Posted on UO.com FYI

PvP Test Shard Temporarily Offline
Dec 6 2005 11:07PM GMT (PST +08:00)

Due to the impending release of Publish 38, we will be taking the PvP test shard offline for approximately 2 weeks. In its place will be a Publish 38 test shard which will include these following PvP changes (among all the other changes for Publish 38):

• Direct damage attacks (Armor Ignore & critical hits on Lightning Strike) are now capped at a maximum of 35 damage for PvP (no cap for PvM).
• Word of Death now properly does chaos damage instead of direct damage. Chaos damage means that each time the spell is used, it will use a random type of damage, such as energy, physical, etc.
• The Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence stats now have a hard cap of 150.

The PvP test shard will be back soon, bigger and better than before!