Phobos news & patch notes

CHANGELOG

GUILDS

• Guild chat, and group objectives are now live to support teamwork and coordination.
• Nobles can speak with Ella Baerin in Empo Sar Castle to officially register a guild.
• Guild halls are not available yet, but groundwork is being laid. Stay tuned!

HOUSES

• The rested bonus for standing/logging-out in a house now provides an out-of-combat move speed buff (+15%) and a regen bonus (+2/s). This change follows concern from players about providing exp/skill/loot bonuses when rested, whilst still providing a meaningful benefit for house ownership. This also aligns with our longer-term goal to replace the existing exp/loot reduction system.

ITEMS

• New resistance potions have been added. Some of these provide resistance to DOT effects, others provide physical/magical defense bonuses. The effects from potions do not stack. Instead the greatest current active resistance of any given type will be used. The purpose of these new potions is to help reduce potion 'chug', without too dramatically removing potions as a gold sink.
• Antidote elixir has been replaced with a poison resistance potion and now has a new sprite. Existing antidote elixirs in player inventories will be updated automatically.
• Books only display their titles if you're within 1 tile.
• Books now display their title when examined.
• Keys only display their descriptions/hints if you're within 1 tile.
• Frostberry sell price reduced to 3 copper.
• Ostren egg buy/sell price adjusted. 280/140.

MAP

• Added new farms around Empo Sar and removed redundant areas west of it. If you are stuck, please contact one of our team members to help you.
• Shifted Bar-gura spawns around, while adding one new spawn.
• Christmas related content removed until next year.

COMBAT

• DOT effects (e.g. burning) now stacks. Diminishing returns applies to stacking DOT effects according to a 'diminishing-2' scaling rule. This means that the total applied DOT damage in any given tick can never exceed 2× the highest individual DOT damage entry for that tick. Different DOT effects (poison, burning, etc.) diminish separately. All previous monster DOT damage has been adjusted to account for this change.

ABILITIES

• Fixed bug where Multishot was bypassing target validation, allowing avatars to be attacked after leaving PVP regions.
• Fixed issue with Doom spell.

UX/UI

• Improved UX for new journal entries.
• Improved UX for journal sorting.
• Journal topic sorting (by name, order, ascend, descend).
• Improved UX with extended use of highlighting items - now it includes all usables and signs, blackboards, etc...
• Improved UX for using doors: locked doors will show pop-up on use to notify the player.
• Improved UX for notifications at the bottom (removed the line "You cannot walk there", adding dark background for remaining notification for readability).
• Improved left-click auto-walk when going down stairs; you can now also click on the stair.
• Fix small issue with RMB on channel button when names are too long. Now showing full name instead of cut-off name.
• Fixed some issues with left/right panels when they had no space.
• You can now add someone to your friendlist via the players context menu.
• Channel button colors are added to better distinguish DM, Guild & Party channels.
• Smileys disabled for info channel.
• Guild benefits mentioned in Store.
• Small improvement in input fields.
• Channel button colors are added to better distinguish DM, Guild & Party channels.
• Updated world map.

MONSTERS

• Some minor tweaks have been made to monster auto-healing when idle. In most cases this should not be noticeable.
• Frog attributes changed, as its stats accordingly Level 8 => 12
• Outlaws changed, as their stats accordingly, Thief Level 21 => 14 Removed thief's cloak drop, Bandit Level 25 => 16, Hunter Level 28 => 18.
• Dwarf Artificer- Reduced magic shield potency. This change should reduce the artificer's durability and shield output.
• Fastfoot Rufus- Bleeding chance increased to make up for the slower DOT damage.
• Zombie fiend behavior changed, more suitable to its level.

LOOT

• Loot has been completely redesigned to use the new model.

QUESTS

• It's rumored that a rare and magically resonant gem has recently been unearthed from a forgotten vein in the mines of Hilafo.
• The black flag of a pirate ship has been sighted in the seas south of Empo Sar.
• Renowned researcher Marias Peraphil is said to have left Empo Sar after dispute with the crown, and hasn't been seen since.
• Mithril requirement for the Armora Ward quest reduced. 100 => 50.

CHANGELOG

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

• Emperor Tâgfrik, of Tâgileim, has decreed that it is time for the holiday spirit! Be sure to wish him a "Merry Christmas" next time you're nearby.
• The Duzmukm dwarves, who trespass still on the northern-most parts of the Tâgileim mines, have long shunned these seasonal festivities. This year they went as far as to steal a whole shipment of candy canes! Emperor Tâgfrik is offering special gifts in exchange for the un-nibbled return of the candy canes.

WEATHER

• Weather has come to Erasan. A festive sign, say those in the northern regions, as the snow falls.

BREWING

• Potions can now be brewed in much larger quantities at a time (up to 1000).
• The brewing window bottle slot now requires that bottle(s) be inside it to brew successfully.

ITEMS

• Slightly increased the frequency of mithril ore drop rates.
• Demonskin Robe had its stats increased.
• Demonskin Boots nature bonus re-added.
• Removed Elosia Leaf from the NPC Ross Banum.
• Added description to archery ammunition to show whether it's for bow or crossbow.
• Item types now all have similar formatting.

MAP

• PVP has been enabled in all boss content areas, this will help resolve camping or blocking spawns. Please let us know if a certain area needs to be further addressed.
• Environmental fire damage now stacks. Total damage is unchanged; this simply brings these into line with how other environmental effects are set up.
• The standard death penalty now applies in PVP areas, including the new boss areas, but not in the arena.

JOURNAL

• "Death to All Krungr!", Entry fixed.
• "Mycologist Munin's Parchment", EXP Added/New Entry.
• "Goblin's Stash", EXP Added/New Entry.
• "Dwarven Chest", EXP Added/New Entry.
• "Diary of Dulin Ironfist", EXP Added/New Entry.
• Demonskin Boots nature bonus re-added.
• "The House of Fundy Whitemoon", New Entry.

UI/UX

• Hover on markers now also works in the minimap.
• Fixed shop related crashing bug - when walking away from shop with the action window open.
• Added a loot channel to show loot data without being in a party.
• Client crashing bug caused by (multi) targeting.
• Targeting cursor when using with, now properly using windows default.
• Add setting to hide item types.
• Closing loot channel no longer kicks you the game.
• Minimap close button no longer overlays hover tooltip.
• Added 'Create up to 20 characters' to the stated list of Noble account benefits.

MONSTERS

• Adjusted dwarves defenses to be more in line of their level range.
• Various performance optimizations on monster behavior.
• Bargura now heals a little if its only target is inaccessible and not in line of sight (as it did already when it has no target).

LOOT

• We recently added support for a different way to handle monster loot. Previously, every item in a monster's loot table could theoretically drop from the same monster; but equally, nothing might drop. The aim with the new system is to reduce the 'RNG factor' here. We are still trialing this system.

HOUSING

• Being inside a house now grants very fast HP/MP regen.
• Being inside a house now gradually grants a 'rested' bonus (when online and offline), lasting up to a maximum of 2 hours.
• When rested, loot reduction based on monster level no longer applies.
• Our intention with this feature is that it'll eventually provide a flat % bonus (e.g. to experience/loot).
• Fixed players logged out in a house for 25 days or more could no longer log in due to a bug in the rested buff (hotfixed: 2024-11-01).

PVP

• Allow pushing (but not swapping) in all PVP-enabled areas.

ART

• Mayhem set graphics updated.

CLERIC

• Smite no longer heals enemies in PVP.

NPCS

• Fixed various minor NPC bugs, trailing spaces, and missing responses.

CHANGELOG

MONSTERS

• Ceggadys loot value increased.
• Bar-gura loot value increased.
• Mountain Giant loot value increased.
• Thordrak spins slightely less and has less movement speed during enrage.

QUESTS

• Kill quests had their experience reward increased.
• A new quest is required to be completed before slaying Skaldar.
• New minor quests & areas added all over ND.

MAP

• Changed lever to allow entrance to the Dûzmûkm area.
• Ferry added to Misty Tor.
• Replaced Mountain Giant at Thordrak's arena for dwarves.

ITEMS

• Spiked Shield, MS debuff removed.
• Dragoon's clutches, MS debuff 5 => 2.
• Dawnforged Aegis, MS debuff 10 => 3.
• Demonskin boots, MS debuff removed.
• Ring of Gust, defense debuff 7 => 5.
• Tempest Rod, MS debuff 15 => 3.
• Mending Scepter, MS debuff removed.

FIX

• Fixed mysterious fire trap inside Trow Cave.
• Fixed Welwar's Orc Quest.
• Fixed Orc Savage corpse sprite
• Fixed Orc Bowman corpse sprite

CHANGELOG

MONSTERS

• Ceggadys had her loot value increased by x5.
• Aegyskerin had its loot value increased by x4.
• Skaldar had his loot value increased by x3.
• Thordrak had his loot value increased by x4 & Level 55 => 60, HP Increased and Defenses decreased.
• Bar-gura gold drop increased.
• Mountain Giant gold drop increased & Level 60 => 57, Defenses reduced.
• Witch Freia level 52 => 51.
• Witch Rosice level 54 => 52.
• Volent Brod level 55 => 51.
• Nysandra level 55 => 52.
• Sirl Imparo level 60 => 53.
• Mogrash level 50 => 52.

