- New skins to complement last year’s Black Pilgrim set: the boots Black Paths (can be acquired during the event or afterward from the Premium Store), the legguards Black Aspirations, and the body armor Black Agility (can be bought in the Premium Store). The Black Friday skins will be available from November 28th to the start of the Winter Event.
- Increased the droprate of tracks from Wendigo on the Path of Challenge.
- Wendigo event - changed the event groups to ones that don’t drop utility items (e.g. Orc Amulets) and removed groups of three and four from the additional spawn in the Ravine. After the event, the additional groups will despawn.
- Improvements to the appearance of all magical spectral orcs (shamans and mages) to make them more visually different. As a result, Mahet’s Guard will get a new model.
- Increased the spawn rate of yetis on the Mountainside.
- Fixed a bug causing a decrease in psychoexperience gains once the Psychoexperience Scroll expires or after relogging with the buff active.
- Fixed a bug causing Shield Bash damage not to count towards the weekly challenge where Knight has to deal damage.
- Fixed a bug making it possible to take the Engine Room Key out of the Admiral instance.
- Fixed bugs in the AI of some mobs that prevented them from using some of their tactics (applies to: Selena, Greater Hawk, Lempo, Pyromorph).
- Miscellaneous improvements to optimization, graphics, mechanics, and texts.
Changes to the Greater Hawk:
- Extended the time the instance can be entered - it will be accessible throughout most of the day. It will not be accessible only a moment before the dynamic event starts and until the scaffolding is rebuilt, and also after the event if the scaffolding was not rebuilt.
- Changed the event groups to ones that do not drop utility items (e.g. Lesser Hawk Feathers, Giant Skins). After the event, the additional groups will despawn.
- Changed the spawn rate of event elites - they will spawn less often but for almost the whole day. They will not spawn during the event and also after a failed event.
- Added a progressive instance entry cost - the amount of bait per person will depend on the number of players in the party (similar to tracks). The cost will be as follows, starting from a 1-person party: 10, 6, 5, 4, 3 pieces of bait.
- The instance can now only be accessed by characters level 110+.
- The Greater Hawk instance will require a new entry item - Rope with a Hook. Every day, players will be able to acquire 25 of them from the Engineer in the inn in Beirn (outside of the event) or in the glade (during the event). More can be collected the next day if all of them have been used.
- Changed the AI of Greater Hawks (in instances) to make them harder to defeat if the difference in Might in the party is too large (at least 8,000 on the Path of Adventure and at least 12,000 on the Path of Challenge) - the boss will use much more powerful tactics and will buff its attributes as well as the attributes of the lesser hawk adds. We want to limit the ability of stronger players to carry weaker players.
- Changed the AI of Greater Hawks (in instances) to make them harder to defeat if a player started the fight with less than 20% HP - in the first round, the boss will use much more powerful tactics. We want to limit the ability of classes that attack before the boss to use the Ha’at orb to make it much easier to defeat the boss in one round.
- Added an entourage of 2 Lesser Hawks with AoE damage reduction to the Greater Hawks in instances.
- Changed dodge chance to damage reduction chance for all Greater Hawks.
- Decreased the gains of gold (by ~60%), psychoexperience (by ~27%), prestige (by ~33%) and Ducats (there’ll be 100% chance for 20 Ducats), and the droprates of epics (by ~72%) and Journeyman Glyphs (by ~72%) from the Greater Hawks in instances.
- Increased the amount of bait that can be acquired from the daily quest Falconer. For a whole egg - from 2 to 5 and added the option to double the reward for 200 Vorling Ducats. For a cracked egg - changed the reward from 20 Ducats to 1 piece of bait.
- Increased experience gains from the Greater Hawk on the Path of Challenge.
