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September 2010 - Announcements Page

Turbine Announcements
Patch Size: 4,556k (Client: 1,004k)

Teaser Images
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Town Crier Rumors
Free Rumors:
 * Town Crier tells you, "I've heard rumors of one of Asheron's Emissaries mobilizing adventurers against the Apostate Virindi."


 * Town Crier tells you, "News! A faction of undead, fleeing the Dericost, has sought asylum with the peoples of Dereth!"


 * Town Crier tells you, "Rumors have it a strange dark pool has been discovered. What does it mean? I do not know."

Pyreal Rumors:
 * Town Crier tells you, "A large group of undead from House Mhoire has found some method for regaining control of themselves, and has fled the Graveyard and Rytheran, seeking to form new lives with the living."


 * Town Crier tells you, "One of Asheron's Emissaries is in the encampment south of the Iron Blade, well, 'Beach-head' I guess. He seems to be gathering groups of adventurers for some important task."


 * Town Crier tells you, "Out in the desert, around 4.3S 14.8E, a black substance has bubbled up into a mountain crevace. Whispers say that when the substance is touched it invades your mind. Tread lightly young adventurer, this seems like it is only the beginning."

Ulgrim Rumors
Free Rumors:
 * Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "I like these new friendlier undead. They offer to buy me drinks, but can't drink their own, so I get two!"


 * Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "A dark pool out in the desert? I was pretty drunk last night so I apologize for the mess."


 * Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "Asheron seems ticked at these new, Blue Applesauce Virindi. They must've gotten into his stout stash..."

Stout Rumors:
 * Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "So, I hear these new undead are friendlier because they use Alchemy for stuff. I wonder if it's the true power of Stout that has saved them from evil."


 * Ulgrim the Unpleasant tells you, "Ya I checked out the black pool. I wanted to see what it was like having thoughts in your head. The only thoughts that I heard were along the lines of "Go grab another stout." Seems like a smart pool to me."

New UI and Game Changes

 * Undead added as a playable character race.
 * Primary and Secondary Racial Skills defined per race.
 * Innate Abilities Switching added - swap between Primary and Secondary Racial Skills.

New Quests

 * Apostate Finale
 * Mystery of the Black Pool

Updated Quests

 * Monthly Explorer Society Quests
 * WARNING: These quests are standalone quests, the xp bonuses are strictly handled by the NPCs in Kara, speak to them after finishing to get your bonus. Also your timer for the bonuses depend on when you completed last month's set of quests, speak to each NPC to find out if your timer hasn't expired yet. More details here.
 * Quests for September:
 * Ansar El-Kerdany: Sawato Extortion
 * Esmond Fielding: Aerbax's Prodigal Banderling
 * Niccolo De Luca: Fiun Spellcasting Gloves Quest


 * Attribute and Skill Redistribution
 * Innate Ability Switching added
 * The following are the racial skill swaps:
 * Aluvian - Assess Creature specialized
 * Sho – Deception specialized
 * Gharu’ndim – Thrown Weapon trained
 * Viamontian – Mace trained
 * Shadows – Unarmed trained
 * Gear Knights – Loyalty specialized and Armor Tinkering trained
 * Undead – Arcane Lore specialized

New NPCs

 * Deewain - 22.4S 0.3W
 * Changer of Innate Abilities
 * Holtburg: 42.2N, 33.7E
 * Sanamar: 72.0N, 61.0W
 * Shoushi: 33.5S, 72.8E
 * Yaraq: 21.6S, 1.7W
 * Emissary of Asheron (Gear Knight Camp) - 12.3S 75.0W.
 * Saelar's Apprentice
 * Hahnain's Apprentice
 * Renselm's Apprentice

Updated NPCs

 * Undead Trio - moved from the Mnemosyne Collection Site
 * Hahnain 4.2S, 14.9E
 * Saelar 4.2S, 14.9E
 * Renselm 4.2S, 14.9E

Asheron tells you, "I have a bad feeling about the coming months, true danger may be in front of us."

New Locations

 * Mysterious Portal - Inside Gear Hunter Dungeon, speak to Emissary of Asheron at 12.3S 75.0W in the Direlands Gear Knight Resistance Camp in order to flag for the portal.
 * Black Pool 4.4S 14.9E
 * Apostate Nexus (Scintillating)
 * Apostate Nexus (Shimmering)
 * Heart of the Apostate Nexi

Updated Locations

 * Mnemosyne Collection Site - NPCs moved south of Samsur and Apprentices put in their places.

New Titles
No new titles this month.

Portal.dat
Preliminary:
 * [[File:Portaldat 201009.png]]


 * {|class=wikitable

! Icon(s) !! Item(s)
 * 6E14 || Vial
 * 6E1A || Apostate Shards
 * 6E1B || Apostate Grand Director's Mask
 * 6E1C || Shard of the Apostate Grand Director's Broken Mask
 * }
 * 6E1B || Apostate Grand Director's Mask
 * 6E1C || Shard of the Apostate Grand Director's Broken Mask
 * }
 * }
 * }

Updated Creatures

 * Apostate Nexus Master - New artwork and trophy mask.

Images
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Known Issues

 * Apostate Grand Director doesn't drop a corpse sometimes, he respawns in five minutes though and you can kill him again (and hope a body drops).
 * Undead players do not have rank titles.

Typos
Changer of Innate Abilities tells you, "So far I can safely switch your innate abilitiy of mace to armor tinkering and a specialization in loyalty. Speak with me again if you decide you want to make this change."