UI

• Fixed DPI related screenshot issue with DirectX.
• Also hiding boss HUD when taking screenshots without HUD.
• Fix for a targeting issue causing crash when walking off screen.
• Disable scrambled input for console channel when being drunk.
• Hiding item weights when the capacity indicator is disabled.

JOURNAL

• Added entry in Eastebb with experience.
• Fixed typos.

ITEMS

• Mogrash blade & axe defense debuff removed.

CHANGELOG

SERVER

• Disabled packet aggregation to improve latency issues for all players.

UI

• Fixed a few quests objectives being out of order.

JOURNAL

• Added entry in goblin fortress with experience.
• Added entry in dwarven mines.
• Fixed typos.

UX

• Text at the bottom of the screen is now also hidden when making screenshots.
• Fix issue with remaining HUD when making screenshot.
• Fixed crashing issue with Thror talking about giants.
• Fixed crashing issue minimizing client after logging out.
• 'roll X' console command (rolls a dice of X); usable for party loot distribution, events or perhaps lotteries? (surprise us)
• When party leader dies, the leadership is transferred (at random) to any of the remaining members.
• NPCs don't longer move while you are trading with them (so they won't walk out of distance).
• Quests with counters only highlight the journal button when finished.
• Updated rendered world map to reflect changes.
• Logging per channel (via RMB on channel button), Logs are now saved in sub folders based on the channel name. (This is now removed from settings).
• Integrated hiding/showing of menu buttons in the context menu (RMB) of the panel. (This is now removed from the settings).
• Removed 'show markers' from settings menu (already integrated in context menu).
• Removed 'hide offline friends' from settings menu (alreadt integrated in context menu).
• Integrated 'inverse scroll' for the world map in context menu.
• OS cursors are now supported via 'miscellaneous' settings.

MONSTERS

• BAR-GURA- Adjusted Bar-gura behavior to prevent stair-hop bug.
• SKALDAR- Cleft no longer requires Skaldar to be next to a target.
• Fixed targeting script, previously Skaldar would never change targets due to a bug.

ABILITIES

• Taunted monsters and avatars now deal reduced damage (-10%) to enemies that aren't the taunter.
• Updated taunt description to: "Force all monsters within 2 sqm to target you for a few seconds. Taunted creatures deal reduced damage (-10%) to enemies that aren't the taunter. Not staying close to a taunted monster may cause the effect to wear off."
• Fixed glitch in magic shield on-hit animation.

ITEMS

• Fixed issue with potion MP/HP stacks (may fix 'perma potion regen' bug)

CHANGELOG

MONSTERS

• Gath'Moth
• Frost Wyvern
• Dwarf Artificer

• Dwarf Steelclad
• Dwarf Thunderer
• Dwarf Artificer
• Updated Mountain Giant loot.

ITEMS

• Updated demon set sprites.
• Updated Emerald swords sprites.
• Golden Sabatons; defense 5 => 6, mdef 2 => 3.

MAP

• Christmas Event is over.
• Updated Schrachlor's cave.
• New quests.
• West of Empo Sar has been slightly reduced, that is to cut unnecessary dead space.
• Trows took over parts of the Hilafo mines from the wargs.

UX

• Improved journal logic to fix lag issues on quest tiles.
• Also hide ping & framerate when making screenshots with HUD disabled.
• Stats and skill changes are shown immediately on the UI (Previously it was needed to relog to update the stats).
• Added support for incrementing attribute points by 10 when you have at least 10 points to spend.
• Added beta feature to show the Skill Pool in the top left corner.
• Added 'blessing' to store/noble window.

SPECIAL THANK YOU

CHANGELOG

BLESSINGS

• When your avatar is blessed, you won't suffer any loss of experiences or skills on your next death.
• Visit the temples of Mirai or Tâgileim to buy a blessing at a cost of 300cc per level.
• Blessings can only be purchased by Noble account users, but will still prevent loss if your Noble account expires.

CHRISTMAS

• It's Christmas in Tâgileim, or at least for Emperor Tâgfrik! The dwarves are too busy to decorate the entire Capitol but make sure to talk to the king of Dwarves, he likes to gift everybody during this holiday season!

MAP

• New quests added throughout Erasan.

JOURNAL

• Added & fixed many entries.

UI/UX

• Added discoveries to the auto screen list.
• Fix for the 'hide HUD'-option to make clean screenshots.

MONSTERS

• Adjusted (again!) Ceggadys drop rates, she started to run dry on items.
• Ceggadys summon frequency slightly increased.

FIX

• Item effects no longer granted from hotkey slots.

CHANGELOG

ITEMS

• Northern Dawn rings significantly buffed.
• Throwing star price set to 2 each.
• Throwing axe price set to 3 each.
• Keys and books can no longer be sold.

MAP

• New quests added in Northern Dawn.
• Environmental frost ticks adjusted.

JOURNAL

• Added & fixed many entries.

UI/UX

• Added option to hide HUD when taking screenshots.
• Journal can be opened/closed via: CTRL+J, can be changed in settings.
• Added support for smooth animation transitions, like fireplace.
• Added ability countdown (default off).
• Added capacity indicator (default off) - Beta, for feedback only.
• Shops now show the amount of copper you currently hold.
• Fix spell casting delay issue.
• Fix & adjusted default hotkeys settings.
• Auction window is now movable/draggable.
• Fix issue with auto-cast causing buttons to close containers.
• Fix on setting counts when buying items.

MONSTERS

• Aegyskerin HP increased, loot rate increased.
• Thordrak HP increased, loot rate increased.
• Mogrash critical rate reduced, loot rate increased.
• Ceggadys armor shatter value reduced & auto attacks reduced by ~7%, loot rate increased.

CHANGELOG

JOURNAL

• Journal markers are now interlinked with the journal. By right clicking on the marker you can quickly go to the journal entry.
• Journal filtering and selection is now saved for convenience on re-opening.
• You can now also hide/show journal markers & town names on the map.
• Journal will open on the newly added entry (if there is any).

MAP

• New corpse/treasure quests spread around ND and Erasan.
• New books added.
• Added weight values to various items.
• Gloptoad vomit animation updated.
• Quests and discoveries will now grant experience.

Gameplay

• Prevent avatar logout while in combat. This does not affect force-closing the app, nor disconnections.
• Ability cool downs are now saved when logging out and reloaded when logging back in.
• Increased respawn delay of bosses to 6 minutes

UI/UX

• 3 new hotkey slots under your equipment HUD. You can assign any items to them. The keys can be changed in the settings menu.
• Items can now stack up to 1000.
• Fix party inviting issue.
• Fix encoding names in channel.
• Fix for several windows that have a list.
• Boss HUD smoother fade/in out.
• Fix for context menu issue on NPC.
• Removed 'bulk' button when selling an item from your inventory.
• Auction window is now movable/draggable.
• Disabled auto-screenshot for strength, dexterity and wisdom.
• Fix issue with spell aiming; where aiming a spell a slot would use it.
• Disabled auto-screenshot for strength, dexterity and wisdom.
• Fix for stair movement flickering for people who have high latency.
• Items now get an outline on hover in containers, equipment, shops and bank.
• Fix for journal crashing bug when an entry gets reset (Shrachlor's Lair).
• Fix for keys getting captured when the window is not focus.
• Fix for some remaining movement crashing issues.
• Fixed a small font issue in journal.

GRAPHICS

• Conjurer Set sprites updated.
• Bardiche sprite updated.
• Twin battleaxe sprite updated.
• Warrior helmet sprite updated.
• Malieran Battle set sprites updated.
• Dragonskull Hammer sprite updated.
• Cranked Crossbow sprite updated.
• Quiver sprite updated.
• Ancient Dwarven Shield sprite updated.
• Lantern of Nieanah sprite updated.

ANIMATIONS

• Updated creature animations- Thanks Andre.
• Wyvern
• Dwarf Steelclad
• Thordrak Firebeard
• Wirathistle
• Golem projectiles

ITEMS

• Currency update: silver coin value 50 => 100 So 1 silver coin is now 100 copper coins, 1 gold coin is 10 silver coins (previously 20). All silver coins owned by players have been changed to half coins that are still worth 50cc. You can keep using them as currency or simply exchange them for the 100 value coins at the bank. All silver coin amounts in monster loot, quest rewards and most field spawns have been halved.
• Added item descriptions to more rare items.
• Updated prices of new creature products.
• Schrachlor's carapace melee, ranged and destruction bonus removed, it now provides more nature bonus (6).
• Dragonscale armor stats significantly reduced, it now functions as a mirror to Schrachlor's carapace, adding melee and destruction bonus (6/6).
• Dragonhide armor slightly nerfed to reflect the other armor changes.
• Reduced short bracer ranged damage bonus from 10 => 8.
• Added light to Incubal Sword & Dagger.
• Adjusted Incubal Sword stats (Atk 31 => 36, Def 6 => 9, added hit chance 5%, sell price: 2400 => 4500).
• Adjusted Demon boots stats (Mdef 5 => 7, Nature bonus 5 => 7, added move speed malus of -5).
• Adjusted Demon leggings stats (Destruction 5 => 7, added Nature bonus of 7).
• Adjusted Frost wand stats (Nature 15 => 18, Support 15 => 18).
• Adjusted Demon shield stats (Def 44 => 55, Mdef 18 => 22).
• Adjusted Dragon shield stats (Def 55 => 56, Mdef 14 => 16, added Support bonus of 5).
• Adjusted Dagger of Cerissa stats (Def 6 => 9, added Dexterity bonus of 10).
• Adjusted Dwarven Revolver stats (Speed 2.2 => 2, Atk 35 => 37).
• Adjusted Dwarven war hammer stats (is now two-handed, Atk 71 => 82, Def 10 => 12, Speed 1.9 => 2, added Melee damage bonus of 3).
• Dwarven war helmet defense 11 => 12, magic defense 2 => 3, support 0 => 3, protection removed.
• Dwarven war skirt support => 3, protection removed.
• Dwarven noble leggings protection 2 =>3, support => 3.
• Silver ring hit chance 10 => 20.
• Serpentine band now grants +18 dexterity bonus.

