September 01, 2026

Balance Patch Notes

Running List of Class Updates, Balance updates, and More

Read on to see what we've updated, what's been fixed, and stay up to date!

9/1/26 - Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug on Martial Artist that was causing certain auras to not be applied.

8/21/26 - Game Updates

Gameplay Updates

• Re-added the Smooth Background option.
• Increased the stability of the "Static Player Art" option to retain CC colors and improve performance.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug on Archivist of Time that caused Fortification to not consume The Third Index.

8/14/26 - Balance Update & Bug Fixes

This week's balance update is a follow up to last week's, in addition to some other changes and fixes.

Class Updates

Lord of Order

We're making an adjustment to Lord of Order's Haste buff in response to last week's changes. We'll continue to keep an eye on Lord of Order as we explore adjustments to other support classes.

Axiom:

• Clarity Haste: 10% > 30%

Monster Updates

• Chance for Reinforced Shelletons to Crash: 10% > 15%
• Fell Statue Crit Damage Amplified effect duration: 6 seconds > 5 seconds
• Mechabinky & Raxborg no longer use Batara Kala's Devour skill.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect descriptions on StoneCrusher.
• Fixed a DoT bug on Batara Kala.

8/7/26 - Balance Update & Bug Fixes

This week's balance update brings a wide variety of class updates and a batch of bug fixes, including the long awaited CardClasher and PaladinSlayer reworks!

Class Updates

CardClasher & PaladinSlayer

See the Design Notes post for more info!

Arcana Invoker

We're changing Arcana Invocation to deal magic damage and adding a missing Damage Reduction debuff to The World (Reversed), so the class should be doing a bit more damage than it previously was.

Arcana Invocation:

• Damage: 100% > 60%, damage type changed to magical (overall net increase)

Arcana Revocation:

• Changed a backend damage function (the previous function used the higher of the player's Attack Power or Spell Power in the damage calculation, the new function is based on Spell Power only).
• No longer consumes Judgement Day.
• The World (Reversed) now properly applies its 22% Damage Resistance debuff.

Archivist of Time

We're making some changes to Archivist of Time's Index effects, including adjustments to the duration and strength of its defensive effects, increasing certain offensive effects, and reducing the cooldown of Rewrite Time so that all shared effects have an overall longer uptime.

The First Index:

• Fortification duration: 12 seconds > 24 seconds

The Second Index:

• Resiliency duration: 12 seconds > 24 seconds
• Resiliency Damage Resistance: 50% > 25%
• Vehemency Outgoing Physical and Magical Damage: 30% > 40%

The Third Index:

• Rewind duration: 12 seconds > 24 seconds
• Rewind HoT tick rate: Every 1 second > Every 2 seconds
• Rewind HoT strength reduced by 50%.
• Superpower Luck: 15% > 30%

Rewrite Time:

• Cooldown: 60 seconds > 50 seconds
• Shared Rewind, Resiliency, and Fortification durations: 12 seconds > 24 seconds

Legion Revenant

Legion Revenant has fallen behind in farming performance, so we're increasing the damage the class skills deal to additional targets.

System:

• Skills no longer deal reduced damage to secondary targets.

Lord of Order

Lord of Order has been greatly overperforming in both offensive and defensive support roles so we're dialing parts of it back in order to create more opportunities for other support classes. Considering the amount of party damage the class provides compared to other support classes, we feel Lord of Order best fits the role of an offensive support, so most of the changes we're making are targeted towards the defensive aspects of the class. Specifically, we're removing the Damage Resistance buff, scaling back the Haste buff and Damage reduction debuff, and increasing the cooldown of Ordinance. These changes will allow for other support classes to fill more specific roles, creating more variety in the overall support meta.

Ordinance:

• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 16 seconds
• Resurgence no longer increases Damage Resistance.
• Resurgence duration: 12 seconds > 25 seconds

Axiom:

• Clarity Haste: 30% > 10%

Blessing of Order:

• Order Outgoing Damage per stack: -8% > -4%

Resilience:

• Damage Resistance: 15% > 25%

Master of Moglins

We're changing Moglin's Magical Strike to be based on Spell Power instead of Attack Power and switching Cupcake Mana Healing to mana cost reduction.

Moglin's Magical Strike:

• Damage: 55% > 35%, now deals damage based on Spell Power instead of Attack Power (overall net increase).

Moglin's Magical Strike:

• Cupcake Mana now reduces mana costs by 25% instead of regenerating mana (the previous mana over time effect would not regenerate allies' mana).

Evolved/Prismatic Clawsuit

We're swapping the skill order of Naughty and Nice to better accomodate for certain Forge Enhancement synergies.

System:

• Switched the skill order of Naughty and Nice.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug on the Valiance enhancement that caused its effect to not apply if the auto attack killed the target.
• Fixed a bug on the Acheron enhancement that was causing it to not be an unavoidable crit.
• Fixed a bug on the Arcana's Concerto enhancement that was causing it to deal true damage instead of Hybrid damage.
• Fixed a bug on Elemental Dracomancer that caused Primal Power to activate before the class reached rank 10.
• Fixed a bug on ShadowWalker of Time's Silhouette/Shadow Warp in which Focus lasted longer than intended and could be applied during Temporal Eclipse.
• Fixed a bug on Arcana Invoker's Arcana Revocation skill that caused The World (Reversed) to not reduce the target's Damage Resistance.
• Fixed an incorrect description on Frostval Barbarian's Silver Thaw/Maw/Jaw that stated Crit Damage was being increased by 20% (was actually 30%). 

7/23/26 - Client Update

We are currently testing a new client update that brings changes to tonics and elixirs, and adds an in-game monster drop list. Please report any bugs you find to the bug tracker. 

Gameplay Updates:

• Tonics and Elixirs are no longer equipped to the consumable slot, instead they are now consumed directly through the inventory.
• Tonics and Elixirs can not be consumed while in combat.
• Tonic and Elixir effects now persist on class change and death.
• Tonics and Elixirs can now be used while Potions or Scrolls are on cooldown.
• Player HP is now capped at 1,000,000.
• Monsters drop lists can now be viewed by clicking "Options" under the monster's portrait, then clicking "View Drops". Secret Rarity items will not show on the drop list.
• Updated the font engine.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bugs relating to consumables not being activated on skill press.
• Fixed party desync bugs.

*We're currently investigating the 99,999,999 gold display bug. 

7/17/26 - Balance Updates

This week's balance update brings a small adjustment to Void Highlord. 

Void Highlord

We initially reduced the range of some of Void Highlord's skills as it was overperforming as a farming class. However, since the introduction of Forge Enhancements, other class' farming performances have gradually improved to a point where old Void Highlord isn't as overbearing as it once was, so we feel that now's the time to let the swords fly again.

System:

• All skills are now infinite range.

7/10/26 - Balance Updates

This week's balance update focuses on adjustments to scrolls and to the ArchFiend DoomLord quest line.

Item Updates:

• Fixed a bug on the Scroll of Blessed Shard that caused it to prevent other scrolls from being used. The scroll can now be used on any monster, but only applies the Vulnerable effect to Undead.
• Reworked Scroll of Torment. Now reduces Crit Chance by 200% for 3 seconds. Cooldown reduced from 120 seconds to 30 seconds.
• Changed the merge recipe of the Golden Hanzo Void armor to Diamond of Nulgath x75, Tainted Gem x45, Dark Crystal Shard x45, Nulgath's Approval x50, Voucher of Nulgath (non-mem) x1, and 100,000 gold.
• Nulgath Insignia x5 can now be exchanged for ArchFiend Essence Fragment x2.
• Unidentified 35 can now be exchanged into ArchFiend Essence Fragment x4 in Swindle's Ripoff Emporium.
• Added an AC tag to Unidentified 34, Unidentified 35, and ArchFiend Essence Fragment.

Quest Updates:

• Added a level 75 requirement to the ArchFiend DoomLord quest line.
• Removed the Unidentified 13, King Klunk's Crown, Mortality Cape of Revontheus, and Essence of Nulgath requirements from the "Willpower Extraction" quest.
• The "Willpower Extraction" quest now requires Nulgath's Approval x50 instead of ArchFiend's Favor x50.
• Removed the Diamond of Nulgath, Tainted Gem, and Dark Crystal Shard requirements from the "Nulgath Demands Work" quest.
• The amount of ArchFiend Essence Fragment rewarded from the "Nulgath Demands Work" quest during the boost event has been increased to 2.
• The amount of Unidentified 35 rewarded from the "Nulgath Demands Work" quest is no longer increased by the boost event (the drop rate will still be increased)".
• Removed the Unidentified 13, Unidentified 34, Nulgath's Approval, and Voucher of Nulgath (non-mem) requirements from the "Enough DOOM For an ArchFiend" quest.

5/8/26 - Balance Updates

This week's balance update primarily focuses on adjustments to the Xan Saga and introducing an alternative method for obtaining Shurpu Blaze Tokens.Items and Quests:

Monster Updates:

• Adjusted mob values in the /volcano, /xantown, and /xancave maps.
• Increased the damage of Ledgermayne's Mana Discharge attack.
• Added 25% Magical Resistance to Ledgermayne.

Item Updates:

• Shurpu Blaze Tokens now have a chance to drop from all monsters in /volcano, /xantown, and /xancave.
• Added a level 30 requirement to Pyromancer.
• Slightly increased the drop rate of Yew Ember from all monsters.
• Added the Flame of Maleno armor set to the /mountmaleno Merge Shop.
• Added the Flame of Albedo armor set to the /forgealbedo Merge Shop.
• Added the Flame of Citrinitas armor set to the /fortluma Merge Shop.
• Added the Flame of Rubedo armor set to the /warwickforest Merge Shop.

Quest Updates:

• Adjusted gold and xp rewards for the /volcano, /xantown, and /xancave story quests.
• Increased the amount of Shurpu Blaze Tokens awarded from the Shurpu Blaze Tokens daily quests.
• Increased the stack limit on items for the following quests to 20x their required turn-in amount (also includes any Legend variants of the quests):
• Iron Blooded
• Argyria
• Al vel Legis
• Candidus Sol
• Faith Without Hard Work
• Fórnarkálfur

5/1/26 - Balance Updates

Happy May everyone, the Berserker rework is here alongside a couple of other class changes!

Class Updates

Berserker

As the originator of "low health equals more damage" classes, Berserker has received a set of updates to reinforce this playstyle. For starters, mana costs have been removed entirely, now opting for health as its sole resource. Breaker now deals damage based on your missing health while also healing you, Broadside now costs health and is a guaranteed crit, and most notably, Forgone Conclusion now acts as toggle skill. While active, your Auto Attack applies a stacking effect that increases your damage at the cost of draining your health on each attack. This effect can be ended at any time, healing you based on the damage dealt while active, usually resulting in a full heal!

System:

• Mana regeneration model removed (Berserkers are fueled by their rage and have no need for mana).

Savage Swings (previously Auto Attack):

• Cooldown: 2 seconds > 3 seconds
• Now costs 2% of Max HP per stack of Berserk.

Breaker:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 0
• Cooldown: 8 seconds > 3 seconds
• Damage: 50% > 50% - 150%, based on missing HP.
• Now heals for a portion of the damage dealt.
• Breaker debuff now also reduces Crit Chance by 15%.

Broadside:

• Mana Cost: 15 > 0
• Cooldown: 2 seconds > 3 seconds
• Damage: 70% > 200%
• Now always crits and can't miss.
• Now costs 30% of max HP.

Blood For Blood:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 0
• Cooldown: 10 seconds > 9 seconds
• Damage: 50% - 450% > 55% - 495%, based on missing HP.

Forgone Conclusion:

• New effect: You go Berserk, causing Savage Swings to increase your Outgoing Damage by 10% and cost 2% of your max HP per stack, up to 10. Using this skill again calms you down, ending the effects and healing you based on damage dealt, but preventing you from going Berserk for 5 seconds.

Furious:

• No longer increases Outgoing Damage.
• Now increases Outgoing Physical Damage and Hit Chance by 10%.

Fighting Spirit (previously Resolute):

• Now increases Endurance by 100% and Damage Resistance by 10%.

Frenzy (New Rank 10 Passive):

• Crit Chance increased by 10%.

Obtain Method Changed

The updates to Berserker are intended to place its performance at around a late-early to midgame level (before enhancement scaling). To reflect this performance change, we're increasing the level requirement of Berserker.

• Level Requirement: 5 > 30
• Brutal Berserker, a non-member variant of Berserker is now available through this month's monthly upgrade pack!

Note: When Lae returns from vacation, Berserker will also receive a new set of icons!

Darkside/Dark Lord

What better way to celebrate May the 4th than by giving Dark Lord a buff? These changes are intended to speed up the gameplay of the class, increase performance slightly (ranged autos wahoo), and put more emphasis on mana as a resource. 

System:

• Mana regeneration model changed to "Darksiders gain mana from their Renewal Spell".

Forbidden Form:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Damage: 100% > 66%
• Now deals damage based on Spell Power instead of Attack Power.

Blood Boil: 

• Blood Boil buff duration: 10 seconds > 20 seconds

Dark Power:

• Mana Cost: 15 > 10
• Cooldown: 6 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 25% - 87.5% > 20% - 70%

Blinding Pain:

• Mana Cost: 25 > 10
• Cooldown: 10 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 50% > 8% - 28%, based on Deep Rage stacks.
• Blinding Pain debuff now also reduces Dodge by 30%.
• Stun chance: 50% > 25%
• Stun duration: 4 seconds > 3 seconds

Renewal Spell:

• Cooldown: 30 seconds > 10 seconds
• Now consumes Deep Rage stacks to heal you and restore 30 mana, plus an additional 10 per stack consumed.

Item Updates

03/27/26 - Balance Updates

Our last round of March Class updates is here, focusing on adjustments to the Arcane Shield and Event Horizon auras and Legion Revenant and Yami no Ronin classes.

Arcane Shield and Event Horizon Updates:

The current functionality of these auras negatively impacts what we can do while designing future classes and boss fights. We either have to design around them or, in some cases, add other auras specifically to counteract them. Currently, these auras reduce a flat amount of damage received based on Attack Power or Spell Power BEFORE calculating any secondary stats (such as Outgoing Damage or Damage Resistance), in addition to also being able to reduce any True Damage taken for an extended duration, a source of damage that is intended to not be ignorable in most cases. This update changes the damage reduction effect to occur AFTER all other calculations have been made and ignore any instances of True Damage taken.

Arcane Shield: 

• Damage reduction calculation: Before stat modifiers > After stat modifiers
• No longer reduces True Damage.
• Bosses no longer remove Arcane Shield.
• Can now be applied alongside the Stygian aura from the Acheron Weapon Enhancement.

Event Horizon: 

• Damage reduction calculation: Before stat modifiers > After stat modifiers
• No longer reduces True Damage.
• Bosses no longer remove Event Horizon.

