Holier than thou

• All faiths except Aden, m2: Heal 1s cast, concentration
  
• Cleric of Aden, m2: Heal .25s cast, concentration, short-range
  
• Cleric of Aden, 1: Smite melee attack that stacks empowered
  
• Cleric of Callysta, 1: Bless .25s cast heal, 2 charges
  
• Cleric of Dwade, 1: Bless .25s cast close heal, target gains durable
  
• Cleric of Ianna, 1: Bless .25s cast close heal, target gains regenerate
  
• Cleric of Oran, 1: Bless .25s cast close heal, target gains empowered
  

• Wolves no longer cause bleeding and will only use swift attacks
  
• Creatures in level 1 instances cause 40% reduced damage
  
• Bow attacks have been changed, from all attacks having 1s cast and no concentration to:
  
  
  
  • Quick shot: .75s cast, .5 damage multiplier
    
  • Power shot: 1s cast, 1 damage multiplier, concentration
    
  • Aimed shot: 2s cast, 3 damage multiplier, concentration
    
  
  
• All missiles travel 16% slower
  
• Touch attack activation has been increased from .25s to .4s
  
• Staff m2 now parries instead of blocks
  
• Two-hand weapons increase melee range by 10 (base range is 35)
  
• Alchemist ranks now improve healing potion effectiveness:
  
  
  
  • All ranks reduce the cooldown by 3s
    
  • Rank 2: Regeneration
    
  • Rank 4: 30 Energy gained
    
  • Rank 6: Cleanse one condition
    
  • Rank 8: 30 Energy gained (for a total of 60)
    
  • Rank 10: Cleanse an additional condition (two conditions cleansed)
    
  
  
• Stealth duration up from 3s to 10s
  
• Experience from clearing/completing instances increased by 400%
  
• DoT damage decreased by 25% (still subject to change, it's very hard to balance)
  

Small update

• 24 New achievements.
  
• Acolyte: Boon has been reworked and is now a personal heal.
  
• Wand: Flare was not supposed to allow movement while casting, this has been fixed.
  
• Server stability fixes along with the ability to have the server automatically restart when running poorly.
  
• Fixed a bug that had instant cast touch spell misfire when target was moving fast.
  

Patch 1.2.3 - Merchants and Wiches

• Server backup
  Servers now has a save dated backups in a separate folder.
  
• AI Aggression
  Enemies will spend less time waiting between attacks.
  
• Rain
  Rain is now more visible.
  
• DoT damage
  DoT damage has been reduced by roughly 65%.
  
• DoT stacks
  DoT stacks now fall off as the duration decreases.
  
• Arrow speed
  Arrows are now bigger and travel 20% slower.
  
• Missile range
  All missiles travel slightly further.
  
• Speech in XML
  Npc speech is now saved as XML in the data folder.
  
• Slower world travel
  All movement on the world map has been reduced roughly 20%.
  
• Potion vendor
  Potions are now acquired by hiring a alchemist servant.
  
• Chained risen
  Chain attack has been reworked.
  
• Channeled melee
  A new type of attacks has been implemented (Frenzy for Berserker and Thousand cuts Shank for Assassin).
  
• You are not you own ally
  Abilities that effects allies no longer hit you as well, some abilities has been reworked to make up for this.
  
• Spider cult
  The spider cult has been reworked and they now have spider totems that spawn spiderlings.
  
• Urgerised
  Urgerisen liches now has access to flamestorm, a new type of spell and Urgerisen zombies can now make themselves explode.
  
• Plague zombies
  Plague has been reworked and now causes damage over time and snare.
  
• Wyldoverload
  Some shaman can now overload themselves with wyld energies causing massive explosions (new ability type).
  
• Wizard
  A new neutral class with access to slow travelling orb attacks.
  
• Focus/Pray
  Generator for clerics and sages has been completely reworked, this is now a self cast ability that generates energy.
  
• Precision tool tip
  Precision is now included in ability tool tip calculations.
  
• Fire effect
  The burning effect is now more visible.
  
• Ray attacks
  Ray attacks have had a massive visual overhaul.
  
• Merchants and Witches
  Old huts now spawn on the map, these will contain either a neutral merchant, that will sell you am item based on your champion level, or an aggressive witch.
  
• Loot
  The random loot generator has been completely reworked and is now based on the random item upgrades from the crafting engine.
  
• Farewell Parnassus
  The faithless neutral faction is no longer a player faction.
  
• Missile angles
  Missile angle can be changed during the cast animation, this should make slow cast missiles a lot more viable.
  
• Player cities
  You can now buy the cities owned by your faction by talking to a new mayor npc found in all cities not overrun by monsters. Talking to a mayor in a city you already own, will open a menu from which you can control what the city should build. Beware though, the less gold a city has, the easier it is for another player to buy the title from you.
  
• Donations
  You can now donate money to a city by finding the city gold stack and interacting with it.
  
• House power
  Each house now has a new House power stat, this is a percentage that is added to all that houses champions health and damage dealt. You can increase you house power by claiming cities, hover your mouse over you house power to see your current holdings.
  

• Server time step fix
  Server time between updates is now more rigidly monitored to prevent loss of 'frames' and desynchronization.
  
• Ghosts Champions
  Champions should no longer ghost in the middle of the world map.
  
• Arcane light fix
  Arcane light should no longer go out when reapplied.
  
• Resource turn in
  Opening inventory after entering home town should now display the correct amount of resources.
  
• Speed calculations
  All haste, snare and root calculations have been reworked, this should hopefully put an end to speed calculations bugging when equipping haste abilities while being snared.
  
• AI Performance
  Enemies are a lot less likely to get confused in a target rich environment.
  
• Wider banners
  Champion name banners now fit their name.
  

The stones are humming and soon they will sing.

• Cool downs are now name based, meaning that you can no longer equip the same ability twice
  
• Creatures will no longer try to flank when they are alone
  
• It is now possible to attack in melee with bows
  
• Player spell trajectories are no longer fixed on Y axis
  
• Action cast timers should be slightly better synchronized now
  
• Fiber is a lot less rare
  
• Crafting quality has been slightly increased
  
• A lot of tool tip fixes
  
• Dual wielding fixed
  
• Server will push ability and class settings to clients on connect
  
• Orcs do no longer dual wield weapons
  
• End of level chests will now return loot lost in instance due to death
  
• Dots/Hots ticks twice as fast
  
• Item enchants implemented (Glyphs, Gems and Sigils)
  

• Added ray effect to touch spells
  
• Arcane light no longer stacks
  
• Slightly faster cast times for all abilities
  
• Shadowbolt damage increased
  
• Wyldbolt damage increased
  
• Urgemage self burn increased
  
• Urgebolt damage increased
  

• Health increased by 15%
  
• Leap attack can no longer change your facing
  
• Charge animation smoother
  
• Blocking a missile attack now counters all effects of that missile (Including summoning)
  
• Missile reflection ability temporarily disabled
  
• Knockback no longer interrupts soldier melee attacks
  

• Heals are 25% stronger and can crit
  
• Precision no longer works on heals
  
• Most damage abilities have been buffed
  
• Heal spells now work like touch spells
  
• Base health increased by 5%