The PoxNora server will be restarted tomorrow morning, 02.14.13, at 3:00 a.m. PST to apply a hotfix. Downtime should be minimal. Players may notice the following changes:

Tinder Box

• + 5 nora

Nefari Caverunner

• Nora Cost from 72 to 74
• REMOVE Fire Bomb 3
• ADDED Tunnel: Trap

Sheoul Disciple

• Nora from 83 to 75
• Disciples Rapture ability adjusted: At the beginning of every 6 turns, this champion gains Manic and Intimidating for 1 turn. If a friendly Maxxarek is in play, this champion costs 10 less nora.

The Maljara Bundle is available this weekend only! Get three boxes (1 Maljaran Frontier, 1 Maljaran War, and 1 Heroes of Maljara) for the price of one! 

Click here to go to the Marketplace.

Please take a moment to vote for your favorite story submitted for the Plague of Ba'lah Story Contest!

Mark your calendars! In 2013, SOE Live will return to Las Vegas from August 1-4.

While we?ll still be among the glitter and glitz of Las Vegas, we are moving to a new venue! SOE Live will take place at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

Our favorite Dwarven Overlord, Linda ?Brasse? Carlson, has prepared a blog highlighting what she loves about SOE Live and what she?s looking forward to this year. You can read all about it here!

For more information and updates, check out www.soe.com/soelive and make sure you?re following @SonyOnline on Twitter. Registration for the event will be opening in Spring.

We can?t wait to see you in Vegas!

FREE Tournament

Join us for Free Tournaments every Sunday. The winner of each event will receive 4,000 gold and second place will receive 1,000.

Sundays, 2:00-3:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST, 9:00 p.m. GMT). Come prepared for Draft Tournaments utilizing a variety of packs!    

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The PoxNora server will be restarted on 02.01.13 at 3:00 a.m. PST for general maintenance. Downtime should be minimal. 

Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 7:00 AM Pacific* on January 29, 2013. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 1 hour. This will impact the following services:

• Login for all SOE games may be affected
• Players who are already logged in may be disconnected and unable to log back in
• Login for all SOE forums may be affected
• Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, may be unavailable
• Account management may be unavailable

We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

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Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 11:00 AM Pacific* on January 28, 2013. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 1 hour. This will impact the following services:

• Login for all SOE games may be affected, but players who are already logged in and remain logged in will not be affected
• Login for all SOE forums may be affected
• Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, may be unavailable
• Account management may be unavailable

We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

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The PoxNora server will be restarted at 10:30 a.m. PST today, 01.24.13. The restart will address an issue with single target spells. Downtime should be minimal.

Players may notice the following additional changes:

• Sheoul Disciple ? nora cost changed from 95 to 83
• Eye of Serkan ? nora cost changed from 90 to 80 
• Barbarian Commander ? no longer has that cool new ability that?s coming? sometime?

The following changes have been made live today:

• Unit conditions now correctly display the appropriate duration, visually. 
• Defiled works correctly now - preventing cleanse only, not dispel. 
• Dead Magic Zone created by Shadestrike now correctly only affects 3 spaces.

The PoxNora server will be taken offline tomorrow, 01.23.13, at 6:00 a.m. PST to launch Plague of Ba'lah Legends! The downtime is expected to last about five hours. Thank you for your patience.

FREE Tournament

Join us for a Free Tournament this Sunday. The winner of each event will receive 4,000 gold and second place will receive 1,000.

Sunday, 01/27/13 - 2:00-3:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST, 9:00 p.m. GMT)
This will be a draft tournament. Runes will be drafted from Grimlic's Descent, Heritage, and Heroes' Dawn.  

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Changes are live today, 01.17.13.

SCARLET WING (IF) ? NERF
Nora Cost from 67 to 70
REMOVED Shatter (UPGRADE)
REMOVED Burn 1 (UPGRADE)
ADDED Stat Bonus: DMG 2
ADDED Piercing Shot

CLOCKWORK SWARM (IF) ? BUFF
Nora cost from 88 to 85
REMOVED Stat Bonus: HP 1 (UPGRADE)
ADDED Complex Machine (UPGRADE)

SKYSHEAR PEGASUS (KF) ? NERF
Nora Cost from 80 to 78
REMOVED Nora Shield 1 from base
REMOVED Initiative 2 (UPGRADE)
ADDED Initiative 1 (UPGRADE)

FOREST DRAGON (KF) - BUFF
Nora Cost from 70 to 72
INCREASED Range: 1-2
REMOVED Attack: Phsycial
REMOVED Stat Bonus: Health 2 (UPGRADE)
REMOVED Stat bonus: HP 1 (UPGRADE)
REMOVED Stat Bonus: DEF (UPGRADE)
REMOVED Regen 1
ADDED Attack: Magical
ADDED Resistance: Magical (UPGRADE)
ADDED Resist Magical 2 (UPGRADE)
ADDED Revere: Thirion (UPGRADE)
ADDED Regen 2 (UPGRADE)
ADDED Hidden: Vegetation to base

