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SERVER FIXES - 08/05/13 Please download and install the 08/05/13 spell/string files. • All mobs now have a 15 minute spawn timer up from 5. This was changed so mobs wouldn't pile up so many corpses in a zone and cause dreadful lag spikes. • Mobs now have 8 different code levels instead of 4. • NORMAL ZONES (Designed for Solo up to 1 group now) • Minion Power Rank (MPR) • Lieutenant Power Rank (LPR) • Boss Power Rank (BPR) • Overlord Power Rank (OPR) • RAID ZONES (Designed for 2 Groups or more) • Trooper Power Rank (TPR) • Champion Power Rank (CPR) • General Power Rank (GPR) • Deity Power Rank (DPR) • Mobs have new drop tables based on their code. • NORMAL ZONES • MPR = 7% - 1 item • LPR = 14% - 2 items • BPR = 100% - 4 items • OPR = 100% - 8 items • RAID ZONES • TPR = 7% - 2 items • CPR = 14% - 4 items • GPR = 100% - 8 items • DPR = 100% - 16 items • Some mobs have had their codes changed. • All named mobs in lower rank zones are now bosses/overlords. Some mobs are now lieutenants. • Increased the chance for path charm items to drop to 20% up from 10.25% due to the new spawn rates. • The AOE range of all AoE swarm pet spells is now 30 down from 80 to 100. AoE swarmers will need to get very close now. This will ultimately save huge on lag due to not being able to kite an entire zone due to the risk of dying now or the fact you can't hit as many mobs spread out. • Crime Boss Blackmoon now has a 50% chance to drop the Planar Guide to Sigil epic quest item. • The Remains needed in Veksar drop 100% of the time now. • Orc and Goblin invaders (newbie area) have a 50% chance to drop scorched bones now for the Marshock Scalefist Quest. • Orc and Goblin invaders have a much higher chance to drop rugged armor and weapons now and they also drop new path weapon types like martial swords and pain blades etc. • Fixed laggy areas in Old Kurns Tower where mobs would constantly keep buffing themselves. • Veksar, Fallen, Monkey Rock and Darkblood Tower are all now considered raids and have the new npc codes. • Power Rank 1 through 4 zones are now considered normal. • More normal power rank zones will be coming in the future for Power Rank 5,6,7,8 and higher so solo/small group players have more content. |
Even after all those changes we are still experiencing lag spikes. We are trying to figure out what's causing them so bear with us.
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Nice update there drak! I had quit playing here about a week ago but if the lag gets fixed i may have to return.
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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! |
We are still experiencing some lag issues but it's not with loot anymore.
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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 |
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! |
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Yeah, you're right Akkadius. LOL
Just turned bots back on and spike central. |
A FAREWELL TO BOTS...
We have finally found the main source of lag spikes and it was coming from bots. The current build we are on does not support bots very good and it's causing major problems in the database running them. Overall to eliminate the lag and make your experience on the server better we had to axe them. A new buff-bot will be joining the server soon and it will help new players out a bit. We encourage players to group in Varlyndria: Ascension, but don't want solo players feeling left out completely. There are paths that are better for groups and some that are great at soloing just like live EQ. I wish we could of kept them but the source code is a nightmare to fix and honestly the server needs a major turn-around in how it works. Players need to come together more to make this a true mmorpg experience. There will be many changes coming to make a new player's life a lot better and easier to get into the server. Especially now that I can focus on content and not lag issues. |
• VEKSAR RAID: FIXES
• Murkwater Heartfeasters no longer put an endless bleed DoT on you. • Murkwater Creepers are now normal necromancers and no longer cast the 5 minute SIlence Mouth Rot. • BOTS REMOVED • Bots were removed and cannot be used anymore. They were absolutely 100% the source of all lag spikes that were occurring. The server is much better now without them. Added the Crystal of Heroes to compensate for the loss of bots and to help new players out. • CRYSTAL OF HEROES • Added a Crystal of Heroes npc in the toskirakk starting area and in all Rift Keeper zone entrances. This npc will buff players with eight level 70 base class spells to help them on their dangerous quests. This npc only works out of combat. • OLD KURN'S TOWER RAID: FIXES • Calbrena no longer casts the incorrect spell and crashes players. http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/2/...80071_orig.png |