SORCERER

• Lightning bomb damage increased +7%.
• Meteor damaged increase by +5%.
• Pillar of Fire burning damage increased by +8%.

WIZARD

• Condemn on-move damage no longer scales with target HP
• Condemn damage increase by ~8%
• Condemn mana cost reduced from 80 => 60
• Absorb shield % accumulation now slightly slower than before

MONSTERS

• Monsters may now target avatars without requiring a path to them.
• Summons can no longer have their own summons.
• ND creatures loot updated.
• Increase Mogrash's health. 2500 => 3100
• Mogrash loot updated
• Adjusted Freya (55 => 52) and Rosice (59 => 54) levels to match their difficulty. Both had an increase of 400 health.
• Soil Golem defense reduced 195 => 185, gained a new telegraph.
• Soil Golem, level 19 => 18, xp 170 => 160
• Wiralof loot updated.
• Skeleton Archer loot updated.
• Mountain Troll loot updated.
• Blow Bug level 25 => 24, xp 110 => 100.
• Gloptoad level 36 => 35, xp 370 => 355.
• Wiralof, level 40 => 41, xp 420 => 430.
• Increased copper coin drops for Zombie Plaguebearer, Mountain Troll, Skeleton Archer, Rioter (19), Orc Savage.
• Reduced copper coin drops from Gloptoads.
• Adjusted loot reduction formula to be a lot more generous. New formula: 1 - 0.05 * (playerLevel - monsterLevel - (5 + FLOOR(playerLevel / 10))) (still capped between 0.5 and 1).
• Increased the chance to drop rare from bosses by ~20%.
• Quasit fire DoT damage reduced by ~10%.
• Bar-gura physical damage reduced by ~15% & Firewave damage ~10% | Magic defense slightly reduced | Level 65 => 62.
• Reduced Ceggadys summon quantity when Enraged.
• Adjusted Thunderer's targeting, preferring closer targets.
• Adjusted Mountain Giant's targeting, preferring closer targets.
• Giant level 58 => 56.
• Mountain giant level 62 => 60.

CHANGELOG

MAP

• New area: Northern Dawn mountains
• New city: Tâgileim

NOBLE FEATURES

• Increase avatar limit from 10 to 20 for Nobles
• House auction timer reduced from 7 days to 2 days

MOVEMENT

• Improved left-click auto walk with some support for multi-layers
• Smooth stair movement on layer transitions
• Smooth light transitions on layer transition
• Creature names fade/in out on layer transitions
• Added a left-click marker to indicate where you are auto-walking towards.
• Following players now supports going up/down layers

PERFORMANCE

• Fixed issue with frame drops; this solution will also have general performance improvements
• Fixed an issue with invalid creature names
• Fixed an issue with the client crashing when moving an item while the item disappears

COMBAT/LOOTING

• When opening containers on the floor, the container now opens at the corpse location for quick loot access
• New UI visualisations that appear when in boss fights
• Added option for an attack per second being logged to the console

PARTY/FRIEND/TRADE MANAGEMENT

• Added in-screen accept/reject window appears on invite
• New party-channel
• Party loot displayed to all in party when first opening a corpse
• Added context interactions in the window
• Support for adding people by name via your friendliest or a pop-up
• Added support for transferring leadership
• Added support for leader to kick avatars from a party
• Show online friends first
• Fix for party handshake
• Revamped shop window
• Player trade in-screen accept/reject window on invite
• Added context menu for interactions in the window
• You can now mute your annoying friends (but they can mute you back)

INTERFACES & VISUALS

• Position of containers is now properly saved per avatar. This applies on yourself, other players, creatures, items, etc. Includes multi-use logic (e.g. to pick between using a ladder or attacking a creatures standing on the same tile)
• Abilities/spells are now sorted alphabetically
• Added some extra information on examining abilities and in the spell book
• Added many new status icons to notify player of states, i.e. hungry.
• Added support for over 100 markers on the map
• Fixed issue with being able to drop items directly into main backpack
• Added support for moving the console to the bottom (widescreen mode)
• Added edit marker support
• Fixed issue with transparent tiles that help with layer fading but also seemed to block interacting with things
• Improved movement rendering by adding framerate correction
• Containers no longer open larger than needed. For example when it holds 5 items it will only open 2 rows.
• The duration that the examine window is shown is now based on the contents
• Added support for clearing the contents of a channel
• Fixed hotkey ‘default’ button
• Extended the in-field options of the RMB context menu
• Avatar window is now movable
• Added option for automatically take screenshots on significant events (skills, levels, death)
• Added comma-separator for improved readability when buying/selling in bulk (e.g.: 10,000)
• Shops no longer close on pressing 'Enter'
• Channels can now be closed via RMB context menu
• New chat bubbles to improve readability
• New splash screen
• Fixed issue when making a screenshot while dead

OTHER FEATURES

• When login location of an avatar has no walkable ground, the avatar will now login at the temple of the last town they visited
• Closing doors (and similar world objects) may now push avatars/monsters, with preference given to the facing direction
• Various largely unexciting maintenence updates
• Added option for disabling steam-access via the config file

SORCERER

• Lightning Bomb Targets hit by a triggered lightning bomb are now slowed by -25% for 3s. This will help sorcerers when trying to kite, as well as making the ability more useful from a PVP perspective, without giving the sorcerer any more instance damage
• Meteor +5% increase in damage on outer tiles of effect. This will make near-misses slightly less punishing for the caster
• Pillar of Fire +5 Slight increase in instant damage and burning damage over time

MONSTERS

• Monsters may now spawn on levels above/below you, when you can't see them
• Protectorate Knight Remove ritual dagger from loot
• Volent Brod Remove ritual dagger from loot
• Witch Reduce ritual dagger loot drop chance
• Witch Keka Reduce ritual dagger loot drop chance

ITEMS

• Ritual dagger Reduce attack 26 => 25
• Thellweave dirk Add +8% support Reduce attack 27 => 25, but increase attack speed 1.0 => 0.9 APS
• Dagger of Cerissa Increase attack 25 => 28 Reduce attack speed 0.9 => 1.0
• Paladin helmet Increase protection magic bonus from 4% => 5%
• Paladin armor Add +3% protection magic bonus
• Paladin leggings Add +2% protection magic bonus
• Warlord leggings Increase DEF from 7 => 8
• Warlord battle armor Increase DEF from 32 => 33
• Helmet of the Skies Increase MDEF from 6 => 7 Add +5% support
• Golden battle helmet Reduce DEF from 16 => 15
• Malieran battle robe leggings Reduce defense from 6 => 5 Increase melee damage bonus from 3% => 4%
• Shrachlor's helmet Remove support bonus
• Shrachlor's carapace Remove support bonus Reduce DEF from 29 => 28 Reduce MDEF from 14 => 13
• Shrachlor's leggings Increase melee bonus from 1% => 2% Remove support bonus
• Beer Now makes you drunk No longer gives you a speed bonus

1. NORTHERN DAWN

2. MULTIPLE SERVERS

3. CLASS SHAKEUP & EARLY/MID-GAME RESTRUCTURING

CHANGELOG

IN-GAME MAP

• In-game world map
  • Open via shortcut (default: CTRL + E), or by right-clicking minimap
  • Zoom in/out
  • Tracks current position on map
  • Shows town names
  • Add/remove markers
  • Setting/option: hide all markers
  • Fog will slowly clear when discovering the world
  • Fog/game data is saved per account
  • Note: world map will not help you in dungeons
• Small minimap in UI
  • Fixed position; auto-tracking current location
  • Zoom in/out
  • Optional display of markers

COMBAT

• Fixed the 'immortal rabbit' issue
  • The auto-attack (AA) combat delay now applies after a successful AA, instead of being applied before an AA
  • The AA combat delay is no longer reset on a failed AA (e.g. due to target being out of range)
  • When chasing a target, some leeway has been added in the melee AA distance check, so that if you target something and just before your AA hits they start moving away, then the AA may still hit

