Varlyndria Server Alpha

[Drakiyth]

Originally Posted by Irreverent

Wow, spam! If you need help getting your own forums for patch notes, let me know and I'll help. This seems like a twitter feed, not the purpose of this forum.

I have a forums on my site. (I update both) Players who might not have liked a certain feature of Varlyndria can read updates here to come back to it. Plus there is nothing wrong with updating my game threads with info players might want to read. This gets more people to my personal forums and lets everybody know the server even exists. Calling it spam is rather insulting.



QUICK UPDATE - 05/20/12

Experience lost on death has been reduced.
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Clients may now have 6 IPs instead of 3 IPs in game at once.
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Several NPCs have been fixed on their money drops.
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[Drakiyth]

UPDATED FROM THE BOXING VOTE - MY FINAL WORD


The vote is over. 2 boxing will be enforced and I am sorry for all the trouble and if this seems unfair.


I've made my mind up. I can't allow players to have that kind of power solo. It defeats the entire purpose of a raid (multiple people fighting together) and allows players to solo raids.. I just can't allow this anymore and its hurting the server. IPs will become 2 max and this will never change.


Thanks for the small pole but ultimately I have to balance the server and allowing that power is not a good thing. I apologize to anybody who feels this sucks or is unfair but giving you the ability to have your entire own raid is eliminating the entire point of raiding with friends and guilds and ultimately crushes the aspect of players working together.


The change will take effect immediately.

[Drakiyth]

I feel the 2 box rule cheats players who were using the original 3 box rule since the birth of the server. I will be putting it back to 3 and it will stay 3. This will also help FAMILIES who want to play on the server a lot more than 2. Sorry for mix up and bullshit. What's not broken doesn't need to be fixed. With this said: Do not ask me for personal favors on changing these rules.

[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 05/21/12

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE LATEST FILES FOR THIS UPDATE - VARLYNDRIA FILES 05 21 12

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All Thurgadin Velious Armor has been improved in stats.
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Most custom items no longer share a cooldown with other cooldowns.
This should fix a good deal of charms or items that seem broken.
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All charms now have Rank 1 at the end of them. This is to show
players it's the first charm and you'll be able to upgrade them
in a later update.
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Warchanters have a new animation on their charm's proc.
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Terrorizers now have their fear/snare as a recourse on their
charm spell. This allows them to toss the dot on bosses or other
creatures that are immune to these effects. In addition, the
spell now deals instant damage along with its dot ticks.
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Cryomancers now have their snare effect as a recourse on their
charm spell. This allows them to hit bosses or other
creatures with thier ice nuke even if they are immune to the
snare. This also allows the spell to critical strike, making
the path a lot stronger. The damage of the spell has also been
increased to 475 at level 20 up from 415. This gets it 25
points away from the Pyromancer spell.
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Herald: "Extra! Extra! Somebody has reported a vile creature terrorizing
Lake Rathe! Varlyndria need to act fast and get on the move!
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[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 05/22/12

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Barisons, Adventurers and Conjured Monk/Beastlord weapons have had
their weight reduced from 8.5 to 0.1.
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Sage's Robe - now has a 5 second cast time clicky instead of 28.
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There is a new NPC which teaches players their skills in the guild
lobby. Special thanks to Xiao for the work on this.
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Several clicky recasts have been adjusted and should hopefully work
as the following: Tier 1 charms, Summoned Items, and Boss Items are
now on their own seperate timers. This means a clicky from a boss
item will effect the other boss clicky but not the tier 1 charm or
summon item cast.
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Diablo has moved to Lavastorm Mountains next to Najena.
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Watertorn items that produce Clarity and Enduring breath no longer
have a 30 second recast and are now instant.
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Velious gems are now NO DROP and can't be resold to a merchant.
However, a player may still purchase or win them from the casino.
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Magician: Magical Bag Of The Conjurer Rank 1 is now a 5 minute recast
and no longer shares the same recast as the Conjurer's Master Staff Of Force.
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[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 05/23/12

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE NEW FILES FOR UPDATE: Varlyndria Files 05 23 12

