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 the time display when trying to enter a guild castle spawn while having a cooldown
• Fixed the available bonuses for the soulstealer & windweaver weapons
• Fixed Shock Heads not being counted towards Eruaran's task
• Fixed the item requirements of the wizard & jester outfits
• Mystery gifts that are won through the lottery will now be delivered to the depot of your resident town if they can't be carried
• Emerald bangles can no longer be equipped in the ring slot
• NPC Faro couldn't keep track of all the items he was supposed to buy, so we additionally hired his sister Faronetta to help him out, she specializes in weapons
• Updated messages of the help channel bot
• Bosses in the Game of Thrones area will now respawn on a fixed timer again instead of spawning at random intervals
• Fixed the corpse of Mummies, it can now be properly opened by bots
• Fixed the corpse of Serpent Spawns, it can now be properly opened by bots
• Fixed the corpse of Lizard Legionnaires, it can now be properly opened by bots
• Fixed the decay time of Plaguesmith & Frost Dragon corpses
• Players will now be granted free blessings when dying in a war arena that has exp loss disabled
• Updated the kickback positions for the guild event teleporter, you will now be kicked back to the temple of Thais instead of your resident town's temple
• Added a new Discord bot that relays server activity messages like events & raids to designated Discord channels
• Fixed the amount of time the Capture The Flag & Zombie event teleporters stay open
• Unified all of the event message texts
• Players will now be properly kicked from castle spawns on login if they aren't allowed to hunt in the spawn
• Dwarf Menders will now sense invisibility
• Improved the loot rate of iron ores in Forsaken Dwarves (Dwarf Mender, Dwarf Knight, Dwarf Slave)
• Increased the chance for ice sculpting to succeed
• Fixed a typo in the reply message when asking the Addon Maker NPC about warmaster addons
• Corrected the loot of Efreets & Marids
• Raids will now despawn after being alive for 24 hours by default, a select few raids have shorter despawn timers
• The loot crate event will now only drop 1 crate per town
• Fixed the weekly awards on the website
• Fixed character auctions on the website

Top fraggers [01st Week] awarded!EventsWritten by Ascarus staff,

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Top fraggers awards for the 01st 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. Yuri [50 unique frags] - 500 premium points.
2. Tjillivippen Il [49 unique frags] - 250 premium points.
3. Borgerr [47 unique frags] - 100 premium points.

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 an issue when using custom outfit changers while riding in mine carts, which resulted in client debugs
• Reduced the required amount of mine cart rides in order to unlock the "Driver" achievement
• Added a VIP exclusive dragon lord spawn & moved the old teleporter to the shortcut hub in the south building
• Added a VIP exclusive demon spawn & moved the old teleporter to the shortcut hub in the south building
• Improved the NPC variety in Pyre
• Added minimap downloads to the downloads page
• NPC Rashid will now buy war horns for 8000 gold
• Corrected an incorrect magic effect when using war horns
• Added bonus slots to dwarven armor
• Rewrote the Addon Maker NPC
• Changed golden helmet's physical resistance from 2% to 4%
• Corrected the item name of the windweaver weapon
• Updated the mine cart scripts and added a missing monster check for a specific quest area
• Bazir's throne room in the Pits of Inferno quest now works as intended
• Fixed a bug that teleported you to Thais on your first login, even if you selected a different starting town
• Fixed an error when asking NPC Cael for a trade
• Added NPC Faro as combined loot trader for VIP players, he is located on the top floor of the VIP shops and he will buy everything that Alesar, Esrik, Haroun, Nah'Bob, Rashid, Soya & Yaman also buy
• Players may now use wild growth runes while fighting Aryenai in the Arcanes Hat quest
• Brewster will no longer apply addons to the citizen outfit after getting divorced if a player can't wear the addons
• Corrected the loot of Hellhounds according to the Wiki
• Corrected the loot of Draken Elites according to the Wiki
• Removed the attack debuff from the Swift Foot spell (utamo tempo san)
• Corrected a wrong voice line of Illusion of Ghazbaran
• Updated the loot crate event and added additional towns where the crates can drop in
• Fixed raids being able to spawn on tiles where there was no ground tile
• Fixed the code responsible for floor transfer via height objects (for example stacking 3 parcels), which could prevent you from going up stairs or even cause client debugs in some cases

Christmas 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 2019 23:59 CET (shortened due to demand from players).
In order to randomly drop bags from monsters, their max health needs to be 500 or higher.

