European Parallel Universe

• Europa (EU) Celador and Outlands regions are now open
• Craftable Gatestones (alchemy) can be used to open portals between US & EU Regions.

World Dungeons and Catacombs Revamp

• New Dungeon: Contempt – Void
• New Dungeon: Pestilence – Undead
• New Dungeon: Deception – Demonic
• New Bosses added – Void Ogre, Lich Lord Virenicus and the Dragon of Deception.
• Catacombs rebalanced and reconfigured.
• Dungeon monster loot tables revised.
• Dungeon monsters rebalanced.
• New rare dungeon drops added.
• Powerful weapons now drop from dungeon monsters.
• Removed arcane scrolls from loot.
• Removed tough spawns from newbie area.
• Death & Cerberus have significantly more hit points.

Skills/Training

• Skill gains have increased on the training dummies
• Regeneration skill gains are now increased
• Removed skill training from Bonemaster Nihlius
• Fix gaining skill off dummy.
• Regeneration skill gains buffed about 90 skill level.
• Skill books may now be used across professions.
• Animal Taming quest now only requires a single evaluate usage.
• Increased the range of fishing to 15
• Rest state has been replaced with an active ‘Rest’ ability

General

• Notoriety improvements, looting hostile guild’s corpses.
• Looting player corpses now affects notoriety.
• Waterfall cave is now accessible.
• Guild/Group invites can be done anywhere.
• Removed player tracking panels.
• Housing control teleportation improved.
• New player starter templates adjusted.
• Logout time increased to 30 seconds.
• Immortals log out instantly.
• Resurrection shrines added in various locations around Aria.

NPCs, Quests, and Items

• New healing potions: Regeneration, Restoration, Instant
• Bandages now weigh 1/10th their original weight.
• Nerfed Haste Potion attack speed.
• Bloodlust potion nerfed, no longer reduces defense.
• Removed NPC tasks that required recipes.
• Smuggler NPCs added to allow red players passage to and from Outlands.
• Item weights implemented for common weapons & armor
• Profession quests now reward skillbooks.
• Candle price adjusted in general store

Combat

Melee

• New Combat Bility: Crushing Strike (Bashing)
  • On next swing, increase crit chance to 100%. 5-20 bonus damage dealt and target stamina drained by 10-30
• Shout now affects monsters with the same team type.
• Shout ability damage and duration increased.
• Range increased on shout.
• Shout duration increased to 8.
• Rock bombardment dodgeable
• Removed backstab from Rapier
• Mage staffs no longer fire a projectile during auto attack

Stealth

• Line of sight now applies to Stealth application.
• Shadow Run has been disabled.
• Witnessing a player enter Stealth allows you to see the player.
• Stealth now cancels any spells that are being cast.
• Activating stealth cancels precast spells

Casting

• Spell damage increased across the board
• Frostbolt damage decreased, critical chance increased.
• Wizard Staves auto ranged attack removed.
• Spell casts can now be cancelled with ESC
• Mana Gathering now breaks on ability use and has been buffed.
• Mana Gathering now breaks the cloak spell effect.
• Resting now breaks the cloak spell effect
• Staff secondary ability added: Staff Ward – Reduces incoming damage significantly for 10 seconds (From front and side.)
• Soul drain’s heal over time has been reduced.
• Soul drain only works on a single target at a time

Healing

• Resurrection criminals/reds affects notoriety.
• Modified heal cost when poisoned to 20% from 40%
• Both heal spells have reduced mana cost and cast times.
• Heal spells effectiveness now has a lower skill requirement.
• Cure chance has been increased.
• Increased bonus range on charged bolt to 8
• Healing spells more effective at lower Manifestation
• Field dressing resurrection requirement lowered from 80 to 60
• Reduced ambience cooldown
• Crit Heal effect Increased
• Poison state heal/regen penalty increased from 20% to 30%
• Resurrect using First Aid now resurrects the target at 5% of their base stat pools.

Crafting

• You no longer need to learn the recipe before crafting an item.
• Woodsmithing recipes reorganized, gain shields, shields and decorations from other crafts.
• Salvaging skill has been removed – Salvaging is now linked to each individual crafting skill.
• (Alchemy) Added gatestone recipe see above
• Reduce crafting timer to 2 seconds
• Lowered available refined resources from store.
• Adjusted leather hides to leather to 1:1, reduced leather recipes by 50%.
• Alchemy skill gains increased.
• Foraging skill gains increased.
• Butchery skill gains increased.
• Mailboxes are now craftable.
• Announcement board notes are now on sale at the General Store.
• Cotton plants now yield 6 cotton per plant.
• Bolts of cloth now require 2 cotton.

Controls & Movement

• Added “Quick Keys” to easily target mobs when auto target is disabled.
• First pass on additional quick keys. (F1-F4)
• Pathfinding (click to move) is no longer enabled by default.
• Auto-target is no longer enabled by default. When this is enabled spells and abilities automatically fire on your current target.
• Classic controls right click movement improved
• Added Autorun (NUM-LOCK)
• Added change hotbar page hotkeys (Shift-1-0)
• WASD movement has improved
• Releasing mouse button now stops you from clicking to move.
• Moved container at crossroad merchant so it is easier to click on
• Added autozoom. Automatically zooms out when running. Can be turned off in the options.
• Camera rotation has been improved

Visual Improvements

• Character preview on login
• Improved Login Scene
• Boss/Raid monsters have a unique health bar
• Improved health bars above mobs.
• Change appearance of progress bar cancel button.
• Release and stable icons.
• New first aid animations.
• Improved look of overhead names
• Container list view items are no longer colored
• Better appearance for item durability.
• Improved equipment slot tooltips.
• Poison tooltip updated.

