July 2007 News Archive
July 26, 2007 -
The biggest news this patch is that the Colosseum has been changed in a couple wildly unpopular ways. For those of you who were enjoying nightly trips to kill the Arena Master, they're a thing of the past. In order to fight him, you now need to have beaten all 18 arenas. Anyone who got the Master's robe last month will find that their robe lost 50 AL and the Major Focus spell on it. Gladiator Diemos, who was broken last month, is now ready to fight, but he requires you to have beaten all 18 arenas 10 times (in addition to providing him with an Empyrean Golem Stone). Needless to say, these changes have made a lot of people quite angry. I personally can tolerate the changes to The Master, but the flagging process for Diemos leaves me scratching my head. Given our current membership size, you will need to look for public Colosseum runs if you have any interest in fighting either of the strongest Arena bosses, although I wouldn't count on Solclaim's population to be able to support too many runs either.
On a more positive note, I actually have updated the quest section with this month's quests. Expect walkthroughs for the Olthoi and Monouga ones before the Tanada quests. The Tanada quest actually has a nice reward - a Virindi Mask that casts Major Magic Defense among other things.
July 24, 2007 -
Patch Day is here again! This month's patch, Intelligent Designs, will go live this afternoon. Pre-patch info is up on this thread, including the teaser article and screenshots, as well as the release notes. I'll update (really, I will!) the quest section with new quests as they become available.
Speaking of the quest section, I want to thank Jarehan of LC for giving me permission to reproduce his map of Bonecrunch's lair here on the site. With ACMaps no longer updating, it's become very hard to write thorough quest guide, especially for complicated dungeons like Bonecrunch's lair, and I greatly appreciate getting new maps. The guide for the Drudge Fort has been updated accordingly.
July 20, 2007 -
In a rare feat of site maintenance (partially caused by the site being down for about 4 hours now...), I've updated a second time this month! Among the changes are a couple new quest guides, some revisions here and there, and a good deal of work on the Gyes Guide section.
I should be around a bit this weekend, but not tonight or tomorrow evening. If we have the numbers, I'd like to pay old Bonecrunch another visit, perhaps on Sunday.
July 16, 2007 -
Another belated update. By this point, I'm sure you're used to it, but apologies nevertheless.
Despite the fact that I haven't updated the site lately, I have been ingame quite a bit over the last couple weeks, thanks to a much welcomed lack of things to do in the real world. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about our colleague Wulfgar the Quick, who is on hiatus while he settles himself after a move. Here's hoping things calm down for you soon!
Another Patch Day has come and gone and July's patch is slated for the 24th. Hopefully this coming patch will resolve the issues raised by the last one (including the Code of Conduct boots, which to the best of my knowledge, no Paladin has been subjected to yet). In the mean time, Bonecrunch's Drudge horde is still rampaging around Cragstone and the Colosseum's bosses beckon!
I've added a couple new quest guides for this month's content and have made a couple other content additions here and there, but there are a good number of quests over the last few months that don't have guides (partially because I haven't done the quest, partially because I really don't like putting a guide together without a map or a very easy navigation method). I also corrected a couple errand links and other incorrect information here and there.