FERREN HIDEOUT (ST) ? NERF
Nora Cost from 40 to 45

ICESNAP (ST) ? BUFF 
Nora Cost from 112 to 100 
Damage from 16 to 15 
REMOVED Stat Bonus: Damage from base 
REMOVED Stat Bonus: Defense (UPGRADE) 
REMOVED Arctic Camo (UPGRADE) 
ADDED Regen 3 to base 
ADDED Race: Elemental to base 
ADDED Grand Entrance (UPGRADE) 
ADDED Warding (UPGRADE) 
ADDED Regen 3 (UPGRADE)

BOGHOPPER HUNTSMAN (FS) ? NERF
Nora Cost from 73 to 78

FIRK SENSORATE (FS) - BUFF
Nora from 70 to 72
REMOVED Stat bonus: DEF 2 (UPGRADE)
REMOVED Stat bonus: DMG 3 (UPGRADE)
ADDED 3 DEF base
ADDED Bravery base
ADDED Vindictive (UPGRADE)
ADDED Tough 3 (UPGRADE)

MAGNETIZE (SL) ? NERF
Nora cost from 35 to 40
Cooldown to 8

ROLLING SHRIEKER (SL) ? BUFF
Nora Cost from 67 to 70
REMOVED Stat Bonus: DEF 1
REMOVED Stat Bonus: DMG 1
ADDED Horrific Howl
ADDED Trail: Sand

FLESHWEAVER WITCH (FW) ? NERF
REDUCED Death Charged 2 to Death Charged 1

MUTE STALKER (FW) ? BUFF
Nora Cost from 74  to 70
REMOVED Evasive 2 (BASE)
REMOVED Stat Bonus DMG 1 (UPGRADE)
REMOVED Stat Bonus: HP 2 (UPGRADE)
ADDED Ally: K?thir Forest
ADDED Race: ElfADDED Evasive 3 (BASE)
ADDED Preparation (UPGRADE)
ADDED Wizard Foe (UPGRADE)
ADDED Motivate (UPGRADE)

SLAG OVERMIND (SP) ? NERF
REMOVED Mindwipe Aura 2  (base)
ADDED Mindwipe Aura 1 (base)

RECKLESS SPELLHACK (SP) ? BUFF
Nora from 36 to 38
RNG from 1-1 to 2-4
REMOVED Attack: Physical
REMOVED Stat Bonus: HP 1
REMOVED Stat Bonus: DMG 1
ADDED Attack: Magical
ADDED Cackle
ADDED Magic Eater

ORB OF PROTECTION (UD) ? NERF
Nora cost from 30 to 35

GOBLIN ARSONIST (UD) ? BUFF
Cost from 58 to 60
REMOVED Fury (UPGRADE)
ADDED Goblin Thievery Base
ADDED Amp: Fire (UPGRADE)

FREE Tournament

Join us for a Free Tournament this Sunday. The winner of each event will receive 4,000 gold and second place will receive 1,000.

Sunday, 01/20/13 - 2:00-3:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST, 9:00 p.m. GMT)
This will be a draft tournament. Runes will be drafted from Broken Shard, Wild Alliance, and Draft Pack.   

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For a limited time, a New Year Deal is available in the Marketplace. The bundle contains 3 Aspects of Maljara packs and a gift of two exotics from the Heroes of Maljara expansion, and costs 1800 Station Cash. 

Click here to go to the Marketplace!

This is your last chance. Both the Christmas Bundle and the December Monthly Deal, featuring the below Christmas Skins, will be removed from the Marketplace on January 10th. Get them before they're gone!

Christmas Bundle

The bundle includes four Limited Edition heroes from PoxNora dressed in festive Christmas attire in-game. 

December Monthly Deal

If you only want one or a few of the Christmas Limited Edition heroes, you can also grab the December Monthly Deal, which randomly comes with one of the four. 

Some of these will be up now (5 PM Pacific on the 3rd), but the majority won't be up til 3 AM's restart

BUGS

Scramble - No longer incorrectly affects the unit with the ability

Elven Page - The ability Menalaus' Page now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Menalaus

Moga Lord's Guard - The ability Dirge's Guard now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Dirge

Attendant Squire - The ability Royal Blood now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Euan

Imp Familiar - The ability Familiar now functions properly with the Christmas skin for Grimlic

Dimension Shift - No longer incorrectly functions while under the effects of Wandering

Land Mine - Land Mines no longer damage units with Combat Awareness

Hive - No longer damages units with Combat Awareness

Scouring Jasper - No longer damages units with Combat Awareness

Hit and Run - No longer triggers incorrectly if the unit is Frightened and attacks the unit that Frightened it

Barbed Vine Leash - No longer incorrectly causes 5 Loss of Life multiple times on a unit using Charge or Crushing Charge

SP Faction Bonus - Now corrected to the listed values

DESIGN

Skybreak Dragon - DEF to 2 from 3, Distichous: ST/SL now gives Rank 1 Auras

Frostfall Icewisp - HP to 42 from 48, Nora to 55 from 53

The Caption Contest is over, and now it's up to you to vote for your favorite and determine the winner! Below are your options:

1. Vartop

2. KageReya 

3. Zeetoois

4. Modoch

5. tehnicianu