Class Updates

Legion Revenant

We're making changes to Legion Revenant to adjust its survivability after the changes to Arcane Shield, as well as cleaning up a couple of auras. 

Atramentous Shade:

• Atramentous Shade DoT tick speed: Every 2 second > Every 1 second (overall damage per second remains the same)

Depraved Empowerment:

• Exhortation HoT tick speed: Every 5 seconds > Every 1 second (overall healing per second remains the same)
• Exhortation Haste: 10% > 20%
• Renamed Exhortation to "Immorality".
• Arcane Shield duration: 10 seconds > 12 seconds

Yami No Ronin

Ichi, Ni, and San could often desync from the duration of the Yami, so the effects have been adjusted to make lining them up easier. Additionally, most skills are now long ranged (Nulgath is quaking in his boots), Flash stacks faster, and Revealed no longer reduces Damage Resistance. Yami no Maku's cooldown has also been reduced and Spinning Dragon is now guaranteed to apply, which should allow for some semi-frequent "parry" opportunities. 

System:

• Outgoing Damage, Crit Chance, and Hit Chance per Flash Stack: 4% > 8%
• Flash Max Stacks: 20 > 10
• Revealed Max Stacks: 20 > 10
• Revealed no longer reduces Damage Resistance.

Tachi:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Ichi duration: 9 seconds > 10 seconds
• Ni duration: 7 seconds > 8 seconds
• San duration: 5 seconds > 6 seconds

Yami no Maku:

• Cooldown: 14 seconds > 8 seconds
• Now deals damage based on Attack Power instead of Spell Power.
• Spinning Dragon is now guaranteed to apply.
• Yami now refreshes its duration when applied again (the accumulated DoT damage also resets).

Kettou:

• Range: Melee > Long

Jigen Kogeki:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Now consumes Ichi, Ni, and San. 

03/20/26 - Balance Updates

Our third round of Legion Class updates is here, this one focusing on Arcane Dark Caster and Legion BladeMaster Assassin. Previously, we stated that this week would be the last of the Legion Class updates, but after some scheduling changes, we now have one more week of updates planned, which will focus on adjustments to Legion Revenant and Yami no Ronin.

Class Updates

Arcane/Timeless Dark Caster

Updates have been made to Arcane Dark Caster that are aimed at improving its solo performance. Dark Leech is now a lifestealing skill with a drastically reduced cooldown. Summon Arcane Shadow Minion now stacks quicker and increases all outgoing damage instead of just magic damage. Arcane Overwhelming has also received a set of changes, now increasing your Dark Pulse's damage based on your target's Consumed by Shadows stacks. 

System: 

• Mana Recovery Model: Mage > Warrior

Envelop in Darkness:

• Mana Cost: 16 > 15
• Consumed by Shadows duration: 10 seconds > 15 seconds

Dark Leech:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Mana Cost: 30 > 20
• Cooldown: 30 seconds > 3 seconds
• Damage: 80% > 100%
• Can now crit.
• Now lifesteals.
• No longer applies an HoT.
• Increased the DoT damage on Dark Leech.
• Dark Leech now also reduces Crit Chance by 15%.

Summon Arcane Shadow Minion:

• Cooldown: 8 seconds > 2 seconds
• Arcane Pact now increases Outgoing Damage instead of Outgoing Magic Damage.
• Shadow Stack Damage Resistance per stack: 5% > 10%
• Arcane Pact and Shadow Pact duration: 10 seconds > 15 seconds 

Arcane Overwhelming:

• Target: Self > Enemy
• Cooldown: 25 seconds > 30 seconds
• No longer applies Arcane Unleashed.
• While Arcane Overwhelming is active, Dark Pulse now deals increased damage based on the target's Consumed by Shadows stacks.
• Arcane Overwhelming now also increases Haste by 30% and Crit Chance by 100%.
• Combined the Overwhelming and Arcane Overwhelming auras.

Arcane Focus:

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 20%.

Arcane Reserves (previously Shadow Focus):

• No longer increases Hit Chance.
• New effect: Haste increased by 15%. Draw upon your Arcane Shadow Minion's mana reserves while they're inactive, reducing mana costs by 100%. Each time you form a Pact with your minion, your mana costs increase by 20% for 15 seconds, up to 5 times.

Legion BladeMaster/SwordMaster Assassin

Changes have been made to improve farming and soloing performance. Replaced the self DoT with percentage based health drain that can't kill the player, improved the lifesteal on Consuming Blades, Diminished Steel is now ranged and hits multiple targets, adjusted skill cooldowns across the board, and added a new optional mechanic that increases Crit Damage at the cost of Dodge.

Nukitsuke:

• Range: Melee > Infinite
• Costs 10% of your max HP while using Blood Arts.

Diminished Steel:

• Now on the 5th skill slot.
• Range: Melee > Infinite
• Max targets: 1 > 3
• Cooldown: 9 seconds > 10 seconds
• Damage: 135% > 150%
• Now applies Spinning Dragon while Blood Arts is active and ends all Blood Arts effects.

River of Blood (previously Reanimation):

• Now on the 4th skill slot.
• Mana Cost: 18 > 0
• Cooldown: 20 seconds > 1.5 seconds
• Reanimated Dodge: 25% > 30%
• Reanimated now increases Crit Chance by 30% instead of Crit Damage.
• Reanimated no longer applies a self DoT.
• Renamed Reanimated to Blood Arts.
• Use while Blood Arts is active to apply Burning Sensation, removing AoE from skills, increasing Crit Damage by 300%, Damage Resistance by 50%, reducing Dodge by 50%, and removing skill HP costs.

Consuming Blades:

• Now on the 2nd skill slot.
• Mana Cost: 20 > 8
• Cooldown: 11 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 150% > 55%
• Now restores 15% of your max HP per target hit. 
• Does not restore HP while Burning Sensation is active.

Dark Mantle:

• Now on the 3rd skill slot.
• Max targets: 4 > 3
• Mana Cost: 25 > 8
• Cooldown: 10 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 220% > 75%
• Dark Mantle duration: 4 seconds > 5 seconds
• Costs 10% of your max HP while using Blood Arts.

Legion's Boon (previously Legion's Bargain):

• No longer reduces Damage Resistance.

Requiem:

• Endurance: 15% > 50%

Assassin's Discretion:

• Now also increases Crit Chance by 12%.
• Dodge: 12% > 18%

03/13/26 - Balance Updates

Our second batch of Legion Class updates is here, this time focusing on the Evolved Dark Caster and BladeMaster Assassin classes. Tune in next week for the final round of changes to the Dark Caster and BladeMaster line of classes!

Class Updates

BladeMaster/SwordMaster Assassin

We're improving BladeMaster Assassin's farming and solo performance by giving it the ability to... sheathe your weapon. Seriously, Iaijutsu now sheathes your weapon! While Sheathed, you're unable to deal damage, but during this time you have the opportunity to charge up your next attack, which can be unleashed for massive damage to one target and a reduced amount to additional targets. Upon unsheathing, you can also choose from one of two buffs to apply to yourself, further improving the class's capabilities. Just be careful while you're Sheathed as you're in a more vulnerable state, but the reward is great if you're able to overcome the risk!

Nukitsuke:

• Manually use while Sheathe is active to unsheathe, striking up to 6 targets and applying Spinning Dragon to them.

Iaijutsu:

• Now on the 5th skill slot.
• Target: Enemy > Self
• Cooldown: 6 seconds > 10 seconds
• Damage: 120% > 0%
• Use to apply Sheathe, preventing you from using damaging skills for 2 seconds and removing Death's Dance. While Sheathed, your Damage Resistance is increased by 50% and you heal over time.

Death's Dance:

• Now on the 4th skill slot.
• Mana Cost: 5 > 0
• Cooldown: 20 seconds > 2 seconds
• Death's Dance no longer increases Crit Damage, now instead reduces Damage Resistance by 20%.
• Death's Dance Dodge: 30% > 40%
• Death's Dance can now only be applied while Sheathe isn't active.
• No longer applies Do or Die.
• Now applies Prepared Strike if Sheathe is active, causing the next Nukitsuke to deal unavoidable critical damage. This effect can be stacked up to 4 additional times for bonus damage, but only deals bonus damage to the first target hit.

Simple Solution:

• Now on the 2nd skill slot.
• Max targets: 3 > 6
• Cooldown: 8 seconds > 6 seconds
• Damage: 180% > 100%
• Now deals damage based on Attack Power instead of Spell Power
• No longer deals reduced damage to secondary targets.
• Slicing Winds duration: 4 seconds > 10 seconds
• While Sheathe is active, deals no damage and applies Killing Edge, increasing Crit Chance and Crit Damage by 100% for 10 seconds, then immediately uses Nukitsuke afterwards.

Umbral Shuriken:

• Now on the 3rd skill slot.
• Mana Cost: 20 > 15
• Cooldown: 15 seconds > 6 seconds
• Damage: 300% > 125%
• Increased the DoT tick speed and overall damage of Hemorrhage.
• Decay now only applies while Sheathe is active.
• Removed an unstated Haste debuff from Decay.
• While Sheathe is active, deals no damage and applies Precision Cut, reducing your target's Damage Resistance by 40% for 10 seconds, and Decay for 3 seconds, then immediately uses Nukitsuke afterwards.   

Zanshin:

• No longer increases Dodge.

Taihenjutsu:

• Haste and Dexterity: 8% > 12%

Evolved/Infinite Dark Caster

Evolved Dark Caster has been repurposed into a farming class. Onyx Combustion and Overshadowed now hit three targets. Styx Water now targets 7 allies and can apply its HoT to all allies. Skills now deal damage based on Spell Power instead of Attack Power. Also added a new "Soul" mechanic which can temporarily increase the damage output and healing power of the class.

Souls for the Legion (previously Dracolich Spirit):

• Physical Resistance increased by 12%. Starting at rank 1, all damaging skills (except Dark Pulse) have a 35% chance per target hit to harvest Souls, which last 20 seconds and stack to 10.

Overshadowed:

• Max targets: 1 > 3
• Damage: 110% > 55%
• Now deals damage based on Spell Power instead of Attack Power. 
• Fixed incorrect stack debuff amounts (was reducing stats by 5% per stack instead of 7%). 

Onyx Combustion:

• Range: Medium > Long
• Max targets: 2 > 3 
• Damage: 168% > 40%
• Now deals damage based on Spell Power instead of Attack Power. 
• Smouldering duration: 6 seconds > 8 seconds
• Smouldering max stacks: 1 > 3

Stygian Pact:

• Range: Long > Infinite
• Max targets: 3 > 7
• Now deals reduced healing to additional targets.
• Now always crits.
• Now applies Stygian Pact, consuming gathered Souls to increase the caster's Outgoing Damage by 5% per Soul for 10 seconds.
• Styx Water's HoT is now based on gathered Souls.
• Styx Water now applies to all allies.
• Styx Water duration: 12 seconds > 10 seconds

Soul Scourge:

• Now deals damage based on Spell Power instead of Attack Power.

03/06/26 - Balance Updates

Our first batch of Legion Class updates is here, starting with the original Dark Caster, original BladeMaster, and Legion Paladin. Be sure to check back next week as we'll have another round of changes for a Dark Caster and BladeMaster class!

Class Updates

(Immortal) Dark Caster

We're giving the first of the Dark Casters a swath of updates. For starters, Soul Crush and Soul Burn are now strictly debuff auras and are no longer consumed by Legion Strike. Forbidden Rite now also targets allies, adding new support capabilities to the class. Two new auras, Bound Soul and Branded Soul have also been introduced. Bound Soul is used by Forbidden Rite and Legion Strike to apply defensive based effects, while Branded Soul is used to apply offensive ones. These auras also have a secondary effect; when both are active at the same time, they're converted to Soul Charge stacks, which are used to boost the healing of Forbidden Rite or the damage of Legion Strike. Whether it's damage or support, there's a couple of different ways to play Dark Caster now, so the choice is yours!

Soul Grasp:

• Cooldown: 4 seconds > 2 seconds
• Damage: 110% > 40%
• Soul Crush now also reduces Dodge by 10% per stack.
• Now applies Bound Soul, lasts 10 seconds and stacks to 3.
• If Bound Soul and Branded Soul are both active, their stacks are converted to Soul Charge stacks.

Shadow Bolt:

• Cooldown: 3 seconds > 2 seconds
• Damage: 70% > 35%
• Soul Burn stack limit: 5 > 3
• Soul Burn Damage Resistance per stack: -8% > -15% 
• Now applies Branded Soul, lasts 10 seconds and stacks to 3.
• If Bound Soul and Branded Soul are both active, their stacks are converted to Soul Charge stacks.

Forbidden Rite:

• Max targets: 1 > 7
• Damage: -80% > -10% - -40%, based on Soul Charge stacks and consumes stacks.
• Soul Barrier no longer stacks, now increases Damage Resistance by 30%.
• Soul Barrier now only applies if Bound Soul is active, replaces Bound Soul.
• Soul Conflate no longer stacks, now increases Crit Chance by 30%.
• Soul Conflate now only applies if Branded Soul is active, replaces Bound Soul.
• Soul Conflate and Soul Barrier can now be applied to allies.

Legion Strike:

• Cooldown: 15 seconds > 8 seconds
• Damage: 220% > 70% - 280%, based on Soul Charge stacks and consumes stacks.
• Can no longer miss.
• If Bound Soul is active, applies Bathed in the Styx for 15 seconds, increasing Physical Resistance by 30%, replaces Bound Soul.
• If Branded Soul is active, applies Curse of the Styx for 15 seconds, reducing target Magical Resistance by 30%, replaces Branded Soul.
• No longer applies Legion Crush.
• No longer applies Legion Burn.

Dark Pact:

• Fixed an incorrect Haste value (was increasing Haste by 10% instead of 15%).
• Now also increases Hit Chance by 15%.

Legion Strike:

• Now also increases Damage Resistance by 15%

Stygian Blessing (previously Spirit Death):

• No longer increases Dodge.
• New effect: Crit Chance increased by 20%. 
• The River Styx grants you momentary protection, increasing your Damage Resistance by 80% for 6 seconds upon striking a target with Dark Pulse for the first time. 

BladeMaster/SwordMaster

Improved farming and soloing performance. Bladefury now has increased range and a chance to apply a new effect. Sever now also has a chance to apply a new effect. Also added a new "Vital Striking" passive that deals extra DoT damage and guarantees the activation of chance based effects on the class. 

Bladefury:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Damage: 200% > 60%
• No longer has a chance to apply Spinning Dragon. 
• Now has a 25% chance per target hit to apply Bladefury, increasing Crit Chance by 15% and Crit Damage by 50% for 5 seconds.

Uke Negashi:

• Evasion duration: 15 seconds > 25 seconds
• When used, resets the cooldown of Technique.

Sever:

• Damage: 100% > 240%
• Now has a 35% chance to apply Precise Cut, reducing Damage Resistance by 30% for 5 seconds.

