Masked Memories
Turbine Announcements
Rollout - [<Rollout Link to Turbine> Link]
Release Notes - Link
October 2007 Release Notes
Hello and welcome the Release Notes for the October event, Masked Memories! This month we see the return of the Festival season. Once again it is a time of tricks and treats as we begin the journey into the cold winter months. But let’s not forget that there is still much going on around Dereth that has yet to be explained. Let’s see what else is going this month in the world of Asheron’s Call.
New Functionality and Content
- We are on the cusp of celebrating the eighth anniversary of Asheron’s Call. This is a huge event and we want to celebrate in grand style. This year when players log in after the October event goes live they will find they now have one more character slot available to them. This is just a small way for us to say thank you to everyone who is playing the game we all love.
- Colosseum Currency has been added to the game this month. Players will be rewarded for completing certain stages of the Colosseum, see the table below for details. Players will receive Colosseum currency from the Colosseum NPC on completion
The rewards break down as follows:
Stage Reward 1-12 none 13 1 Colosseum Coin 14 1 Colosseum Coin 15 2 Colosseum Coins 16 3 Colosseum Coins 17 4 Colosseum Coins 18 4 Colosseum Coins You get flagged for completing a stage by using the door to the next stage. For example, if you are in stage 13 you kill everything and then portal out, you will not receive the reward of 1 coin for completing the stage. You must use the door to the next stage in order to get credit for completing it. Please note that you receive only the reward for the last stage that you have completed. If you complete stage 14 and leave, you will receive 1 coin. Once you have collected some coins you will be able to purchase special items from a vendor placed in the Colosseum staging area.
- Following tradition, new masks have been added for the Festival season, collect them all! Don’t forget the Majestic Pumpkin and the Festival vendors will also be making their return along with the seasonal creatures we all know and love.
- Players will want to start collecting Small Olthoi Venom Sacs from the Olthoi North area. A vendor has moved in to the area who has a keen interest in these items, and will reward players who take the time to collect them.
Miscellaneous Changes and Improvements
- For some time now, players have had the ability to lock another player’s corpse. Thanks to some great work by the team, we are confident that this has been fixed and players should no longer be able to lock a corpse. That being said, we will continue to watch this situation closely.
- The all elusive behavior which would cause some creatures to return back to home with full health mid combat has been fixed. We will continue to watch this closely, but it appears we have finally tracked this one down.
- The War Spell Proc on the Paradox-touched Olthoi Weapons was causing some unintended balance issues in PvP. In extreme cases, the weapons would proc twice in a row and kill a player in two hits. We have reduced the level of the spell that the weapons can cast on strike from 7 to 4 and increased the proc rate of the spell to ensure that the weapon damage remains the same, but the weapon loses the ability to generate the massive burst damage that was unbalancing PvP.
- A bug with Issk in Old Yanshi that would allow players to repeatedly hand in an item for the reward has been fixed and Issk should be returning to his post in October.
- An issue with the portal that would send you in to fight the Prodigal Olthoi Queen has been fixed and players once again should be able to go in and fight the queen.
- The Penumbral Shadow Mages were using Healthbolts (Hectacombs) and causing more player deaths than intended. We have removed this spell from them and raised the chance for a normal war spell to fire in order to keep the area at a high difficulty.
- A typo in the text that Collectors use in regards to Drudge Cabalists has been fixed.
- Based on player feedback we have changed the amount of XP a player can receive from completing the Death Tail Fang quest. Players will now receive up to 50% of their level up to 100 million XP.
So there are just some of the things we have in store for Asheron's Call in October. Please remember that along with everything listed here, there are several new quests and exciting things going into the game for the October event.