Quick tip - the Sanctuary shells are just as important as the Peninsula shells. Good luck! =)

There are some spawns in the F2P area as well. =)

Hello!

To liven up the beta a bit (yes the duty free area and its potions miss you too!) I am going to try to put down some interesting groups of monsters all over the World of Twelve. At the moment, you can have an appointment with the Dragon Pig, Lord Crow, Peki Peki and others in the 2 arenas and near the Amakna Kano. But be careful!! They're very eager to meet you...

The reason for this levity is clear: to entertain you AND to make sure the AI is up to the challenge!

Have fun and good testing!

Introduction

With less than two weeks left before the release of DOFUS 2.0, we’re taking a little time to explain to you how we plan to change the DOFUS 2.0 client, not only until December 2nd, but also afterwards. There’s not enough time left before the launch to make major changes, but we are completely devoted to continuing the development and improvement of the DOFUS 2.0 client to satisfy the needs of the community after its release. DOFUS has made great strides since its first release over five years ago and we don’t look at the release date of December 2nd as the last improvement or adaptation of the game. DOFUS is going to continue growing and improving thanks to updates and expansions which we intend to keep releasing. For this article, we want to address the most interesting or worrying issues under discussion by the community on the forums and in game.


Read more on the devblog...

There's no plans to increase the Free-To-Play area at this time.

This most recent update has sound effects and music! To use the sound, you must leave the Uplauncher open as you play.

If you still have no sound, and your DOFUS 2.0 installation is up-to-date, then please uninstall and reinstall the game from the ground up to get the sound working.

Have fun!

About the Appearance of Pandawas:

Male pandawas have undergone a complete overhaul with the intent of better matching the expectations of the players.




Arm bandages are back, and can be color customized, as can the rope belt. Trousers have been lengthened, the face has been changed, and the overall build buffed up to better correspond to animations and to the history of this class.

Female Pandawas have also put their bandages back on and their rope belts are also color customizable.

Soon, the skeleton animations will be altered to accommodate the change in appearance of Pandawa's heads when they are in the Drunken State.

We will continue improving the appearances of the classes even after DOFUS 2.0 has been launched.

Interfaces:

• The Zaapi interface has been changed, its operation is now similar to that used in DOFUS 1.29.
• Characters can move correctly after closing the interface for forgetting spells.
• The names of spells that can be forgotten are correctly displayed in the interface for forgetting spells.
• Alignment balance by area is now displayed in the spellbook.
• The rights of each guild member are readable in the guild interface, even if members do not have the right to edit them.
• The character illustration displayed in the inset of the main interface now matches the colour of the character.
• The marriage interface has been changed to improve readability.
• The colour of some text has changed to improve readability.
• The paddock list scrollbar in the guild interface works correctly.
• Mounts’ inventory gauges are displayed correctly.
• The display of tooltips for groups of monsters has been improved.
• Information about modifiable range appears correctly in spell tooltips.
• The position of tooltips on paddock entrances has been corrected.
• The appearance of the cursor now changes to suit the type of interactive object moused-over, to indicate the type of interaction possible.
• Character titles are now displayed.
• Tooltips have been added to characters during exchanges between characters.
• When increasing the level of a spell in the spellbook, the list of spells no longer moves.
• The Level Up interface has been revised, it now displays the next spell to be received (and the level when that will happen) when the character levels up but doesn’t receive a new spell.
• When the character tab is open and the chest interface is opened, the inventory interface no longer closes.
• The level progression gauges now properly update in the mount description interface.
• The "Ignore for this session" button has been added to every exchange interface between players (exchange request, asked to join a group or a challenge or a request to make an object).
• The type of house and its owner are displayed in the house door contextual menu.
• Keyboard shortcuts are now displayed in the tooltip of some buttons.
• Problems displaying the emblem in the guild creation interface have been corrected.
• In the spellbook interface, it is now possible to access the description of a spell without being the level required to use it.
• The Livitinems management interface now offers a selection of 20 different appearances.
• The arrows to change maps have been remade to be more visible.
• Optimisation and performance:
• Displaying the inventory has been optimised and is faster.
• The world map now opens in several stages in order to reduce the amount of time it takes to open.
• Multi-clienting has been revised; each client is now handled as a different process (in order to make the most of multiple processors and to prioritise clients). This change corrects most of the problems encountered with previous versions when multiple accounts were used (clients locking up when one was closed, incorrect animations, chat issues etc.)

Markets:

• It’s now possible to sort items by price in markets.
• The market tooltip correctly displays the maximum sale time.
• Market scrollbars update correctly when changing from selling to buying (and vice versa).

