Heroes of Maestia,
Wer are proud to announce that we start with the release of Maestia. With this update we leave the Open Beta phase. Of course we are aware that there a still issues and problems that need to be solved, but we can reassure that the developers are working on bugfixes, features and many enhancements for the game. Stay tuned!
We shutdown the servers for extended maintenance between 6:00am and 12:00pm GMT+1.
During this time we install the content update and also end our Halloween event! Lucy moves onward with her camp and may return next year. If you still want one of those cool costumes or mounts, you should puchase it now! Last chance!
The following new content will be introduced:
* The level cap will be raised to 80 and you will find a complete new region for level 70+ players with new monsters and quests in the game.
* Tenebra, "Land of Darkness", is a complete new level zone for characters starting at level 67. Tenebra is a day and night zone like Lipido and Palus and also features a unique dungeon, the "Fortress of Arrogance".
* In the new region you will find many new unqiue missions and many repeatable missions that will help you to quickly level up.
* Dungeon monsters will now drop new lvl 70 to 80 maestones.
Balancing and RvR:
* Once again we want to thank you for your feedback and your ideas on classes and skills. The threads are still open on the forums, we are still listing to your feedback and ideas. Soon we will balance out classes, maestones and skills. Your feedback is very important!
* The same happens with RvR, We received a lot of feedback and ideas to improve RvR. We once again want to thank you for your ideas. We are still in the process to release the new RvR map. Please keep in mind that we want to wait until the map is finished and balanced and all issues are solved. Releasing a half finished map will not help at all. Thank you for your understanding.
Important, please read! - More account security for EVERYONE:
* Maestia now features an optional protection system for your characters. This protection is still active if you gave away your password to someone.
* However there are a few thing you should keep in mind before you use the new system. The best protection will fail if all the backdoors are open.
* Hint No 1: Validate your e-mail address on the homepage, login and click change data and confirm your email address.
* Hint No 2: Use a secure password. Secure means that it does not contain personal data like names, nicknames and birthdays.
* Hint No 3: Never use the same password twice, especially not for your email accounts. So please make sure that mail and game access use two different passwords!
* Only if you follow those basic basic rules, you can protect your account and characters from theft and 3rd party access!
How does the protection work?
You can protect any of your characters on the character selection screen with a 6-8 digit PIN number.
You have to use the mouse to enter the PIN. The keyboard does not work to avoid keyloggers. The buttons also change each time so mouse tracking also wont work.
See picture above: Red = delete last number, Green = shuffle buttons, Blue = change the current PIN for the selected character.
PIN numbers only work if you keep personal data away: like phone numbers, birthdays and similar.
I lost my PIN, what now?
Feel free to contact support on the homepage if you lost your PIN, keep the 3 hints in mind that got mentioned earlier! Your PIN wont help if 3rd party users have access to your mails.
If you see a lock on your character and you did not set any PIN number prior, then please use "0123456789" to unlock your character!
Game improvements:
* Regular chat messages (Enter key) now have a range of 45 meters and are limited to the current channel. If you want to chat with the whole zone, because you are looking for help or a dungeon party, you should use /z instead for the zone chat.
* Healing now generates less hate then prior and will now slower fill up your enlightment gauge
* Water and sky textures got changed in Palus and Lipido
* Guilds cannot be created anymore with the same name and the chat filter is now applied correctly
Bugfixes
* Some gfx card did not show Anisotropic Filtering and Antialiasing on the options - fixed
* Errors with guild join and quit has been fixed
* Message errors for guild joins have been fixed
* Errors in connection with quick slots have been fixed
* Sounds now correctly play when changing zones multiple times
* Pinboard showed only 4 entries - fixed
* some corpses in dungeons disapear when re-entering a dungeon - fixed
* RvR window did not show correctly when multiple RvR run at the same time
* RvR should now correctly hide if the RvR is over
* the scrollbar in the chat now scrolls properly to the bottom on resize
* the +1 to all skill bonus from items +10 or higher no longer affect the resource collection skills
* some elements of the UI can be moved with pressed right mouse button: first changes have been applied (Note: this was the first step, there are still many elements that need fixing, so this is work in progress)
* some textures in dungeons got changed
* some problems in item shop and shop descriptions have been fixed
* camera problems on quests have been fixed (camera was stuck in 1st person view)
* many text mistakes have been corrected
Your Maestia Team