In my last patch notes I spoke about our desire to get a few more GM's onto the team. Here is what we hope these issues may address:

- Better communication with players
- Faster support response
- More ingame events
- More integration between players (GM's) and devs (Bjorn / Four)

Most of these are to support me within my role as I am not as active as I used to be. Those on discord will have noticed we have already appointed 2 new GM's:

- Raphy
- Yamiyo
- AntiMonitor

Over the next few days we hope to get a couple more. We'll be sorted some GM accounts for them over the next few days. Then we'll start off with some simple events so you'll start seeing them ingame.

I think its important to note a few points here:

- GM's will not log into your account, so therefore do not require your password or pin.
- GM's have a right to ignore you if you pm their personal account.
- All support requests should come through discord by messaging Fireheart, or the support section of the forums...

Hey guys,

So there are quite a few bugs as you'll have noticed some of which you can handle and some of which are a pain. However the drops and mob strength was designed with the fact you can get ganked any minute in mind. We don't want people to be able to progress all the way through the contested land content overnight and then never use it again. Why? Because that isn't good for the game or for you guys.

We've taken the decision to temporarily switch it off, which means you will get kicked from the channel if you enter it. This is an annoying decision for us and for you guys I'm sure so sorry - hopefully we'll be up again as soon as we can get the part of it fixed (hopefully within 24hours). Unfortunately these things happen and with being a small team these things happen.

[Contested lands]
-The long awaited release of Contested Lands
- You can find more details on this here including our thoughts on why we are implementing this: https://aikareborn.com/threads/state-of-the-game-–-april.3331/
- Elites in Amarkand drop rank A ore, for now powders DO NOT drop. This is because we want to see how many are being killed so we can appropriately balance drops
- Please note for Elites it is not recommended to farm them solo. You'll use alot of potions. Being in a group will also save you / or at least assist you with the ganks. So take your lovely clerics with you <3
- As we use the same server as Traband then the buffs / debuffs for winning tower wars look like they are still active - we've changed the effects. These are 3 random buffs or debuffs. These will rotate at each maintenance to try and give a different feel to fighting in Contested Lands. We'll...

Servers will go down at 12.55 AM EST
Estimated downtime is 6 hours

Planned changes will be the contested lands patch.

We will also be upgrading the game servers from 8c/16t to 32c/64t CPUs
And the DB server from 64 to 192 gigs of RAM along with switching from hard drives to SSDs.

Normal weekly maintenance this week.
Servers will go down around 1AM EST on Thursday.
Estimated downtime is 2-3 hours - (not contested lands but alot of back end work for it) keep an eye on discord for any changes to this as we are more likely to update there.

Normal weekly maintenance this week.
Servers will go down around 1AM EST on Thursday.
Estimated downtime is 1-2 hours (should only be short) - keep an eye on discord for any changes to this as we are more likely to update there.

Normal weekly maintenance this week.
Servers will go down around 1AM EST on Thursday.
Estimated downtime is 1-2 hours (should only be short) - keep an eye on discord for any changes to this as we are more likely to update there.

We’ve not done a state of the game address for a while so we wanted to give our thoughts on some of our upcoming updates as well as what we plan to do to address some of the concerns raised by the council and players (Portuguese translation if you scroll down).

[Concerns Raised]

Recently we’ve had a few concerns raised with us so I thought I’d start with them:

• Powders – drop rate and accessibility
• Rubicine and Pellurite A
• Customisation of appearance
• PvP being stagnant between raiding times
• PvE channel
• PvE content

In the next few sections I’ll talk about some ideas/upcoming content that will hopefully begin to address these issues.

[Powders, Rubicine and Pellurite A as well as PvP]

I’ve grouped these together for a reason, bare with.

We’ve heard voices from all over (council, different regions, cash shoppers, non-cash shoppers) complaining about powders. Particularly in the latest cap but this started brewing since 60 cap as well...

Hello,

Patch notes for today are rather minimal - we pushed back T3 accessories as there were a few things we weren't happy with. You'll see these in a future patch when we're happy with how that will work.

[Notes]
Easter event removed - rewards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd will be sent once verified.
Removed craft hammers dropping from queen in prison - let us know if anymore of these drop!
The mount change ticket now fits all existing mounts.
New NPC added with T3 material - how to get will follow in a future maintenance.

Thanks!

Normal weekly maintenance this week.
Servers will go down around 1AM EST on Thursday.
Estimated downtime is 3-4 hours - keep an eye on discord for any changes to this as we are more likely to update there.

Released the skins that were mentioned in prior patchnotes.
Corrected pricing on lilola buffs.
Removed big bunny spawns from PvE.
Fixed stats on santa hats.
Big bunnies should now be harder to solo.
Increased dropchance of eggs from small bunnies.

Hello guys!

