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

• Weekly: Farmer Kao's Plea for Help
• Bi-weekly: Counterfeit Writs
• Monthly: Queen Elysa in Danger

4 new contracts (Gharundim TN barkeeper, Devra)

• Jailbreak: Ardent Leader
• Jailbreak: Blessed Leader
• Jailbreak: General Population
• Jailbreak: Verdant Leader

Winter is coming! Ok, it’s actually here. Snow, snow and more snow!

The 8th, 11th, 12th anniversary shirts have been fixed so the short sleeves display properly.

TINKERING: Material names are now displayed during the crafting process.

TRADING: Material names are now displayed when giving items to others.

Rare Bloodmark Crossbow’s damage type & rending type have been matched to both be bludgeon.

Icon fixes for Scribe’s Quills, Darling Collar, and Raeta’s Necklace

Matched the following coats to have the same tailorable coverage as Hauberks:

• Academy Coats (all colors)
• Ursuin hide Coat (both summer & regular)
• Heavy Ursuin Coat (both new & retired)
• Dusk Coat (rare)
• Patriarch's Twilight Coat (rare)
• Squalid Coat
• Furry Mattekar Hide Coat
• Mattekar Hide Coat (retired)

Jack of All Trades Augmentation can now be exchanged for another Augmentation gem from all other Augmentation gem NPCs.

Removed abdomen coverage of Doomshark Coat & Upgraded Doomshark Coat

Players can now exchange old versions of the Balor's over-robe, Hoary Mattekar over-robe, and Hoory Mattekar over-robe for new chest only coverage versions from Yi-Yo-Jin, Gillian the Poacher, & Ketnan.

Players can once again dye an item even after it has been tailored!

Following creatures will now drop treasure corpses:

• Blinding Virindi Energy Cluster
• Dim Virindi Energy Cluster
• Faint Virindi Energy Cluster
• Vibrant Virindi Energy Cluster

The Olthoi Cuirass, Gromnie Hide Cuirass, and Armoredillo Hide Breastplates are now tailorable.

Tailoring fix to quest Olthoi shields such that they retain their intended colors.

Jumpsuits (e.g. Asheron’s Raiments), are now dyeable again.

KNOWN ISSUE: Tailoring of Nefane shields & Upgraded Nefane shield results in broken palette textures.

So these are just some of the things we have in store for Asheron's Call in December. Please remember that along with everything listed here, there are several new quests and exciting things going into the game for the December Event.

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