Happy holidays from Outspark! To celebrate this special time of year, we'll be releasing 10 cool items - one each day for the next ten days!

We'll be adding brand new packs and popular items to the Fiesta Store each day, so check the Winter Release event page often to see what's new! Share the holiday spirit this season and gift your favorite Fiesta items to your friends - we've also be raised the gifting limit from 1 per week to 1 per day! Remember, it's better to give than to receive. Need some holiday gift ideas? Check out our Fiesta Holiday gift guide on the Outspark Blog now. Discuss the Winter Release and all things Fiesta in the Fiesta forums.

Dear Asda Story Community, To celebrate the arrival of the Crafting System to the game, we will be starting our Crafting System Arrival Event! For the next two weeks players will be able to create special limited time items using the new Crafting system. The temporary, but powerful created items will be removed from all characters at the end of the Event, and will only be available to be made and used again during any future Crafting Event periods; so take advantage of them while they are here! Event Period: 12/9/08~1/5/09 Gather the Crafting Materials listed below in order to create the limited time items! [How to Gather the Materials] - Event gemstones: 5 D grade Crystals, 10 Sands, 2 Reagents -Varnish: 5 Sand, Reagent (able to Purchase Reagent in the Misc. shop) Event gemstones may also be gained through item disassembly, through an Event Combination Formula, or through basic refinement during the Crafting Event. [Combination Formulas of Event Necklaces] - Created magician necklace: Need: 30 Event gemstones, 40 Crystals, 10 Varnishes Stats: Increases +1,000MP - Created mage necklace: Need: 80 Event gemstones, 70 Crystals, 20 Reagents Stats: Increases +3,000MP - Created soldier necklace: Need: 15 Event gemstones, 40 Crystals, 10 Varnishes Stats: Increases +2,000HP - Created fighter necklace: Need: 30 Event gemstones, 70 Crystals, 10 Reagents Stats: Increases +4,000HP [Combination Formulas of Event Rings] - Creative Hit ring: Need: 100 Event gemstones, 50 C grade Crystals, 20 Varnishes Stats: Increases up to 350 Attack - Creative Wall ring: Need: 100 Event gemstones, 50 C grade Crystals, 20 Varnishes Stats: Increase up to 700 Defense - Created Mage necklace: Need: 100 Event gemstones, 50 C grade Crystals, 20 Varnishes Stats: Increases up to 350 Magic - Creative Recovery ring: Need: 100 Event gemstones, 50 C grade Crystals, and 20 Varnishes Stats: Increases 300 Recovery - New Titles! There are two new titles available only during the Crafting Event, and may only be gained during the Event Period! Curious - Upon gaining 100 Event gemstones by disassembling items Creative - Upon producing all 4 types of necklaces -Asda Story Support Team

Status:  Udate complete, all servers are now online!
WAAAGH!!! All servers will be brought offline today as we release the Knight of the Blazing Sun and the Black Guard to all players! Starting at 9AM EST North American servers will brought down with Oceanic servers to follow at 10:30AM EST. We anticipate all servers to be back online by 12 Noon EST with the North American servers coming up shortly before Oceanic. Don't forget, you can play these careers and all of the current changes slated for 1.1 right now on the Public Test Server!
Update - 12:13PM EST: All Oceanic servers are now online. Welcome back everyone!
Update - 10:30AM EST: Reikland is now open to the public! As a reminder all Oceanic servers are now down for the update.
Update - 10:30AM EST: All Oceanic servers are now offline and all North American servers are back online with the exception of Reikland.
Update - 9:00AM EST: All North American servers are now offline to begin the update.

Fiesta Leaderboards - How Do You Stack Up? Posted by : SapharDec 5, 2008 url : http://fiesta.outspark.com/news/?view=news&document_srl=3212

Fiesta Leaderboards are now available! These new Leaderboards rank the top Fiesta players on each server based on Kill Points. Check out the Leaderboards now to track your achievements and see how you measure up against the top Fiesta players! Leaderboards are updated every Friday, so check back to see if you made the list!

One of our long term plans for Tabula Rasa's group content was to create Epic versions of our best instances. These Epic Instances are intended for a full group of level 50 players, with numerous boss encounters and special, repeatable missions where players could obtain unique weapons, armor, prestige, and Mimeomech. "Caves of Donn" is the first instance our team began retrofitting with Epic content. Since we recently made many updates to the regular version of this instance, we felt this would be a wonderful opportunity to re-introduce the instance to higher level players that may not have gone back to play it at a lower level. This instance features the full host of Epic Bane, including Caretakers, Technicians, Soldiers, and the newly created Ravagers and Seekers that are also found on Earth. A special boss version of the Hunter also makes an appearance at the end of the instance, with powerful electric attacks that can bring down an unprepared party. Players that want to adventure in the Epic Caves of Donn can find an entrance off of the CELLAR, right across from the entrance to Edmund Range. Just inside, you will be given two missions from Commander Harley. Completing these missions will give you a nice reward that includes Mimeomech, prestige, and your choice of a Series 3 Pistol, Shotgun, Chaingun, or Rocket Launcher. These missions are repeatable, so you can eventually earn all of these high powered items. Unfortunately, there is not as much polish as we would like on this instance, but we feel confident that it is complete and fun enough to share with everyone in its current state. We hope you enjoy the challenges contained within and make good use of the Series 3 weapons rewarded. Please note that this Epic version will only be available after today's patch has been applied.