Greetings!

The following Hot Fixes were implemented during today’s downtime:

General Changes and Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where item cooldown timers were not properly displaying in the player backpack.
• Purchasing additional Bank inventory slots will now correctly display as a “Bank” instead of “Backpack”.

Realm vs. Realm

Contested Altdorf and The Inevitable City

• Career Trainers have been added to the Spawn Locations for both Realms in Contested Altdorf and The Inevitable City.
• Sappers will now despawn immediately after planting their Sapper Barrel. The Sapper Barrel will now show an icon on both the regular and mini map, giving players a visual indication of an objective that is close to being captured.
• Using the spawn Barrier during an already underway Stage 3 of the City Siege will now teleport players directly to the King Fight.

Content

Peaceful Altdorf and The Inevitable City

• Rallymasters have been added to both Peaceful Cities. In Altdorf, the Rallymaster may be found in the Market Square. Players will find the Rallymaster located at the Apex within The Inevitable City.
• New Vendors have appeared selling a very special shade of Armor Dye for a limited time. Alda Tinkengruber has set up shop within the Market Square in Altdorf while Grobbik Big Tink can be found at the Apex in The Inevitable City.

Combat and Careers

Bright Wizard

Bug Fixes

• Ignition: Fixed an issue where the debuff applied by this Tactic ability was improperly stacking with other debuffs of the same type.
• Slow Boil: Fixed an issue where the debuff applied by this ability was ignoring the target’s defense chance.

Choppa

Bug Fixes

• Bring it On!: Fixed an issue which allowed this ability to trigger on non-melee attacks.
• Tantrum: Fixed an issue which allowed this Morale ability to trigger on non-melee attacks.

Engineer

Bug Fixes

• Bugman’s Best: Fixed an issue in which this ability was occasionally dealing damage to nearby targets.

Marauder

Bug Fixes

• Piercing Bite: Fixed an issue where the armor bypass granted by this Tactic would occasionally affect auto attack swings.

Slayer

Bug Fixes

• Retribution: Fixed an issue which allowed this ability to trigger on non-melee attacks.
• Deadly Determination: Fixed an issue which allowed this Morale ability to trigger on non-melee attacks.

Sorceress

Bug Fixes

• Shadow of Disaster: Fixed an issue where the debuff applied by this Tactic ability was improperly stacking with other debuffs of the same type.
• Vision of Torment: Fixed an issue where the debuff applied by this ability was ignoring the target’s defense chance.

Squig Herder

Bug Fixes

• Bad Gas: Fixed an issue where this debuff did not properly show up as an ailment.
• Strength in Numbas: Fixed a bug which caused this Tactic ability to occasionally trigger when ungrouped.
• What Blocka?: Fixed an issue where this debuff did not properly show up as an ailment.
• (UPDATE 2:00 PM EDT) Spine Fling: Fixed an issue where this Spiked Squig ability would occasionally channel indefinitely.  

Greetings!

We will be bringing all North American servers offline tomorrow morning, 5/25/2010, at 6:00 AM EDT for regular weekly maintenance. At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 12:00 PM EDT.

Additionally, during tomorrow’s maintenance all Mythic Online Services will be unavailable from 6:00 AM EDT til 9:00AM EDT in order for us to do necessary hardware maintenance in our data center.

Only the Official WAR forums will be available (http://forums.warhammeronline.com) during this downtime.

Please note this means the following services will be unavailable:

- Mythic Account Center
- WAR Patcher
- WAR Websites (Including the Herald and Realm WAR)
- WAR Game Servers
- DAoC websites and patcher
- UO Website and new client patcher.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this downtime and we will work to bring all services back online as quickly as possible. Thank you!

Update -  9:00AM EDT: The Maintenance is complete and all servers are now online and open to the public, thank you!

Greetings!

The following Hot Fixes were implemented during this afternoon’s deployment:

General Changes and Bug Fixes

• Fixed various issues where UI components were not correctly displaying.
• Fixed an issue where players were mistakenly awarded Test items from Chapter 1 Public Quests.
• Fixed an issue where, under certain circumstances, Heal-Over-Time and Damage-Over-Time abilities were not ending appropriately.
• Fixed an issue where Guilds would be locked out from repurchasing new Tactics when respecializing their Guild Tactics.
• Fixed an issue where Renown Trainers within controlled Keeps would not properly offer training to characters above Rank 11.
• Service NPCs at the Reikwald Refugee Camp will now remain spawned at all times when Altdorf is not Peaceful.
• Fixed an issue where the Renown trainer located in the Da Dusty Dry Warcamp in the Necropolis of Zandri was not properly offering training.
• Fixed an issue where Tier 1 monsters were not dropping loot at their intended rate.
• PATCH NOTE CORRECTION: The 3rd, 4th and 5th backpack pouches are now purchasable at any Rank. To purchase a pouch, simply click on the lock icon which appears within the inventory space. Please note that these bags will no longer automatically unlock every 10 Ranks and must be purchased to unlock.

• Pouch 3 is purchasable for 1 Gold.
• Pouch 4 is purchasable for 10 Gold.
• Pouch 5 is purchasable for 25 Gold.

Greetings!

We will be bringing all North American servers offline at 1:30 PM EDT today for maintenance. At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 5:00 PM EDT. As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.

Update 3:35 PM EDT – All North American servers are online.

Update 1:30 PM EDT – All North American servers are offline for maintenance.

Update 11:30 PM EDT – Maintenance Complete. All North American servers are now online. We will continue to monitor the servers throughout the remainder of the night.

We have brought all servers offline for immediate maintenance. At this time we anticipate that both servers will be back online no later than 9:00 PM EDT. As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your continued support.

We have taken the Badlands server offline for immediate maintenance. At this time we anticipate that the server will be back online no later than 8:30 PM EDT. As always please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your continued support.