The Night Revels

"Eternal Night has drawn its cloak of Delera's Graveyard. Attend The Night Revels... if you dare." Visit the Delera's Graveyard within House Jorasco to participate.

The Night Revels is a special event held in Delera's Graveyard during the Halloween season, first introduced in 2015 (Update 28 Patch 1). It is a replacement and newer incarnation of the Mabar Endless Night Festival. Old Mabar ingredients are not used for the Night Revels event and ingredients from each year's Night Revels expire before the next year's Festival.

Characters of any level can enter the graveyard instance to farm keys and chocolate, but the challenge-quests are restricted to characters of Level 7 and higher.

Delera's Graveyard
The Delera's Graveyard can be entered in three modes while the event is active:
 * Delera's Graveyard: classic public area
 * The Night Revels - Delera's Graveyard: 6-person challenge where you can get and s  (both )
 * The Night Revels - The Crypt: This is the location to use keys to enter other Night Revels challenges

Entering the Night Revels challenge instances requires the keys earned in the graveyard:
 * The graveyard challenge does not require a key to enter
 * Running the challenges earns the various Night Revels ingredients (Unbound) (as shown in the table below)
 * Ingredients can be turned in to Joe Candymaker for reward items

Tips
Running the The Night Revels - Delera's Graveyard challenge at more than 4 levels below character level results in no chocolate or keys dropping.


 * Drop statistics on farming data (2018)

Some of the following tips might be obsolete after 2018 changes:


 * You can increase the amount per drop for the Chocolate using from the DDO Store; otherwise, the amount is always 1.


 * If you destroy too many undead too many levels below your own level, you will get a warning from the Greater Powers, Mabar's Notice: If you persist, you'll be punished for your actions with Mabar's Interest, then with Mabar's Anger, then with death.

Specific tips on farming, particularly for Joe Candymaker's consumables:


 * With a, go to The Haunted Halls of Eveningstar quest (on casual difficulty) to the area of the endless zombies: take the first left upstairs after the electrified doors on the main hallway, then through the correct one of 3 doors into the L-shaped hallway where the zombies appear.
 * Set up in the corner of the "L" against the South wall, adjacent to the debris pile. You will have good sight-lines here.  Drink your Draught of Midnight.
 * You can safely kill the necromancer(s) initially in the hallway, but avoid killing any others coming out of the zombie-spawning rooms.
 * Range-killing the zombies is best: they will respawn faster.
 * Not every kill results in a chocolate drop, but you get between 1 and 14 chocolates when they do.
 * If low on spell points or health, you may safely exit the quest, stopping the hour-long timer on your Draught of Midnight. Re-entry within 5 minutes allows you to continue without starting over.
 * An efficient character can expect acquisition rates anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 chocolates per hour with upwards of ~1,000 zombie kills, depending on character class.

Challenges
(Note that currently, although there are nine challenges excluding Eternity Unleashed and Delera's Graveyard, only eight are available for each run of the event. Which challenge is excluded changes year-on-year.)

All challenges range from level 7-35.

The Night Revels challenges are played like quests, unlike House Cannith and Eveningstar challenges, and have no set time limit; characters can zerg through and finish within minutes or can go AFK in the instance and complete hours later.

Another important difference between Revels challenges and Cannith/Eveningstar challenges is that they do not require that the players remain inside the instance, they do not lock after a certain amount of time and they do not require an extra key to re-enter an active challenge (Clarification: You must have at least 1 key in your backpack even though none are consumed upon re-entry). This means that there is no penalty to releasing and re-entering the challenge if you die. Even if you are not in a party, leaving the challenge without leaving someone inside will keep the instance active for 5 minutes.

Named mob kills within the instance have a chance to drop Chocolate.

Experience Points
Base quest experience is tied to the level of the quest. The base xp is 100* level for levels 7-19. Hence doing the quests at level 19 yields 1900 base xp for the quest. Base quest experience for levels 20-29 is 240*level.

Ingredient payouts
Completing star objectives (optional and compulsory) count towards the final score for the challenge. Exactly how much they count depends on the challenge as there is no formula for the score. The maximum scores are listed in the challenge table above. Completing the challenge at CR 35 and getting an extra 6th star does not increase the maximum score.

Entering a challenge at a challenge level greater than the maximum character level of the party increases the score by +10% per level (rounded up), up to a maximum of +50% at character level +5. Entering a challenge with a player who is 4 or more levels above you does not affect the score, but reduces your personal rewards up to the point that you get no rewards if you have.

