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War Caches

• We've added six more War Cache quests in this update. These are a bit harder than the earlier ones. (But are they too hard? If so, let us know!)
  
• The rewards from spending "Sir Johnson Bucks" were previously guaranteed to be Epic (4-power) items. That ended up being too good for the work involved; new reward items are now Exceptional (3-power) with a chance for higher-rarity items.
  

Gazluk Keep

• Bosses have significantly improved chances of rare-drop items. Chances of finding Exceptional (3-power) items are 2-4x higher, and chances of Epic (4-power) items and Legendary (5-power) items are about double. (The exact amount of change varies per boss.)
  
• Certain types of orcs now have some Accuracy in their attacks, allowing them to overcome player Evasion. Affected orcs indicate this in their monster info (when selected). NOTE: this change also happens to affect a few monsters outside of Gazluk: "Orcish Thaumaturges" anywhere in the world now have Accuracy. Give them a pat on the back for powering up. (Even though it may be only temporary.)
  
• Bug fix: Stolen War Golem eventually stops calling for backup after its enemies flee or are killed.
  

Live Events

Unarmed Skill Changes

• Mamba Strike: This ability has changed from a Crushing attack to a Trauma attack that deals direct health damage. When the target's armor is low (below 33%), it now deals +33% immediate Trauma damage, instead of adding a Trauma damage-over-time effect. Reuse timer lowered from 8 sec to 6 sec.
  
• Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage: We updated ability descriptions to mention that being an empty-handed animal with claws is sufficient to activate the ability. (The behavior is unchanged, it was just not well-documented. Currently only werewolves have claws.)
  

• "Bruising Blow deals +28% damage and hastens the current reuse timer of Bodyslam by 10 seconds" => Now hastens by 5 seconds. (This is the big nerf.)
  
• "Headbutt deals +20% damage and conjures a magical field that mitigates 20% of all physical damage you take for 10 seconds (or until 200 damage is mitigated)" => Now mitigates 15% for 10 seconds or until 400 damage is mitigated. All levels now mitigate 15% physical damage; the damage bonus and mitigation cap increase with each level.
  
• "While using Unarmed skill, 36% of all Darkness and Psychic damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Punch, Jab, or Infuriating Fist" => now 25% at a 300% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 8%-36% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 13%-25% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
  
• "While using Unarmed skill, 22% of all Acid, Poison, and Nature damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Kick at a 100% rate" => now 21% at a 280% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 8%-22% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 1%-21% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
  
• "Mamba Strike deals +250% Crushing damage and +400 Trauma damage (if target's armor is below 33%), but reuse timer is +8 seconds" => "Mamba Strike damage +55%"
  
• "Mamba Strike and Front Kick deal 95 Trauma damage over 15 seconds" => "Mamba Strike and Front Kick damage +80"
  
• "Barrage and Headbutt ignite the target, causing them to take 130 damage over 20 seconds" => 212 damage over 8 seconds.
  
• "Unarmed attacks have a 23% chance to conjure a magical field that mitigates 10% of all physical damage you take for 1 minute (or until 100 damage is mitigated)." => "While Unarmed skill is active: you gain +4% Melee Evasion and any time you Evade a Melee attack you recover 64 Armor"
  
• "Unarmed attacks have a 16% chance to conjure a magical field that mitigates 10% of all physical damage you take for 1 minute (or until 100 damage is mitigated). Damage mitigated in this way is automatically added to the damage you do with your next Kick attack." => replaced: "While Unarmed skill is active: When you Evade an attack, your next attack deals +188 damage"
  
• "Hip Throw and Bodyslam deal +148 armor damage" => "Hip Throw deals +192 armor damage"
  
• "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike boost your Nice Attack and Signature Debuff ability damage +44 for 7 seconds" => +55 for 7 seconds
  
• "Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage boost damage from Epic attacks +60 for 10 seconds" => +74
  
• "Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 150 Trauma damage over 12 seconds": This effect can no longer be found on Hands slot, only on Legs slot. Hand items with this effect have become Legacy items. (See below for instructions on what to do with Legacy items.)
  
• New treasure effect for the Hands slot: "Infuriating Fist damage +103. Damage becomes Trauma instead of Crushing"
  
• Slashing Strike: The damage-over-time is now applied over 6 seconds instead of 12.
  
• "Slashing Strike deals +126 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
  
• "Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 138 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
  
• "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike Damage +38%" => +58%
  
• "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike restore 32 Armor to you" => 40 armor
  
• "Bodyslam deals +37% damage and slows target's movement speed by 45%": This effect is no longer available on Hands, just Head. Items with this effect on Hands have become Legacy Items. (See below for instructions on what to do with Legacy items.)
  
• New hands treasure effect: "Bruising Blow deals Trauma damage instead of Crushing, and targets suffer 12.5% more damage from other Trauma attacks for 20 seconds"
  
• "While using Unarmed skill, 22% of all Slashing, Piercing, and Crushing damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Punch, Jab, or Infuriating Fist at a 100% rate" => now 18% at a 260% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 3%-22% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 10%-18% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
  
• "Headbutt and Knee Kick deal +138 armor damage" => "Headbutt and Knee Kick Damage +108"
  
• New treasure effect for the chest and off-hand slots: New chest and off-hand treasure effect: "Headbutt Damage +44%"
  

Legacy Items

Werewolf Treasure

• "Blood of the Pack restores 90 Health over 30 seconds to you and your allies" => over 10 seconds
  
• "Shadow Feint causes your next attack to deal +144 damage if it is a Werewolf ability" => +192 damage
  
• "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 50 Armor and your Sprint Speed is +3 for 10 seconds" => 83 Armor
  
• "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 70 Health" => 100 Health
  
• "Shadow Feint reduces the taunt of all your attacks by 35% until you trigger the teleport" => 46%
  
• "Shadow Feint raises your Lycanthropy Base Damage +36% until you trigger the teleport" => +52%
  

Fixes to Damage Type Overrides

Sonic Damage Retired

• Bard ability Blast of Fury damage type is now Nature.
  
• Bard ability Blast of Defiance damage type is now Nature.
  
• Bard ability Blast of Despair damage type is now Nature.
  
• Giant Bat ability Screech damage type is now Nature.
  
• Giant Bat ability Sonic Burst damage type is now Nature.
  
• Bard Treasure change: "Thunderous Note deals +45% damage, and damage type is Sonic instead of Trauma" => Nature instead of Trauma
  
• Bard Treasure change: "Thunderous Note causes the target to take +13% damage from Sonic attacks for 15 seconds" => Nature instead of Sonic
  
• Giant Bat Treasure change: "For 30 seconds after using Drink Blood, all sonic attacks deal +45 damage" => all Nature attacks deal +45 damage
  
• Giant Bat Treasure change: "Sonic Damage +32%" => "Nature Damage +32%"
  
• Bard Crafting: Bard Shirts and Bard Gloves now boost Nature damage, not Sonic damage.
  
