After much fighting and struggling, 1.8 is now live on the server. The changes are outlined below:

• Regions:
  • Western Styrith Woods
  • Southern Styrith Woods
  • Old Forest Road
  • Western Plain of Tears
• Abilities:
  • Restorative Magic Tree Implemented
  • Dynamically created tooltips should now appear for Abilities in the Ability Bar
  • Corrected the description for Infused Blast
• Skills:
  • Offense skill up is now correctely calculated for spells.
• Creatures:
  • Archers spawn with specific ranged loot.
  • Animals now hit harder, you are warned.
  • Corrected an issue that caused all MOBs to con as an even fight.
  • Corrected an issue that caused creatures to jump back to their spawn point and heal, even when in combat.
• UI:
  • Added a backgroun image to the Ability and Elemental Bars
• Items:
  • Corrected the name of Leather Boots
  • Correct icon has been added for Attacker's Blade of Agility
  • Coranith Root is not found in Day Bloom and Tree Creeper as it was intended.
  • Misc:
    • Home Spawn Point is now located in an Inn within your home region
    • Corrected an error that caused a description of "****" show up for some items.
    • Aldendale now has the correct conversation.
    • Corrected several map pins in the Styrith Glade.
    • Death Penalty is now tracked.

  Have fun and see you in the game!

Patching 1.7 is now live and running on the server. Changes are outlined below:

Patch 1.7 Notes:

• The damage caused by Infused Blast and Infused Bolt is no longer based on your level.
• Barrier, Infused Blast, and Infused Bolt have ranks that can be upgraded through scrolls available from Phale in the Styrith Glade.
• The Focused Blast and Focused Bolt abilities now increase your chance to hit with the respective spells and no longer increase casting cost.
• The Empowered Blast and Empowered Bolt abilites increase your chance to critical with the respective spells and no longer increase casting cost.
• Western Styrith Woods has been updated.
• Eastern Styrith Woods has been updated.
• Styrith Boars are now level 2.
• Melee damage from Styrith and Giant Animals has been increased along with the damage from the Styrith Spiders.
• You should no longer loose 2 Small Bags of Gold when you use one from a stack.
• The bonus from spell skill has been adjusted.

Have fun and see you in the game!

Just a small change to announce folks.

The address you use to connect to the server has been changed to the following:

veiledinmists.dyndns.org:5121

In addition the TLK for the server can be downloaded at the following URL:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1201490/vim_tfv.tlk

Sorry for the change up folks and let me know if you have any trouble connecting.

Hey folks,

Been a bit of a break, but development has continued and patch 1.6 is now online and live. Feel free to hop onto the server and give the new content a test. Complete list of updates in this patch are blow:

Patch 1.6 Notes:

• All abilities subjet to global cooldown.
• Elemental and Mode bar now has a specific cooldown interval.
• Improved random item generator.
• Charisma is now Luck and improves the chances of some drops and gold obtained from creatures.
• Intelligence now affects spell penetration, spell hit chance, spell critical chance, spell bonus, and physical critical chance.
• Wisdom now determines your maximum mana pool, how quickly you regenerate mana while resting, and (at very high values) a chance at spell mana cost reduction.
• Level 3 items have been introduced.
• Ranged mobs spawn with range and melee weapons.
• Weapon speed introduced.
• Channeling skill can be increased when casting and resting.
• There is a small chance of having your spell's mana cost reduced at high levels of Wisdom and Channeling.
• Item costs at vendors has been modified.
• Increased the chance of creatures dropping bags of gold.
• Added an updated version of the Styrith Glade.
• Corrected an issue that prevented new characters from being created.

As always the patch can be discussed in the forums located here:
http://veiled-in-mists.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20&p=46#p46