Realmers!
Have a first look at this year’s Month of the Mad God, Shadow of the Legion! Defeat increasingly brutal ranks of Oryx’s Legion to acquire powerful artifacts of Nightmatter and discover the dastardly plot that may put even Oryx himself at risk…
This Testing Session takes place on our Testing 1 Server.
Find out all about our Testing Session on our Blog.
MOTMG 2025
This Event hosts several different events which you can take part in.
Realm Events
Returning Events
- Mad God Mayhem (Week 1) – Spawns at 15%, 50% and 85% Realm Score (Will not be available for the public testing)
- Trials of Cronus (Week 2) – Spawns at 33% and 66% Realm Score
- White Snake Invasion (Week 3)
- Free O3 (Week 3)
Keyper and Appetizer
- Keyper (Week 1, Week 3) – Spawns at 33% and 66% Realm Score
- Appetizer (Week 2, Week 4) – Spawns at 33% Realm Score.
Double Event Whites Event
When we have the Appetizer Events, we will also run double event whites event.
Dust Drop Event
Realm Encounters and Beacon Guards will drop green, red, and purple dust during the event.
Legion Setpieces in Realm
To strengthen his control over the Realm, Oryx has sent many new forces of his Legion to actively control, survey, and harvest the Realm’s resources. You’ll find them spread out all across the Realm, with more powerful and complex forces appearing in higher difficulty Realm biomes.
- In the Rookie biomes the Legion Survey Camp will spawn.
- In Adept Biomes the Legion Guard Checkpoint, Excavation site, and Scouting Party will spawn
- In Veteran Biomes the Legion Watchtower, Strategy Center, and Research Base will spawn
Dungeon Events
We will be hosting different Chest Events in the following Dungeons.
Week 1 Dungeons (02.09.25 – 09.09.25):
- Mad Lab
- Toxic Sewers
- The Crawling Depths
- Davy Jones’ Locker
- The Nest
- Plagued Nest
- Moonlight Village
Week 2 Dungeons (09.09.25 – 16.09.25):
- Puppet Master’s Theatre
- Abyss of Demons
- Infernal Abyss of Demons
- Woodland Labyrinth
- Ocean Trench
- Kogbold Steamworks
- Advanced Kogbold Steamworks
- Fungal Cavern
Week 3 Dungeons (16.09.25 – 23.09.25):
- Snake Pit
- Magic Woods
- Deadwater Docks
- Mountain Temple
- Cultist Hideout
- Oryx’s Sanctuary
Week 4 Dungeons (23.09.25 – 30.09.25):
- Sprite World
- Undead Lair
- Heroic Undead Lair
- Sulfurous Wetlands
- Lair of Draconis
- The Shatters
- Lost Halls
- Spectral Penitentiary
Dungeon Specials
Oryx’s Presents in Dungeons – There is a chance in all event dungeons rooms for Oryx Presents to spawn, rewarding you with extra Loot and counting towards special Missions.
Note: For the public testing, the art and loot for these objects will not be updated.
Legion Camps in Dungeons – Oryx’s special forces extended beyond the Realm to invade dungeons as well! These native Legion troops will drop special Shadow of the Legion themed loot and be an important key towards finding your way towards Inspector Stromwell…
Note: For the Public Testing, the dungeon modifier will not spawn on dungeons.
Inspector Stromwell
Looks like you’re not the only one trying to thwart Oryx’s operation! Sooner or later you’ll butt heads with the scheming Inspector Stromwell who has been hoarding Nightmatter shards to himself…
Inspector Stromwell is a post-dungeon boss similar to the Syndicate Mercenaries that will spawn in select event dungeons during the Month of the Mad God.
Note: For the Public Testing, you will be able to preview his 1st of 3 possible battles.
Increased Shiny Drop Rates
Drop chance of all Shiny items will be doubled during the whole event!
Reskinned Gear
The Shadow of the Legion descends upon the Realm! Acquire powerful Legion Elite equipment equivalent to T13 Weapons, T13 Armors, and T6 Abilities. Power them up even further through their set bonuses and Awakened enchantments, and top it off with the all-new Nightmatter Circlet ST ring.
