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We have the following round of Hot Fixes for you today:

General Changes & Bug Fixes

• We continue to make ongoing improvements to client and server stability.
• Fixed an issue that was causing players to drop Scarabs and Soul Talismans when killed outside of the Land of the Dead.

Combat and Careers

Shadow Warrior

• Bullseye: Fixed an issue which prevented this Tactic from working properly.

Content

Quests

• Enemies Abound: Players will now be able to locate the suspicious characters that they need to interrogate for this quest.

Crafting

Talisman Making

• Gatestone: This item can now be crafted by players with a Talisman Making skill lower than 200.
• Portalstone: This item can now be crafted by players with a Talisman Making skill lower than 200.

Land of the Dead

General

• The weapon and armor merchants in the Land of the Dead have had an overhaul.  You will now be able to find all of the available items on the correct merchants (weapons on the Weapon Merchant, armor on the Armor Merchant).

The Necropolis of Zandri

• Nekh Akhet will now use his abilities against Destruction characters.

Public Quests

• Tomb of the Vulture Lord: Players entering the Temple of Ualatp Public Quest in the Necropolis of Zandri will properly receive the Dig ability.

The Tomb of the Vulture Lord

• King Amenemhetum will no longer pull players into the Casket of Souls when he has low health.

Items

• Goldweed: This item once again has multiplying properties in addition to stabilizing properties.
• Khutep’s Throwing Axe: Corrected an issue that caused this item not to have a buy value.
• Nehekharan Ritual Ornament: Corrected an issue that caused this item not to have a buy value.
• Scorpion’s Shroud: Players who are eligible for this reward item can now receive the item through the in-game mail system.
• Summoning Stone: This item is now sold for less than the cost of the materials needed to craft it.
• Summoning Stone: Corrected an issue that allowed players to summon groupmates into the Land of the Dead when their Realm did not control it.

Realm vs. Realm

Campaign / Open RvR

• The Battlefield Objectives in Chrace will again display their conditions from inside the flag areas.

Capital Cities

• Order players will now zone correctly when entering contested Altdorf from the Reikwald side Entrance.

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We will be bringing all North American servers offline tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM EDT for extended maintenance. This downtime is to address several issues, one of which is players being inadvertently teleported to racial starting areas in certain circumstances when exiting a scenario. Also, during this downtime the Patcher AND Login servers will be unavailable intermittently due to hardware updates.

At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 3:30 PM EDT. As always, please check the Herald for up to the minute updates regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.

Update: 8:40 PM EDT – Please note the adjusted up time of 3:30 PM EDT.

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Join us and our friends at Charm City Cakes this week as the Food Network debuts the amazing Squig Cake on Ace of Cakes this Thursday, August 27th, at 10:00 PM!

Can’t catch the Thursday night show? Not to worry as you can catch the encore on Friday, August 28th, at 1:00 AM.

Be sure to get an eyeful of the cake that Duff has called the “best cake I’ve made on the show” and all of the footage from the Squig Cake’s unveiling at Games Day Baltimore.

Be sure to check out the Promo for the episode here!

WAAAGH!!

Status: Maintenance complete

Greetings!

We will be bringing the Dark Crag server offline for immediate maintenance at 2:30 PM EDT. Part of this maintenance will address an issue where players inadvertently are sent back to their starting area when entering a scenario while dead or crashing to desktop while inside of a Scenario.

At this time we anticipate that Dark Crag will be brought back online no later than 5:00 PM EDT. As always, please check the Herald for up to the minute information regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.

Update 3:30 PM EDT - Dark Crag is now online.

Update: 2:34 PM EDT – Dark Crag is offline for maintenance.

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