[Germany] [8.60] Ascarus - Season 6! | Magic Items | Item Market | GameGuard | Boosted Creatures | Guild Shop | AI Bosses | [Fri 23rd Sep 18:00 CEST]

Magick_Bu said:

wow, this looks awesome ill be playing thats for sure

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Blez said:

Looking good.

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Yamaken said:

Looking very nice, good luck with the launch.

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Alpha said:

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• Added 4 new bosses in Rookgaard, all of them have received custom scripted attacks and defenses

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Glaszcz Koldre said:

And how do you exactly acces rookgaard? Can u play as a rookstayer? Are there any new spots, quests, lore, etc?

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Ascarus

Ascarus is a server with lots of customizations, content and well balanced PvP. There are many new quests to explore, events to play and mighty enemies to take down.

www.ascar.us

• Added a page that shows a list of all enchantable items, as well as the types of bonuses they can hold
• Due to player feedback, the cost of stamina refillers has been reverted to 100 points, all accounts that had bought stamina refillers before the change have been refunded the price difference.
• Fixed a bug that caused events that were supposed to start at a fixed time to always start at full hours
• Fixed wands & rods not properly showing the level requirement when looking at them
• Fixed the level requirement of the axe & club knight starter weapons
• Fixed a bug that didn't allow players to enchant gems like small rubies, small emeralds, small sapphires or small amethysts
• Fixed the Event Zombie monsters having incorrect stats
• Updated the Guild Event rewards for week 2, a seperate announcement will be posted in a couple of days
• Updated the trigger keywords & responses of the help channel bot
• Enabled the Orshabaal raid, it was disabled during the first few days to not overrun new players who happen to be in Edron
• Slightly buffed the Divine Healing spell (exura san), it's now the same as it used to be in Season 3
• The Demon Helmet Quest no longer requires getting the golden key from the Parchment Room Quest
• Fixed a few True Asuras being misplaced in in the Asura spawn behind the mirror
• Added a message to the Advertisement channel that informs players of our item market every 30 minutes
• GameGuard players will now automatically receive looted gold from monsters to their bank account balance

• Blessing status is now recorded when a character dies and is displayed on the deathlist on the webstie
  
• Fixed a client debug that could occur when a player had too many active status conditions at once
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause queued up player actions, such as a push, to be cancelled when an auto attack was fired
  
• Added the ability to view the market history
  
• Remodelled the upper floors of the depot in Thais, they are now home to a couple of useful NPC's
  
• Added NPC Till at Thais depot +2 - He will allow players to trade game tokens in exchange for a bonus to their magic find stat
  
• Fixed the equipment viewer on character pages to show wrong data when hovering over an empty equipment slot
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to use teleport clays while being in the Storm events
  
• Fixed a bug that could make NPC Hawthorn to lose his task data when hot-reloads were performed on the game server
  
• Updated the popup message when reaching the PvP level
  
• Party Animal & Genie raids are enabled again
  
• NPC Brewster now allows players to pay the divorce fee from their bank balance
  
• Fixed an error in the gem enchanting script
  
• Fixed an error that could rarely occur in the CTF event
  
• Improved the dialogues of the Ascarian Royalty NPC's (King Ascarianus, Queen Eloise, Emperor Kruzak)
  
• Added a 25 second DPS tester to the DPS testing room
  
• Changed the item requirement for the first Herbalist addon
  
  • 500x some leaves → 200x troll green
    
• Updated the response of the help channel bot when being asked about the Epic promotion
  
• Royal Scale Robe is now enchantable
  
• Fixed the vocation requirements of golden legs & regular spellbook
  
• Cublarc The Plunderer now has a 100% chance of dropping a disgusting trophy (needed for the second Veteran Paladin addon)
  
• Reduced the damage of the dwarves in the Dwarf Kingdom
  
• Hunters can now drop a deer trophy
  
• Corrected the loot of Medusas
  
• Slightly reduced the damage of Stray Spirits
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to enter the Vesuvia bosses by substituting players for summoned monsters
  
• Moved the town of Oken on the map closer to the other towns
  
• Added a portal back to Thais at all of the shortcut spawns
  
• Added a sign next to the mirror at True Asuras that informs players of the spawn behind the mirror
  
