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Skill Credit Refunds!
"When I logged on this morning I found the latest update was in place. I downloaded it and got a message that the cost of alchemy and missile defense had both been reduces by two points and I was refunded 4 skill credits! I had been figuring I would never be able to get certain skills since I would max out before I got enough credits, but now I get NEW toys! Yahoo!"

Uzik al-Faddim of SC
Level 50 Archer

Thanks to Kile Goldwind for pic below!

New Greater Shadow Armor Dyes!
Tamar Ibn Rashid tells you, "Welcome, welcome! Look at my pretty dyes! Choose one, for your very own!"
Tamar Ibn Rashid tells you, "Don't tell the folks who bought the other shades but that's my favorite one! Enjoy!"

Dye vendors can be found near the three Shadow Armor crafters:
Al Jalima - 7.1N, 3.0E (Amuli)
Eastham - 18.6N, 62.8E - Maere the Dyepot Peddler (Celdon)
Kara - 82.9 S, 46.0E (Koujia)

Syrus the Red Dragon reports that dye from any of the three peddlers will work on any of the three types of neo-Greater Shadow Armor.

Thanks to Roxor McOwnage, Radament of TD for dye pic, Ekkosai Po of Morningthaw, Bivitar Hawkens with Pointy, Firemoon, and Angelica Barroun of MT, Karu of SC, Carvnivore V of HG, Zalgon of SC, Shak Jim-One of LC, Redrum' of SC, Dartanyan of MT, Eleanor of WE, Tanis Dracor of TD, Dakota the Magi of TD, Dol Cirdan of TD
 

Item		Value	Burden	Description
Red Shadow Dye		100000	5	Use this dye on a piece of new Greater Shadow Armor
Green Shadow Dye		100000	5	Use this dye on a piece of new Greater Shadow Armor
Blue Shadow Dye		100000	5	Use this dye on a piece of new Greater Shadow Armor

Vangar of FF sends thispic of his wife Dacie, vassal Cyrium and Dana posing in dyed GSA.
 

Thanks to Ming-na Wen of MT, Skam Jim-One of LC, and Cairn of HG for posing in dyed neo-GSC!
 

Thanks to Wraith Chang of HG, Rubius of SC, and Mylor of SC for posing in dyed new-GSK. Thanks also to  Krin Kalaster of MT.

New Buff Statues!
They're so cool, I won't even mention that they totally nerf Services (services? what the heck are they?) at the mage shops. ;-)

Thanks to Son of Mohawk - SC (Golem), Sharon Blade of TD (Zharalim), Zaifu of MT with patron Acks (Sclavus), Moggie of TD (Virindi), Fastallia of MT (Gromnie), McTavish of HG (Thorsten Cragstone), Xaphan of WE (Ben Ten), De'Valos (Tumerok) for pics below.
 

Thanks also to Atmostphere of FF, yoshimitu of MT, Petrov Thomasson of SC, Craeft of FF, Smoegol III of TD, Elrond's Kin of FF, Alenia of MT, Slotette of MT, Sekai Sanpo, Ima Drizzit, Corlan of TD

Cairn poses at Fort Tethana!

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Level 2 Spells	Al Arqas - Gromnie Statue Holtburg - Drudge Statue Lytelthorpe - Mosswart Statue Nanto - Reedshark Statue Rithwic - Mosswart Statue Samsur - Gromnie Statue Shoushi - Drudge Statue Yanshi - Reedshark Statue Yaraq - Drudge Statue
Level 3 Spells	Al Jalima  - Skeleton Statue Cragstone - Thorston Cragstone Statue Eastham - Banderling Statue Glenden Woods - Banderling Statue Hebian To - Ben Ten Statue Khayyaban - Skeleton Statue Kryst - Sclavus Statue Lin - Skeleton Statue Tou Tou - Banderling Statue Uziz - Skeleton Statue Zakhail - Zharalim Statue
Level 4 Spells	Arwic - Tumerok Statue Baishi - Golem Statue MacNiall's Freehold - Sclavus Statue Mayoi - Golem Statue Qualabar - Golem Statue Sawato - Sclavus Statue Stonehold - Tumerok Statue
Level 5 Spells	Ayan Baqur - Virindi Statue Fort Tethana - Grievver Statue Kara - Shadow Statue Wai Jhou - Shadow Statue

New Deadly Arrows!
Here are the steps and pics for deadly arrows:

First create greater arrowheads.
Then use alembic on stibnite to create a bloodhunter infusion.
Then use infusion on aqua incanta to create bloodhunter oil.
Then use the oil on any greater arrowheads to make them deady.
Then use the deady arrowheads on shafts.