• Council Pathfinder Helm now mitigates Nature, not Sonic.
  
• Ratty Tactics Ring now boosts Nature, not Sonic damage.
  
• Rattail-Ring of Screeching now boosts and protects against Nature, not Sonic.
  
• All monsters that were vulnerable or resistant to Sonic have been changed. Most are now resistant/vulnerable to some new type instead.
  
• All monster attacks that dealt Sonic damage now deal Nature damage.
  

Preventing Unintentional Quest Turn-ins

• Equipment that is part of a Load-Out is never counted as part of a Quest or Work-Order.
  
• Equipment that is in a Vendor-Locked folder is never counted as part of a Quest or Work-Order. (Note this only applies to equipment, not other items. This is so that players can still put regular quest items in vendor-locked folders to prevent accidentally selling them, and the items can still be turned in for the quest.)
  

Footsteps

Other Changes

• Fixed many teleportation arrival positions where the camera could get switched around to face the player instead of being behind the player.
  
• Made configuring guild permissions a little more intuitive.
  
• Fixed bugs that could prevent the "glowing" effect on high-tier loot (in the loot window).
  
• Thimble Pete no longer notices if you are an animal while turning in a work order. (But still won't train animals.)
  
• Small performance improvements to humanoids (both NPCs and Players).
  
• Trolls' regeneration (when not on fire) is MUCH more potent!
  
• Tweaked resistances and abilities of mummies.
  

Lore Adjustments

• The "Rains in Ilmari" lasted for 2 years, not 20. (Exaggeration at its best!)
  
• References to the "Red Mantis Gang" have been fixed to reference the "Red Wing Gang".
  
• Removed a reference to the god Bogdelle because she has been retconned out of existence.
  
• References to "Mirraverre" have been fixed to the correct spelling "Miraverre".
  

External Character References

Ilmari War Caches

Transmutation Cost Changes

• Uncommon and Rare: 5 Durability and 25 Phlogiston
  
• Exceptional: 10 Durability and 30 Phlogiston
  
• Epic: 20 Durability and 35 Phlogiston
  
• Legendary: 25 Durability and 35 Phlogiston
  
• Previously, the cost for all Rarities was: 25 Durability and 35 Phlogiston
  

• Uncommon and Rare: 5 Durability and 10 Phlogiston
  
• Exceptional: 10 Durability and 15 Phlogiston
  
• Epic: 15 Durability and 20 Phlogiston
  
• Legendary: 20 Durability and 20 Phlogiston
  
• Previously, the cost for all Rarities was: 20 Durability and 10 Phlogiston
  

• 15 less Phlogiston for items level 15 and under
  
• 10 less Phlogiston for items level 30 and under
  
• 5 less Phlogiston for items level 45 and under
  

Hammer Changes

• "Rib Shatter deals +220 Trauma damage over 10 seconds" => "Rib Shatter restores 40 Health to you"
  
• Way of the Hammer: "For 10 seconds, all targets deal +15% Crushing Damage" => +35%
  
• "Way of the Hammer boosts Slashing and Piercing Damage +17% for 10 seconds" => +34%
  
• "Way of the Hammer boosts all targets' Electricity Damage +20% for 10 seconds" => +35%
  
• Way of the Hammer is now marked as a Signature Support ability for the purpose of buffs that affect Signature Support.
  
• The treasure effect "Hammer attacks deal +16% damage but generate +48% Rage" was incorrectly boosting hammer Base Damage, not regular damage. This has been fixed, making the effect typically generate more damage in high-level builds.
  
• The cost of Pound To Slag was tweaked slightly, and its Reuse Timer changed from 50s to 45s. (Some treasure mods were recalculated very slightly as a result of the shortened reuse timer.)
  
• Latent Charge: Delayed electricity damage now occurs after 5 seconds, not 8 seconds.
  
• The treasure effect "Pound To Slag hastens the current reuse timer of Look at My Hammer by 5 seconds" was previously available for all levels 50+, and did the same thing at all levels. There are now higher tiers of this effect which also boost Pound To Slag damage. All pre-existing versions of this effect are still the level 50 one, but new gear can obtain higher versions now. (Note that this effect is still not available in gear below level 50.)
  
• "Reckless Slam deals +33% damage and taunts -360" => "Reckless Slam deals +64 damage and taunts -285" (It deals about the same damage but synergizes more nicely with other Reckless Slam mods.)
  
• "Reverberating Strike restores 38 armor to you and taunts -275" => " Reverberating Strike restores 96 armor after a 6-second delay"
  
• "Hurl Lightning Damage +39% and Reuse Time -1 second" => "Hurl Lightning Damage +94 and Reuse Time -1 second"
  
• "Thunderstrike Damage +38%" => "Thunderstrike Damage +128"
  
• "Reverberating Strike deals 70 direct health damage and applies the Mild Concussion status: target is susceptible to random self-stuns" => "Reverberating Strike Damage +85"
  

Lycanthropy

• Sanguine Fangs damage changed from Piercing to Crushing.
  
• "Sanguine Fangs suddenly deals 280 Trauma damage after a 12-second delay" => 8-second delay
  
• Sanguine Fangs base direct damage increased. Some treasure effects revised as a result.
  
• Blood of the Pack has a faster animation.
  
• "Werewolf Claw, Double Claw, and Pouncing Rake Damage +22%" => " Werewolf Claw, Double Claw, and Pouncing Rake Damage +50"
  
• "All Werewolf attacks have a 31% chance to deal 64 Trauma damage over 8 seconds" => 47% chance
  
• "Double Claw deals +114 armor damage" => "Double Claw deals +88 damage"
  
• "All Werewolf attacks have a 31% chance to deal 64 Trauma damage over 8 seconds" => "Werewolf Max Health +35"
  

• Skulk: The "next attack" bonus damage is reduced significantly. (For example, Skulk 4 now gives +223, instead of +359.)
  
• "Skulk grants you +35 Mitigation against all attacks" => +24 Mitigation
  
• "Skulk causes your next attack to deal +70% damage if it is a Crushing attack" => +43% damage
  
• "When Skulk is used, you recover 52 Health and all enemies within 10 meters are taunted -1375" => taunted -700
  
• Skulk now has a faster casting time and a different in-use particle
  

• See Red is now a Trauma attack with a 10-second reuse timer and a lower Power cost.
  
• See Red no longer buffs Piercing/Slashing damage.
  

