PvP Tournament BracketsEventsWritten by Erza,

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As announced last week, we will host a small PvP tournament today at 20:00 CET!
Tournament hosts will message your team in game when it is time for you play in one of the rounds!
Good luck to all participants and have fun!

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The tournament brackets can be found here: https://challonge.com/ascarus1

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The rewards have been distributed to the participants in the following manner:
#1 - UNSATISFIED (8000 points - 1333 points per player)
Alpha, Hypnose Pvp, Janti, Yuri, Michael Scofled, Wetreyex

#2 - WhySoSerious (6000 points - 857 points per player)
Zahura Ed, Cowabunga Dude, Stucked, Sniper Druid, Hizen Fun, Lafta, Name It

#3 - Tibia Easy (4000 points - 571 points per player)
Watafaak, Fifty Yearsold, Watafak, Ban me please, Atai Omurzakov, Good Game, Nyseny Tiodnacyou

#4 - Aboose Bvb (2000 points - 333 points per player)
Pure, Alex Sane, King George, Osama, Para Me, Xar

Server updateServer MaintenanceWritten by Erza,

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Dear players,
The server has been rebooted this morning at 10:07 and a patch to the server has been applied, you can find a list of changes below.

Changes

• Reduced the level requirement for Wrath of the Seven quest from level 500 to level 400
• Updated help channel bot responses
• Fixed players being unable to open the quest reward chests at the Orceus Treasure quest in specific circumstances
• Rework condition ticks & damages - Damage conditions from monsters should no longer last for unreasonably long amounts of time
• Updated the loot of Morgaroth & Orshabaal, they both now drop additional rare items to make them more attractive for players to kill
• Fixed quest log entries for the Mean Green quest
• Added a staff event room that can be opened up by community managers to hold monster spawning events in
  • Pushing players inside the room is disabled
  • The room is a non-pvp zone
  • Monster corpses cannot be trashed inside the room
  • A maximum of 1 player per IP address can enter the room in order to prevent excessive usage of multi clients
  • Runes like magic walls and wild growths are disabled inside the room
• Fixed Rumpelstiltskin unintentionally summoning a Verminor
• Fixed Overpowered Ferumbras unintentionally summoning a Bazir
• Replaced Infiltrator tasks with Ryhdon
• Replaced Xelgron tasks with Ursaring
• Improve cure burning & cure bleeding spells
• Added a reward chest in Thais temple, you can access your boss loot there without needing to travel to Adventurer's Island
• Reduce item requirement for Dracula boss from 500 vampire teeth to 50 vampire teeth
• Made additional items enchantable, you can find a complete list of echantable items on the enchantables page
• Prevent paralyzes runes or paralyze spells from applying skulls to players in specific scenarios, such as in the boss rooms
• Fix PIN system bans having a wrong expiration date for bans
• Reduce gold requirement for the First Lion of War addon
• Reduce gold requirement for the First Veteran Paladin addon
• Optimized raids checking for alive monsters
• Replaced Yalahar with Thais in Party Animal raid
• Added the Panpipe quest
• Slightly increased the chance for legendary tier enchantments
• Fixed a typo in the !bless command
• Fixed a bug that made containers from quest chests not have their proper weight
• Killing characters with the same IP address does no longer yield PvP experience points
• Killing characters from the same account does no longer yield PvP experience points
• Only award unjustified frags to last hit & most damage killers
• Fixed a bug that caused equipment stats to stack in war arenas that use temporary equipment
• Added the 25 second dps tester to the DPS highscores
• Made staff command logs available to other staff members
• Include missing bosses on the monsters page
• Automatically update item, magic item, monster, quest, spell, outfit, experience stage data for the website
• Fixed an error in the dialogue of NPC Dream Master
• Added trainer, event room & VIP portals to the depot in Roshamuul

Furthermore we'd like to remind you of our upcoming PvP tournament on Friday. Sign up while you still can!

PvP TournamentEventsWritten by Erza,

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Dear players,
We would like to announce an upcoming PvP Tournament for this weekend!

How it will work
There will be fights between each team, brackets will use a double elimination system.
The maximum team size is 6 players and each team can name up to 3 substitutes.
The winning teams will fight against each other, until there is only one team remaining.

When the event be held
The first round will start on Friday, 29th October 2021, 20:00 CET

How you can join
Send a letter to Erza's depot in Thais until Friday 29th October 12:00 CET
You can also name an additional 3 players for substitutions.
Tournament brackets will be posted after the sign up closed.

