Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has opened a fresh start PvE server in Veil of Azaris, and made a number of changes and player experience improvements in the game's latest update.
Last week, Visionary Realms announced some server merges were coming, via the sharding process. Veil of Azaris was one of those US east coast servers affected by the merge process, but now thanks to today’s update, there’s a new destination for those starting fresh.
The patch also added new animations for spear and 1h slashing auto-attacks for humans, elves, halflings, and darkmyrs. Ogres and dwarves will get those animations in a future patch. When you are playing with other players and engaged in combat, now you can't leave a group or be kicked from a group or even invite or be invited. Another player experience update is automatic denial of confirmation requests, like group invites, from players that you have ignored. The PVP server ruleset gets a change where group leadership transfer is prevented where possible and when not, the group gets disbanded.
There are a number of bug fixes and crash fixes as well, and you can see full details in the patch notes.