A Really Pointless Maintenence?

[CarribeanThunder]

Actually, the -1 is actually -1 damage for your attacks. Like, your first hit does -123 damage, the next, if it did the same, would do 122 with Bane. Wasps can give the Bane Effect, as well as some sword users ( I think ) and Bats. Bane is shown as a Red Orb symbol.
Hope this helped.

[BigJohn]

Actually I thought the game is now bit more stable, a lot of pals in the guild would get disconnected for whatever reason and now it rarely happens.

[Cannon Mad Dan]

I must say I'm not lagging as much. Maybe it's something on my end, or maybe they optimized a bit. Who knows. We can't expect huge updates all the time, this isn't Blizzard we're talking about.