Status: All servers are now online, welcome back!

Greetings!

This morning (Tuesday, 6/23/09) all North American servers will be brought offline at 8:00AM EDT with Oceanic following at 9:00AM EDT to open the Land of the Dead for the winning realms of this past week’s Live Event: Rise of the Tomb Kings! In addition multiple other small improvements will also be made during this downtime.

We anticipate servers to be online by 1:00PM EDT. As always stay tuned to the Herald for information during this and other future downtimes, thank you!

Update – 11:10AM EDT: All servers are now online, update is complete – Welcome to the Land of the Dead!

Update – 9:00AM EDT: All Oceanic servers are now offline.

Update – 8:00AM EDT: All North American servers are now offline as we begin the maintenance.

Greetings!

We have the following Hot Fixes for you this evening:

Combat & Careers

Shadow Warrior

• Bullseye: This Tactic will once again function correctly. Note that the tactic will need to be un-slotted, then re-slotted to begin working again.

White Lion

• Pounce: Fixed an issue that could, in some cases, send the White Lion character back to its bind point when this ability was used.

Warrior Priest

• Divine Strike: This ability will now heal the Warrior Priest if the Warrior Priest does not have a defensive target set.

Crafting

• Players will no longer be able to create high-level talismans from level 1 crafting materials purchased from guild crafting vendors.

Items

• Corrected an issue where Warlord Gloves, Boots and Crests and Invader Gloves, Boots and Crests were dropping more frequently than intended.
• Skull of the Fallen: When players obtain this item, it will now enter the new currency backpack, rather than the main inventory backpack.
• Skulls of the Fallen and Ordnance have been changed to green (Uncommon) rarity, to allow grouped players to make loot rolls on them.

RvR

Fortresses

• Loot chests will now appear on the ground floor of the Fortress once the Fortress public quest has been completed.

Scenarios

• Khaine’s Embrace: The Khaine’s Wrath effect will once again kill players instantly.

Greetings!

At 3:40PM EDT Dark Crag will be brought offline for immediate maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience and will work to have the servers back online as quickly as possible.

Thank you!

EDIT: The deployment was delayed to allow for additional preparations. Dark Crag will now be brought offline at 3:40PM EDT. Thank you!

Update – 5:00PM EDT: Dark Crag is now open, welcome back!

Update – 3:45PM EDT: Dark Crag is now offline for maintenance.

Greetings!

We have the following Hot Fixes for you going into the weekend:

Please note, players will need to restart their game client to see some of these fixes.

General Changes and Bug Fixes

• When a player’s corpse decays without first being looted, any items that could have been looted from the corpse will automatically be rolled on with the “Greed” setting by all players who would have qualified to roll on the item if it had been looted manually. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this feature, auto-roll settings will seem to be ignored. This feature was added to prevent loot from being lost due to corpse decay (most frequently encountered in RvR combat.) This feature will not work for ungrouped players.

Combat & Careers

General

• Fixed several cases where the tooltip descriptions of character abilities were not updating their values based on stats.
• Fixed an issue that was sometimes preventing rear-positional attacks from activating.

Content

Public Quests

• Gassy Mines: Fixed an issue that was causing all of the Thardrik Tinkerers to spawn in areas that players could not reaching, preventing the Public Quest from advancing.

Crafting

• Salvaging a very rare quality piece of equipment for Strength will no longer result in a Spirit Resist fragment.

Items

• Based on player feedback from our Public Test Server, we have made adjustments to the new Tyrant armor set obtained in the Land of the Dead. Please see the corresponding Herald post found here.

RvR

Capital Cities

• The Inevitable City: Players will no longer be forcibly dismounted when they enter or exit The Apex through one of the four main arches.

Keeps

• Fixed an issue that was preventing Keep doors from resetting properly after twenty minutes passed without taking damage.

Scenarios

• Reikland Factory: This scenario has been set to be an 18 vs. 18 match.
• Tor Anroc: Players who are in the lava at the end of the scenario will no longer be snared when they return to the world.

User Interface

• Players that have spell effects turned off will once again be able to see repeatable quest icons.
• Fixed an issue that could in some cases cause tracker elements (PQ trackers, quest trackers, etc) on the player’s UI to disappear. This fix will cause the trackers to return to their default positions, but players are free to move them after this.
• Fixed an issue relating to the creation of new auctions on the Auction House. When creating an auction, if a different item was placed in the slot over the original item, that original item would stay grayed out (locked) in the backpack. This will no longer occur. Fixed an issue that was causing item icons in the bank to scale improperly.