Hey everyone! This month has been a bit busy for the team with vacations and other distractions taking a lot of time, so this months update is.. tiny. Sorry about that, more interesting things are in the works! Balance updates - Tweaked material drop chances slightly - Added rotten ghoul essence as an upgrade material to the new level 30 weapons - Reduced the amount of gem dust/shards/fragments needed for crafting the next higher tier of gem - Reduced monster summons from rifts level 45 and 50 (which where increased too much last update) - Added a few monster summons to rifts level 40, 60 and 65

New Features - Added legendary level 30 weapons which posses innate enchantments - Replaced Rondor's/Vondor's crypt with a new instanced dungeon available from level 10 - Added animal bosses on Nibor/Jurdana - Weapon upgrading materials were completely overhauled to require less materials and materials in the level range of the weapon. We also reduced the amount of existing materials accordingly (and drop rates were of course also adjusted). Let us know what you think! - Added a variety of new materials Changes - Quick-move hotkey is only shown in item tooltips when there is a window open to quick move to - Slightly lowered grass height on Jurdana - Removed some hard to walk on rock piles on Nibor - Tweaked monster/player lighting brightness in the pyramid - We're temporarily allowing players from other empires to go to the starter map (Nibor/Jurdana) Balance updates - Reduced required experience to read skill books by half - The Half Demons Blade of Darkness buff is now removed when switching weapons - Increased movement speed of some of the scorpion and beetle monsters in the desert slightly - Experience loss from dying to a monster now only happens when respawning where you died - Players will now automatically "respawn in town" if they lay on the floor dead for over a minute - New players start with more health potions - Added several groups of bears and lions on Nibor/Jurdana - Adjusted levels of monsters in Caratas Wasteland/Jerro Highlands, Deadland (+ Cave), Desert and Frozen Land - A corrupted soul fragment can now rarely be obtained from Glacius as well - Added two more Werespider spawns - Removed big monster taunts from shops, but added it as a drop to some elites and bosses - Adjusted gold drops for some monsters that were unusually high - Rebalanced Dark Elf Gladiator/Spearman/Sharpshooter and Lizardman - Monsters in the pyramid are now aggressive and will attack on their own - Added ranged monsters to the pyramid - Adjusted gold/exp rewards from pyramid monsters - Improved some rift placements Bugfixes - Fixed an issue where some players got stuck at 99% loading with the udp network backend selected (this was hotfixed on the 31st)

New Features - Added Level 5 and 15 rifts to Nibor and Jurdana - Added Nightmare boss to the Deadland - Added Glacius Boss to the Frozen Land Changes - Quick move and item split key bindings are now shown in item tooltips and the shop ui - Reworked the monster spawning on the 2nd half of Deadland - Moved the Frozen Land Portal Balance updates - Reduced maximum minimap zoom-out slightly - Rebalanced all "badass" monsters (Dark Elf Gladiator/Spearman/Sharpshooter, Dark Lizardman, Volcrate Champion, Frost Golem) - Tweaked Dark Lizardman spawn - Added some more monster spawns to Jerro Highlands/Caratas Wasteland to make leveling there more attractive - Tweaked and added rift spawns on all maps (that previously had rift spawns) Bugfixes - Fixed an edge case during reenchanting that could lead to enchantments not being deleted correctly before adding new ones - Fixed a floating railing on Jurdana - Fixed Jurdana city region being slightly too small leading to the wilderness title to appear in some corners - Fixed hp/mp potion regeneration not clearing in the ui when dying - Fixed tailor window now closing when walking away from the npc - Fixed half demon attacks playing multiple sounds in some cases

New Features - Added enchanting catalyst system (with the reenchant scroll being the first catalyst introduced) - Added refine catalyst system (with the gods blessing of chances being the first catalyst introduced) - Added a button to open the wiki to the "ESC"-menu - Supporter choice now includes instant gold pick up - Added Mnemonic Potion to increase the chance for skill book reading to succeed, available as a reward from Zagan and in the itemshop - Added Focused Learning Book which allows you to read skill books even if you are exhausted and normally had to wait, available as a reward from Zagan and in the itemshop - Added reenchant scrolls which allow you to reenchant items for no cost aside from the scroll itself, available as a reward from Zagan and in the itemshop - Added Orb of Health, Orb of Mana and Orb of Restoration which instantly heal your hp, mp and both respectively, they are available as a drop from high level bosses and in the itemshop - Potion of Fighting and Super Speed Potion are now available in the itemshop Changes - Portals are slightly larger - Skill books are now crafted from fragments of knowledge at the librarian instead of dropped by rifts directly - Status Subtract Tincture is now dropped rarely by most bosses - Increased itemshop coin bonus for purchasing larger amounts at once Balance updates - Reflection now only works against hit damage - Mounting or dismounting does not remove spawn protection anymore - Reduced random boss and elite monster size variation from +-20% to +-5% - Skill projectiles now speed up gradually instead of staying at the same speed Bugfixes - Fixed the "Demonic Chains" skill effects not rendering with ambient occlusion enabled - Fixed skill swap potion not transferring skill exp

Mudanças - Drops agoram são espalhados ainda mais Atualizações de Balanço - Mega gazer jovem levemente enfraquecido - Ajustado mega gazer jovem para nível 70 - Ajustado uma fenda do deserto para ser múltipla de 5 Correção de Bugs - Corrigido monstros algumas vezes não atacando - Corrigido erro de tradução na interface do ferreiro

Feliz ano novo a todos! Apenas um lembrete, nós movemos para atualizações mensais ao invés de semanais, então a próxima atualização será no início de fevereiro. Mudanças - Quando diminuindo(pontos) uma habilidade, qualquer status ativo da habilidade serão removidos - Na interface de itens apenas o nome do item e o texto de raridade estão coloridos de acordo com a raridade - Na seleção de personagem, o personagem selecionado é destacado na lista novamente - Danji diz adeus e por agora foi embora Correção de Bugs - Corrigido alguns pequenos problemas de inventário - Corrigido o nome e classificação de algumas espadas de duas mãos que aparentemente eram machados nas suas vidas passadas - Corrigido um bug na instância de spawn que causava falha com tempos muito longos