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PATCH DATE: Likely April 13, 2010
Turbine Announcements
November 2009: Letter from the Producer
Spring Update Preview - Aetheria
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Disclaimer: Screenshots may not reflect the final product at release.
Aetheria Screen Shots
Shedding Skin Screen Shot
New Content and Features
A Wedding!
Details at: 2009 Letter From the Producer, Lay of the Land Teaser, and Wedding Preparations (Quest)
Prince Borelean Strathelar and Hoshino Kei are getting married. With the wedding the people will want to look their best (see tailoring and barbering below) and new races are being offered citizenship.
Tailoring
Details at: 2009 Letter From the Producer and Dev Comments - Tailoring
Tailoring will allow players to customize the look of their loot-generated armor.
The primary ability of tailoring will be to transfer the looks (and looks alone) from one item to another, for like items, e.g sleeves to sleeves, helmets to helmets, etc. For example, you will be able to take the looks of a Lorica Breastplate and apply those looks to the stats of a Studded Leather Breastplate. The resulting items will retain all of the stats of the Studded Leather Breastplate, but will now visually look like the Lorica Breastplate.
Tailoring will also include a secondary ability - reducing multi-slot armor to single slot coverage, while still retaining the multi-slot looks. For example, you will be able to reduce a pair of Amuli leggings to only cover and protect the abdomen, but visually it will still look like it covers full legs.
New Hairstyles and a Barber
Details at: 2009 Letter From the Producer
New hair styles and facial features are planned to be added. To allow previously created characters to select these new features, barbers will be added to allow alterations to hair, face, and perhaps skin color.
Hide Your Helm
Details at: 2009 Letter From the Producer
A new character option is being planned which will allow players to visually hide their helmets, granting characters the ability to show off their new hairdos.
Anti-Aliasing and Animation Tweaks
Details at: 2009 Letter From the Producer and Dev Comments - Delayed Features
These features have been delayed.
New Races
Details at: 2009 Letter From the Producer, Shedding Skin, and Dev Comments - New Races
First new race is confirmed to be: SHADOWS. Umbraens will have the typical shadow particle effect instead of legs, whereas Panumbraens will have regular legs. Even though this is 2 racial options (technically), it is actually just ONE race. There are still 3 more to be revealed.
Aetheria
Details at: Spring Update Preview - Aetheria