CLIENT QOL

• UI elements (containers, friendlist, equipment, etc.) can now be pinned/unpinned and moved between panels using RMB context menu
• UI element layout is now saved & loaded on login (per client, not per player)
  • Size & location of containers is not included in this, but this is also on our todo
• Friendlist reworked
  • Support for marking people as a 'foe', with
  • RMB context menu functionalities added
• RMB context menu in channel/chatbox for PM, also support for left click for PM
• Fixed issues with private messaging which caused messages to be lost sometimes
• When dragging items you now see a translucent version to know where you'll drop it
• Setting added to enable/disable holding RMB for continuous movement towards cursor
• Info channel now logs gained experience
• Fixed bad formatting on house info window 'Due Date'
• Fix context menu for guide window
• Fix to prevent opening multiple character/help/map windows
• Fixed issue where clicking on an invisible tile ignores any input
• Fixed issue where you couldn't attack creatures under the widescreen chatbox
• Fixed centering of skull on death of party member
• Added support for proper mouse scroll speed input
• Fixed an issue with setting item count when buying items
• Disabled feature for using ladders in the top-left square
• Fixed report channel bug in widescreen
• Fix for the way that some third-party programs 'steal' the cursor
• Disabled 'elastic camera' as a standard config option
• Added new widescreen display setting which is a combination of classic and widescreen modes; get the widescreen UI layout without losing any view distance

MONSTERS

• Monster physical (def) and magic defense (mdef) has been significantly reduced on almost all monsters. More specifically, the range of defense values has been narrowed so that it will be rare for any monster to have a def or mdef value less than 100 or more than 200. This has been balanced with increases in monster HP, such that this shouldn't have a major affect on balance. The aim here is that it will help players to feel like they are progressing as they gain levels and skills.
• Improved quality of monster scripts. You shouldn't actually notice this in-game at all, but it will help us longer-term.
• There are also several other changes included here that *will* affect balance. And, in general, these adjustments will favour the physical combat classes.
• Archenaid
  • HP 1700 => 2500
  • DEF 300 => 190
  • MDEF 280 => 200
• Badger
  • HP 40 => 50
  • DEF 130 => 120
• Beetle
  • HP 35 => 50
  • DEF 180 => 145
  • MDEF 170 => 145
• Boar
  • DEF 115 => 110
• Brown Bear
  • HP 155 => 190
  • DEF 190 => 150
  • MDEF 160 => 135
• Cave Troll
  • HP 1200 => 1600
  • DEF 240 => 175
  • MDEF 180 => 145
• Chicken
  • DEF 75 => 85
  • MDEF 75 => 85
• Ferorn Morphis
  • HP 900 => 1300
  • DEF 260 => 185
  • MDEF 300 => 200
• Forest Imp
  • HP 90 => 130
  • MDEF 150 => 130
• Frog
  • HP 50 => 55
  • DEF 120 => 115
  • MDEF 120 => 115
• Gloptoad
  • HP 500 => 590
  • DEF 150 => 130
  • MDEF 160 => 135
• Goat
  • HP 32 => 50
  • DEF 125 => 120
• Goblin
  • HP 85 => 90
• Goblin Summoner
  • HP 340 => 410
  • DEF 115 => 110
  • MDEF 220 => 165
• Goblin Witchmaster
  • HP 290 => 300
  • MDEF 190 => 150
• Goose
  • DEF 85 => 95
• Grorus
  • HP 2200 => 3000
  • DEF 270 => 185
  • MDEF 210 => 160
• Helina Floretty
  • HP 560 => 800
  • DEF 270 => 185
  • MDEF 245 => 175
• Hill Giant
  • HP 3000 => 4300
  • DEF 280 => 190
  • MDEF 240 => 175
• Huntsman
  • HP 75 => 90
  • DEF 140 => 120
  • MDEF 120 => 130
• Lord Volent
  • HP 1200 => 2000
  • DEF 320 => 200
  • MDEF 220 => 165
  • Increased loot value by +15%
• Lucenfly
  • HP 150 => 180
  • DEF 150 => 130
  • MDEF 140 => 125
• Maggot
  • DEF 80 => 90
  • MDEF 90 => 95
• Maned Trow
  • HP 90 => 100
  • DEF 160 => 135
  • MDEF 140 => 125
• Mordrir
  • HP 8000 => 13000
  • DEF 350 => 220
  • MDEF 350 => 220
• Mountain Troll
  • HP 1300 => 1750
  • DEF 250 => 180
  • MDEF 200 => 155
• Nysandra Celistriel
  • HP 1100 => 1800
  • DEF 250 => 160
  • MDEF 270 => 185
• Orc Beastmaster
  • HP 480 => 600
  • DEF 200 => 155
  • MDEF 170 => 140
• Orc Bowman
  • HP 150 => 200
  • DEF 160 => 135
  • MDEF 130 => 120
• Orc Brute
  • HP 180 => 200
  • DEF 140 => 125
  • MDEF 120 => 115
• Orc Hunter
  • HP 480 => 580
  • DEF 170 => 140
  • MDEF 150 => 130
• Orc Legionnaire
  • HP 550 => 740
  • DEF 260 => 185
  • MDEF 190 => 150
• Orc Magus
  • HP 440 => 520
  • DEF 140 => 125
  • MDEF 170 => 140
• Orc Savage
  • HP 1050 => 1250
  • DEF 190 => 150
  • MDEF 160 => 135
• Ostren
  • HP 130 => 170
  • DEF 180 => 145
  • MDEF 150 => 130
• Outlaw Bandit
  • HP 450 => 500
  • DEF 210 => 160
  • MDEF 160 => 135
• Outlaw Hunter
  • HP 350 => 400
  • DEF 165 => 140
  • MDEF 135 => 125
• Outlaw Thief
  • HP 250 => 260
  • DEF 130 => 120
• Pisaura
  • HP 410 => 560
  • DEF 230 => 165
  • MDEF 230 => 175
• Predator
  • HP 900 => 1250
  • DEF 240 => 165
  • MDEF 240 => 180
• Protectorate Knight
  • HP 900 => 1300
  • DEF 300 => 200
  • MDEF 230 => 170
• Quagwyrm
  • HP 380 => 420
  • DEF 160 => 135
• Rabbit
  • DEF 90 => 95
• Rhodosus
  • HP 240 => 320
  • DEF 260 => 185
  • MDEF 190 => 150
• Rioter
  • HP 260 => 280
  • DEF 150 => 130
• Rioter
  • HP 260 => 350
  • DEF 180 => 140
  • MDEF 160 => 130
• Rioter
  • HP 390 => 500
  • DEF 190 => 150
  • MDEF 150 => 130
• Rooster
  • DEF 75 => 85
  • MDEF 75 => 85
• Sal Cotton
  • HP 350 => 500
  • DEF 230 => 170
  • MDEF 190 => 150
• Shrachlor
  • HP 10000 => 14500
  • DEF 275 => 190
  • MDEF 250 => 190
• Sirl Imparo
  • HP 1200 => 2000
  • DEF 320 => 180
  • MDEF 300 => 200
• Sirl Imparo (Dummy)
  • HP 200 => 200
  • DEF 320 => 180
  • MDEF 300 => 200
• Skeleton
  • HP 120 => 130
  • DEF 150 => 125
• Skeleton Archer
  • HP 175 => 200
  • DEF 180 => 140
  • MDEF 150 => 140
• Skeleton Warrior
  • HP 250 => 380
  • DEF 240 => 165
  • MDEF 190 => 165
• Snake
  • DEF 90 => 95
  • MDEF 100 => 105
• Soil Golem
  • HP 200 => 300
  • DEF 290 => 195
  • MDEF 230 => 170
• Spiderling
  • MDEF 100 => 110
• Squirrel
  • HP 27 => 25
  • DEF 80 => 90
  • MDEF 90 => 95
• Swamp Troll
  • HP 1100 => 1400
  • DEF 230 => 170
  • MDEF 170 => 140
  • Fixed telegraph ability damage pattern
• Toad
  • HP 190 => 230
  • DEF 140 => 125
  • MDEF 180 => 145
• Trow
  • HP 90 => 100
  • DEF 130 => 120
  • MDEF 115 => 110
• Warg
  • HP 350 => 440
  • DEF 220 => 165
  • MDEF 160 => 135
• Webweaver
  • DEF 115 => 110
  • MDEF 110 => 115
• Wiralof
  • HP 650 => 800
  • DEF 200 => 150
  • MDEF 170 => 160
• Wirathistle
  • HP 800 => 930
  • DEF 150 => 130
  • MDEF 150 => 130
• Witch
  • HP 900 => 1200
  • DEF 180 => 140
  • MDEF 210 => 160
  • Lightning beam ability is now able to bend around projectile-blocking objects (+/- 1 sqm)
  • Lightning beam ability now has some randomness in its path (+/- 1 sqm)
  • Lightning beam base damage reduced by -12%
  • Lightning beam damage no longer increases with distance
• Witch Freia
  • HP 1200 => 1700
  • DEF 220 => 160
  • MDEF 260 => 190
• Witch Keka
  • HP 1000 => 1200
  • DEF 160 => 135
  • MDEF 220 => 165
• Witch Rosice
  • HP 1300 => 2000
  • DEF 250 => 170
  • MDEF 240 => 180
• Wolf
  • HP 80 => 90
  • DEF 170 => 140
  • MDEF 130 => 120
• Wyvern
  • HP 1000 => 1400
  • DEF 170 => 140
  • MDEF 180 => 145
• Zombie
  • HP 220 => 210
  • DEF 90 => 95
  • MDEF 90 => 95

