Client 1.7.2 has been approved!

[asommers]

It will take a while to propagate to all App Store territories. Android version should already be available in both the Android Market and GetJar.

1.7.1.1 will shutdown at 6pm today.

-ALS

• Elixirs now persist for a period of real-world time through death, dungeon changes and logouts.
• You should be able to view the elixirs on your character in the avatar screen by tapping "Elixir Buffs".
• You can purchase elixirs with gold again!
• Store/Purchasing Improvements

• The store has been completely reworked to improve ease of use.
• You should find in most cases it will take you substantially fewer clicks to reach your destination
• All items that were previously purchased for gold on the store have been removed from the store. Potions and crafting items that are available for gold can be purchased from different NPCs located in the world.
• It’s now possibly to quickly compare items in the store with your current equipment.
• Many feature purchases which were previously buried in the store are now made quickly from the relevant UI. These include emotes, campaigns, inventory slots, auction slots, stash slots, etc.

• Improved secure trade! When both players agree to a trade a new window appears showing the entire trade in a locked state. While in this state no adjustments can be made. Each player can then chose to accept or decline the final trade.
• Completing quests can now grant experience.
• Added /trade <name> command. This allow you to quickly trade with someone in a crowded area. No more digging through player names for the person you want to trade with.
• Fixed completed quests display when inspecting another player.
• When wielding a 2 handed weapon, offhand vanity items are no longer visible and no longer hide the weapon.
• The skill book icon no longer appears when your character has less than four skills
• Quick chat supports more text, up to two lines
• Account details now shows account creation date
• Unregistered accounts should now be able to purchase character renames
• The client now knows if it could not connect to the server because the internet connection isn't working or if the server is actually down for maintenance. The correct message is displayed accordingly.
• Possible fix for Gurgox sounds not working correctly under Android
• You can now reserve your character's name for Blackstar!
  Also note that users who reserve their name will receive a non-stashable vanity shield (no stats) for their character: the HardLight Shield.

Here is a quick look at the HardLight Shield



Or check it out on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpy5vq1O1k

Also of note, Elixir platinum prices have been reduced in half from our original announcement. Here are the prices of Elixirs as they are for the release of 1.7.2

[Apocolypze]

WOOOT! First POst!

[Kossi]

yay ill actually log on today :P

[kallima]

YES!!!! Thanks again DEVS!

[bones]

cool ! now i know what ill do tonight

[Moogerfooger]

Nice updates, dudes.

[sticky420]

Awsome ty. Now will I get exp for the 100or so quests I've done?

[Samhayne]

Awsome ty. Now will I get exp for the 100or so quests I've done?

Quest XP is not retroactive. It is only applied at the time you complete the quest.

[LordEspe]

Thx devs you guys are ruining my RL!! Haha J/k Thanx for great, and sneaky fast update!!

[DawnInfinity]

50 plat to reserve your name for Blackstar?!

[Bobloblaw]

I have only tried the "Chain Gang" quest (in AO, killing reg mobs for chain) so far on my lvl 55 but for those curious:
-Quests do not list the amt of xp they will give
-Dailys do give XP (as this was a daily)
-When you turn it in the white "+XP" tick shows up above your character
-That quest gave 1XP

[jaminn]

When can i reserve. Ame?

[NeoQueen]

Uhhhhh....nice to know that potions now cost plat when bought from ur personal store. Isn't that something that we should have been told?

And seriously?! 50 plat to reserve your name for Blackstar?
I vote we just create a Blackstar reservation thread and do it there. If anyone takes a name that was reserved we should black list them...

But it is nice to work toward 56 again with the elixirs.

[Moogerfooger]

50 plat to reserve your name for Blackstar?!

Where is that??? Haven't stumbled on it yet....

EDIT: Nvm, found it. Errrr...can't say that I saw that coming.

[sabermage]

Player stat page has the blackstar name reserve.

[bronislav84]

Hey wait this was posted about 50 minutes or so from the time of this post, but I was just on about 20 minutes ago. If 1.7.1.1 is going to shut down at 6pm (Pacific?) then we shouldn't download the new client yet? The update is up but we shouldn't update yet? Will I be unable to play until 6pm if I update now?

I'm sorry if this is a numbskull question, but it's never come up like this before that I remember. If we update now would the server not accept players with the new app version until 6pm? How do you have old and new versions playing same time?

[Kalielle]

In the plat store if I click on Gold then click the arrow in the top left to get out of there, it lists a dialog box that says "you need more platinum to buy 2500 gold! you need 15 plat. you have [more than 15 plat]."

Looks like the game wants you to click on the X at the right first to get out of the buy gold screen. But it's not very intuitive - I bet people will start complaining about being stuck in the buy gold screen.

Edit: I'm on iPad.

[DawnInfinity]

Where is that??? Haven't stumbled on it yet....

EDIT: Nvm, found it. Errrr...can't say that I saw that coming.

Honestly, I'm disappointed.. I would pay 5 plat, but 50 plat is just too much in my opinion.

[bronislav84]

Quest XP is not retroactive. It is only applied at the time you complete the quest.

Please, please, reconsider this. You guys track quest completion for characters, so why is it impossible to give experience retroactively? The data of what quests are completed is there. Just wondering.

Also, yes I'm also very disappointed in the reserve cost. 5p, maybe 10, but 50? For 50 judging by PL prices, that's like buying five areas in advance, but not actually receiving them. At that price, any chance you could offer some kind of extra incentives to people who reserve? As it stands now I'm either gonna wait and reserve close to BS release date to see if the price goes down then charge some plat, or not at all.

[Moogerfooger]

Honestly, I'm disappointed.. I would pay 5 plat, but 50 plat is just too much in my opinion.

Not to mention it is 50plat PER character. I did it for Moog as I have used that name for a long long time in other games, but the other ones, no thanks. I have the cash, but it just seems too steep to reserve a name for all my other characters.

5-10 plat would have been doable. Some people have 5-10 chars I am sure they would want to reserve, but no way to afford it. If it had been 10, you would get people spending 50 plat to get their mains and maybe a coupla twinks' names.

Now, with the initial price being so high, a lot of people are just gonna blanch/say "to hell with that".

An unfortunate shadow on what looks to be a pretty good update....the outcry of the name reservaion will rival the "YES!" of the elixirs-for-gold.