A one-line hotfix that hands back a whole evening: the Double Honor Weekend now opens Friday at 3 PM realm time instead of Saturday at 3 AM. Twelve hours earlier, and the close does not move — still Monday 3 AM. For us in France that means the event starts Friday around 9 PM: Friday night finally counts. Nothing else changes — not the rates, not a single combat value.
Released August 22, 2026Since v0.39.2+12 h of window0 combat values changed
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01Double Honor now starts Friday evening
v0.39.2 anchored the opening on the realm reset, Saturday at 3 AM. Clean on paper; in practice the realm runs on US East Coast time, and 3 AM there is already Saturday evening on the other side of the planet. This release moves the opening, not the close.
Friday 3 PM, realm time The change
The opening moves from Saturday 3 AM to Friday 3 PM — exactly 12 hours earlier. The close is unchanged: Monday 3 AM. The window grows from 48 h to 60 h.
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Why twelve hours The reason
The realm lives on New York time. Saturday 3 AM there is Saturday 7 PM in New Zealand: their Saturday was over before the event began. Twelve hours early puts the opening at 7 AM their time — their whole weekend is inside it.
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The rates do not move Reminder
All four battleground Honor sources stay doubled for the whole window, and a played-out loss still pays the win rate: 120 instead of 20. You just get twelve more hours to use it.
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What it changes for the guild Practical
Friday night becomes an event night — usually the one where most of us are online.
Thornhollow Fields needs ten players to pop; three evenings fill a queue better than two.
Saturday and Sunday lose nothing: the event now covers three evenings in a row.
What does NOT change Scope
Ranked arena, the Fiesta, Protect Yumi, the Vale Cup and duels: still outside the event.
Decay stays in place, and still applies before the doubling.
FURY's prices are the same: what doubles is the income, not the spend.
Daily counters are untouched Good to know
The first-win bonus, daily decay and the daily delve still roll at 3 AM, exactly as before.
Only the event's opening moved — no other in-game schedule was touched.
So Friday 3 PM resets nothing: your first win of the day is still Friday's.
02And nothing else
A hotfix in the strict sense: one schedule constant, the plumbing that goes with it, and that is all.
Two dates instead of one Behind the scenes
The game never reads a clock inside its simulation engine: the server hands it the day.
It now hands it two: today's, and the one 12 hours ahead. The event runs as soon as either falls on a weekend day.
That is what lets it open early without touching any daily reset.
Nothing moves in combat Scope
No value: no spell, no talent, no mastery, no set.