Greetings adventurers,   Today we bring you an update from our team on our immediate plans as we progress into 2021. We’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone from our [...]

Greetings Celadorians,   We are excited to share some of the awesome progress on the upcoming PR11: Outlands release. The Outlands is shaping up to be a truly unique landmass and we [...]

Greetings Celadorians,   The Fall 2020 Arena Season is nearly upon us! Beginning on Friday, October 16th, players will once again be able to compete for the highest leaderboard rankings and prizes [...]

Greetings adventurers,   Our Summer 2020 Arena Season has officially concluded! We saw a lot of players participating this season, and we're thrilled to share the winners of each bracket with you! Speak to [...]

Greetings Celadorians,    Season 6: Toil and Trouble arrives on October 12th! This upcoming season will take place in the West Valusia region of Southern Rim and will feature haunted cauldrons that [...]

Greetings Celadorians,   In this development blog, we’ll be focusing on the latest updates from our Design and World Building leads. For world building, we’ve been hard at work shaping the treacherous [...]

Greetings Celadorians,    Season 5: The Raging Undergrowth arrives on September 10th! This upcoming season will take place in the Black Forest and will feature new dynamic encounters where players are tasked [...]

Greetings Adventurers,   Development is in progress for Legends of Aria’s next major update, Point Release 11! In this blog, we’ll be covering our goals for this release, with future installments detailing [...]

What’s Coming in Season 4: The Shifting Sands     Greetings Celadorians,    Season 4: The Shifting Sands arrives on August 10th! This upcoming season will take place in the Barren [...]

Greetings adventurers,   Experience Celador in a whole new way on July 8th as Legends of Aria leaves Early Access alongside the addition of a hefty content update. Leaving Early Access does [...]

Greetings Adventurers,   We have made the decision to temporarily suspend Militias at the end of this season, which has been extended to July 8th. Instead, going forward we will be focusing [...]

Greetings adventurers! We’re back with our final development update for Point Release 10. In our previous installment, we showcased two of the major landmarks players will encounter in Frozen Tundra, the Avalanche [...]

Greetings adventurers,   Seasons have brought fresh challenges for PvE, PvP, Harvesting, and Gathering, with exclusive rewards and goals added each month, providing a means for players from various playstyles to work [...]

Greetings adventurers! We’re back with another development update for Point Release 10. In our previous installment, we barely scratched the surface on all the new environments and encounters that players can look [...]

Greetings adventurers! We hope you’re enjoying Patch 9.5 and Season 1: The Undead Horde. Now that our team has delivered this patch, we’re all shifting gears to our next major endeavor, The [...]

Greetings adventurers!   We’re pleased to announce that Patch 9.5, the latest update for Legends of Aria, is available to play right now! This patch focuses on expanding engagement in core gameplay [...]

Greetings adventurers!   Work is well underway on Patch 9.5, the latest update for Legends of Aria. This patch is all about expanding engagement in core gameplay activities with new opportunities for [...]

Explore the Monolith and More This Weekend With Your Pre Order!   Dark Sorcery is launching April 2nd as citizens of Celador prepare for the coming of the Monolith and its [...]

Greetings Adventurers,   We are extremely excited to finally reveal our first Legends of Aria DLC. If you haven’t watched the reveal video, you should go watch it now!    This is [...]

Greetings adventurers,   We’re pleased to announce Dark Sorcery, a new upcoming DLC for Legends of Aria, will be releasing later this month and is available to pre-order now through the in-game [...]

Greetings, adventurers!   We're pleased to announce that Point Release 9 has arrived, bringing with it some significant content additions! This point release features the introduction of Township Keeps, enhancements to our [...]

With the introduction of item enchants in PR7 we sought to give players the ability to craft weapons and armor that could be customized to appeal to a specific style of gameplay. [...]

Legends of Aria's Point Release 9, coming next week, will bring Militia Keeps to the game! Check out the video for more information on how this new feature shakes up our Militia [...]

Greetings, we’ve been hard at work on features for Point Release 9 and one of those features is the inclusion of ranked arena matches!  Ranked arena matches will allow players to pit [...]

Our Economy Problem   One of the most challenging aspects of managing a MMO is monitoring and stabilization of the in-game economy.  In this regard Legends of Aria is no different than [...]

Greetings, adventurers!   Our team is back following the holidays, and we wanted to take the time to wish you all a Happy New Year, as well as to give you a [...]

Greetings adventurers!    Legends of Aria: New Dawn has arrived and it brings with it some significant content additions! This patch features the return of the Wilderness, new World Boss encounters, the introduction of nine [...]

