A few minor fixes following this weekend's update.

* Blood Lich now tameable
* Guildstone particle effect should decay/not stick around forever
* Fix for gauntlet event
* Added another name to fallen warrior memorial - Master Mike
* Tackle Box and Message in a Bottle can now be used from boat
* Removed buoy spawn that was too close to GDI land
* Reduced degrade chance on Carbon Knife to about 30%
* Valinor items all adjusted to have 500 item health
* Fixed erroneous tooltip for Banana Pie
* Fix in print for newbie blunt trainer
* Ruby's chat with player has a weird # in it
* Duprik will accept raft DEEDS instead of raft obj itself
* Fix for guild vaults not being able to be stored
* Fix for particle effect shmear on guildstone pink particle
* Corgeryn typo
* Adjust to fishing pole chances on some quest stages that were too punishing
* Grammar fix in Midnight warrior quest
* Mage chair deed now droppable as the other pieces are
* Fixed some areas of Graal's dragon cave that dragons could spawn into walls
* Exterior Plant 4 given its own unique plant type; was being turned into house plant 4 when stored
* Fixed issue where player couldn't progress if using a mask on corgeryn's quest
* Fixed chance to get silver if ToF disabled and you have level 100 mining
* Fixed dialogue issue with Paezer's quest
* Increased restore kit values from 5/25/50 to 10/50/100 for a total change from 150 > 300
* Reduced item degrade to 10 from 20 (was 5)
* Guild chat color fix

Construction Changes
Major work was done on the construction system to make it possible to store your player home or guild hall in the event of a foreclosure with the opportunity to then replace those homes after re-subscribing, for a gold cost. Our growing player base and real estate market also necessitated the creation of a new map layer just for homes/halls. The work done allowed us an opportunity to expand our support tools to assist guilds in the event of a leader who goes missing or is deleted, and our support team can search all guild information, an option previously not available.

IMPORTANT: For the first 30 days after this patch, we are not enabling foreclosures to happen. You will possibly still receive messages about it. But you will need to make sure you are up to date on your VIP subscription on or before April 1, 2024.

▸ New Housing Menu (Z button)
o Shows your current homes, locations, and construction status (in progress/livable/foreclosed) along with VIP expiration date down to the minute
o Login messages to inform you of VIP subscription time if you are within 30 days of expiration. Once subscription expires, there is a grace period of 30 days before the house is removed/stored.
o Allows you to replace your last foreclosed/destroyed home for a gold cost
 Home replacement: 15,000,000
 Guild Hall replacement: 150,000,000
o Admin capability of providing additional support for housing related issues
▸ New Map Layer
o Travel to the housing map by portals placed outside Parian, Krog, Josody, and from within Lotor’s Summer Palace. Each corresponds to a new city. See #dev-blog for more details
o Themed areas of interest to set up your house or guild hall
o Minimap now show location of your guild or player hall (while you are on that map), also calls an uber for you if you’d had a bit too much Lotor’s Pale Ale
▸ Construction Additions
o Drinks that boost skills and orbs available for sale from various towns in the new housing map. Bendy straws not included. Other fun and useful things for sale in these new shops.
o Some new NPCs that offer fun perks and other enjoyable side activities, such as insulting you, trying to get you to buy an extended warranty on your artifacts, questionable birthday celebrations, revealing your fortune, staring at you blankly
o Trophies from bosses and normal mobs that can be placed in your hall with use of Blueprint, a new token store item. We will gradually be rolling out more of these. Boss trophies are generally no drop, if your guild needs to know for drop rules.
▸ New crafted containers that can be placed in your house/hall and placed with Blueprints.
▸ Vouchers – deeds that allow you to make/store/giveaway new containers (crafted with various tradeskills, for ex, voucher for a feather box made with carpentry)
▸ Horse Tie obj (placed with Deed, existing item) allows you to summon temp farm animals.
▸ Fixes/QoL changes
o Sledgehammer lets you take placed items as deeds, does not destroy (including empty containers)
o Most everyone will need to rebind Soulstone settings (regardless of if bound to homeportal or Innkeeper) to correct an issue that allowed players to teleport into house locations they no longer owned
o Guild Portals can now be placed in guild hall, or home if you are a guild leader. Make and use Guildstones to travel to them. Guildstones bind upon use. Shares VIP Soulstone timer/delay. Portal deed and stone are crafted with Sky Crystals and high levels of Runecrafting.

