Build 0.14.977

Released: 18th Oct,2024

Important

• This update introduces new playable races which may be chosen at character creation.
• This update introduces new armor visuals.
• This update introduces a new equipment slot for wrist armor. This armor piece is visible when equipped.
• This update removes innate attribute bonuses that were previously gained upon leveling up. The primary source of attribute bonuses is now worn equipment.
• This update introduces minimum level requirements for all worn equipment.
• This update introduces major changes to how characters earn money as they progress through the game.

Known Issues

• Chain armor is not currently displaying the appropriate visuals in game.
• Martial cloth (monk) armor is not displaying the intended visuals.
• Splinted Leather Bracers may not currently be crafted.

General

• The order of the group members UI elements can now be adjusted by clicking the small up and down arrows to the left of each group member. Sorry, but the order will have to be readjusted when players enter or leave the group.
• Resurrection now requires confirmation from the player being resurrected.
• Modified the look of the UI hotbars.
• Added /cry, /shrug, /yes, and /no emote aliases and connected multiple emote animations.
• Player corpses will now remain in the zone for up to 30 minutes after the owner of those corpses leaves the zone.
• Corpse dragging approval requests will now be sent to the corpse owner, even if they are in another zone.
• Resurrection requests will now be sent to the corpse owner even if they are in another zone.
• Players can now be resurrected even if they are in another zone, which will teleport them to their corpse in the zone where it was resurrected.
• Added the wrists slot to the character sheet so that wrist items can be equipped.

Balance

• Spells, techniques, and abilities have greatly increased contributions from attributes (90% done – some skills still missing intended contributions).
• Added attribute contributions to healing spells.

Paladin

• Celestial Fury changed to absorb and counter the next physical attack.

Cleric

• Minor Divine Healing lowered to level 8.
• Lesser Divine Healing lowered to level 18.
• 3 ranks of revive have been added:
• Level 8 grants no experience on rez.
• Level 16 grants 25% of lost experience on rez.
• Level 24 grants 50% of lost experience on rez.

Shaman

• 3 ranks of paradox have been added:
• Level 8 grants no experience on rez.
• Level 16 grants 25% of lost experience on rez.
• Level 24 grants 50% of lost experience on rez.

Summoner

• Mineral Embrittlement proc works, increased to 15% chance to proc on auto attacks.
• Axe Swarm changed to check Nature resist.
• Mana Bomb changed to 2 second cast time and different ranks no longer stack.
• (New abilities coming next patch).

Necromancer

• Pet can use bash beyond level 20.

Enchanter

• Greatly increased stat contribution scaling on spells.
• Cranial Grip damage lowered slightly.
• Flux damage scaling reduced.

Items

• All equippable items now have minimum level requirements. This applies to looted items, crafted items, vendor-purchased items, and quest rewards.
• Wrist slot armor has been added to the game. Armor and weight values for equipment worn in other armor slots have been rebalanced as a result.
• New visual models have been applied to all worn armor.
• Newly crafted crude and simple weapons or armor will now (usually) have different inventory icons and descriptions. The item visual when equipped may still remain the same in some cases.
• Vendor sale values for many crafted items have been updated.
• Additional rare drops have been added to level 10-20 content.

Crafting

• Crafted items now derive their required level from the item being made and the material type that was used, such as Asherite, etc.
• Purchase prices for many higher-level schematics have been increased.

Alchemy

• Black Temper and Blood Temper may now be created using the Improved Alchemy Kit.
• Shadow Flux may now be created using the Flux Distillation Kit.

Blacksmithing

• Black Iron and Blood Iron may now be used to manufacture arrowheads.
• Celestium Dust may now be added to armor scales at higher levels.

Jewelcrafting

• Stat bonus calculations from dusts or gemstones have been adjusted for jewelry crafted with nickel or silver ingots.
• Jewelry crafted with nickel or silver ingots now includes an innate bonus depending on the material used.
• Schematics for Copper Trio or Row settings are now available.

Gathering

Mining

• The amount of coal that can be obtained from higher level mining nodes has been slightly increased.

Economy

• Purchase prices for spells and abilities below level 15 have been reduced.
• Purchase prices for spells, abilities, and equipment above level 15 have been increased significantly.
• The amount of coin dropped by group NPCs has been increased significantly.
• The sale prices of equipment loot above level 10 have been increased significantly.
• The purchase prices for vendor-sold equipment have been increased significantly.