• "See Red restores 132 Armor" => "For 8 seconds after using See Red, all other Lycanthropy attacks deal 116 Trauma damage over 8 seconds"
  
• "See Red grants you Melee Evasion +18%" => +14%
  
• "See Red increases the damage of your next attack by +260" => +95
  
• "See Red restores 54 Health and costs -20 Power" => "See Red deals +36 damage and Power cost is -16"
  
• "See Red heals you for 85 health" => 38 health
  

• Shadow Feint: This ability is now a toggle. Use it once to enter "feint mode." You will see a small indicator showing where you will teleport back to. Use again to teleport back. The range of the ability has decreased from 40m at all levels to 30/35/40m. Teleport time window shortened.
  
• Shadow Feint Has faster animation, and the 1-second channeling delay was removed.
  

• "After using Shadow Feint, your Lycanthropy Base Damage increases +36% for 30 seconds or until you are attacked" => "Shadow Feint raises your Lycanthropy Base Damage +36% for 20 seconds or until you trigger the teleport"
  
• "After using Shadow Feint, your Sprint Speed increases +3 for 15 seconds and your next attack deals +120 damage" => " Shadow Feint boosts the damage of your next attack +144 if it is a Lycanthropy ability" (note that the old version also only buffed Lycanthropy abilities; it just didn't say so)
  
• "Shadow Feint heals 130 health and 130 armor when you teleport" => "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 70 Health"
  
• "Shadow Feint boosts your In-Combat Armor Regeneration +35 for 20 seconds" => "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 50 Armor and your Sprint Speed is +3 for 10 seconds"
  

• Werewolves no longer need to be "out of combat" to eat corpses.
  
• Inherent recovery-per-level from corpses is a little higher.
  
• Previously, raising the Beast Metabolism skill only increased the duration of the recovery buff. It now also slightly increases the amount of healing and power recovered (per tick). This can be further boosted by treasure effects.
  

• Boosted potency of Max Health buffs from +10/20/30/40/50 to +10/20/35/50/75 and added a sixth tier that goes to +100.
  
• Boosted potency of Corpse Eat Healing buffs from +4/7/10/12/15/18 to +4/8/12/16/20 and added a sixth tier that goes to +25.
  
• The fifth tier of Max Power buffs is reduced in cost from 3 tokens to 2.
  
• The fifth tier of Physical Mitigation is reduced in cost from 2 tokens to 1.
  
• Clarified labels to indicate that "Werewolf Damage Boost %" increases Base Damage.
  

Other Skill & Ability Changes

• Bard: "All bard songs restore X Health [or Armor] to YOU every 4 seconds" => fixed bugs that allowed these treasure mods to get applied multiple times when switching songs.
  
• Bard: Fixed a bug that caused some song-oriented treasure effects to apply themselves for 60 seconds after you had manually toggled the song off.
  
• Priest: The ability Invigorate claimed to restore Power but restored that amount of Health instead. Now it restores Power as intended. (Treasure effects were already correct, only the base Power healing from the ability was wrong.)
  
• Spider: Due to changes to the game engine, the treasure effect "Web Trap sets a teleport spot. If you are hit 6 times within 30 seconds you'll automatically teleport back to that spot. (Must be within 40 meters of teleport spot.)" no longer worked. Since it was really not very useful, we didn't try to make it work and just replaced it. It is now: "While you are near your Web Trap, you recover 4 Power per second".
  
• Treasure effects that boost Spore Bomb, Stake the Heart, Fish Gut, and Crossbow attacks are more potent.
  
• Many pieces of equipment that innately boost a damage type by a percentage (e.g. Spring Fairy Shoes, which have inherent bonuses to Nature and Electricity damage) have been buffed.
  

Monster Balance Changes

• Most Fire Magic abilities
  
• Battle Chemistry's Toxin Bomb
  
• Mentalism's Mindreave
  
• Archery's Fire Arrow
  
• Priests' Flamestrike and Righteous Flame
  
• Shambling Corpses' health-reaping attacks
  
• Skeleton Mages' fire attacks
  
• Pet Fire Walls' attacks
  
• The melee attacks of fiery pet rats
  

• Several Psychology abilities were not correctly marked as receiving critical hits from Phrenology; this is now fixed.
  
• Crossbow abilities now gain the same chance to "critically hit" that bows do, based on your Anatomy skill and the target's anatomy type. Crossbows gain a +50% damage mod when they crit. (This isn't a bug fix, it's a small power-up.)
  
• Several monsters did not deal full intended damage with their Rage attacks: Worghests, Gazluk Elite Tacticians, Ratkin hammer-users
  

Other Changes and Fixes

• Desert Environments: If you are entirely out of hydration in the desert there is now a small chance every second that you will die of dehydration. Stay hydrated! Going into a NPC's building, such as Arlan's shop or Makara's tent, will stop dehydration. In fact as a convenience, being anywhere within the city walls of Amulna prevents dehydration.
  
• Fixed a bug with Crafted Nimble Boots and Crafted Nimble Pants, which evaded much more often than the listed times.
  
• The tailoring recipes that add +1% damage of a particular type to shirts and pants have been changed to add +2% damage instead. This change is retroactive. (Note: there was a "round off" bug which could cause these recipes to effectively add +0.9% instead of +1%. This bug has been fixed for new uses of the recipe, but unfortunately it could not be fixed retroactively. So if your old gear added e.g. +5.7% damage, it now adds +11.4% damage, not +12% damage as you might expect.)
  
• You can no longer use Practical Summoning to summon items that have less than 100% durability. (In other words, you can summon a pristine firkin, but not one with 70% durability remaining.) This is a temporary limitation. Previously, summoning partially-used items magically repaired their durability, which was unintentional.
  
• You can no longer use the "Reuse Liquor Barrel" or "Reuse Beer Keg" recipes on NPC-brewed liquor (such as Spiked Egg Nog or Burn-Throat).
  
• Brewing results that raise Max Armor for a particular race were incorrectly labeled as raising Max Health for that race. These now correctly say that they boost Max Armor. (Just to clarify, there are ALSO brewing results that raise Max Health for a particular race, and these are unchanged. The bug was that the armor-boosting ones were labeled as health-boosting.)
  
• You can now right-click raw fish in your inventory and choose "Fillet Fish" to quickly bring up the appropriate fillet recipe. (Assuming you know how to fillet that type of fish, of course.)
  
• Breaking down Treant Wood now requires Carpentry 50 instead of Carpentry 20.
  
• Swapped the icons for Sunstone and Morganite to better match the gem descriptions, and the dye color they create.
  
• Fixed a bug where malachite attuned to the Rabbit skill did not work correctly in recipes if the malachite was placed in the second gem slot.
  
• Torgan correctly appreciates gifts of Awesome Metal Slabs.
  
• Lady Windsong's favor "Escaped Snail Meat" bestows a special druid ability Rotflesh, but if you were not eligible for the ability (generally because you didn't yet know Rotskin 6, its prerequisite), you did not learn the ability. This is fixed retroactively, so if you've completed the quest the ability is now in your list. (But you still have to learn Rotskin 6 before you can actually use it!)
  