These items all act as tiered counterparts to the Agent of Oryx Items, allowing you to mix and match whichever items you want to best suit your set. The new Nightmatter Circlet ring will provide powerful set bonuses for any worn pieces of either Legion Elite or Agent of Oryx sets. The old Agent of oryx sets now also allow the new Legion Elite items to be used for their bonuses.
The Legion Elite and existing Agents of Oryx items also now can roll 4 new Awakened modifiers, one for each slot, these all act as combinations between other powerful modifiers. During Month of the Mad God a new artifact will also be available to boost the rate of acquiring these enchantments.
- Weapons can receive the Night’s Strength awakened increasing fire rate and damage by 4.5%
- Abilities can receive the Night’s Wisdom awakened, reducing mana costs by 10% and granting 3 wisdom and 3 defense.
- Armors can receive the Night’s Tenacity awakened, providing 5% damage reduction as well as 20 HP.
- The Nightmatter Circlet and all Agent of Oryx Rings can receive the Night’s Soul enchantment providing 20 hp/mp, 2 to all other stats and 2% loot dust and xp bonuses.
Agents of Oryx Refresh
Since our MotMG theme is adjacent to the Agents of Oryx and we have included them in the new sets, we have updated a number of the underperforming or hard to use items in this set. In addition we will be doing away with different agents of oryx shard types and replacing them with one unified token that can be used in the forge to make agents of oryx items going forward.
- All Weapons except bounty hunter’s dagger have been reworked in terms of balance and patterns to be far more traditionally usable.
- Blacklight Artifice has been slightly reworked as its previous iteration did not fully work as intended. Its tooltip information has also been updated to better explain the items scalings and damage.
- Prism of Shattered Light now has its two modes triggered based on being above and below 50% hp instead of a flat 400 hp.
- The attack penalty on Helm of Exalted Might has had its duration reduced from 6 seconds to 5.
- Siege scepter’s mana cost has been reduced from 110 to 100
- A number of agents of oryx abilities have had their passive stats improved
- Squadron Sheating has had its dex increased from 5 to 7
- Judge’s Robe has had its attack increased from 3 to 4 and wisdom increased from 8 to 9.
Forge Fire Bonus
Increased the daily amount from 500 to 600 during the Event.
New Shinys
- Royal Gaurd’s Cuirass Shiny
- Burial Blades Shiny
- Bottled Medusozoan Shiny
- Brewer’s Bangle Shiny
- Sprite Wand Shiny
- Snake Skin Armor Shiny
Party XP Bonus
During the Event, you will receive a 20% XP when playing in a party of at least 2 players!
Free Campaign
During the whole Event, the Bosses in Dungeons and all Realm Encounters will drop different amounts of Tokens. Redeem them to progress in our Free Campaign.
Leaderboard Events
Oryx Castle Leaderboard
Aug 02 09:00:00 (UTC) and Aug 09 09:00:00 (UTC)
You can progress in this leaderboard and collect points for the community goal.
Each Oryx 1 killed equals to 1 point
Rewards:
Top 30% players will receive:
- 5x Mystery Stat Pot
- 1x Mystery ST Shard x5
- 1x Lucky Clover
- 1x Legion of Oryx Collection Chest
Top 15% players will receive:
- 1x Medium Dust Chest
Top 5% players will receive:
- 1x Mad-Blooded Title Unlocker (Prefix)
Community Goal: TBD
If the Community Goal is met, all players will receive the following in a free pack:
- 1x Mystery ST Shard x5
- 5x Mystery Stat Pot
- 1x Adventurer’s Belt
- 1x Backpack
Wine Cellar Leaderboard
Aug 09 09:00:00 (UTC) and Aug 16 09:00:00 (UTC)
You can progress in this leaderboard and collect points for the community goal.
