Broadsword Online Games deployed a number of updates for Publish 90 — the vehicle for Ultima Online’s Time of Legends expansion — to the Origin and Izumo shards over the weekend:

A big thank you to everyone that has taken the first steps in the Time of Legends!  The following updates have been deployed to Origin & Izumo,

• Tweaked stats and AIs for the Dragon Turtle.
• Fixed an issue where players who had consumed a mastery primer before completing the Mastery Quest were not receiving the mastery book.
• Adjusted the loot on the Dragon Turtle.
• Tweaked stats on tribe NPCs.
• Peerless encounters now have a chance at being an objective in the Mastery Quest.
• Treasures of Doom is now active on Origin & Izumo.
• The Mastery Quest will now update objectives every hour and will remain the same for each player during that time based on account entitlements and VvV status.
• Fixed issue where Hawkwind’s Mastery quest was delivering cards instead of a Mastery Book on completion.
• Any cards received in error have been converted into Mastery Books.

In case you aren’t familiar with the history of Ultima Online content releases, it is traditional for the Origin and Izumo shards to receive new content first, before it is pushed to any of the other production servers. Only the Test Center shard receives new content prior to Origin and Izumo, for reasons that should be obvious.