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- Arwic
- Gaerlan
- The Slumbering Giant
- New Functionality and Content
:* Wealth! Wealth beyond the dreams of avarice!
:* Characters can now redistribute their base attributes! See the Letter to the Players for more details.
:* Nuhmudira's students are continuing their studies of the Lifestones.
:* Arwic has been fortified against future attacks.
:* The Marketplace is open for business!
- Welcome to the January edition of the Asheron's Call Letter to the Players. The AC Live team hopes that you are enjoying the winter season, both in-game and out. The January update for AC is just around the corner. We're busy putting some of the final touches on this month's content along with taking some time to improve gameplay for our players. There's a lot to cover this month, so without further ado, here are the bigger changes that will take place in Dereth in January.
- We expect a high volume of traffic in the Marketplace once it is live in the world, as many people will rush to put their trade bots there and others will simply be curious. For those of you playing on older machines, we recommend not rushing to see the Marketplace the first day of the patch and waiting for the high volume of initial curiosity seekers to level out.
- In our examination of the magic system, we found that the previous changes to transfer spells helped us reach many of the goals we had set for these spells, but we also found that we could improve the magic system further. Moreover, we found that there were many other areas of magic we could improve upon at the same time. We think these changes will help mitigate some of the concerns our players have had with the previous changes, as well as introduce even more strategy for those who enjoy playing a mage.
- This is the latest installment of a frequently updated series of reports on The State of the Code for Asheron's Call. In this report, we keep players informed as to the state of some of the more technical aspects of AC, particularly bugs we are working on and technical limitations of which you should be aware. Look at the News page on the Zone for other articles about recent additions and changes to Asheron's Call.
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- When you are exploring the Warehouse Annex this month, please be thorough. If you leave the Annex without the Valara Crystal, you may be unable to reenter the Annex to get the crystal and your progress on the quest will be stalled until next month.
- The taverns are abuzz with tales of the creatures that have been seen. Those who had the misfortune to meet these creatures drown their sorrows in pints of ale, moaning that no one could stand before the creatures' immense power. A few even say they have sighted a threat not seen since the founding of Holtburg. Yet not all the tales are so dire. One adventurer brings back a tale of the immense wealth he found, a treasure hoard the likes of which has never been seen before. This one tale is enough to motivate many adventurers to scour the Direlands in search of the creatures and the hoards they guard, even though death surely awaits.
- It may be that these projects are completed just in time, as the first signs appear that the quiet following Gaerlan's defeat is being broken. The Queen's scouts report that a strange new portal has been found on the Singularity Caul. Parties that have traveled through the portal report of a facility filled with all manner of creatures, most of them twisted by Virindi experimentation. Some even whisper that Shadows could be found therein…
- Life Magic Changes
- Specialized Credit Limit
- Table 1 - Transfer and Harm Range Changes
- The Gaerlan quest dynamic has been changed in many places to make it more robust. Hopefully, this should allow all Derethians their chance to kill Gaerlan in a more timely fashion.
- Warehouse Annex
- The following chart explains the changes made to the Life Magic transfer and harm spells:
- The Queen and the Arcanum have continued to bolster their defenses for any threats to come. This is especially true in Arwic, which is now surrounded by a set of thick walls. In addition, the Arcanum, under the direction of the Queen, has created a special Marketplace that is accessible to all of the people of Dereth. Now with just a simple act of will, those in search of goods or services can be transported to the Marketplace, making it easier for everyone to find the materials they need to prepare themselves for whatever challenges lie ahead. Ciandra, head of the Arcanum, has also made a breakthrough in her studies of the gems uncovered by Nuhmudira. Those gems could allow one to change his or her body of knowledge and skills, but Ciandra has found a means to use them to change the base qualities that one was born with. While some mutter that this magic is horribly unnatural, most avail themselves of the chance to change any deficiencies they find in their makeup.
- When we initially introduced the post-creation specialization quest in November, we limited the number of credits that any character could invest into specialized skills to a total of 50. Basically, this meant that post-creation specialization did not give you access to any specilized skillsets that you could not normally select at character creation. We instituted this limit because we like to start out conservative -- we wanted to watch the effects of skill sellback on game balance before allowing for more specialized characters. We did, however, discuss the possibility of increaing this limit, or lifting it all together, sometime in the future.
- The wall around Arwic may cause reduced framerate on some systems. We will work on ways to improve this.
- Here are the changes introduced in our January event. Changes to game functionality and existing content are listed, but new content is up for you to find! Speak to town criers, barkeeps, and scribes for the latest happenings in Dereth. For more information on this month's event, please see this month's Letter to the Players. Please submit any bugs you come across to http://bugs.zone.com.
- We were working on a small increase to the specialization credit limit for February with the intention of increasing the limit for all characters, but hadn't fully implemented this feature. For this reason, certain skillsets are now possible that involve more than 50 specialized credits. Although this was not intended behavior for January, we will not be taking the servers down to do a special rollback of this bug in January because we don't want to penalize our players with lost progress due to a rollback. Some characters may be able to benefit from this bug slightly in January, but in February everyone will be able to benefit equally from the changed dynamic. So don't panic if you see a new template in the Marketplace -- you'll be able to do that yourself soon.
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