Patch notes below:

[Easter Event]
Details below

[Tweaks]
Dildo drops have been updated
Pioneering can now be skinned, if you wanted that purpley goodness
Level up boxes edited slightly
- Level 1 box now contains new player gear, this scales up to 50 when they get access to pioneering
- Level 1 box also contains an 30 day exp scroll for 1-50
Arena flags have been updated - base flag now gives 5 points, others 1 (aka ... stop fighting flags instead of each other)

[Skins] - PLEASE NOTE THESE WILL BE RELEASED TOMORROW / LATER TODAYWITH A LIVE PATCH AFTER LAST BIT OF TESTING.
For awhile we've been asked for new skins and we've resisted. Why?
Well we wanted to unique skins with new models. However we had other priorities and if anyone has seen my art skills they'll recognize that we'd rather take our time and do this right.

We've added a few basic skins to the cash shop to go along with what we already had:

Blue Back to School
Vermerio
Swimsuits

These are...

Normal weekly maintenance this week.
Servers will go down around 1AM EST on Thursday. Please note this is a slight change to the old maintenance time from a few weeks ago.
Estimated downtime is 3-4 hours - keep an eye on discord for any changes to this as we are more likely to update there.

Patch notes

The PDN Diy for DA resist should now display its name correctly
Further balancing done to temples
Ended covid 19 event
Fixed box names for 55 and 65 paladin achievement set.

Normal weekly maintenance this week.
Servers will go down around 1AM EST on Thursday. Please note this is a slight change to the usual maintenance time.
Estimated downtime is 3-4 hours - keep an eye on discord for any changes to this as we are more likely to update there.

Morning guys,

Patch notes for today:

[COVID-19 Event]- details below.
All players active before maintenance should have recieved their COVID support box.

[Updates]
Rave gust proc (5/5 effect) has been edited
- Buff gives 350 patk/matk uncored and 500 cored.
- This stacks with bless, but not with pran buffs.
- It gives 60 critical rate instead of 50
- The move speed buff has been changed to 30% slow resist (40% when cored).
- For clerics the heal rate will be 800 and 1100 when cored up from 500/800.
Lilola buffs from the NPC have been updated to suit cap
Added new tier of crystals to the Honor shop
Temples have been buffed to adjust to higher damage outputs
Arena rewards are improved - title progress can now be gained!

[Quality of Life Changes]
Skype outside prison despero now has a repair option
Arena now only allows players above 40 - feels bad having a level 1 on your team
Pioneer gear now has a specific glow so you can tell if you...

Normal weekly maintenance this week.
Servers will go down 11.55 PM EST.
Estimated downtime is 3-4 hours - keep an eye on discord for any changes to this as we are more likely to update there.

[70 Cap Patch Notes]

Level cap has been increased to 70 - including adding appropriate mobs and NPC's to Termiz
Mutants have been added through Darkrane, Ashwood and Termiz.
Termiz fishery can now be used to fish for soups
65 honor has been added back to the NPC
Hell Excavator should now be spawning
1k potions have been added to Helen to buy for gold
If you do all dailies you will get x2 the amount of pieces of elixir gold coins as previous servers

Rave Gust edits to follow next patch - more details will be posted then.

[Drop Changes]
G3 Powders have been added to PDE (bosses and mini bosses but at a lower rate)
G2 Powders have been added to PDH
Mutants do not drop accessories - Tier 3 progression will be added in around a month.

[Cash Shop Changes]
3k potions have been added to the cash shop
Rank A Ammo has been added to the cash shop
Rank A Extract boxes have been added to the cash shop
Money Bomb has been added to cash shop - PLEASE NOTE: This item gives everyone on the...

Dear all,

The wait is over! Maintenance for 70 cap will be on the 18th March at the usual time of 11.55 PM EST.
Estimated downtime is 3-6 hours (being generous just incase!)

We hope everyone is as excited as we are for the next step. We'll be running a Facebook event to celebrate this announcement, head over to our page to join in. https://www.facebook.com/AikaHelNetworks/

If you have any questions, suggestions or just want a chat feel free to make a thread on the forums or join the Helnet discord ( https://discord.gg/m2J3nN8 ).

Thanks,

Eriam and the rest of the Helnet Team

Patch Notes for today

Changed the item and buff icon for the MoH from premium vendor.
Added the EventServer for the PvE event.

Valentine's Week PvP Event

Bosses will spawn at a random nation near rift every 7 hours.
Final boss will drop a relic which you can cap in your nation for 5 hours before it resets.
The relic will give the nation that caps it some really powerful stats.

Valentine's Week PvE Event (EventServer)

Aika's first paladin ever has betrayed her and has stolen magical elixirs from the holy shrine.
She has taken up refuge in a dungeon along with her treacherous cohorts and the monsters they have recruited.
Defeat monsters and the treacherous aitans to receive the stolen elixirs.
Defeating the first paladin herself will net you and your companions L O V E tokens which can be exchanged into special costumes with a quest from Lilly in regenshein.

P.S
Aitans from all nations will be able to party up on the event...