Changes and new features:
- New weapon skins to celebrate Broken Ranks’ Birthday: Flame of Damnation (one-handed sword), Doom (bow), Arbiter (two-handed sword), Enslaver (two-handed axe), Claws of the Abyss (knuckledusters), Daughter of the Abyss (staff). The skins will be available for purchase in the Premium Store from January 23rd, 10 AM server time to January 30th, 10 AM server time.
- Changed the way skins are applied to swords, axes, and hammers - every skin from one of these categories can now be applied to any gear from these categories (while retaining the split into one-handed and two-handed weapons). This means that, e.g. a one-handed sword skin can now be applied to any one-handed sword, axe, or hammer (but you cannot apply it to a two-handed sword, axe, or hammer). This change applies only to skins and not to morphs.
- Added a new difficulty level to the Khold Birthday event and lowered the difficulty of the Puppet Master in the instance for parties of up to 2 players.
- New appearance of Tarul’s Shadow. The change will also be applied to all existing Tarul’s Shadows.
- Added a dialogue option to the Engineer allowing for removing Ropes with a Hook from the backpack in exchange for 25 new ones.
- Changed the respawn spot after dying in the areas of the Trentis zones: when dying in the Hamlet near Trentis, Bandit Forest, Swamp, and Castle Grounds, the player will respawn in the Hamlet near Trentis, when dying in the Forlorn Settlement: in the Bandit Forest, when dying in the Castle and in the Caves under the Border: in the Swamp. The changes also apply to any minor areas (e.g. houses) adjacent to the areas listed above.
- New icons for the following effects: Dampening Aura, Sacrifice, Will to Fight, Confusion in order to visually distinguish them from player skills (they are the old versions of effects used by Fire Mage and Knight).
- Added Platinum Keys to the Premium Store on Vardis.
Balance:
- Changed the base values, scaling, and intensity of the following drifs:
- Faln - decreased the base value and scaling from 2% to 1%, decreased intensity from 3 to 1
- Grud, Tall, Tovi - increased base value and scaling from 1% to 1.5%
- Verd - decreased intensity from 3 to 2
- Ann, Eras - decreased intensity from 2 to 1
Due to the changes above, Miss Driffy will spawn on the servers, offering a once-per-character option to extract all drifs from the player gear - she will arrive when the update goes live and will stay until the Valentine’s Day event. In addition to that, all offers for the drifs listed above will be removed from the market (and the tax will be refunded).
- Decreased slashing resistance of the following mobs on the Paths of Adventure and Challenge: Horned One, Hobgoblin Mage, Hobgoblin Shaman, Red Frog, Guard of Lugus, Utorian Hound, Gnawk, Spectral Zeerak (Sheed), Spectral Aruza (Voodoo), Spectral Harluk (Sheed and Voodoo), Phantom Harluk (Sheed and Voodoo). This change is meant to equalize the effectiveness of damage dealers when fighting against them in the Trials and also outside of them.
- Increased the base damage of the following Archer skills: Precise Shot, Ice Arrow, Fire Arrow.
Bugfixes:
- Made it impossible to return to an existing instance in the Vorling Tomb from the Angvalf-Htaga instance - with increased activity on the server, such an instance could last for a long time and the number of people entering or being brought into it would keep increasing. This could lead to chat messages from people outside the party appearing in the party chat because they shared one instance.
- Fixed a bug causing advancement by two brackets in the Trials of the Lodge if the player was in a bracket lower than the one for their level and, during a Trial, they level up and thus reach the bracket higher than the one for their level.
- Fixed issues with searching for players in the Trials rankings.
- Fixed a bug causing effects of sets and synergetics with negative values to not be affected by modifiers from the Trials of the Lodge.
- Fixed a bug causing the value of Err drifs to be incorrectly modified by effects changing special psychoeffects during the Trials of the Lodge.
- Fixed a bug causing the effect that takes away HP in the Trials of the Lodge to take twice the normal amount after returning to combat after death.
- Fixed a bug causing Might resulting from enemy empowerment in Trials of the Lodge not to be included in the summary of the Trial.
- Miscellaneous changes to graphics, text, and minor bugfixes for the Trials.