Nukiuchi:

• Range: Medium > Long
• Damage: 360% > 500%               

Keen Reflexes:

• Dodge: 15% > 25%

Technique:

• Starting at rank 1, your skills strike your target's Vitals, applying a DoT based on the damage of the skill used and guaranteeing that skill's chance based effects to apply. This effect has a 5 second cooldown. At rank 4, increases your Dexterity by 20%.

Legion Paladin

Legion Paladin often found itself running out of mana quickly, so we're lowering the costs of its damaging skills, but increasing the cost of its heal as it's quite powerful and on a short cooldown. Overall you should find you have a lot more mana than before.

Blasphemous Battleaxe:

• Mana Cost: 20 > 10

Soul Converter:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 40

Incantation of Sin:

• Mana Cost: 25 > 20

Shadowblight:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 25

01/16/26 - Balance Updates

This week's release brings updates to an existing quest.

12/05/25 - Client Updates & Fixes

This week's release adds new client options for hiding aura animations.

Client Updates

• Added a "Disable Aura Animations" option. This hides ALL animations that play when certain auras are applied, such as Verus DoomKnight's Unleash Doom, Glacial Warlord's Frozen Heart, CardClasher's Cards, and Queen Iona's Charges.
• Added a "Show Your Aura Animation Only" option. When Disable Aura Animations is enabled, this will still show any aura animations that are applied to yourself, including ones applied by monsters such as Queen Iona. We recommend enabling this option if you disable aura animations.

Fixes:

• Fixed an incorrect mana cost amount on Pinkomancer's Tickled Pink skill.

10/17/25 - Fixes & Updates

This week's release focuses on updates to existing monsters and a fix to the Legion Revenant class.

Class Updates

Legion Revenant

We're renaming an aura on Legion Revenant as it is conflicting with the recently changed Ravenous enhancement. 

Atramentous Shade:

• Renamed the Consumed aura to Atramentous Shade

Map & Monster Updates

• Renamed the Dreadhaven General in /dreadfight to SUPER Dreadhaven General, and increased its level and damage.
• Added skills to the ULTRA Dreadhaven General and increased its level and damage. 
• Reduced the room limit of /dreadhaven and /dreadfight from 8 to 7, and the room limit of /ultradread from 8 to 4.

09/26/25 - Balance Updates

September seemed to just sail by! This week's balance update focuses on class and enhancement changes. We've also made a few quest updates pertaining to DeathKnight Lord, updated the Fiend Shard reward shop, and have a bit of news for you regarding previously announced class projects.

System Updates

• When the Safeguard aura is applied, its shield amount is now visible on the user's HP bar.

Class Updates

Alpha Omega

As Alpha Omega means "the beginning and the end", it felt appropriate to give the class a set of changes that reflected its namesake. Double Strike now deals more damage the more health percentage your target has and Bunker Buster now deals more damage the less health percentage your target has. In addition, mana costs have also been reduced while Field Medic and Maul have had their overall utility improved. Passives have also been renamed to be in-line with EpicDuel's Mercenary class, as that is what Alpha Omega was based on. 

Double Strike: 

• Mana Cost: 15 > 5
• Damage: 185% > 360% - 30%, based on target's current HP percentage
• Damage type: Physical > Hybrid
• Now applies Double Strike, reducing the target's Damage Resistance by 15% for 5 seconds.

Field Medic:

• Swapped skill order with Maul.
• Max targets: 4 > 7
• Mana Cost: 30 > 20
• Cooldown: 6 seconds > 10 seconds
• Damage: -400% > -125%
• Now heals based on Attack Power and Spell Power
• No longer heals less health to secondary targets.
• Now always crits.
• Renamed Glow to Field Medic, now applies to everyone and increases Damage Resistance and DoT resistance by 30%.
• Field Medic duration: 16 seconds > 10 seconds.

Maul:

• Swapped skill order with Field Medic.
• Mana Cost: 30 > 20
• Now applies Decay for 3 seconds.
• Stun duration: 4 seconds > 3 seconds

Bunker Buster:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 10
• Range: Melee > Long
• Damage: 320% > 500% - 2250%, based on the target's missing HP percentage.
• Damage type: Physical > True

Blood Commander (previously Blood Sapper):

• Now also increases Strength by 10%. 

Hybrid Armor (previously Omega Defender):

• Physical and Magical Rquesistance increased by 15%.

Deadly Precision (previously Nano Enhancer):

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 30%.

Chaos Slayer

Increased the speed at which Chaos Blight stacks and increased the duration of both Auto Attack auras to improve overall feel. Courageous and Paragon are now self applied effects as they would often interfere with other players. Also added a new rank 10 passive effect that aims to improve performance against Chaos monsters.

Chaos Blade:

• Chaos Blight Outgoing Damage per stack: 3%, up to 30 times > 6%, up to 15 times.
• Chaos Blight duration: 5 seconds > 12 seconds
• Chaos Affliction duration: 5 seconds > 12 seconds

Enigma:

• Courageous now reduces the caster's Outgoing Damage by 40%. (note: chance to apply is once per cast, not once per each target hit)

Surge:

• Cooldown: 17 seconds > 15 seconds

Pandemonium:

• Paragon now reduces the caster's Damage Resistance by -500%.

New Rank 10 Passive: Absolute Chaos

• Magical Resistance increased by 35%. While facing Chaos monsters, Enigma applies Absolute Chaos, increasing all stats by 13%, preventing Courageous from applying, and causing your other random effects to always apply.

DeathKnight Lord

Improved farming performance and AoE debuffing. Bone Gathered stacks now increase skill damage and Cerement now removes them to heal and increase defenses, rather than debuffing damage and crit chance directly. Cursed now reduces damage resistance instead of haste, and Calcium Rushed has been reworked as rank 10 passive.

Blade Toss (previously auto attack):

• Range: Melee > Long
• Max Targets: 1 > 3
• Damage: 100% > 20% - 120%, based on Bone Gathered stacks.

Harvest Bone:

• Bone Harvested now also reduces Dodge by 15%.

Curse of Grimskull:

• Damage: 150% > 25% - 150%, based on Bone Gathered stacks.
• Cursed no longer reduces Haste, now instead reduces Damage Resistance by 20%, plus an additional 3% for each stack of Bone Harvested on the target.
• No longer applies Focus (see Bone Gauntlet).

Bone Gauntlet:

• Damage: 350% > 60% - 360%, based on Bone Gathered stacks.
• Increased the damage of the Deathgrasp DoT.
• Deathgrasp Outgoing Damage debuff: 5% + 5% per Bone Harvested stack > 20% + 3% per Bone Harvested stack.
• Now applies Focus for 4 seconds.

Cerement:

• Damage type: Magical > Physical
• Cooldown: 20 seconds > 15 seconds
• Damage: -350% > -45% - -270%
• Now always crits.
• No longer applies Tainted Marrow.
• Now consumes Bone Gathered stacks.
• Cerement base Damage Resistance: 40% > 30%.
• Cerement duration: 10 seconds > 15 seconds

Massive Gauntlet:

• Now also increases DoT Power by 20%.

New Rank 10 Passive: Calcium Rush

• Strength increased by 20%. Your skills have a 13% chance per target hit to apply Calcium Rush, increasing your Haste by 30% for 12 seconds.

Dragon Knight

Giving Dragon Knight a few changes aimed towards improving its soloing performance.

Dragon's Fire:

• Cooldown: 6 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 90% > 75%

Dragon's Might:

• Cooldown: 6 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 90% > 75%

Swordplay:

• Cooldown: 13 seconds > 11 seconds
• Damage: 200% > 165%
• Swordplay duration: 15 seconds > 18 seconds
• Masterful duration: 15 seconds > 18 seconds

Dragon Breath:

• Cooldown: 13 seconds > 11 seconds
• Damage: 225% > 190%
• Blazing Siphon duration: 12 seconds > 18 seconds
• Increased HoT tick speed.

Dance of Blades:

• Haste: 10% > 15%
• Crit Chance: 10% > 20%

Hollowborn Vindicator

We're making a few adjustments to the Born Anew skill so that damage boosts don't increase the amount of health drained. The skill now also applies a Safeguard effect while Decay isn't active, allowing for additional protection while at low health amounts. We're also changing Graceful so that it now removes Decay, allowing for additional ways to play the class.

Focused Grace:

• Cooldown: 6 seconds > 4.5 seconds
• Damage: 110% > 60%
• Graceful now removes Decay.

Born Anew:

• HP cost: 50% of current HP, scaling with boosts > 50% of max HP, doesn't scale with boosts.
• Now applies Safeguard for 6 seconds if Decay isn't active, blocking up to 2,500 damage.

Note: We're aware of other classes in the game with health cost functions that scale with damage boosts. Based on your feedback to this Hollowborn Vindicator change, we may look at making adjustments to those other classes' skills as well. 

Naval Commander

Improved farming performance and AoE debuffing. Skills now use Attack Power instead of Spell Power for damage calculations, improving overall damage output. Strike'n Parry now has a timed effect that reduces outgoing damage further and Commander's Rally now has a timed effect that increases Dodge further. Flintlock Fury now functions solely as a taunt skill, with its defense debuff being moved to Flintlock Barrage and the stun being removed as it often interfered with mana recovery in farming scenarios. Base Dodge has also been significantly increased.

Strike'n Parry:

• Now does damage based on Attack Power instead of Spell Power.
• Strike'n Parry Outgoing Damage debuff: -20% > -30%
• Now appllies Counterthrust, reducing Outgoing Damage by 40% for 1 second.

Flintlock Barrage:

• Mana Cost: 15 > 10
• Now does damage based on Attack Power instead of Spell Power.
• No longer applies Flintlock Barrage.
• Now applies Flintlock Wound, reducing Damage Resistance by 30% for 10 seconds.

Commander's Rally:

• Combined the Commander's Rally and Commander's Inspiration auras
• Commander's Rally duration: 10 seconds > 15 seconds
• Commander's Rally Outgoing Damage buff: 8% > 15%
• Increased the HoT on Commander's Rally.
• Commander's Dodge duration: 10 seconds > 1 second (moved Dodge effect to Gust of Wind)
• Renamed Commander's Dodge to Sea Legs.
• Now really inspires their Pirate crew.

Flintlock Fury:

• Now does damage based on Attack Power instead of Spell Power.
• No longer stuns.
• No longer applies Swashbuckled (moved effect to Flintlock Barrage).

Broadside Blast:

• Crit Chance: 10% > 20%

Gust of Wind:

• Now also increases Dodge by 30%.

Phantom Chronomancer

We're making a few changes to Phantom Chronomancer's mana management and changing the Enshroud effect to always be able to be applied, but reducing its duration. These adjustments should allow for more playstyles on the class.

The Clock Strikes Midnight:

• Mana Cost: 10 > 8

Final Hours:

• Enshroud can now be applied while Temporal Rift is active.
• Enshroud duration: 12 seconds > 8 seconds
• Enshroud's HoT now heals for a static amount.

Time of Death:

• Mana Cost: 0 > -200
• Time of Death now reduces mana costs by 50% for 3 seconds.

Enhancement Updates

Ravenous

In our previous Dev Blog post, we mentioned that we were exploring changes to the Ravenous weapon enhancement and today, these changes arrive. To go into detail, Ravenous is an almost universally applicable enhancement that improves secondary stats, healing, and mana recovery, while its Execute function also causes certain classes to perform exceedingly well. Our goal with Forge enhancements is to add more depth to the game by providing a variety of customization options for classes, but Ravenous often ended up being the clear choice in most situations. Simply put, Ravenous is doing a bit of everything too well, so we're reworking the enhancement to give it a more defined role while preserving its theme of consumption.

New effect:

• 100% chance to activate on third skill
• 0 second cooldown
• Deals 75 - 338% Hybrid damage, increasing the lower your target's HP percentage is.
• Applies Ravenous, increasing your Outgoing Damage by 10% and Crit Chance by 25%.
• Applies Consumed to your target, reducing Outgoing Damage and Crit Chance by 10%, plus an additional 1% for each stack, up to 30%. Effects last 10 seconds.

Alongside this change, we have also added additional rewards to the Fiend Shard House Shop. See the Item & Quest Updates section of this post for more details.

Valiance

Giving Valiance a small performance bump and reducing its cooldown so refreshing the effect is more reliable.

• Cooldown: 20 seconds > 15 seconds
• Luck increase: 10% > 15%

Item & Quest Updates

New Rewards in the Fiend Shard House Shop

Four new weapons have been added to the Fiend Shard House Shop, each requiring completion of the "The Fiend Shard's Finale" quest in order to obtain.

• Infernal Blade of Judgement and Infernal Abyss Blade: Deals 75% more damage to Humans when equipped.
• Celestial Blade of Judgement and Celestial Abyss Blade: Deals 75% more damage to Elementals when equipped.

 

DeathKnight Lord Farming Method Changed

The acquisition method for the DeathKnight Lord class has been changed. The intent of this change is to directly involve the Castle of Bones in the class farm while removing the daily quest component. As always, if you already have the class, you get to keep it!

• Now requires level 50 in order to obtain. 
• Shadow Skull is now a reward from Chef Ramskull's "My Final Recipe" quest in /bonecastle, and is no longer a reward from the "Slithering Shadows" quest.
• Renamed the armor version of DeathKnight Lord to "DeathKnight Lord Armor"
• Now requires the DeathKnight Lord Armor as part of the merge recipe. //updated 9/26/25 10PM
• Increased the turn in requirement stack limits to 10x their required turn in amount for the "My Final Recipe" quest. //updated 9/26/25 10PM
• Adjusted turn in requirement stack limits, certain drop rates, and reward amounts on the "In the Mix", "Get my Stuff", "It's a Delacacy!", and "Summer Reading" quests. 
• Increased the drop rate of Silver DeathKnight Lord Gauntlets, Silver DeathKnight Lord Boots, Golden DeathKnight Lord Gauntlets, and Golden DeathKnight Lord Boots.
• Added DeathKnight Lord (Class) to Chef Ramskull's Bonecastle Tower Merge Shop.

Upcoming Projects

Earlier this year in our Dev Blog post, we announced a few upcoming class projects. It's been a while since then so we wanted to give you an update on where things are at.

• The good themed endgame class is nearing completion and will be released in October. We'll have more news on this very soon. Want a hint? It rules.
• CardClasher, PaladinSlayer, and Berserker updates are in testing. Each class has received a pretty significant rework, so it'll still take a bit more time until they're ready.

08/29/25 - Drakel Warlord Update

Drakel Warlord

Fixing an unintended interaction with Drakel Warlord's Intimidated aura that allowed each user of the class to individually stack the effect.

Strengthened Strike:

• Intimidated now only stacks once per monster instead of once per player.

08/1/25 - Balance Updates

This week's release brings updates to existing quests and items.

07/11/25 - Balance Updates

This week's release focuses on updates to existing monsters and balance adjustments to Guardian Class.

