All U.S. servers will come down on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 7am PST for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their update at 5am BST on Friday, December 16, 2011. Estimated downtime is two hours.

See the full patch notes after the jump.

GENERAL

• All Membership levels may now claim Veteran rewards.
• Fixed a bug where expertise AAs would not load properly from a mirror.
• When using an AA mirror to switch profiles you will no longer be spammed with onscreen messages or having icons autopopulate into your hotbars.
• Fixed a bug where the character tree would not show in the respec window when attempting to purchase AA respecs.

PLAYER HOUSING

• Prestige house portals should no longer disappear when placed.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
General
The following NPCs now buy back any status item:

• Zula Tazil (City of Freeport)
• Zur (City of Freeport)
• Zargga (City of Freeport)
• Gorga (City of Freeport)
• Karila T'zel (City of Freeport)
• Brinegaggle (City of Freeport)
• Zafira (City of Freeport)
• Exmarch (City of Freeport)
• Polycethes (City of Freeport)
• Progenitus (City of Freeport)
• Aothis Warmbreeze (Kelethin)
• Celea Warmbreeze (Kelethin)
• Shulzel Mek'nan (Gorowyn)
• Ornulf Sweettongue (Halas)
• Mirva Kilgour (Halas)
• Peregrine Helgreth Iceweaver (Halas)
• Phyrra S'Vivirr (Neriak)
• Jander S'Tryx (Neriak)
• Acquisitions Expert Kyri Velkyn (Neriak)
• Dalion D'Abth (Neriak)
• Lambent (The Elddar Grove)
• Mirthmire (The Elddar Grove)
• Trillium (The Elddar Grove)
• Pottsby (Qeynos Harbor)
• Rabbleson (Qeynos Harbor)
• Meredeth (Qeynos North)
• Aldermun (Qeynos North)
• Stetts (Qeynos North)
• Tatterhorn (Qeynos North)
• Fhara Hanford (Qeynos North)
• Celes (Qeynos South)
• Jowling (Qeynos South)
• Shinolio (Qeynos South)

The City of Freeport

• Guards that are level 95 in Freeport Militia House have been lowered to Level 65.
• Added a provisioner in Freeport Block & Tackle in South Freeport.

BEASTLORDS

• Fixed a bug where you would get the "Your warder has gained a level" onscreen message when the warder did not actually gain a level.

LIVE EVENTS
Frostfell

• Permafrost Crypt: Decorating Retribution - The music has been silenced.
• Permafrost Crypt: Decorating Retribution - The zone is now persistent in the case of disconnection. So, players should be less likely to lose advancement.
• The crafted snappy red, blue & green helmets are no longer heirloom.

QUESTS
General

• Good-aligned characters should be able to speak with the Shades of the Great Truespirit.

The City of Freeport

• Weaponsmith Xass has set up a new place of business within the Coalition of Tradesfolke building.  You can find him near Jonak Harvester.  He’s a bit picky about where he sets up shop, you see.
• The Functional Clockwork used on the quest “Battle of Wits” should no longer attract undue attention.