Varlyndria: Ascension - Coming Summer 2013

[NatedogEZ]

The general vendor has a Gate item.. it is rather expensive though.

I think it is called "Portal Stone" -- a purple sphere icon.

[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 08/02/13

Please download and install the latest spell and string files on
our launcher or the website: Varlyndria Files - 08/02/13

• Added a Custom Donator Weapon from Moozilla to the
Heroic Vendor. Thank you Moozilla for your donation!

• The heroic point cost on legendary/mythical/custom donator
items has been increased by 50%.

• The HP, MANA, END and AC on all two handed, archery
and throwing weapons is now double what it was before.

• Fixed the races/body type on all pets.

• Nexxrn's Augment is now lore.

• Players are no longer able to sell heroic, pvp or dedication
point items back to the vendor. This was a bug in our last
source code.

• Players who had 100 platinum or above now have 100 platinum.
This change was put in place because many items from the
old Varlyndria were not updated to the correct price value
and players sold those items to make over 10,000 platinum,
which is filthy rich in Varlyndria: Ascension.

• Reduced the price on thousands of items that could be
sold for far too much.

• Temporary pets are being changed to help fix lag up.
Players will now be able to summon 1 pet for 18 seconds
with an 18 second CD. The stats and damage on the pet
have been tripled. This change is for all pets except
the conjurer class, which already do tremendous damage.
This works for AoE pets too, the AoE pets stay around
for 18 seconds now but only 1 are summoned per mob
instead of 3x per mob which will save a ton on lag.

• Pets now gain more hp per their master's CHA value.

• Temporary Pets now deal more damage per their master's
CHA value.

• All store pet items are now under the name of "Pet:"
and have had their prices reduced significantly.

• Pet: Sword of the Firelords and Pet: Sword of the Ocean Lords
are now DPS pet weapons instead of Taunting Blast. These
weapons proc a 32 base damage nuke of flame or frost.

• Fixed the Enchanted Fish or any other Enchanted named item
to be ALL/ALL. This was accidently changed in the naming
SQL phase of the item creation script. All Enchanted named
gear is now called "Enraptured".

• Fallen: Unholy Aura now only reduces healing by 100%.

• Reduced the base class (not path) heal over time spells
by 90%. These spells were far too strong before.

[Drakiyth]

We found the source of the lag spikes folks. It was caused from too many corpses in the toskriakk newbie zone by people afk camping 30 second spawns with their pets. These spawns are now 5 minutes. The change has significantly saved on lag spikes. Should be a lot better now. Enjoy all.

[Drakiyth]

Server is up folks. Enjoy.

[Drakiyth]

Varlyndria will be down for a little bit to fix some issues causing lag. I'll be making some adjustments to various things and have some notes up soon.

[Naugrin]

Nice update there drak! I had quit playing here about a week ago but if the lag gets fixed i may have to return.

[Drakiyth]

We found the issue! Thanks to Akkadius and Lillu for the help!


The items were constantly being checked for who discovered what and with 500+ items on mobs it was causing massive taxing.


Need everybody to log in and stress test the hell out of the server! So far been auto attacking for 10 minutes with no lag at all!

[Drakiyth]

We are still experiencing some lag issues but it's not with loot anymore.

[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 08/07/13 AS ALWAYS, MORE CHANGES COMING LATER (BUG FIXES ETC)

Please download the latest files 08/07/13 on our launcher or the website.

• Bots have been disabled to see if it fixes lag.

• Players now gain dedication points by purchasing them with VarCredits at the new
Dedication Scroll Vendor. This change was made because players were losing points with
a bug that was happening with the old system. This will let a player buy a few scrolls,
get their points, buy their consumables from the vendor and get on with their day with
no worry of losing them.

• Dedication points are currently not earned anymore by staying online until we get the
system fixed. This fix will come in a few days more than likely.

