Prolonged downtime

Today we finally had the long awaited memory upgrade in our main server. Due to a few mistakes at the datacenter, and a "cultural difference" between the keyboard interfaces, the downtime was longer than expected.
Although we first feared that we would have a day downtime, we still managed to get the server back online.

Enjoy the upgraded server!
-Atari

Server Maintenance

In order to get more data about the recent server crashes we did a small server maintenance, hopefully it will help us solve the crashes sooner.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Server Update [rev.003]

Druid
- Moonfire and Lacerate spells should now correctly stack on target
Mage
- Arcane Power should correctly appear as a buff now
Rogue
- Mounting while stealthed should properly remove the stealth aura now

Battle for Mount Hyjal
- Trash Waves' timers have been adjusted, hopefully to a more retail-like experience
Old Hillsbrad Foothills
- Thrall's attributes have been corrected and event is now possible in the heroic mode also
Zul'Aman
- Timed Event chests are now fully implemented
- Halazzi's Lynx adds should despawn correctly upon phase change
- Jan'alai's Fire Bombs had their timers adjusted to more correct values and will properly despawn if boss resets

Battleground
- Players should be properly kicked from the battlegrounds now if they are AFK

Quests
- Rescue The Survivors! (9283)
- Your Fortune Awaits You... (7938, 7944)
- Garments of Light (5624,5625)
- Garments of Moon (5621)
- Garments of Spirit (5648)
- Garments of Darkness (5650)
- I Was A Lot Of Things... (10514)

General
- Creatures shouldn't be able to crit with spells anymore

As always, a great thank you for all of you who reported and helped bugtrack these issues, your help is greatly appreciated.

Scheduled hardware upgrade

Today we'll be performing a hardware upgrade in our TBC server. We expect the server to be down for 30 minutes, somewhere between 5 PM and 10 PM GMT+1 (CET). The datacenter will be upgrading our memory, so we can handle more players.

Greetings,
Atari

New WoTLK GM

Please welcome our new WoTLK trainee: Devrex. He'll be taught the skills of a good Game Master in the coming weeks, but don't hesitate to poke him with all your questions!

Greetings,
Atari

Server Update [rev.002]

Karazhan
- Moroes no longer resets upon casting Vanish
- Moroes' Phantom Guests adds no longer respawn prematurely
- Phantom Guests trash should be less difficult to handle now
Magisters' Terrace
- Heroic Mode now requires attunement
Shadowmoon Valley
- Shadowhoof Summoners should be attackable and properly engage in combat
Shattered Halls
- Warchief Kargath Bladefist had it's loot adjusted for the normal mode of the instance
Zul'Aman
- Amani Protective Ward's spell duration has been updated to correct value

Quests
- Rediscovering Your Roots
- A Job for an Intelligent Man
- Shizz Work
- The Scryer's Scryer
- Allegiance to the Scryers/Aldor
- The Final Code (A/H)
- The Deathstalkers
- Collection of Goods
- To Catch A Thistlehead
- The Cipher of Damnation
- The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge
- Dimensius the All-Devouring
- The Seer's Relic
- Curing the Sick (A/H)

Items
- Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite are now working
- Pattern: Hands of Eternal Light and Pattern: Gloves of Immortal Dusk have been fixed now and also added to the SWP trash loot

Vote rewards!

The voting rewards have been given, enjoy playing on our server and keep on voting to raise our population :)

These rates will be reset on January the 10th

Greetings,
Atari

New Year Vote event

This months vote event is special in many ways! We need to reach better spots, but the rewards will be much better too.

If we
- reach a place below 35 at the WoW status list for TBC.
- reach nr 10 or better on the Apex Web Gaming website.
- reach a place below 50 at the WoW status list for WoTLK
for at least 3 consecutive days.

The following rates will be tripled xp rate, rest rate, item droprate, skill gain rate, reputation rate and honor rates for 5 days. But because its New Year, we'll also add some cheap levelling items to the auctionhouse that will help your new char to level!

Have a happy 2012 and don't forget to invite fellow players to vote :)
-Atari

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