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.

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

• Fixed a bug where progress to the "Gold Digger" achievement was not properly being added for digging up scarab coins
• Prepared the reward table for the Guild Event of Week 2
• The price for renting war arenas has ben reduced from 1,000,000 gold per hour to 250,000 gold per hour
• Fixed a bug that caused players to not receive their temporary equipment in war arenas, if they did not have enough capacity to hold it
• Fixed a bug that did not properly destroy fireworks rockets after being used
• Adjusted the skills players receive in the war arenas when stat templates are enabled, they should now more properly reflect average values, according to our highscores
• Fixed the corpse of mini-boss Cublarc The Plunderer, which appears in the Zzaion Orc raid
• Corrected the loot of Draken Spellweavers
• Added rewards to both teams when a Capture The Flag event ends in a tie - The reward is half of what the winning team would receive
• Added ring of healing to NPC Benjamin's sell offers
• Prevent the use of the "utana vid" spell in the Deathmatch waiting room
• Adjusted the loot, experience & health of The Mutated Pumpkin
• Increased the mana cost for using paralyze runes & the paralyze beam spell (this has been live for a few days already, in order to observe player reactions)
• Updated the damage formulas of AoE runes (Avalanche, Great Fireball, Stone Shower & Thunderstorm)
• Slightly reduced the damage of sudden death runes (this has been live for a few days already, in order to observe player reactions)
• Prevented the use of UE spells when there are more than 10 players on your screen
• Adjusted the exhaust period of mage wave spells (this has been live for a few days already, in order to observe player reactions)
  • 8 seconds if there are 15 or more players on screen → 5 seconds if there are 10 or more players on screen
• Reduced the damage of the Strong Ethereal Spear (exori gran con) spell (this has been live for a few days already, in order to observe player reactions - it received a couple follow-up adjustments due to player feedback, and another one with this update)
• Updated the damage formulas of mages wave spells (this has been live for a few days already, in order to observe player reactions) - Sorcerer spells have a higher damage scaling than druid spells
• Fixed a bug that would result in players still being unable to use AoE spells after leaving a war arena that had AoE spells disabled in it
• Updated the equipment that players receive in an arena that has temporary equipment enabled
• Added die to the loot of Pirates
• Updated the responses of the help channel bot
• Reduced the level requirement of Paw Amulet from level 300 to level 250
• Increased the cooldown of the Annihilation (exori gran ico) spell from 0.85s to 1s (this has been live for a few days already, in order to observe player reactions)
• Reduced the range of the Annihilation (exori gran ico) spell from 5 SQM to 3 SQM (this has been live for a few days already, in order to observe player reactions)
• Players will now receive 30,000 gold upon advancing to level 30
• Added a new version of the anti-push system, which will receive a test-run shortly, due to the poll being relatively split between the community wanting to place items, and others not wanting it (there is no guarantee that this system will be used at all, we will just be testing it for 1 day or so - right now the old system is still active) - we will then make a follow-up poll and see what the community thinks of it
  • When placing a stackable item under a player, an exhaust period of 3 seconds is enforced until any other item can be placed under a player again
  • When placing a non-stackable item under a player, an exhaust period of 0.3 seconds is enforced until any other item can be placed under a player again
• Reduced the monster density of the Asura spawn behind the mirror in the Asura palace
• Added automatic blessings after dying, you can enable them by saying !bless on and disable them by saying !bless off
• Reduced the cost of blessings, after level 120, 5 blessings will now cost a total of 50,000 gold instead of 100,000 gold
• Updated the game token exchange rates at NPC Premium Exchanger
  • 50 game tokens
  • 6 premium points → 10 premium points
  • 100 game tokens
  • 12 premium points → 20 premium points
  • 200 game tokens
  • 24 premium points → 40 premium points
  • 500 game tokens
  • 60 premium points → 100 premium points
  • 1000 game tokens
  • 120 premium points → 200 premium points