Once again, the chill of winter is upon us. Which also means that Christmas and all the Legacy related stuff that comes along with it. And this year, a few things will be the same and some will be different.

What's the same? The Advent Calendar will be making an appearance of course. What's different however is the fact that unlike the last couple of years where most of the items are gag items/gifts, this year will have many items that will entice and excite. Yes, a few traditional items/gifts will be the same. Because why break traditions?

Also I would like to address something that I'm sure some think I have forgotten about. The near apocalyptic loss of the Wastelands. In order to make up for that little mishap, the Double Gains week that typically happens during Christmas time...will be extended. That means starting Dec. 16 (early as possible) until Dec. 29 at 23:59 server time (literally what the clock in the upper right corner of your browser shows) will be Double Gains.

For those who don't know or need a reminder of what Double Gains include:
-Double Experience from PVP and Hunt
-Double Item Experience
-Double Honing Experience
-Double payout from jobs
-Double Warfare points
-Double energy per hour (400/hour)

Please note that buffs from books and the boon shop do not stack.

As for if there will be a platinum sale as normal during Christmas, I will let Zorg announce that if he decides to do so.

Hope everyone is having a good holiday season so far!

Halloween is over (despite what the Legacy banner tells you) and Shadress has vanished from the Hive for the time being. In the short time she was here, many of you challenged her. Ultimately, she was only impressed with a small handful of you. Those individuals were:

Shade, Mary, Persephone, UnicornBob, bigchaos, greggy, smythe, matt770, Zach, Merkleman, Mert, Pjay, blenok, Cartucho, Gryll, and motodragon

But of everyone who fought her, some of you actually brought her down.

Graponis, dagreek, Kage, crippler, and MrItrickzu

Those who defeated her were granted the Shadress banner, a Toolbox, and a Voodoo doll by default. Everyone else were sent items for participating.

Also want to give a special shoutout to Merkleman for despite not being an Avatar, kept attacking Shadress so she would gain fatigue so everyone else could dispatch her more easily

So Shadress has appeared a few more times and the Wasteland didn't break...neat. Also, I may act like it bothers me with the grief I'm getting for it, rest assured that I find it hilarious. 9 years to screw up and when I do, the playerbase refuses to let me live it down.

Anyway, I never clarified about what will come with fighting Shadress.

If you manage to put up a good fight and she deems you worthy, you will receive the banner for fighting her

Even if you come in at the end of the fight and manage to impress or defeat her, you can get the banner

Shadress has been loaded with a bunch of goodies that she will send to those she deems worthy at the end of Halloween

These can include a Voodoo Doll (which when used can give you a bunch of goodies). Also, she might...maybe...possibly...this is just a rumor...have a fancy little red box that is somewhat heavy and makes a lot of metallic clanking when shook

Also, I am still contemplating on what to do to try and make up for the near catastrophic Wasteland destruction. Feel free to offer suggestions in the comments

Okay....Due to a catastrophic screw up on my part, I accidentally reset the Wateslands in its entirety. No buildings, no Objectives, no area gained, nothing. Just HQs.

As such, for the time being until we can fix this, the Wastelands have been taken offline. Hopefully Zorg or one of the Devs can restore the WL to where it was or at the very least put the objectives and everything back where they were.