Development update

Greetings, players! The last few weeks we've worked on a number of smaller changes to increase the Quality of Life for your gameplay on Yggdrasil.

Stability:

- Every time we have a server crash or hiccup, we bring out our best diagnostics tools.
- We had three crashes on 2024-11-27 caused by events scheduled on dereferenced creatures (ICC gunship and Zel'frax).
- An I/O issue also led to a stuck MySQL thread on 2024-12-01.
- These issues have now been worked out.

Quality of Life Changes:

1. Auction House changes: Max auction duration has been extended from 48 hours to 7 days based on player input.
2. Website changes: We have made a PvE statistics page on the website (https://yggdrasilwow.com/pve_statistics). Kudos to Xeen for leading the LK kills scoreboard! It currently covers ICC. Drop us a suggestion if you want more raids/encounters covered!
3. Dalaran Enchanter changes: As we now have a permanent presence of players with enchanting on the server, the Dalaran Enchanter is no longer needed. Accordingly, he will be phased out during December. On 2024-12-15, we are increasing the price of the Dalaran Enchanter's services to 5 Vote Tokens per enchant. Come year end, he will retire and his services will no longer be available.
4. Crossfaction Shadows: Shadows now support crossfaction interaction.

More Updates!

This time around, we bring the following changes:

1. Shadows

Introducing Shadows, the perfect opportunity to extend your gameplay by allowing you to log in up to two of your alts as party bots while you control your favorite character! Quick summary:
- From level 15 and up, look for the Time-Lost Void in your bag to get started. Your Shadows are active for as long as they are in a party with you.
- Their main usecase and design is geared towards dungeons, but they can also partake in open-world gameplay and raiding.
- This functionality is based on the AzerothCore playerbots module with additional custom adjustments to align better with Blizzlike gameplay.
- While the Shadows can be managed effectively using simple chat-based messages, for those that prefer a graphical way to interact with them, consider looking into the Unbot addon.
- Shadows must be within 10 levels of you, applicable to enter the zone you're trying to bring them to, and above level 15.

2. Redesigned Respawn Times on Gatherable Objects

We've made significant changes to the respawn times of gatherable objects. Pool sizes have been increased between 20% to 40% based on extensive testing and player input for most zones. Additionally, average respawn times have been reduced by between 20% to 50% depending on the zone and gather pool. High respawn-time pool entries would shift low respawn-time entries up as they'd become averaged, which these changes accommodate for.

3. Login Screen News

Important updates, notifications and more will now be shared to all players through the character selection screen.

Remember, if you have any questions about our features, including these new ones, don't hesitate to ask your Twiggy.

Scheduled Maintenance

Tomorrow morning, Thursday 2024-11-14, the server and website will be inaccessible for 1 hour between 07:00-08:00 AM server time for implementation of updates.

Update Day!

Some of our recent work is finally ready for you! This time around, we bring the following changes:

1. Feathers of Azeroth revamped

Your Feathers of Azeroth are now able to wrap the wings of your current mounts with their feathers to let you use your normal flying mounts all over Azeroth! You can also select a standard mount that auto casts on using the Feathers. The mount applied is now persistent and will not reset its pitch on zone changes nor randomly fall off, as opposed to the flight form used previously.

2. Transmog Tokens are now Activity Tokens

By popular demand, Transmog Tokens have been repurposed to Activity Tokens. As you may already know, these can already be used at the Transmog Item vendor and for EoT at the Exchanger. Over time, you will be able to spend your Activity Tokens at various vendors at the mall.
Note: If you still see them named Transmog Tokens in-game, you may have to clear your cache. The name that you see will not affect whether you can use them or not.

3. RAF Changes

RAF duration has been extended to 60 days and more activities (such as entering combat and earning reputation and gold) now grant RAF progress for the referrals.

Remember if you have any questions about our features, including these new ones, don't hesitate to ask your Twiggy.

Development update

Greetings, everyone! We're still working hard to improve Yggdrasil's performance and experience. Here's an update on the recent developments:

Recent changes:

Some of the things we've worked on recently includes:

- Kaldorei Medallion: The Kaldorei Medallion now supports Mammoth travel forms! Stomp across Azeroth with ease.
- Transmog Token Exchange: Trade in your surplus Transmog Tokens for Emblems of Triumph. Exchange rate: 15 Tokens per Emblem.
- Refactored Frozen Halls/ICC cross faction script: Players will now always be able to interact. The faction bugs have been found and rectified.

What's next?

Our developmental focus is primarily aimed at:

- Community Forum: We've seen that a few have been interested in an arena to connected with other players, share spec guides, talent trees, theorycrafting, and discuss the latest news so we're working on integrating a forum with our website to ensure just that.
- Dungeon Bot Alts: Our approach to dungeon bots includes being able to hire your alts as bots that can help you in dungeons and raids.
- Feathers of Azeroth Optimization: We're refining the Feathers of Azeroth system to allow you to use your own mounts and to ensure optimal performance and a smoother gameplay experience.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Hallow's End is here!

The spookiest time of the year has started, and for this Hallow's End, we have a special spook waiting for you in Dalaran!
There's a new trick-or-treater in town.
Will he trick or treat you? Only time will tell!

P.s., even if he tricks you, you can still claim his treats.

Yggdrasil WoW Six Month Anniversary Celebration!

Congratulations to Vaeloryn and Sarekki for posting in the Discord anniversary scrapbook. You deserve the spotlight for celebrating this special moment with us and will be awarded with a VIP week's worth of Community Tokens each for your contribution! Thank you for being active in Yggdrasil community. Our staff will reach out to you to ensure you get your Tokens awarded to an account of your choice.

If you didn't receive your six month anniversary gift in the initial batch of rewards, you will have received it now. Thank you all for your continued dedication to Yggdrasil.

Remember that you can always earn additional rewards through referring your friends and for posting Community content on your social media and content sharing platform.