Each Oryx 1 killed equals to 1 point
Rewards:
Top 30% players will receive:
- 10x Mystery Stat Pot1x Mystery ST Shard x10
- 1x Golden Lucky Clover
- 1x Legion of Oryx Collection Chest
Top 15% players will receive:
- 1x Large Dust Chest
Top 5% players will receive:
- 1x Oryx-Hunter Title Unlocker (Suffix)
Community Goal: TBD
If the Community Goal is met, all players will receive the following in a free pack:
- 1x Mystery ST Shard x5
- 5x Mystery Stat Pot
- 1x Adventurer’s Belt
- 1x Backpack
Oryx’s Sanctuary Leaderboard
Aug 16 09:00:00 (UTC) and Aug 23 09:00:00 (UTC)
You can progress in this leaderboard and collect points for the community goal.
Each Oryx 1 killed equals to 1 point
Rewards:
Top 30% players will receive:
- 15x Mystery Stat Pot
- 1x Mystery ST Shard x15
- 2x Golden Lucky Clover
- 1x Legion of Oryx Collection Chest
Top 15% players will receive:
- 1x Large Dust Chest
Top 5% players will receive:
- 1x Last God Standing Title Unlocker (Full Title)
Community Goal: TBD
If the Community Goal is met, all players will receive the following in a free pack:
- 1x Mystery ST Shard x5
- 5x Mystery Stat Pot
- 1x Adventurer’s Belt
- 1x Backpack
Quests
Collect Nightmatter Shards from our Event Dungeons and redeem them for rewards! Check out all Quests on our Testing Server and feel free to give us feedback! You can expect the following rewards:
The tokens will drop at the following rates:
Week 1 Dungeons (02-09-2025 – 09-09-2025):
Mad Lab will drop 1 guaranteed.
- Toxic Sewers will drop 1 guaranteed.
- Crawling Depths will drop 2 guaranteed and another one at 50% chance.
- Davy Jones’ Locker will drop 2 guaranteed.
- The Nest will drop 4 guaranteed and another one at 50% chance.
- The Plagued Nest will drop 6 guaranteed.
- Moonlight Village will drop 7 guaranteed.and another one at 50% chance.
Week 2 Dungeons (09-09-2025 – 16-09-2025):
- Puppet Master’s Theatre will drop 1 guaranteed.
- Abyss of Demons will drop 1 guaranteed.
- Woodland Labyrinth will drop 2 guaranteed and another one at 50% chance
- Ocean Trench will drop 2 guaranteed
- Fungal Cavern will drop 4 guaranteed.
- Crystal Cavern will drop 1 guaranteed.
- Kogbold Steamworks will drop 6 guaranteed and another one at 50% chance
- Advanced Kogbold Steamworks will drop 8 guaranteed.
Week 3 Dungeons (16-09-2025 – 23-09-2025):
- Snake Pit will have a 50% chance to drop one.
- Magic Woods will have a 75% chance to drop one.
- Deadwater Docks will drop 2 guaranteed.
- Mountain Temple will drop 2 guaranteed and another one at 50% chance.
- Cultist Hideout will drop 8 guaranteed.
- Oryx’s Sanctuary will drop 8 guaranteed.
Week 4 Dungeons (23-09-2025 – 30-09-2025):
- Sprite World will have a 50% chance to drop one.
- Undead Lair will have a 80% chance to drop one.
- Heroic Undead Lair will drop 2 guaranteed.
- Sulfurous Wetlands will drop 2 guaranteed and another one at 50% chance.
- Spectral Penitentiary will drop 5 guaranteed.
- Lost Halls will drop 5 guaranteed.
- The Shatters will drop 15 guaranteed.
