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13/07/2011 09:18:50

Wow! This has been one busy month, and we're not even half way into it! We are bringing you this update in light of a huge load of recent changes to the server in addition to the excitement of the Anniversary Celebration this last weekend. Here are some of the things we're touching on today:

Anniversary Recap
Service Changelog
Vote Shop Updates
Conquer the World

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ANNIVERSARY RECAP
NEVERENDLESS' 3RD YEAR ANNIVERSARY
An Entire Weekend of Celebration

Neverendless World of Warcraft, TeamSpeak3, IRC, and Forums were crawling with players and staff alike during the weekend of July 8-10, celebrating in unison the amazing history that we have shared over three years. Dozens of events, thousands of prizes, and loads of fun brought the summer in with a bang and ushered us into the fourth year of Neverendless.

The Battlemaster team worked tirelessly to fulfill a huge list of events each day, entertaining thousands of players with unique and exciting activities and challenges. The Amazing Race gave some a run for their money, the Falling Event was truly "to die for", and the Epic Tournament gave a whole new meaning to Epic. The Battlemasters spent significant time designing the events and putting together the schedule; then, they continued through the weekend to run the events and provide the enjoyment. There was so much activity and fun at every turn.

The TeamSpeak, IRC, and Forum staff all hosted events, as well, giving extra opportunities and out-of-game experiences as the spirit of celebration swept everyone up.

With the advent of the Anniversary Celebration, the Forum team took the opportunity to introduce the new Roleplay section on the forums, open to anyone interested in creating a character and forging a story of their own. See the section for more details on how to get involved.

In the end, it all comes down to you -- the players -- and recognizing that we are all in this together. We all love the community we share here in Neverendless, and we want to see it get even better. In moment's like these, however, we are able to look back over the path we have traveled together and be grateful for everything we've endured, the memories we've created, and all the good changes we've had along the way.

Thank you for being part of our Anniversary Celebration! It wouldn't be the same without you.

PLEASE NOTE
We welcome your gratitude and feedback on the staff anytime! Feel free to add your positive comments and thanks to particular staff members, departments, or the staff as a whole with details of your experience in the Thank the Staff thread.

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SERVICE CHANGELOGS
ONE MONTH OF SERVER UPDATES
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

From here on, we will be providing regular updates to you of the some of the changes and fixes we perform on the server, website, and other services. While the list below is far from complete in comparison to what has been done, it gives you a glimpse into what the Development team has been working on to help improve your gaming experience. We hope these updates are appreciated -- there will surely be more to come!

Get the Service Changelog updates in the Changelog thread.

Class Spells/Talents

Druid
- T10 Balance 4P bonus - Fixed
- T10 Restoration 4P bonus - Fixed
Priest
- T10 Healer 2P bonus - Fixed
- Body and Soul - Abolish Disease now applies the body and soul remove poison
- Vampiric Embrace - Fixed
- Rapture - Fixed
DeathKnight
- Bloodworms - health leech correctly applies health exchange
Hunter
- Last Stand - now gives current health and max health not just max health
- Glyph of Freezing Trap - Fixed
- Kill Command - now reduces damage per pet special used
Paladin
- Seal of Vengeance - seal of corruption now does DoT holy damage
- Holy Vengeance - blood corruption now does DoT holy damage
Mage
- Glyph of Icy Viens - Fixed
Shaman
- Nature's Guardian - Now correctly gives current health and max health
- Earth and Fire Elemental Totems - Now summons the correct elemental
Warlock
- Glyph of Shadowflame - Fixed
- Felhunter's Shadow Bite - Now adds bonus for DoT's on target
Warrior
- Glyph of Sunder Armor - Fixed

Quests

Fruit of our Labor - Captain Jacob now drops the quest required key
Plug the Sinkholes - Summons burrower and causes explosion
Re-Cursive and Souls of the Decursed - Now require dead creature and despawns corpse after use
Projection and Plans - Fixed
Fueling the Project - Spawns the portable oil collector and despawns the oil slick instead of just saying barrel of oil collected
War is Hell - Fixed
Toy Dragon - Added to the npc vendor (required for Children's Week questline)
DeathKnight starter area quest chains - Updated/fixed db data reducing autocomplete quests from 14 to 8 and fixed some known bugging problems

Trinkets/Items

Reign of the Dead(H) and Reign of the Unliving(A) normal and heroic trinkets - Fixed
Deathbringer's Will normal and heroic trinket - Fixed
Tiny Abomination in a Jar normal and heroic - Fixed
Pygmy Oil - Fixed
Reins of the Crimson Deathcharger
Darkmoon Card(Illusion) Illusionary Barrier - Now regains the mana
Shadowmourne - Now procs chaos bane shadow damage and soul fragments
Book of Glyph Mastery - Fixed

