Server updateServer MaintenanceWritten by Erza,

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Dear players,
A patch to the server has been applied, you can find a list of changes below.

Changes

• Corrected the experience bonuses that are granted for sharing experience in a party
• Added a command to display the time until your battle sign disappears, you can use it by saying !pz
• Corrected the keyword for Spool of Yarn in NPC Exchanger
• Decreased the cost of outfits, addons & addon dolls in the shop
• Corrected the item ID of demon dusts that are dropped from Demon Outcasts
• Corrected the loot chance of Djinn blades from Thalas
• Fixed a bug where the "Safe Zone" achievement was not awarded in a specific scenario
• Increased the loot chance of Present Bags from random monsters
• Fixed an issue where the respawn times of Pharaohs in the Helmet of the Ancients quest could vary greatly
• Corrected the vocation requirement of Demonwing Axe, now only knights can use it
• The first addon of the Hand of the Inquisition outfit no longer requires a mini mummy
• Fixed corpse ID's of the following monsters: Dark Torturer, Troll, Lost Soul, Demon Outcast, Feversleep, Shiversleep, Terrorsleep
• Reduced the damage of Makaras & Young Makaras drown attack
• Populated the Shady Cathedral in Asylum (#24 on Asylum's town map) with monsters
  • Smugglers
  • Bandits
  • Wild Warriors
  • Novice of the Cult
  • Adept of the Cult
  • Acolyte of the Cult
  • Enlightened of the Cult
  • Ghouls
  • Skeletons
  • Demon Skeletons
  • Infernalists
  • Stray Spirits
• Added missing spawns of some bosses in the Elemental Spheres quest
• Improved the broadcasted message when a player wins the hourly GameGuard lottery
• Updated experience and loot of the Phaser & Infestor bosses
• Relocated the exit portals in Infestor's tower, due to players sometimes accidentally exiting the tower when they didn't mean to
• Added a notice upon entering the Infestor boss fight that informs players about Infestor's self-healing mechanic
• Corrected the paladin reward in the Vesuvian Tales Quest, it now properly awards the Ironworker
• Updated Forever AOL
  • Name: Forever AOL → Atlas Amulet
  • Regeneration: 0 health & mana per second → 5 health & mana per second
• Updated Paw Amulet
  • Regeneration: 30 health & mana per second → 20 health & mana per second
  • Recharge: 10 gold nuggets per charge → Removed the need to recharge the amulet
• Increased the experience bonuses for using the GameGuard client
  • Level 1 - 50
    • 100% → 100%
  • Level 51 - 100
    • 80% → 95%
  • Level 101 - 150
    • 65% → 90%
  • Level 151 - 200
    • 50% → 80%
  • Level 201 - 250
    • 40% → 70%
  • Level 251 - 300
    • 30% → 60%
  • Level 301 -
    • 25% → 50%
• Fixed an error with the betting stations that could occur when locking in a bet while the game was resetting
• Expanded the boss fight area of Spoderman
• Removed monster levels from Tibbers
• Reduced the strength of The Mad King's paralysis
• Reduced the health of The Mad King
  • 4500000 → 4000000
• Reduced the level requirement to use Sneaky Staff from 350 to 300 It's equippable but doesn't shoot, this will be fixed next update
• Corrected the loot of Behemoths
• Reduced the requirement amount of Void Crystals to unlock a world bonus
• Updated Spoderman
  • Health: 5000000 → 2500000
  • Experience: 3900000 → 2000000
  • Speed: 710 → 510
  • Removed the Kanker summons
  • Reduced the damage & self-healing values
  • Added a spider web spell that teleports Spoderman to a player, unless the spell is interrupted by having obstacles in his line of sight
• Corrected the loot of Bonebeasts
• Corrected the awarded outfit for completing the Living Star quest
• Corrected the attacks & loot of Grim Reapers
• Fixed a bug where NPC Addon Maker would not respond when being asked about the Rascoohan addons
• A player's bank balance is now being considered when attempting to buy an item from the auctions, while not having enough money in their inventory
• Updated Michael
  • Health: 3500000 → 2250000
  • Experience: 5000000 → 3500000
  • Haste speed: 2600 → 600
• Added an exit portal to the end of the Mysterious quest
• Added an exit portal to the end of the Solar Cloak quest

Top players in the guild event [51st Week] awarded!EventsWritten by Ascarus staff,

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Top damage dealers in the guild event for the 51st week have arrived!
These heroic players faught valiantly and dealt the most damage in the guild event battle grounds thus acquired top 3 positions in most damage dealt and have been rewarded.
Here is the list of the victors:

1. Scarlett Johansson [1 440 240 total damage] - 300 premium points.
2. Khabib [1 027 532 total damage] - 200 premium points.
3. Big Willie [986 970 total damage] - 150 premium points.

Server updateServer MaintenanceWritten by Erza,

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Dear players,
We wish you a merry christmas and hope you get to spend some time with your loved ones during these festive days.
In order to celebrate the holiday season, we have prepared a small event for you to enjoy as well as the usual regular server updates.

Christmas Event
Oh no! Good old Santa has lost some of his christmas presents to the evil Grynch Clan Goblins, who are trying to ruin Christmas!
Catch them if you see them trying to raid any of the Ascarian cities and return the bags to Santa in exchange for a reward.
Furthermore, the goblins dropped some of the bags when they ran away, which were picked up by other wild monsters! Return these to Santa as well if you happen to find any of them.
The event will be running until 26th December 2020 23:59 CET.
In order to randomly drop bags from monsters, the monster needs to have at least 500 health.

