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

Changes

• Fixed a ramp in the Zao steppe that would not allow you to go down anymore
• Added signs to the city of Aquarin & it's surroundings to help with navigation
• Added indicators to teleporters in VIP that indicate whether or not you will have to walk in order to return to towns
• Fixed the item requirements for the hunter addons being mixed up
• Fixed NPC Esrik not responding to greetings
• Castle Crawlers can no longer spawn with skulls
• Removed Ferumbras' hat from AI loot of some bosses
• Added additional travel destinations to NPC Captain Noruiven in Northport
• The Lizards teleporter in VIP will now teleport you to Razachai instead of the Zzaion lizard stronghold

This morning at 6:49 AM we suffered a downtime of 3 hours and 11 minutes due to a server lockup.
We'll be working on putting a better system in place for these scenarios, so downtime is kept to a minimum if such a situation should arise again.
In order to compensate for the lost time, the experience, skill, magic & loot rates have been doubled for 5 hours to make up for the lost time. Additionally, 2 extra VIP days have been added to all accounts.
In order to fairly distribute the double exp time, it will be spreaded out over the day.

Hours used

• Real map 8.6 with several custom towns
• Roshamuul accurately converted to 8.6, including all bosses & raids
• Reward Chest system - You will always get loot if you help killing a boss
• Custom exp stage system to provide you with a smooth exp progression
• Weekly guild frag rewards with points & mentions
• A total of 23 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 auction system
• 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 and 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
• Partnered Twitch streamers - Show off Ascarus on your stream and we will promote your stream on the website
• Anti-AFK system on higher levels to prevent permanent exp botting
• 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
• 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)

• Added the entire continent of Roshamuul, including all bosses
• Added Nightmare Isles
• Implemented a Reward Chest system for most raid bosses
• Reworked the experience stage system to use a gradual decline of the experience stage with each level, instead of a sharp drop off at specific levels, which provides a much smoother level progression - along with this change the experience rates have also been lowered
• In order to accommodate the addition of the Reward Chest, many bosses have received updates to their loot - For example, it is now much more common to drop upgrader chests, equipment pieces, weapons and various other luxuries
• Reworked & vastly expanded the city of Aquarin with additional spawns
• The Makara spawn has been moved to Aquarin and now requires completion of a short quest in order to access
• The rentable war arenas no longer have their maps connected to each other, instead you now have to pick the desired map beforehand and can freely change maps after losing PZ lock, as long as you have the arena rented
• All of the monsters in the following spawns have received adjustments to their loot: Medusa Tower, Grimvale, Old Fortress, Asuras Palace (including True Asuras behind the mirror), Quara Grotto, Vandura Wyrm Cave & Spider Caves
• Added the city of Asylum, it's land mass features a connection to another one of our custom cities - Incheon
• Reduced the amount of upgrade slots an item can have, as well as the maximum values you can roll
• The boat system has been rewritten and now allows you to travel between all cities with no route restrictions
• A beginner quest has been added in Mount Sternum, north-east of Thais
• The standard raid system you find on all OT servers has been ditched and rewritten entirely, which allows much better manipulation of raids
• Added the Safe Zone event
• Shop offers & prices of Rashid, Soya & the Djinn NPC's have been corrected
• VIP Rashid has been removed
• The boss rooms in VIP have been removed
• The task system has been rewritten entirely, furthermore NPC's TGYoshi, Daily Huntsman & Eruaran feature brand new task lists
• Strong standard raid bosses like Ferumbras, Ghazbaran, Morgaroth, Orshabaal have been had their stats and loot adjusted and were equipped with the Reward Chest system
• You can now view the login history of your account through the account management panel on the website
• Players can now walk through each other while being inside of a protection zone - there are however special zones where walking through each other is still prohibited, even if the area is a protection zone (some events for example)
• Items with charges can now be sold to NPC's, as long as the item still has the full amount of charges available
• In training areas it is no longer possible to stack additional characters in 1 spot in order to potion the main character for magic level training
• All of the game token spawns (super spawns) have received new maps
• All map bugs in the Zao steppe have been fixed
• Added a new dragon lord spawn to the city of Incheon
• Revamped the Hydra spawn south of Gengia and populated it with a quest
• Wild monsters can no longer damage each other