The rewards depend on the score and are calculated and awarded when the challenge is complete. Completing an optional star objective after completion will not provide extra rewards. The rewards are either 1x, 2x or 3x the score of the challenge. So if your challenge score is 23 because you completed all the star objectives in Grave Work CR 20 while the whole party was level 15 or less, you would get 69 Black Apples and 69 Chocolate as Grave Work gives rewards equal to 3x the score.

Completing a challenge awards plus one of the other ingredients: Note: The Graveyard challenge only awards Chocolate (and Night Revels Keys)

Item expiration
All ingredients (s, s, s, s and ), s, and Candies (from the rewards list below) state in their item description that they will expire and disappear near the end of the current year:
 * Players cannot carry over the items from this event to the next year and have to start over again
 * On expiration the item name is changed and it can no longer be used
 * Night Revels Keys become Rusted
 * Pieces of Darkest Chocolate become Melted
 * Black Apples become Putrid
 * Spooky Almonds become Rotten
 * Shadowy Caramels become Hardened
 * Pinches of Sinister Cinnamon become Flavorless
 * Bug: When placed in Shared Bank Crafting Storage, both current and expired items display the expired names
 * This does not mean the items have actually expired - current items will regain their regular names when withdrawn
 * For example A Spooky Almond appears to be Rotten Spooky Almond when placed in Crafting Storage, but becomes a regular Spooky Almond when taken out
 * Note: this bug does not allow genuine expired ingredients from previous years to be changed into fresh ingredients
 * Store-purchased s do not expire

Changes for 2022

 * Level 32 gear
 * New cosmetics: ,
 * New mount

Changes for Autumn 2021
New sources of keys:
 * New monster champion Shadow of Mabar appears in quests and can drop chocolate and keys.
 * Small chance to find chocolate and keys in any chest inside of a quest while the event is active.

DDO Store
 * Elixir of Spooky Luck: +10% chance to find Night Revels ingredients in chests for one hour

New rewards include:
 * new cosmetic Tower Shield ("Jawbreaker"), Sceptre ("Stack-O-Lantern") and Quarterstaff ("Two-Headed Broom")
 * Due to a bug, the Jawbreaker initially appeared as an as-of-yet unreleased Orb cosmetic. This was patched out in Update 50.4.1.
 * Yellow Reaper's Platemail, Cloak and Helm
 * +2 Festive Bonus to Constitution augment
 * The candy clickies (Almond-Coated Shadow Apple, Almond Shadow-Spice Candy, Sweet Cinnamon Cloud and Darkswirl Caramel Bite) from previous years were made unavailable in Autumn 2021. According to the patch notes, they should return in a future version of the event.

Changes for Summer 2021
There were no specific changes to The Night Revels in July 2021, except that it was announced expireable items were to be reintroduced in Fall 2021. This instance of the event was called "The Spooky Summer Event".

Changes for Fall 2020
There were no new dungeon challenges nor treasure items in 2020. The only change for that year was a *lack* of change: keys and ingredients from the 2019 event was not expired, so players could use the ones left over from last year. 

As always, ingredients deposited in Shared Bank appeared as their "rotten" (expired) versions, but displayed as "normal" when pulled out.

Due to a bug preventing it from completing, Eternity Unleashed was closed for some time.


 * Restored challenge: The Kobolds' Newest Ringleader
 * Removed challenge: Haverdashed

Changes for Fall 2019

 * New challenge: Smashing Pumpkins
 * Removed challenge: The Kobolds' Newest Ringleader
 * New rewards
 * Spectral Warhammer
 * Spectral Greataxe
 * Spectral Great Crossbow
 * Spectral Longbow
 * Cosmetics: Cloak of the Reaper (Purple), Reaper's Helm (Purple), Reaper's Platemail (Purple)

Changes for Fall 2018

 * New Crypt Public Area (Hub area for Night Revels Festival)
 * New Private Instance version of the Night Revels Graveyard (For collecting Keys to the other Night Revels content)
 * New challenge dungeon Grave Work (Spooky variant of Frame Work)
 * New challenge dungeon Eternity Unleashed (6 person challenge revamp of the old Mabar Eternity raid)
 * Old rewards are all now BtA (exception: Eternal Wands are still BtC)
 * New rewards
 * (Buckler): Protection from Evil, Ghostbane, Ghostly, Lifesealed, Blue
 * / (Rune Arm): Radiance, Lifesealed, Ghostly, Disrupting Weapon, Rune Arm Imbue: Evil Shot
 * Cosmetics: (Blue),, , , , ,

