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==December 12, 2012==
Weekly Sale
Honor Syringes now on sale at the shop for one week only!
Greater Honor Syringe - 5 Suns, restores 25 Honor.
Honor Serum - 8 Suns, restores 30% of base Honor (base being your Honor without +Honor bonuses).


Features

Raid Rampage Week 2
This week only, the following raids will have their loot drops increased: Vorden, Blood Alley Gang, Kelovar Assassin, Scarlet Harlot, Caligula, Mermara and Justice.
Next week, a new set of raids will be affected by Raid Rampage for 1 week only.


New Alliance Boss 1: Rabid Reindeer
"Look, it's not our fault! We were trying to save the planet! Just because we have a few tens of thousands, it doesn't mean we can waste them... We wanted people to go natural. So we bred reindeer to pull our sleighs -- no need for nasty mechanized vehicles messing up the ground or sky. We even did some organic cross-breeding, to make their noses glow. Glowing noses are nature's headlights! But... Well, one went crazy and killed a bunch of people. We'd stop it, but we're ultra-conservationists. We even preserve the bacteria by not washing. Could you, you know, do something? Maybe take it to a nice farm where it can live out its days?" -- A distress broadcast from Planets First, an eco-activist group.
This is a small raid but with 50 slots.
There is no cooldown for this raid.
It's classified as alien beast and alliance.


New Alliance Boss 2: SANTA's Workshop
SANTA, aka Save Aliens by Nuking Their Asses, are up to their seasonal shenanigans once again. This time they're planning to carry out a series of devastating attacks on non-Christmas-celebrating species, until those aliens learn to appreciate the holiday spirit and uphold the yuletide. But one of SANTA's former members has blown the whistle and revealed the location of their secret workshop, paving the way for a tactical festive strike.
This is a medium raid with 50 slots.
There is no cooldown for this raid.
It's classified as mechanized and alliance.


New Alliance Armor: Winter Wolf Set
You can upgrade the Psi-Hound Armor set using the Winter Wolf components from the 2 new alliance raids.
The Grey and Blue Winter Wolf Statues are from the SANTA's Workshop alliance raid.
The Brown and Green Winter Wolf Statues are from the Rabid Reindeer alliance raid.
Purple and Orange are in both raids, with the latter being on NM difficulty only.


Alliance Raid Tool-Tips
You can now see the backstories of all alliance raids.
Hovering your cursor over each of the alliance bosses in the War Room will show a pop-up that tells you its story, as well as the maximum number of possible attackers who can join the battle.


Upgrades on Various X-mas Items
The items which uses Holostockings were upgraded (with the exception of BtR).
FROSTY
Ice Maiden
Space Sleigh
Snuuth Santa
Robot Elf
Christmas Present Dispenser
Candy Cane Swordstick
Candy Cane Zapper
Eggnog Plus System
Christmas Spirit Projector
Angry Snowman Helm
Happy Snowman Helm
Computer-Targeted Snowball
Angry Snowman Helm, Happy Snowman Helm and Computer-Targeted Snowball are revamps of really old items which are new to the Holostocking craftable list.
X-mas items which take 4 Holostockings or less have been upgraded to Limited Offer levels.
X-mas items which require 5 or more Holostockings have been upgraded to Expedition levels.
You can see the X-mas items on the lab page (including BtR), either under the New tab or under MISC -> Special.
You can acquire Holostockings in the Snowman's Bags at the shop.




Fixes and Changes
Players who've logged in from November 1st to before today's scheduled maintenance will receive an exclusive Dragon of Heaven sidekick.
Cynthia Nash now procs correctly versus small raids.
Cleared out the raid chat logs (messages and damage) in our database.


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