Blight Client 400.188.0 Istaria Community Manager May 17, 2020
	Client Fixes: Agro monster leaving combat and monster window

Live Client 400.187.0 Istaria Community Manager May 17, 2020
	Client Features: Add subtle lights to cave entrances Fixes: The game will now warn you when Hoarding Special/Quest items. Fixed an issue where the structure inventory window would show the inventory of the wrong structure. Fixed an issue where the inventory window position and size would be reset. Fixed an issue where pressing the inventory key (default I) would cycle through different windows incorrectly.

Blight Client 400.187.0 Istaria Community Manager May 14, 2020
	Client Features: Add subtle lights to cave entrances Fixes: The game will now warn you when Hoarding Special/Quest items. Fixed an issue where the structure inventory window would show the inventory of the wrong structure. Fixed an issue where the inventory window position and size would be reset. Fixed an issue where pressing the inventory key (default I) would cycle through different windows incorrectly.

Client 400.178.0 Istaria Community Manager May 7, 2020
	Client Fixes: Correct issues with HotkeyEditor for actions / select Fix lights in New Trismus caves Dragon Tavernkeeper no longer rotates when greeted Fix fog issue when leaving underground areas Fix font size when pressing shift-<up arrow> Fix 'school_minlevel' markup incorrect for item popup

Delta 310.6 Istaria Community Manager May 5, 2020
	The Arena at the Ruin of Tazoon Quests will no longer check the quantity of Challenge Tokens you have in your inventory, but they are now level restricted (T1 to 50, T2 to 70, T3 to 90 and T4 to 100). They now award XP when completed appropriate to the minimum level they can be received. Rewards sold by Challenge Master are now tiered by adventure levels and expanded to level 100. Prices have been adjusted to fit current Challenge Tokens quests awards. T2 and T3 Heroes now drop trophies appropriate for their level. Additional trophy quests have been added to Trophy Hunters. Gudal drops a bounty item that will interest a Bounty Master who has arrived at the Eastern Outpost. All Welger Heroes have a chance to drop a Challenge Token of their level. New T1 to T3 Hero challengers (Expert and Master) joined the arena with daily quests. But you have to defeat all challengers of a Tier every day to unlock the quests. Gudal the Champion will come in an Exalted version once a week to the arena. Prepare yourself for a fierce battle and take friends with you... really.... You can now only take one arena quest at a time. Welger Heroes, as well as various Welger bosses around the Ruin of Tazoon, will properly have Welger traits as designed. Welger traits are random augmentations giving monsters a bonus. The number of traits they can have varies with their level. Read More...

Blight Client 400.171.0 Istaria Community Manager May 4, 2020
	Client Fixes: Shopping List Window fixes to improve column visibility Fixed some effects like Gift of Strength showing a T-posing model instead of the original animation. Prevent macro from running hotkey script while in combat Read More...

Blight Simulation Update Istaria Community Manager April 26, 2020
	Game World Fixes: Monsters will properly despawn quickly ( 30 seconds ) after being looted Update how monsters despawn to ensure they are not left “dangling” Sim Features: Allow teleport event to specify rotation so player ends up facing where they need to be looking / going Allow a spawn region to also specify a rotation for monsters spawned. This is used with monsters that don’t move, and need a fixed rotation Allow monsters to have dynamic abilities / items so they can switch out when spawned Allow quest steps to popup a text block for books, scrolls and other text Allow AquireItem quest trigger to advance a quest if an augmentation is received Get partial XP for crafting done using non-primary school skills Fixes: If the existing structure, or structure intended to built doesn't have a valid polygon for testing, still allow the structure to be built. If structure is built unlimited, then was only allowing 1 to be built Ablative Trigger should fire OnTimerEnd if present Correct feedback message for price / percentages "I'll list your <item name for..." Streamline how appearance information is sent / stored on the server. Correct calculation of damage modifier bMaximumDamage so that it always does 100% of the damage

Chaos Unscheduled Maintenance Istaria Community Manager April 16, 2020
	We recently made a change to our hardware setup to increase the total number of monsters spawned. This change had the side effect of also causing initial monster spawns after maintenance to take slightly longer, but as maintenance is a block of time, extra time to start spawns seemed like a reasonable trade off. Unfortunately we stumbled upon an ancient bug where if a monster takes too long to spawn, it effectively breaks the spawn region. This problem never occurred on the development server or Blight, but with Chaos and the different complexity of the database, the extra bit of time tipped us over a threshold and some monsters failed. Now that we've identified what's causing the bug we will be working on additional fixes. All these changes are part of a bigger set of changes so that we can support future content. We're confident we'll be able to get a fix in place and please be assured we're working non-stop on this problem. We'll update you when more information is available (we're trying to keep the number of mentions to a minimum). We've also implemented more fixes for the disappearing NPC problem, and we're confident that once this troubled time is over, things will be much better on Istaria's shards. Thank you very much for being so understanding and we will not rest until things are working properly again. Istaria Development Team

Blight Delta 310.6 Istaria Community Manager April 1, 2020
	Welger Arena changes: Quests will no longer check the quantity of Challenge Tokens you have in your inventory, but they are now level restricted (T1 to 50, T2 to 70, T3 to 90 and T4 to 100). They now award XP when completed appropriate to the minimum level they can be received. Rewards sold by Challenge Master are now tiered by adventure levels and expanded to level 100. Prices have been adjusted to fit current Challenge Tokens quests awards.                                                                                                  T2 and T3 Heroes now drop trophies appropriate for their level. Additional trophy quests have been added to Trophy Hunters. Gudal drops a bounty item that will interest a Bounty Master who has arrived at the Eastern Outpost. All Welger Heroes have a chance to drop a Challenge Token of their level. New T1 to T3 Hero challengers (Expert and Master) joined the arena with daily quests. But you have to defeat all challengers of a Tier every day to unlock the quests. Gudal the Champion will come in an Exalted version once a week to the arena. Prepare yourself for a fierce battle and take friends with you... really.... You can now only take one arena quest at a time. Welger Heroes, as well as various Welger bosses around the Ruin of Tazoon, will properly have Welger traits as designed. Welger traits are random augmentations giving monsters a bonus. The number of traits they can have varies with their level. Read More...

Content Preview: 20.2 Live Update Istaria Community Manager April 1, 2020
	Hello Istarians! We’ve been hard at work with our second update for the year of 2020 and we’re excited to announce what we have in store! These changes are in the final stages of testing, and we hope to release them sooner than later. We’re too excited not to share, though, so we’re releasing our notes early! General Portliness and muscularity now have functions. Portliness increases your defense, but lowers your attack speed. You require more food to decrease death point timers. Muscularity increases your damage, but you must obtain and drink protein shakes to maintain your visage. Dragons and Sslik can now embark on the RoG (Rite of Gender) quest to obtain a defined gender. Dimorphism is included. Eating food which has been in a tavern for too long might give you a food poisoning debuff, making it important to make fresh food. The heat of Dralk will now cause bipeds to take intense damage unless wearing a Dragonscale Cloak. Standing in Lantenal’s lava pool will now result in him turning hostile. Gifted who stand too near the Tazoon whirlpool for too long will become irradiated and emit light for a short period. You now have to pay rent to the Empire on your vault. Defaulting may result in the Empire's tax collectors paying you a visit ingame - this provides a necessary coin sink. An epic version of Polymorph Splash Potions is now available - Polymorph Wave. These potions’ effects are city-wide and do not require grouping. Requires epic materials. Areas outside of cities, as they are not able to be monitored by the Empire, now allow PvP. Read More...