• The Amulna residents Falkrin Overstrike and Alravesa the All-Hunter are still not fully written, despite having important roles to play. They can now be found in the dining area above Selaxi's shop, where they can at least have a drink while they wait.
  
• The Guardian Rhino's curse "Gored Pockets" changed from -10 Inventory to -5 Inventory. Players who had the old curse will find they are magically cured; this "free cure" is just a side-effect of an internal version number change, and not something we typically need to do when tweaking a curse. But hey: free cure! You're welcome.
  
• Sentient tornadoes are now more dangerous. They gain innate Projectile Evasion and Melee Evasion, and they a different set of resistances and vulnerabilities than before. However, they are very vulnerable to Burst attacks.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented Ice Cocks from breaking more than one toe at a time. (It was supposed to stack to x9 originally; it now stacks to x3 because 9 is too much.)
  
• The "Slaughterer of Spiders" behavior badge was tied to generic animal killing, not spiders. (Meaning it was the same as the Slaughterer of Countless Animals badge.)
  
• Made it easier to maintain the "Slaughterer of X" badges -- they no longer require you to have killed more of that monster type than other kinds of monster. (They still have the requirement that you have killed 1000+ in your lifetime, and 500+ in the past 30 days real-time or 24 hours game time. Meaning that they "wear" off and you lose them if you stop murdering that type of foe.)
  
• If you attempt to use an ability but the server doesn't think the reset timer is up, the game client is updated to show the ability's remaining time needed, rather than showing the ability as having been just-used.
  
• Improved the performance of "floaty numbers" (damage and healing numbers). Lots of floaty numbers could cause framerate lag.
  
• Also, floaty damage numbers for your character now float overtop your character's head, like they do for other characters. Previously they floated down from the "portrait box" in the top-left corner, but it was very hard to notice them. If you prefer the old format you can enable it in Special Settings by typing the word PortraitFloaties into the text box.
  
• Fixed bug where changing the font size of "Size of Combat Numbers (Self)" did not get saved to preferences.
  
• Fixed map issues in Gazluk Keep (such as weird pointer direction and lack of map fog).
  
• Optimized memory usage and loading times in Gazluk Keep. These changes should help people whose computers crash when loading into this area. Note: it's now a VERY bad idea to use the "NoCull" Special Setting while in Gazluk Keep, because the Keep now relies very heavily on occlusion culling for performance.
  
• Updated the contents of the Live Event Reward Chests (located behind the Serbule inn) so that newer types of equipment have a chance of being found in them.
  
• Command /shop opens a web page to the Gorgon Shop.
  

Rahu Sewers

Game Balancing Changes

• "Debilitating Blow Damage +66%" => "Debilitating Blow Damage +55%"
  
• "Decapitate Damage +55%" => "Decapitate Damage +47.50%"
  
• "Finishing Blow Damage +53%" => "Finishing Blow Damage +44%"
  
• "Flashing Strike and Hacking Blade Damage +33%" => "Flashing Strike and Hacking Blade Damage +29%"
  
• "Parry and Riposte Damage +54%" => "Parry and Riposte Damage +49%"
  
• "Precision Pierce deals +188% damage but its reuse timer is increased +4 seconds" => "Precision Pierce deals +145% damage but its reuse timer is increased +3 seconds"
  
• "Parry and Riposte Damage +24% and Power Cost -8" => "Parry and Riposte Damage +20% and Power Cost -8"
  

• All combat skills: Highest tier of "Skill Base Damage +X%" changed from +26% base damage to +40% base damage.
  

• Start with ability's base damage.
  
• Add all additive (a/k/a "flat") damage buffs (universal damage boosts, skill-specific boosts, damage-type-specific boosts, boosts just for Kicks or Bombs, etc.).
  
• Now sum together all percentage buffs (universal multipliers, damage-type-specific multipliers, multipliers for a specific ability, multipliers for Epic Attacks, etc.) and multiply by the previous step.
  
• Now multiply by target's vulnerabilities and resistances (universal vulnerability, damage-type-specific vulnerabilities).
  
• Now add in bonus damage from Base-Damage Multipliers (reduced if the target is resistant to the damage type).
  
• Now reduce damage by the target's Mitigations (armor mitigation, universal damage reduction, damage-type-specific mitigation, etc.). If mitigation is negative, they take that much extra damage instead
  

• Wall of Fire costs less Power, and treasure effects that boost Wall of Fire are more potent.
  
• "25 seconds after summoning a Fire Wall, you regain 77 Health" => "You heal 10 Health per second when you are near your Fire Wall"
  
• "All fire spells deal up to +36 damage (randomly determined)" now has a much higher random boost (+115).
  
• "Scintillating Flame and Scintillating Frost stun and deal +100% damage to Vulnerable targets": This effect was previously found on three gear slots: Hands, Head, and Main-Hand Weapon. It is now only found on Hands. (This was done to make room for new treasure effects, since the stun didn't stack anyway.) If you had gear with this effect on Head or Main-Hand Weapon, the item has become Legacy and will need to be replaced with the "Legacy Item Replacer" golem in Serbule.
  

• The requirement for the Healing Sanctuary itself to be "in combat" (meaning that it could detect an enemy nearby) has been removed.
  
• The requirement for the healing recipient to be "in combat" has also been removed.
  
• "Healing Sanctuary immediately restores 80 health to you upon summoning" => "Healing Sanctuary restores 16 Power with each heal"
  
• "Healing Sanctuary immediately restores 115 armor to you upon summoning" => "Healing Sanctuary restores 40 Armor with each heal"
  
• There are also new treasure effects for Healing Sanctuary.
  

• Brambleskin deals more damage to enemies, especially at higher levels.
  
• "Brambleskin heals you for 82 health" => "Brambleskin deals +96 Nature damage to melee attackers"
  
• "Cloud Sight and Delerium Damage +X%" => significantly reduced percentage (bug fix)
  
• Pulse of Life is now fully marked as a Minor Heal ability. (Some minor-heal buffs already applied to it, but not all.)
  
• Rotskin's damage debuff is more potent (-48 mitigation vs -22) and treasure can further improve the debuff. However, multiple Rotskin debuffs no longer stack. (If multiple druids cast Rotskin on a target, only the strongest debuff is used.)
  
• "Rotskin hits all targets within 10 meters and deals X direct health damage" => "Rotskin hits all targets within 10 meters and further debuffs their mitigation -X"
  

• Fire Shield now deals more damage when melee attackers hit you. Reset time is 20 seconds instead of 60. Power cost is increased.
  
• A new treasure effect increases the potency of Fire Shield's reflection; other Fire Shield treasure effects tweaked.
  

• "Shield Team grants all allies X% evasion of burst attacks for 10 seconds": The higher-level versions of this effect were the same as the level 50 version; they now grant higher percentage evasion.
  