It appeared to be easier to create deadly arrows than it is to make greaters.

- Incoming of SC

Visit the Alchemy Formulas and Fletching Items and Fletching Steps for more information. Visit the Arrows & Quarrels page for stats.
 

Item		Value	Burden	Description
Bloodhunter Infusion		10	15	This item is used in fletching.
Bloodhunter Oil		20	15	This item is used in fletching.
Bundle of Deadly Arrowheads		50	10	This item is used in fletching.
Deadly Arrow		7	10	Damage: 19-26 Piercing Your base Bow must be at least 230 to wield this item.
Deadly Blunt Arrow		7	10	Damage: 19-26 Bludgeoning Your base Bow must be at least 230 to wield this item.
Deadly Frog Crotch Arrow		9	10	Damage: 24-30 Slashing Your base Bow must be at least 230 to wield this item.
Deadly Fire Arrow		11	10	A flaming arrow that appears to do fire damage. Damage: 19-26 Fire Your base Bow must be at least 230 to wield this item.
Deadly Frost Quarrels		11	10	Damage: 21-28 Cold Your base Crossbow must be at least 230 to wield this item.
Deadly Frog Crotch Quarrel		9	10	Damage: 27-32 Slashing Your base Crossbow must be at least 230 to wield this item.

Thanks also to Replicant of WE, Aqueous of DT,  Shimmerglow of LC, Granthor of FF, Hiro Shima of HG, Ace Azzameen of FF, Wraith, Lui Tau. Thanks to Stardragon of TD for quarrel stats and pics.

The Magemerlin Allegiance-FF reports that stats on all elemental blunt and regular arrows are 19-26 damage, Frog Crotch do 24-30 damage, and also sends this further comment:

"Maggie, a HUGE P.S. to the preceding email. The bloodhunter oil, can only
be applied to greater heads, not to regular ones. I.E., it will not let you
use a concentrated bloodhunter oil on a wrapped bundle of blunt heads, you
would have to use a wrapped bundle of greater blunts, and so on."


Leg O'Lam of LC adds the following:
"For the fun part... trying them out! The arrows seem to do approximate double the damage of "conventional" greater arrows. I tried them out on a convenient bandie striker (which I usually hit for 24-30 points with buffs) and the arrows consistently hit for 50-58 points with one crit of 108 without any buffs on my composite bow. They had the same effect on a trio of olthoi workers too. I can hardly wait to make up a few wrapped bundles of these to go hunting with tonight!"


New Housing Tech!
@house available

Thanks to Quik Blade of HG for pic!

 

Cottages	Villas	Mansions
45.4N, 36.2W      45.6N, 36.2W      45.8N, 36.2W      45.9N, 36.0W      45.9N, 35.8W      45.7N, 35.7W      45.5N, 35.7W      45.4N, 36.0W      75.2N, 27.0E      75.0N, 27.2E      8.6N, 31.9E      8.8N, 31.8E      9.0N, 31.8E      9.1N, 32.0E      9.1N, 32.2E      8.9N, 32.3E      8.7N, 32.3E      8.6N, 32.1E      58.2N, 0.8W      92.6N, 2.5W      93.0N, 2.6W      93.1N, 2.4W      93.1N, 2.2W      92.7N, 2.1W      35.8N, 24.1W		36.6S, 26.4E 29.5S, 31.1E 64.6S, 73.6E 38.4S, 46.6E 31.1N, 48.7W 31.2N, 3.8W 52.7S, 56.0E 57.8N, 57.5E 79.8N, 32.7E 44.1S, 46.4E

Mana Stone Warning!
New mana tech! Instead of refilling your items fueled by mana stones one by one, you can auto fill by using mana stones on your paper doll. Mana will be distributed to the lowest items first. A 2 minute warning now appears when you're running low! Thanks to Smeogol III of TD for pic!

