News archive
April 2009
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30.04.2009In Taborea hundreds of the best adventures are hidden in the most remote places - and to get there one has to travel fast distances. Why risk blistered feet from walking or ruining the new pair of shoes when there are far better ways to get around. Using one of our convenient travel items and even a distance that seemed to be endlessly becomes a ...
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30.04.2009Craftsmen and artisans are always looking for the best materials, the rarest and most valuable ingredients. They have to travel far, climb the steepest hills and are always in danger of getting run over by roaming monsters only to harvest a few bits and pieces. A few Taborean botanists now made the break-through, cultivating uncommon and rare ...
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29.04.2009The Runes of Magic servers need to be restarted to fix an calculation error with the healing spells of priests. Downtime should be minimal. Thank you for your understanding. Update 10.40am BST / 11:40h CEST The server's are still down for maintenance and fixing. Our testers have found a bug which can cause players to drop through the ground. This ...
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27.04.2009Tomorrow, Tuesday 28 April 2009, between 8am BST (GMT+1) / 9:00h CEST and app. 1pm BST / 14:00h CEST the Runes of Magic servers are offline for patching. The full set of patch notes will be made available in the patch notes forum during the patch. Update 12.50pm BST / 13:50h CEST The recent patch notes (Version 2.0.6.1834) are now available on the ...
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27.04.2009The merry month of May is approaching and we want to celebrate it the right way. Life's hard and sometimes cruel - so sometimes that calls for a drink. And what better time than to celebrate the beginning of May? From Monday through till Thursday you can buy many potions that make life a bit easier - for 30% less! Now you can not only quench your ...
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25.04.2009On Saturday, 25 April 2009 at 3am BST (GMT+1) / 04:00h CEST the Runes of Magic servers need to be restarted to relieve an imminent issue. Downtime should be minimal. Thank you for your understanding.
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24.04.2009Your old armour has seen better days and the good ol' bow has launched a million arrows - it's time for something new. But the way Taborean magic works, it's not so simple to trade in your old equipment, because it is bound to you. After some experimentation Taborean Scientists and archmages now discovered a way, enabling you to sell or trade old ...
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23.04.2009A new feature has been added to the palette of exciting content for Runes of Magic: Public Encounters. The first such scenario it the "Attack on Segarth Outpost" in Dragonfang Ridge. The outpost, long beleaguered by the Cyclops and their allies, now faces another danger: Wolves! In this new type of encounter, all players passing the area ...
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23.04.2009A review and three features - that's the good stuff we got for you this week. Let's start with the review! GGGames Review From Sweden with love comes GGGames - a site choc-a-bloc full of reviews. The latest addition to their long list is a fully fledged Runes of Magic review. "If you're looking for a sweet MMORPG, you can't go wrong with Runes ...
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21.04.2009We have a winner for the second part of our "Speechless in Taborea" photo story contest! This time the contestant with the best entry, winning an Alterno Dual Colour LED Keyboard sponsored by SPEEDLINK is "Dana A." from the South of the UK. Congratulations! You can see Danas' entry on our "Speechless in Taborea" ...
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21.04.2009Today, Tuesday 21 April 2009, between 8am BST (GMT+1) / 9:00h CEST and app. 1pm BST / 14:00h CEST the Runes of Magic servers are offline for patching. The full set of patch notes (Version 2.0.5.1833) can already be found in the patch notes forum. You can discuss the changes here. Edit: Corrected the expected time the servers should be back ...
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20.04.2009Does your character have the right gear to stand a chance against all the opponents you have to face every day? Taborea is more than just a world filled with thousands of adventures and dangers, it's a place where you can be yourself. But are you really prepared? This week, you can to spiff your character up - just like you always wanted to! You ...
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17.04.2009See what we got you this weekend! New items for all occasions. You can get new items to travel faster, a new pet and to create you own title - and all for a special price until Monday 10am BST (GMT+1) / 11:00h CEST. The new items are available today from 4pm BST / 17:00h CEST. Set Title Note Not everyone likes the titles available in the game. Some ...
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16.04.2009Now that the patch is live and with the downtime out of the way, we got exciting news for you! We have been reviewed by IGN, MMOGamer and Gamer's Ritual and got good marks from all of them! So here they are - and we'll let them speak for themselves: IGN Review [Runes of Magic] does a lot of things right. The game is deep enough to appeal to ...