ROGUE

• Disembowel
  • Reduced on-hit damage by -6%
  • Base bleed damage reduced by -30%. However, bleed damage is now increased with every caster auto-attack for first 6s of ability. This stacking of bleed damage is now applied with diminishing returns based on the base (starting) bleeding damage. Specifically, every increase in bleed damage is half that of the previous increase. Like so: 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + . The result is that the maximum bleed damage per tick is 2x the base bleed damage.
  • Bleed minimum duration reduced from 4s to 3s. However, this duration is now reset to 3s on any attack against the target within 6s of the ability being cast. This reset can now be triggered by any source (previously it was only auto-attacks from the caster), with the exception of timed damage effects (e.g. poison).
  • Updated description: "Inflict melee damage on a single target, followed by severe bleeding for 3s. For 6s, attacks against the target reset the bleed duration, and caster auto-attacks against the target increase the bleed damage (max: 2x base, diminishing). "

SHAMAN

• Harvest
  • Reduced base and scaling of shield/HP/MP regen to balance this ability somewhat with monster HP/def/mdef changes
  • Increased speed that shield degenerates by +6%
• Virulence
  • Reduced damage based on target HP to balance this ability somewhat with monster HP/def/mdef changes

MAP

• Various minor map bug fixes

OTHER

• Added visual effect on avatars on login/logout

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

PARTY EXPERIENCE BONUS

OPEN PVP

CLASS BALANCING

ELIXIRS

MONSTERS

CHANGELOG

UI/UX

• Added skill progress bars to character stats
• Casting tile-aimed spells now ignores above layers (e.g. treetops)
• The contents of containers may now be stacked/sorted automatically via the context menu at the top of a container (or CTRL-R)
• Added auto 'select all' on count when opening split stack window
• Added NPC channel to channel list. This channel isolates your conversations with NPCs, so it's easier to follow the conversation. Note that this is not intended to be a private channel with NPCs; all NPC inputs/outputs are still shown to other players in the main channel
• Fixed selecting text (widescreen only)
• Moved chat input closer to chat bar (widescreen only)
• Removed green highlight of 'Info' channel (widescreen only)
• Fixed bug when rendering screenshots with certain settings (widescreen only)
• Fixed client discord link
• Fixed negative numbers on bidding
• Fixed bug caused by players using the same name as an existing channel
• Increased width of avatar selection list to allow for longer character names
• Fixed issue with pressing 'enter' in a window (e.g. split stack window)
• Added an option to keep chats visible for those who want to keep track of channels while hunting (widescreen only)
• Added optional display of HP/MP bars over your in-game avatar (classic client only; widescreen already had this)
• Added optional display of status icons over your in-game avatar
• Allow toggling the HUD display of individual status icons (RMB on a status icon with the show status indicators on HUD setting enabled)
• Added new smilies
• Added support for logging the contents of the Info channel, this occurs automatically after you turn it on in settings > console
• Move single stackable item holding shift (currently only works if you hold shift after you start dragging)
• Added support for displaying a dropdown/context menu with RMB
• Can no longer follow monsters
• CTRL + ALT + LMB on an avatar to open private message channel with them
• Improve on-hover highlighting outline rendering so that it's clearer when obstructed
• Made top panel buttons hide/show possible while playing
• Added 'Wiki' and 'Discord' buttons/links to 'how to guide'
• Fixed opening channels when switching between screen-modes
• Fixed long player names in outfit window
• Fixed crashing bug when using certain items from bank
• Added HP/MP HUD bars for parties
• Added multi-language support for 'How to guide'. Portuguese has been added as the first non-English language
• Added 'Housing'-section to 'How to guide'
• Fixed random appearance of the red targeting circle on monsters
• Fixed some minor visual/rendering issues
• Various minor UI tweaks & improvements
• Various changes to info and console channels

COMBAT, EXPERIENCE, AND SKILLS

• Experience reduction by level is now more generous, allowing a difference in 5 levels before applying any reduction
• Party experience should no longer be 'lost' when a party member is not there to be awarded it
• Party experience is now adjusted according to party size (applying to party members that were on-screen of the killed creature or dealt damage to that creature) - Formula: 2.2 - 1.7 * EXP(-0.35 * validGroupMembers.Count) - Enable the console combat report to display this information whilst in combat
• Magic defense calculation adjustments, making magic defense a much more valuable item stat - Magic defense from items is no longer modified by * 0.25 before being added to the total mdef value - Removed armor from mdef calculation - Removed shield 'defense' stat from mdef calculation - WIS effect on magic defense reduced from 1.0 => 0.6 - DEX effect on magic defense reduced from 0.25 => 0.2 - Formula: totalMagicDefense = 100 + DefenderDexterityStat * 0.2 + DefenderWisdomStat * 0.6 + DefenderDefenseSkill * 0.25 + DefenderItemMagicDefense
• Made combat dodge/block formulas more consistent
• Fixed issue with server & client disagreeing about which direction a creature is facing after moving diagonally north-east or south-west
• Offensive spells no longer damage fellow party members when in PVP-enabled regions
• Ranged ammo no longer taken in the PVP arena
• Added status icon to display when your avatar has recently been in combat
• Added status icon to display when on a tile that allows PVP

PAGE

• Quickshot - Fixed bug preventing casting when only one target
• Overdraw - Projectile now used up on successful shot
• Berserk - No longer blocks ranged auto-attacks when active - Active on-hit splash damage and attack speed bonus no longer applies with unarmed combat

KNIGHT

• Enrage - Stack accumulation duration increased 4s => 5s
• Armament - Cooldown reduced from 35s => 25s - HP regeneration now based on damage taken over duration
• Charge - Damage bonus is now lower initially, but increases with tiles moved - On-hit slow now increases with tiles moved
• Taunt - Now specifically triggers a monster to try to change target when applied AND when removed - Re-added taunt duration combat text on player request - Increased range that taunter has to stay from tauntee from 2.5 sqm to 3.5 sqm. NOTE: This does not affect the initial range that you must be from a monster to taunt it - Description updated: "Force all monsters within 2 sqm to target you for a few seconds. Not staying close to a taunted monster may cause the effect to wear off."

MARKSMAN

• Acute Frenzy - Stacks now accumulate for the first 7 seconds, with each stack lasting 4 seconds - Max attack speed bonus is now capped at x5 - Stacks are no longer reset on changing target

ROGUE

• Flurry - Mana cost reduced from 50 => 40
• Disembowel - Mana cost reduced from 60 => 50 MP - Bleed amount calculation now takes into account equipment melee bonuses
• Impale - Mana cost reduced from 50 => 40 MP
• Bloodlust - HP base regen per stack increased from 0 => 1 - Increased bonus HP regen rate by +15% - Regen calculation now supports decimals, with the final value calculated by rounding up/down based on that decimal. Actual effect of this will be an average of -0.5 bonus MP regen per tick - NOTE: Combined regen changes here is equal to a regen bonus increase of +17-21% - Cooldown reduced from 20s => 18s - Added combat text to display max regen per stack - Increased regen bonus by +8%

RANGER

• Glacial Imbue - Now cancels automatically when caster runs out of mana

CLERIC

• Restoration - Instant self-healing is no longer applied when ability is cast on self
• Mirror Shield - Fixed facing direction when diagonal

WIZARD

• Retribution - Slow increased from -20% to -25% - Slow no longer stacks
• Orb Pulse - Increase orb pulse range - Removed orb destroy-on-hit logic - Reduced orb multi-hit damage bonus from +50% to +10% - Slow effect is now also affected by multi-hit bonus - Fixed bug with training
• Channel Energy - Distance from target effect on damage reduced such that less damage is done between 0-2.5 sqm and slightly more damage is dealt at further distances
• Condemn - On-move damage from target HP reduced by 10-15% - On-move base damage increased from 0 => 2 - Final damage from target HP reduced by -10%
• Absorb - Shield initial value reduced from 20% => 10% - Initial shield accumulation increased but with considerable diminishing returns - Formula: currentShieldValue + (0.01 / currentShieldValue) - By extension, this will mean that accumulated shield has a much lesser effect on final damage - Default combat calculation effect on damage increased by +100% - Regen amount now supports decimals, with the final value calculated by rounding up/down based on that decimal. Actual effect of this will be an average of -0.5 bonus MP regen per tick

SHAMAN

• Virulence - Converted calculation of damage based on target health from a simple multiplication to an exponential, such that HP now contributes slightly less against high HP mobs
• Doom - Re-applied an older change (2020 December 11th) that was mistakenly rolled back - Reduced base percentage debuff from 20% to 10%

SORCERER

• Flash Frost - Now blocks movement for 2s from start of ability (after 150ms delay)

ITEMS

• Added antidote elixir
• Elixir restore/price adjustments - Vial HP/MP restore amount increased from 40 => 70 - Vial HP/MP cost increased from 25 => 40 cc - Flask HP/MP restore amount increased from 67 => 126 - Flask HP/MP cost increased from 50 => 80 cc - Bottle HP/MP restore amount increased from 110 => 169 - Bottle HP/MP cost increased from 100 => 120 cc
• Elixirs now restore a more consistent amount of HP/MP (within 7% of the average)
• Elixir cooldown increased from 0.5 => 1.0s
• Player inventories have been updated to reflect the above changes, with counts reduced appropriately
• Added small animation when drinking an elixir
• Bullet NPC sell price reduced from 1cc => 0.2cc
• Throwing knife NPC sell price reduced from 10 => 2 cc
• Equipment move speed modifiers are now displayed correctly when inspected
• Food nutrition values are now displayed when inspected, the value is equal to the number of seconds that the item may provide your character with natural regen when eaten
• Fireweed seed - NPC sell price reduced from 50 => 40cc
• Fireweed flower - NPC sell price reduced from 25 => 16 cc
• Xilis mushroom - NPC sell price increased from 20 => 45 cc - NPC buy price increased from 5 => 9 cc
• Woodsorrel flower (ooo I wonder why this was changed, what a mystery) - NPC sell price reduced from 16 => 12 cc
• Green substance added weight and updated description to help communicate that it has value
• Fixed a few minor item/object bugs
• Fixed garbled symbols on signs/descriptions