Fishing Changes
Major changes were made to fishing to allow for more meaningful progression through the skill. This included a rework of fishing chances, bonuses to fishing equipment, and an entire line of fishing quests including standalone and repeat quests.

▸ New fishing quest line starting with Paezer in Whisperdale (requires the Silvest quest from Ceric and level 5 fishing to start)
o One quest every 10 levels to bring players through fishing up to level 90, with an ending master quest
o Message in a Bottle: no drop repeatable fishing quests unlocked at skill level 20
o Treasure Maps: Unlocked upon reaching master quest line; see below for more info
▸ New fishing equipment including but not limited to:
o Casting Nets (sewn with 5 imbued malacinth at level 50 tailoring, req level 30 flycasting to use)
o Tackle Box (obtainable during quest)
o Waders (obtainable during quest)
o Other fun and silly possibly useless items to fill your banks
o Two new followers
▸ New fish types; at this time they cannot be roasted
▸ Treasure Maps: a no drop item that does not stack. May only have 1 active at a time. Dig at random coordinates using a Treasure Trowel (crafted with 3 Heartwood at level 53); chance for spell scrolls, useful new items, garbage, fishing equipment, and some very rare things. Requires you to be at start of the master quest to obtain or use them (90+ fishing)
▸ Fishing Tournament reviewed/updated
o Announcements given and time left in event presented when signing up
o Contest lasts 2 hours now instead of indefinitely
o Contests can be started by players with 10 event tickets
o Record your wins and win while online; collect at any time after winning
▸ Gatherer’s Cloak works with lobster traps/oyster buckets
▸ Fishing Lures adjusted (hp down, rarity up); cooldown on lures to discourage macroing
▸ Fishing art in general was reviewed and updated (SoC fish, mystical marlin)


SOC Map/Spawn Changes
Our design team reviewed SoC in general and decided some changes would assist with progression and pvp flow. In addition, there is a new quest in honor of Chaos Season 9 winner Midnight. That quest begins in Rahura. It is a difficult quest.
▸ GDI got a small redesign to allow hunting, including Graal’s cave, without ToF
▸ Some items associated with that area that were marked ToF are now marked SoC
▸ A new dragon type was added along with a few new weapons
▸ Tunnels and land bridges added to alleviate PVP chokepoints and create some circulation to GDI and dragon lands
▸ Wurms added to other spawn areas South of Khafra, on the Artonian island, and in tunnels to GDI from north of Rahura
▸ Watcher entrance changed; watcher now above ground near the portal entrance, a new exit added to blue level to lava field, stone stairs exit behind portal entrance
Events
The Gauntlet Event is now released and available for you to enjoy at your own leisure for 4 event tickets. Enter without any items equipped or in backpack (yes, you have to remove your own frickin’ boat) and attempt to survive a maze of increasingly difficult creatures with only a few pots, bandages and one very brave flame arrow. The farther in you go, the greater the prize! To enter, speak to the Armsmaster in South Parian (just east of the South Parian Bank, near the weapons shop).