Example letter
Erza
Thais

Player 1: Name1
Player 2: Name2
Player 3: Name3
Player 4: Name4
Player 5: Name5
Player 6: Name6

Substitutes (if any):
Sub 1: Name7
Sub 2: Name8
Sub 3: Name9

Requirements

• Each team needs at least 2 leaders. Applying people that are not part of your team may lead to disqualification
• Your team needs to be in the same guild as you and have minimum 2 leaders
• Every participant has to be at least level 80 (PvP level)
• Participants cannot be in more than one team

Regulations

• A round will end by either team reaching 15 frags first or by having more frags at the time limit of 20 minutes
• Battles will be fought with the following war arena features enabled
• Might rings and SSA's will be disabled throughout the tournament
• All players will be set to level 250 upon entering the arena
• All players will receive temporary equipment to use during the battles
• EXP loss will be disabled
• 10 minutes to gather your team members once you are summoned by the tournament hosts

Rewards
Depending on how many teams apply, there will be a grand total shared prizepool of 20,000 premium points for the top teams

Server updateServer MaintenanceWritten by Erza,

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Dear players,
This morning at around 9:30 AM our servers unexpectedly became unreachable due to a global outage of our hosting provider. The downtime lasted until 10:45 AM.
They had a scheduled maintenance in one of their NA datacenters, but supposedly something went wrong and caused a global outage, as you can see in the comments of their status post on Twitter.
We're going to make the best out of a bad situation and bring you another server update, you can find a list of changes below.

Changes

• Corrected the base attack speed of knights (no promotion)
• Experience boosters have been made available in the shop, as usual they were disabled for the first few weeks after the season launch
• VIP Medals, Addon Dolls, Point Vouchers & Enchantment Removers have had their shop prices slightly reduced
• NPC Till will now inform players of the magic find limit in his greeting message
• Lowered the item requirements of NPC Rothan in the Vesuvian Tales quest
• Instructions for the Snake game are now displayed in the center of the screen when a game starts
• Fixed a bug in the Ancient Tombs Quest that made players unable to re-enter the reward rooms if they had been there once but didn't take the reward
• Corrected the helmet pieces in the sarcopharguses in the Ancient Tombs Quest
• Fixed a stair on the top floor of the newly expanded Hero mountain north of Gengia
• Fixed a bug that would remove too many items from players that bought an item in the market and paid with unstackable items as currency
• Players can no longer be pushed inside the boss rooms
• In order to make them easily tradeable on the market, VIP medals & point vouchers are now using their own dedicated item ID's
• Reduced the retargeting frequency of Zed
• All types of boots are now enchantable
• Removed monster levels from all monsters
• Updated the level rewards, the required levels to get premium points have been reduced by 50 levels on each step
  • Level 50 → 50,000 gold
  • Level 75 → 100,000 gold
  • Level 100 → 250,000 gold & 25 shop points
  • Level 150 → 500,000 gold & 50 shop points
  • Level 200 → 750,000 gold & 75 shop points
  • Level 250 → 1,000,000 gold & 100 shop points
  • Level 300 → 1,000,000 gold & 200 shop points
  • Level 350 → 1,000,000 gold & 300 shop points
  • Level 400 → 1,000,000 gold & 400 shop points
  • Level 450 → 1,000,000 gold & 500 shop points
• Updated the town map of Vesuvia

Guild wars [41st Week] awarded!EventsWritten by Ascarus staff,

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Guild wars event awards for the 41st week have arrived!
These guilds were the most active and acquired top 3 positions during the past month and thus have been rewarded.
Here is the list of the victors:

Guild: WhySoSerious.
Guild prize: 3000 premium points (158 per player).
Players awarded: Zahura Ed, Name It, Stucked, Headshot, Cowabunga Dude, Elenore, Mahmoud Abdeltamab, King Off Server, Good Game, Akylez Grint, Hizen Fun, Maryo Here, Byczor, Seen, Ali Aldongy Atwood, Alamias, Ali Donkey Atwood, Quntalix, Haresa.

Guild: For Fun.
Guild prize: 2000 premium points (400 per player).
Players awarded: Wannacry, Sinatara, Rndm, Zeby, Warx.

Guild: zamknij.
Guild prize: 1000 premium points (100 per player).
Players awarded: Software Player, Mechanical God, Michael Scofled, John Blunt, Pro, I Seaaa, Maeve, Pickle, Fifty Yearsold, Moro Miss Masiyah.