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Posted on UOHerald by Jeremy Dalberg 28 Apr 2007
On Monday, April 30, we will be publishing to all servers and publishing a mandatory client patch. This patch will require substantial downtime - the plan is as follows:

- At 9:00 AM PDT (4:00 PM GMT) all servers will be taken down and the servers will be published

- When the publish is complete and the patch is ready to go, we will bring up TC1. We will be testing on KR and encourage players to join us.

- Once we're confident, we will be bringing up the other servers slowly, beginning with Origin.

The publish process is estimated to take approximately 8 hours. We'll be updating regularly on the Herald if the schedule changes at all. The patch is fairly large (about 57 megs) so plan for it to take a bit of time to download.

Due to the nature of some of the changes, we expect players to find some minor art bugs - if you find a bug, please report it to uobugs@uo.com!

Notes after the jump:

* Updated the shards to allow the Kingdom Reborn beta client to be able to connect to them
* Discontinued the 3D client
* “Add Party Member", "Remove Party Member", "Leave the Party", "Disband the Party", and "Party can loot me" and "Party cannot loot me" are now context menu options
* New players

o All new players, regardless of what they select, will now start in New Haven
o Previous directed experience template quests (Paladin, Ninja, Samurai, etc) are no longer offered to new players
o New players no longer get the Tour
o Young players no longer get the Mongbat Quest
o New players will be able to take a number of different quests aimed at helping them raise appropriate skills in New Haven
o All starting profession templates will have 4 skills that start at 30 skill points.
o Players in Old Haven will be teleported to the center of New Haven.

+ The teleport will NOT happen under the following conditions:

# The player is on a Siege ruleset shard
# The player's first login is not in Haven
# The player has already been redirected

+ Pets will also teleport with the player UNLESS:
# The pet is a summoned creature
# The pet is a necro animate

* Multiple World Changes

o Haven has become ruined
o New Haven has begun to emerge
o Some areas, especially dungeons, have a different look and feel
o Roads have been widened

* Arms Lore has been changed:

o Arms Lore will increase when weapons and armor are crafted
o When a weapon is exceptionally crafted, the damage increase modifier will increase by 1% per 20 points of Arms Lore.
o When a piece of armor (not including shields) is exceptionally crafted, each resist normally available on that armor piece will increase by 1% per 20 points of Arms Lore


A lot of questions have already been asked the publish.Not all have been answered,but for some that have

Check here on UOForums or here on Stratics

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Cal Soulshadow

Holy crap, that sounds like a lot of changes. I'm a bit worried about this arms lore business, to be honest - that means I now have to have arms lore on my smith, who already has a cramped template?

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Darkion

Crap NEW HAVEN SOUNDS GAY! *CRIES*

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Kaelith

arms lore effecting how well weapons are crafted makes a hell of a lot of sense

Decardo Imier

Aye - i like the arms lore changes as well Kaelith

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Life is the Dance and Honor,
the Dance is Death to those we oppose,
Honor is our salvation.
Without Honor the Dance is meaningless
forms and we are nothing.

So said by Sai-Renya Killandra - Sword Elder of the Renshai

Ditriteous/Locke

The question is, will they be allowed in the Ruleset we use?

and extra 5% on weapons might not sound alot but it is.

And we already have quite a few people with high resist suits, do we really want them to have even better suits?

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Decardo Imier

You have to allow it really as it will be a GM crafted item the armslore is affecting

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Life is the Dance and Honor,
the Dance is Death to those we oppose,
Honor is our salvation.
Without Honor the Dance is meaningless
forms and we are nothing.

So said by Sai-Renya Killandra - Sword Elder of the Renshai

Kaelith

yup and as you said dit, the armour will become stronger too, so they should cancel each other out in a way.

But I understand where you're coming from. some people have incredible suits of GM armour!

Tessah

Hehe, by the looks of things, even more nabs will be running around haven

Snubson

Never mind that!

WOOOOOOOOOOOT! \o/ Parteh! >.>

Veggy

If Only I had kept arms lore now... :P

Roads widening can omly be a good thing right....I mean look how many people use them! *looks out at the tumble weeds*

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Henry Winter

Why do they not for the love of god do something with the damned sea!!!!!!!!! This drives me nuts. It takes up like %70 of the game world and is more or less useless!!!!

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Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women!

Kade.

New Haven.... is a dissapointment.

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This is a gap which really needs filling. =/

Cal Soulshadow

Can you sail to Dieppe from there?

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Isabella Coffyn

woooh big ass patch!!!

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