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Barison's Dagger and Diablo's Dagger Of Hellfire now have double the backstab they
used to before.
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Paladins and Shadowknights now have Touch Of Death and Touch Of Life in their
spell books. These spells can be used every 5 minutes and gain level+1 x50
damage/healing These are excellent alternatives to the harmtouch/lay on hands and
can be used much more often.
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Path charm spells are now almost impossible to resist.
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The Terrorizer charm now has a 100% snare as well as its damage over time, but the
fear effect has been removed. (there will be a quick optional use fear clicky on
their sword in update 1.0) The spell is now called Curse Of Crippling Torment
Rank 1. This spell can be used on custom bosses with no problems.
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The Cryomancer charm has been changed. It is now usable every 6 seconds down from
15 but the snare has been nerfed to 50% and the damage can never critical hit. This
still lets them do very close to the damage of a pyromancer and still reign as the
kiting wizard gods of Varlyndria.
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Wildheart's Groves Serenity spell now heals for 40 a tick regen for 30 minutes at
level 20 instead of 20 points.
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Sharphin has changed his strategy a bit and now drops a couple new weapons!
He can be found residing somewhere in Lake Rathetear.
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[Drakiyth]

QUICK UPDATE 05/23/12

Please download the new files - VARLYNDRIA FILES 05 23 12 - 152pm MST


We have upped the connections of the server. This may help with lag in a lot of zones.
*crosses fingers*
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The Touch Of Life spell for paladins has been fixed and no longer acts like an
attack spell.
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The custom thurgadin helmets now have improved stats just like the original ones.
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[Drakiyth]

UPDATE: 05/23/12

Kael Drakkel can now be instanced! Thurg armor grinders rejoice! Talk to the Varlyndrian Timewarper at the entrance to Kael Drakkel (eastern wastes side) for a trip into the place. Special thanks to Xiao for all his hard work on this.

[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 05/25/12

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The server is back up on the East Coast machine.
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Guilds are working again.
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Added boots to the normal venders in the Main Lobby.
Why Verant/Sony decided to make it where you have to
pay a visit to the local medieval shoe store baffles me.
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Diablo and Sharphin have gained some new loot and
Diablo no longer holds the loot he drops.
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Sharphin spawns in the Lake Of Ill Omen as well as
Lake Rathtear now.
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[Drakiyth]

QUICK UPDATE 05/26/12

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Bow Of Searing Hellfire has been fixed.
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A powerful agent of Voldrothus has appeared in Tox forest.
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[jabedoben]

Drak do you ever sleep? =P

[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 05/26/12

Please download the latest files for this update - Varlyndria Files 05/26/12 737pm MST

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Watertorn Ring Of The Dark Sea now grants +25% Spell Haste instead of Spell Damage.
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Watertorn Mantle Of Riptide now grants Reduced Spell Cost 10% instead of Healing +25%.
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Slayer's damage has been increased.
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Diviners have gained a new healing spell on their charm called Divine Health Rank 1.
It heals a target for 400 base at level 20 and removes 5 poison and disease counters.
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Pyromancers, Cryomancers and Timeweavers have had their spell charm damage
increased by 50%. This change was to help wizards keep up with melee and
pet classes dps.
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Distortionists can now charm an enemy for 15 minutes straight. Up from 2.
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Mind Flayers do more damage with 1hb, pierce and 2hb weapons now and should no longer
cause as much agro as they have been with their proc.
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Velician Seers do more damage now and their ice proc can't be resisted as much.
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Soulreapers pet proc is much harder to resist and their damage bonus to spells has
increased by 100%.
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Stormblades cause less hate now on their lightning blast procs.
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Dragon Apostles and Tiger Disciples deal more damage now.
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Shapeshifters deal more damage now with h2h and have also gained ultravision when
changed into their werewolf form.
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Poisoner's grenades now proc much more often and deal 50% more damage.
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Star Thrower's Throwing Stars deal 50% more damage.
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Axe Thrower's Throwing Axes deal 50% more damage.
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Druids have gained a new spell at level 6 called Deadly Insect Swarm. This spell is
instant cast and deals 7 x level damage a tick for 1 minute to the target and everything
40 yards around it. This spell has a cooldown of 20 seconds and is instant cast.
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Shamans gain companion spirits 28 levels lower than before. Rangers also gain these
spirits at 2 levels higher than the shaman.

Shaman: Companion Spirit level 4 Ranger: Companion Spirit level 6.
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Adventurer's Wristbands Of Power are now Adventurer's Bracers Of Power (look like plate)
but their stats have decreased a bit. The price has gone down on them as well.
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Gnashgarl drops 2 items now instead of 1 and he has more drops. (if you can kill him)
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Players can now use #mystats to see more detailed information about themselves.
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[Drakiyth]

UPDATE 05/27/12

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Server is back up and running good!
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Kael Mobs, Diablo, Sharphin and Gnashgarl are no longer poor hobos and drop a lot of plat.
Enjoy farming!
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[Drakiyth]

SMALL UPDATE 05/27/12

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All Kael chest pieces are usable at level 1 and have been enhanced with either better
cast times or new spells entirely for all classes.
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Fixed the Grand Masters glove's stats.
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