Class Updates

Guardian

Partially undoing the changes that were made to the Void Imbue and Greater Pumpkin Patch auras, as they were overperforming.

Extras:

• Void Imbue Outgoing Damage: 75% > 50%
• Greater Pumpkin Patch mana restoration per tick: 25 > 15

Monster Updates

• Removed the damage shield and respawn time on Dai Tengu and Long Kukol'nyy in /hakuwar, reduced the amount of Haku Medal and Mega Haku Medal dropped by them.
• Increased the amount of Haku Medal and Mega Haku Medal dropped by Zakhvatchik.
• Gramiel the Graceful and Astral Empyrean now remove any Event Horizon auras that are active on players.
• Reduced the health of certain monsters in Voice in the Sea, Rumbling of Cold Thunder, and Doom Triad maps.
• Reduced the damage of monsters in Voice in the Sea, Rumbling of Cold Thunder, and Doom Triad maps.
• Added tags to various monsters in Voice in the Sea and Rumbling of Cold Thunder maps.
• Reduced the number of monsters in the last room of /starfield to 8 and increased the amount of Stars Destroyed dropped to 1-3.

Queen Iona

Adjustments have been made to reduce the overall strength of Queen Iona. Alongside the balance changes to the Rumbling of Cold Thunder monsters, it should now be more realistic for players who are nearing endgame to obtain Sovereign of Storms.

• Level: 90 > 80
• HP: 2,000,000 > 1,000,000
• Reduced overall damage by around 30%.
• Electrocuted Haste: -15% > -10%
• Electrocuted Damage Resistance: -25% > -15%
• Electrocuted Magic Resistance: -50% > -25%
• Boss shield: 50,000 > 25,000
• Now removes any Event Horizon auras that are active on players.

06/27/25 - Balance Updates

This week's release brings updates to the Guardian class and Hollowborn related farming.

Guardian

Changes focused on increasing viability in most use cases. Removal of the self DoT de-limits the class, allowing it to more effectively reach its performance potential. In addition, stacking and skills were sped up, making the class play faster. Overall, this leads to a performance increase. Swapping the order of the skills does remove a few builds, but opens some new ones and allows the class to be buffed for group play.

System:

• Mana model changed (similar to Warrior).
• Swapped the skill order of Elementize Weapon and Imbue Armor.

Guardian Strike:

• Cooldown reduced (4s -> 3s)
• No longer applies Guardian Spirit.
• Description updated.

Elementize Weapon:

• Mana cost increased (6 -> 15)
• Cooldown reduced (4s -> 3s)
• Can now crit and miss.
• Description updated.

Imbue Armor:

• Mana cost increased (25 -> 30)
• Cooldown reduced (4s -> 3s)
• Healing reduced (200% Hybrid -> 130% Hybrid)
• Healing is now static value.
• Fiend of Vergil replaced with Shadow Cloak, 30% Defence for 15s.
• Description updated.

Essence Orb:

• Now applies 2 stacks of Guardian Spirit.
• Description updated.

Call Guardian Dragon:

• No longer applies Scorching to you nor the foe.
• Mana cost added (0 -> 40)
• Range increased (medium -> infinite)
• Description updated.

Extras:

• Void Imbue effect: (50% -> 75% Damage boost) and duration increased (3s -> 10s).
• Greater Pumpkin Patch no longer consumes its conditional aura, and now additionally regenerates 25 mana per tick.

Monster Updates

• Adjusted monster placement in the /trygve map.
• Vindicator General now always drops x10 Grace Extracted during the Grace Extraction quest.
• Reduced the respawn time of the Vindicator Assassin, Vindicator BeastMaster, and Vindicator Priest bosses.

Quest Updates

• Added a Legend version of the "Nauthiz" quest to Lae in /trygve, which rewards x2 Vindicator Badge upon completion.
• Added a Legend version of the "Grace Extraction" quest to Lae in /neofortress, which rewards x2 Grace Orb upon completion.
• Added a Legend version of the "Mutual Friends" quest to Lae in /neotower, which rewards x2 Vindicator Crest upon completion.
• Added a Legend version of the "Nauthiz - Realized" quest to Veronika in /dawnsanctum, which rewards x30 Hollow Soul upon completion.

6/6/25 - Balance Updates

We've got plenty of class balance updates in store for you this week! These changes focus on improving the performance of select classes obtained during the 13 Lords of Chaos saga.

Bard

Bard has added a few more tunes to its arsenal. Its skills will now apply different effects based on the order they're used in. These additions should result in a bump to overall damage output and support capabilities. 

Bodhran:

• Mana Cost: 20 > 0
• Cooldown: 15 seconds > 6 seconds
• Now applies Drumbeat, causing your other skills to apply an additional effect based on the order they're used in. 

Cantor's Lament:

• Mana Cost: 10 > 0
• Cooldown: 2 seconds > 3 seconds
• Drumbeat effect: Skill 4 > Skill 5 > Skill 3 - This skill deals increased damage.
• Can no longer miss.

O'Carolan's Reel:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 0
• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 3 seconds
• Drumbeat effect: Skill 5 > Skill 3 > Skill 4 - Applies Healing Jig, an additional HoT and increasing Damage Resistance by 15% for 10 seconds.

Dissonance:

• Mana Cost: 10 > 0
• Cooldown: 15 seconds > 3 seconds
• Dissonance Crit Chance debuff: 5% > 15%
• Dissonance duration: 15 seconds > 10 seconds
• Drumbeat effect: Skill 3 > Skill 4 > Skill 5 - Applies Cacophony, reducing Damage Resistance by 15% for 15 seconds.

Agitato Allegro:

• Crit Chance: 5% > 10%
• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Horc Evader

Improved overall performance and mana sustain. Certain skills now also deal increased damage based on Shadow Strike's DoT stacks (maybe Horcs and Trolls aren't so different after all). Skill orders were also switched around to accommodate for smoother class ranking and improved trait scaling.

Evader Daggers (previously Auto Attack):

• Damage: 100% > 40%, now deals additional damage based on the number of Blood Trail stacks on the target.

Whistle:

• Now on the fourth skill slot. 
• Mana Cost: 45 > 40
• Cooldown: 16 seconds > 8 seconds
• Enrage duration: 16 seconds > 12 seconds
• Enrage outgoing damage: 75% > 50%
• Enrage Damage Resistance: -40% > -15%

Blood Trail (previously Shadow Strike):

• Now on the second skill slot.
• Mana Cost: 10 > 3
• Shadow Strike DoT effect renamed to Blood Trail.
• Blood Trail now also reduces Crit Chance by 10%.
• No longer applies the Shadow aura.

Take Cover (previously Smell Fear):

• Now on the third skill slot. 
• Cooldown: 5 seconds > 8 seconds
• Target Self > Enemy
• Mana Cost: 15 > -45
• Smell Fear no longer reduces Haste.
• Small Fear Dodge increase: 30% > 25%
• Smell Fear duration: 12 seconds > 20 seconds
• Removes all stacks of Blood Trail from the target.

Hunter's Call:

• Damage type changed to Physical.
• Hunter's Mark Haste increase: 75% > 30%
• No longer increases the target's Haste.
• Now deals increased damage based on the number of Blood Trail stacks on the target.

Master Tracker (previously Night Hunter):

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Renamed Shadow Wise to No Sudden Movements.

Weak Spot (previously Smell Blood):

• Upon using Blood Trail, you have a small chance to locate your target's weak spot, increasing your Crit Chance and Crit Damage by 100% for 10 seconds.

Thief of Hours

Increased overall damage output, mana sustain, and adjusted cooldowns for better skillflow. Deadlock can now be consumed by either Steal Seconds or Timestream to apply an additional effect. Temporal Insanity has also received adjustments to improve its damage reflect effect consistency, while now also applying a different effect if the target is immune to damage reflection.

Steal Seconds:

• Cooldown: 4 seconds > 3 seconds
• Damage: 50% > 90%
• Stolen Life Dodge per stack: 5% > 4%
• Stolen Life aura maximum stacks: 5 > 3
• Accelerating Haste increase: 15% > 12%
• If Reverse Time is active, it's consumed to apply Reverse Aging, increasing Dodge by 12% and Haste by 12% for 15 seconds.

Sonic Piledriver:

• Mana Cost: 10 > 3
• Cooldown: 4 seconds > 3 seconds
• Deadlock aura duration: 13 seconds > 10 seconds
• Reverse Time aura duration: 10 seconds > 3 seconds, increased the tick speed of the HoT.
• Can no longer miss.

Timestream:

• Mana Cost: 15 > 5
• Cooldown: 10 seconds > 3 seconds
• Damage: 150% > 90%
• Crit Damage per stack: 5% > 15%
• Time Ripple duration: 20 seconds > 10 seconds.
• If Reverse Time is active, it's consumed to apply Reverse Flow, increasing Crit Chance by 15% and Crit damage by 45% for 15 seconds.

Temporal Insanity:

• Mana Cost: 45 > 40
• Now applies Counterstance, reducing your Dodge by 100% for 6 seconds.
• If your target is immune to Temporal Insanity, applies Temporal Bubble instead of Counterstance, increasing your Dodge and Damage Resistance by 20% for 12 seconds.

EXTERMINATE:

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Regenerative Rebirth:

• New effect: Now increases Heal Power by 50%.

Ranger

Ranger is already performing well as an early game farming class, but we're giving it a bump in Hit Chance to improve its consistency.

Target Vitals:

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Necromancer/Pinkomancer

Giving Necromancer some QoL updates to improve survivability and consistency.

System:

• Swapped the passive order of Death's Strength and Necrotic Resistance.

Summon Minion: 

• Slightly reduced the self DoT damage on Deadly Frenzy.

Death's Speed: 

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Noxus: A Necromancer buff? Who uses that one anymore?
Grimskull: You did, and look at where that got you. AHAHAHAHA! Besides, everyone knows that a Lich is much better than a Necromancer anyways!

1/31/25 - Balance Updates

This week's update brings a few quality of life adjustments.

Items and Quests:

• Increased the drop rate of Death Badge.
• Crag and Bamboozle's "The Poisonous Deal" and "The Refreshing Deal" quests now require Unidentified 3 instead of the Bone Axe.

Class Points:

The Class Point formula has received a small adjustment: 

• Old: (225 + (Class Rank * 25)) + 1-10
• New: 230 + (Class Rank * 25) 

The Class Point reduction formula based on the level difference between the player and monster has also changed. The intent of this change is to increase the overall amount of Class Points that players receive during the early game, as players often end up being a few levels higher than the monsters they're fighting: 

• Old: -5% Class Point reduction for each level the player is above the monster's, up to -95%. 
• New: -10% Class Point reduction for each level the player is above the monster's, starting at 11 levels, up to -95%. (example: If you're level 23 and a monster is level 13, you'd earn as much Class Points from the monster as you would if you were level 13 (or lower). If you're level 25, the level 13 monster would only give you 80% as much Class Points as you're 12 levels above the monster.)

 

1/10/25 - Balance Updates

This week's update focuses on class bug fixes and a few adjustments to existing Nulgath quests. 

Balance Updates and Fixes:

• Dragon Knight's Dance of Blades passive now properly increases Crit Chance.
• Fixed a bug on Shaman that caused Hydrophobia to deal the same amount of damage whether or not Scorched Spirit was active.
• On the "Kindness" of Nulgath' quest, the item reward is now choosable instead of random.
• ArchFiend's Favor, Nulgath's Approval, Dage's Favor, and Dage's Approval are now AC tagged.
• Increased the stack limit of Nulgath Quest Runes to x13.
• Increased the stack limit of the turn in requirements on the "Dirt-y Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" quest to 10x their required turn in amount.
• Increased the stack limit of the turn in requirements on the "The Perfect Pet" quest to 5x their required turn in amount.

1/3/25 - Balance Updates

This week's update aims to address your bug reports! Stay tuned in the near future for our next 2024 Year-In-Review Class Dev Blog, which may or may not contain a few sneak peeks at upcoming class content! 

Balance Updates and Fixes:

• Reduced the damage on Scroll of Void Strike from 200% of current HP + Spell Power to 30% of current HP + Spell Power, and increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds. This change was made for PvP balance purposes.
• Fixed a bug on Legion Paladin that caused Shadowblight to deal incorrect damage.
• Fixed a bug on Cryomancer that caused Frozen Defense to not consume Polar Vortex.

 

12/06/24 - December Balance Updates

Ho-ho-ho! This week's balance patch notes focus on updates to the Frostval Barbarian and Frost SpiritReaver classes, as well as an adjustment to the Frost SpiritReaver quests.

Frostval Barbarian

Changes have been made to improve farming performance. Barbaric Strike is now ranged, Enrage no longer reduces Haste, and some of Enrage's power has been shifted into Winter's Depress. 

Barbaric Strike:

• Range: Melee > Long 
• Damage: 100% > 50%
• Now has a 25% chance to stun for 1 second if Enrage is active.

Frostval Gifts:

• Switched skill order with Winter's Depress.
• Frostval Gifts can now be applied to allies while Enrage is active.
• Frozen Beard now only applies to the caster.

Winter's Depress:

• Switched skill order with Frostval Gifts.
• Cooldown: 8 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 0% > 75%, can't miss or crit.

Enrage:

• Cooldown: 3 seconds > 5 seconds
• Damage: 300% > 250% 
• Enrage no longer reduces Haste.
• Enrage outgoing damage buff: 100% > 50%
• Enrage duration: 10 seconds > 5 seconds
• No longer applies Focus. This effect was not specified in the skill's description, and was removed to preserve the balance of the class.

Frost SpiritReaver

Giving Frost SpiritReaver a boost to performance and changing the way that Frozen Essence stacks interact with Spirit Synchronization. 

Spirit Freeze:

• Cooldown: 4 seconds > 3 seconds
• Damage: 45% > 35%

Spirit Banishment:

• Mana Cost: 20 > 30

Spirit Synchronization:

• Cooldown: 2 seconds > 6 seconds
• Damage: 15% > 10%
• Desynchronized no longer removes Spirit Synchronizing.
• Now only consumes Frozen Essence stacks if Fully Synchronized Spirit is active.
• Frozen Essence stacks no longer refresh.
• Frozen Essence duration: 10 seconds > 20 seconds.

Monster Updates

• Adjusted the stats of Super-Charged Karok.
• Adjusted the stats of Enfield.
• Reduced the levels of monsters in /snowmore.
• Reduced the damage of Image of Glace, Abel, and Shade of Kyanos.

Quest Updates

• The Frost SpiritReaver quests now require level 60 in order to begin.
• On Frost SpiritReaver's "Cold Blooded" quest, Icebreaker Mage is no longer required in order to accept the quest and the Sapphire Orb requirement has been changed to Necrotic Orb. Frost SpiritReaver's performance did not reflect the difficulty of some of the monsters that needed to be defeated in order to obtain it, so changes were made to make the quests more reasonable for a mid level player to complete.