Greetings, Adventurers!   A New Dawn is approaching… this November     We’re excited about the future of Legends of Aria and we have a host of new features, improvements, and most importantly, [...]

Over the past few weeks many of you have been on our Experimental Server, testing our latest features and providing much welcomed feedback on our upcoming systems. Crucially we put the Ruleset [...]

Greetings, adventurers!   We’ve spent a lot of time reading through the discussions, debate, and direct feedback from our players regarding the best way to get our US players on a single [...]

Point Release 8   Point Release 8 will be a major addition to Legends of Aria and our first feature release post Steam launch. Our goal with the point release is [...]

Greetings, adventurers!   We’re thrilled to be bringing our Premium Subscriptions and In-Game Store online for you today, and wanted to highlight the details of exactly what is included.   Premium Subscription [...]

TLDR:   Azure Sky-Verdant Earth Cluster event goes live Thursday, September 5th AS and VE will have a 4-hour downtime, starting at 10am Eastern The new clustered server, Ethereal Mountain, will go [...]

Greetings adventurers!   I wanted to take a moment to give you all an update on the progress our development team has been making and where we are heading with the project.   [...]

The introduction of Professions was a fundamental change to how we distribute abilities. A week into this change we’d like to take the opportunity to go into a little more detail as [...]

Greetings adventurers!   It’s been a long time coming, but we’re thrilled to announce that Legends of Aria is now available on Steam!    This release brings with it a host of [...]

Professions marks a paradigm shift in how both new and old players experience Legends of Aria. From the first moments you arrive in game you can now expect entirely new and meaningful [...]

Bards have arrived! Today's post is going to detail the new Bard profession, which brings 2 new skills, 9 new bard abilities, and a host of new possibilities to Legends of Aria. [...]

New Housing Blueprints   We have worked hard to make sure that crafters feel rewarded for completing crafting orders in this update. It’s also important that they feel like they have [...]

This one is a big deal and it going to change how and why many of us play Legends of Aria.   We have engaged in a large expansion of our item [...]

We have some big new features coming with our Steam launch update, from new item properties, enchantment, the professions system and more. We’ve some big posts coming detailing these systems, but today [...]

------------------ Why   With the move from Shards Online to Legends of Aria, we tasked ourselves with the goal of attempting to bring a return to open PvP in a full [...]

Greetings Adventurers!    It’s been a long road, but we’re excited to let you know that Legends of Aria will finally be launching on Steam on August 6th, 2019. View the latest trailer [...]

Greetings adventurers!   We released a hotfix today that addresses a number of issues, including balance changes to pets, changes to gain rates for several skills, adding salt back to King of [...]

Ben again here guys!  This time I am coming to you with a new set of PvE encounters that we have been designing and prototyping internally.  One of our senior developers, Kade, [...]

Guild wars is part of our team’s larger effort to give players more ways to participate in consensual PvP. The basic goal of the system is to allow guilds to directly war [...]

Hello guys, this is Ben!  I am one of the game designers here at Citadel Studios and have some information for you on the newly released cooking revamp and gardening system.  First [...]

First, a short introduction. I need to apologize that this is my first formal introduction. My name is Brandon, and I joined the Citadel Studios team in late February as a game [...]

On Tuesday, April 23rd, we released Point Release 5, which featured changes to our Tax, Death, and Mount Systems.   One major topic of discussion in our community is the Mount System. [...]

Thank you for those that joined me Wednesday night on the Experimental Server. The best news is that we identified a new bug, and had some fun while doing so. Nothing spells [...]

Greetings!   I’m happy to outline the community engagement events we have scheduled for this month! More may be added based on how these ones go, but for now we wanted to [...]

Ohai there!   I’ve got a few updates for you wonderful folks, so let’s dive right in!   Experimental Server   Last week we launched our new Experimental Server, where you can [...]

Ohai guys!   I can’t believe it’s already been two weeks since I first introduced myself! You’ve all made me feel incredibly welcome, and I hope you know how sincerely I appreciate [...]

Hello there!   My name is Liz, and I’m thrilled to tell you that I am the new Community Manager for Legends of Aria!   I’ve spent the past week in-game, and [...]

Greetings Adventurers,   We are happy to announce that we will be running our first (of many) server-wide scripted event on official servers ALL next weekend! (February 15th-17th) More details to come! [...]

Greetings Adventurers,   We aren't letting the holidays slow us down! Our live team has been smashing bugs left and right. Here is a highlight of some of the fixes coming to [...]

Greetings Adventurers,   We've been going over the 1000s of bug reports we've received since Early Access launch and have been working tirelessly to smash as many of them as possible. This [...]