Leadership
Leadership was redesigned to make it more simple to obtain followers with the whips etc and make them more helpful. Several weapons were retrofitted for the Druid class which summon followers (see below for details). Many require a Druid build or something similar.
▸ No longer requires a certain orb to tame creatures. What you tame depends on player level only. Except high-level giants; those require Frieda’s Flayer.
▸ # of creatures you can tame is a flat/fixed value of 2 at leadership skill 30, 3 at 60.
▸ New item to help instruct; leadership guidebook; obtain at weapons shops
▸ Changes to many existing weaps to allow better progression for druids (evenly split STR/DEX/INT builds that focus on leadership and mixed melee/magic):
▸ Cedar Staff of Druid
▸ Spellshrieker Sabre
▸ Scimitar of the Scorpion (guess what it summons!)
▸ Gazegouger Bladestaff
▸ Staff of the River Serpent (not a serpANT)
▸ Bow of Nature (summons a level 100 Rick Flair)


Other Changes
Since this was such a long turnaround, and some of the team had extra time, we also fixed and adjusted a number of other bugs and design issues. See below.

A reminder if you haven’t done so to pay a visit the memorial section of LSP. We sadly updated it to include a player whom many of you knew and played together with on the Legends server, Mr. Brownstone, who passed recently. If there are other names to be added to this area, please let us know.


Monsters
▸ Bonesnarl nerfed slightly, given a new ring and trophy
▸ Minor adjustments added Full Metal Ore chance to Ignis, Tangled Hide chance to Greenteeth, slightly increased Ghast chance to drop Spectral Cloth.
▸ Reduced drop chance of misc magic table on lower lvl mobs that drop them
▸ Reduced Arrow Resistance on several monsters:
• Greater Skeleton 80% -> 30%
• Large River Caiman 75% -> 35%
• Zombie Gorilla Guardian 75% -> 45%
• Fire Elemental 50% -> 30%
• River Caiman 50% -> 25%
▸ Gelatinous Cubes changed to Solo tag
▸ Reduced resistances from 100% to 80-85% for Hound of Cerebus and Carrion Feeder
▸ Python Stats and difficulty raised slightly

Map
▸ New player tombstone marker on the map for added visibility
▸ Fixed some swamp water where Matriarchs can spawn in and summon player into swamp
▸ Fixed a few areas at orc reaver mining entrance where players can get trapped
▸ Fixed several mountain areas where flying creatures could spawn in and get stuck
▸ Slight redo of GDI (expanded <<), tunnel added from North of Rahura
▸ Land bridge from wurms gate added >> to relieve PVP chokes somewhat
▸ Additional exit on blue dragon level, changes to the entry level design
▸ Fix for dragons caves; lots of black areas and out of place chunks backfilled

Tradeskills
▸ Various craft tools/resources marked properly
▸ Tailor trainer gives more info about how to get wool if player speaks again
▸ Fix for newbie leather crafter (was looking at any kind of crafted, not specifically leather leggings.
▸ Fix for chef's cap not degrading on failed mix
▸ Mystic orb of alchemy working again; now no drop
▸ Allowing players to farm malacinth in greater quantities underground
▸ Golih quest req 35 instead of 25 now
▸ New high level alchemy potion which will allow you to change your skin color: Potion of Skin Change. You must find the recipe. Locked to your race type skin colors only.
▸ Carbon filet knife no longer craftable; must hunt! Less HP on knife as well

Spawns
▸ Reduced respawn of Talazarian spies
▸ Raised Dark Guardian encounter limits.
▸ Shadow dragons added to blue level
▸ Adjust to GDI and Blues L1 next to Anby (more spawns)
▸ More wurm spawns (artonian island, coast >> of Lava Mold, tunnel to GDI)

