The US Servers will come down on Thursday, January 31, 2013, at 7:00 am Pacific for an update. The expected downtime is one hour. The EU servers will come down on Friday, February 1, 2013 at 5:00 am London. The expected downtime is two hours.

Patch notes are available below.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
General

• Scout shields should now drop much less often from Avatars.

Chelsith: The Ancient Vault

• Corrected a bug that was causing items and obols to not drop off trash encounters.

Wurmbone’s End

• You should now be less likely to fall through the world when zoning into any of the Wurmbone’s End zones.

Wurmbone’s End [Advanced Solo]

• Negate Matter can no longer be used on Prime Magnate Mrelg once he has become the challenge version.
• All-Blocker Mohngu must now be defeated in order to spawn Necromunger Garrkk.
• Necromunger Garrkk must now be defeated in order to spawn Prime Magnate Mrelg.

Harrow's End

• Drinal should no longer drop an empty chest if raid members relog or go linkdead after killing Fitzpitzle.

Sleeper's Tomb: The Forgotten Catacombs [Solo]

• The Eternal Sentinel should now be easier to deal with when fought with a merc. He will now reliably charge even if focusing on the mercenary.

Sleeper's Tomb: The Forgotten Catacombs [Heroic]

• Frost should lose its buffs, where appropriate, much more reliably.

TRADESKILLS

• Level 90+ provisioner writs have been updated.
• Alchemist level 93 rush order Warrior Essentials will now correctly ask for Forward Charge VIII.

ITEMS

• Items in a merchant list will no longer show old tooltips from previously examined instances of the same item if it had any adornments or experimentations.