Since Ascarus traditionally launches on Fridays and Guild Events happen on Saturdays, as always, we will be reducing the rewards in these first 2 weeks, in order to not create big gaps between competing guilds early on, and enjoy fun battles on lower levels.

The reward table for the first week will be the following:

1. Guild Trophy, Mystery Gift, 3 Gold Nuggets, 2x Orb of Enchantment, Stamina Refiller, 100 Game Tokens
2. Mystery Gift, 2 Gold Nuggets, Orb of Enchantment, Stamina Refiller, 80 Game Tokens
3. Mystery Gift, 1 Gold Nugget, Stamina Refiller, 70 Game Tokens
4. Pair of Soft Boots, 50 Crystal Coins, 60 Game Tokens
5. Pair of Soft Boots, 30 Crystal Coins, 50 Game Tokens

• Real map 8.6 with several custom towns
• Optional antibot client launcher for manual players
• A total of 95 outfits
• A shop for beginner guilds who want to compete on Ascarus
• Roshamuul accurately converted to 8.6, including all bosses & raids
• Guild Battle Arenas - Customizable war arenas, featuring configurable AoE damage, SSA/Might Ring equip exhausts, player limits, max player levels, high risk mode & more
• Reward Chest system - You will always get loot if you help killing a boss
• Magic Items - An extensive item enchanting system
• Item Salvaging - Got a magic item that doesn't have any interesting bonuses? Salvage magical dusts from it and exchange them for orbs of enchantment in order to enchant another item!
• Item Market system - Got an item with interesting bonus stats that you think someone might like to buy? List it on our item market!
• Weekly activity rewards with points & mentions
• A total of 22 towns, each town has it's own spawns, quests & secrets to discover
• Community poll system on the website
• Ability to view your account's login history
• Bosses that have their own artificial intelligence
• Many unique events - See the events page for more info
• Bounty hunter system - Place a bounty on your enemies head to get them killed
• Offline messaging system
• Custom addon bonus system - Increase your character's stats for each full outfit addon you collect
• Custom task systems - we feature a daily task sytem, a progressive task system, a special tasks from NPC Eruaran, which you can find in Roshamuul in order to obtain valuables such as prison keys in order to fight the Roshamuul prison bosses, as well as a customizable task system that lets you pick your own monster amounts and pick between a gold or experience reward
• Partnered Twitch streamers - Show off Ascarus on your stream and we will promote your stream on the website automatically
• Achievement system - Unlock achievements for doing various things in the game, achievement points are also required in order to enter specific quests
• PIN security system - Protect your characters with our homemade two-factor authentication system
• Free premium points for reaching specific levels
• Referral system - Refer your friends to Ascarus and earn free premium points
• Quest log entries for quests
• More than 40 custom quests
• Players are limited to a maximum of 4 active MC clients to combat massive MC farms
• Standard boss raids were tuned to fit the gameplay dynamics of Ascarus - You won't see an Orshabaal die in 5 seconds
• 10.x respawn system (non-blockable spawns)

• Completely remade the spells code, spell formulas and cooldowns
• Completely remade the Guild Battle Arenas - Customizable war arenas, featuring configurable AoE damage, SSA/Might Ring equip exhausts, player limits, max player levels, high risk mode & more. Guild Battles can be set up by talking to [War] Tyr at Thais depot +2
• Removed the town of Aquarin from the game - It was underused, and the layout was very confusing for players. It was a very old town, added to the server as early as 2012. Spawns and quests from the town that were worth keeping have been moved to other places on the map
• Changed the player attack speed to a default value of 2 seconds
• Changed the attack spell cooldowns to a default value of 2 seconds
• AoE spells are no longer being blocked if there are more than X amount of players on screen, instead, the Guild Battle Arenas have an option to reduce AoE spell damage, if desired
• Changed the push delay (1 SQM distance/standing next to a creature) to a value of 800 milliseconds
• Updated the PvP experience formula
• Adjusted the stats of various equipment pieces to go along with the others PvP related changes
• Removed the ascended promotion from the game
• Removed all level 300, 400 and 500 spells from the game
• Creatures will now die instantly after reaching 0 health, rather than waiting for the next server tick to process the creature death
• Re-introduced the Anti AFK System due to player request
• Added new spawns around the map
• Introduced a new end-game spellbook for mages, obtainable through the old Ascension quest or rare boss drop
• Rebalanced monsters & bosses to go along with the new spell and equipment changes
• Created a Spawn Locations page with videos showcasing the locations of various spawns, raids and other content
• Removed the shortcut portals in VIP town
• Added oldschool map features of Masiyah back to Thais, such as the old south gate, boss portals near the boat or hidden holes
• Updated the server rules, they're now much more compact with clear punishments
• Remade the ban system to go along with the new server rules - staff are now able to ban accounts, characters and IP addresses individually, and with specific durations
• Adjusted how gift point refunds are handled, more information can be found in the "Point refunds" section below
• Various other fixes and optimizations in the server engine
• And many more minor changes that didn't make it into this announcement post...

• Top 10 players in the experience highscores
• Victorious backpack with special engraving
• Season trophy with special engraving
• Top 50 players in the experience highscores
• 200 premium points
• Top 10 players above level 200 that had the highest scores in the following categories: Magic Level, Fist Fighting, Sword Fighting, Axe Fighting, Club Fighting, Distance Fighting, Shielding, Snake, Tasks & Achievements
• 200 premium points

• The refunded amount begins at 80% and for each additional month that has passed since the point purchase was made, the points will lose 9% of their original value
• Unlike previous seasons, refunds are no longer limited to 1 season only. You will continue to receive refunds from previous seasons until the point value has decreased to 0%
• The amount of refunded points is capped to 10000 points

Client showcase



Teasers

Top achievers awards for the 10th week have arrived!
These players were the most active in gaining achievements during the past month, thus acquired top 3 positions and have been rewarded.
Here is the list of the victors:

1. Baby [21 achievements] - 300 premium points.
2. Light [19 achievements] - 150 premium points.
3. Weight [19 achievements] - 100 premium points.

Top fraggers awards for the 09th week have arrived!
These players were the most active in PvP battles and in securing kills during the past month, thus acquired top 3 positions and have been rewarded.
Here is the list of the victors:

1. Nub [94 unique frags] - 500 premium points.
2. Bingoman [93 unique frags] - 250 premium points.
3. Falan Filan [90 unique frags] - 100 premium points.