To help celebrate the long holiday weekend in the US, IRE will be holding one of our exciting Great Hunts. This Great Hunt is going to be a real doozy, though, as it's going to last for 96 hours!

That's right, starting at 0:01 GMT on Thursday, November 25th (that's Wednesday evening for most of you in the US) until 23:59 on Sunday, November 28th (that's Sunday evening for most of you in the US), all of the mobs that you kill in the game will be worth points that will be assigned to your event ranking. You'll also earn double experience for each mob killed and quest completed.

You will be divided into three tiers of competitive play, and the winners in each tier will win bonus bound credit prizes. The tiers will be:

Tier 3: Levels 1 - 75
Tier 2: Levels 75 - 99
Tier 1: Levels 100+

If you go up in level during the event and pass out of one of those tiers, your score will be counted for your new tier. So basically, you are competing in the tier that represents your -current- level, not the level you had when the game started.

We will also be offering credit prizes for reaching certain thresholds. Those thresholds and credit prizes are:

5 bound credits for 100 points
10 bound credits for 1000 points
15 bound credits for 2500 points

That's 30 total credits just for spending some time online and killing things!

And finally, here is the prize breakdown for the top 10 in each tier:

1st: 500 bound credits
2nd: 450 bound credits
3rd: 400 bound credits
4th: 350 bound credits
5th: 300 bound credits
6th: 250 bound credits
7th: 200 bound credits
8th: 150 bound credits
9th: 100 bound credits
10th: 50 bound credits

Penned by my hand on the 25th of Artificium, in the year 623 AD.