Items
▸ Fixed missing Jewelry family for Warding Amulet of the North, Lotor's Wedding Ring, Wyvern's Eye, The Warlord's Essence
▸ Removed King Kobolds drops outside of his spear. Made King Kobold Spear no-drop /no value.
▸ Fix for stats on ring of cyclops artifact; mismatch between tooltip and stats
▸ Newbie mage gear (sash/rings) given slight boost
▸ All sickles are now 1-handed weaps
▸ Adjusted damage and speed on Axe of Cleaving and Champion Axe
▸ Fix for Thrakk's Guantlets to make the naming convention more orc intellect appropriate.
▸ Removed ability to accidentally sell some irreplaceable items (quest items etc)
▸ Ring of Northwind adjust to make it a more exciting quest reward
▸ Voidhammer adjust
▸ Removed 400 mage skill req on Hammer of the Ancient Gods
▸ Sword of Ryonkah req 70 STR/INT, 6 rune slots
▸ Adjust to Wyvern Scale and Pristine Dragon Sets
▸ Ettin hide reduced to level 40req, inc drop rates
▸ Removed STR req on swashbuckler set
▸ Neptune INT req lowered to 70
▸ Wyvern Scale set req level 110
▸ Warmage’s Fury req 70 INT; proc rate adjusted
▸ Deathmaul proc rate adjusted up some
▸ The Burning Ring: added +10 Crit_Blast
▸ Several containers could not be used from a boat, now should work (most new containers, Santa’s big Sack, Cavendish’s Cauldron, Scroll Case, etc)

Spells
▸ Misery spell changes; is now a damage spell with minor heal, better exp return
▸ Disruption now requires line of sight

Quests
▸ Additional faction checks in neutral quest; was not including all possible faction types (there are 3 neutral possibilities)
▸ Fixed quest skill reward in the Krog Fishing quest to reward FlyCasting (was giving "Fishing" which is the category not subcategory)
▸ Added progress update prints for defaced lizard totem quest (Vesos)
▸ Newbie trainer quests on Valinor are no longer bugged in various ways; can be taken simultaneously/not abandoned. Rewards made consistent regarding stage. Upped gold rewards. Leadership gives bandages + gold.
▸ New Quest (go find it!) allows players to gain ability to change their hairstyle from bald to bald or bald to Mohawk, or Mohawk back to bald, which are the only two acceptable hairstyles. Moustaches not included.
▸ Min Level on Dransik Trading Mercenary quests set to 40

The Junk Drawer
▸ Fixed alignment of Captain Rictor match town alignment
▸ Fixed typo in item restore tools - "minium" and "maximun"
▸ Fix for a few innkeepers who did not have the location check on binding soulstone
▸ Updated print to player for consistency: Farmers Ring > Farming Ring
▸ Typo in Lightning bolt spell ("lighting bolt")
▸ Wrong quest group for a scroll quest
▸ Lots of “flavor” npcs added in various cities to liven the world and instruct player, plus a few new fun things for you to find/use/acquire: Valmond, Hammerfist, Duremar, Meroven, Khafra, Chlera
▸ 10 bandages added to Lord Trembley’s welcome kit, and a coupon for all you can eat spider legs
▸ Added gold value to Pirate Earring
▸ Scroll of the Foul Horde check for newbie flag, and it was made more a touch more foul
▸ Some spell scrolls can be purchased from select mage shops/temples (Silvest, Krog, Whisperdale, Parian, LC, Jos). Scroll of Isos/Veldan/Ulthien’s blessing reduced to 5 charges, retail for 2.5M gold
▸ Spell Scroll’s final use no longer locks you in conversation
▸ Removed bonus alacrity +15 dex from minor spell scroll
▸ GMs can now notify you that they paid a visit and left a message
▸ Thanksgiving event modified some
▸ Jail enhancements, GM Jail additions for chronic, cruel and tragic shenanigans; does not include pistol whipping for mentioning word shenanigans
▸ Trash Barrel informs player of what happens to items put inside of it
▸ Throwing Nets check for level diff – can only be used by someone within 20 levels of you
▸ No more disparin’ during the KoT event; KoT’s should not cast spells on each other like a pair of rascals

The SoC Update - 11.14.2023

A rework and update of one of the iconic expansions for Ashen Empires - Sands of Creation. This content has been due for an update to bring it in line with the rest of the game experience. We focused on improving map design and item stats/drops to help more groups progress through content. A new NPC - the Shadow Dragon - and additional hunting grounds, updated Dragon caves, and more exits/entrances throughout should make it more varied and dynamic.

