It's officially that spooky time of year again where all the ghoulies and goodies come out to play! This year you will recognize numerous faces from years prior as well as many new ones that have decided to come out and enjoy all of the festivities!
With the corruption in the plains of Karana slowly getting worse, a group of researchers have set out to discover the source of the corruption that plagues the lands. Through their experiments and explorations, they have uncovered a hidden deity that a group of local farmers were worshiping. However, undoing the damage that the new deity has caused will not be a simple task for any stalwart adventurer of The Hidden Forest.
New to the Halloween festivities this year, is an all new raid event in which the defenders of The Hidden Forest will find themselves face to face with the Demi-god of Corruption. New with this event is that it is designed for all guilds to be able to enjoy. The difficulty of the event properly scales between Tier 1 and Tier 8 difficulty depending on the number of tokens turned into Fernando the Black in North Karana. Below you will find more information on the scaling system:
2 Tokens = Tier 3 Difficulty
3 Tokens = Tier 6 Difficulty
4 Tokens = Tier 8 Difficulty
Each difficulty has its own unique loot and challenges. On top of the loot, is an additional chance to obtain very powerful and rare items that can drop from any difficulty of the event. These new and powerful items are extremely rare, so make sure you show them off to your friends if you are lucky enough to obtain one!
To allow everyone a chance to enjoy the new raid event, each difficulty has a 24 hour lockout by guild once completed. This means that guilds can potentially have 4 attempts at obtaining the rare items each day that the festivities are live!
So gather up your costumes, grab a couple pillow cases for all the candy you plan to get, and get out there into the land of Norrath and start trick or treating!
19 October 2012 Changes:
Tasks:
o Ghoul Goggles task will now require you to find the empty ghoul goggles in Runnyeye instead of Akheva
Zones:
o Skeletal Gypsies and Mummified Gypsies in North Karana will now reward credit towards the Tangy Caramel Apple augment.
o A Ghouly Teleporter will now spawn after defeating Junal to teleport you back to North Karana.
o The timer after Junal's death before the instance shuts down was reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes.
Additional Changes:
Quests:
o Epic 2.0 grammar and lore fixes in the following scripts: Gondon, Giblet, Irontoe, The Dragon Sage and Dentor The Guardian.
Items:
o Axe of Rallos Zek will no longer show -106 Accuracy.
o Rallos Sharpener had its cold damage reduced to +2, and is now lore.
o Sour Marshmallow Candy Corn had its accuracy reduced to +35.
Zones:
o Paludal Caverns received some boosts in the drop rate/chance of the newbie gear to make it equal to Crushbone.
o The Rallos Zek event has been re-enabled.
Spells:
o Deadly Frogs received a slight upgrade to make them more appealing of a clicky to use.
o Entwining Thoughts Rk. II will now properly replace Rk. I in the spell book when trying to memorize the spell.
Installer:
o Fixed some spell descriptions.
o Added a few new weapon graphics.
Clone:
o Fixed an issue with some spells showing incorrect data.
Enjoy Your Stay,
The THF Team