• Added a few portals to the VIP towers, since some players had issues finding their way out of them
  
• Fixed a bug that caused players or items to be roped onto a wrong position while being inside of houses
  
• Players can now enter the enemy team's base in the Deathmatch event
  
• Players that respawn in the deathmatch event will now attempt to spawn on the closest free tile inside of their team's base
  
• Fixed a bug in our Server Activity Discord Bot that caused the link to the sellers of a market listing to be broken if their name contained a whitespace

• Updated the spawns & quests hub in VIP town, it should now be easier to navigate
  
• Orbs of Enchantment will now always add double bonuses
  
• Stamina refillers can now only be used once a player's stamina is 40:00 or less, in order to prevent accidental usage
  
• Increased the loot chance of mini mummies from all Pharaohs
  
• Mummies now have a chance to drop a mini mummy
  
• Map cleans now only run every 6 hours instead of every 2 hours
  
• Reduced the amount of vampire teeth that are required in order to get access to the Dracula boss in Vesuvia
  
• The hard & easy boss rooms no longer have a 25% experience penalty
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause a wrong item ID to be picked for buy offers on the item market, if a player requested an item that had multiple ID's for the same item name (e.g. firewalker boots & pair of soft boots)
  
• Increased the respawn times for bosses in the Paw Amulet Quest, in order to prevent players from being overwhelmed by respawning bosses from behind
  
• Reduced the max health of Spoderman from 2500000 → 2000000 and slightly increased the frequency of his web jump spell
  
• Updated the descriptions for the Guild Event & Random Lottery on the events page

Dear players,
I would like to announce and welcome you to Ascarus Season 5. For this season, we have put a special focus on one of the most controversial aspects of the server: the PvP system. As Ascarus has evolved since 2011, there have been a lot of questionable relics from the past left in the server, to name one example: spell cooldowns that were all over the place, as well as spell formulas. We have heard multiple times from newly joining teams, that these things were very concerning, so we have decided to begin with a fresh balancing effort and evolve from here onwards. We certainly value your opinions on the countless gameplay changes, so please make sure to give us your feedback. Furthermore, as usual, there have been countless massive changes to the server's internal systems, which allows us much more freedom with the content we can create in the future. Last but not least, for this season we've made adjustments to how gift point refunds are handled. Refunds are no longer limited to just 1 season in the past.



Ascarus Season 5 will start on Friday, 8th April 2022 18:00 CEST

Spoiler: Older trailers

• Real map 8.6 with several custom towns
• Optional antibot client launcher for manual players
• A total of 95 outfits
• A shop for beginner guilds who want to compete on Ascarus
• Roshamuul accurately converted to 8.6, including all bosses & raids
• Guild Battle Arenas - Customizable war arenas, featuring configurable AoE damage, SSA/Might Ring equip exhausts, player limits, max player levels, high risk mode & more
• Reward Chest system - You will always get loot if you help killing a boss
• Magic Items - An extensive item enchanting system
• Item Salvaging - Got a magic item that doesn't have any interesting bonuses? Salvage magical dusts from it and exchange them for orbs of enchantment in order to enchant another item!
• Item Market system - Got an item with interesting bonus stats that you think someone might like to buy? List it on our item market!
• Weekly activity rewards with points & mentions
• A total of 22 towns, each town has it's own spawns, quests & secrets to discover
• Community poll system on the website
• Ability to view your account's login history
• Bosses that have their own artificial intelligence
• Many unique events - See the events page for more info
• Bounty hunter system - Place a bounty on your enemies head to get them killed
• Offline messaging system
• Custom addon bonus system - Increase your character's stats for each full outfit addon you collect
• Custom task systems - we feature a daily task sytem, a progressive task system, a special tasks from NPC Eruaran, which you can find in Roshamuul in order to obtain valuables such as prison keys in order to fight the Roshamuul prison bosses, as well as a customizable task system that lets you pick your own monster amounts and pick between a gold or experience reward
• Partnered Twitch streamers - Show off Ascarus on your stream and we will promote your stream on the website automatically
• Achievement system - Unlock achievements for doing various things in the game, achievement points are also required in order to enter specific quests
• PIN security system - Protect your characters with our homemade two-factor authentication system
• Free premium points for reaching specific levels
• Referral system - Refer your friends to Ascarus and earn free premium points
• Quest log entries for quests
• More than 40 custom quests
• Players are limited to a maximum of 4 active MC clients to combat massive MC farms
• Standard boss raids were tuned to fit the gameplay dynamics of Ascarus - You won't see an Orshabaal die in 5 seconds
• 10.x respawn system (non-blockable spawns)

