The TenTonHammer giveaway only needed an email address (I tested it before it was posted!), but they did run out of keys quite quickly. I hope you'll be able to make the next open beta session. =)

Look out! Not willing to let Srams, Enutrofs, Cras, and Xelors hog the spotlight, the Eniripsas, Iops, and Sacriers of 2.0 are exploding onto the stage!

These three classes are having their debut for your entertainment on the English devblog today. Don't make them wait for an audience! Click here!

How did you all feel about the open beta test? The developers really want to know how everyone liked it (or disliked it)!

Various modifications were added to the login server in order to:

• Reduce the wait for identification
• Optimize the overall performance of the server during peak loads.

We are continuously watching and improving this sensitive link to the game to allow all possible speed when connecting.

Tutorial:

• The way targeting arrows/highlights work has been improved, they disappear correctly when you disconnect or change character.
• The button to join the Incarnam tutorial now disappears after the character reaches level 15.
• The button to join the Incarnam tutorial is available for players who chose contextual help after creating a character.

Characters:

• All characters now have an individual static pose specific to their class. These static poses are currently being integrated. The following classes have static poses now: Ecaflip, Eniripsa, Iop, Cra and Sadida, Feca, Osamodas, Enutrof and Sram.
• Characters on mounts can now switch to creature mode when the number of characters present on the same map is too large.
• The colouring of the female Iop’s left hand now works correctly.

Mounts:

• The overall appearance of Dragoturkeys has been reviewed in order to improve the dynamics and clarity of this mount. All animations have been reviewed.
• Dragoturkeys are still being revised, and many bugs are likely to occur after these changes (including the attack animations, emotes, movement etc.) so there is no need to report these kind of bugs to us for this update.
• Chameleon Dragoturkeys will no longer take the player’s skin colour by default. The Dragoturkeys three colours are defined by the last three colours that the player chose in the character creation interface, these colours usually match the colours of the characters clothes.

Monsters:

• Dragoturkey: The overall appearance of Dragoturkeys has been reviewed in order to improve their dynamics and clarity. All animations have been reviewed.
• Dragoturkeys are still being revised, and many bugs are likely to occur after these changes (including the attack animations, emotes, movement etc.) so there is no need to report these kind of bugs to us for this update.
• Dreggons: the following Dreggons that looked like a Crackrock have been corrected: Dreggon Warrior, Terrakubiack the Warrior, Ignilicrobur the Warrior, Aeroktor the Warrior, Dregguantico the Trainer.
• The attack animation of Immature Dreggons and Awaken Dragoss has been replaced. The attack animation of Golden, Sapphire, Black and White Dreggons has been corrected.
• Firefoux: all offset animations have been refocused. Monsters impacted: Firefoux, Firefoux Ghost, Leopardo, Mega Leopardo, Yokai Firefoux, and Yokai Firefoux Ghost.
• The change in size that was too extreme during the transformation into Yokai and Mega Leopardo has been fixed.
• Spell animations for the following monsters have been corrected: Dark Miner, Dark Baker, Ronan the Barbarian, Neye, Eratz the Protester.
• Drunk Pandalette: this monster is shown correctly in the timeline and in the illustration at the start of its turn.
• Chafers no longer lose their heads in the three-quarter rear view.
• Elemental Bworks attacks have been corrected.
• Swimp the Simple and Nomarow Transplent’s attacks have been integrated.

Animations:

• Emotes have been reviewed and corrected: weapons are now visible in characters’ hands when using the emote ‘show weapon’, and the emote ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ no longer shows the stone at the end of each animation.
• Emotes on Dragoturkeys have been integrated. Spell animations and close combat attacks with a weapon equipped are in the process of being integrated.
• The following spells’ animations have been amended: Wrath of Iop, Sword of Iop, Destructive Sword, Pressure, Blow, and Intimidation.
• The Iop spell Blow now applies correctly to the target.
• The Osamodas spell Whip is now properly oriented toward the target.
• The animation of the Sram spell Lethal Attack has been changed.
• Spells that use projectiles (Cra arrow spells, for example) take into account the position of the spell caster if they are being carried by a Pandawa. These spells are no longer displayed as being cast by the Pandawa.