Bug Fixes

• You should still be able to left click to target pets, but they shouldn't block your ability to loot or target other things anymore.
• Fixed an issue where salvaging was requiring more free inventory slots than it actually needed.
• Fix for salvaging certain items requiring an extremely large number of open inventory slots.
• The bulk smelting schematics for silver ingots now consume the appropriate number of resources.

Build 0.14.865

Released: 4th Oct,2024 (Hot fix: 0.14.834)

General

• Added ping time to the FPS display.

Balance

• Shriek of the Brood should now hit each player, instead of 1 player based on how many players are close by.
• Significantly reduced group NPC mitigations (TTK feedback needed with these changes).
• Mitigation debuffs lowered from 25% to 20%.
• Resistance debuffs are now enabled to go beyond 0-100. This was enabled previously, but debuffs were prevented from sending NPCs outside of the 0-100 range.
• The range goes from -100 to +200 resistances.
• At -100 resists players/NPCs take double damage.
• At 0 resists players/NPCs take full damage.
• At +100 resists players/NPCs take 0 damage.
• At +200 resists players/NPCs absorb (heal) for 100% of the damage dealt.
• Resistances scale at a +/-1% ratio for all the values in-between.
• On our to-do list is setting NPC types/archtypes to be more aligned with thematic resist tables. Ex: Undead having high poison/disease mitigation, while having less mitigation against divine sources.

DireLord

• Arcane Tear buff added granting 4% resists per stack.

Warrior

• Strike of Breaking buff added granting 2% armor per stack.
• Fixed Cross Strike damage formula.

Items

• The potency of the effects provided by the orphan woven ring has been increased.
• The potency of the effects provided by the frost rattler earring has been increased.
• The chance for most skeletal opponents to yield bone fragments when destroyed has been increased.

Bug Fixes

• The Gem Polishing Kit is now usable with 1 point of skill in Gemcutting, and the item description has been corrected.
• Pewter signets may now be sold to vendors.
• Pewter Duo and Partner settings now use the correct polish.
• The quests 'Spider Fangs', 'Bone Shine', and 'The Great Hunter' can now be completed with the proper NPC.
• Bulk smelting schematics for pewter ingots now produce the correct number of ingots.
• Scepters made with trio settings will now have the appropriate effects from the gemstones used.
• Gemcutting schematics now reference the appropriate skill in their description.
• Uncut gemstones may once again be turned in for the quest "Things that Glitter" and "Merchant's Needs, Pt 3".
• Fixed an issue where Life Leech was healing players out of death, and then they would usually bleed and die again.
• Fixed an issue where the various Necromancer pets were expending a Bone Fragment item each time the player relogged or zoned.
• Fixed an issue where Necromancer pets had their level change sometimes when a player zoned or relogged with a pet out.
• Summoning simple and standard equipment for arcamentals now consumes the correct gemstone.

Build 0.14.834

Released: 28th Sep,2024

General

• Character names are now made to be all lowercase with the first character capitalized.
• Group NPCs (indicated by chevron(s) on their nameplate) now award more experience when killed.
• The Necromancer class has been enabled. Enjoy!

Balance

General

• Exposed and Force cooldowns increased to 20 seconds (Tank and Healer versions remain at 30 seconds).
• Resistance debuff formula adjusted (buff).

Paladin

• Oath of Might scroll tooltip updated.
• Expose added to proc list.

DireLord

• Expose added to provoking phantom list.
• Essence Thief radius increased.
• Sanguine Shield increased to 20% of Health.
• Ready Blade buff increased to 10% Parry.
• Bloodfiend healing increased to 100% and 200%.
• Dire Grip reduced to 100 Essence.

Ranger

• Fray line scroll descriptions updated.
• Fray line damage scaling slightly reduced.
• Sniper Shot added 5m minimum range.

Monk

• Focus Chi is working properly again.
• Resonating Strike damage increased.

Wizard

• Spark reduced to 2 focus.
• Volcanic Ash changed to 4 second cast time, 3 focus, increased damage.
• Static Storm duration and cooldown changed to 9 seconds.
• Personal Blizzard duration and cooldown changed to 9 seconds.
• Ice Volley reduced to 3 focus.
• Familiar Fiery Orb increases all spell damage by 10%.
• Familiar Icy Orb increases penetration by 10%.
• Condense Mana now checks if the player has 20% mana.

Cleric

• Invigorate scroll description updated.
• Fortifying Swing range increased.

Shaman

• Crown of Ashes cooldown reduced to 1 second, placed back on GCD.
• Interlocking Stones lowered to level 16.

Quests

• New quests have been added to support jewelcrafters taking their initial steps in the crafting profession.