 

11/29/24 - Quest + Balance Updates

This week's balance update focuses on making a few changes to existing farming quests that were affected by zone revamps, as well as a couple of class updates.

Quest Updates

• On the "Legion Fealty 2" quest, the amount of each required Cohort has been reduced from 500 to 400. Several of the Cohorts dropped from mobs that have recently been rebalanced (and generally made stronger than before), so we're reducing the number of kills needed across the board to keep completion times closer to where they previously were.

Item Updates

• Increased the stack limit of each item required for the "Legion Fealty 1" quest by 20 times its required turn in amount.
• Increased the stack limit of each Cohort required for the "Legion Fealty 2" quest from 500 to 2400.
• Increased the drop rate for DoomCoin. The /maul monsters received an increase to their HP with the Doomwood zone rebalance, which reduced the rate at which DoomCoins could be obtained.

Bug Fixes

• Increased the amount of mana restored when using Reload on Skyguard Grenadier and Skycharged Grenadier. The skill is intended to always fully restore mana, there were some cases where mana would not be fully restored while mana cost reducing effects were active.
• Fixed a bug on Infinity Knight that caused Eternal Chronomancer's Unity Through Time to not be activated.

Classic Defender & Defender

A few backend changes were made a while ago to improve server stability. One of these changes ended up removing a mechanic on the Defender classes that caused one of its skills to deal damage based on how much a target had done to you. The performance of both classes were impacted due to this change, so we're giving them an adjustment to bring them back to where they were previously.

Classic Defender

Retaliation:

• Damage: 100% > 330%

Defender

Infernal Shield Slam:

• Damage: 60% > 200%
  

Classic Paladin

Following up on Defender. One of the backend changes that was made removed the mana regeneration model on Classic Paladin. As Classic Paladin was the only class that used this type of mana recovery, we're instead opting to give it the Warrior mana recovery model as it regenerates mana the same way.

System:

• Changed mana recovery model to Warrior.

Abolish:

• No longer applies Zeal.

Dragon Knight

Dragon Knight's kit is quite solid, but it's not performing as well as we'd like it to so it's receiving a buff for no other reason than that whatsoever. 👀👀👀 No siree, nothing else to see here so move along.

Dragon's Fire:

• Can now crit.
• Flammable Magic Resistance debuff: 15% > 30%, now also reduces DoT Resistance by 50%.

Dragon's Might:

• Can now crit.
• Now also applies Disarmed to your target if they have not been yet affected by it, reducing outgoing damage by 80% for 4 seconds.

Swordplay:

• Can now crit.
• Damage: 25% > 200%, now does damage based on weapon DPS.
• Swordplay and Masterful duration: 10 seconds > 15 seconds

Dragon Breath

• Can no longer miss.
• Damage: 210% > 225%
• Blazing Siphon duration: 12 seconds > 15 seconds.

 

11/22/24 - Doomwood Part 1, Doomwood Part 2, Etherstorm Updates

This week's round of changes focus on improving Doomwood Part 1, Doomwood Part 2, and Etherstorm! Although finishing these areas aren't required to begin the Chaos Finale, their completion is highly recommended due to their impact on the finale. The rebalance places Doomwood Part 1 between Sandsea and Bloodtusk, Etherstorm between Bloodtusk and Doomwood Part 2, and Doomwood Part 2 between Etherstorm and The Span, as that's where the storylines originally released.  

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in Doomwood Part 1 & 2, and Etherstorm zones.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in Doomwood Part 1 & 2, and Etherstorm zones.
• Adjusted tags on mobs in Doomwood Part 1 & 2, and Etherstorm zones.
• Renamed the 5 Headed Dracolich monsters to each have unique names.
• Renamed the Doom Overlord in /necrocavern to Evolved Overlord.
• Rebalanced the /vordredboss Vordreds.
• Reduced the duration of Ultra Vordred's Shadow Grasp and Noxious Decay effects. Changed the effect of Voiduminance.
• During the Desoloth the Final boss, the player will now receive a buff at the beginning of the fight.
• Rebalanced Dark Sepulchure.

Item Updates

• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Primitive Bone Axe and Skelevore, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Necro U Cheerleader.
• Added a 20% Human damage boost to Skull-Poms.
• Added a 25% Human damage boost to Dread Knight Cleaver, increased drop rate to 100%, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Undead damage boost to Spear of Virtue, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Undead damage boost to Blinding Light of Destiny Handle, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 10% Elemental damage boost to Firestorm's Flight, Ethereal Sky Cape, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 15% Elemental damage boost to Mini Energy Tornado.
• Added a 20% Elemental damage boost to Glowing Crown Blade and Wave of Destruction, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 20% Elemental damage boost to Crimson Blade of Flames, Lightning Strikes, Coeur du Mer, and Telltale Bones.
• Added a 10% Dragonkin damage boost to Crimson Dragoon and Crimson Dragon Helm, added a level 30 requirement
• Added a 15% Dragonkin damage boost to Brute Strength, added a level 30 requirement
• Added a 15% Dragonkin damage boost to Firestorm's Offspring.
• Added a 35% Dragonkin damage boost to Desoloth's Bane.
• Added NUE Necronomicon to Sally's Necromancer Shop.
• Slightly increased the drop rate of Ultimate Darkness Gem.
• Increased the amount of Undead Energy and Dark Energy that can drop from Doom Overlord and Evolved Overlord.

Quest  Updates

• Increased the XP, Gold, and adjusted rep rewards for Doomwood Part 1 & 2, and Etherstorm quests.
• Significantly reduced the number of kills required for certain Doomwood Part 1 and Etherstorm quests

 

11/15/24 - Chaos Finale Updates

This week's round of changes focus on improving the Chaos Finale! 

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in /newfinale.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in Chaos Finale zones
• Adjusted tags on mobs in Chaos Finale zones.
• During the Final Battle, the player will now get a buff that reflects their awakened power.
• Renamed Chaos Healer to Alliance Healer.
• Renamed Chaotic Virago to Alliance Virago.
• Renamed Chaotic Pirate to Alliance Pirate.
• Renamed Golden Chaos to Golden Virago.
• Rebalanced the 13th Lord of Chaos.
• Rebalanced Prince Drakath.

Item Updates

• Changed the damage boost on Death's Scythe to 15% all, increased drop rate, added a level 50 requirement.
• Added a 40% Chaos damage boost to Drakath's Sword, Drakath Armor, and Original Drakath Armor, added a level 50 requirement.
• Increased the Chaos damage boost on Drakath the Eternal to 40%.
• Reduced the Chaos damage boost on Ouroboros Warlock to 35%.
• Added a 50% Chaos damage boost to Blade of Chaos, added a level 50 requirement.
• Added a 50% Chaos and 120% Drakath damage boost to Deadly Chaos Sword, added a level 50 requirement.
• Fragment of Mount Doomskull now requires completion of the Drakath Faced quest in order to obtain.

Quest Updates

• Increased the XP, Gold, and adjusted rep rewards for Chaos Finale quests.
• Increased the rep reward on the Embrace Your Chaos quest.
• The "Build Drakath's Armor" quest now requires rank 10 Chaos Faction in order to accept.

 

11/8/24 - Mirror Realm + Swordhaven Updates

This week's round of changes focus on improving the Mirror Realm and Swordhaven saga. 

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in Mirror Realm and Swordhaven saga zones.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in Mirror Realm and Swordhaven saga zones.
• Added tags to various mobs in Mirror Realm saga zones.
• Rebalanced Chaos Harpy.
• Rebalanced Ultra Chaos Harpy.
• Rebalanced Chaos Lord Xiang.
• Rebalanced Ultra Xiang.
• Rebalanced Chaos Dragon.
• Rebalanced Ultra Chaos Dragon.
• Rebalanced Chaos Lord Alteon.
• Renamed Ultra Alteon in /ultraalteon to Ultra Chaos Alteon and rebalanced the fight.

Items Updates

• Added a 5% damage boost to Life Taker, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 10% damage boost to Energy Saber.
• Added a 15% damage boost to Alteon's Dragon Sword and Alteon's Polished Dragon Sword, increased drop rate, added a level 50 requirement.
• Added a 15% Dragonkin damage boost to Chaos Dragon Slayer and Chaos Dragon Slayer Helm, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Elemental damage boost to Evader Daggers and SpellSmith Daggers, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 25% Elemental damage boost to The Last Redemption (gold), added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Undead and Elemental damage boost to Alteon's Royal Armor, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Undead damage boost to Xiang's Good Wings, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Undead damage boost to Duality Mage Good Staff, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Xiang Evil Wings, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Human damage boost to Duality Mage Evil Staff, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Human damage boost to Undead Paladin, Undead Paladin (Rare), Paladin's Curse, and Paladin's Curse (Rare), added a level 45 requirement to the non-rare versions.
• Added a 30% Human damage boost to ShadowReaper Of Doom and ShadowReaper Of Doom (Rare), added a level 45 requirement to the non-rare version.
• Added a 25% Human and Undead damage boost to Duality Mage Staff, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Chaos damage boost to Chaotic Lost Warrior, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Xiang Chaos and Chaos Lord Alteon (armor), added a level 40 requirement to Chaos Lord Alteon (armor).
• Added a 40% Chaos damage boost to Cry of Chaos, added a level 50 requirement.
• Increased the drop rate of Mirror Realm token on Painadin Overlord and Undead Artix.
• Added a 10% all tagged monsters boost to Blade of Awe.
• Reduced the Gold/Exp/Rep/Class Points boosts on Awethur's Accoutrements to 15%. This change was made because the item had equivalent boosts to the Armor of Awe items, but could be obtained much earlier.
• Changed the boosts on Lore's Champion to 10% all monsters and 20% Gold/Exp/Rep/Class Points, added a level 50 requirement.
• Changed the boosts on Lore's Champion Daggers to 15% all monsters and 20% Gold/Exp/Rep/Class Points, added a level 50 requirement.
• The Shriekward Potion now prevents Shriek from being applied instead of removing the effect.

Quest Updates

• Increased the XP, Gold, and adjusted rep rewards for Mirror Realm saga quests.
• The "Horror Takes Flight" quest can now only be completed once, Chaos Harpy will now directly drop x3 Mirror Realm Token, and Ultra Chaos Harpy will now directly drop x9 Mirror Realm Token when defeated.
• The "Good, Evil, and Chaos Battle!" can now only be completed once, Chaos Lord Xiang will now directly drop x5 Mirror Realm Token and Ultra Xiang will now directly drop x15 Mirror Realm Token when defeated.
• Swordhaven story quests can now only be completed once.
• Increased the Swordhaven rep rewards from Lady Celestia's ultra quests.
• On the "The Dawn of Lore" quest, Mummified Bone has been renamed to Ancient Bone, and now drop from O-dokuro.
• On the "The Dawn of Lore" quest, the Iron Head requirement has been replaced with Block Head from the Stone Golem in /cornelis.

 

11/1/24 - Thunderforge Updates

This week's round of changes focus on improving the Thunderforge saga. 

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in Thunderforge saga zones.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in Thunderforge saga zones.
• Added tags to various mobs in Thunderforge saga zones.
• Rebalanced Manticore.Rebalanced Ultra Manticore.
• Rebalanced Chaos Lord Lionfang.
• Rebalanced Ultra Lionfang.

Items Updates

• Added a 20% Undead damage boost to Blade of Immortality and Pantherian Priests, increased drop rate, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Death Pit Warrior Helm and Horned Death Pit Helm, added a level 40 requirement.
• Added a 25% Elemental damage boost to Solidified Lightning Staff, added level 40 requirement, increased drop rates.
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Chaos Lionfang Armor.
• Added a 30% Chaos damage boost to the Manticore Whip, increased drop rate, added a level 40 requirement.

Quests Updates

• Increased the XP, Gold, and adjusted rep rewards for Thunderforge saga quests.
• Increased the rep rewards for the "Bone Ladders" and "The Chaos Eye of Vestis" quests, increased the drop rate of Vestis' Chaos Eye and the number of Darkblood Femur Wrathful Vestis drops.

10/25/24 - The Span Updates!

This week's round of changes focus on improving the The Span saga.

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in The Span saga zones.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in The Span saga zones.
• Added tags to various mobs in The Span saga zones.
• Added a skill to Carnax.
• Added a skill to Fluffy the Dracolich.
• Added a skill to Dragonoid.
• Rebalanced Kathool.
• Rebalanced Ultra Kathool.
• Rebalanced Chaos Lord Iadoa.
• Rebalanced Ultra Iadoa.

Item Updates

• Added a 5% damage boost to Kathool Acolyte, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to the Mirror Realm Champion shop items.
• Added a 20% Human damage boost to Darkwolf Bandit's Sword and Darkwolf Bandit's Swords, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Undead damage boost to Dragonoid Edge and Dragonoid Edges, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Elemental damage boost to Kindred's Valiance Hat, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Elemental damage boost to the ThunderForge Champion shop items.
• Added a 20% Elemental damage boost to Kindred's Valiance Armor, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 25% Elemental damage boost to Carnax Laser Sword and Carnax Laser Swords, added level 40 requirement, increased drop rates.
• Added a 15% Dragonkin damage boost to Galacti Helm and Galactic Mech, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 15% Dragonkin damage boost to the Swordhaven Champion shop items.
• Increased the Undead damage boost on Angelic Lightning and Dual Angelic Lightnings to 15%.
• Increased the Gold Boost on the TheSpan Champion shop items to 15%.
• Added a 20% Undead damage boost to Dragonoid Edge and Dragonoid Edges, added level 40 requirement.
• Added a 20% Dragonkin damage boost to Serpent Tongue and Serpent Tongue Blades, added level 40 requirement, increased drop rates.Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Iadoa (Armor).
• Added a 30% Chaos damage boost to Spear of the Deep One, added level 40 requirement.

Quest Updates

• Increased the XP, Gold, and adjusted rep rewards for The Span saga quests.

Map Updates

• Updated music in /deepchaos and /dreamnexus

Miscellaneous Updates

• Consumable items will remain equipped upon changing classes.
• Rolled a fix for the issue where comsumables would on rare occasion do nothing when used.

 

10/18/24 - Martial Artist & Legendary Passives!

Class Updates

Martial Artist

Many of you took to different social media sites this past week to express your disappointment regarding the newly released Martial Artist class. We hear you loud and clear, and are making some much needed changes based on your feedback.

The Good News: We just released this year's birthday class; Martial Artist, which uses a (mostly) unique Auto Attack function!
The Not So Good News: Martial Artist's Auto Attack function is heavily reliant on server connectivity, meaning players with higher server response times are seeing noticeably poorer performance than those with lower response times. Additionally, many of you feel that the class requires way too many skill inputs. 

In order to keep a level playing field between players in different regions while also reducing the amount of times buttons need to be pressed, we have shifted Martial Artist from its connection based, manual Auto Attack, to a standard Auto Attack. This means that the way the class plays has been significantly changed, but its overall performance levels remain roughly the same, while still keeping a higher skill ceiling than most classes. As Martial Artist is intended to be a late game class, its performance levels may not reach those of certain endgame classes, but you may see improved results if you have specific enhancements or gear to go along with it.