• Completely remade the spells code, spell formulas and cooldowns
• Completely remade the Guild Battle Arenas - Customizable war arenas, featuring configurable AoE damage, SSA/Might Ring equip exhausts, player limits, max player levels, high risk mode & more. Guild Battles can be set up by talking to [War] Tyr at Thais depot +2
• Removed the town of Aquarin from the game - It was underused, and the layout was very confusing for players. It was a very old town, added to the server as early as 2012. Spawns and quests from the town that were worth keeping have been moved to other places on the map
• Changed the player attack speed to a default value of 2 seconds
• Changed the attack spell cooldowns to a default value of 2 seconds
• AoE spells are no longer being blocked if there are more than X amount of players on screen, instead, the Guild Battle Arenas have an option to reduce AoE spell damage, if desired
• Changed the push delay (1 SQM distance/standing next to a creature) to a value of 800 milliseconds
• Updated the PvP experience formula
• Adjusted the stats of various equipment pieces to go along with the others PvP related changes
• Removed the ascended promotion from the game
• Removed all level 300, 400 and 500 spells from the game
• Creatures will now die instantly after reaching 0 health, rather than waiting for the next server tick to process the creature death
• Re-introduced the Anti AFK System due to player request
• Added new spawns around the map
• Introduced a new end-game spellbook for mages, obtainable through the old Ascension quest or rare boss drop
• Rebalanced monsters & bosses to go along with the new spell and equipment changes
• Created a Spawn Locations page with videos showcasing the locations of various spawns, raids and other content
• Removed the shortcut portals in VIP town
• Added oldschool map features of Masiyah back to Thais, such as the old south gate, boss portals near the boat or hidden holes
• Updated the server rules, they're now much more compact with clear punishments
• Remade the ban system to go along with the new server rules - staff are now able to ban accounts, characters and IP addresses individually, and with specific durations
• Adjusted how gift point refunds are handled, more information can be found in the "Point refunds" section below
• Various other fixes and optimizations in the server engine
• And many more minor changes that didn't make it into this announcement post...

• Top 10 players in the experience highscores
  • Victorious backpack with special engraving
  • Season trophy with special engraving
• Top 50 players in the experience highscores
  • 200 premium points
• Top 10 players above level 200 that had the highest scores in the following categories: Magic Level, Fist Fighting, Sword Fighting, Axe Fighting, Club Fighting, Distance Fighting, Shielding, Snake, Tasks & Achievements
  • 200 premium points

• The refunded amount begins at 80% and for each additional month that has passed since the point purchase was made, the points will lose 9% of their original value
• Unlike previous seasons, refunds are no longer limited to 1 season only. You will continue to receive refunds from previous seasons until the point value has decreased to 0%
• The amount of refunded points is capped to 10000 points

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Dear players,
I would like to announce and welcome you to Ascarus Season 6. For this season, we have put a special focus on addressing feedback from the previous season. Due to the rework of the spells code last season, it was obvious that not everything would be in the right spot right off the bat. We hope to have corrected the most mentioned aspects now. Furthermore there has been an effort to slow down the early to mid-game a little bit, especially with the GameGuard bonus. Furthermore we've introduced a number of new events, which we hope you enjoy. Balancing efforts have also been taking place around Rookgaard, as well as our custom quests. To spice up the daily hunting life, we have also introduced a Daily Boosted Creature rotation, where boosted creatures yield more experience, loot and respawn at a faster rate.



