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All Shards to be Published
Jeremy Dalberg
13 Feb 2008 18:07:59 EST

All shards will be published with the following during their next regularly scheduled maintenance:

• Changed all Blacksmithing and Tailoring runic intensities. Runics will now better match up to higher end loot. Maximum intensities are now 100% for all tailoring and blacksmithy runics, minimums are as follows:
• Blacksmithing:

  • Dull Copper: was 10, now 40
  • Shadow: was 20, now 45
  • Copper: was 25, now 50
  • Bronze: was 30, now 55
  • Gold: was 35, now 60
  • Agapite: was 40, now 65
  • Verite: was 45, now 70
  • Valorite: was 50, now 85

• Tailoring:

  • Spined: was 20, now 40
  • Horned: was 30, now 45
  • Barbed: was 40, now 50

• Increased chance for GM smiths to get a hued BOD: +20% at 110 skill, +40% at 120 skill
• Increased chance of receiving a Valorite BOD
• Large footwear BODs should now be available in hues
• BODs now have a 10 second wait time between turnins
• NPCs now vocally acknowledge a BOD turnin
• Creatures now give double meat resources in Felucca (except Siege and Mugen)
• Frenzied Whirlwind now does more damage: 20 - 50 per strike
• Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots
• Ancient Wyrms now even more dangerous and powerful
• Harrower resists and weapon skills slightly lowered
• Bag of Sending fixed to handle items' weight ranges properly:

  • 1 - 10 stones cost one charge
  • 11 - 20 costs two, etc.

• Broken quest chains can now be resigned from properly
• Fixed bug where NPCs at the New Haven dock could block escort quests
• Fixed bug where player can become stuck when trying to leave the Dark Knight challenge
• Salvage bag: No longer creates overweight situations
• Salvage bag: Recycles cloth without problems when multiple items exist in the bag
• Salvage bag: Recovered resources will now stack appropriately
• Removed monster firecrackers and particle effects on death
• Blackrock elementals will not be a factor in your Valentine's Day mining activities
• Disabled Halloween trick or treating
• Disabled pumpkins from spawning
• Magincia: Travel spells reenabled
• Magincia: Permanent teleporters set up between Trinsic and Magincia (near the docks on each), both on solid ground
• The New Haven moongate (southwest of the city) received worldbuilding updates, and a guard zone
• Fixxed an exploit where Champ Spawns can be guardwhacked
• Fixed an issue where the Damage Increase property on runic-crafted weapons was occasionally being dropped

Valentine's Day Content:

• Gift box spawns on characters older than 30 days
• Added three new books of poetry
• Added new NPC to sell books of poetry, called "Francis the Chapman" inside the Britain Conservatory
• Rare pink bunnies will now spawn in a few hues throughout the land. Extremely rare purple bunny may make an appearance
• Added four new "Stuffy Animals" that can be snuggled with at home
• Added new Valentine's Day cards, in softer pastel pinks and whites. Several new messages
• Added dark, milk, and white chocolates
• New park area built around the Yew Waterfalls
  Added a new Chocolatiering branch to the Cooking skill (Known Issue: the new chocolates only appear on the Cooking menu in 2D)
  Added new chocolate ingredients that spawn on paragon monsters
  Live event content

Guess I will ask here too!

So is the timer 5 seconds or 10 seconds? Draconi stated just last night in the hoc that it would be 5 seconds. what's up with that? Please proof read your notes.

Also will there be a list of when the scavenger hunt will be started on each shard? Or does just origin get the scavenger hunt?

Haven't seen a confirmation of the 5/10 sec delay.

And no list yet of when the scavenger hunt start on all shards. Is the hunt just a 1-time thing? Anyone know how the system works? Is there an NPC for turn-ins? With my luck though, I'm sure I won't be on when they start it in Atlantic.. heheh.

its 10 seconds for this publish and then next publish its back down to 5.

Draconi confirmed that its 10 seconds for now then will be 5 seconds with the next publish.

But I did not get an answer about the scavenger hunt? So either origin is only shard to get one or EAMythic has no idea when they will run it, unless it starts at server up.

Adam reported it here yesterday



The only news of this having happened at present is here .

I can post the event over,but it will spoil it for those wanting to take part.I will put a seperate spoiler up though if any one wants it..

As for when it takes place on other shards,the general opinion is it will be advertised on UOHerald.

This was posted on Origin shard,during a mix up over dates/times.

Here is the correct time and day.

"The live event is actually going to be a Scavenger Hunt!!!

We will be doing the first one on Origin 02/12/2007 (tomorrow) at 6pm EST / 3pm PST.

The location will be at the new park next to the falls of Yew.

Once, I have the schedule for the other shards it will be posted.

Chrissay"


There was a lot of confusion to begin with,but it seems it will be repeated more than once,to give a fair chance to those logging at different times.
Scavenger Hunt

New Thunder

It went very fast, the list had five items. The announcement was made that the hunt would be run again on Origin, so perhaps it will be run on each shard a couple of times to allow for alot of folks to take part.

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Voluptous

Hopefully at different times. The regular employed would love to do some stuff too.

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Ill keep my eyes peeled during today for any updates,but as the USA sleeps, I doubt will see any times posted before 18.00 pm tonight [UK time]


A developer actually ran the event on Origin,but wether that will be the same for the other shards,we will have to wait and see.

Players collect a 'bag'that had been placed on the floor.
Bag contains a book, with listed items to find.
Player returns bag to Dev with items and the book signed by them.