Publish 76 – All Shards – May 22, 2012

Publish 76 is coming to all shards during tomorrow’s maintenance cycle, according to the UO Herald.

Highlights:
– Covetous Dungeon – revamped/re-designed
– Covetous Dungeon – new artifacts
– The Awakening – Act VI Quest added, active between July and August 12, 2012.
– Gardening system upgraded with VAnilla
– Decay point change – login daily after maintenance, they don’t decay.
– Pirates and Merchant ships added to Tokuno waters
– Bunch of bug fixes.
– Classic Client patcher is being upgraded/changed.

Still not happy that you are being required to login daily to keep faction, virtue, and city loyality points from decaying. This is the very definition of grinding and making players do something just to make them do it, even if it’s just logging in.

Given that Publish 77 is starting to be worked, and that that Act VI of The Awakening runs through August 12, 2012, it could be that Publish 77 will contain most of the Anniversary content. It’s possible that we will see Publish 78 before the 15th Anniversary though.

You can read more on The Awakening at UO Guide.