Oasis will also experience a 12 hour downtime for maintenance.

All U.S. servers will come down on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7am PST for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their update at 5am London Time on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. Estimated downtime is two hours. The full patch notes are available after the jump.

Additionally, Oasis will be undergoing maintenance beginning at 12:00 AM Pacific on February 7, 2012. The downtime is expected to last for approximately 12 hours. Chat will also be down for the Freeport server during the Oasis downtime.

Update: Extending the downtime to 18 hours. We are experiencing unexpected delays with the maintenance and apologize for the inconvenience.

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GENERAL

• You can now access your mail without a mailbox!  You can either click the mail buff in your buff window, select mail from the EQ2 menu, or use the /start_mail command! NOTE: You will only be able to send and receive items and coin by actually clicking on a mailbox in the world.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Tallon’s Stronghold [Challenge]

• Players have more time to defeat Decorin Deathbringer in the Tallon Zek fight before Tallon empowers him. 

Vallon’s Tower [Challenge]

• Players have more time to defeat Kulaxis in the Vallon Zek fight before Vallon empowers him.

MERCENARIES

• Shaman mercenaries should more reliably cast their single target ward spells during combat.

• Keyrin Curetouch should no longer stack the “Spirit of the Wolf” spell on players in their maintained buff window after zoning.

• Mercenary healers should now heal wounded player pets.

• Mercs will no longer cause item damage when they kill players in PVP.

TRADESKILLS

• The recipe for Primeval Wristguard of the Animist now makes Beastlord armor instead of Assassin armor.

• Tradeskill Apprentice reactants now display provisioner belts as items they can create.

QUESTS

• The “Welcome to Qeynos, Citizen!” quests will no longer fail to update if you’ve completed the Faydwer expert collection.

• “Natasha’s Note” can now be completed.  Tarakh has moved to Freeport Combined.

• “Hand of War” will no longer fail to spawn the Left Eye of Thule if you’ve already done “Hand of War – Eye of Fear.”

• “Strategic Point” will no longer fail to update if you’ve completed “Cartography Fun.”

• “Tinkering with Toggery” now offers a reward to Beastlords.