Combat:

• The death of a summon no longer causes message repetition when the summoner dies or leaves the fight.
• Spell tooltips are correctly situated above the list of fighters in battle.
• Characters with dishonour points will have “damaged” wings in fights.
• Archmonsters no longer appear in incorrect groups (Piwi archmonsters will not form part of a group of Militiamen, for example).
• An icon now shows if it’s possible to target a cell or a target.

Tutorial:

• New arrows allow objectives to be highlighted.
• The equipment tab is automatically selected by default when opening the inventory in the tutorial.
• The position of the arrows that target objectives has been corrected.
• Sound and music:
• The sound engine is now available.

Animations:

• Fishing animations work properly.
• Pets’ walking and running animations no longer continue when their owner stops.
• Animations for Blinding Protection, Temporal Dust, Dark Ray, Frostbite, Invisibility, Mistake, Paralyzing Poison, Life Transfer, Strengthstorm, Mutilation, Sword of Judgment, Coin Throwing, Ghostly Shovel, Bluff, Heads or Tails and Roulette have been changed.
• The size of Time Theft’s animation has been reduced.
• Fear’s animation is now properly directed toward the target.
• Cut’s animation now travels along the length of the spell’s AoE.
• Shovel of Judgment, Attraction and Bear’s Cry animations have been shifted upwards slightly.
• The animations of Ghostly Claw and Lashing Claw have been swapped.
• Bribery and Coin Throwing animations have been optimized.
• The duration of the following spell animations has been reduced: Tynril’s Hiff, Bwork Mage’s Tornado, Polished Crackler’s A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss.
• Gobtubby animations have been completely redone.

Characters:

• All figures have been revised to correctly adjust the size of hats on their heads. This change has caused a bug with the hair of Iops, Sacriers, Sadidas and Fecas, which no longer disappear under their hats. This bug is being resolved; please don’t report it to us.
• The appearance of male Pandawas has been revised. Their belts are the same colour as their scarves, and the bandages on their forearms and their rope belts are now colourable.
• The appearance of female Pandawas has been revised. Their skirts are the same colour as their tunic, and the bandages on their forearms, their rope belts and the top of the tunic are now colourable.
• Eniripsa Ghosts now look like Eniripsas.
• The character portrait in the centre of the screen now takes into account the character’s colours.
• Enutrofs can use the Sit emote, and Srams the Kiss emote.

Equipment:

• Appearance number 14 of the Livitinem Cape is now displayed correctly in the face-on view. All views of the Livitinem Cape have been revised.
• The appearance of the following equipment has been revised: Gren Dizer's Dazzling Horns, Batouta Helmet, Minotot Cloak, Mopy King Sovereign Cape.
• The hat Mitch Shroom is now displayed correctly in-game.

Monsters:

• The size of Dark Smiths has been refocused.
• All pet ghost animations (In the Pet Cemetery) have been refocused.
• The Giant Kralove’s mouth and tentacles have been refocused.
• All summoned Dopple’s attacks have been reworked. Dopples are now displayed correctly in the illustration at the start of their turn and in the timeline.
• The Bearman now casts Ghostly Claw correctly.
• Living Chest, Prespic and Red Wyrmling now use their spells properly.
• Ancestral Treechnids, Mumminotors, Polished Cracklers, Dark Treecklers, Robot Maces, Ogivol Scalarcin and Cracklers have been optimized.
• Wild Dragoturkeys have been fully revised in order to match the appearance of Dragoturkey mounts.
• Pandartmoore the Dogged no longer looks like Moon.

Mounts:

• The animations of spells cast when mounted on a Dragoturkey will now trigger correctly (the delay before casting a spell on a mount has gone).
• Emotes when mounted no longer loop. Sit and Wind of Panic now work correctly.
• Dragoturkeys’ walking and running animations have been revised.
• Armoured Dragoturkeys now have an appearance. It is not definitive, however, and might cause bugs – please do not report them to us.

Spells:

• Some spell effects are not visible in this version and will be corrected with the next patch.

Maps and areas:

Corrections:

• The position of some NPC has been revised in order to improve their integration with the scenery.
• Broken interactions have been fixed.

Improvements:

• The Village of Amakna has been reworked.
• The edges of the Village of Amakna have been reworked.
• Some of the interiors in the Village of Amakna have been reworked.
• Pandala Village hearts are now accessible.
• Madrestam Harbour has been reworked.
• The position of Zaapis and Bonta and Brakmar has been revised.

Work in progress:

• Missing paddocks will be added and the size of some of them will be corrected.
• The interiors of houses in Bonta and Brakmar will be revised. Some interiors will not work correctly for the moment.
• Matching the 2.0 houses with their 1.29 versions is in progress.

