The work on the Rise of the Godslayer expansion is a major focus this week with some very important internal milestones being reached. The development process has entered the first of the final stages so we are getting ahead according to plan and we can say that the expansion is coming along very nicely. Expect more information about the release date and other details to get available soon! In addition, with us reaching those internal milestones we will be focusing on testing extensively for the next few weeks.". This being the case we will be extending quite a few more beta invitations over the course of next week. All players with six month and twelve month subscriptions to the game will get full access to the beta (that is subscribers who have already been charged for that subscription cycle). The feedback from the beta players has been invaluable so far, and we look forward to these final stages of testing.

In addition we are planning to have another update in the 1.07 series which will correct some issues with a couple of T3 raid encounters, the new world map and several other points. The first version of update 1.07.1 is already available on the testservers and the team is hard at work to iron out the details to get it ready for the live servers soon. If all goes according to plan and pending testing, we hope to have the update ready as early as sometime next week. It is not yet sure if the previously mentioned new "Offline Character Progression" feature may also be part of the same update. There are a few technical things we need to get ironed out first, but with a little luck all should be ready for next week. We will keep you in the loop about the status and let you know as soon as we have more information.

And in case you haven't seen it yet ... Newsletter #26 is out and it covers the details about the Shrines of Bori, the Silver Atrium in-game event and other additions that were introduced with Update 1.07. You can read the newsletter also online here.