions, the week is skipped and the reason is shown in the hunt history.
Rewards
| Who | Reward |
|---|---|
| master | 5 premium points for every full hour the Shadow lives |
| hunter | 100 premium points and a trophy bearing the master's name |
The hunter is the character who dealt the Shadow the most damage over the whole fight, not the one who struck the last blow. Other characters from the master's account and from the master's IP address cannot become the hunter: the reward then goes to the next character in the damage ranking. If the master defeats their own reflection, they get the trophy, the hunter's reward and the points earned for the Shadow's hours once more.
Rewards reach the character right away, or at the next login if it is offline or has no room for the trophy.
How to find the Shadow
Every now and then the server announces in which direction from the nearest town the Shadow hides, e.g. Cien Mistrza kryje sie daleko na polnocny wschod od Sweetwater (far to the north-east of Sweetwater). The game shows Polish text without diacritics because the 8.60 client cannot display them.
When you get closer, type !cien. The command shows the master, the Shadow's lifetime and the last hint, and if the Shadow is within 100 squares, it points the direction like the exiva spell. You can sense it once every 30 s.
Killing the Shadow counts as defeating a boss, so it also helps to awaken uniques.