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We're looking into this at the moment! I'll keep you updated.
Edit 1: We've created a potential fix and we're just about to test it. If that goes well we will push it to the live realm.
Edit 2: The test went well. New patch incoming!
Edit 3: The new Steam patch is now available. Stand alone patch still coming.
Edit 4: You should now also be able to patch on the stand alone client.
Edit 5: Please ignore edit 4 and forgive me. Still waiting on the stand alone client patch.
Edit 6: The stand alone patch is now live. If you're receiving the "In source code file:" error on Steam can you please let us know when this happens?
Edit 7: The shader error appears to be fixed now but people are still experiencing the "In source code file:" on both the Steam and stand alone clients. We're investigating this now. Thank you for your reports.
Edit 8: We're opening the queues while we investigate this. It seems that you can click past the error but we will st...

The news post initially had the incorrect time reading an hour earlier. It goes down at 6am NZT and comes back at 9am.

Trust the countdown. We had the wrong time in the news post initially it was an hour earlier. It should have the correct time now but sometimes the local time can display weirdly if you’re not logged in or don’t have the correct time settings on your account. Downtime happens three hours before the countdown ends and the expansion will be life when it ends.

Timezones and daylight savings.

We will have an announcement later today that has all of the information you need for launch day. The realm goes down at 6am NZT and you should be able to begin patching around 30 minutes or so after that. The realm comes up at 9am NZT at which point Synthesis will be live. (Or the realm goes down three hours before the countdown ends and comes up when the countdown ends)

We don't know yet if we will be able to provide a torrent this evening but if we do it typically becomes available at around 8-9pm NZT.

BRB

It has a one second cooldown which sounds slow but the item is crazy.

Hey everyone! We're making a couple of small changes to Summon Raging Spirit's for the Synthesis expansion. We're putting its mana cost back to its old values and we'll change the cost in future if the gem changes. We're also doubling its base accuracy. This doesn't preclude making bigger changes in future when we next do a balance pass on it.

Thank you for the morning chuckle.

The Spell Focus Support was renamed to Intensify Support