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Publish 44 Launching on MondayJeremy Dalberg
28 Apr 2007 16:15:59 EST
On Monday, April 30, we will be publishing to all servers and publishing a mandatory client patch.  This patch will require substantial downtime - the plan is as follows:

- At 9:00 AM PDT (4:00 PM GMT) all servers will be taken down and the servers will be published
- When the publish is complete and the patch is ready to go, we will bring up TC1.  We will be testing on KR and encourage players to join us.

- Once we're confident, we will be bringing up the other servers slowly, beginning with Origin.
The publish process is estimated to take approximately 8 hours.  We'll be updating regularly on the Herald if the schedule changes at all.  The patch is fairly large (about 57 megs) so plan for it to take a bit of time to download.

Due to the nature of some of the changes, we expect players to find some minor art bugs - if you find a bug, please report it to uobugs@uo.com!

Notes after the jump:

Updated the shards to allow the Kingdom Reborn beta client to be able to connect to them
Discontinued the 3D client
“Add Party Member", "Remove Party Member", "Leave the Party", "Disband the Party", and "Party can loot me" and "Party cannot loot me" are now context menu options

New players
All new players, regardless of what they select, will now start in New Haven
Previous directed experience template quests (Paladin, Ninja, Samurai, etc) are no longer offered to new players
New players no longer get the Tour
Young players no longer get the Mongbat Quest
New players will be able to take a number of different quests aimed at helping them raise appropriate skills in New Haven
All starting profession templates will have 4 skills that start at 30 skill points.

Players in Old Haven will be teleported to the center of New Haven.

The teleport will NOT happen under the following conditions:
The player is on a Siege ruleset shard
The player's first login is not in Haven
The player has already been redirected

Pets will also teleport with the player UNLESS:

The pet is a summoned creature
The pet is a necro animate

Multiple World Changes

Haven has become ruined
New Haven has begun to emerge
Some areas, especially dungeons, have a different look and feel
Roads have been widened

Arms Lore has been changed:
Arms Lore will increase when weapons and armor are crafted
When a weapon is exceptionally crafted, the damage increase modifier will increase by 1% per 20 points of Arms Lore.
When a piece of armor (not including shields) is exceptionally crafted, each resist normally available on that armor piece will increase by 1% per 20 points of Arms Lore  
New Info:30.04.07 When a piece of armor (not including shields) is exceptionally crafted, it will receive a resist bonus based on the crafter’s Arms Lore skill.  For every 20 points of Arms Lore, one resist normally available on that piece of armor will be raised by 1, for a total possible bonus of 5 distributed randomly. (Ex. At GM Arms Lore, the total resist bonus is +5%. One resist could receive the full +5% bonus. Alternatively, one resist could receive +2%, and three other resists could receive +1%, for the total of +5%. )

So no promotions parade today!?

Oh wait, says Monday..

The armslore changes actually nullify runic cheating as well as soon it is feasible that everyone and their hamster are walking around in full 60 resist (on each type) suits. To combat this I reckon they should have limited healing abilities or increasing damage modification even more. But then non-magic pvp has always been slightly problematic ever since AOS.

What this patch does do is make runic tools uber again, which would please alot of the BOD (Bulk Order Deed) hunters out there.

What I think it will boil down to is this :
Exceptional Crafted armour - great resists
Monster Loot armour - less great resists but magic properties
Runic Crafted armour - the best of both

As for Haven blowing up, it would be fun to see itty bits of newbies raining down on Britain for the coming days! :D

So if the "Old" Haven no longer exitsts, what about our war? And the guild sitting there?

Hehe, BoC wins every time - if not directly, just wait for GMs to evaporate our enemies! Hell yeah!

Haha, darn right Qom! We might as well go to Haven before they crash it and laugh at them.

Could we make it into a storyline that WE blew up Haven?
(more specificly Kazuo with one of his crazy experiments :P)

Haha, that would be ace!

No no no... Chelmsford ate them.

Well, we could do it tomorrow with an event.
Placing powder kegs all over the place.

I need a few good men, who's with me?!

I know I am!

*mutters*
Been sleeping all day, I knew I should have placed those kegs!

We can still say we did it.. and claim that it was us, that we built them a better new Haven!  and that they owe us their undying loyalty.  And use the Haven guild as slaves..

it won't let me log onto the test shard!! Safe me!!

test shard is lagged...and hey dungeons look nice now

Just got on, when's all the new paperdoll and graphics coming?

Been doing the newbie quests, they give out some pretty good (but not overpowered) items as a reward for getting 50 in a skill.

Weapon trainers give weapons.
Tactics/anatomy/etc. give armour pieces
Mage related gives jewelry/spellsbooks
etc.
Necromancy gives you a full necro spellbook (as without inscription the spells are monster loot).

After getting all your template skills to 50 you should end up with a pretty decent blessed outfit. :)

As for the new graphics coming out, you need the new client for that.
As of the latest patch the new client should be 100% compatible with the current servers though, so now it's just waiting until the Beta is over and KR goes platinum.

Well then, today is the day we can no longer play on the crappy 3D client and thus let's have a moment of silence shall we?

Hah! Who am I kidding! DEAD! DECEASED! GONE! KAPUT! w00t! No more crappy 3D!
Now let's bring on the proper 3D! Yay!

Thank you.

The reward items for those noobie quests are blessed?

Im concerned as to why it bothered you that you could play a client you personally didnt play?

It's not that he plays it, it's the fact that it's an embarisment to the game.

Hear hear!

I second that! I just think the dev team "tried too hard" with their old "3D client" I look forward to KR as soon as this deployment is up... *grumbles8 no RP... cant even use ink paper and dice....