Once again, a big thank you to all who left their feedback on Martial Artist. We're sorry we didn't meet your expectations, and hope you have a much more enjoyable experience with the new version of the class! 

Class Changes

Pummel is now an Auto Attack. Stance skills now deal damage and consume all mana when used, but every two uses of Pummel grant enough mana to swap Stances again. The amount of Pummels required to fully stack Frogzard and Gorillaphant auras have been reduced. The Haste granted from the Swift Strike passive and Crit Chance granted from Gorillaphant based stances have been reduced in order to balance the class at lower levels, but should be unattainable once Forge enhancements are obtained. Concentration still reduces mana costs, but with the new intent of allowing Stances to be swapped quicker while also increasing damage output.

 

Pummel:

• Now an Auto Attack.
• Mana Cost: 50 > -50
• Cooldown: 0.5 seconds > 1.5 seconds
• Damage: 105% > 80%

Frogzard's Crushing Jaw:

• Mana Cost: -100 > 100
• Cooldown: 4 seconds > 3 seconds
• Target: Self > Enemy
• Damage: 0% > 105% Physical, can't miss
• Gorilla-Zard Stance outgoing damage per stack: 8% > 12%, max stacks: 6 > 4

Gorillaphant Beatdown:

• Mana Cost: -100 > 100
• Cooldown: 4 seconds > 3 seconds
• Target: Self > Enemy
• Damage: 0% > 105% Physical, can't miss
• Crit Chance increase while Gorillaphant based Stances are active: 50% > 20%
• Zard-Gorilla Stance now also reduces Magic Resistance
• Zard-Gorilla Stance Physical and Magical Resistance reduction per stack: 5% > 8%, max stacks: 6 > 4
• Dragon-Gorilla Stance no longer reduces the target's outgoing damage.

Soaring Dragon:

• Mana Cost: -100 > 100
• Cooldown: 10 seconds > 8 seconds
• Target: Self > Enemy
• Damage: 0% > 125% Physical, can't miss
• Dragon Stance now causes Pummel to reduce the target's outgoing damage by 15% for 20 seconds, stacks to 2.
• Dragon based stances no longer increase Damage Resistance by 30%. 
• Switching to a Dragon based stance now causes your next use of Pummel to apply Spinning Dragon.
• Gorilla-Dragon Stance outgoing physical damage per stack: 8% > 12%, max stacks: 6 > 4
• Zard-Dragon Stance DoT Resistance reduction per stack: 8% > 12%, max stacks: 6 > 4
• Increased the damage of the Zard-Dragon Stance DoT.

Concentration:

• Cooldown: 40 seconds > 30 seconds
• Pummel no longer increases Mana Costs while Fully Focused is active.

Swift Strikes:

• Haste: 30% > 15%

Endurance Training:

• Now also increases Damage Resistance by 20%.

Legendary Passive

Added the Legendary passive to the following classes: 

• Glacial Berserker Test
• Legion DoomKnight Tester
• Legion Paladin Member Trial
• Legion Revenant Member Test
• LightCaster Test
• Pumpkin Lord
• Void Highlord Tester
• WarriorScythe General

 

10/04/24 - Collector of Updates

This week's round of changes is class focused, bringing updates to Vindicator of They/The Collector and Sentinel.

Quest Updates

• Adjusted the turn in requirements and Gold and XP rewards on Elissa Keelhaul's quests.

Item Updates

• Pirate is no longer seasonal. Is now awarded after completing the Map Recovery quest. 
• Classic Pirate is now a drop from Kuro.
• Token of Collection can now be purchased in the Collector Token Merge Shop for Super Fan Swag Token A x1.

Map Updates

• Added a salty monster to The Void.

Class Updates

Vindicator of They/The Collector

Vindicator of They and The Collector's skills are now functionally identical. Additionally, the two classes have received a set of changes that drastically boost their performance. The most notable change is to the self DoT applied by the stun skill, as when it's active, it now empowers your other skills with bonus effects! Mana sustain has also been improved and the rank 10 passive now heals and activates more frequently.

System

• Stat model change to Offensive Caster

Skill 1:

• Now deals 40% magical damage
• Super Taster Haste debuff: 40% > 20%
• Super Taster now also reduces Dodge by 20%
• If Life is Unfair, applies Flavor Explosion, restoring 10 mana every second for 6 seconds.

Skill 2:

• Mana Cost: 20 > 15
• Cooldown: 3 seconds > 2.5 seconds
• Damage: 50% > 100%, lifesteal amount increased.
• If Life is Unfair, applies Your Half, reducing your target's Damage Resistance by 20% and My Half, increasing your Damage Resistance by 20%. Both effects last 10 seconds.

Skill 3:

• Damage, 0% > 70%, can now miss.
• Range: Long > Medium
• Petrify duration: 2 > 3
• Self DoT duration: 4 > 5, DoT damage increased
• If your target is immune to being Petrified, applies Not So Big, increasing your Damage Resistance by 40% for 10 seconds.

Skill 4:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Now consumes the self DoT to deal 25% increased damage.
• No longer has an increased chance to crit.

Passive 1:

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%. 

Rank 10 Passive:

• Your skills have a 1% chance to grant you unlimited MP and massive healing for 8 seconds.

Sentinel

Certain skills that couldn't crit before can now crit, removed the self-DoT, the final skill no longer removes all auras, changed the effects applied from Offensive and Defensive Stance based auras to be more streamlined for their respective roles, and added new effects to boost PvP performance.

System

 

• The Watch Eternal now applies to the target and reduces Dodge by 25% per stack.
• The Watch Eternal maximum stacks: 10 > 20

Vigilance:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Can now crit.
• Overwatch no longer stacks, now reduces Crit Chance by 15% and Luck by 30%.
• Beholden no longer reduces Crit Chance or Dodge.
• Overwatch and Beholden duration: 10 seconds > 15 seconds.
• Now applies Preamble to the player, increasing Physical and Magical Resistance by 80% for 3 seconds.
• Now applies Omnia Paratus to the target, preventing Preamble from being applied, lasts forever. 

Sentinel's Strike:

• No longer applies Sentinel's Strike

Active Endurance:

• Damage: 35% > 50%
• Now heals in addition to dealing damage.
• Offensive Stance no longer increases Crit Chance, now increases Crit Damage by 50%.

The Western Covenant (previously Adrenaline Rush):

• Cooldown: 5 seconds > 2.5 seconds
• Now deals 10% of Max HP as self true damage.
• No longer applies Self-Disregard.Adrenaline 
• Rush now increases DoT Resistance by 80%.
• Renamed Adrenaline Rush to "The Western Covenant".
• Castellan Doctrine no longer increases Physical Resistance, now increases END by 50%.
• Venator Doctrine no longer increases END and Hit Chance, now increases Crit Chance and Physical Resistance by 35%.

Dour Duty (previously Purge The Wicked):

• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 18 seconds
• Can now crit.
• No longer consumes Sentinel's Strike, Stances, or Doctrine auras.
• No longer applies Garrison.
• Now always applies Austerity.
• Now applies two stacks of The Watch Eternal.
• Now applies Exigency Clause to target, reducing Heal Power by 95% for 7 seconds.

The Western Covenant - First Excerpt (previously Ironclad Vow):

• Physical Damage: 10% > 0%

The Western Covenant - Second Excerpt (previously Lasting Conviction):

• 20% Physical Resistance > 20% Damage Resistance

The Western Covenant - Alpha and Omega (previously War Veteran):

• STR: 15% > 30%
• No longer increases DEX.

10/01/24 - Azalith, Morningstar Update #2!

Yesterday, we rolled out an update to the boss, fixing an issue where mis-timed heals would lead to instant party wipes. The changes (which included added DMG to the Inversion attack) diminished the difficulty of the battle but increased the difficulty in coordinating with party members. This was not the goal.

A new update will go live shortly, bringing the Azalith, Morningstar boss closer to its original version but with a Decay attack instead of the heal inversion. This will keep mis-timed heals ineffective, but less detrimental to the health of the party. 

Azalith, Morningstar Updates:

• Changed attack speed from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds
• Inversion Magic now applies Decay, no longer deals damage
• Tenebrae now removes Decay

We've received a lot of feedback about why last week's challenge boss felt so frustrating. The entire team appreciates everyone who took the time to share their thoughts.

We've added several design guidelines to help ensure sure future boss battles are more enjoyable from the start: 

• no Rare Rarity gear tied to challenge boss fights 
• Azalith, Morningstar and the Divina Voluntas item will not be required for future farms

10/01/24 - Azalith, Morningstar Daily Quest!

The following changes have been made to Azalith, Morningstar: 

Azalith, Morningstar Changes

• Added a daily quest for Divina Voluntas
• Increased the physical and magical damage buff on vs. Azalith from 50000% to 75000%
• Inversion magic no longer applies Contrarium, now instead deals 99% max HP damage and applies Debilitare, reducing Incoming Healing by 50% for 4 seconds.
• Dark Magic now aplies Tenebrae, reducing Hit Chance by 100% for 4 seconds.
• Increased attack speed from 2.5 seconds to 2 seconds

09/28/24 - Azalith, Morningstar Changes?!?

The following changes have been made to Azalith, Morningstar: 

Azalith, Morningstar Changes

• Increased boss shield to 1,500,000
• Now has a chance to drop Divina Voluntas until the Blood Caster Set leaves.

 

09/20/24 - Bloodtusk Saga Improvements

This week's round of changes focus on improving the Bloodtusk saga. 

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in the Bloodtusk saga zones.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in the Bloodtusk saga zones.
• Added tags to various mobs in the Bloodtusk saga zones.
• Reworked the Naga Baas boss.
• Adjusted the Khasaanda boss.

Item Updates

• Added a 5% Human, Undead, Dragonkin, and Elemental damage boost to Quattro Cleaver, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 10% damage boost to Starlight Slicers and Decorem, added a level 35 requirement. 
• Added a 10% Human damage boost to Chinchillizard Trophy Helm added a level 30 requirement. 
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Savage Reaver, added a level 30 requirement. 
• Added a 10% Chaos damage boost to Chaotic Tigriff Cub.
• Added a 15% Chaos damage boost to Chaotic Shadows Armor, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 15% Chaos damage boost to Chaos GruaigeBaas Pet.
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Soul of Chaos Human Armor, Soul of Chaos Armor.
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Quattro Chaos, added a level 30 requirement, increased drop rate.
• Added a 30% Chaos damage boost to Hack Past Insane, Chaos Eruption Blade.
• Added a 10% Human and Undead damage boost to Iron and Gold Axe, added a level 30 requirement.

Item Updates

• Increased the XP Gold, and rep rewards for the Bloodtusk saga quests. 
• Horc and Troll quests now have an equal amount of turn-in requirements.
• Increased the XP Gold, and rep rewards for the Chaorruption Detection and Trust in the Vision quests. 
• Increased the rep rewards for the Horc and Troll farming quests in /bloodtusk.
• Increased the rep rewards for the "Troll Membership Dues" and "Horc Membership Dues" quests.
• Lord of Order quests now require level 50 in order to accept.

 

 

09/13/24 - Sandsea Saga Updates and Pirate class?!?

This week's update includes an update to Pirate class and a rebalancing of the Sandsea saga.

(Alpha) Pirate

Pirate often found itself running out of mana quickly which made it difficult to use for extended periods of time, so we removed the mana cost on Plunder as it was the main culprit responsible. The Plunder Haste effect has been swapped out for a crit damage buff and Haste has been added to one of the passives in order to make damage output and skill flow more consistent. Cannon Fire has also received a few adjustments to line up its cooldown with the rest of Pirate's skills while also no longer increasing the enemy's Haste. We also plan to make Pirate a non-seasonal early game class in the very near future, so stay tuned for more info on that in the coming weeks.

Cutlass Combo:

• Mana Cost: 7 > 4

Plunder:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 0
• Plunder Haste is now Plunder Crit, increases Crit Damage by 30%.

Cannon Fire:

• Cooldown: 15 > 12
• Mana Cost: 25 > 20
• Damage: 370% > 300%
• Cannon Wound outgoing damage debuff: 35% > 25%
• Cannon Wound duration: 10 seconds > 8 seconds
• Cannon Wound no longer increases your target's Haste.

Sea Legs: 

• Now also increases Haste by 6%.

Map Updates

• Crulon no longer appears in /djinn until the area's story quests have been completed.
• Updated music in /sandcastle, /djinn, /orecavern

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in the Sandsea saga zones.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in the Sandsea saga zones.
• Renamed one of the Horc Sell-Sword monsters in /sandport to Sell-Sword Leader
• Added a skill to Chaos Sphinx.
• Reworked the Tibicenas boss fight.

Item Updates

• Added a 15% Undead damage boost to Horc Sell-Sword Scimitar, added a level 30 requirement, increased drop rate on Sell-Sword Leader.
• Added a 20% Undead damage boost to Daggers of Djet.
• Added a 10% Human damage boost to Sek-Duat Cloak, War Mummy Headgear, added a level 30 requirement. 
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Ankh Staff, Moumiya Scythe, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Sek-Duat (armor), War Mummy (armor).
• Added a 10% Chaos damage boost to Chaos Sphinx (pet).
• Added a 15% Elemental damage boost to Tibicenas (armor).
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Corruption Blade and Chaotic Sand Reavers, added a level 30 requirement, increased drop rate.

Quest Updates

• Adjusted the XP and Gold rewards for the Sandsea saga quests. 

09/06/24 - Arcangrove Saga Improvements

This week's round of changes focuses on improving the Arcangrove saga. 

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob placements in the Arcangrove saga zones.
• Adjusted stats on mobs in the Arcangrove saga zones.
• Added tags to various mobs in the Arcangrove saga zones.
• Added a skill to Mana Golem.

Item Updates

• Added a 5% damage boost to Wendigo (armor). 
• Added a 10% damage boost to The Supreme Arcane Staff. 
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Dark Wizard's Disparage, added a level 30 requirement, increased drop rate.
• Added a 15% Dragonkin damage boost to Red Hot Flamberge and Dacite Daggers, added a level 30 requirement, increased drop rate.
• Added a 10% Chaos damage boost to Ledge Head, and Mana Golem (pet).
• Added a 15% Chaos damage boost to Bone Claws of Turmoil, Ledgermayne (armor), and Mudluk's Tadpolearm, added a level 30 requirement. 
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Blades of Corruption, added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Radiant Ledgesword, added a level 30 requirement, increased drop rate to 100%.
• Added a 10% Elemental damage boost to Druids Fur Cloak and Hooded Druids Cloak, Earth Shaman Hood, Mafic Wings, Hot Head Helm, added a level 30 requirement. 
• Added a 15% Elemental damage boost to Earth Shaman.
• Added a 15% Elemental damage boost to Diamonds of Time, Dual Fumarolic Axes, Riparian Trident, Anaerobic Trident, Defender of the Reef, Scythe of Sisyphean, The Great Gilead Axe, Ornate Platinum Impalers, added a level 30 requirement. 
• Added a 20% Elemental damage boost to Lilith Katana and Astral Scythe of Lilith, added level 30 requirement.
• Added a 35% Elemental damage boost to Fire Extinguisher.