Equipment:

• 15 hats that weren’t correctly displayed in-game have been corrected: Pointed Hat, Komintot Headband, Farter, Small Vitality Headband, Vitality Headband, Great Vitality Headband, Smoother, Pumpkwin, Improved Helmet, Astrowig, White Dreggheadgear, Bunny Ears, Chafer Helmet, Champo, Daudgee, Improved Wooden Wings, Cap Ricott, Cap Rayer.
• The Minotot Cape and Headgear have been reworked.
• All Livitinem capes and hats have been integrated.
• 19 capes that weren’t correctly displayed in-game have been corrected: Beezing Cape, The Godfather's Cape, Black Wab Cape, Astrub Mercenary Cloak, Indifferent Coney Cape, Beanie Cape, Cork Cloak, Cristalline Cape, Brakmarian Cape, Slait Cape, Eastern Wood Cape, Cicapeda, Siks Wonn Ein Cape, Noke’s Cloak, K Cape, Bobblecape, Caposh, Alowa Cape.

Interfaces:

• The character selection screen works correctly when the player has no character on the selected server.
• On the ‘end of fight’ screen, the duration of the fight is displayed correctly, whatever the time zone of the player's machine.
• It is possible to change the display mode for HP again (display current HP, current HP and total HP, or percentage HP remaining).
• It is no longer possible to throw an object on the ground during a fight.
• Chat interface history works correctly.
• Loading the list of characters works correctly for Heroic servers.
• In combat, the maximum HP decreases correctly with each loss of HP.
• The button for transferring all objects between two inventories works correctly.
• Previews of the area of effect of certain spells in the spellbook have been corrected.
• The tooltips displayed on a mouseover of the swords shown at the start of a fight are properly updated when a new character joins the fight.
• The XP gauge in the profession interface is displayed correctly even when level 100 is reached.
• Hyperlinks are now saved in chat history.
• Hyperlinks are now displayed correctly in speech bubbles.
• Livitinems’ icons are updated correctly.

Shortcuts:

• Shortcuts have been updated: the text has been corrected, missing shortcuts and missing default keystrokes have been added.
• New keyboard shortcuts have been added to display or hide separate chat channels in the chat interface.
• A new keyboard shortcut has been added to mask characters and monsters during fights.

Buying and selling from NPC:

• Illustrations of the merchant and the buyer are now displayed during a purchase or sale.
• It is no longer possible to change the sale value of an NPC’s items.
• Only numbers are allowed in the price and quantity fields.
• The merchant tabs now have tooltips.
• The appearance of the merchant search area has been corrected.
• The merchant search area now has a tooltip.
• When purchasing an item, the inventory tab of the item’s destination is automatically opened.

Maps and areas:

Corrections:

• Amakna Tavern: missing interactions have been added.
• Tower of Bonta, Tower of Brakmar: the statues have now been adapted to the alignment orders.
• Bonta Militia: the boxing ring has been reworked.

Additions and improvements:

• The route to get the Fear emote has been added in Sufokia.
• Crackler Low Mountain: the area has been reworked.
• Sufokia: missing interiors have been added.
• Crackler Mountain: the area has been reworked. Adjacent mines and interior maps have also been reworked.
• Temple of Enutrof and Temple of Ecaflip: the temples’ exterior maps have been reworked.
• The Temple of Guilds: these maps have been reworked.
• Astrub Mines: the area has been reworked.
• Trool Fair: the area has been reworked.
• Brakmar Passage: the area has been reworked.
• Astrub City: the handymen’s market has been added.
• Otomai Beach: the entrance to access the cemetery map has been added.

Improvements under way:

• Blacksmith Dungeon
• Crackler Dungeon (we advise players not to visit this region as it’s not working properly).
• All in-game mines.
• The Astrub Tunnels.

