PTR Patch Notes – August 5, 2026

August 5, 2026

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This week, we have several fixes for issues reported across various classes, including several issues that were contributing to problems with aura-based abilities and charged abilities across all classes. This week’s update also includes audio optimizations and adds Level 41-50 class trainers for all currently active classes.
While this week’s update primarily includes bug fixes, we are planning to continue bringing additional class abilities and masteries online for testing in upcoming updates.

The following areas are in focus for Week 14:
Combat testing for levels 1-50
Mastery options for Warrior, Paladin, Dire Lord, Shaman, Cleric, Druid, Wizard, and Enchanter.
Solo and Group adventuring gameplay throughout the game.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause NPCs or objects to randomly appear when players used certain abilities, such as Divine Shock with the Sacred Ground mastery unlocked.
Fixed an issue where NPCs would sometimes run away for a short time after being attacked, before realizing what was going on and finally moving back to engage their attackers.
Fixed an issue with charged abilities that would cause them to queue infinitely when rapidly pressing the ability hotkey, which would result in strange behavior including locking the player in a casting animation indefinitely.
Fixed an issue that was preventing charged abilities from properly applying their charge amount to their effects.
Fixed several water volumes in the world that had a bad surface swimming offset. Water in more areas should now behave more like water should.
Potential fix for an issue that was causing aura abilities to terminate abruptly and incorrectly. This problem was leading to strange behavior for aura-based effects such as Paladin Hymns stacking when they shouldn’t, or disappearing when they should have remained active. Note: We will be continuing to watch for any reported problems with aura effects to make sure that this is fully resolved.
Fixed an issue where pets would refuse to attack some NPCs in the Nightfall Crypt.

Dire Lord

The Dreadplate I, II, and III mastery unlocks should now properly adjust the Dire Lord’s armor based on their Essence state.
Essence Thief should no longer automatically fill the Essence bar when Essence is gained while its effect is active.

Druid

Call Lightning should now be properly added to the Codex when unlocked.
The Flame Stokes Flame mastery should now properly extend the duration of Stormfire when Verdanfire Bolt is used on the target.

Enchanter

Charm II can now be cast by enchanters who are higher than level 28.
The Gate scroll that can be purchased from Enchanter trainers is now actually usable by Enchanters.
Updated the descriptions for the different ranks of Lyrith’s Grace to show the correct information for the ability.
New Enchanters should now begin with a scroll for Mesmerize instead of a scroll for the defunct Fixate ability.
The Shielding spell should now apply the appropriate effect to the Enchanter when used.
Updated the descriptions for the Whispers line of abilities to correctly indicate the amount of resting mana regen provided by their effects.
Purge Magic should now be properly added to the Codex when unlocked, instead of immediately purging itself from the Codex.

Paladin

Fix for Fervent Strike abilities not working properly.
Blessed Flame should no longer drop stacks in combat unless the stacks are actively consumed by another ability.
Divine Shock III should now be castable when Castigator II is unlocked.
Fixed a typo in the description for the Condemnation mastery unlock.
Flame’s Wake should now only *slightly* increase the armor of the paladin instead of nearly doubling it.
The effect of Judgement of Flame should now properly decrease the damage that the enemy does, instead of increasing it.
Reverberation should now function properly for higher ranks of Oathflame with Venger’s Flame Control unlocked.

Rogue

The description for Blackjack Kick now explains that the ability generates an Opportunity point when used.
Updated the description text for Caltrops to be more clear as to the effect of the trap.
Fix for rogues sometimes getting knocked out of shadow walk immediately after using Escape Artist.

Shaman

The Unbroken Current mastery (available at Level 40) now requires Unstoppable Current (available at Level 25) to be unlocked, instead of the other way around.

Summoner

The purchase price of the ability scroll for Grand Shielding has been reduced to match the price of the scroll for the Wizard and Enchanter versions of the same ability.

Warrior

On the Defensive should now give the correct bonuses to the Warrior.
All ranks of Shield Bash should now properly apply bonus Threat when used.
Updated the description for the Shield Bash ability to clarify that it does not apply a silence effect by default. The silence effect will only be applied if the Break Focus mastery is unlocked.
Ranks II – V of the Storm ability should now show the correct duration for their stun effect.
Hold the Line should now only consume one Battle Point on its initial tick, instead of two.

Wizard

Dwarves may now choose the Wizard class at character creation.
Ice Volley and Torrent of Flames should now both properly apply their damage four times over their duration, instead of missing a tick.
It should no longer be possible for Wizards to stack multiple ranks of the Shielding spell.
Cleaned up some bad references in the display names of various Wizard Mastery nodes.
Elemental Cycle should now properly (and temporarily) grant spell haste when changing between different elemental damage types.
Spellblade’s Alacrity I and II will now correctly affect the Blaze and Static Surge abilities in addition to Creeping Cold.
Welling Fury should now properly generate stacks and reduce the focus consumption of Flamestrike when it is active.
Smoldering Wounds should now properly trigger its effect when the wizard crits with fire damage.

Fixed several items that had incorrectly high amounts of the Strength attribute assigned to them.

The character’s appearance will no longer be initially randomized when clicking the appearance button during character creation.

Fixed lighting issues in the Ghaldassii Ruins area of Wild’s End
Fixed several floating plants and trees in Wild’s End.
Fixed some missing collision in Wild’s End.
Fixed floating plants and trees in the Eastern Plains.
Class trainers for levels 41-50 are now available in Thronefast, Sorhiryth, and the Barrowdark (as appropriate for each location).