• NPCs in both normal zones and raid zones have been toned down a bit to balance the game out.
Some zones were far too difficult to handle. This change has mainly reduced spell damage,
healing power, melee damage and hit points. These mobs are still a challenge but aren't
impossible to kill anymore.

• Fixed some bosses in Fallen from spawning unlimited mobs. The mobs now go away when you leave
combat as intended.

• Fixed all the HP on bosses when you engage them. Some bosses were starting with the incorrect
amount of hp. This script is in so players can't just leave combat and fight the boss over and
over again while it never heals up. Bosses will always heal to full when engaged.

• New Heroic Vendor Loot: Mythical Donator: Moozilla's Symbol of Power (Type 8 Aug), Custom
Donator: Moozilla's Chestplate of Destructive Force (Destructive Force AA monk Rank 1)
for 10 seconds, 60 second CD. Allows a player to hit everything around them with their
weapon for a short duration. You too can be a custom donator! Check our options out on
the donation page and get the server loaded with cool stuff!

• Undead bodytypes have been acting strange with their older settings so they have been changed
to another type of undead which seems to be working better.

• Champion (shaman) now stacks with Virulent Savage's Shroud of Sickness and other melee buffs.

• Scrivener tome pets now have their own spell list of five 60+ wizard nukes they chain cast on
their enemies. This path's pet does a lot more damage now.

• Witch Doctors no longer have the old Totemic Energy to confuse and crash them. Please forget
and relearn all of your spells if you're a Witch Doctor.

• Removed the MAX value for many bard songs. This allows percussion damage songs and others
to be increased by instrument bonuses that couldn't before.

• Sunbearer's Protector of the Blazing Sun now has the correct duration of 1 hour.

• Some AA powers have been removed completely due to not working or working and being OP in pvp.
• Stalwart Endurance
• Dauntless Perseverance
• Armor of Wisdom I and II

[Drakiyth]

The test has been very successful with both bots and the global dedication points script turned off. No reports whatsoever of lag of any kind since the server came back up around 1:00am last night. (close to 12 hours of testing).


The issue is either the bots or the script in the background. Since bots are disabled I have turned the dedication point script back on and ask everybody on here to log into Varlyndria and test it out for lag. If there is none than the culprit for the spikes is the bots and I will be removing them from the server if that's the case. Varlyndria: Ascension is a very big time group server now and a lot of fixes have went through since launch so please give it another shot if you tried it before.

This is actually very good news because we at least found the problem to play on a lag-free server again.


I WILL BE RUNNING A BIG EVENT IN A COUPLE HOURS TOO! GET ON!

[ChaosSlayerZ]

Drakiyth - put the link to your site/forum in your sig

[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 08/17/13 - LIVE

Please download and install the latest files:
Varlyndria Files 08 17 13 Bazaar

http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/2/..._13_bazaar.rar

• The new Bazaar is in! Players can now set up 2 different type of trader npcs to buy and sell items!
• Players are now notified if they sold an item no matter where they are in the world.
• Players are now teleported to the npc selling items when they look it up. No more running!

• Path Epic Weapons have been buffed in their stats.

• Donator Weapons now have melee spell/healing ratios instead of caster.
• Moozilla's Donator Weapon now heals for 630 down from 1260.
• Zatetzuken's Donator Weapon now heals for 630 down from 1260.
• Zatetzuken's Donator Weapon now deals a 630 fire proc down from 1260.

• The Avatar of Legends now charges more heroic points for her items. Heroic points are vastly easier
to get now than before and the prices were too low.

• Trooper type mobs in Raids can now be charmed/mezzed like minions.

• Raid mobs now do more damage/healing and take longer to kill.

• Wisdom Enhancement (VSES) has been lowered to 75% per rank down from 125%. Healer classes were near unkillable.

• Defensive and Offensive procs per minute is now 6 down from 10.

Originally Posted by ChaosSlayerZ

Drakiyth - put the link to your site/forum in your sig

Yeah, derp on my part. I didn't even think of it being so focused on other stuff. :P

[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.