Misc:

• Unequipping a tool from a character that doesn’t know the profession relating to the tool now works correctly.
• The notification given when gaining a new spell now triggers correctly.
• Characters are now positioned correctly when using an interactive element.
• It is once again possible to recover Kamas from a chest or a dustbin.
• A message is displayed in the guild channel when a perceptor’s harvest is collected by a player.
• The item, spell and emote shortcut bar is no longer available when the player is a spectator in a fight.
• When choosing "Ignore for this session", it is now possible to ignore other characters’ emotes.
• All class spell icons have been re-coloured, and take into account the elemental changes to some spells that came with version 1.27. Spell icons that were missing when the character transformed into an incarnation are now displayed correctly.

2.0 servers should all be back up and online, new changelog will be posted tomorrow.

Have fun! =)

The 2.0 Beta servers are currently in maintenance for an unspecified period.

We've added some updates and patches that will be posted in a changelog later.

You'll be told as soon as the servers are available again!

Thank you for your patience.

Grozilla and Grasmera are officially back! Colossal explosive shells that have already been dubbed “Sauroshells” appeared all through the Dreggon Peninsula; evidence seems to link them to the reappearance of these ancient reptiles.

Both lizards remain hidden at the moment, but perhaps a method to flush them out can be devised. The bravest of adventurers are taking charge! King Allister has promised rewards to all who participate in this research and even greater honors are waiting for those who can find and beat the two creatures! More information on Grozilla, Grasmera and Sauroshells.

The Dragotesses seem to be abandoning the peninsula and returning to the Sanctuary. Do they know something we don't know? >_>'''

Super cute! Thanks for showing us! =)

Correction!

Contrary to previous reports, sound won't be available at first for this test. The developers have decided to concentrate on load balancing for the 2.0 login server during this open session so it can be further improved for the release of 2.0!

Sound will be added to the beta server shortly.

Some time ago, a rumor was going around that two famous dragons had been spotted along the edges of the Dreggon Peninsula. When no tangible proof surfaced, the rumor slowly died out.

Today, specialists in the habits of Dreggons have mentioned behavior in several Dragostesses that is more than passing strange; it almost seems as if they have been thrown into fits of panic. These creatures – who would usually never have dared to show their scales above the crust of the earth - have been wandering distractedly through the peninsula far from the Sanctuary.

Strange things are afoot in the Dreggons’ Lair, we hope to learn more about it in the next few days.
 

Tomorrow, from 14:00 to 22:00 Dofus Universal Time on Wednesday, November 18th, the gates to the DOFUS 2.0 beta test server will yet again swing open to all subscribers! You'll be able to discover the new face of DOFUS for yourself, but this time you'll be doing it in stereo!

That's right, DOFUS 2.0 is about to delight your ears with its newly re-mastered soundtrack and sound effects, so turn your speakers up to 11!

Download the DOFUS 2.0 CLIENT (Windows / Mac / Linux) and make an appointment for 14:00 DUT on Wednesday!

DUT or DOFUS Universal Time is the international DOFUS time zone. It is the same as GMT+1, the local time at Ankama HQ.  You can easily compare DUT to your local time by logging in to any DOFUS server and typing /time.

Correction!

Contrary to previous reports, sound won't be available at first for this test. The developers have decided to concentrate on load balancing for the 2.0 login server during this open session so it can be further improved for the release of 2.0!

Sound will be added to the beta server shortly.

As stated above, the server dev team has been studying the login server to determine the cause of the recent connection difficulties, especially those of last weekend.

The current login system really needs a great deal of optimization to better balance the traffic load during the massive player influxes on weekend evenings.

The server team has already developed a new login system for DOFUS 2.0, but with the release of DOFUS 2.0 so close, we have no available resources to develop a patch for the 1.29 login server.

We would like to add that these login problems are not linked to our hosting service or the power of the machines that host our game servers, and that the login server is the only part of the game system affected.

With the release of 2.0, these login problems will begin to be corrected.

There will be two brand new events between now and the end of the year to replace the lack of Kwismas Island. Stay tuned to these forums more more news!

The third devblog article presenting the characters of DOFUS 2.0 is online!

This week, discover Sadida, Pandawa and Ecaflip! And to see even more, be sure to watch for the next session of Operation GateCrashers on the DOFUS 2.0 test server!

See you there soon!
 

Our very last game for tonight is a scavenger hunt. I've hidden beta keys in a few of the mods' and mentors' profiles. Make sure to leave them a nice comment if you're the first to find the ones with keys!

I'm going to close this topic for now. We'll have more give-aways on the forums next week! Have a great weekend!

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If you're more the type for action than contemplation, there's four keys left for Arch monster photographers!

Puzzle time again!

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They sent me PMs so others couldn't take their answers. They were ages before everyone else posted the answers so I knew they'd figured it out on their own. =)

One more quick puzzle

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Here's another quick puzzle. Find the missing letter and pop the code into the beta registration page to win.

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