Quest Updates

• Increased the XP and Gold rewards for the Arcangrove saga quests. 
• The Feed Me quest is no longer Legend only. Increased Gold, XP, and Rep rewards to 2,500. Now always rewards the Fire Extinguisher.

8/30/24 - Balance Updates and more Class Points

This week's round of changes focuses on improving the Darkovia and Mythsong sagas. Additionally, monsters now award more Class Points!

Class Points

The Class Points formula has changed. Ranking up classes in the earlier ranks (and especially early game) should be a lot faster than before. The overall kills needed to rank a class to 10 has also been slightly reduced. 

Previous formula: (Class Rank * 50) +- 10
New formula: (225 + (Class Rank * 25) +- 10

Class Updates

Sovereign of Storms

• Added icons.
• Increased the range of all non Auto Attack skills to Infinite.
• Reduced the Mana Cost of Sky Splitter from 90 to 80.
• Electrified now also increases Damage Resistance by 20%.

Chaos Slayer

• The Paragon aura now increases outgoing physical and magical damage by 500% instead of all damage.

Monster Updates

• Replaced the Skeletal Fire Mage, Rattlebones, and Albino Bat mobs in /darkoviagrave with stronger variants. 
• Adjusted mob placements in various Darkovia and Mythsong saga maps.
• Added a new room to /darkoviagrave for the non story related mobs.
• Added (more) tags to mobs in the Chiral Valley saga.
• Added (more) tags to mobs in the Dawrfhold saga.
• Added tags to mobs in the Darkovia saga.
• Added tags to mobs in the Mythsong saga.
• Added a boss mob to the end of /mythsongwar (their pirate outfit burned off)
• Added skills to Dracowerepyre.
• Changed the logic of the Wolfwing boss.
• Renamed Chaos Lord Discordia to "Discordia", added a new skill.
• Added a new skill to Pony Gary Yellow.
• Added a new skill to Kimberly.

Item Updates

• Batwing Scythe no longer drops from the His Bark is Worse Than His Blight quest, now directly drops from Blightfang instead. 
• Added a 5% Undead damage boost to Red Glowstick, Yellow Glowstick, Blue Glowstick, Green Glowstick, and Violet Glowstick.
• Added a 5% Chaos damage boost to Wolfwing's Wings and Faust Face.
• Added a 10% Chaos damage boost to Faust Wings and Discordia Chaos Mask.
• Added a 15% Chaos damage boost to Chaos Rose, increased drop rate and added a level 30 requirement.
• Added a 20% Chaos damage boost to Broad Werepyre Blade and Discordia Rose of Chaos.
• Added a 5% Dragonkin damage boost to Dragon's Twilight.
• Added a 10% Dragonkin damage boost to Chaotic Dragon Blade.
• Increased the Dragonkin damage boost on the Polished Dragon Blade to 50%.
• Added a 10% Undead damage boost to Deadhead Mallet, added a level 20 requirement.
• Added a 5% damage to all monsters boost to Big Wolf Slaying Axe, Ticklish Zorbo, and Ticklish Zorbo Sword.
• Added a 10% Human damage boost to Grateful Undead Sword, added a level 25 requirement.
• Added a 15% Human damage boost to Lich Staff.
• Added a 10% Class Points boost to the items in the Chiral Valley Champion shop.
• Added a 10% Elemental damage boost to the items in the Dwarfhold Champion shop.
• Added a 10% Undead damage  boost to the items in the Yokai Champion shop.
• Added a 10% damage Human boost to the items in the Darkovia Champion shop.
• Increased the Gold boost on items in the Mythsong Champion shop to 10%.
• Added a level 40 requirement to the Fable Seaweed Mace, Forest Fury Helm, Trickster Horns, FableForest Elements Cape, and Bloodwolf Pup.
• Added a level 50 requirement to the Chainsaw Katana, Dual Chainsaw Katanas, and Pink Chainsaw Katana.

Quest Updates

• Increased the XP rewards on the Darkovia saga quests.
• Darkovia story quests (except Lil' Red, Twisted Paw, and Sanguine) can now only be completed once.
• Adjusted the XP rewards on certain Mythsong story quests.

 

8/23/24 - Early Game overhaul

This week's round of changes focuses mainly on improving the early game experience. Story quests now give significantly more XP, monsters have been rebalanced, and certain weapon drops now have small damage boosts on them. Our goal is to rebalance all of the 13 Lords of Chaos zones so that a new player can complete the entire saga on their own (if they wish), get enough XP to finish it off in the low to mid 50's level range, and acquire a nice assortment of classes and boosted items while doing so.

Monster Updates

• Adjusted mob values in the Prologue areas (/swordhavenundead, /castleundead, /chaoscrypt, /prison, /forestchaos).
• Adjusted mob values in the Chiral Valley saga.
• Adjusted mob values in the Dwarfhold saga.
• Adjusted mob values in the Yokai saga.
• Added tags to mobs in the Chiral Valley saga.
• Added tags to mobs in the Dwarfhold saga.
• Added tags to mobs in the Yokai saga.
• Added a skill to Hydra Head.
• Added a skill to Escherion.
• Added a skill to O-dokuro.
• Added a skill to O-dokuro's Head.
• Kitsune's Shapeshift duration reduced to 3 seconds, now does a powerful attack at the end of the transformation. 

Item Updates

• Increased the drop rate of the Fighter Helm.
• Increased the drop rate of the Chaorrupted Armet. 
• Increased the drop rate of the Bear Skin Cloak to 100%.
• Added a 15% Chaos Damage boost to Hanzamune Dragon Koi Blade, increased drop rate to 100%, increased level requirement to 25, reduced sell price.
• Added a 5% Chaos Damage boost to Aracara's Limb, increased drop rate to 100%.
• Added a 10% Chaos Damage boost to the 1st Lord of Chaos Staff and increased the drop rate.
• Added a 10% Chaos Damage boost to Drow Sabre, Chaos Dragonlord Axe, and Chaos Dragonlord Mace.
• Added a 15% Chaos Damage boost to Chaotic Draconian Blade and Hanzamune Dragon Koi Blade.
• Added a 20% Chaos Damage boost to Staff of Inversion (weapon), Legendary Sword of Dragon Control, Chaotic Hanzamune and Chaos Shogun Sword
• Added a 5% Elemental damage boost to Rocky Club.
• Added a 5% Human damage boost to Pinetroll Mace, Kua-Toa Dagger, Butterfly Sword, Sai of Steel and O-dokuro Blade.
• Added a 10% Human damage boost to Dai Tengu Blade of Wind, O-dokuro Glaive, and O-dokuro Staff

Item Updates

• Reduced the amount of turn-in requirements on certain /swordhavenundead and /castleundead quests
• Increased the XP rewards on the Prologue quests.
• Increased the XP rewards on Galanoth's Lair quests.
• Increased the XP rewards on the Chiral Valley saga quests.
• Increased the XP rewards on the Dwarfhold saga quests.
• Added a level 50 requirement to the ShadowScythe General daily quests and increased the Gold and XP rewards.

NPC Updates

• Updated Renn and Zio's post Esherion dialogue to guide players towards the DragonSlayer, Enforcer, and Ninja classes. 
• Removed the ShadowScythe General, Honor Shop, and Sepulchure's Helm buttons from the Prologue sections of Gravelyn's NPC menu. Added a level 50 requirement for the ShadowScythe General dialogue box and a level 70 requirement for the Sepulchure's Helm dialogue boxes on Gravelyn's post Prologue NPC menu. The level requirements were added as new players often tried to access that content, although they couldn't realistically complete it at their level. 
• Galanoth's farming quests are now hidden until the Dragonslayer Marshal quest has been completed.

 

8/16/24 - Balance Updates and Monster Updates

Class Updates

• Naval Commander's Commander's Rally now targets 7 players
• ArchFiend's Fiend Frenzy now targets 7 players
• Slightly reduced the HP of certain monsters in /shadowbattleon and /camlan
• Fixed an unintended interaction with Chaos Rift on Chrono ShadowSlayer/Chrono ShadowHunter
• Increased the drop rates of Chaos Eye and Chaos Tentacle on the stronger monsters in the /chaoswar map.
• Increased the Elemental damage boost on the Firebird's Fury Poleaxe and Firebird's Fury Great Axe to 40%, reduced the amount of Anqa's Feathers required to x10.

 

08/09/24 - Balance Updates

Quest Updates

• Renamed the turn in requirements on the Ninja Grudge quest from Pirate Pegleg to Pirate Medallion (the Fishmen have two legs), increased the required turn in amount and Gold and XP rewards. 
• Increased the Gold and XP rewards on the Without a Trace and Hit Job quests.

BeastMaster Quests 

(see below for details on the BeastMaster buff)

Reworked the BeastMaster rep quests to be sequential. Rep quests are now unlocked as the faction rank increases and the quests reward increased Gold, XP, and Rep amounts. The amount of walking required to reach certain quest objectives has also been cut down. A level 50 requirement has also been added in order to start the quests.

All

• Increased the max stack amounts on quest items.

Beat the Beasts

• Increased the rep reward from 100 to 300.
• Increased the turn in requirements to 6.

Secrets and Scroll

• Now requires rank 3 BeastMaster Reputation in order to accept.
• Increased the rep reward from 300 to 500.
• The Secret Scroll of Beast Commanding now drops from Tanuki in /bamboo instead of the Bookcase.

Taming the Elementals

• Now requires rank 4 BeastMaster Reputation in order to accept.
• Increased the rep reward from 400 to 850.
• Increased the amount of Living Flame Cores required from 3 to 5.

Dark Creature Demands

• Now requires rank 6 BeastMaster Reputation in order to accept.
• Increased the rep reward from 650 to 1750.
• Bright Binding of Submission now drops from Solar Phoenix in /dreamnexus instead of Gold Draconian.
• Increased the turn in requirements to 16.

Boss Beast Battle

• Renamed to "Chaos Beast Battle"
• Now requires rank 8 BeastMaster Reputation in order to accept.
• Increased the rep reward from 600 to 3500.
• Turn in requirements changed. Now requires x7 Purple Goo from either Rock Roc, Naga Baas, or Chaos Harpy.
• The stronger the boss, the more Purple Goo it drops.

Beastmaster Challenge

• We decided to remove this quest as keeping it around would result in the rebalanced lower rank rep quests being largely ignored. We contemplated adding a rank requirement to this quest and having it award a larger amount of rep, but that would've defeated the purpose of having a daily quest that could be completed at any time, in addition to the fact that all quests now give increased reputation anyways.

Monster Updates

• Adjusted the level, HP, and damage of Breken the Vile
• Adjusted the level, HP, and damage of Ogug Stoneaxe
• Adjusted the HP and damage of Shark Bait.
• Reverted the HP change on The Mainyu, reduced Damage Resistance debuff from 1000% to 500%, and fixed a bug that caused it to take reduced DoT damage. 

Class Updates

Increased Max target of the following skills to 7:

• Daimon's Mass Affect
• Defender's Shield Blessing
• Defender's Shield Veil
• Eternal/Immortal Chronomancer's Taking Eternity
• Healer/Acolyte's Healing Word
• Legion Revenant's Depraved Empowerment
• LightCaster's Illuminate
• LightMage's Lumenator
• Lord of Order's Harmony
• Lord of Order's Ordinance
• Lord of Order's Axiom
• Oracle's Group Divination
• Master of Moglins' Moglin Life
• Northlands Monk's Northland Lights
• Paladin Chronomancer's Holy Vow
• Paladin Chronomancer's Divine Intervention
• StoneCrusher's Echoing Earth (and Infinity Titan equivalent)
• StoneCrusher's Land's Embrace (and Infinity Titan equivalent)
• Legendary Hero's Legacy Crater
• Frostval Barbarian's Frostval Gifts
• Frostval Barbarian's Silver Thaw/Maw/Jaw

Chaos Avenger

Increasing the duration of Unstoppable Force in order to make looping the effect easier when receiving Haste debuffs.

Fury Unleashed

• Unstoppable Force duration: 25 seconds > 35 seconds

Blood Ancient

Giving Blood Ancient a performance boost and a few QoL changes. Auras shouldn't fall off as easily now and Afterimage won't reduce HP to 0.

Bloodshed

• Crit Damage per stack of Bloodlust: 10% > 20%
• Bloodlust max stacks: 10 > 5

Afterimage

• Health Cost: 20% of current HP > 20% of max HP
• Afterimage duration: 6 seconds > 10 seconds

Ischemia

• Mana Cost: 20 > 10

Exsanguination

• Mana Cost: 20 > 15
• Damage: 60% > 140%
• Increased the DoT damage on Blood Loss

Master of Moglins

Master of Moglins was falling a bit behind other classes in farming performance, so we told the Moglins to do better. Some aura durations have been reduced to prevent the Moglins from going too out of control, but in most cases they shouldn't be too noticeable when compared to before. Also added a new rank 10 passive with the intent of boosting single target performance. 

Moglin's Magical Strike

• Damage: 100% > 110%, no longer deals reduced damage to secondary targets.

Moglin Spirit

• Mana Cost: 20 > 10
• Aura durations: 30 seconds > 20 seconds

Moglin Menace

• Damage: 0% > 100%
• Memet Crit Chance: 10% > 20%
• Updated description to state the correct stack amounts of the Legion and Mort auras.

Moglin Life

• Max targets: 4 > 7
• The Twilly, Twig, and Cupcake auras now refresh.
• Aura durations: 30 seconds > 20 seconds

Moglin Frenzy

• Cooldown: 30 seconds > 15 seconds
• Mana Cost: 40 > 30
• Adjusted a backend damage calculation (damage remains the same, or slightly higher than before).
• Twig Decay duration: 10 seconds > 4 seconds
• Memet Stun duration: 4 seconds > 2 seconds
• Mort Dodge debuff: 80% > 50%

Moglin Blitz (Previously Memet, Twig, and Quibble's Good Luck!)

• No longer increases Crit Chance.
• Moglin Frenzy now applies Moglin Blitz to your target, increasing the damage they take from each successive hit of the skill by 45%, up to 12 times.

Ninja

Classic Ninja

Normally, we rework class skill sets when a class is underperforming, has gone unused for long periods of time, and the existing skill set is generally just uninteresting and lacking a clear playstyle. Ninja in particular is an odd case, as it's generally skipped over during the early game, but finds some use in certain late-game applications due to its Shadowblade skill, a very powerful effect that causes most monsters to miss their skills. Ninja's kit as a whole is quite messy which is one of the reasons why it's in need of a skill rework, but keeping Shadowblade's effect untouched in addition to reworking the rest of Ninja's skills would result in it becoming too powerful. Due to the fact that Ninja sees use because of Shadowblade, but is also in need of a rework, we've made the decision to keep the classic version of Ninja around, but release a reworked version of Ninja with new skills. Please keep in mind that a classic version of a class is a rare exception and most reworked classes won't get this treatment.