New Creatures!
 

Creature	Level	Str	End	Coor	Quik	Foc	Self	Hlth	Stam	Mana
Crystal Golem	200	400	1000	200	400	300	400	1000	3000	900
Altered Olthoi	103	300	320	260	220	10	10	280	560	20
Augmented Olthoi	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Theral	164	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Sirrocco	164	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Tsuric	164	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Dranith Menacet (new stats)	216/ 999	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Mage Nesfe of FF reports the following:
"I found a new golem. It's a Crystal Golem. I found it in the Direlands. This golem buffs up completly agaisnt mages; it's a warrior golem. I vuln and war him in 7's and I hit him for 7 pts of damage maximum in all different elements. It keeps buffing its prots, so I put myself on warrior mode and killed him."

Trekman the Axeman of SC also reports that he got a level 6 war scroll off a Crystal Golem! Thanks also to Nockmaar of HG, Tosa of LC, Julian's Touch of TD, Blaner of TD and Aaron.
 

Dark Father of LC sends this pic and saying of an Altered Otlhoi:
Altered Olthoi says, "A laughter somewhere between human and virindi echoes from within the olthoi's chitinous shell."

Quiddity Weapons Return!
"Got some SS of my new friend Dranith :) the level 999 Hollow. He is in the last dungeon for quiddity ingot quest, just after the room with the troves. I had the privilege of being the first one killed by drannith on WE, and with 3 death to him, I may also be the person who died the most to buddy Dran' :D
(as a warning he killed me in 2 hits, then 4 hits, then 1 hit. I don't wear a robe, and I had a diamond shield on.)"

Whu of WE

BTW Dranith Menacet is not level 999, he is level 216. Just by trying to cast a few spells on him, he levels up to 999. If you leave and come back he resets to 216.

Fleshburner of FF

Thanks also to Mystical Revenge of MT.
 

Dranith Menacet tells you, "This is only the beginning. Our fist landing, our bulwark. Here is where my father has cast the gauntlet. I will not fail my father again!"

For more information visit the Quiddity Weapons (new) quest page!

New Dungeons!
Thanks to Arrya of SC

Malignant Tabernacle 23.2S, 46.0W
Contains Ring of a Singularity Key off of a Sirroco, new Fire/Frost Elemental

Venemous Nidus 13.1S, 91.8W
Teeth of a Signularity Key

Convergent Median  87.0S,  40.3W (Restricted to Levels 40+)
Contains Green Singularity Trove

click on pic for larger view

Nuhmudira's Mansion and Dungeon 4.2S. 35.9E

From Veritus Venatus of TD:
"The shots were taken in Nuhmudira's Dungeon (4.2S 35.9E) in a room guarded by Sclavus where Nuhmudira has performed a grisly ritual sacrifice on a Zharalim. Nuhmudira's Journal was found in a room nearby."

   
click on pics for larger view
 

To read the full text of Nuhmudira's Journal, click here! Thanks also to Caspian, House of Sagacious of DT for pics and text.
 

Weapon Love!
Maximum possible values for the new weapons have improved!
Visit the Maximun Base Damage page in the Sports section for a partial table of updated stats! Thanks to Anck-Su-Namus of FF, Ygraine of SC and Shanton of FF and to Evangeline of LC for her detailed table of changes!

Thanks to Corwin of LC, Cairn, and Sucamarto of LC for pic and stats below.
 

New loot examples!
Type	Silver Tabuka	Ivory Atlatl	Iron Chainmail Gauntlets
Value	3763	3750	1482
Burden	450	400	450
Damage	14-27 Sl/P	Bonus: 0 Modifier: +60%	AL: 144 Aa/A/A | BABB
Bonuses	+6% Melee Defense +8% Attack	+5% Attack	-
Speed/Range	(30)	(15) / R: 60 yards	-
Spells	BD IV	Def III, BD IV, SK IV, HS III	Impen II, XBow Mast IV
Spellcraft	139	160	144
Mana	?	x/392	x/556
Mana Cost	?	1 pt / 30 sec	1 pt / 24 sec
Difficulty	24	70	62
Restrictions	Sword 250+	Thrown Weapons 180+	Melee Def 162+
Looted from	?	?