• "Shield Team grants all allies +8 mitigation of all physical attacks (Crushing, Slashing, or Piercing) for 20 seconds" => +16 mitigation
  

• Various: A number of abilities have slightly adjusted base damage and power costs; their treasure effects have been revised as a result.
  
• Various: A dozen or so treasure effects that restore health or armor were buffed to heal 5-20 more health or armor. (formula change)
  
• Various: Several treasure effects of the type that 'generates no Rage, and reduces Rage by X' have slightly reduced Rage reduction numbers. (formula change)
  
• Various: An assortment of treasure effects had higher tiers that were identical to lower tiers. These have all been fixed.
  
• Various: Numerous treasure effects gained a skill prerequisite that they were missing. For example, the Giant Bat mod "Sonic Damage +X%" is now "Sonic Damage +X% When Giant Bat Skill Active". (bug fix)
  
• Healing Sigils' AI was changed to work similarly to the druid's Healing Sanctuary: they can now heal without needing to have line of sight to a nearby enemy.
  
• Animal Handling: "Sic Em causes your pet's attacks to generate -X Rage for 10 seconds" has improved rage reduction. (bug fix)
  
• Archery: "All Archery attacks deal +52 damage but cost +4 Power" => "Archery Damage +70"
  
• Giant Bat: "Screech has a 60% chance to deal +X% damage": Higher-tier versions now have a significantly lower damage percentage number. (bug fix)
  
• Hammer: Reckless Slam removed less than the amount of armor listed in the ability description. This has been fixed.
  
• Lycanthropy: "Taunt from Attack Damage -33%" => "Taunt from Attack Damage -27.5% while Lycanthropy skill active" (formula change, plus fixing missing skill requirement)
  
• Rabbit: Treasure effects that boost Carrot Power are more powerful. (formula change)
  
• Shamanic Infusion: "Signature Debuff abilities restore X Power" => "Signature Debuff abilities cost -X Power"
  
• Shamanic Infusion: Added missing earlier-tier prerequisites (e.g. the third tier of a recipe is supposed to require you to already know the second tier, etc.).
  
• Shamanic Infusion: You now receive bonus synergy levels in Shamanic Infusion when you reach Alchemy 42, Animal Handling 32, Battle Chemistry 41, Mycology 55, Anatomy 50, and Anatomy 70.
  
• Sword: "Precision Pierce deals +X% damage but its reuse timer is increased +4 seconds => " ... reuse timer is increased +3 seconds" (side-effect of formula change)
  
• Sword: "Sword Damage +16" => "Sword Damage +70"
  

• Belts that you find in loot now have a chance to be Uncommon rarity -- green tier, that is, with one treasure effect. The effect is always a generic power that isn't tied to any particular skill.
  
• Any belt-creation recipe that requires a trophy skin also now generates Uncommon belts.
  
• Recipe for Great Hardcore Belt was changed to require a trophy skin (to generate Uncommon belts).
  
• "Lucky Belts" for specific classes are now just called "Belts" (e.g. "Lucky Belt of the Swordsman" is now just "Belt of the Swordsman"). These belts once affected random-loot generation, but that was long ago. Now they boost damage, so the "lucky" terminology seemed weird.
  
• All formerly-lucky belts increase Base Damage Multipliers a bit more than before (10% for single-skill and 7% for double-skill).
  
• Belts that actually affect treasure in some way are still called "Lucky".
  
• Added missing belts/recipes for rabbit and priest belts.
  

• Added "Accuracy Boost" stats to the Miscellaneous Enchantments tab of the persona screen. (Only shown if you have any accuracy buffs.)
  
• Shamanic Infusion now requires much less XP to level, and recipes earn more XP. Now the first-time completion of a recipe (of your current level) will always raise your level by at least 1, and usually raise it by 2. (Existing skill levels are unchanged.)
  
• The drug Sharpen has been revised so that it is significantly more potent. However, the higher tiers of Sharpen now have Survival Instincts requirements.
  
• Cooking: Recipe "Tart Applesauce" has been changed to actually use tart (green) apples.
  
• Necromancy: skeleton mages no longer flee to create distance between themselves and melee assailants.
  
• Fixed recipe for "Amazing Cloth Pants (Max-Enchanted)", which incorrectly required Maximized Sardonix x2, among other problems. It now correctly requires Vervadium x1 like other level 70 crafting recipes.
  
• Fixed some work order scrolls whose level requirement (to read the scroll) did not match the actual work order's level requirement.
  
• Replaced the weird yellow "sewer rat" model with a different model (which is also temporary, but much less terrible in the meantime).
  
• Fixed a small (100 m square) chunk of the Ilmari desert where nothing could be selected.
  
• Fixed various monsters whose combat sounds were too loud (because they were not using 3D positioning, so were always at max volume regardless of distance).
  
• Fixed a bug that caused fire walls to make combat sounds repeatedly when not in combat. This also fixes some Sigil-Scripting sigils that had the same problem.
  
• The "Proto-Druid" and "Proto-Wolf" titles can no longer be earned. (They were actually supposed to stop when alpha ended.)
  

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Zombie Changes

• zombies' inherent self-bleed is reduced by about 75%
  
• zombies now reap 25% of the health damage they deal (meaning that every time they deal damage to an enemy's health, they are healed by 25% of the health damage they dealt)
  

Training Changes

• Battle Chemistry: the trainer in Rahu now uses the Training system for golem conditionals and abilities, instead of selling them as books. This makes it easy to tell which ones you've learned: only ones you haven't learned yet will show up!
  
• Tanning: previously the easiest way to learn Tanning was to complete a favor for Kleave. This is too hidden for such an important low-level skill, so Kleave's training menu now has an entry to Learn Tanning for 500 Councils, which she teaches at Comfortable. (If you prefer, you can still learn it by completing the favor. This will save you a few hundred Councils in Training costs.)
  
• Learning the first level of Tanning (from whatever method) now teaches the first Tanning recipe. (The other Tanning recipes are still taught by Kleave.)
  
• Leatherworking: Kleave now teaches her Leatherworking recipes from the Training menu, like a normal trainer. (She previously sold books of leatherworking recipes instead)
  

Other Changes

• the ability Set Broken Bone did not have the intended 33% chance to consume the Master First Aid Kit. (Instead the kit was always consumed.)
  
• added another background music track to Red Wing Casino
  
• Spider: Treasure effect "Premeditated Doom channeling time is -1 second and boosts your Indirect Poison damage +X (per tick) for 20 seconds" was bugged. Data errors caused this effect to use the level 80 version for all levels 60-80
  
• the game now tries a bit harder to ensure that summoned and deployed items (such as tapped kegs, growing vegetables, motherlodes, etc.) are in an accessible location, and not trapped underground or in a wall. Note that as a side-effect, they can now spawn up to 12 meters away from you (instead of 5 meters as previous), and can now appear above or below you in some cases, so you may need to look around for them
  
• removed terrifying error about speed-hacking when you try to turn off a toggleable ability too quickly (such as giant bats' Echolocate). You can now turn off abilities like this instantly, without having to wait for the ability's reuse timer to be up.
  
