US Servers will come down on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at 7:00 am Pacific for an update. The estimated downtime is one hour. The EU servers will come down on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 5:00 am London Time. The expected downtime is two hours.

The full patch notes are available after the jump.

GENERAL

• You can now invite another player to create a raid even if they have a mercenary but you do not.
• You can now fill remaining spaces in your bags from your overflow via /empty_overflow or from right-clicking on the overflowing inventory icon.

AMENITIES

• The standard bearer should now offer guild markers for use in marking strategic locations within instances. Only those marked as a raid looter can remove these markers.

TRADESKILLS

• The Refine ability icon should now refresh instantly, as the recast time suggests.
• Refining metals will no longer have a chance to return a refined loam.
• Default primary components for the recipe creation page will now default to unrefined components, if available.
• Changing the quantity will pull any primary components available, including refined.

ITEMS

• Level 90+ spiritstones now start as Legendary.
• Drednever journal pages will now go into the Collectibles container.
• Obols and Spirits for the Steward merchant now drop for everyone that is eligible.
• Obols are no longer flagged as "Ethereal".
• Fixed a bug that was causing Obols to drop from every kill in the Altar of Abhorrence.