Please download the latest files 08/09/13
• All BASE bard songs now use the singing skill which is increased with VSES dexterity enhancement. • All Instruments are just used as strong off-hands now and still give high heroic dex for VSES increases. • Dexterity Enhancement now increases bard song power by 50% each rank up from 40% each rank. • The Mystical Artist Epic now has double HP, MP, EP and AC just like a two hander but it's damage is 1 handed. • Added a new Custom Donator: item from Moozilla to the Heroic Vendor! Thanks for your help Moozilla! • Moozilla's Mythical Augment can now be removed from your items and placed in new ones. • Dexterity Enhancement now increases bard song power by 50% each rank up from 40% each rank. • Deathguard's Bone Spike is now called Bone Spikes and deals 95 base damage to all enemies around them +40000 extra hate. Deathguard is a unique AoE tank by design but much different from Virulent Savages. • Captain Squilox no longer crashes Veksar with his spells. • All NPC's natural health regeneration has been vastly lowered. • Windseeker's Flock of Harpies no longer attack mobs 200 feet out. It's now 40 feet like other AoE temp pet spells. • Erosionist's Create Strange Chemicals now actually works with the Erosionist Charm. • Wildheart's Wild Growth now actually works with the Wildheart Charm. • Removed Mend Companion from the AA list. This doesn't work. • Added beserkers to the Pet Affinity and Pet Discipline AA list. Enjoy Warchiefs! • The White Lotus path should be able to control their pets now. The name was too long and caused an error. Energy_Manifestation is now just "Manifestation". |
• Updated all weapon and icon models for Darktide, Blightrune and Deathspire sets.
• Unholy Relics drop 10% of the time now from Generals in Fallen. Up from 5%. Have a good weekend folks. |
NEWS: Varlyndria is starting to build an economy finally! Last time I checked, there were over 150 items being sold in bazaar and a lot of groups forming on the server to tackle content! Varlyndria only allows a max of 3 boxing (with Tier 4) 2 max normal, so you can see with 60+ players online lately that there are a lot of souls here. Not just somebody with 20 characters building up the player numbers. If you're looking for a fresh start in a new world it won't hurt to come check us out! We have many players waiting to group up with you! :-D
Many new zones are on the way to the Rift Keeper, including the new PR5 normal zone (unrest) Which is now taken over by killer corrupted plantlife, as well as custom crafting and even faction grinding for items! |
I thought these were important to show here. Many new changes and fixes.
UPDATE 08/12/13 Please download the latest files 08/12/13 GENERAL CHANGES • Made an adjustment in the database that will disconnect players completely on all IPs if they go over the IP limit. The good thing about this, is it will kill the timeouts that are lingering and let you log back in immediately. • There are no longer any locked doors in the city of mist. • Loot now has a much better chance to actually be chosen to drop when it passes the first check to exist. The drop rates before were simply not high enough to even let common loot get a chance to show up sometimes. This was resulting in bosses or even common npcs not dropping items as often as they should. Heroic and Legendary labeled items are still uncommon/rare. • The Death's Regret spell is now NONE for resist type. This can be found on the Ring of the Vampire Slayer. CLASS PATH CHANGES • The Guardian path's Hold the Line ability now only costs 600 Endurance, causes 289 base damage to all targets and still adds 40,000 threat to all enemies hit by it. The cooldown of this ability is only 15 seconds now down from 36. • All healing bonuses that were on paths before have now become wisdom bonuses. This will allow you to click your VSES and get the REAL bonus which should of stacked before but didn't. For instance: 200 points of improved healing (Diviner) is now +100 Wisdom. 100 wisdom equals out to 250% healing with VSES Wisdom Enhancement. Overall, this is a buff for all healer paths. • Vampires no longer get a broken 160% healing bonus but now instead get +80% to their direct damage spells on their Curse of Vampirism buff. This however has also lowered their chance to crit with spells to +3% down from +6%. • Circle of Blood has been removed as it was far too powerful and could keep Vampires alive forever. The ability is now called Bursting Veins and deals 630 base damage to all enemies around the vampire but does not drain them. 24 Second CD, 960 mana. • Earthguards now get a 200% direct spell damage bonus instead of 5% spell crit rate on their Nature's Chosen Protector buff and the Earthguard's Blast of Rocks spell now costs 640 mana but