CONSOLE

• Combat report now displays experience to next skill level whenever skills are trained
• Added new 'calculate' console commands which prints out the relevant combat report
• Added new variable to accurately report item magic defense
• Fixed distance combat report typo
• Combat report now hides some irrelevant stats & decimals formatted for better readability
• Melee attack calculation command no longer works when unarmed
• Added missing calculation logging to monster ranged attacks
• Console errors are now printed to console instead of info channel
• Combat report for mdef no longer refers to "armor"
• Combat report now lists a separate value from item mdef

MAP

• The region of Eastebb is now PVP-enabled (with the exception of the town of Driftop)
• Brewing tutorial area improved - Cap on foraged plants is now ingredient-specific - Fixed misleading hints on some plants when trying to forage in wrong order - Added cauldron hints in same style as plants - Corrected mentions of health 'draft'
• Adjusted inaccessible web/spider alcoves in Shrachlor's lair so that she that can't hide in them
• Moved Eastebb North Cape boat teleport destination on top of the non-PVP hill with the NPC
• Replaced redundant map PVP warnings
• Arena now has a periodic block to rejoining the arena (on a simple timer: 30s on, 30s off). This is a slightly lazy way to provide what players have been asking for with restricting rejoining the arena after death
• Fixed various minor map bugs

NPCS

• Fixed various minor NPC bugs
• Added new auctioneer NPCs
• Added new NPCs to Brookton, Aylestone, and Driftop

MONSTERS

• Fixed various bugs and odd behaviours
• Adjusted monster talk colors
• Added monster ability visual feedback in the form of animations and 'talks' on/before casting
• Archenaid - Increased walk around rate slightly - Can now attack multiple times per turn - Decreased base damage
• Bear - May now charge at its targets
• Boar - Charge ability now deals bonus damage, and resets when > 2 sqm away from target
• Cave Troll - Increased chance and minimum damage from ranged attacks - Rocks now slightly slow players - Defense debuff when under 20% HP - Defense modifier on low HP reduced from *0.66% => *0.75
• Ferorn Morphis - Healing is now on a minimum cooldown of 6s
• Giant - Physical defense reduced by -7% - Added warning to ground smash - Abilities adjusted - Increased telegraph damage - Loot adjusted (no items removed)
• Gloptoad - Can now poison
• Helina - Gained a new bleed-causing ability
• Knight of the Protectorate - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability - Reduced telegraph damage - Fixed telegraph aim - Added new AOE frontal attack which affects the facing tile after a warning
• Maned Trow - Now throws pebbles when at range
• Mordrir - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability - Pathing behaviour adjusted - Firestorm ability now affects avatars even when stacked on the same tile - Firestorm ability damage reduced by -20% - Haste increased - Slow increased
• Mountain Troll - Experience corrected 455 => 480
• Nysandra - Adjusted poison tick
• Orc Legionnaire - Reduced chance of shield block triggering
• Orc Savage - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability - Enters rage when under 33% HP - Fixed cleave ability trigger - Defense debuff nerfed
• Orc Legionnaire - Now has a double hit ability
• Outlaw Archer - Gained a new ability
• Outlaw Bandit - Gained a new ability
• Outlaw Thief - Gained a new ability
• Predator - Reduced walk around rate slightly - Can now attack multiple times per turn - Decreased base damage
• Rhodosus - Now has a cooldown on it's charge
• Sal Cotton - Can now cause bleeding to players - Increased base damage - Reduced default melee damage - Old poison effect is now a bleed
• Shrachlor - Healing cooldown increased by +1s at all health levels - Added combat delay after heal by draining to give blockers a chance against the no-counterplay instadeath that would likely occur if another attack hit straight after - Damage bonus when very low HP reduced by -13% - Fixed LOS movement issue when target is at a certain distance
• Skeleton - Gained a moderate crit ability
• Skeleton Archer - Archer can cast Double Shot - Increased base damage
• Skeleton Warrior - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability - Increased base damage - Reduced telegraph damage - Telegraph now only hits frontal sqm - Animation for frenzy added
• Soil Golem - Increased base damage - Increased damage output slightly - Added an occasional crit with a warning
• Swamp Troll - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability
• Volent Brod - Added new AOE frontal attack with warning - Increased telegraph damage
• Warg - Can now cause bleeding to players - Heavily slow down players
• Wirathistle - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability
• Wiralof - Added minor slow on melee damage - Bleeding damage reduced - Pounce speed increased
• Witch - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability - Fixed pathing when in rage mode
• Witch Keka - Gained a new 'telegraphed' ability - AOE poison damage increased
• Wolf - Can slow down players
• Wyvern - Ability adjusted

OTHER

• Adjusted tile preference when going up/down stairs/ladders/holes according to the direction of the stair/ladder/hole
• Tile preference now specifically considered other stairs/holes, so you should never land on a stair or hole
• Tile preference may cause you to be placed on top of movement-blocking objects (if there are no other preferable tiles)
• Tile preference is now influenced by creatures (as a secondary concern over movement-blocking objects)
• Server now rejects new avatar names which match certain disallowed terms
• The system also supports partial-matching with these terms, but these will only be flagged up to us as suspicious (for manual review), rather than rejected outright

AUCTIONS

RENT

• Empo Sar (200 / sqm)
• Aylestone (250 / sqm)
• Yethil (250 / sqm)
• Mirai (300 / sqm)
• Driftop (300 / sqm)

MOVING OUT

RESTRICTIONS

HOUSE MANAGEMENT

OTHER CHANGES

STABILITY

• Fixed crash caused by having dexterity lower than 0
• Fixed crash relating to friend list not updating correctly on death

CLIENT

• Added setting to not prompt to split a stack when moving it
• Added option to auto-loot items into your main container on holding space and clicking LMB
• Added support for container auto-open height to be adjustable in the config file
• Fixed special characters in PM & public channels
• Added extra details on the relevant coin values on buying & selling items
• Fixed rendering bug in idle animations
• Optimised elastic camera

TIMARI BREWING TUTORIAL

• Added a basic brewing tutorial to the hill on the north-west side of town
• Moved potion/wand seller to the hill to the north-west of the market (old Apprentice Guild location)
• Moved Page/Apprentice guilds so that they're now next to one another, and placed between the temple and market

PVP ARENA

• Replaced the two team win levels with a single win level in the middle of the map
• Centred arena to allow for fair win lever placement and cleaner lobby area
• Moved the SE/SW capture points further north and more central
• Overall this should help to direct combat into a smallers area, making it more appealing for smaller teams

ABILITIES: KNIGHT

• New ability: Taunt
  • Forces all monsters within 2sqm to target the caster for a few seconds
  • Monster retargeting may take between 0-2s after the ability is cast due to the way that monster retargeting works
  • Duration scales with support skill:
  • Effect is ignored (but modifier not specifically removed) if is caster: is not within 2sqm of taunted monster; is not on same map level as taunted monster; is not in line-of-sight of taunted monster; is not attackable by taunted monster.

CAPACITY TESTING

• Added a console command to show your current/max capacity: show capacity. This is intended for feedback/testing purposes only
• Maximum capacity is based on strength and level

PVP PUSHING/SWAPPING

• Pushing is no longer possible if the destination tile is a PVP region
• Swapping is no longer possible if either the source or destination tile is a PVP region

MOVEMENT SPEED

• Increased base move speed by +8%
• Reduced scaling by level and dexterity to compensate for the above change; high level characters will not notice any difference in their move speed

STAIRS

• Adjusted stair behaviour to never place players on top of other stairs or stairholes

MONSTERS

• Shrachlor
  • Healing rate from damage dealt reduced by 50%
• Mordrir
  • Fixed bug that prevented healing ability from ever going on cooldown
• Giant
  • Physical defense reduced by -8%
  • Loot adjusted

NPCS

• Kurt feather quest bug fixed
• Marik long text on greeting shortened
• Hannah typo fixed

GRAPHICS

• Butcher NPC idle outfit mask fixed
• Flash Frost animation overlay parameters corrected
• Kettle decorative object stack parameter fixed
• Auto-close door color inconsistencies fixed

MISC

• Deflect ability description typo fixed
• Apple trees now also give leaves on taking apples

PLAYER HOUSING

SECOND SERVER IN AMERICA

TIMARI

DISCONNECTIONS

BALANCING

SKIN TONES

CAPACITY

DEATH LOSS REWORK

CLANS

OPEN PVP

MONSTER BEHAVIOUR IMPROVEMENTS

CLIENT USER EXPERIENCE IMPROVEMENTS

STATUS ICON IMPROVEMENTS

NORTHERN DAWN AREA UPDATE

BREWING

OUTFIT ADDONS

SUMMARY

A SMALL THANK-YOU TO OUR OLDEST PLAYERS

Some of you have been with us for over a decade. Many of you also supported us early on with donations, and this enabled us to keep a server online. We wouldn't be where we are now without you. So, for those of you who donated to us or actively contributed to our closed beta development, we've dropped a very small thank you into the bank/storage: a pair of Boots of Patience. THis gift is once-per email, so please check the bank of your highest level character.
• NOTE: This was done by checking for in-game accounts associated with supporter and closed beta email addresses. There was no level restrictions for supporters, but closed beta accounts had to have a level 10 or above on the account to qualify. If you were part of the closed beta, and think that you've been missed out. Please DM Rob in Discord.