Combats:

• In combat, the duration of effects is correctly updated in the spell effect interface.
• Effects are properly grouped by spell (even after a reconnection in combat) and are sorted by duration in the spell effect interface in combat.
• Hammers and staves’ areas of effect are properly displayed.
• Spells’ range and area of effect can now be viewed when it is not your turn. Selecting a spell when it is not your turn does not cause it to become unselected when it is your turn. This change accelerates the progress of battles by allowing players to anticipate the actions they will perform when their turn starts.
• Carried characters are no longer blocked when they move.
• The initiative formula has been corrected.
• HP theft is no longer active when the target and the attacker are the same character.
• Activating/deactivating PvP mode in a fight no longer causes a disconnection.

Challenges:

• The challenge Low levels first! has been corrected.
• The sentence showing that a challenge has been failed has changed.
• Challenges are only available if the group’s minimum level is greater than 5.

Misc:

• Various corrections have been made to the colouring of Black Knights.
• The size of the bag at the foot of characters in merchant mode has been increased.
• The inventory icons of the Kaliptus Dofus, Archmonster Soul Stones and Dungeon boss Spiritual Gems, which showed a red cross, have been corrected.
• Many of the inventory icons have been rebuilt to correct some missing icons.
• Prisms no longer change size during animations.
• New error messages have been added to the chat interface for the guild creation phase so the player is better informed if they make a mistake during this phase.
• Forgetting a trade when the character knows several trades no longer crashes the profession interface.
• When multiple identical objects are moved between two inventories (from the inventory to the item quick selection bar, for example), the amount selection interface for correctly handles the quantity zero.
• Emptying the cache no longer deletes chat history or saved login information.
• The description of certain types of effects present on items has been improved.
• Disconnection due to inactivity is active again.
• Emotes are now properly transferred during a migration from a 1.x character to a 2.0 character.
• Conquest Prisms no longer placed on the edges of maps by default.
• Tracking Scrolls function properly.
• The wheels of mine waggons do not turn continuously any more.

You can find them on the 2.0 Beta Forum. =)

This Wednesday November 4th, starting at 14:30 DUT, it will not be necessary to have an account that has been authorized with a beta key to connect to the DOFUS 2.0 test server: all currently subscribed players can use it!

The server will remain opened for exactly five hours, and when that time is up, the server will once again be locked to those without 2.0 Beta Keys.

You can download the DOFUS 2.0 beta client ahead of time at following address: download.dofus.com/dofus2/win/
Download client for Mac: http://download.dofus.com/dofus2/mac/
Download client for Linux: http://download.dofus.com/dofus2/linux/

Absolutely do not miss this chance, they need your presence!

This operation will allow us to test the resillance of the servers against heavy traffic to optimize its performace! We may run this test several times if neccessary.

The class sets are going to undergo a resynchronization soon. Some of these items don't minic proper colors, and others aren't taking any colors.

We will make sure that the colors of the class sets remain as close as possible to what is available in version 1.29. Unfortunately, some will not be able to be improved across the board. For example, the Hat Ariutokinabot (Iop class set hat) will minic the color of the cross on the Iop's tunic just as it did in in 1.29, but it will not take the color of an Osamodas's tunic.

Priority will be given to the class that the set is intended for.

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Armoured Dragoturkeys have lost their armour. Don't worry, though - their capacities stay the same, their armour will be visible again after the maintenance on 10/11/09

Posted by BillFR:

You've wondered about it, you've asked about it, but now, it's finally fixed!

Every poster should now have their own row of glossy little DOFUS egg icons to show their rank and dedication to the forums! The more you participate and discuss, the more icons you'll collect. Don't be afraid to ask questions or give good advice to others, but please don't spam!

While we're discussing the forums, what else would you like to see when you visit? I'd love to hear your opinions!

The color problems with Chameleon Dragoturkeys was recent corrected.

Now, instead of taking the colors of hair and skin, these Dragoturkeys will now only take the colors of clothing.



The bug that caused these Dragoturkeys to display grey when a player had not chosen a color for a particular part of their character was also corrected. Chameleon Dragoturkeys will now correctly take on the default color of a character (for example, if you decide not to change the red cross on an Iop's tunic, your Dragoturkey will correctly display red streaks instead of grey streaks).

The colors which appear on your Chameleon Dragoturkey are the last three in the character creation interface.

These modifications will become active on the game after the next patch.

I don't drink coffee.