deals 420 base damage to all targets around them on an 8 second CD. • Nightshade's Toxic Compound is now Point Blank AoE and doesn't hurt them any longer. • Flamecaller's Fireball is now Point Blank AoE and doesn't hurt them any longer. • Wildhearts now get 160 wisdom instead of the old charisma bonus and a 200% bonus to their pet's damage up from 160% on their Blessing of the Wilds buff. • Wildhearts now get a 5% chance to Twincast now for each Rank of Nature's Caress instead of the old broken 40% improved healing which did not stack with VSES Wisdom Enhancement. • Thanes now get +200% to their base parry chance instead of +20% which hardly made any difference. • Thane's Rune of Stone now also gives their group 24% melee mitigation for 12 seconds instead of the old 6000 point rune. 24 second CD, 960 mana cost. • Thane's Torrent of lightning now has a 20 second CD down from 40 seconds and deals 525 base damage to all enemies and 40,000 hatred. • Thane's Thunderclap is now called "Hammer of Thunder" and no longer stuns enemies for 6 seconds but instead deals 1260 damage to them. • Soulrager's Healing Spirit now gives 100 wisdom for 6 seconds instead of the broken healing bonus it had before. |
QUICK FIX PATCH 08/13/13
• The natural out of combat regeneration for health, mana and endurance is now 10% a tick up from 5%. • Players can no longer get in more than 3 characters per IP when Tier 4+. (emergency fixed) • Fixed the model on the Deathspire: Martial Sword. • Pet Master's Symbol of Protection is now only 1 platinum. (Grants 40% Melee Mitigation to pets) • Pets and Temp pets now have 3150 base health up from 1575 base health. This will allow pets summoned by high amounts of CHA to have double the hp of before. • Conjurer temp pets now have 7875 base health up from 1575 base health because they are legendary beings. • Wildheart's Nature's Caress now lasts 24 seconds up from 12 seconds so it actually can stack now. • Fixed the Armor of Moozilla's Custom items to be Chainmail instead of cloth. This has raised the price of these items slightly. • The Crystal of Heroes now also casts Unfailing Reverance on players. This buff increases CHA by 55. |
UPDATE 08/15/13 (MORE CHANGES COMING LATER)
GENERAL CHANGES • A new PR5 Unrest zone is available for 750+ Gear Score players. • Some new quests and tasks are available in the new Unrest zone. • Added 506+ new items into the game that come from unrest. • Each overlord and diety boss now has a 10% chance to drop their treasured item. Treasured items have four times the normal amount of hp, mana and end and have some special features on them like spell clickies or bonuses to skills. There is a total of 13 treasured items in the game right now, including 1 for the new overlord in Unrest. • Wood's Legendary Pet weapon is now no drop. • Updated the graphics on most shields. • Swarm pets will actually earn you experience now instead of steal it when they kill mobs you haven't had a chance to deal damage to. Rejoice conjurers and other pet lovers! • The last names of hostile npcs no longer show up but they are still there for the devs to see for creation purposes. Basically, it gives the player more immersion instead of a bunch of PR this or that ruining the surprise and roleplay value of the game. • Fixed the AoE range on Windseeker spells. They were far too crazy before. • Elementalist pets now scale as they should with CHA and also have different forms. |
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Ever wanted to sell items to other players without having to stand there forever with a trader? Wasting precious time when you could be out killing and gaining experience!? Well, if you answered "Yes" you're in for a nice surprise coming to Varlyndria: Ascension in the near future! Players will be able to put up NPCs that can buy and sell for them in the new Varlyndrian Marketplace! This will be a super advanced bazaar zone that goes beyond the boundaries of normal everquest. Are you ready to make some deals!? Players will be able to test this out soon when it's available on a test server we have running! |
Varlyndria has a new forums. You can check it out here. There is also a link on the old forums at the top.
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The Varlyndrian Marketplace is ready for testing!
Please head on over to the Varlyndrian Marketplace Testing server and report in OOC if you find any bugs with the system. Thanks! |
Drakiyth - put the link to your site/forum in your sig ;)
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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. Quote:
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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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) |
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. |
Regarding the balance situation...