Items

• The purchase price for trainee arrows has been reduced.
• Rivets used in crafting now have weight values.

Crafting

• Changed the craft button to read "Scavenge" when working at the Scavenging Workbench.

Jewelcrafting

• The innate stat bonuses for copper, bronze, nickel, and silver have been removed.
• A new entry-level material has been added. Pewter ingots may be created with material smelted from asherite ore.
• Gathered gemstones must now be polished before they can be used in a crafted item. A polishing kit schematic is available to facilitate this.
• Additional resources are now required in all jewelcrafting schematics. These include some dropped resources as well as some resources that can be created through alchemy.
• The progression of jewelcrafting schematics has been adjusted.
• Several new jewelcrafting schematics have been introduced.

Alchemy

• A new alchemy kit has been added to create polish for use by jewelcrafters.

Bug Fixes

• Dusk Fangs are now visible when wielded.
• The Cedar Scribe's brush schematic should now properly require cedar, and also properly create a cedar brush.
• Fixed an issue where camping out while dead would sometimes kill the player again.
• Player corpses should now be easier to click on when trying to target or loot them.
• Fixed an issue that was causing players to sometimes die twice when their max health changed while they were dead.
• Fixed an issue where the O key would sometimes open bags that were on corpses.
• Disabling automatic combining of item stacks when using "Take All" during looting of player corpses, because we suspect this might play a role in bags disappearing when player corpses are looted. If you receive an inventory full message and not everything gets looted when you do "Take All", you may need to left click the remaining items to singly loot them.
• The quest "Serpent's Whisper" will now only be offered to characters of the appropriate class.
• Peltmaster Krane, Cadet Tandus Gnolly, and Setti Geryon now appear as Humanoids when tracking.
• The description for the buff effect of Rat Caps has been corrected.
• Tarnished Bracelets are now wearable in the Hands slot rather than on the fingers. This means if you want to wear them, you have to fully commit to it.
• All staff weapons should now properly count as 2-handed weapons.
• Fixed an issue where the Ranger's Swift Shot was forcing auto attack on regardless of the player's settings.
• Fixed an issue where a pet's character sheet window sometimes wouldn't open.
• Fixed an issue where the crafting window wouldn't open the first time the player clicked on a crafting station.
• Fixed an issue where crafting slots sometimes weren't getting auto-populated when they should've been.
• Fixed an issue where the crafting slots were sometimes being cleared when they shouldn't have been.
• Fixed an issue where aggro NPCs weren't moving toward enemies that they could sense but weren't close enough to immediately attack. They should now "creep" toward things they sense until they decide to attack or until they can no longer sense that potential enemy.

Build 0.14.667

Released: 25th Aug,2024 (Hot fix: 0.14.615)

Known Issues

• Animations and sound effects may sometimes play while skinning animals.
• Quests may sometimes disappear from your journal or recently completed quests may reappear when zoning or when logging out or back in. This issue is actively being investigated. Please continue to report it in Discord if you experience it happening to you.
• Player corpses may sometimes spawn with a collider, or have one after relogging. It may look like you can't loot your corpse when this happens - if you position your camera more directly above the corpse and look down, you should be able to get a loot cursor.

General

• The sale values for commonly dropped weapons and armor have been slightly decreased.
• The amount of coin carried by most humanoid NPCs has been slightly increased.
• The notifications panel (which shows things like skillups and items gained, etc.) is now moveable and should stay where you put it. You'll have to do something to trigger a notification (such as looting an item) and then click and drag the notification that pops up to where you want it. Take care to not position it such that notifications appear offscreen.
• The buffs/debuffs panel is now moveable and should stay where you put it. You'll need to get a buff/debuff on you and then you should be able to click and drag that buff to move the panel where you like it. Take care to not position it such that buffs will appear offscreen.
• The group mob chevrons on the offensive target UI now point up instead of down. This is not a final solution, it's simply a quick change that should hopefully be more intuitive than when they were pointing down.

General Tuning

• NPC abilities and templates have been adjusted, please report any over/under-tuned NPCs or NPC abilities.
• Overland NPC mitigations reduced.
• Reduced group NPC armor mitigation.
• Fixed an issue with slows not reducing attack speed as heavily as they should.
• Fixed an issue where Divine, Curse, Nature, and Chemical Resistances couldn't be reduced.
• Increased Paladin Wrath generation.
• Increased Direlord Essence generation.
• Class debuff cast times reduced from 4s to 3s:
• Divine Weakening
• Weathering
• Scorched Fog
• Forceful Will
• Mental Fatigue
• Added threat to arcane cords.
• Tanks get Exposure at a skill of 20 (30s cooldown).
• Healers get Force at a skill of 20 (30s cooldown).