PERFORMANCE

• Reduced the heal spam of various monsters when they have no target. Previously this could occur as much as 20 times a second. Now monsters only heal like this once a second, but at a higher rate. This shouldn't change their behaviour, but will slightly improve performance.

BUGS

• Fixed bug in Arian feather quest that caused him to repeatedly ask for feathers even after the players brought him some

COIN PRIORITY

• Lower value coins are now taken first when trading/exchanging (copper > silver > gold)

STAIRS

• Stairs now specifically reject teleporting players onto other stairs or stairholes
• Adjusted offset of ladders slightly to allow for outline to surround it completely

MONSTERS

• Several more monsters now self heal when they have no target:
  • Archenaid
  • Giant
  • Grorus
  • Lucenfly (because they weren't annoying enough already)
  • Orc Savage
  • Sal Cotton
  • Wiralof
• Giant (Tomb of Vril)
  • Giants in the Tomb of Vril no longer give any loot
• Shrachlor
  • AoE damage to heal ability now also affects players (previously it only affected other monsters)
  • Ranged missile attack damage reduced by -20%
• Mordrir
  • Reduced the cooldown reduction when taking damage from 1s/damage => 0.5s/damage
  • Increased fireball damage by +7%
• Blowbug
  • Experience reduced from 225 => 110 (level unchanged)
• Idle animations re-added to certain monsters
  • Wirathistle
  • Quagwyrm
  • Lucenfly

MAP

• Short bridge added between Timari and Greenwood to prevent luring of higher-level creatures into town

ITEMS: WAND STAT REDUCTIONS

• All wand stats have been reduced significantly. Historically, giving newly-promoted mages a single item that increases their magical damage by between 10-20% made sense, because magical skills increased much more slowly than physical combat stats, and there were as many items with magical stats. However, we now have more magical items (e.g. Boots of Nieanah, Magician's Gloves, Dragonskull Shield, Dragontooth Ring, Stormwitch Ring, Stormwitch Talisman, etc.), and magic skill learning rates have been increased considerably since then, and it is clear that the high stats on wands are a significant factor that contribute to the overpowered damage of low-level mages. Overall, this will mean a real-world damage reduction of 10-20% for low-level mages (who initially rely on the wand for almost all their damage buffs), and a reduction of 5-10% for higher levels (who have access to better gear with other magic stats).
• Base stats on all wands reduced from +10% => +5% (i.e. whenever an item had +10% before, it probably has +5% now)
• Low level wand stats reduced by -50%
• High-level wand stats reduced by -33%
• All new wand stats:
  • Spellcaster's wand: N5, D5, P5, S5
  • Sapling wand: N10, D5, P5, S5
  • Ember wand: N5, D10, P5, S5
  • Ram totem wand: N11, D5, P5, S8
  • Amethyst wand: N9, D9, P9, S9
  • Viper wand: N13, D5, P5, S5
  • Skull wand: N5, D11, P5, S8
  • Soulfire wand: N5, D12, P5, S5
  • Winged death wand: N5, D14, P5, S5
  • Cobra wand: N15, D5, P5, S5
  • Whistling wand: N14, D5, P12, S5
  • Wildwood wand: N14, D5, P5, S12
  • Necromantic wand: N5, D14, P5, S14
  • Dragonbreath wand: N5, D16, P9, S5
  • Stormwitch Lantern: N14, D14, P5, S5
  • Plague wand: N18, D5, P5, S5
  • Vehement wand: N5, D18, P5, S5
  • Stemsoul wand: N16, D16, P5, S5
  • Tempest Lantern: N18, D16, P5, S5
  • Havoc wand: N5, D20, P5, S5
  • Maelstrom wand: N20, D5, P5, S5
  • Lantern of Nieanah: N17, D19, P5, S5
  • For the 2 players who own another wand that isn't currently on the wiki, and so has not been included here: check your backpack!

ITEMS: MISC

• Fixed missing names for a few in-game decorative items
• Dragonscale Armor
  • Description typo fixed
• Malieran Battle Robe Leggings
  • Magic defense reduced from 4 => 3
  • Ranged damage buff reduced from 3% => 2%
• Malieran Battle Robe
  • Physical defense reduced from 22 => 21
  • Magic defense reduced from 10 => 8
  • Melee damage reduced from 7% => 5%
  • Ranged damage reduced from 7% => 4%
• Shrachlor's Leggings
  • Fixed bug with it not being pickup-able
• Shrachlor's Helmet
  • Fixed bug with it not being pickup-able
• Felhur's Dreadhammer
  • Attack reduced 80 => 77
• Witherfear warhammer
  • Attack increased 78 => 79

SKILLS

• Knight Defense skill learning formula base value reduced from 1.137 => 1.135 (faster skill learning)
• Rogue Dagger skill learning formula base value reduced from 1.152 => 1.15 (faster skill learning)
• Rogue Throwing skill learning formula base value reduced from 1.152 => 1.15 (faster skill learning)

ABILITIES: SHAMAN

• Swarm
  • Reduced damage scaling curve slightly. Peak damage is unchanged, but the build up/down is now slightly slower
• Virulence
  • Target damage output debuff now scales with caster's stats
  • Slowed down last few damage ticks so that ability now lasts
  • Updated description to clarify that the 'damage based on target HP' is actually only part of the damage calculation
• Harvest
  • Increased regen scaling by stats by +20%
  • Reduced base regen/shield scaling based on damage by -50%
  • NOTE: Overall this is a big nerf, and increases the need for players to use support equipment to make full use of the ability

ABILITIES: KNIGHT

• Armament
  • Increased scaling of defense debuff based on stats
  • Mana cost reduced from 90MP => 70MP
  • Cooldown reduced from 40s => 35s

• Riposte
  • Reflected damage total is now capped based on caster's defense stats (calculated defense value * 0.2)

ABILITIES: ROGUE

• Barbarous Throw
  • Mana cost reduced from 50MP => 40MP
• Disembowel
  • Mana cost reduced from 75 MP => 60MP
• Impale
  • Mana cost reduced from 60MP => 50MP

ABILITIES: RANGER

• Glacial Imbue
  • Attack animation no longer displays when the target is not within LOS

ABILITIES: WIZARD

• Absorb
  • Delay between timeout warning animation and effect being removed increased 1600ms => 2400ms

DISCONNECTIONS

• Fixed a bug that caused some of the client disconnection issues that many players have suffered from
• We are aware of one other cause of this

PUSHING

• It's no longer possible to push players into stairs or stairholes.
• Note: it is still possible to push people into 'green-swirly teleports'...

ITEMS

• Fixed incorrectly assigned action type of barrels and a few other world objects

MONSTER BEHAVIOUR

• Removed duplicated speed buffs/debuffs cast by various monsters. There were previously used to smooth out the speed changes. But thanks to changes to the way the client handles movement speed in the last patch, this is no longer necessary.
• Soil Golem
  • Fixed bug that caused golem to become passive after first hit
• Wyvern
  • Tuned how HP affects movement speed
  • Reduced speed debuff calls because it was getting called way too often

MONSTER LOOT CHANGES

• Orc Magus
• Mordrir

ABILITIES: CLERIC

• Smite
  • Primary target damage reduced -20%
  • Heal fraction by damage increased +20%
• Restoration
  • Cooldown increased from 10s to 15s (NOTE: The old cooldown was functionally only 5s, since the ability's effect lasted for 5s)

ABILITIES: SORCERER

• Flash Frost
  • Duration increased from 2.4s to 3s

ABILITIES: KNIGHT

• Armament
  • Defense debuff now scales with stats
  • Temporarily added a yellow 'combat text' to appear on ability casting, which shows the defense buff you'll receive (will be removed later, this is just useful for testing)

