We hope you all had great holidays and an excellent start into 2011!

The holiday season did not stop the progress on the 2.1 update series. For those catching up after the holiday break, the test servers have been updated with the new Dreamworld technology integration which also included performance improvements for both DX9 and DX10. Earlier this week there was then the first follow-up update including the first tweaks and polishing for Dreamworld alongside additional improvements for the Guardian class and "The Call of Jhebbal Sag" mini-game.

If you haven't already you might want to check out all these new changes on the test servers and help with the testing of the technology integration. You can also expect additional updates hitting the test servers soon which will keep on tweaking and polishing over the coming weeks.

In the interim there will also be another live game update to the live servers while the Dreamworld version is in testing. This version will contain some updates we want to get out on the live server before the main Dreamworld update. Right now we hope that update will contain the Guardian updates currently being tested on the test server alongside a few other tweaks and improvements off the back of the previous 2.1 version. This will most likely come the week after next (pending the testing as always).

Lastly, so that everyone is aware the remaining content scheduled for the 2.1 series will then come after the Dreamworld update is live. It is important that we are able to test the new engine updates in isolation, and then the content will follow soon after the technology update is live.