Audio Improvements

• Sound for Spike Path spell.
• Sound for Flame Aura spell.
• Added splash particle effect to fishing.
• Added cloth physics to guard tower.
• Music now tracks players.
• Missing sounds added for casting, fishing and other professions.
• Sound for Wall of Fire spell.
• Sound for Pillar of fire spell.
• Sound for Meteor impact spell.
• New sound effects for location based spells.
• The sound volume of footsteps has been lowered
• Rock Bombardment new spell effect and sound effects.
• Sound for Cure spell.
• Sound for Poison spell.
• Sound for digging added.
• Sound for harvesting added.
• Improved sounds for combat abilities.
• New trap sounds.

Animal Ken & Beastmastery

• Owner Relationship Stats:

• Trust – Willingness to listen to owner
• Loyalty – Willingness to defend owner

• New Ability
  • Dominance – Owners control over the pet contrary to any loyalty or trust.

• Command Chain
  • When commanding a pet, (assuming you meet the skill requirements for the command), a pet’s trust is verified to determine if they will obey your commands willingly. If they fail to trust you, dominance is checked to see if you are able to force them to obey.
  • When a command fails, the pet will ignore follow up commands for a short duration after the failure.
  • Successful commands will increase Dominance.
  • If a pet is told to attack a significantly stronger target, it will lose trust and loyalty for its owner.
  • If the owner is not near the pet while it is fighting, it will lose trust, loyalty and dominance.
  • If the owner is invisible while the pet is fighting the it will lose trust, loyalty and dominance.

• Pet stats will now scale with Animal Ken and damage will scale with beast mastery skill.
• New Ability
  • Shared Strengths
    • Bonus stats to pet and owner, scaling with the difference in stats.

• If a pet loses all trust or loyalty, they may go wild.
• Evaluate shows control difficulty on pets you own.

Bugs

• Invisible walls removed from dungeons.
• Casting monsters are no longer interrupted so easily.
• Eldeir music no longer sticks to locations.
• Can no longer equip items through someone’s character slot.
• Map markers display correctly
• Only correct monsters may be disrobed.
• Resurrecting player corpses fixed.
• Harvesting correctly breaks combat.
• Resurrect Ghost follows/disappears appropriately
• Fixed issue with house key copies leaving chests unlocked.
• Merchant items now destroy when merchant is destroyed.
• Fixed red portal animation.
• Players should no longer randomly change colour.
• Equipment slots now show the correct names.
• Death system now correctly giving health on resurrect.
• Death system now correctly removes loot on resurrect.
• House refresh messages now operate normally.
• Fixed portal particle animation.
• /unstable no longer unstables all pets.
• Combat swing timer now refreshes on cancel spells
• Rend works correctly whilst moving.
• Backstab issues resolved.
• Players no longer leave combat whilst fighting a training dummy.
• Radial menu no longer closes prematurely.
• Limited gains per second in appropriate skill checks.
• Characters no longer turn towards 0,0 when cancelling location based spells.
• Self targeted spells cost correct mana/reagents.
• Nicodemus quest chain fix.
• Corrected Bone Staff BonusCastingOffset.
• Houses no longer render above/below ground.
• Fixed EULA text on login scene.
• Removed blood effect from sticking to player mobiles.
• Training dummies are easier to target.
• Using chairs/beds no longer negatively influences combat.
• Black chance now calculates correctly.
• Grim aura effect now calculates correctly.
• Chain lightning now functions normally.
• Invulnerable NPCs no longer attack when attacked.
• Pommel dynamic UI operates normally.
• Death’s stat effect no longer sticks to player mobiles.
• Mob pursuit removed.
• Dragons now longer get stuck in fly state.
• Battle axes are now considered slashing weapons.
• Combat global cooldown now correctly applied to instant attacks only, not effects.
• Black forest trees require correct lumberjacking skill.
• Player merchant items now correctly display as for sale.
• Trap rooms correctly deal with stealthed players.
• Player houses now only destroy when the character with ownership is deleted.
• Camera rotation works with low framerate.
• Channeling now gains normally.
• Manifestation now gains normally.
• Reeling sound ceases correctly whilst fishing.
• Cloaking now resets trapped rooms
• Death no longer becomes transparent.
• Black Forest trees skill required for lumberjacking.
• Fix to dragons getting stuck in the fly state.
• House deletion removes all merchants & items
• Fishing no longer ignores container weight
• Endurance gains modified with respect to ‘spamming’ sprint.
• Bone shield now operates normally within its equipment slot
• Villagers no longer target ‘friendlies’.
• Dead NPCs can no longer be interacted with.
• Pets no longer say “Help! Guards!”
• Fish no longer fillet to half a fillet.
• Fixed anatomy becoming unusable.
• Guards no longer attack other guards.
• Fix for Dodge skill gains
• Sword no longer disappears following the Leap ability.
• Beneficial spells no longer put you in combat.
• Fish fillets stack properly.
• Sickle is now considered a ‘Scythe’
• Fishing rods now have their own weapon type.