Other work to note in this update are with Faction Dungeons and the Broken Finger dungeon. These, too, needed a bit of an update to fit them for PvP settings and for overall ease of use.

A more detailed patch notes especially regarding specific item changes can be found on our Discord server:
https://discord.gg/VUvMj8z9

Happy Hunting!

• Added New Dragon Coast with heavier spawns of younger dragons meant as a group challenge
  
• New dragon type Shadow Dragon, small chance to spawn on New Dragon Coast, also spawn on Nithhogr level
  
• One way entrance to new Dragon coast through Fire Elemental Cave

• Added extra loops in Dragon Caves, modified flow so it's less linear in nature with some less direct routes/side loops, added escape portals (one per level, one-way) back to previous level at various locations
  
• Dragon Eggs now have colors reflective of their parent dragon

• Warlord Vinteruul spawning mechanic has been readjusted, is now a summoned spawn using Talazarian Emblem, still requires quest in order to spawn
  
• Vinteruul now leashed to his room, similar to dragon bosses
  
• RNG on clicking horns and statue removed, this will be a single click per step, and he will spawn (statue will disappear for 10 minutes and may then be spawned again if you have the proper item)
  
• The Lich Prince has moved into the Lotorian Dungeon with Warlord Vinteruul
  
• Added Talazarian Blood Cleric spawns around Lich Prince's new room and above in Vinteruul's castle
  
• Secret exit/entrances added to this fortress
  
• Fix for being unable to progress on Lotorian faction quest if not on PVE server
  
• Added 5 new items to Warlord Vinteruul

• Trigger spawn chances added/adjusted (similar to Asterion) for bosses
  
• Broken Finger Dungeon changed to not require a party for entry/access to full dungeon (you may still need a friend or two to survive!)
  
• BFD pass countdown timer should suspend when player leaves the dungeon now (only uses when you are in hunting)

• Added underground passage between Redwake and Rahura
  
• Removed evil spawn gate on Khafra island
  
• Added alternative passage from Rahura Water Elemental Cave to cross river to area before the gatekeeper; no longer a single bridge as a chokepoint
  
• Portal from Fire Elemental Cave (Khafra) to SE corner of New Dragon Coast, one-way, use at your own risk
  
• Added entrance/exits to Horned One (neutral faction dungeon) on charred island and dunk’s dungeon
  
• Added entrance and/or exits in Ghost of Lotor (talazarian faction dungeon) on Salamander and Crypt levels

• Increased amount of caimans to spawn (min/max limits)
  
• Added Desert Giant Noble as a rare spawn in Desert Giant spawns (split spawn)
  
• Added more dedicated Desert Giant Noble spawn locations
  
• Added Titan Scorpion spawns southeast of Rahura across the river
  
• Added/increased Titan Scorpion spawns in Blacktail's lair
  
• Increased chance of Sandsting spawning instead of placeholder
  
• Faster respawn for Lava Mold, randomized, no longer drops magical items
  
• Fixed several encounters that were despawning during an SI due to a config issue
  
• Fixed some mountains where creatures could spawn inside and get trapped (Josody/RT, TR/Snow Elves)
  
• Faster respawn timers and better randomized timers for:

• Ancient Crystal Wyverns and Mannabrottur are now tied to expansion flags, if Tides of Fate is disabled they will drop nothing
  
• Dragon NPC resistance adjusts (each dragon now has one magery resist that they are weaker against)
  
• BFD/Talazarian/Lotorian dungeon creature difficulty slightly increased by scaling hitpoints upwards to better match Asterion Minos
  
• Caimans changed to land creatures
  
• New Item Summoned Followers - Blood Cleric, Crypt Guardian
  
• Vessel of Isos now has 0 hitpoint regen and does not damage player
  
• Removed Valinor Orb Reset limits
  
• Removed Bonesnarl killcount limit
  
• Town Guardian reduced to solo/duo difficulty, he's now basically a difficult guard
  
