You can use your chatsphere while you battle now. We figure you can probably talk and hurl spells in between sentences. :)

We made a way for you to change your password on the prefs page. For your safety, a copy of the new password will be e-mailed to you automatically when you do this. This is to prevent anyone from changing it without your knowledge. It is also a handy way to keep track of it.

There was a bug with the way the familiars leveled and gained experience and it has been fixed. We appreciate everyone who reported this error. The way that it should work is that your familiar stays the same level as you and gains experience at the same time that you do.

There was a glitch in how the experience points were being displayed so that when you leveled up it carried over old experience points and made it seem like you were closer to level-up than it was supposed to show.

It has been fixed and now you should have a better idea of where you are on your levels.

What is up with Sercha and his collection of odd sketches? We were hoping you could tell us. This crazy shopkeeper has dedicated his entire life to collecting sketches from all around the world of Adrilan. Now all of a sudden he has more than he knows what to do with and wants to sell them. We seriously doubt anyone could ever collect all of them. If someone where to do such a thing, a shrine would appear in their profile. But nobody will ever, so I wouldn't bother trying.

We've added quite a few new cards to the database. We also adjusted the rarity of some of the more powerful cards to make them more available to the players. We are trying to strike a good combat balance and we think we have tuned down the computer players enough to make it more enjoyable without being too easy.

Be on the lookout for new BattleSpell cards:

We've been working on the site all night and morning and have resolved some of the most major bugs that have been brought to light so far.

Fixed: the issue with the quests not letting you abandon them after they expire.

Fixed: multiple battle issues regarding the enemies healing and wounding. Sometimes the enemy would get healed when you healed and when they healed themselves they healed all the way. (Ick.)

Fixed: the adventure map had issues with some versions of Firefox older than 1.5. We have applied a fix to keep people from walking "off" the map on these browsers. (We recommend you download Firefox 1.5 RC1 from mozilla.org though because it is so much better than the current versions. And much faster on most sites, not just BM.)

Fixed: User shops not able to be browsed. For some reason when we moved the files and database from our dev server the shop tables didn't transfer.

Fixed: too many little tiny glitches and bugs to list individually.

We are still working on things! We appreciate all of your suggestions and help finding bugs. We've mentioned it, but we are spending every waking moment for the next 2-3 weeks working on the site and getting it out of BETA as soon as possible. Expect tons of new content and features all the time!

Thanks for all the great comments and reports on problems you have encountered. We have already been able to fix several problems with your help. Please keep continuing to post this information for us to read. Be sure to visit the site periodically today for new additions and fixes. Please remember that we are in the beta version of the game, and to expect some problems when playing and battling. Thanks again and we hope you've enjoyed your time so far in playing the beta version of the site.