Creatures

Crimson Deathcharger - Added/Updated data
Spirit Bear Arcturis - Added

Miscellaneous Spells

Chaos Bane - Shadow damage corrected
Meteor - Fixed (Thane Korth'azz, 25-man raid spell)
Volatile Ooze - Ooze eruption damage divided to multiple targets
Polarity Shift - Fixed (Tempest Keep and Naxxramas bosses to be scripted later)
Mutating Injection casts Mutagen Explosion and Poison Cloud (Naxxramas - Grobbulus)
Guardian Aura - Now selects correct targets (Ahn'kahet - Ahn'kahar Guardian)
Brood Rage - Now correctly gives current health and max health (Ahn'kahet - Elder Nadox)

Miscellaneous Fixes

Naxxramas - Military Quarters - Thane Korth'azz now casts the proper spells for 10 man and 25 man raids
Fixed the scriptnames of the bosses in Naxxramas (so they use their scripts) and a couple miscellaneous things caused from the difficulty conversion
Updated some of Naxxramas boss scripts: Faerlina, Grobbulus, Heigan, Patchwerk
Ahn'kahet - Elder Nadox - Scripted encounter
Fixed the scriptnames of the bosses in Ahn'kahet (so they use their scripts) caused from the different conversion
Fixed the boss settings and updated the difficulty spells for Violet Hold caused from the difficulty conversion
Custom target amount cases where MaxAffectedTargets need manual set - added 15 cases - mostly affects boss spells
Custom charges for some mod auras - added cases for Missile Barrage and Elune's Wrath (Druid T8 set)
The salvaged chopper and salvaged demolisher in Ulduar are now usable.
Argent Tournament mounts allowing 2 riders when not a 2 seat mount has been corrected
Frostblade shrine, some players were bug abusing to quick level characters
Many db related stability issues fixed
Many smaller miscellaneous fixes