• Minor mechanics adjustments to Sir Lancel (Attack Range, Pounce), Crypt Protector Hobensnarl (Ethereal), High Priest Volsey (New Spells), Krank Bruut (Teleport), Der Schlaechter (Knockback), The Lich Prince (New Spells)
  
• Artonian Hassassin removed Disease resistance
  
• Adjusted Dragon Heal to have a low/medium/high replenish amount instead of just low/high, resulting in less chance of a high 50% heal
  
• Sand Golem, Desert Giant, Desert Giant Noble all lost their MIND (resistance)
  
• Sand Golem gained 50% Nature and 80% Soul resistance
  
• Guards in SoC received some survival training
  
• Set type of crabs to be vermin instead of sea creatures (if swim type, sea creature, if land, not a sea creature)
  
• Added reindeer to animal group for DTM counts
  
• Removed solo tag from Small Skeleton
  
• Removed social tag from Minos since they have no allied types

• Removed generic Mainlands loot tables from many SoC creatures, added their respective SoC table in some cases as it was missing
  
• Adjusted boss tables in BFD and Faction dungeons to reflect their shorter respawn times, removed useless items (Mainlands tables)
  
• Removed generic Mainlands loot tables from all Faction Dungeon creatures (excluding Salamanders/Basilisks area of Talazarian cave)
  
• Removed generic Mainlands loot tables from BFD creatures
  
• Claws of Overwhelming Darkness and Virulent Axe removed from tables used in SoC/Faction Dungeons, instead added to ToF/110 bosses
  
• Scroll of the Ancients no longer drops from Ghost of Lotor I
  
• Amulet of the Dark Mage removed from Nithhogr and added to Young Dragon tables
  
• Faction dungeon creatures have a chance to drop all pieces of armor sets within the dungeons, mini bosses drop at a much higher rate
  
• Neutral dungeon rates reduced considerably on Level 1 for legacy Horned One items
  
• Ghost of Lotor I and Warlord Vinteruul have new powerful items as a rare drop
  
• Raised rates for Rune Armor on hell monsters
  
• Added Rune Armor loot table to Lord Tserith
  
• Slight increase to Fresh Mead rates in Frieda Dungeon
  
• Increased Beekeeper rare table on Queen and Warriors, reduced common tables inversely
  
• Slightly increased Caiman Teeth drop count to 1-2 at a time
  
• Sand Wurms are still just as annoying, but now drop Mystic Orbs and Magic Skinning Knife in their new loot table
  
• Added new items to Warlord Vinteruul and Ghost of Lotor

• Adjusted buff spells to have increased rune charge costs per cast but significantly lower fail chances if player has appropriate skill requirement
  
• Nullify changed to a 1 rune spell and reduced cast difficulty substantially
  
• Slightly reduced 8 slot spell damage boost from Northern Cleric's Staff, Northern Wizard's Staff, Staff of Prismatic Waves
  
• Reduced Int modifier on Ice Bolt and capped damage at 450
  
• Added purple (A3) color to claw/exposure messages when they wear off for more visibility
  
• 6 New Scrolls that can cast a variety of class and tier based spells; these are on a trial basis for now and available through events

• Dragonian Skinning Knife requirement reduced to 80 Skinning raised level req to 105, removed orb requirements, NEW ART!
  
• Blue Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Sewing/Weaving 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
  
• Gold Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Leatherworking/Tanning 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
  
• Green Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Carpentry/Milling 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
  
• Red Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Forging/Smelting 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
  
• Adjusted drop rates of lvl 100 craft materials up some (tangled, spectral, full metal)
  
• Removed skinnable corpse from Greater Kudo
  
• Tradeskill Taskmasters now require Tides of Fate expansion enabled on the server
  
• Apple Pie Slice tooltip said +2 Stam Regen (is +1)
  
• Changed minimum Skinning skill level requirement on Wyverns (55), Salamanders (65), Dragons (80)
  