Changes

• Fixed a bug on the website that would sometimes show your account as banned after logging in, even if it wasn't
• Fixed an error when logging in on top of another player in trainers that was introduced in the last patch
• Fixed players not receiving the achievement when getting the epic promotion, and added the achievement to all players who haven't received it
• Make Latrivan sense invisibility
• Adjusted Juggernaut's attack and healing according to Wiki
• Rewrote the Anti-AFK bypass scripts from scratch, this includes NPC Carole as well as the bypass item itself
• Added addon dolls back to the loot of Phrodomo & Daitya, with a low drop chance
• Fixed a bug in the !castletime command which would cause it to show wrong times
• Fixed being unable to go up the stairs in the revamped Frost Dragon spawn in VIP
• Added boots of haste & glacier kilt to the loot of Makaras & Young Makaras
• Slightly reduced the damage of Makaras & Young Makaras
• Moved the "Forsaken Dwarves" task to the level 350+ bracket, as you need level 350 in order to travel to the Dwarf Kingdom
• Fixed a wall in the "VIP Shop House 2" house that would cause hangbale items to land in the water when trying to hang them on the wall
• Removed adventurer's stone from the loot of Nightmare Scions
• Reduced the chance of prison keys from mystery gifts
• Removed spellbook of warding from Horadron's loot
• Reduced the required kills for tasks from NPC Eruaran
• Fixed being unable to construct lizard weapon rack kits in houses
• Added decorative Sea Serpents to the aquarium of the "Low Waters Observatory" house in Ankrahmun
• Slightly increased the amount of platinum coins from Energized Wyrms & Aged Energized Wyrms and added tower shield & dragon scale mail to the loot
• Slightly increased the amount of platinum coins from all sacred spiders in the Spider Caves
• Corrected the item name of magic light wands
• Added a christmas event
• Updated the locations of the loot crate event, as well as added 2 new cities in which they can drop

Hotfix from 24th December 2019 23:13 CET

• Reduced the drop rate of higher value items from present bags
• Made the Grynch Clan Goblin raids spawn 1 wave per announcement message instead of spawning all on the 3rd message
• Added game tokens & christmas presents to the possible rewards from exchanging present bags
• Reduced the loot from prison key bosses
• Corrected the stats of butcher's axe
• The drop rate of present bags in wild monsters now scales with the monster's strength
• Fixed being unable to construct snowman kits in houses
• Fixed a wrong level check in the anti-AFK bypass item

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

• Removed the stamina penalty when dying to the Anti-AFK monster
• Increased the time limit to answer the Anti-AFK question from 3 minutes & 20 seconds to 5 minutes
• Increased the Anti-AFK starting level from 300 to 325
• Added a new 2-hour Anti-AFK bypass to NPC Carole
• Fixed golden helmet not applying it's bonus stats when equipped
• Reduced the reroll cost for Daily Tasks from 50% to 25% of the reward
• Added an achievement for participating in killing Gaz'haragoth
• Updated the messages of the help channel bot
• Reduced the required amount of kills for the Serpent Spawn & Grim Reaper TGYoshi tasks
• Rewrote the 10th mission of the Yalahar quest (Azerus fight) and fixed the teleporter not disappearing anymore after Azerus was defeated
• Staff members will now always have at least 30 VIP days available
• The level requirement for events has been dropped to the PvP protection level (80)
• You can no longer put items on the ground in the Snake game area
• Removed gold nuggets from the allowed auction items
• Reduced the healing of Medusas
• Removed the experience penalty when getting kicked out of the Deathmatch event for being AFK
• Fixed a bug in the auctions command
• You are no longer able to log in on top of characters below the protection level in trainers
• NPC Rashid will now buy demonic essences for 1000 gold coins
• The Cure Burning spell (exana flam) can now be cast by all vocations
• The loot of Makara & Young Makara has been slightly buffed
• The dice on the depot of Dicer NPC's should no longer be removed by map cleans
• Added a minimum damage requirement of 1% in order to qualify for loot from bosses that use the Reward Chest system
• The Party Animal raid boss will now use the reward chest system
• Added a custom despawn radius to all raid monsters, they will now teleport back to their spawn position after being lured further than 50 SQM
• Community Managers have been granted more banning power, such as the ability to execute IP banishments
• Reduced the duration of the freeze condition from Frost Flower Asura & True Frost Flower Asura
• The VIP Serpent Spawn & Frost Dragon spawns have been revamped
• The quest for access to Makaras has been updated - If you previously finished the quest, you will still have access to the spawn
• The maximum price for auction items has been increased from 500 gold nuggets to 1000 gold nuggets

I'm also happy to report that after the last patch no more server lockups have happened, and shouldn't happen again.