My personal opinion (as an outsider to this whole subject) is prior to getting the tier 10 donation stuff for my contributions to server stability, I was struggling with enjoying the server due to mob damage being high and necromancer HP being low. The moment I got that extra health clicky and heal clickie, everything became way too easy. The solution, imho, is to add a clicky heal staff similar to the donation one that has a longer reuse for non-donator players. The health buff from the buff bot should be slightly below the tier one donator status. This will ensure that you get a little bit, not a ton, of extra 'umph' for donating. The donation clickies and gear should also be able to be earned in the game somehow; it would take a lot of dedication to earn them, however, it would be an alternative to donating (and be per-character instead of all on that account.) It's all a balancing act, honestly. |
I'm not against making the server more balanced in that regard. I like your ideas honestly and that sort of stuff is easily fixed. Just bring it up to me that you think certain tier items are unfair and I'll listen. You know though from the legendary vendor to the group oriented tier items that I am trying my best to make items on this server fun and enjoyable for all. You will never see a player with a custom weapon that nobody else can get. I won't ever do that. Infact, the last weapon that was made by our last donator is being sported around by a lot of players who earned it with heroic points. The thing is beast too and anybody can get it.
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I don't hesitate to get things done. Check out these new goodies coming to the dedication vendor soon.
Rod of the Dedicated: COST: 2000 dedication points. 100 charges, Clicky: (just like tier 1 donator item) Heals a player for 8450 base health (enhanced by wisdom VSES) and 16,500 mana and endurance. 30 SECOND CD - Shares CD with donator clicky. Trinket of the Titan: COST 500 dedication points, 5 charges, Clicky: Grants you 150 STR for 1 hour. (stacks with almost everything) Trinket of the Musician: COST 500 dedication points, 5 charges, Clicky: Grants you 150 DEX for 1 hour. (stacks with almost everything) Trinket of the Mountain: COST 500 dedication points, 5 charges, Clicky: Grants you 150 STA for 1 hour. (stacks with almost everything) Trinket of the Skilled: COST 500 dedication points, 5 charges, Clicky: Grants you 150 INT for 1 hour. (stacks with almost everything) Trinket of the Faithful: COST 500 dedication points, 5 charges, Clicky: Grants you 150 WIS for 1 hour. (stacks with almost everything) Trinket of the Beast Tamer: COST 500 dedication points, 5 charges, Clicky: Grants you 150 CHA for 1 hour. (stacks with almost everything) |
EMERGENCY FIX IN - Some mobs in Rivervale will no longer resist everything. This was a bug.
Please download and install the new files: Varlyndria Files 08 23 13 • Some caster NPCs have lost their long duration spells that keep you in combat forever. • The new Rivervale PR6 Normal zone is now in the game! Players need a gear score of 950 to enter this place. • Added 1120 new armor and jewelry pieces into the game that drop in Rivervale. These items are labeled "Stormcrow:". • Added a new Treasured: item to the final boss in Rivervale. • Added a new task in Rivervale that rewards a cool ring. • Normal raid npcs now have a 2% chance to drop loot up from 0.5%. • Vampire's Bursting Veins - now has the correct cooldown of 24 seconds. • Deathguard's Sentinel of Undeath no longer gives 50 CHA but now instead gives 36% Melee mit up from 32%, 16% evasion and 100% melee damage. • Added 10 new items to the dedication vendor that can heal, give stats and give defensive procs to players. Remember that you can spend your hard-earned platinum on dedication scrolls to get your points up or just wait it out while you're at work to get these awesome new clickies. The bazaar gives 7 dedication points every 5 minutes as well if you want to get some extra bonus points over night! • Berserkers no longer have the Special AA tab choices. This was a bug. • The Epic Wildheart Life's Gift now stacks with the other casted Life's Gift. • Ring of the Dedicated now says clickable from inventory instead of must equip. • Beastlords can now use most 2 hand piercing weapons. • Bestial Overseer's Ego buff now lasts for 24 seconds up from 18. • Zatetzuken's Custom Donator blades are now tradeable/attuneable. • Dune Raiser's Horror of the Sands no longer requires you to be right next to your pet to buff them. • Helpful NPCs in Unrest can no longer be killed. • Razorthorn the Devourer now only casts Venom breath instead of unholy, fear and the mana/endurance drain. |
After thinking about it for a while and experiencing some of my own server I feel that the raid scenario pigeon holes players into being forced to find a group and guild and kills their fun and self improvement. I understand that the original design of an mmorpg is to team up and take on the baddies with whatever you can combine together but it overall turns into a DPS fest and who has the biggest.. well you know where I was going with that.