• Adjusted cost of vellum/scrolls and inks down
  
• Marked scrolls as books, set up scroll case to hold books
  
• Added scroll case and scholar’s trunk for carpentry at level 43 and 8 enchanted heartwood and level 69 and 15 enchanted greater heartwood respec. to craft; holds books and scrolls (quest scrolls, return scrolls, demon scrolls, identification scrolls)
  
• Lobster Traps used from land have smaller distance to prevent player from placing it where they cannot retrieve it
  
• NPC Basil in Parian will sell you a sharp shovel for 100 black pearls if you have completed required quest stage
  
• Sharp Shovel now requires quest stage completion to use (the stage it is obtained originally)

• Re-enabled and adjusted Scroll of the Demon Horde - now Scroll of Foul Creatures; also drops outside of ToF; will continue to expand on this idea
  
• Item expansion flag changed for Soothsayer, AQB and HotAG from ToF to SoC
  
• Complete rework of Dragon Leather sets, now better match their parent dragon resistances,
  
• Complete rework of Spore Crusted set, now grants hitpoint regeneration on each piece (req Level 100, 45 DEX, 30 CON)
  
• Complete rework of Scavenger Bone set, now useful for mages (req Level 100, 70 INT, 30 CON)
  
• Corrected item hitpoints for Salamander Skin Leggings
  
• Titan Hide set slightly reduced in overall stats to reflect its challenge to obtain
  
• Large Gold Coin drop from Desert Giant Nobles made stackable to be kinder to your inventory slots
  
• Leather Collar/Chain Collar/Iron Collar not marked as Jewelry for purposes of fitting into jewelry case
  
• Corrected tooltip on dagger of fleeting thoughts (+15 Dodge/Crit Hit)
  
• Adjusted some SoC quest reward items based on quest difficulty/level
  
• Add several new weapon proc effects
  
• Level requirement reduced on variety of gear
  
• Orb/Resists adjusted on variety of gear
  
• Please see Discord for detailed item adjusts: https://discord.gg/VUvMj8z9

• New Event: The Gauntlet!
  
• Make your way unarmed and without aid through a maze of increasingly deadly creatures (no equipment, no backpack, no buffs, no followers).
  
• Entry at this time is free with a manual GM reward; will be automated in future with enough play/feedback from the community.
  
• When the event is on, head to Parian South Weapons shop to speak with NPC Armsmaster to enter. A deck, signs and banners marks this event area.
  
• 1 player in event at a time, Limit of 10 minutes in event, ntry restricted to level 50 only
  
• New GM tools to help GM run events be more enjoyable: Item Degrade and BP drop; also for emergencies when server is misbehaving

• New Quest and Gear: Crystal Knight (Farstead Keep) inspired by DC creatures
  
• You may obtain any pieces by trading with the Crystal Knight who will list item level and stat requirements
  
• Quest gives limited quantity of Runes of Shalox; these can also be found naturally hunting in TR at uncommon rates from variety of mobs
  
• Increased range to allow quest update when killing Termigon queen for Varios quest
  
• Fix for print in rock troll quest - says you have to be level 15, should be 65 (checks correctly just tells player wrong number)
  
• Excluded a few CK creatures (wolverine pack leaders, mystic crawlers)
  
• Reduced faction quest switch wait time and neutral faction garden of sitting on one's bottom time to 10 min

• Feats now count as attacks for combat rule purposes (will make you wanted, slow both players)
  
• Added level bias to alignment gain >=5 levels.
  
• New NPC Alinus in Parian to give one time reputation forgiveness from >6500 -> 6500 (alignment # can be checked with lvl 1 mind spell “Runesight”)
  
• Reputation loss when going wanted changed from 250 > 5 points
  
• Wanted timer is 5 minutes and refreshes when any criminal action is performed
  
• Looting items results in loss of 50 rep per item (no per item loss previously)
  
• Helpful spells (healing, heal over time) cast on wanted player will cause you to become wanted as well
  
• Please see Discord for complete pvp ruleset write up
  
• Players cannot mark a stolen item as no drop using token store product; if you have stolen items stuck in bp please summon a GM/page or make a ticket

• Removed leadership check of 100 from wild camel (should be 70)
  
• Cooldown of Spawn Increase of 30 min
  
• 1 free Mainlands Orb reset available now in Josody (speak to Lady Esler)
  
• Changed chances on ancient wyverns to give mix of immaculate wyv hide (unchanged rate) sinew (decreased rate from previous) and other hides (added to this skinning table)
  
• Construction expansion check on Surveyor Tool. If not enabled on server, will be unable to use.