Week 1
| Name | Requirement | Reward | Restriction |
| The Legion’s Armaments I | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armaments II | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armory I | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armory | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary I | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary II | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary III | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| Nightmatter Circlet I | Nightmatter Shard x20 x4 | Nightmatter Circlet | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms I | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms II | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms III | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Shadow Expressions I | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Unfazed Graveyard Guardian EmoteFired Up Hell Guardian EmoteStoic Colonel EmoteBig Crown Commissioner Emote | Once per account, Item of a choice |
| Legion Treasure | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion Treasure | Repeatable |
| Nightmatter Core | Nightmatter Shard x20 x1 | Nightmatter Core x5 | Repeatable |
Week 2
| Name | Requirement | Reward | Restriction |
| The Legion’s Armaments III | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armaments IV | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armory II | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armory | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary IV | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary V | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary VI | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| Shadow Expressions II | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Unfazed Graveyard Guardian EmoteFired Up Hell Guardian EmoteStoic Colonel EmoteBig Crown Commissioner Emote | Once per account, Item of a choice |
| Legion Uniforms IV | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms V | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms VI | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
Week 3
| Name | Requirement | Reward | Restriction |
| The Legion’s Armaments V | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armaments VI | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armory III | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armory | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary VII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary VIII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary IX | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| Nightmatter Circlet II | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | Nightmatter Circlet | Once per Account |
| Shadow Expressions III | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Unfazed Graveyard Guardian EmoteFired Up Hell Guardian EmoteStoic Colonel EmoteBig Crown Commissioner Emote | Once per account, Item of a choice |
| Legion Uniforms VII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms VIII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
Week 4
| Name | Requirement | Reward | Restriction |
| The Legion’s Armaments VII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armaments VIII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armaments | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Armory IV | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | The Legion’s Armory | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary X | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary XI | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| The Legion’s Reliquary XII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x3 | The Legion’s Reliquary | Once per Account |
| Shadow Expressions IV | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Unfazed Graveyard Guardian EmoteFired Up Hell Guardian EmoteStoic Colonel EmoteBig Crown Commissioner Emote | Once per account, Item of a choice |
| Legion Uniforms X | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms XI | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
| Legion Uniforms XII | Nightmatter Shard x20 x2 | Legion of Oryx Collection Chest | Once per Account |
Missions
A new Mission Tree has arrived for MOTMG! Complete them to receive some of the following rewards:
- Tiered Item Reskins
- Seasonal Blueprints
- Dust
- Quest Chests
- Emote
- Pet Food
- Skins
- And more
As always, feel free to give us feedback on those Missions!
Advanced Dungeons
General Changes
Like with our latest changes to Plagued Nest and Advanced Steamworks, these dungeons will be getting their own names and themes. The abyss being known as the Infernal Abyss of Demons and the UDL borrowing the old name of Heroic Undead Lair.
With these dungeon introductions the current Heroic UDL and Abyss will be made legacy dungeons, still able to be run via keys dropped from the Key Fairy dungeon mod.
These dungeons work very similarly to the other advanced dungeons, applying a 50% reduction to all healing you receive while within the dungeon. Alongside this change, both dungeons have gained new elite enemy variants to challenge the player and vastly changed boss fights remixing existing attacks into ones that can threaten even experienced players. These dungeons are aiming to fall in line with standard Veteran content at Difficulty level 6.
Both dungeons gain the normal 30% loot boost and 90% exp boost that all advanced dungeons get and will have their tiered drops increased to match the level of content they belong to. New artifacts have been added to both Undead Lair and Abyss of Demons and will also receive a 5x drop rate within the advanced variants like Nest and Steamworks. Finally, all advanced dungeons will start dropping minimum Uncommon rarity loot.
Heroic Undead Lair
Septavius has won the power struggle over souls in the realm and has laid his claim to the best of the dead to bolster his own personal forces. The halls of the undead lair grow sinister with necrotic energy which Septavius himself is drawing on to increase his power substantially.
- Base enemies from the Udl have a 30-60% damage increase as many of them did extremely low damage values.
- Drops from the Death Knight setpiece in Dead Church and the Snow Troll enemy in Runic Tundra. The Death Knight’s Library drop has been moved to the Shady Sect Setpiece.
- Drops a brand new poison ability Spirit’s Bane which scales heavily with wisdom and boosts the user’s wisdom with usage.
