Varlyndria: Ascension - Coming Summer 2013

[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 08/19/13

• The Varlyndrian Marketplace is back in business!
• Players can set up npc traders now! To get more info type:
#buyer help and #seller help.

• Fixed numerous crashing errors with certain Rift Keeper zones.

• The Rift Keeper no longer takes your buffs away.

• The new gear checker will now save your current gear info so you
can teleport with the Rift Keeper without worries of your buffs being lost.

• Pets now keep their CHA value on zoning or logging out.
• Simply type getcha to find your true CHA bonus or setcha to save it.

• Pet Master's Symbol of Protection now gives your pet 55% damage mitigation up
from 40%.

• The base HP on all items has been reduced to better fit the new damage tables.

• PVP gear now has a massive amount of HP and the prices have changed.

• Gear with the title of Darktide, Fallen, Blightrune, Deathspire and Treasured
is now no drop. Players must raid and earn this gear now. The best gear that
can currently be traded is Deadvine from Unrest. This will change as new
content comes out for non-raid zones.

• Gear with the title of Darktide, Fallen, Blightrune and Deathspire now has a
+35% bonus to health, mana and endurance.

• Non-boss enemies in raids now have a 0.5% chance to drop good gear and if they
do, they only drop 1 piece instead of the previous 2 or 4.

• Epic 1 items now count as Treasured: and get the * 4 bonus to health, mana and endurance.

• Raid enemies have been balanced.

• Zatetzuken's Glaciated Healing now actually heals you.

• Deathguards actually get 36% mitigation now from their
Sentinel of Undeath spell instead of taking 36% more damage.
This was a bug and was causing them a lot of pain they should
of never taken. (Sorry Deathguards)

• Soulreaper wraith pets now have a double melee damage and health bonus.

• Soulreaper's Spirit Drain is now a 7 second CD down from 14 but the mana
cost has doubled.

• Soulreaper's Unholy Scythe of Immortality Epic 1 now has a 7 second CD down from 14.

• Reduced the Armor Class on all non-pet NPCs.

• Increased the base Armor Class on all Pets and Temp Pets.

• Wildheart's Life's Gift spell on their epic now actually heals their team.

[Drakiyth]

We are very sorry about the downtime lately. The server is in an alpha stage and many new source code changes have been added that need to be analyzed and fixed which can unfortunately take hours of downtime due to problems arising. We appreciate everybody who was patient in this matter and supportive. However, unfortunately we have had to also ban some players who were not patient and were very rude and disruptive on our forums and the server. We will not tolerate that kind of behavior in any way shape or form.

Spreading rumors that we are a pay to win server is absolutely one-sided and false to the core. The tier sytem is very balanced and not OP and the custom donator items can BE EARNED inside the game by anybody with heroic points. Players who donated towards the server do it out of their hearts and kindness and are rewarded in kind. This is a process of volunteering not something that is to be taken as a mandatory element.

Players of all kinds can progress on Varlyndria: Ascension but they cannot do all content by themselves. This is an MMORPG server and that means we want players grouping up and making friends. We have solo content and more will be coming as well. The server is not unfriendly to a soloer but don't expect to get everything in raids as a soloer either.

If I wanted to make this 100% pay to win which is absurd and something I will never do, I would of made it where you could not have EVER get your hands on items made by other players. Other players reward everybody with new and cool items to use. If you wish to complain that you can't get these items solo and claim it's pay to win you need to find some friends and a guild to tackle the content with. Not everything is solo on Varlyndria: Ascension. Once you can accept that you'll understand that content is not designed for donators but more-so a group of players.

Thank you for playing and expect a lot of new content soon for soloers, questers, raiders and crafters.

[Drakiyth]

The new bazaar has been canceled sadly.

As much as we wanted to get these awesome new changes in they are currently causing too many issues with server stability so we have decided to revert the bazaar changes completely for now. This bazaar might make a come-back later on but for now it has been removed.

[Drakiyth]

VERY IMPORTANT Q&A FOR THE FUTURE OF THE SERVER


QUESTION 1

QUESTION 2

[Secrets]

Bazaar is back in business with the buyer/seller system.

Lecht, since I know one does not simply get frustrated and leave forever... the change you made to attack with swarm pets was crashing the server with the try/catch. C++ doesn't work that way with try/catch in functions.

Server is online (for now)

[Drakiyth]

Thank you very much Secrets for your help in getting this fixed up. The server came down for a quick restart and is back up now. I will be adding in the following content within the next couple of weeks:

PR 6, 7, and 8 Normal zones
Custom Crafting Recipes for Tailoring and Blacksmithing
Custom Mats for the new Recipes


Varlyndria's Progression will become Normal Zone -> Crafting -> Raid on most power ranks. The normal zone loot, mats and crafting gear will all be tradeable to other players. Crafting gear will be stronger than normal zone gear but weaker than raid gear. Full crafted will be a good way to get into a raid easier.