Around the Team: What We’ve Been Up To – May 15 – May 21, 2026

Design and Narrative

• Continued population work on the Caldera in Kosa Ull.
• Implemented ranger base abilities.
• Lots of PTR bug fixes.
• Design work on Rogue and Monk base abilities.
• Continued NPC placement work for the Port of Rulun.
• Continued work on NPC dialogue for Faerthale City.
• Finalized experience curve adjustments based on data seen so far from PTR.
• Work with programming team to support some itemization efforts.

Worldbuilding and Environment Art

• Caldera areas of Kosa Ull.
• Continued buildout for Detihauna.
• Continued refinement pass on Sea Dragon Hatchery interiors.
• Finalizing second round of structural/prop concepts for Faerthale City.

Character Art and Animation

• Animation work for additional Badia de Cara creatures.
• Polish work on some player character animations.
• Work on variations of various NPCs to help add more diversity to Badia de Cara.
• Continuing work on ambient life VFX for Badia de Cara.
• Early explorations for Ashen, Lucent, and Ember Elf visual diversity.
• Finalizing materials for updated player robes.
• Beginning work on updated base meshes for non-robe armor types.

Programming

• Finalizing Mastery UI for initial MVP testing.
• Final round of updates to ability system to support mastery options and new ability types.
• Mail system bug fixes and polishing.
• Continuing work on market system.
• PTR Bug fixes and Investigations into player-reported issues.
• Implementation work on updated experience gain formula.
• Working with Design team to make combat tuning adjustments based on data and feedback.
• Starting work on itemization support features.
• Updated water plane behavior to better handle areas where rivers split/merge or spill into oceans.
• Setup for initial testing cases for underwater NPC movement and land/water transition logic.