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2026 Patch History

The official changelog collection contains 7 patch-note topics dated in 2026. Every entry below includes an English condensed summary and a link to the original forum post.

January

Patch Notes 16/01/2026

Date: 16 January 2026 Type: Live changelog Original notes: Read the forum post

• Hexensnacht returns January 16–26 with updated tasks, new rewards, Morrslieb Coins, dyes, mounts, and the new Terror Takes Flight ORvR PQ.
• New charge-based Purple Seeds are being added, including six arriving in Bastion Stair.
• Bastion Stair updates include new Bled Rings, Liquid Serenity upgrades, new voice acting, new Tome stories, and quest reward resets.
• Champion’s Mark Vendors now sell Bags of Bloody Seeds with a rare chance at charged Purple Seeds.
• Warband Leader Crowns now clearly labeled as bound-to-account.
• Multiple bug fixes across combat, items, scenarios, bolster, UI, Tome unlocks, and abilities.
• Weekend Warfront kill requirements standardized across most scenarios.
• Live Event tasks have been changed. All tasks requiring participation/victory in scenarios have been removed and replaced with other tasks. New tasks are to complete 10 quests of your choice, to resurrect fallen allies, to participate in the Terror Takes Flight ORvR PQ, and to collect Hexenschädel.

February

Patch Notes 12/02/2026

Date: 12 February 2026 Type: Live changelog Original notes: Read the forum post

• It's a huge patch this month with a brand new Live Event, the new Scenario Matchmaker, Dungeon Updates, Class Balance changes, and more!.
• The new Scenario Matchmaker is finally here! Special thanks to all players who helped us test and improve it over the last few months.
• A brand new Mentor System has been added to the game, rewarding players who spend time helping lower levels.
• Five new cosmetic Masks , a new cape design, new Rose Trophies, and two new Mounts are arriving in the new Night of Masks Live Event!.
• Bastion Stair has a new secret boss , and Sigmar's Crypts has been improved for Order with new Boss 1 mechanics and other QoL fixes!.
• Slayer and Choppa , Shield DoKs/Warrior Priests, and various classes are all getting some new changes.
• Matches now balance Archetypes, so both teams have similar amounts of healers, tanks, and DPS.
• Matches now prioritize Premade groups hitting other Premade groups, instead of hitting pugs.

March

Patch Notes 13/03/2026

Date: 13 March 2026 Type: Live changelog Original notes: Read the forum post

• Introducing Waking Day: Today's patch introduces a brand new Kislev-themed Live Event!.
• Stuck no more: A number of areas where players often found themselves stuck in RvR have been fixed.
• Matchmaker Improvements: The new Scenario Matchmaker gets a number of improvements in today's patch.
• Dungeon Upgrades: Various Dungeons are getting touch-ups and QoL improvements, including Bilerot Burrow.
• Liniment items now drop properly from Butchering again, alongside many other bug fixes!.
• We're recruiting! The RoR team is expanding: check out our open positions here.
• The riding animation for the Oblast Elk has been fixed (particularly noticeable on dwarfs, who are no longer in gyropack hand-grip pose).
• Riding animations have been fixed for short-legged riders for the bears (dwarfs & goblins) ; new items were created for the Lynsk bear, so any dwarfs/goblins who had this mount from the exotic mount vendor will have to trade it in for one specific to their race.

April

Patch Notes 03/04/2026

Date: 3 April 2026 Type: Live changelog Original notes: Read the forum post

• Lockouts now begin their timer when you gain renown in the RvR lakes.
• Even when locked out, you can now still login to the other faction.
• Lockout now gives you a debuff with a 90 minute timer (from your last renown gain) that blocks XP, Influence, Renown, Contribution and any rolls/drops of crests in the RvR lakes.
• Scenarios, as well as PvE and Dungeon drops outside of the RvR lakes, are unaffected by the lockout.
• When either realm is outnumbered by 20% or more (AAO), and as long as one warband+ of players from both factions are on the map, a special non-attackable NPC has a chance to spawn at a strategic location in the RvR lake. This NPC will broadcast a call to arms exclusively to the underdog team.
• A Warband Leader with at least 16 members may speak to the NPC to accept the challenge and begin the King of the Hill event at their location.
• How to win: The Warband Leader must survive and defend their current location for 10 minutes. If the enemy fails to kill them or does not show up, their entire faction wins and is granted winner bonuses (below). If the Warband Leader is killed, the event ends in victory for the outnumbering team.
• To help Leaders survive the incoming hordes, they are granted bonus Wounds, Outgoing Damage, Outgoing Healing, and a reduction to Incoming Damage, and grow in size, similar to how the King Fights work in Stage 3 of City Sieges.

May

Patch Notes 14/05/2026

Date: 14 May 2026 Type: Live changelog Original notes: Read the forum post

• The Lockout debuff has been reduced to 60 minutes.
• The Lockout debuff should no longer have any effect if you are also under the effect of Against All Odds .
• If the AAO buff vanishes, the debuff will once again apply if the timer is still running.
• Activities in T1 should not trigger the realmlock.
• Supplyboxes collisions has been reduced, we cannot remove it fully but this means you can effectively walk over them. Note that since we cannot remove collision entirely and keep its function it means that if the box is not on the ground then it will still cause blocking issues and we are looking at this as well but was not done in time for this update.
• Land of the Dead expeditions can now occur at a wider range of possible times .
• For players in West Coast NA and Oceanic times , this may help make joining these more realistic than before.
• Renown for points is increased significantly.

June

Patch Notes 12/6/2026

Date: 12 June 2026 Type: Live changelog Original notes: Read the forum post

• The Citrine Blood-Iron and Bled Blood-Iron rings have been renamed to Moonstone Blood-Iron rings , to unify the naming pattern with the new Twilight's Tide Rings. Stats on the Blood-Iron rings now also follow the stats of their Twilight's Tide and Vale counterparts.
• Librarian tome-unlock accessories now all increase in rarity based on number of "pips".
• Franzed Palomino Warhorse, Golden Dark Bay Warhorse, and Silver Skewbald Warhorse are now rare quality.
• Weekly live events which arbitrarily had doubled War Crest rewards (and were not anniversaries) have been fixed.
• Twitch Drops.
• 12 Years of Return of Reckoning.
• Live Event: Twilight's Tide.
• Twilight's Tide Rings.

July

Patch Notes 17/7/2026

Date: 17 July 2026 Type: Live changelog Original notes: Read the forum post

• Basic reward: Grudgesettler's Ink - An ingredient required to craft your Personal Book of Grudges.
• Advanced reward: the Bitter Brew which rewards Order players with the title "Grimnir's Own", and Destruction players with the title "Oathrender" ; or a Potion of Acclaim.
• Live Event: Saga.
• Saga will start on July17th and last until July 31st.
• Grudgesettler's Ink.
• Bitter Brew.
• Potion of Acclaim.
• Gareksson's Brutebashin' Ring.

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