• STABILITY
  • Fixed crash caused by buying from store and disconnecting
  • Fixed potential crash caused by a certain monster ability
• CLIENT
  • Added a new CTRL + (default: Ctrl-R) option to semi 'auto-stack' a container by hovering over the container. This works by looking for similar items in the hovered container and stacking them together where possible.
  • Containers may now open with a height such that 2 rows are displayed (find this in: Settings > General > Gameplay)
  • Fixed how client handles movement speed changes (i.e. speed buffs/debuff), so that it no longer causes stuttered movement when changes are applied whilst moving between tiles
  • Added a bit of delay to movement caching to reduce the chance of moving 2 tiles at once
  • Tutorial messages now have a blinking 'I' to get more attention.
  • Tutorial messages now stay visible longer depending on their message length
  • Fix bug in rendering screenshots in widescreen-mode
  • Rearranged general settings: 'Gameplay', 'Interface', 'Esthetics' and 'Miscellaneous'
  • Adding more detail to all the setting option descriptions in 'general', 'consoles' and 'functions'
  • Removed 'Screen Status' setting which showed the red highlights around screen edges when taking damage (only applied to the old UI)
  • Removed 'network' settings window
  • 'Report' button moved into top left and links to discord
  • Coloring the new 'report' button red and the 'how to guide' green
  • On death the 'logout' button will blink
  • Added extra information to Store process to inform users on switching there driver to OpenGL if the Steam page does not popup
  • Fixed handling of 'hidden' NPCs with no name. They are now no longer attackable/followable, no longer show empty, and no longer shows ":" on speech
  • Fixed a bug in onscreen paragraphs duration of visibility
• ARENA PVP TRAINING
  • PVP training in the arena has been disabled. This was allowed until now in order to encourage players to visit the arena. BUt as many of you know, more people were using it for semi-AFK training than for PVP. We apologise for the delay on removing this.
  • A few accounts have been banned for using macros in the arena. However, no one has, nor will be, punished for using the arena simply for training. This is for two reasons:
  • We never said that it was against the rules
  • We don't log much data about what characters do in the arena, so it's not possible for us to determine how much players actually gained skills by this method
• MONSTERS
  • Fixed neutral monster movement when not aggroed
  • Fixed monster movement when target is not reachable
  • Mordrir
    • Now self-heals with cooldown reduced with every incoming damage hit
    • Movement around blocking objects improved
    • If the current target is out of LOS but can be reached, then Mordrir may haste to catch up
    • Reduced stat debuff whilst in 'fire breath' mode by 30%
    • Firestorm ability is no longer blocked by an ongoing fire breath
  • Shrachlor
    • Movement speed increased +10%
  • Witch Freia
    • Close range damage increased
    • Now walks randomly to escape when running away from target
  • Soil Golem
    • Movement pattern bug fixed
• MONSTER LOOT CHANGES
  • Witch Rosice
  • Witch Freia
  • Witch Keka
  • Witch
  • Nysandra Celistriel
  • Sirl Imparo (dummy)
  • Sirl Imparo
• MONSTER PHYSICAL DEFENSE TWEAKING
  • Archenaid
  • Brown Bear
  • Cave Troll
  • Goblin Witchmaster
  • Lord Volent
  • Maned Trow
  • Ostren
  • Outlaw Bandit
  • Outlaw Thief
  • Pisaura
  • Predator
  • Protectorate Knight
  • Rhodosus
  • Rioter
  • Soil Golem
  • Swamp Troll
  • Warg
  • Wiralof
  • Witch Freia
  • Wyvern
• MONSTER MAGICAL DEFENSE TWEAKING (MK2)
  • Archenaid
  • Beetle
  • Brown Bear
  • Cave Troll
  • Frog
  • Goblin Witchmaster
  • Grorus
  • Helina Floretty
  • Hill Giant
  • Huntsman
  • Maned Trow
  • Mountain Troll
  • Orc Beastmaster
  • Orc Hunter
  • Orc Legionnaire
  • Orc Savage
  • Outlaw Bandit
  • Outlaw Hunter
  • Pisaura
  • Predator
  • Protectorate Knight
  • Rhodosus
  • Rioter
  • Rioter
  • Sirl Imparo Dummy
  • Skeleton
  • Skeleton Archer
  • Skeleton Warrior
  • Soil Golem
  • Swamp Troll
  • Warg
  • Wiralof
  • Witch Keka
  • Wolf
  • Wyvern
• ABILITIES: PAGE
  • Penetrating Strike
    • Cooldown reduced from 15s => 14s
• ABILITIES: APPRENTICE
  • Cursed Ground
    • Target defense debuff now scales slightly with nature/destruction skill (9% - 13%)
    • Fixed bug with nature skill not being considered in damage calculation
• ABILITIES: KNIGHT
  • Riposte
    • Now reflects any incoming attack (including ranged and magic), but only if the aggressor is within 1 sqm (previously this only worked against monsters with combined magic/physical attacks)
    • No longer grants the caster bonus movement speed on a successful riposte
  • Heroic Strike
    • Cooldown reduced from 18s => 15s
    • Facing direction attack value increase by +5%
• ABILITIES: SHAMAN
  • Doom
    • Base percentage bonus reduced from 20% => 14%

• Fixed bug with not being able to cast abilities from hotkey if bound to a symbol
• Fixed bug where holding one hotkey down blocked others

• After reviewing the feedback of players over the last couple of weeks, we're making broad increases to the magic defense of lower-level monsters. With magic defense increases in low-level monsters increasing by between 5-25%. Most lower-level creatures previously had magic defense much, *much* lower than their physical defense. And this has causes some serious imbalances in the early-game between magical and physical combat users. Full list of changed monsters:
  • Badger
  • Bear
  • Boar
  • Chicken
  • Frog
  • Goat
  • Goblin
  • Goose
  • Huntsman
  • Maggot
  • Maned Trow
  • Orc Beastmaster
  • Orc Bowman
  • Orc Hunter
  • Orc Legionnaire
  • Orc Magus
  • Orc Savage
  • Orc
  • Ostren
  • Outlaw Bandit
  • Outlaw Hunter
  • Outlaw Thief
  • Rhodosus
  • Rioters (all)
  • Rooster
  • Skeleton
  • Skeleton Archer
  • Skeleton Warrior
  • Snake
  • Squirrel
  • Troll Cave
  • Troll Mountain
  • Troll Swamp
  • Trow
  • Warg
  • Webweaver
  • Wolf
  • Zombie
  • Zombie Fiend
  • Zombie Plaguebearer

• Giant
  • Change target chance reduced by -50%
• Wyvern
  • Change target chance reduced by -60%
  • "SHREEEE" ability cooldown increased from 4s => 8s, but this is reduced by 75% when taking damage over 150 within 0.5s
  • HP increased from 800 to 1000
  • Physical defense increased from 150 => 160
  • Magical defense increased from 150 => 175

• Glacial Imbue
  • Increased glacial imbue ice crystal duration 6s => 7s
  • Increased glacial imbue per-crystal rupture end damage
  • Projectile custom animation added
• Static Shot
  • Increased damage by +20%
  • Increased slow from -15% => -20%
  • Increased damage split when multiple targets are affected
• Barkskin
  • Increased shield size by +10%
  • Shield is now calculated based on protection & nature
  • Reduced shield replenishment time from 3s => 2.5s
• Homing Shot
  • Increased damage by +10%

• Enrage
  • Now generates stacks on dealing damage (as well as taking hits)

• Fixed tile-targeted ability offset when moving
• Fixed inconsistencies with facing direction when moving and turning with Ctrl
• Tweaks to WASD diagonal movement to make it feel less 'slidey'
• Fixed hotkeys not working when holding WASD to move diagonally
• Added a 'trade' button to NPC shops (no auto-stacking on this yet)
• Fixed pasting of special characters
• Fixed monster idle animation outlines
• Fixed outline alignment on non-moving objects
• Fixed offset on certain animated items when buying/selling to NPC (e.g. worms)
• Fixed 'auto-looting' bug
• Added noble account section in 'How to guide'
• Updated client default settings

• Added support for adaptive packet sizes. This gives us a lot more breathing room when it comes to player load.

• Remapped parts of Timari sewers, making them more easily navigated
• Eastebb Orc Fortress Sacrificial chambers quest updated to be considerably more challenging
• Various minor map bugs fixed

• Experience is no longer granted to party members if they (A) did no damage, and (B) aren't within visual range of the dying creature.

• Adjusted the offset of certain ladders so that they're a little more user-friendly for players unfamiliar with the game

• Beer bottle price updated to reflect that it is acutally a bottle
• Steel gauntlets weight increased from 910 => 1200
• Shield of Flames correctly renamed from 'emposian shield'
• Arbalest attack value increased from 50 => 51
• Felhur's warhammer sell price increased from 500 => 5000

• Shrachlor's drain/self healing now deals true damage based on each target's current HP instead of an attack/defender combat calculation
• Shrachlor's targeting now favours avatars with lower relative HP
• Witch Rosice healing increased to make up for not always self healing when no target (this is happening because monsters 'sleep' when there isn't a player nearby, and Rosice's spawn is too far from shore)
• Giant level increased more in line with it's new difficulty from 50 => 58
• Giant experience increased more in line with it's new difficulty from 600 => 655
• Grorus combat behaviour updated to be more in-line with Giants
• Protectorate Knight healing when no target available increased by +100%
• Volent Brod now heals properly when no target available

• Wyvern
• Mordrir

• Quickshot
  • Reduced number of projectiles fired from Quickshot from 3 to 2 (still with 150ms delay between shots)

• Harvest
  • Duration reduced 10s => 8s
  • HP/MP regen per damage tick reduced by -60%
  • Shield regen per damage tick reduced by -40%
  • Shield now degenerates after duration at a rate of -15% / s
• Doom
  • Reduced debuff base amount from 25% => 22%
  • Increased debuff scaling with stats
• Ensnare
  • Bonus damage is now dealt on the second tick (600ms) instead of first (300ms)
  • Reduced bonus tick damage (above) by -25%