Atlatls Enter the marketplace!
[Reports of a bug with Wrapped Bundles. Must be unwrapped before making darts. Unconfirmed. Thanks to Notright for the head's up.]
 

Item		Value	Burden	Description
Wrapped Bundle of Atlatl Dartshafts		250	10	-
Bundle of Atlatl Dart Shafts		5	10	-
Armor Piercing Atlatl Dart		5	10	7-9, Piercing Used as ammunition by atlatls.
Greater Acid Atlatl Dart		11	10	11-14 Acid Used as ammunition by atlatls.

See the Thrown Weapons page for Dart stats and Fletching Steps page for more information on how to make the Darts.

Cookie Cutters!
"An excerpt from the festival cookbook reveals cookie cutter available. I bought this one in Shoushi and was told that outlying provisioners sold cookie cutters, but I've yet to find one."

Pilsner Brew of WE

It looks like Fiona Pendragon's gingerbread cookies may be available in Dereth! She reports finding a Drudge shaped Cookie Cutter for sale in Kara!

See the Sweets page for recipe! Thanks to Matthew the Hawk for pics!
 

Item		Value	Burden	Description
Cookie Cutter		25	50	A Drudge shaped cookie cutter. This item is used in cooking. (Kara or Xarabaydun)
Cookie Cutter		25	50	A lugian shaped cookie cutter. This item is used in cooking. (Linvak Tukal)
Cookie Cutter		25	50	A human shaped cookie cutter. This item is used in cooking. (MacNiall's Freehold)
Uncooked Ginger Bread Man		?	50	This item is used in cooking.
Ginger Bread Man		14	15	A ginger bread cookie in the shape of a Human. Restores 50 Stamina.

Read the full text of the Festival Cookbook!
 

Agent of the Arcanum Message!
[correction - no change from previous month]
Agent of the Arcanum tells you, "Hail! The Arcanum has asked us to inform all adventurers of an undertaking that you may perform to obtain Writs of Refuge. However, these places are not without their dangers and should not be ventured into alone. We have found large cisterns fueling the magical Essences of Dereth, but something deep within these furnaces is hindering the flow of mana."
Agent of the Arcanum tells you, "Go there, find a means to collect proof that you have assisted in the clearing of this stopgap, and return to any Arcanum Agent with the proof to receive your reward."
Agent of the Arcanum tells you, "I am also still providing Writs of Refuge in exchange for any of the various items that we have collected in the past: Diamond Powder, Nuhmudira's Token, and Quality and Regular Ingots. Our focus is on the war to come, and we are sure that these items will help."
Agent of the Arcanum tells you, "Once you possess the Writ of Refuge, then you have satisfied the main requirements for acquiring a home. The Covenant Crystals also require money and other minor items, but those items should not be in short supply. Enjoy your homestead and Good Luck!"

Spring Plantings!
The Woodmen now sell green Pine Trees. Visit the Interior Decorating page for more information. Thanks to Magehart of TD!
 

Item		Value	Burden	Description
Small Pine Tree		1000	500	You can use this item on floor and yard hooks.
Large Pine Tree		2000	1000	You can use this item on floor and yard hooks.

More coming soon!

Thanks to Uzik al-Faddim of SC, Amostphere of FF, Flummox of HG, Mister Vegeta of FF, Mykell of FF, Mars-Hill of MT, Tharkun of MT, Mithan Kitara of TD, Dys'lexia of WE, Julian's Touch of TD, Syrus the Red Dragon, Unarmed Yarr of HG, Narisah of HG, Kumutai of HG, Panumbriis Shadow of LC, Opium and Sugar of SC, Battosai Himura of HG, Gheres Reficul of TD, Malus of Red Branch - FF, Govinda of FF, Roberto the Fist of MT, Galford of FF, Rela Arelear of LC, Riggor II of FF, Ghendil of FF, Cyrano de Begerac of TD, Meki II of FF, Galford of FF, Boryon