The case in point is I feel the server needs more freedom. I don't want players logging on and logging off because they can't find somebody to team with. I want to make sure players have both options but only if they choose to do so. Overall with this said I feel like raids need to be eliminated completely and the server needs to turn more solo to 1 group based like the diablo series. This will allow players to relax more and stop comparing classes so much and get through the content by themselves on their own time or with a friend or two but no more being forced to raid. With this said: the following changes will be happening to Varlyndria: Ascension. Effective immediately. Veksar, Fallen, Monkey Rock and Kurn's Tower are becoming normal zone difficulty and the items dropped in those zones will once again become tradeable and attuneable. I don't want any player on Varlyndria feeling squashed up in a corner and not able to enjoy the server. Those days have ended. |
UPDATE 08/24/13 - FREEDOM!
• The #fi command for players has been restored. • Raid zones have been eliminated! • Veksar, Fallen, Monkey Rock and Old Kurn's Tower are now normal zones. • Darktide, Fallen, Blightrune and Deathspire gear is now attunable and tradeable. • All gear types on the server have been balanced in their stats to fit the new changes. • Items with Might, Cunning, Vigor, Reason, Knowledge and Attraction now have much stronger bonuses to that particular stat now, making these items a lot more valuable on the market. • The Rift Keeper Gear Score checks are different now to fit the new changes. • Treasured: items now only give a *2 bonus to hp/mp/end down from *4 because of the new changes. • Epic 1: items now only give a *2 bonus to hp/mp/end down from *4 because of the new changes. • Darktide, Fallen, Blightrune and Deathspire gear no longer gets +35% bonus to hp/mp/end because of the new changes. • Various Mistmoore items are now just slightly stronger than traveler and this zone is now available for players with 100 gearscore on the Rift Keeper. This is a very low power leveling zone that can offer some decent gear to progress to the 240 zones. The zone is considered 1.1 for experience. • Players can now portal to Necropolis from the Riftkeeper. Necropolis mobs also drop Drakebone: gear. • Added a new portal master and crystal of heroes in Mistmoore and Necropolis |
A new beginning.
We'll see how things go and how players like this for a bit. I have some tricks up my sleeve, and if anything, this has made it where I can put together a brand new large raid since all old raids are normal zones now. This time around if I do another raid I want to make sure it requires a certain amount of players to enter as well. |
THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG - THE FUTURE OF VARLYNDRIA REVEALED
EDIT: I do plan to balance out the OP paths as well but it's easier when players are decked out and balanced on the same playing field. Alright, so this change everybody is experiencing does have a motive behind it. The issue the server was having before is there were far too many "raids" if you wanted to call them that and very little players geared enough to actually do that content. This lead to players not having any groups to do this and only the choice 10% of the server could tackle it. I have changed all the zones currently available in Varlyndria to solo/group for two main reasons: #1: Players can enjoy all the stuff they missed out on over the months and see the content they couldn't do before because of how hard it was and also get their epic 1.0 a bit easier. #2: Players can catch up by getting uber geared out and reach a peak where they are dying for new better and challenging content. My advice to everybody: Play your hearts out and get STRONG, get guilds formed and let's get the server balanced out in power. When that happens new things can come out that will challenge you to the extreme, including new 18+ man raids that require 18+ people and are designed to take on 18 3000+ GS players etc. Go play and have fun and GEAR UP! |
Time Travelers are in the game now.
Added Time Travelers (Paid Instancing Npcs) to all Rift Keeper zones of 240+. The prices to create your own instance vary on the zone. You also need to be in a guild to make them. Players can join the Heroes of Varlyndria guild with the NPC in Toskirakk if they don't have any friends. Enjoy all. |
New AA merchants!
• Added a Treasure Hoarder merchant in the Portal Chamber that sells Treasured Boss loot for a massive amount of AA and VarCredits. • Added a new 1350+ Gearscore AA vendor in the Portal Chamber that sells Rank 5 type 7 augs and Rank 3 Crystal Augs. • Added a new NPC which will raise your base stats for AA points. (players start with 5 to all base) You can only raise your stats to 255 max with this NPC but the AA cost for it is ungodly to achieve. The npc's name is "Jahahm the Wish Granter". |
You aren't schizophrenic, right? No insult intended I am half joking, but I see frequent and massive changes and that makes me cautious to invest time with so much uncertainty regarding the intended direction of the game.
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