A small patch to address issue with Disruption spell, as well as rebalance of the Scroll quests drop chance/exp reward. A targeting change was reverted and server issue with respawns addressed.


Spells

• Changed Disruption resist check as it was irresistible <100 mind skill
  
• Changed Disruption's silence to 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds
  
• Disruption should now message players when the effect wears off

Quests

• Restructured drop chances and places to obtain scrolls – now solo drop chance from lvl appropriate mobs rather than placed in tiered loot groups from all creatures with that group
  
  • Problem with Bats
    
  • Infestation Black Widow Hatchling
    
  • New Bear Skin Rug
    
  • My Shadow is Haunting Me
    
  • Stop the Greedy Gluttons
    
  • Injured Minotaurs Below Chlera
    
  • Those evil Shadow Spiders
    
  • Rock Trolls Near Josody
    
  • Secrets of Vampire Bats
    
  • Slay the Sand Golems
• Increased exp given for scroll quests
  
• Set min level req to take scroll quests (except lowest 2 scrolls)
  
• Bear Skin Rug scroll quest (for npc “Raff” in LSP) is now functional
  
• Added fail conf for marsh dungeon quest where it was missing on stage 8
  
• More pointer text in quest npcs on marsh dungeon quest for final stage

Crafting

• Elven Tools will increase arrow output by flat quant of 5

Creatures

• Removed ability for creatures to spawn followers if they are a follower (Deadwillows, Ice Golem, Golem, Slimes, Skeletal mage)
  
• Added solo great light encounter to marsh dungeon and bumped up Great Light chance to spawn in trash chunks w normal marsh lights to help with the spawn

The Junk Drawer

• Valinor was missing some music regions on the above ground map on coastlines/pond borders
  
• Increased max syllable of each race/gender to 4 from 3 – enjoy longer, more silly names
  
• Fix for random name generator – when no names were available had no way to exit and caused server to hang
  
• Reverted change to targeting limitation; should not drop target immediately when leaving play area
  
• Encounters not recalc/respawning at times and would become empty, then respawn at once and be a world of pain

Patch 10.29.2022

A small patch to correct the issue with the Great Pumpkin’s drop rules that crashed the server, plus some adjusts to level requirements of some high level weapons.


Items

• Removed no drop on jack o lantern blade, gave small blade req of 65
  
• Typo in druid staff summoning wyverns
  
• Fix for tooltip of raider poisoned short sword
  
• Adjusted level req of following high level weaps:

108

• Sword of Agon's Fervor
  
• Spell Slinger
  
• Necromancers channel
  
• Staff of Prismatic Waves
  
• Northern Cleric's Staff
  
• Northern Wizard's Staff

107

• The Laughing Blade
  
• Spearslinger Crossbow
  
• Thirsty Blade
  
• Warmage's Fury
  
• Bow of Terror
  
• Sling of Nature's Wrath

106

• Ghoul Blade
  
• Battleblood Axe
  
• Thrakk's Tribute
  
• Wyvern's Tooth
  
• Glaive of Contagion
  
• Bow of Darkening Skies

105

• Claws of the Northern Wastes
  
• Crossbow of the Northern Wastes
  
• Druid's Staff
  
• Gloves of the Giantess
  
• Infectious Voulge

Creatures

• Crystal Guardians now ethereal, social with pallus
  
• Adjusted summoned wyvern to lose ranged attack and gain 3 radius melee attack instead, will still cast