Changes

• Activated the Christmas event until 26th December 2020 23:59 CET
  • A horde of Grynch Clan Goblins can invade different towns of Ascarus at any moment in time
  • Christmas Bags can be looted from Grynch Clan Goblins or from any random monster with more than 500 health
  • The loot chance of Christmas Bags increases with monster strength
  • When using GameGuard, a 2x multiplier is applied to the loot chance of Christmas Bags from random monsters
  • Christmas Bags can be exchanged with Santa Claus for a random gift
  • Santa Claus is spawned in all cities of Ascarus
• Being requested every season, since their removal before Season 1, experience boosters can be purchased again in the shop
  • Experience boosters increase the amount of experience a player gains by 50% for 2 hours
  • Players cannot stack the experience bonus when using multiple of them
  • Experience boosters can only be used up to level 450
  • Using another experience booster while one is still active will extend the time until the boost ends by 2 hours
  • The boost time will not stop or pause if you log out or die
  • You can always check your remaining boost time by using the !exp command
• Added missing turtle shells to the loot of Thornback Tortoises
• Fixed a bug that could occur when the winner of the Storm Event did not have enough space or capacity to receive their reward
• Corrected the loot & abilities of Haunted Treelings
• Reduced the item requirements for the second Poltergeist addon
  • 4000 demonic essences → 2500 demonic essences
• Decreased the cooldown until players can enter the boss rooms again
  • 1 minute → 20 seconds
• Corrected the item ID of Whacking Driller of Fate that tools NPCs are selling, they were selling the jammed version of the item
• Fixed a bug that could occur when there was not enough space for Pythius The Rotten to summon Undead Gladiators
• Increased the loot chance of Draken Trophies
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from selling items to NPC's with dynamic shop lists (Cael, Esrik, Pompan, Swolt & Grizzly Adams)
• Expanded the monster spawns around the Harambe boss and improved their spawn rotation path
• Slightly increased the loot of Mawhawk
• Players will now receive their money to their bank balance directly when one of their auction offers is bought
• Bank NPC's will now show money amounts as comma-seperated values
  • 1000000 → 1,000,000
• Added a command to display your current bank balance, you can use it by saying !balance
• Fixed a bug where NPC Chephan would sell you bought items twice instead of just once
• Increased the amount of soul orbs that are exchanged at one when using the Exchanger NPC
  • 1 soul orb for 10 infernal bolts → 10 soul orbs for 100 infernal bolts
• Added ability to use ropes on pitfalls (e.g. the entrance hole at Grimvale surface)
• Added missing quara bones to the loot of Quara Predator, Quara Predator Scout & Deppsea Predator
• The Guild Event will now use their regular reward table again, according to our events page
• Added a mystery gift to the 5th place reward of the Guild Event
• Prevent players from bypassing the tunnel part of the first mission in the Wrath of the Emperor quest
• Added more monsters to the Deeper Banuta spawns
• Reduced the speed & haste of Infernatils
• Replaced 1 of the Infernatils at the end of the Addon Doll quest with an Illusion of Morgaroth
• Removed the requirement of using GameGuard in order to gain progress for the "Demon Slayer" achievement
• Reduced the amounts of Illusion of Orshabaal that players face in the Quest of Desolation (Chainbolter)
• The required level for entering war arenas is now always the same as the PvP protection level
• Added the "The Bloodtusk" task boss in his usual spawn location
• Corrected the loot of Elephants, they will now drop tusks instead of orc tusks
• Added missing miraculum to the loot of Stalkers
• The automatic poll broadcast will now inform players of the 5 premium points reward when voting in a poll
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from using closed doors from a distance
• The deathlist will now display a players real level instead of the template level when dying in a war arena that has template stats enabled
• Slightly reduced the damage of monsters in Roshamuul and slightly increased their experience
• Slightly increased the monster density in Roshamuul's prison
• Increased the loot rate of items that are required for the Pirate addons (peg leg, hook, eye patch)
• Added a missing cooldown check on the terra wave spell (exevo tera hur)
• The boss rooms will now allow up to 2 characters from the same IP address to enter
• Adusted the stats of Dworc Warriors
  • Health: 10000 → 6000
  • Experience: 6000 → 6500
  • Drunkness spell removed
  • Damage decreased
• Fixed a bug that would allow players to step on top of quest chests when shooting a magic wall on top of them in a non-pvp zone
• Stray Spirits can now be pushed by players

Top achievers [50th Week] awarded!EventsWritten by Ascarus staff,

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Top achievers awards for the 50th 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. Falken [44 achievements] - 300 premium points.
2. Dio [39 achievements] - 150 premium points.
3. Khabib [33 achievements] - 100 premium points.

Second Week's Guild EventEventsWritten by Erza,

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Since Ascarus traditionally launches on Fridays and Guild Events happen on Saturdays, we have decided that instead of disabling it for the first week, like in previous seasons, we will allow the Guild Events to happen, but 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.
We have now arrived at the second Guild Event, we hope you enjoyed last week's event.

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

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

The reward table for week 3 and onwards will be normalized again, according to our events page.