To address some of the other concerns posted on this thread - I'm not a temp. I was hired to be the English CCM for the International and UK communities. I came here all the way from North America to have a long-term career, not for a few months work!

When Kaoly returns, Ankama will decide how to split our duties. There is more than enough work for two people in the English community, so have no fear that we'll run out of things to do. =)

I'd love to hear more about what the players would like to focus on. There's already several projects that I have in my sights (Mentors, the forums, Mods, the possibility of our own Zone 48, and so on) that are long-term jobs, and I've had lots of discussions with the mods about other hot spots that need immediate attention.

There's some things that Ankama wants me to do as well - make sure that the website news is up to date, posting English articles to the devblogs, keeping the International community current on what's going on in game development, reporting on what the International community wants, creating new events for you, and so on.

All that to say... if you can think of something that our community needs, let me know!

Al Howlin’s blight has released its grip on the land. The remaining few infected creatures are fading away like smoke and the healthy Gobballs and Tofus are returning. One can always hear the echoes of Al Howlin’s laughter, but it seems to be more distant, drifting towards some unknown destination.

Weary adventurers can return their Pumpkwins to their closets. The land is safe. For now…

Mini Wakfu:

• Krtek’s mine is now under the supervision of Dark Miners. The monsters in the first room can’t be tackled as a group. No ally can join the fight.

Pets:

• The Enhancement Potion: Piwin now works correctly on Pink Piwins and Purple Piwins. Pink Piwins and Purple Piwins that gained extra bonuses before this correction will no longer be able to benefit from their new bonus. We’re working on fixing this problem.

Challenges:

• The challenge “Low levels first!” is available again.

Combat:

• Critical states that affect some spells being cast are now correctly taken into account (for example, it’s no longer possible to dodge certain states if you’re being carried by a Pandawa).

The Enhancement Potion:

• Piwin now works correctly on Pink Piwins and Purple Piwins. Pink Piwins and Purple Piwins that have gained bonuses before this correction will no longer be able to benefit from their new bonus, so they must be given another Enhancement Potion: Piwin for their bonuses to be updated.

Don't forget to follow DOFUS_EN on twitter. Otherwise, you won't get your key message. (And that would be sad)

I don't see you on the followers list for the twitter feed. Make sure that you're following http://twitter.com/DOFUS_EN and when you're sounding off on these roll calls, be sure to put @DOFUS_EN in your tweet or I won't be able to see it. =)

Are you Aqeeloo? If so, make sure to check your direct messages, your key is waiting for you! =)

Sorry for being late on the last contest start time, we had a bit of tech trouble. There's slightly different rules for this one, make sure to read the latest tweet!

Sorry for the confusion about the direct tweets, it's a good thing we've got such clever players. =)

Congratulations to the winners so far, have fun on the beta!

It’s starting! The first Gobballs have already transformed! The invasion can’t be stopped now. The most attentive adventurers may have already heard the demonic laughter of Al Howlin resonating through the fields, although he remains unseen.

Get on your Pumpkwins! Slay these monstrous creatures!

We won't be giving out all 200 keys in the first moment, the contests and give-aways will be going on all day. There's also going to be a give-away on the French Twitter feed. As of this morning, there's only 110 followers for the EN Twitter feed, so I think you're all going to be ok. =)

The first contest should be starting in about an hour!

You've seen the slinky, stealthy Srams of DOFUS 2.0, now meet the fleet, far-sighted Cras, wiry, wrinkled Enutrofs, and eclectic, enigmatic Xelors!

All of these classes are hot on the trail of all the secrets of 2.0 like good adventurers should be. There's more 2.0 images for you to discover on the Devblog. Don't wait, just click it!

Want to get the latest DOFUS news on the go or talk with other DOFUS fans? Maybe catch an exclusive information leak or two? Join our English DOFUS Twitter feed or become a fan of our English Facebook page! It's all new and specially for you!

In celebration of this new tool, we're having a huge DOFUS 2.0 Beta Key Giveaway on Twitter. Tomorrow, Friday the 30th of October, we'll be holding contests and give-aways for 200 DOFUS 2.0 Beta Keys! Subscribe to: http://twitter.com/DOFUS_EN for more details!