Varlyndria: Ascension - Coming Summer 2013

[Drakiyth]

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.

[Drakiyth]

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.

[Drakiyth]

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!

[Drakiyth]

Varlyndria has a new forums. You can check it out here. There is also a link on the old forums at the top.

http://varlyndria.forumotion.com

[Drakiyth]

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!

[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.

[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.

[Secrets]

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.

[Drakiyth]

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.