Spell Database

Many quest/npc/item teleport and summon spells updated/fixed. Some examples are:
- Surge Needle Teleporter
- The pavilion guardians in The Argent Tournament Grounds work
- Gossamer potion
- Teleporter at Garm's Rise for Quest-Opening the Backdoor
- Boots of the Bay - Fixed
Fixes/Updates for proc conditions and ICD:
- Blessing of Salvation
- Mana Shield
- Aspect of the Hawk
- Alchemist's Stone
- Reckoning
- Holy Shield
- Seal of Righteousness
- Warrior's Wrath
- Barkskin
- Water Shield
- Greater Blessing of Sanctuary
- Empowered Fireball
- Seal of Vengeance
- Shadow Embrace
- Earth Shield
- Power Word: Shield
- Spell Haste Trinket - Quagmirran's Eye
- Vampiric Touch
- Concussive Barrage
- Combat Potency
- HoTs on Heals
- Enduring Winter
- Safeguard
- Phantasm
- Prayer of Mending
- Vampiric Touch
- Blood Parasite
- Unholy Blight
- Dirge
- Lightning Shield
- Bloodworm
- Dirge
- Death Rune Mastery
- Icy Talons
- Venomous Breath Aura
- Improved Stormstrike
- Maelstrom Weapon
- Honor Among Thieves
- Undying Resolve
- Sanctified Wrath
- Infusion of Light
- Blood of the North
- Death Knight's Anguish Base
- Glyph of Shred
- Purified Spirit
- Glyph of Rebuke
- Mana Restore
- Improved Icy Talons
- Glyph of Felhunter
- Reaping
- Glyph of Mend Pet
- Increased Spirit
- Shadowfiend Death
- Airy Pale Ale
- Worg Tooth Oatmeal Stout
- Improved spell reflection
- Chagrin
- Black Magic
- Flow of Time
- Now is the Time!
- Rage of the Unraveller
- Bleed Cost Reduction
- Essence of Gossamer
- Meteorite Whetstone
- Vestige of Haldor
- Signet of Edward the Odd
- Forge Ember
- Pendulum of Telluric Currents
- Extract of Necromatic Power
- Embrace of the Spider
- Spark of Life
- Forethought Talisman
- Tentacles
- Aspect of the Dragonhawk
- Flow of Knowledge
- Strength of the Titans
- Icy Touch Defense Increase
- Chains of Ice Frost Rune Refresh
- Decimation
- Glyph of Howling Blast
- Frozen Power
- Serendipity
- Body and Soul
- Val'anyr Hammer of Ancient Kings - Equip Effect
- Blade Warding
- Blood Reserve
- Blood Draining
- Flame of the Heavens
- Show of Faith
- Pandora's Plea
- Druid T8 Feral 2P Bonus
- Comet's Trail
- Blood of the Old God
- Druid T8 Balance 4P Bonus
- Hunter T8 4P Bonus
- Mage T8 2P Bonus
- Paladin T8 Protection 4P Bonus
- Paladin T8 Holy 2P Bonus
- Priest T8 Shadow 4P Bonus
- Priest T8 Healer 4P Bonus
- Rogue T8 2P Bonus
- Warrior T8 Melee 2P Bonus
- Druid T8 Feral Relic
- Death Knight T8 Tank Relic
- Juggernaut
- Meteoric Inspiration
- Bonus Mana Regen
- Alacrity of the Elements
- Eye of the Broodmother
- Pyrite Infusion
- Mjolnir Runestone
- Dark Matter
- Threat of Thassarian
- Druid T9 Feral Relic (Lacerate, Swipe, Mangle, and Shred)
- Druid T9 Restoration Relic (Rejuvenation)
- Paladin T9 Retribution Relic (Seal of Vengeance)
- Coliseum 5 Tank Trinket
- Coliseum 5 Healer Trinket
- Coliseum 5 CasterTrinket
- Coliseum 5 Melee Trinket
- Coliseum 25 Normal Melee Trinket
- Coliseum 25 Heroic Melee Trinket
- Druid T10 Balance 4P Bonus
- Rogue T10 4P Bonus
- Rogue T10 2P Bonus
- Shaman T10 Restoration 2P Bonus
- Shaman T10 Restoration 4P Bonus
- Shaman T10 Elemental 4P Bonus
- Warlock T10 4P Bonus
- Warrior T10 Melee 2P Bonus
- Icecrown 10 Normal Melee Trinket
- Icecrown Dungeon Melee Trinket
- Icecrown 25 Normal Melee Trinket
- Icecrown 10 Heroic Melee Trinket
- Icecrown 25 Heroic Melee Trinket
- Icecrown 25 Normal Dagger Proc
- Icecrown 25 Heroic Dagger Proc
- Icecrown Reputation Ring Melee
- Icecrown Reputation Ring Tank Trigger
- Icecrown Reputation Ring Caster Trigger
- Icecrown Reputation Ring Healer Trigger
- Blood-Caked Blade
- Scent of Blood
- Runic Corruption
- Necrosis
- Guard Dog
- Cinderglacier
- Silverback
- Paladin T8 Protection Relic
- Druid T9 Balance Relic (Moonfire)
- Paladin T9 Holy Relic (Judgement)
- Paladin T9 Protection Relic (Hammer of The Righteous)
- Death Knight T9 Tank Relic (Rune Strike)
- Death Knight T9 Melee Relic (Rune Strike)
- Shaman T9 Elemental Relic (Lightning Bolt)
- Shaman T9 Restoration Relic (Chain Heal)
- Shaman T9 Enhancement Relic (Lava Lash)
- Coliseum 25 Heroic Caster Trinket (Shard of Flame)
- Death Knight T10 Tank 4P Bonus
- Death Knight T10 Melee 4P Bonus
- Hunter T10 2P Bonus
- Hunter T10 4P Bonus
- Mage T10 4P Bonus
- Paladin T10 Holy 4P Bonus
- Paladin T10 Protection 4P Bonus
- Shaman T10 Enhancement 2P Bonus
- Druid T10 Balance Relic (Moonfire and Insect Swarm)
- Druid T10 Restoration Relic (Rejuvenation)
- Paladin T10 Retribution Relic (Crusader Strike)
- Paladin T10 Holy Relic (Holy Shock)
- Paladin T10 Protection Relic (Shield of Righteousness)
- Shaman T10 Enhancement Relic (Stormstrike)
- Shaman T10 Restoration Relic (Riptide)
- Death Knight T10 DPS Relic (Obliterate, Scourge Strike, Death Strike)
- Death Knight T10 Tank Relic (Runestrike)
- Anger Capacitor
- Smite used by Captain Arnath
- Icecrown 25 Normal Caster Trinket 1 Base
- Icecrown 25 Normal Caster Trinket 2
- Icecrown 25 Normal Tank Trinket 1
- Icecrown 25 Heroic Caster Trinket 2
- Icecrown 25 Heroic Tank Trinket 1
- Icecrown 25 Heroic Caster Trinket 1 Base
- Chamber of Aspects 25 Melee Trinket
- Chamber of Aspects 25 Heroic Melee Trinket
- Chamber of Aspects 25 Nuker Trinket
- Chamber of Aspects 25 Heroic Nuker Trinket
- Clearcasting
- Seal of Righteousness
- T7 Melee Trinket Base
- Fel Synergy
- Tidal Force
- Sacred Shield
- Improved Blood Presence
- Shaman T9 Elemental 4P Bonus (Lava Burst)
- Druid T10 Restoration 4P Bonus (Rejuvenation)
- Deep Freeze Immunity State
- Coliseum 25 Normal Caster Trinket (Mote of Flame)

PLEASE NOTE
You can report bugs or broken items you find in our Bug Report Tool. With your help and the hard work of our unceasing Development team, our server is becoming better each day! Thank you for your help. You can thank the Developers in the Thank the Staff Thread.