Changes for Fall 2017

 * A spooky variant of Coalescence Chamber has been added as the seventh Night Revels dungeon: Resurrection Chamber
 * Additional item rewards have been added to the turn in vendor for the event:
 * Existing Night Revels items have been given recipes for level 28 upgrades.
 * A red variant of the Reaper's Platemail has been added.
 * A collection of new named items have been added to the festival vendor turn in:
 * Pick of Endless Light (Light Pick): Undead Bane, Coruscating, Light Bringer (On Vorpal: Destroy undead below 1000 hit points. Only on higher Minimum Level variants.), Sunburst (Chance for Blind and area Light Damage. Only on higher Minimum Level variants.)
 * Star of Endless Night (Morningstar): Unholy, Smashing, Piercing, Combat Mastery
 * (Great Club): Tendon Slice, Electrifying, Freezing, Armor-Piercing
 * (Dagger): Ghostbane, Evil Outsider Bane, Crushing, Vorpal. Dagger Material is listed as Force, therefore this weapon should be immune to Rust Monsters and Oozes.
 * (Throwing Dagger): Ghostbane, Evil Outsider Bane, Crushing, Vorpal

Reward items
Joe Candymaker  is located:
 * in House Jorasco, near the entrance to Delera's Graveyard
 * in the Night Revels Crypt, to the right/west of the central portal (Eternity Unleashed)

Summary
Most weapons and equipment come in multiple versions that need to be upgraded incrementally.

Upgradable Weapons

 * (Greatclub)
 * (Morningstar)
 * (Morningstar)



Upgradable Equipment

 * (Shield)

Non-Upgradable Equipment

 * / (Rune Arm)

Potions and Consumables
...

Cosmetics and Novelty Equipment
...

Full List with Prices

 * Notes:
 * Candies have 1 hour duration, 2 hours cooldown between uses.
 * Candies will expire and disappear near the end of the year in which they were purchased.
 * Augments are . Items are . Eternal Wands are Bound to Character on Acquire, and Exclusive.
 * Upgrade recipes additionally require an item of one below tier to be placed in with; i.e., the ingredient cost is cumulative.
 * Items are Sentient food (confirmed with spectral dagger Lv4)

Monster Champions
During the special event the monster champions get a more spooky appearance, with a pumpkin head appearing under their Champion crown.

In addition, during the event, a unique Champion type. Shadow of Mabar, can appear. These Champions gain Incorporeal, Concealment, Light Absorption, and permanent Deathblock. On death, they will drop a chest with a small amount of and a high chance to yield a.



Other Notes
During this event, Beholders may sometimes randomly have a pumpkin or skull costume applied to them, as per the and  (see right and below.)

2022
October 5th - November 1st

2021
July 1st - July 11th, as part of a new Spooky Summer event.
 * As part of this event, Monster Champions were replaced with their variants from season 2 of the Hardcore Server.
 * Code: for 1 s

2020
October 3rd - November 4th
 * A bug meant that Eternity Unleashed was unavailable for much of this season, leading to it being slightly extended.

2019
Thursday, October 10th to Sunday, November 3rd
 * Code: for 3 s, 1/Account, valid until November 3rd

2018
October 3rd - November 4th

2017
October 19th - November 5th

2016
October 20th - November 6th
 * Code: for a free  10/28 - 11/3

2015
Oct 23 - one-day preview Oct 28 - Nov 9 (ending around 9am USA Eastern time) Nov 19 - Nov 23 (ending around 10am USA Eastern time)
 * A store redeem code for 4 was distributed.
 * Another redeem code for 4 keys was distributed.

Monsters

 * Blackbone Skeletal Warrior
 * Frostmarrow Skeletal Knight
 * Ghoul
 * Lich
 * Midnight Lich
 * Mummy Avenger
 * Mummy Lord
 * Mummy Soldier
 * Night Lich
 * Shadar-kai Midnight Blade
 * Shadar-kai Midnight Stalker
 * Shadar-kai Night Stalker
 * Shadow (mabar)
 * Skeletal Archmage
 * Skeletal Mage
 * Skeleton
 * Spectre
 * Succubus Enticer
 * Succubus Tantalizer
 * Vampire
 * Vampire Blood Blade
 * Vampire Blood Knight
 * Vampire Lord
 * Wheep
 * Wight
 * Wight Priest
 * Wight Reaver
 * Wraith
 * Zombie