Update - 1/19/2014 The dates and times mentioned in this timeline are currently subject to change. We hope to provide an updated release timeline in the coming days. ______ Update - 1/6/2014 In our original release timeline we mentioned that the new season would begin on January 13th. However over the past few weeks we’ve been making changes to the Chaos Wars, and working to evaluate our options to increase participation, while reducing the number of No Matches that are received. However, we understand that many of you prefer the larger roster size and you’ve voiced your opinion showing this. We’re going to be continuing to evaluate the Chaos Wars as they continue and work to address your concerns. However, in order for us to accomplish this, and to ensure the best experience for everyone we’re going to require additional time. As such, we’ll be pushing back the launch of Season 3 by one week having it scheduled to begin on January 20th, 2014. This will also ensure that there will be no overlap with the Ice Moth Hunt, allowing you to focus on the event until it ends on the 14th. Thank you for your understanding, and we’ll see you then! ______ Here is what we are currently working on. Please note, once again, we can work on content in parallel with new developments. It means that new lands, new EBs and even new wars, do not take away from development time on other tasks. On top of the things below, we are also constantly working on bug fixes and optimizations. Development Avatar System We've built a new avatar system that will allow players to get new avatars and upgrade them. They look amazing and they will have stats too. It also means we can create new PVP and War avatars that drop only from those types of actions. Event/War Schedule We are putting in a war schedule into our client so that you don't need to go to the forums to see the wars times, and so the war times are displayed in your timezone. The two items above were started before we started working on player vs. player rewards, which is why they will be released before any changes to PVP. We are working on them currently and hoping to have them live in the next week. Player vs. Player rewards For us, PVP includes our War Events (Rancor Wars, Chaos Wars etc). For some of you, this isn't the same thing, and you will be angry about the fact that you will see changes to war rewards first. We are working on improving the rewards for all PVP actions, but unfortunately we have to start here for a number of reasons which I can't disclose. I know, it sucks for some of you who really need a better reason to hit the BL / attack other players. We are working on it! When will this happen? We are working first on making the system, flexible so that we can more easily adjust the rewards and change them. We are planning to have this working for Wars in the next 2 weeks. We will then move on to other PVP actions. It will take another couple of weeks before we will have anything to show you guys. It means you likely won't see any changes to PVP rewards, other than in wars, until mid January at the earliest (probably mid February before you see something that makes you really happy). Content New Winter event The new winter event will be a secular holiday event with it's own KAW winter backstory. It will be very similar to the Halloween Fiendish Fang event where players had to collect Fiendish Fangs in order to earn a prize. Despite some people not understanding how it worked last time, this event is specifically designed to distribute more rewards for simply playing the game (free stuff). We are going to give out thousands of free Crystals, Seals of the Damned, Horns of Calydor, and even unique free equipment. Anyone who tries during this period of time, should be able to get some free goodies. Here are some more details: - We will release more information before the event starts about what you need to collect in order to earn prizes. -The item that you need to collect will drop in wars too. - We aren't going to drop them in other PVP actions (I know it sucks, but deal with it). - There will also be 6 pieces of equipment so that even players that collect small amounts of the collection item will earn some equipment. - The event will start in the next week and end before Season 3 Wars starts. Bone Dragon Epic Battles We still have 3 more Epic Battles and the rest of the set of equipment. The next will come out mid January. Tier 6 Level 4 and Level 5 Buildings We have these made and we are considering rolling them out based on how many people complete T6L3. We will likely release T6L4 at the end January and T6L5 later in the year. This is not a firm timeline. Wars Season 3 Season 3 will start January 13th (if this changes for some reason, we will let you know at least 1 week in advance). We will be working in the mean time to fix Prestige, remove the Vanished Paladins from losing the war and to get the schedule into the game. The rewards for Season 3 will also be 1/2 of a new set of equipment.