- Drops a new Artifact that boosts wisdom and dexterity as well as boosting the Soulful Mastery Awakened enchant and a brand new Awakened enchant for the Ring of Skeletal Spectres, Necrotic Knowledge.
Infernal Abyss of Demons
Increased volcanic activity has uncovered vast veins of Adamantine and Mithril within the Abyss of Demons. The smiths of the Abyss have stoked their forges hotter than ever to process the new found ores equipping themselves and the other denizens with enhanced gear. The abyss burns hotter than ever and Malphas has crafted himself an Enchanted gold-alloy armor that makes him more durable and powerful.
- Features many brand new room types and will generate many more “fortress” rooms than a traditional abyss.
- Drops from the Infernal Ironsmith setpiece in Risen Hell and the Sunflower Sentinel enemy in Floral Escape.
- Drops a brand new helmet ability The Adamantine Helm which boosts a warrior’s vitality and healing.
- A few new rooms have been added to the base Abyss of Demons and a brand new UT armor has also been added to the base dungeon. Berserker’s Plate is a Heavy Armor UT focused on gaining more Dps when damaged.
- Drops a new Artifact that boosts wisdom and dexterity as well as boosting the Hellfire Awakened enchant and a brand new Awakened enchant for the new Berserker’s Breastplate, Infernal Anger.
Changes from Last PT
- Artifacts from both dungeons now support an additional brand new awakened enchantment.
- Orbiting objects in both bosses have been made to deal less damage
- Some minor balance changes on enemies in both dungeons
- Infernal abyss dungeon generation has been updated to contain even more fortress rooms and the Treasure room is now updated in Infernal Abyss.
- The treasure room in normal and Infernal Abyss can now spawn in any direction.
- Heroic UDL boss room properly reopens after the boss is complete and the malphas room has a new end of boss tile transition.
- Heroic Udl drops an additional greater wisdom and Infernal Abyss drops a greater Defense potion
- The pillar sprite in the Heroic UDL boss room has been changed to a more standout sprite.
Misc
- Boss / miniboss icons have been applied to all Veteran+ dungeon bosses.
- +100% Hitbox Size has been applied to all Veteran+ dungeon bosses.
- Blueprints now drop from all Veteran+ dungeon bosses.
- Notably, Moonlight Village and Spectral Penitentiary blueprints are now available.
- Numerous Veteran dungeons received tiered loot tables on large minions.
- T12/T6 tiered loot has been added to a variety of late Veteran dungeons to improve accessibility of this tier of loot.
- Class-biased loot should now function more consistently across all tiers of content.
- Bonus Consumables dungeon mod should now properly work in dungeons that have a special consumable item.
- Janus the Doorwarden’s keys now have 2500 HP (26% less) and 20 DEF.
- Janus the Doorwarden now has 60000 HP (20% less) and 25 DEF.
- Janus the Doorwarden’s death animation can no longer be skipped.
- Oryx 1 now has 80000 HP (78% more) and 45 DEF.
- Oryx 1’s Quiet effects are replaced with a same-duration Silenced.
- Oryx 1 no longer uses 8.0s Weak nova attacks.
- Infested Oryx 1 retains its Sick novas.
- Oryx 2 now has 100000 HP (25% more).
- Court of Oryx was changed.
- Deep Sea Beasts in Ocean Trench now have 10000 HP (33% less) and 20 DEF but now HP scale.
- Deadwater Docks, Woodland Labyrinth, and Crawling Depths now have a chance to drop Life or Mana potions.
- Ring of the Nile no longer drops disproportionately more often than other Tomb rings.
- Davy Jones should no longer be immune to Mystic orbs.
- All artifact weight modifiers have been buffed by 50%
- Tarot cards can now be crafted in the forge by exchanging one stack of 10 tarot cards (and some forgefire) for a stack of 5 of another tarot card
- A new awakened enchantment has been added that can roll on Snake Skin Armor, Ancient Artifacts, which is now boosted by the Ascension Ankh.
Collection of Skins
Take on the appearance of the Legion Elite with our FREE Legion Elite skin line, available to collect from quests and missions during MOTMG.