• fixed a bug where the Party chat channel could be dropped from custom chat tabs when leaving a party
  
• as a side-effect of cleaning up some old treasure system mechanics, the drop-chances of some treasure effects have changed. Most notably, effects that boost base-damage (e.g. "Sword Base Damage +X%") used to drop at a rate 15x higher than regular mods; they now drop 5x as often. (During pre-alpha those effects were extremely crucial and they needed to show up a lot, but they're more "optional" now.)
  

Ri-Shin Winter Celebration

"Dangerous Improvement" Recipes Disabled

Treasure Effect Location Fixes

• Some treasure effects for main-hand weapons could only be found on Lutes, and some effects for off-hand weapons could only be found on Horns.
  

• "Toxic Irritant boosts your Nice Attack Damage +X for 8 seconds" is now available on rings and main-hand weapons.
  

• "Toxinball Damage +X%": This was intended to be findable on necklaces and main-hand equipment, but couldn't be found on main-hand equipment.
  

• "Tundra Spikes deals +X% damage, gains +Y accuracy, and lowers targets' Evasion by Z for 20 seconds": This mod comes on two equipment slots, but the evasion-debuff aspect of the mod did not stack with itself.
  
• "Ice Spear heals you for 46 health after a 15 second delay": This was intended to be findable on gloves and off-hand items, but couldn't be found on off-hand equipment.
  

• Many treasure effects for main-hand weapons could only appear on Daggers. Now that dirks can be wielded in the off-hand, it's now reasonable to have a sword with Knife effects!
  
• "Poisoner's Cut boosts indirect poison +X per tick" is now available on pants and off-hand weapons.
  
• "Gut deals +X% damage and reuse timer is -1 second" is now available on shirts and necklaces.
  

• "Grunt of Abeyance restores X Power to all targets": This was intended to appear on necklaces and main-hand equipment, but couldn't be found on main-hand equipment.
  

• "Phoenix Strike deals +10% damage and triggers the target's Vulnerability" is now available on staves.
  

• "All Werewolf attacks have a X% chance to deal Y Trauma damage over 8 seconds": This was intended to appear on helmets and main-hand equipment, but couldn't be found on main-hand equipment.
  

• All main-hand treasure effects could not be found on daggers (but could be found on other weapons such as swords).
  

• Fixed several dozen Feet-slot treasure effects that could not be found on animal shoes (such as Deer Shoes).
  
• Fixed a handful of other cases where certain treasure effects could not be found on certain specific types of equipment.
  

Skill Revisions

Necromancy:

• "Create Super Zombie": This ability has been removed! It is now merged into the Raise Zombie ability (which was previously called Create Shambling Corpse).
  
• "Create Shambling Corpse" was renamed "Raise Zombie". (It was already called in some parts of the game.) You can now use Raise Zombie even while you have a zombie alive, in which case it buffs and heals the existing zombie. The reuse timer on Raise Zombie is increased to 60 seconds and the Power cost is higher. All gear pertaining to zombies has been revised, and many new gear effects have been added for zombies.
  
• Wave of Darkness: Changed from a 20m burst to a 10m burst. Changed base reuse time from 30 seconds to 18 seconds. All treasure mods that affected Wave of Darkness have been rebalanced as a result.
  
• Provoke Undead: The inherent damage boost is slightly larger. Also, all treasure effects that were supposed to boost the damage from Provoke Undead were bugged and did (almost) nothing. These effects have been fixed and significantly revised, and new effects were added as well.
  

Treasure Changes of Note:

• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to deal +X% damage for 10 seconds" => was bugged and did not work. It has been refactored to deal +X% damage but also deal Y damage to your minions over a 10 second period.
  
• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to deal +X% damage for 10 seconds, but also take Y Health damage after a 10-second delay" => also did not work correctly. It has been refactored to deal damage immediately, not after a delay.
  
• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to deal +X% damage with their Fire/Ice/Electricity attacks (if any) for 10 seconds" => also didn't work correctly. It has been refactored into a flat global damage bonus instead of an elemental percentage bonus.
  
• "Life Steal targets all enemies within 10 meters and deals +X damage but reuse timer is +3 seconds" => was tweaked a bit because the +X flat damage wasn't useful. It is now: "Life Steal targets all enemies within 10 meters and steals +X health, but reuse timer is +3 seconds and Power cost is +Y".
  
• "Wave of Darkness heals you for 66 health" => was replaced with a new effect: "Wave of Darkness damage +X and reuse timer is -1 second".
  
• "Rebuild Undead restores X health/armor to your undead after a 15 second delay" => now has a 10-second delay.
  
• "Summoned Skeletons deal +X direct damage with each attack, but take Y% more damage from any cold attacks" => damage bonus is a percentage instead of flat.
  
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +X direct damage, but take +50% more damage from any slashing, piercing, or crushing attacks" => damage bonus is a percentage instead of flat.
  
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers deal +X direct damage with each attack" => now also applies to Skeletal Mages.
  
• "All Summoned Skeletons deal +X damage with each attack, but are instantly destroyed by ANY Nature attack" => damage bonus is a percentage instead of flat, and this effect no longer applies to skeleton swordsmen.
  
• "Death's Hold causes target to take +X% damage from Slashing for 15 seconds" => was quite overpowered, or would have been if it worked. It works now but has reduced efficacy.
  
• "Rebuild Undead restores X health/armor to your undead after a 10 second delay" => accidentally healed the necromancer, not the undead minions.
  

Retired Necromancy Treasure Mods:

All of these have been replaced with entirely new effects.

• "Death's Hold deals +X damage and Stuns target after a 15 second delay": This effect was almost always useless. It has been replaced.
  
• "Necromancy Base Damage +%": The skill actually had two of these mods for a total of 4 slots' worth. This didn't seem to fit the Necromancy skill as it is currently envisioned, so two of those slots have been repurposed to boost Skeleton pet damage instead.
  
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages regenerate +X health every update, both in and out of combat": Most tiers of this ability did not work on the right kinds of skeleton. It was fixed, but then completely replaced with a new effect.
  
• "Summoned Skeletal Mages deal +X direct damage with each attack": This effect has been merged with a different one (above), so it was repurposed for a new effect.
  
• "Create Super Zombie also heals yourself for 192 health, 192 armor, and 38 power": This has been replaced with a new effect that buffs Raise Zombie.
  
• "Create Zombie also heals yourself for X health": This has been replaced with something that actually makes zombies better.
  
• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to recover 66 Armor": Although it was one of the only Provoke Undead treasure effects that actually worked, it was thematically inappropriate for the ability. It has been replaced.
  
• "Heal Undead restores +X Health/Armor and boosts targets' Slashing damage +Y for 8 seconds": The amounts here were so small as to be useless. Replaced.
  

Cow:

Cows' gear configuration posed a slightly thornier problem. While it was possible to build robust tanky builds, it required a lot of gear before it started to work: there were separate treasure effects for crushing, slashing, and piercing protection, and a typical "tank" would need all three -- and at high level they would probably want two of each. And since all six of those effects appeared on only Hands and Feet gear, cow gear ended up feeling pretty uninspired. We've changed those effects around, and also tried to address some other problematic play aspects and build limitations.

• "Chew Cud boosts Crushing Mitigation +22 for 10 seconds" => "Chew Cud boosts Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Mitigation +14 for 10 seconds". In addition, this effect is now available on 4 slots instead of 2.
  
• "Chew Cud boosts Slashing Mitigation +22 for 10 seconds" => was replaced with a new effect.
  
• "Chew Cud boosts Piercing Mitigation +22 for 10 seconds" => was replaced with a new effect.
  
• "Stampede Damage +X" => "Stampede Taunt +X" (for a much bigger X).
  
• Ability "Tough Hoof" has been revised. "If the target attacks and damages you within 5 seconds, you regain X health" => is now "Each time the target attacks and damages you within 8 seconds, you regain X health". The ability's damage is a bit lower and reuse timer is 12s instead of 10s. Treasure effects have changed also.
  
• There is also a new ability for Cows, as well as a bunch of new treasure effects. The new ability can temporarily be learned from Raul in Animal Town. (Although not permanently, as he finds it extremely uncouth.)
  

Deer:

• Cuteness Overload is now marked as an Epic Attack for purposes of equipment that boosts Epic Attacks.
  
• "Summoned Deer deal +X damage" => damage is now percentage-based instead of flat.
  
• "Deer Kick deals X armor damage and reduces target's rage by Y" => accidentally dealt Health damage instead. It has been refactored to just deal regular damage.
  
• "Deer Kick implants insect eggs in the target. Future Deer Kicks by any deer cause target to take X Nature damage over 5 seconds" => didn't work. It now works as intended. In addition, all attacks made by player-summoned deer are now considered "Deer Kicks" for the purposes of this treasure effect.
  
• "Deer Bash heals X health" => accidentally restored Armor instead.
  
• Plus a new ability and a number of new treasure effects! The new ability can temporarily be learned from Jumper in Animal Town.
  

Rabbit:

• Reuse timer of Hare Dash changed from 30 to 25.
  
• Reuse timer of Play Dead now gets faster with each tier of the ability.
  
• "Carrot Power Boosts Direct Cold Damage" => now boosts direct and indirect cold damage.
  
• Fixed effect-ordering bug where the Play Dead effect that boosted Psychic damage did not apply to the Play Dead effect that dealt Psychic damage.
  
• Plus two new abilities and a large new assortment of new treasure effects! The new abilities can temporarily be learned from Cinnamon in Animal Town, although they will be taught by a different NPC in the future.
  

Spider:

• Incubate is no longer marked a Nice Attack. Spit Acid is now a Nice Attack.
  
• Incubate can now be placed on the sidebar.
  
• Baby spiders' rage attacks now have significantly better poison DoTs, and the spiders have smaller rage bars so they can use their poison a bit more often.
  
• Spit Acid now destroys more armor on immediate impact.
  
• Inject Venom's poison DoT deals more damage in a much shorter time window (12s instead of 20s).
  
• Premeditated Doom reset time changed from 40s to 20s. Durations of various treasure effects adjusted accordingly.
  Treasure:
  
• "Incubated Spiders deal +X direct damage with each attack" => now boosts damage by a percentage instead of a flat number
  
• "Spider Bite has a 50% chance to deal +X damage" => now works for both Spider Bite and Infinite Legs, and it boosts damage by a percentage instead of a flat number.
  
• "Combo: Gripjaw+any+any+Inject Venom deals +X damage and +Y over 20 seconds" => now deals +X% damage instead of a flat boost. The Damage-over-Time aspect has been dropped, but it was awful and you won't miss it.
  
• "Spider Bite deals +X% damage" => has been replaced with "Combat Refresh restores +Y Power while Spider skill active".
  
• "Premeditated Doom restores X health" => restores health after a 10-second delay.
  
• "Premeditated Doom restores X armor" => restores armor after a 10-second delay.
  
• "Infinite Legs restores X health" => now also applies to Spider Bite.
  
• "Spider Bite restores X health" => was made obsolete because the Infinite Legs version now applies to both abilities. So it has been replaced with a completely new effect, one that buffs Premeditated Doom.
  
• "Infinite Legs restores X armor" => has been replaced with "Infinite Legs deals +X% damage and reuse timer is -0.5 seconds".
  
• "Grappling Web causes the target to take +X% damage from Poison attacks" => now correctly stacks with itself when the effect is present on two equipment slots.
  
• "Poison Mitigation +X while Spider skill active" => now also mitigates Acid.
  
• "Acid Mitigation +X while Spider skill active" => has been replaced with a new treasure effect for Spit Acid.
  
• Plus various rebalances and new treasure effects to flesh out the spider's arsenal.
  

Other Stuff

• Abilities that summon pets now list the treasure effects that will apply (just as other types of abilities do).
  
• You can now click on your pets in-game and examine them to see a rudimentary report of their combat stats at that moment. (Previously this was only available to Animal Handling pets.)
  
• Sammie Grimspine in Serbule Hills sells Skinning Knives to her Friends. (This is a backup method for demo players who lose the knife they get from Ivyn's favor reward.)
  
• Fixed equipment-crafting bug where using two of the same gem could generate Legacy items.
  
• Fixed bug preventing Rabbit treasure mods from being extracted into Malachites.
  
• Equipment-crafting recipes are changed so that using two of the same gem now usually results in gear for that skill + generic enhancements (rather than being for that skill + a randomly-picked skill) .
  
• Fixed a bug where Death Avoidance gear did not always take your remaining armor into account before activating.
  

• Inventory window: did not show the special overlays shown on top of quest items and broken hardcore items.
  
• Practical Summoning: manually typing a number did not always correctly change the number summoned.
  
• Recipe Sorting: the "Sort by Times Used" option did not work in some situations
  
• Inventory window: showed incorrect status messages in the chat history when locking/unlocking a folder.
  
• Fixed the level requirement on about two dozen work orders. These work orders' rewards are unchanged, only the level requirement was incorrect.
  
• Fixed physics bug that could cause oversized monsters to fall through the world
  
• Miscellaneous very minor data tweaks.
  