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15.04.2009Tomorrow, Thursday 16 April 2009, at around 8am BST (GMT+1) / 9:00h CEST the Runes of Magic servers are taken offline for maintenance and to apply a new patch. We expect that we are done at around 11am BST / 12:00h CEST. Because the patch contains new optimised server code we would like to ask you for a bit of patience in advance should the ...
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14.04.2009It's always the same - as an ambitious, energetic hero you can never get to the next adventure fast enough. Teleportation would be great - but you forgot to note down the target location in your travel log and riding your mount seems to take ages. Don't despair! We have a solution for you: Liquid spurs! This new potion in our Item Shop gives you ...
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10.04.2009This weekend the Runes of Magic Team celebrates the Spring Time with a Easter Egg hunt! In cooperation with our fansites Runes of Magic @ Mondes Persistants (FR) Runes of Magic Online PL World of Runes (EN) we have hidden several Rune-decorated Easter Eggs on their sites and it's your turn to find and count them. The winners of this hunt can win ...
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09.04.2009Think of the following: You just crawled through a muddy and dirty dungeon, crossed the Dust Devil Canyon and are just back in town - right on time for dinner with the major... You rush home, take a bath and wash away the blood from hands and face - only to realise that you only got one set of clothing! Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be ...
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09.04.2009At 9.30am BST (GMT+1) / 10:30h CEST the Runes of Magic servers will be taken down for maintenance. We are applying a bug-fixing patch. The maintenance is expected to last up to 2 hours.
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08.04.2009After a successful weekend at the Roleplay Convention Germany in Cologne and an eventful start of the week with the patch, this week's Community Spotlight is a bit shorter than usual - and a bit more focused on non-English sites. Buffed Stage Guitar Hero And even though the show wasn't all about "fun and games" - talking to literally ...
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08.04.2009We will have to bring down the servers around 09:00 GMT +1 for another maintenance. During that time we will fix the following issues and implement: ...the "Grace" rune will return, which had been removed accidently from the game. The instance "Necropolis of Mirrors" will receive a limitation of open instances at the same time. ...
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07.04.2009We will have to bring down the server around 22:00 GMT+1 to implement another hotfix that will fix a memory leak. This leak was the cause of some crashes you may have experienced. After this short maintenance everything in regard to those crashes should be back to normal. We apologize for the inconvinience this may have caused you!
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07.04.2009Come in! Discover! Save! Here's a new opportunity for everyone to save big on a lot of selected items from our Item Shop! We're selling Potions, Daily Quest Tickets and much more at great prices. From Tuesday till Thursday all bargain hunters can save money! From 11am to 2pm and 6pm to 9pm BST (GMT+1) selected Hot-Items are reduced by up to 30%. ...
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06.04.2009Tuesday, 07 April 2009 the Runes of Magic servers will be taken offline for maintenance and patching. We expect the servers to go down at around 8am BST (GMT+1) / 9:00h CET and stay down for no longer than 3 hours. The patch notes (Version 2.0.2.1827) are live on the forum. You can discuss the patch here. Update 11.15am BST (GMT+1) / 12:15h CEST ...
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03.04.2009Resources now in the Item Shop! Encyclopaedias 50 % off! Crafters of Taborea! Put away your pickaxes; lay down your scythes and saws! This weekend only you can relax and enjoy life a bit - because now you can buy selected crafting resources in our Item Shop. Especially guild crafters can profit from this, because now it will be even easier and ...
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02.04.2009Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Windrunner Racetrack. The horses and their jockeys have already entered the boxes and we are looking forward to see who's the fastest around our track today. And there's the signal! Horse number six is the first to leave the box and storms towards the first row of surprises... We are leaving the commentator here ...
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01.04.2009Kerensky and Silberfuchs finally made it to the office and are ready to face the perils of community work. But what are they saying? After the winner of the first part of our "Speechless in Taborea" Photo Story was announced yesterday, here we are back with part two and again it's up to you to come up with a clever, funny and witty ...
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01.04.2009Welcome to this week's edition of our Community Spotlight. Fresh from the Games Developer's Conference in San Francisco we have hot news from the lips of John and Tony Tang, the masterminds behind Runes of Magic and heads of Runewaker Entertainement. Massively chats with Runewaker Massively sat down with John and Tony for a brief chat and summed up ...
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01.04.2009Today we are breaking with tradition! No new cute, cuddly or sweet invisible special edition "Kerensky"-pet is available in our Item Shop! However, we are offering instead a huge discount - to up to 50% - on Diamond-packages for all purchases in the Item Shop only today! That means that we not only offer the usual packages but offer a ...
