avatar  February: What You Need to Know
By Calita | February 3, 2012 @ 10:08 pm | 1 comment

When you first log in you will notice a number of things have been changed about your character to match the new skills and systems we added to the game.

TLDR Version!
Here is a quick and dirty check list of the things you need to know when you log in after the February patch.

February Log In Checklist
~ Racial skills have been removed.
~ Arcane Lore is now trained on all characters as a racial skill.
~ If you used a racial weapon skill you will have to train or specialize a new weapon skill.
~ If you used a shield you will probably want to train or specialize the new Shield skill.
~ Some quest weapons might use different weapon skills.
~ Go get your free quest weapon in Arwic.
~ Go get your free weapon adjustment gems in Arwic.

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avatar  KNOWLEDGE IS POWER – FEB UPDATES
By Calita | January 23, 2012 @ 6:30 pm | No comment

Here is some specific information on the weapon change over/skill change over:

As planned Sword has swapped over to Heavy. Dagger has swapped over to Finesse. All other single hand melee has swapped to Light. All missile skills have swapped to missile.

Spells, including rares and cloaks, have changed in the same manner. New cloaks will drop featuring the new skills we are adding to the game.

New spells for Shield can be found on Shields and Hand Armor. The other skills will be found on weapons (where appropriate, Dual Wield should never show up on a missile/wand/two handed weapon) and head armor.
Cantrips follow the same rules as all other cantrips.

Defenders loot sets now has a shield spell included. Soldiers set is now Heavy/Light/Two Handed weapons along with Dirty Fighting and Recklessness. Swift set is now Sprint, Jump, Finesse Weapons, Dual Wield and Sneak Attack. There is also a good chance the SWift set will be renamed to something more fitting such as Rogue’s set.

Each player will get to choose a ranged and melee mastery. These masteries will be a +5 Damage Rating boost to attacks. The reason for +5 DR is to give flavor to a character while not overly penalizing players who want to use multiple weapon types.

FOR MORE INFO – GO TO http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=53918


avatar  January 2012 Patch Notes
By Calita | January 22, 2012 @ 12:58 pm | No comment

Greetings and welcome to the very first Release Notes for 2012! This month the team has been getting back into the swing of the full work schedule after a much deserved vacation over the Holidays. Now that everyone is back, it is time for us to get back to delivering content. Lets check out what is in store this month in Asheron’s Call!
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avatar  Gift Boxes
By Calita | December 13, 2011 @ 3:28 pm | 1 comment

As Logan said, the giftboxes are not turned on on patch day. They are typically on for a ~ 2 week period.

They will be turned on this Friday and turned off on January 3rd.

~~~Sev


avatar  December 2011 Patch – Release Notes
By Endy | December 9, 2011 @ 10:41 am | No comment

Greetings and welcome to the December 2011 Release Notes! Winter is coming! The snow arrives in Dereth once again and with it comes the chill in the air! This month brings many fixes and updates to the game as we head into the New Year. Let’s see what this month’s update has in store.

Monthly Kill tasks updated

Quests of the Month updated

4 new contracts (Gharundim TN barkeeper, Devra)

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