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VOTE SHOP UPDATES
TOKENS, PROFESSION ITEMS, AND SPECIALS
Some Balance Adjustments

TOKENS OF NAME CHANGE AND TITLE
Taking into consideration the effect certain items and services can have on the gaming experience, particular custom items such as the [Token of Name Change] and the [Token of Title] have been revised to have a more positive impact. We understand these items can be useful for many reasons, but we want to keep them valuable and properly used.

For this reason, we have adjust these two Tokens in the following ways:

[Token of Name Change] - Now has a 30-day cooldown; meaning a character can only be renamed once every 30 days (this shares the cooldown with the Appearance Change service, Faction Change and Race Change have their own independent 30-day cooldown). Also, the price has been increased to 25 Vote Points.
[Token of Title] - Price has been increased to 25 Vote Points.

PROFESSION ITEMS
Additionally, as announced previously over the past couple months, we have begun the process of removing from the Vote Shop items that are crafted by professions. Raw materials, such as ore and herbs, will remain; as well as, recipes for all professions. The profession item removal is just for items that can be crafted by in-game professions.

We believe this change is in the best interest of the in-game global economy and will help promote the use of professions to gear characters, supply consumables, and buy/sell goods. For those looking to become skilled in a profession, you can do so using in-game resources, the resources available in the Vote Shop, or donate for profession skill and recipes.

SPECIAL DISCOUNTS
The Special Offers for discounted items in the Vote and Donation Shops for the month of July were delayed until after the Anniversary Celebration. However, we have DOUBLED the number of items up for offer in the Vote Shop and increased the overall value of the items selected. We hope you have a chance to enjoy these great values!

These are the items offered for special discounts through July:
[Token of Title]
[Cold Convergence]
[Cold Convergence]
[Celestial Steed]
[Reins of the Swift Spectral Tiger]
[Relentless Gladiator's Longblade]
[Goblin Weather Machine - Prototype 01-B]
[Relentless Gladiator's Longbow]
[Swift Nether Drake]
[Riding Turtle]
[Grim Toll]
[Blood of the Old God]
[Quel'Delar, Cunning of the Shadows]
[Quel'Delar, Lens of the Mind]
[Quel'Delar, Ferocity of the Scorned]
[Quel'Delar, Might of the Faithful]
[Relentless Gladiator's Kodohide Robes]
[The Burrower's Shell]
[Pit Lord's Satchel]
[Sword Breaker's Bulwark]
[Furious Gladiator's Greatsword]
[Hammer of Purified Flame]
[Lightborn Spire]
[Cudgel of Furious Justice]
[Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops]
[Egbert's Egg]
[Heavy Murloc Egg]
[Sea Turtle]
[Adamantite Shells]
[Quel'dorei Channeling Rod]

The special offers this month is courtesy of our Development team, which is comprised of diligent Developers that spend their time working to improve your community experience in World of Warcraft, on the website, on TeamSpeak 3, on IRC, and more! You can thank them for their consistent efforts in the Thank the Staff thread.

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BREAKING BOUNDARIES
CONQUER THE WORLD CAMPAIGN
A Unique Series of Events

During the month of August, we will be providing a whole new strain of events and ways to get involved. We will be hosting events and activities similar to those we do during NECon and the Anniversary, but with some twists! You will definitely want to plan for each weekend during the month of August, as it will bring more excitement, more fun, and more rewards!

We will be breaking the boundaries on the way you've experienced things thus far -- invite your friends and recruit your neighbors, this will definitely be a time where the more really is merrier! Also, if you've been looking for where you can use your [Battlemaster Event Ticket], this is it! Stock up on them beforehand so you're prepared, and you still might have to run back to the Vote Shop for more during the events! Remember to vote so you can get the tickets!

The rewards will rock and give you the extra bonus for having to have a ticket for participation. That's not all that will rock, though -- the music, the trivia, the PvP, the challenges, the tricks, all the Admins raiding cities... -- oops, did I just give that away? Well, there's even more and you just have to be there to experience it!

Don't miss this series of events during every weekend in the month of August! We want to see you there! You have a chance to Conquer the World!