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Extended Maintenance – 12/17

Update 10:30am EST: All shards but Atlantic are back up. We are currently having some unexpected difficulties with the Atlantic shard but should have it up soon. Thank you for your patience. Greetings! We will be bringing the following shards offline tomorrow, December 17th, starting at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for maintenance and a hardware upgrade: Atlantic Oceania Europa Drachenfels At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 10:00 am EST (15:00 GMT). Please be sure to check back here for updates regarding this downtime.


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Happy Holidays!

With the holidays quickly approaching we wanted to let everyone know that the team will be out of the office until January 2nd. Not to worry though; our elves will continue address any issues that may come up over the holidays. Best wishes to all and we hope the New Year finds everyone healthy and happy.   From our family to yours: Tim “Dropixel” Chappell,  Mike “Phoenix” Moore,  Jeff “Gryphon” Skalski,  Greg “Kyronix” Havlusch, Stephen “Bleak” Brown,  Michael “Misk” Armstrong,  Jonathan “Truji” Berkel,  Jim “Onifrk” Crawley (Represented by the green puppet),  Beth “Inarea” Garwood,  Bonnie “Mesanna” Armstrong and her new […]


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House Customization Update

The House customization issue has been resolved. The problem arose from a stacking issue that was fixed this morning.  Items will no longer be pushed under the house sign or become unlocked.  The instability of the Atlantic shard was also related to the stacking issue and should be resolved as well. 


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THE YEW TIMES – A Newspaper for Sosaria

Written by members of the community Issue 10 WORLD NEWS FROSTMAN We have just received a report from Castle Blackthorn, to be on a lookout for a LIVING snowman? It seems that Captain Julius has hired a team of old retired mages from the Mage Tower to make use of all of the snowmen that have been turned in from the Clean Up Britiannia campaign. We were not informed of what the mages were actualy working on, or for what purpose. The walking snowman was named “Snowy the Frostman” which later escaped the castle and was last seen heading into […]


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Hot Fixes for Publish 80

Greetings! We will be bringing all the shards offline today, at 3:30 pm EST (20:30 GMT) to apply the following hot fixes: Buff/Debuff icons should properly be removed from hot bars now You can no longer retrieve a house trash can All vendors will now be replaced after customizing your house Reforging should work properly now Items will not be rejected from your house any longer when you customize At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 5:30 pm EST (22:30 GMT). We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.


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Extended Maintenance – 12/13

Greetings! We will be bringing the following shards offline tomorrow, December 13th, starting at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for a hardware upgrade: Legends Siege Perilous Great Lakes Lake Superior At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 11:00 am EST (16:00 GMT). Please be sure to check back here for updates regarding this downtime.


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Publish 80 Comes to All Shards – 12/12

We have staged Publish 80 to be released tomorrow, 12/12 during Maintenance for all servers. The following fixes have been applied to the publish: Chest will now spawn in reachable locations in the Exodus Dungeon Chopping of containers will not delete any items inside of them Players should not feel excessive lag in castles Using Rose of Trinsic will no longer adversely affect your characters str. For more information regarding the publish, please read the Publish 80 notes.


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Extended Maintenance – 12/11

Greetings! We will be bringing the Chesapeake and Catskills shards offline tomorrow, December 11th, at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for a hardware upgrade. At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 10:00 am EST (15:00 GMT). Please be sure to check back here for updates regarding this downtime.