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