Class Updates

Rogue

• Fan of Knives damage increased.
• Backstab damage and penetration increased.
• Waylay readiness cost removed.

Wizard

• Ice Volley now consumes Focus even if it's interrupted early.

Cleric

• Cloak of Light - increased healing amount.
• Remedy - Added drawn sickness to cure disease list.

DireLord

• Provoking Phantoms - initial aggro increased.

Monk

• Bruiser trait switched from 10 AP to 2 STR.
• Resonating Strike - heal scaling adjusted to 150% of damage dealt.

Ranger

• Sabotage no longer requires [Opening Gap] to apply states.

Shaman

• Skymane's Pact scroll description updated to 20% and 45 min duration.
• Hurry the Past mana changed to 10% of base mana pool (cost reduction at 10, scales with player).
• Mantle of Mist scales for an additional level, healing increased by ~20%.
• Mantle of the Stream scales for an additional level, healing increased by ~20%.
• Mantle of the River scales for 2 additional levels, healing increased by ~20-25%.
• Replenish healing increased by 2-3 per tick.
• Shaman pet damage reduced.

Enchanter

• Enchanter's Expose should now use the proper version (25m range).
• Mana Guzzle is no longer interrupted by auto attacks. Threat greatly reduced.
• Significantly reduced threat on the mesmerize line.

Items

• The drop rate for the Misshapen Bag has been reduced and its weight has been increased. The item is now also marked as Unique.
• The drop rate for wolf blood has been increased. Some other loot items from wolves have had their drop rate slightly lowered as a result.
• The damage and delay values for all hand-to-hand (fist) weapons have been adjusted.
• The damage values of all weapons tuned for level 15 and above have been increased.

Quests

• The fourth harvesting quest (Under the Moonlight) from the Scavenger has been revised with a new name and a new objective. If you have this quest active in your journal, you may need to abandon and retake it in order to complete it.
• The fourth skinning quest (Better Quality, Pt. 2) from the Scavenger has been revised with a different objective. If you have this quest active in your journal, you may need to abandon and retake it in order to complete it.
• The fourth woodcutting quest (Lining the Nest) from the Scavenger has been revised with a different objective. If you have this quest active in your journal, you may need to abandon and retake it in order to complete it.
• New low-level, class-specific tasks have been added for Monks and Rangers. Tasks for Shamans and Dire Lords were added in previous updates.

Crafting

Outfitting

• The resource requirements for creating cloth and leather panels have been adjusted.

Smelting

• The number of asherium lumps obtained from smelting chunks of asherite ore has been slightly increased.
• The frequency of obtaining rock salt when smelting chunks of asherite ore or caspilrite ore has been increased.
• The frequency of obtaining copper when smelting chunks of asherite ore has been decreased.
• The amount of rock salt that can be obtained when smelting chunks of tascium ore or slytheril ore has been increased.

Bug Fixes

• Tarnished Knuckles may now be salvaged using the appropriate tool.
• The quests "Head Protection" and "In Uniform" can now be turned in to the proper NPC.
• Fixed a bug with channeled wizard abilities where they weren't expending focus when interrupted.
• Shimmering celestium dust should now be usable in the appropriate crafting schematics.
• Fixed a crash that was happening with certain chests.

Build 0.14.646

Released: 22nd Aug,2024 (Hot fix: 0.14.615)

Known Issues

• Animations and sound effects may sometimes play while skinning animals.
• Corpse dropping needed to be disabled for now because of a last minute bug.
• Quests may sometimes disappear from your journal or recently completed quests may reappear when zoning or when logging out or back in. This issue is actively being investigated. Please continue to report it in Discord if you experience it happening to you.

General

• NPC mitigation from armor formula has been reworked. A singular AC debuff should increase melee damage significantly. This should prevent groups from feeling forced into stacking AC debuffs. (Discord contains a current state of the game post with more details in general-feedback).
• We've added (mitigated damage) to the combat log so you can see what you would have hit for unmitigated. Hopefully, this helps players understand what is happening in combat and how they can improve their damage.
• The sale values for commonly dropped weapons and armor have been slightly decreased.
• The amount of coin carried by most humanoid NPCs has been slightly increased.

Crafting

Outfitting

• The resource requirements for creating cloth and leather panels have been adjusted.

Bug Fixes

• Tarnished Knuckles may now be salvaged using the appropriate tool.