The update has now been uploaded! We are now checking everything is working correctly and when we are satisifed, we will release some of the new content, namely the first stages of the Mercenary reputations. If there are any problems, please report them in an orderly fashion, using one topic per issue.
The problem of fight results not being finalized has been resolved.
Most of the changes will be apparent immediately, but some of the larger changes, such as the introduction of the Mercenaries, will become available once we are happy the update has been successful.
1. Runes will no longer cause damage to items when added to them.
2. You now need only 3 Large Flickering Crystals, not 6, to make a Rune of Wind Fav and a Rune of Protection Fav.
3. Scrolls of Exorcism can now be used 5 times a day only.
4. The Skull of a Dead Warrior has been renamed as the Bringer of Evil Skull.
5. Crayfish and Edible Crayfish now restore 800 life, not 450.
6. You will now receive at least 20 valour, not 6, for handing in a Red Energy Crystal.
7. You will now receive at least 12 valour, not 4, for handing in a Blue or Green Energy Crystal.
8. The Dia-Ling, Via-Ling and Kia-Ling Amulets of Call can now be used once every 15 minutes only.
9. New steeds available! Those with a Crion or Battle Zorb or a Berona or Luan Tiger can now make their steeds poisonous with the use of a Toxin (for Crion Zorbs and Berona Tigers) and a Concentrated Toxin (for Battle Zorbs and Luan Tigers). You will need 1000 and 2000 Mercenary (any clan) reputation to buy the toxins. The food required will be 13 and 40 pieces respectively.
10. New foodstuffs available for warriors in O’Del’vays and Dartrong City Square shops: Turkey Leg (restores 280 life), Kodrag Kebab (350), Lump of Cheese (450), Foreign Fruit (580), Baked Fish (750) and Gurral’diy Korr Meat (960).
11. New gifts available for warriors in O’Del’vays and Dartrong City Square shops: Loyalty Ring, Freedom Balloons, Song of Courage Bugle, Valdagor Fang, Erifarius’/Striagorn’s Medallion of Valour.
12. The Beginners’ Guide to Mushrooms is now known as the Shizka Mushroom Guidebook.
13. For those with enough Secret Knowledge, there are now 3 new guidebooks in the Old Library – The Bone Dragon’s Ashes: A Collector’s Guide (requires 10 Secret Knowledge), Collecting Gurral’diy Slime: The Ultimate Handbook (7) and Emperor Scorpion Bile: A Field Guide (8) which will be required for forthcoming quests. The guidebooks do not come cheap!
14. A new range of keys, scrolls, amulets and rings will be available to those Hunters of the Undead with a sufficiently high reputation.
15. The Elixirs of Life and Giant can now be used every 24 seconds instead of every 35.
16. The Underground Elixir of Life will now work over 20 seconds, not 30 seconds, and can be used every 24 seconds instead of every 30 seconds.
17. The Underground Elixir of Giant can now be used every 24 seconds instead of every 25 seconds.
18. The Gordt Veteran and Ancient Golem will no longer drop armour.
19. For Mercenaries with 500 reputation who want to change their super-blow combinations, a Scroll of Oblivion is now available to clear all your current super-blow settings and allow you to learn new ones.
20. The Valour and Experience system in the battlefields has been reformed and the amounts you receive will be dependent on your level. Negative and magic effects will, in most circumstances, be removed when you leave a battlefield. See
here for details.
21. You’ve been working so hard at your extractive professions that your tools have become worn – be careful, you might get a Splinter! Or, if you’re lucky, you might uncover a tasty little Faean delicacy.
22. Rumour has it of catacombs existing beneath the Square of Fire and in the Settlement of Klesva…adventure, discovery and danger is sure to await…
23. Locksmiths will now also be considered for entry to the Brotherhood of Virtue, as well as Healers.
24. Locksmiths will now receive an ‘open’ chest when they crack open a chest, casket or trunk, which they should then pass back to the customer who will be able to take out the contents.
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