Ascarus Season 6 will start on Friday, 23rd September 2022 18:00 CEST

Spoiler: Older trailers

• Real map 8.6 with several custom towns
• Optional antibot client launcher for manual players
• Daily Boosted Creature rotation
• A total of 95 outfits
• A shop for beginner guilds who want to compete on Ascarus
• Roshamuul accurately converted to 8.6, including all bosses & raids
• Guild Battle Arenas - Customizable war arenas, featuring configurable AoE damage, SSA/Might Ring equip exhausts, player limits, max player levels, high risk mode & more
• Reward Chest system - You will always get loot if you help killing a boss
• Magic Items - An extensive item enchanting system
• Item Salvaging - Got a magic item that doesn't have any interesting bonuses? Salvage magical dusts from it and exchange them for orbs of enchantment in order to enchant another item!
• Item Market system - Got an item with interesting bonus stats that you think someone might like to buy? List it on our item market!
• Weekly activity rewards with points & mentions
• A total of 22 towns, each town has it's own spawns, quests & secrets to discover
• Community poll system on the website
• Ability to view your account's login history
• Bosses that have their own artificial intelligence
• Many unique events - See the events page for more info
• Bounty hunter system - Place a bounty on your enemies head to get them killed
• Offline messaging system
• Custom addon bonus system - Increase your character's stats for each full outfit addon you collect
• Custom task systems - we feature a daily task sytem, a progressive task system, a special tasks from NPC Eruaran, which you can find in Roshamuul in order to obtain valuables such as prison keys in order to fight the Roshamuul prison bosses, as well as a customizable task system that lets you pick your own monster amounts and pick between a gold or experience reward
• Partnered Twitch streamers - Show off Ascarus on your stream and we will promote your stream on the website automatically
• Achievement system - Unlock achievements for doing various things in the game, achievement points are also required in order to enter specific quests
• PIN security system - Protect your characters with our homemade two-factor authentication system
• Free premium points for reaching specific levels
• Referral system - Refer your friends to Ascarus and earn free premium points
• Quest log entries for quests
• More than 40 custom quests
• Players are limited to a maximum of 4 active MC clients to combat massive MC farms
• Standard boss raids were tuned to fit the gameplay dynamics of Ascarus - You won't see an Orshabaal die in 5 seconds
• 10.x respawn system (non-blockable spawns)

• Experience & loot bonuses are now additive instead of multiplicative - this change is a bug fix to stacking multiple bonuses at once, which would previously provide a higher total bonus than intended
• Adjusted the experience stages in the early game, as player feedback confirmed it was too high, especially with GameGuard bonus active
• Removed the attack speed enchantments in favour of life & mana leech enchantments
• Added the Predator event - There is a way through if you know how to look
• Added the URF event - Ultra Rapid Fire team deathmatch
• Prevented being able to skip a number of bosses throughout various quests
• Added a Daily Boosted Creature rotation
• Rebalancing of Rookgaard bosses
• Slightly improved the healing effectivenss of knights & paladins
• Reduced the experience of Snorlax
• Snorlax is now able to eat wild growth runes within a 1 SQM range
• Fixed a bug that caused houses to be cleaned up if a player had a very long online time without relogging
• Gold rewards for level-up milestones are now sent to the players bank balance instead of added to their inventory
• Improved the code for equipment slots & weapon checks
• Improved the automatic stacking of items in player inventories
• Added the ability to force a fixed speed value on players - this is used in our new Predator event
• Improved the logic of the chameleon rune
• Improved the logic of the levitate spell
• Various other fixes and optimizations in the server engine
• And many more minor changes that didn't make it into this announcement post...

• Top 10 players in the experience highscores
  • Victorious backpack with special engraving
  • Season trophy with special engraving
• Top 50 players in the experience highscores
  • 200 premium points
• Top 10 players above level 200 that had the highest scores in the following categories: Magic Level, Fist Fighting, Sword Fighting, Axe Fighting, Club Fighting, Distance Fighting, Shielding, Snake, Tasks & Achievements
  • 100 premium points

• The refunded amount begins at 80% and for each additional month that has passed since the point purchase was made, the points will lose 9% of their original value
• Unlike previous seasons, refunds are no longer limited to 1 season only. You will continue to receive refunds from previous seasons until the point value has decreased to 0%
• The amount of refunded points is capped to 10000 points

Client showcase

Teasers

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