Class Item Updates

• Renamed the existing Ninja to Classic Ninja
• Classic Ninja now drops from the Hidden Spy in /willowcreek.
• Added the reworked Ninja to its respective shops.
• Ninja, Assassin, and Ninja Warrior now require completion of Mazumi's "Hit Job" quest in order to purchase.

Ninja Rework

Ninja's skills have been reworked in order to make it play better as a Dodge class, while also putting more emphasis on the characteristics of a Ninja such as stealth, shuriken, smoke bombs, and assassinations.

System:

• Stat model changed to Dodge Melee
• Mana Model changed to Rogue

New Skill - Shuriken:

• Mana Cost: 15
• Cooldown: 1.5 seconds
• Damage: 50%
• Range: Long
• Applies Rapid Bleed, a fast ticking DoT for 5 seconds, stacks to 8.

Shadowblade:

• Mana Cost: 25 > 15
• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 6 seconds
• Damage: 50% > 200%, damage type changed to Physical.
• No longer reduces Hit Chance
• No longer applies the Shadowblade aura.
• Now applies Sharpened Edge, increasing your Crit Chance by 10% and Crit Damage by 25% for 10 seconds. If Vanish is active, deals increased damage based on how long it's been active, but consumes Vanish. 

New Skill - Smoke Bomb:

• Mana Cost: 25
• Cooldown: 10 seconds
• Damage: 100% Physical
• Range: Long 
• Throw a Smoke Bomb at your target, reducing their Hit Chance by 15%. If Vanish is active, your Smoke Bomb catches your target off guard, reducing their Hit Chance by an additional 35%, but consumes Vanish. Both effects last 6 seconds.

Thin Air:

• Mana Cost: 30 > -20
• Cooldown: 30 seconds > 15 seconds
• No longer applies the Thin Air aura.
• Now applies Vanish, increasing your Haste and Dodge by 100% for 5 seconds.
• Now applies Concealed Blade for 5 seconds, causing your attacks to deal bonus damage to targets below 25% of their max HP, with the bonus damage increasing the closer they are to death.

Rank 10 Passive:

• Added the Legendary passive (Assassin and Ninja Warrior Only)

BeastMaster

Increased damage across the board, adjusted playstyle to be more Dodge focused, added a new mechanic that empowers skill effects after striking a target with the Auto Attack. Healing is less than before, but should be more reliable as it now always crits and is on a lower cooldown. Moved the Haste buff into the passive and added a rank 10 passive.

System:

• Stat model changed to Dodge Melee

Signal Arrow (Previously Auto Attack):

• Changed animation.
• Range: Melee > Long 
• Cooldown: 2 seconds > 2.8 seconds
• Damage: 90% > 120%
• New effect - Follow Up: Using another skill after damaging a target with Signal Arrow will cause your companion to perform a Follow Up, enhancing the effect of that skill. 

Go for the Eyes:

• Swapped skill order with Borrowed Wings.
• Damage: 110% > 125%
• Follow Up: Applies Eye Gouge, reducing Hit Chance by 25% for 6 seconds and applying a larger DoT.

Borrowed Wings (previously Fetch Potion):

• Swapped skill order with Go for the Eyes.
• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 8 seconds
• Damage type: Magical > Physical Now always crits.
• Now deals Weapon DPS instead of Weapon Damage.
• No longer applies Radiance
• Now applies Borrowed Wings, increasing your Dodge by 20% for 6 seconds.
• Follow Up: Applies Eye in the Sky, increasing your Dodge by 40% for 6 seconds. 

Misdirection:

• Damage: 100% > 175%
• Misdirection aura now reduces Damage Resistance by 15% instead of Haste.
• Stun chance: 15% > 30%, stun duration: 4 > 2
• Follow Up: Applies Distracted, reducing Damage Resistance by 30% for 10 seconds.
• Follow Up: Guaranteed Stun

Treat:

• Range: Melee > Long
• Damage: 0% > 300% Physical, can't miss
• Cooldown: 24 seconds > 16 seconds
• Treat no longer increases Haste
• Treat outgoing damage increase: 30% > 20%
• Follow Up: Applies Feast, increasing your Haste and outgoing damage by 40%.

Who’s a Good Beastie?:

• Haste: 10% > 30%

You Are!:

• Hit Chance: 5% > 10%

Pet the Beast (new):

• Starting at rank 1, upon performing a Follow Up you pet your companion, Uplifting them which increases your outgoing physical damage by 5% for 8 seconds, stacks to 8. At rank 10, increases your Crit Chance by 10%.

Stay tuned next week for the 1 player Queen Iona challenge boss. She'll bring the thunder, but defeating her will allow you to forge a familiar, but amped up reward that's fit for a King (or Queen)!

08/02/24 - Balance Updates

Quest Updates

• Reduced the Gold and XP rewards on the "A Lovely An-Sewer" quest, as they were much higher than intended.
• Blazebalm's quests in /feverfew are no longer repeatable. Blazebalm's quests become unrepeatable once the Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright quest is completed.
• This change was made to keep the quests consistent between both map states.
• Increased the Rep rewards on the "Defeat Mega Tyndarius" quest.
• Increased the Gold, XP, and Rep rewards on the "Defeat Ultra Tyndarius" quest.
• Increased the Rep rewards on the "Embersea Membership Dues" quest.
• Adjusted the reward amounts for the Alina & Rolith, Cysero, J6, and Nythera wedding event quests.
• Increased the amount of items required to complete the quests in the /worldscore map.*
• Increased the amount of items required to complete the quests in the /manacradle map.*

Item Updates

• Level 40, 50, and 60 Awe Enhancements are no longer Legend tagged.
• Sparkly Shadowslayer Relic is now a guaranteed reward from the "Shadowslayer Summoning Ritual" quest.

The following items now require the completion of the Dragonslayer Marshall quest in order to purchase:

• Dragonslayer (Class)
• Dragonslayer Armor
• Dragonslayer Helm

Map Updates

Adjusted the placement of certain monsters in the following maps. These changes were made in preparation for a "beastly" update that's arriving next week.

• /dreamnexus
• /mafic
• /wanders

The following maps had certain mob placements changed a while ago. We felt these changes were miniscule enough to where they didn't really warrant their own post, but we're adding them to this post as we want to continue to communicate any changes that are made to existing content.

• /charredpath
• /dreadspace
• /starsinc

Monster Updates

• Adjusted the levels, HP, and damage of certain monsters in the Nythera and J6 Wedding event maps.
• Added an Elemental tag to the "Avatar Tyndarius" boss.
• Added an Elemental tag to the "Voice in the Sea" boss.
• Reduced the damage of the "Second Speaker" boss by around 40%.
• Reduced the damage of the "Eternal Dragon" boss by around 33%.
• Reduced the damage of the "Mask of Tranquility" boss by around 20% and Damage Resistance by 30%.
• The Mainyu fight has been redone, let your true power be unleashed! (Don't panic when you see its HP, the fight is overall faster than before.)
• Reduced the level, HP, and damage of regular monsters in the /worldscore map.*
• Reduced the level, HP, and damage of regular monsters in the /manacradle map.*

There was a huge spike in difficulty during the final areas of the Shadows of War saga, especially when going from /deadlines to /worldscore and /manacradle. This change was made to flatten the spike. 

 

 

7/12/24 - So many stars

Star Light of Destiny

• Reduced the amount of Star of the Empyrean required from x28 to x14.

Astral Empyrean

• Might of the Cosmos Heal Amount: 2,800,000 > 1,400,000
• Might of the Cosmos outgoing damage and outgoing physical damage increase per kill: 100% > 200%

 

7/5/24 - A Eternal Inversionist Update?

This week's balance update is about a change made to Eternal Inversionist.

• Increased the range of all skills to infinite. 

5/18/24 - Bug Fixes

This week's balance update is all about bug fixes!

• Fixed a bug on Exalted Harbinger in which the Soul Pact aura was not being applied for the correct amount of time.
• Adjusted the Burning Ward aura so that it can no longer reduce HP below 1. If a player died to Burning Ward's reflection, it would prevent them from respawning. Additionally, monsters that died to Burning Ward's reflection would not drop anything.
• Adjusted the Temporal Insanity aura so that it can no longer reduce HP below 1. If a player died to Temporal Insanity's reflection, it would prevent them from respawning. Additionally, monsters that died to Temporal Insanity's reflection would not drop anything.
• The Temporal Insanity aura now displays an "IMMUNE" message to targets immune to it. When Temporal Insanity was applied to certain monsters, the aura would apply even though Temporal Insanity had no effect against them. To prevent confusion, an "IMMUNE" message now displays on monsters that are immune to the effect.
• The Counter Attack aura applied by certain monsters can no longer reduce HP below 1. Players could often be disconnected when dying to a monster's Counter Attack aura, this change should prevent any unwanted disconnects and also add a bit more leeway when attacking into bosses with the aura up.

The First Speaker

Changes to 'Malgor, The First Speaker' quest has been made.

• 'The First Speaker Silenced' is now a permanent item.

5/3/24 - Class Updates

This week's balance update focuses mainly on Arcana Invoker, but there's also a small surprise in store, hopefully a welcome one!

Arcana Invoker

Several changes have been made to improve the performance of the class. Significant changes include adjustments to the class's damage output to be more DPS focused, rather than being back loaded to the end of the skill rotation. Increased healing and debuff durations. Reduced Damage Resistance falloff early on. XXI - The World now lasts much longer and increases your damage output the longer it remains active, but at the cost of your defenses. Finally, the One With the Cycle skill has been changed to increase in damage the more it is used against the same target. For the full list of changes, look no further:
Anagenesis:

• Now also deals damage based on Attack Power in addition to Spell Power.

The Beginning and the End:

• 0 - The Fool duration: 45 seconds > 122 seconds
• XXI - The World duration: 22 seconds > 122 seconds
• XXI - The World now increases Damage Resistance by 40%.

Arcana Invocation:

• Increased the HoT amount on the III - The Empress and XIV - Temperance auras.
• Damage Resistance reduction per summoned Arcana: 4% > 2%
• End of the World stacks applied per skill use: 2 > 1
• End of the World now reduces Damage Resistance by 4% per stack.
• End of the World duration: 5 seconds > 8 seconds
• Each End of the World stack now contributes less damage to the "The Beginning and The End" skill.
• The bonus damage is now based on the user's End of the World stacks instead of XXI - The World.

Arcana Revocation:

• Skill can no longer miss.
• Increased the duration of all 15 second (Reversed) debuffs (except The Lovers and Temperance) to 22 seconds
• Added a Fool (Reversed) aura, reduces Damage Resistance by 22% for 15 seconds, only applies if 0 - The Fool is the user's only active Arcana.
•  The High Priestess (Reversed) now reduces Crit Chance instead of Dodge.
•  The World (Reversed) now reduces Damage Resistance and Crit Chance by an extra 11%, and Dodge by 11% less.
• Changed the names of the (Reverse) auras to reflect the debuff they apply.
• Bonus damage while Judgement is active has been increased, but the bonus damage is only only dealt one time to the primary target. Also, Doot Doot.

One With the Cycle:

• Damage: 100% > 20%
• No longer does damage based on how long The Fool has been active.
• Now applies Sacrifice to the target, increasing the damage they take from each successive hit of One With the Cycle by 150%, up to 22 times.
• Erasure duration: 5 > 3, DoT damage is now based on the amount of End of the World stacks the user has.

Darkside/Dark Lord

May the 4th be with you.

Blood Boil

• Blood Boil aura duration: 8 seconds > 10 seconds

Terrifying Might

• Haste: 5% > 0%, now increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Blood Rush

• Haste: 10% > 15%

 

03/29/24 - Balance Updates

Item Updates

Hollowborn Shadow of the Legion

• Added a 50% Reputation boost.

Hollowborn Lich King

• Added a 40% damage to humans boost.

Hollowborn Lich King's Pride

• Added a 50% damage to humans boost.

Hollowborn Caladbolg & Dual Hollowborn Caladbolgs

• Added a 45% to all monsters boost.
• Changed damage range to match the original Caladbolg.

Empowered Hollowborn Caladbolg

• Added Empowered Hollowborn Caladbolg to the Ultra Dage merge, requires x1 Hollowborn Caladbolg and x1 Empowered Caladbolg. Deals 51% more damage to monsters when equipped.

Empowered Dual Hollowborn Caladbolgs

• Added Empowered Dual Hollowborn Caladbolg to the Ultra Dage merge, requires x1 Dual Hollowborn Caladbolgs and x1 Empowered Dual Caladbolgs. Deals 51% more damage to monsters when equipped.

Quests

Added a new quest to the Altar of the Hollowborn Caladbolg

How Much for One Rib?

• Defeat Binky for a 2% chance to obtain a Dark Unicorn Rib.
• Rewards: Hollow Soul x250 (100% drop), Lesser Hollowborn Caladbolg (2.5% drop, deals 45% damage to all monsters when equipped).

Hollowborn Paragon Quest Pet

• Added Hollow Soul x1 as rewards to the Hollowborn Paragon Quest Pet versions of the "Clear a Path" and "Time for Some Spring Cleaning" quests.

Monsters

• Reduced Empress' Finger's Damage Resistance by 100%.
• Reduced Ancient Mecha's HP to 180,000 and damage by around 40%.
• Reduced Encore Darkon's HP to 222,222 and increased their Damage Resistance by 50%.

 

03/22/24 - Balance Updates

Item Updates

Increased the stack amounts for the following items:

• Legion Token: 25,000 > 50,000
• Bone Dust: 5,100 > 10,000
• Dark Token: 600 > 10,000
• Seraphic Medals: 5 > 600
• Mega Seraphic Medals: 5 > 600
• Seraphic Commander's Slain: 6 > 200
• Ada Defeated: 1 > 20

Changed the damage range of the following weapons to static:

• Dual Blinding Light of Destiny
• Ultimate Blinding Light of Destiny
• Obsidian Light of Destiny
• Hollowborn Shadow of Fate
• Dual Hollowborn Shadows of Fate
• Void Light of Destiny
• Cyber Void Light of Destiny
• Dual Necrotic Swords of Doom
• Necrotic Blade of the Underworld
• Burning Sword of Doom
• Hollowborn Sword of Doom

Changed the damage range of the following weapons to unstable:

• Ascended Light of Destiny

Item Updates

• Added Soul Sand x1 as a reward to the Daily Exercise 5: God of the Depths quest.
• Added Soul Sand x2 as a reward to the Daily Exercise 6: Dage the Dark Lord quest.

Miscellaneous 

• Added a "The Beast teleport button" to Virgil in /sevencircleswar.

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