Crafting UI

• You can now sort your recipe list in three ways: alphabetically, by recipe level, or by most-used recipes. There is no button for this UI feature yet; to access it, just right-click the name of a recipe in the list in the Crafting UI.
  
• You can now mark recipes as Favorites by right-clicking the recipe name in the list. There is a new drop-down option at the top of the list to show only favorite recipes.
  
• When crafting an enchanted item, the crafting window now shows info about the base item (the unenchanted version of the resulting item).
  

Inventory UI

• Added an "Update this Loadout" button to loadout window; this button just replaces the contents of the loadout with the currently-active abilities and gear.
  
• Added a spot on the inventory window that you can drag items onto to get More Info. This is the same as right-clicking the item and choosing More Info.
  
• Fixed several subtle mouse-click bugs with the inventory window. Most notably, you couldn't drag items around in inventory while you were "in combat".
  
• Cleaned up confusing error messages and sometimes-buggy behavior with the Split Stack window. (BTW, did you know you can quickly split a stack of items by clicking the inventory item while holding down the SHIFT key?)
  

Main UI

• Added a new setting to let you turn off the player stats bar that's usually in the top-left corner. This is for players who would prefer to just use the stats globes to track their health/armor/etc.
  
• The sidebar now has a right-click menu item to bring up the Special Abilities list, similar to the option already available on the bottom bars.
  
• Fixed bugs with the sidebar's contents getting changed or lost when using potions and effects that increased the number of sidebar slots (such as Gur-Horta)
  
• Fixed bug where changing the horizontal/vertical layout of the ability bars was not always saved in the settings for the next time the game started.
  
• On the character selection screen, if the character is not Hanging Out with someone, it instead shows the area the character is in.
  

Miscellaneous

• At the Guild Management Sign, the Roster option can now be sorted by rank/name (the default, as before) or by Last Time Online.
  
• When using the Eject Guild Members option, that popup list is sorted by Last Time Online. (We assume that if you're making room in the roster, you probably want to eject people who haven't been online recently.)
  
• Fixed a bug with Dwarven Fixer: It did not correctly block the bright-lights screen effect of Delerium Tremens (the nastiest withdrawal state of an alcoholic). If you have Dwarven Fixer in your system already, you may need to drink another dose to get the fixed effect.
  
• Dwarven Fixer now lasts 3 hours instead of 1.
  
• Fixed several scripted scenarios where the game said you were lit on fire, but you weren't actually lit on fire (such as when trying to break into Ivyn's chest or when giving the wrong answer to the creepy crystal).
  
• Fixed various scripting bugs that caused players to receive items with impossibly-high stack sizes instead of receiving multiple stacks of the item.
  
• Fixed bugs when using the /leave command to leave a chat room that was in use in more than one chat channel.
  
• Improved the heuristics for closing chat tabs automatically.
  
• Fixed bug that caused the Group window to sometimes lose track of a party member (showing blank health/armor/power bars for them).
  
• Miscellaneous performance optimizations related to the user interface.
  
• Added new icons for resource items that are commonly confused with other resource items.
  
• Added missing titles from player packages. If your account still doesn't have a title and it should, please e-mail support@projectgorgon.com ASAP so we can get you sorted out.
  

Project: Gorgon Demo Is Available!

• CANNOT join a guild
  
• CANNOT trade with other players
  
• CANNOT send or receive money via /tip
  
• CANNOT pick up items dropped on the ground (except items they themselves dropped)
  
• CANNOT milk other players (or be milked, if they become a cow)
  
• CANNOT listen to poetry orations or recite poetry
  
• CAN unlock and use regular storage
  
• CAN sell items at vendors, but CANNOT buy other players' used items
  
• CANNOT buy consignment items or place their own consignments
  
• CANNOT purchase from player stores or open their own stores
  
• CANNOT play any instrument, but CAN listen to performances
  
• CANNOT place or complete player-work-orders
  
• CANNOT use deployed gadgeteering items such as vending machines and rafflers
  
• CAN add friends (it prompts the other player to confirm, as normal)
  
• CAN join hunting groups (and can chat in hunting group chat)
  
• CAN speak in Local chat, and in Group chat (when they're in a group)
  
• CAN speak in a new chat room called Demo
  
• CAN listen, but CANNOT speak, in all other chat rooms (including Global, Trade, and Help)
  
• CANNOT send private messages (PMs) unless both the sender and recipient are in the Demo chat room (see below)
  

Upcoming Game Improvements

Improving the UI

Fleshing out Content

Revising Game Systems

Note: All This Will Take Several Months!

• Fixed navigation issues with the boardwalks in Serbule and Anagoge Island
  
• Fixed bugs that prevented the thick green "queued ability" overlay from showing up on a queued ability
  
• Fixed bug where the faces of some male elves were lighter-colored than their bodies
  
• Fixed bug with human and elf female eyelashes (they looked creepy in some light conditions)
  
• Tried to work around weird behavior with Windows 10 firewall: if you log out or disconnect due to being AFK too long, the firewall would sometimes decide the game wasn't allowed to use the internet anymore and constantly break any connections to the server, requiring you to restart the game to log back in. The cause of this is unknown (Microsoft does not document much of anything about how their firewall app works or why), but we've made some changes based on hunches and we'll see if it helps.
  
• Worked around Unity 2017 bug that caused the lowest graphics tiers (Bad, Abysmal, and Retro-Terrible) to be less efficient than they should be
  
• Partially worked around a Unity engine bug involving shadows (where performance gets worse at certain times of day when facing certain directions outdoors). This is a partial fix, meaning the issue persists but is reduced. There is a side-effect, though: interactive elements such as monsters, NPCs, signs, lamps, chairs, etc., are no longer lit by the sun or moon. Usually this is completely unnoticeable, but sometimes it can be really surreal: "why is that lamppost not casting a shadow?!" If it's distressing, you can disable this fix by opening Settings and adding EntityShadows to the special-settings box. (There are better ways to address this problem in bleeding-edge versions of Unity, so we anticipate that this workaround is temporary.)
  
• We'd like players to test out a new experimental graphics feature: spherical culling. To enable it, open the Settings window in-game and add SphereCull to the Special Settings window. Normally the game uses frustum culling, meaning anything that's not right in front of the camera isn't rendered. This is theoretically optimal: why render stuff that's not on the screen? But it has side-effects. One problem is that when you spin around in a circle, a lot of art assets have to be swapped in and out of video memory, which can cause framerate to drop momentarily. Spherical culling means everything in a circle around you is rendered. This may have a lower framerate overall, but it will greatly reduce "turning lag". Please try it out and report your experiences with it (especially bugs, such as missing water or other things being invisible)! And remember: you may need to lower your settings to effectively use this, especially if you've overridden settings like view distance or animation distance!