Build 0.17.1

Released: August 15, 2025

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where newly learned skills sometimes didn’t appear in the skills list until the player zoned or relogged.
Fixed an audio issue that was causing incorrect volume levels.

NPCs

The Gnashura encounter in Halnir’s cave has been temporarily disabled while we perform further tuning and adjustments to the encounter flow and adjust the loot items to the correct power levels for the intended difficulty of the encounter.
The mysterious Black Rose Woodsman who had infiltrated Demith has been discovered and run out of town by the militia. The streets of the village *should* now be safer for passing adventurers…

Items

Updated Gnashura’s current drops. For now, the items will stay in game, but they may be replaced by different drops in the future when Gnashura returns.
Updated Splintered Round Shield
Increased the item rarity of the Rotten Flesh Fistwraps (which increased its damage to 24). This change does not affect the drop rate of the item.
Corrected the name of Blackrose Squire Gauntlets (formerly Gilded Blackrose Spaulders) and changed their stat total to match their actual item level.

Build 0.16.994

Released: August 13, 2025

General

Added an item name filter to the vendor window.
Grocer vendors (including several innkeepers) now also sell mineral water and trail rations.

Bug Fixes

Taught some of the snakes that were “standing” to stay on the ground where they belong.
Cryptlings should no longer be laying down on the job.
Mountain stalkers have been taught to stand on all four feet – at least as much as you can teach a cat to do anything
Possible fix for another double death case.
Fixed an issue where a player’s inventory could be listed out in the chat window on login or zoning as if they had just received new items.
Fixed an issue where some skills that a class had were not being displayed in the skills list. Known issue: a skill that was just learned sometimes still doesn’t display in the list until you zone or relog. Should be fixed in a future patch.
The Molten Key is now correctly tagged as a quest item.

World

The final encounter for the Ashbreathers Enclave has been adjusted to resolve some bugs and prevent potential exploits.

NPCs

Kvetra, the Burning Banshee can now be triggered once per game day. If a player attempts to trigger her and she has been killed recently, the trigger attempt will fail, but the trigger item will now remain in the player’s inventory.
Blinding Powder (Hanggore Scout) duration reduced and cooldown increased.
White Wyvern health and mitigation reduced to single group scaling. The previous change was due to a template adjustment impacting all NPCs in that category, rather than an intentional change.
Numerous NPC ability fixes and damage adjustments.

Items

Activatable equipped items now work in combat too.

-Added a new heavy plate drop somewhere in the Ashbreather temple -Changed the Writhing Stud from a guaranteed proc on dodge to a chance on any physical damage taken, to account for the increased avoidance characters receive vs targets lower level than them.

Cleaned up some NPC ability functionality, damage, and cooldowns.
The vendor purchase and sale prices for Alchemical Flux has been increased.

Adjusted the stats on;

Gown of the Hearth (was missing 1 stat, added it to INT), added small spellpower bonus as a placeholder.
Charred Guardian’s Cuirass (shuffled stats to add +4 WIS to shift the item towards Cleric usage, to align with class armor usability goals based on level). Added 2 Spell Power as a placeholder stat to be replaced by a specific damage type bonus later.
Garnet-Studded Emberlinks (Reduced charisma, added it elsewhere and 1 additional missing point)
Crystalline Plate Helm (Reduced CHA by 1, increased WIS by 1), added small spellpower bonus as a placeholder.
Increased item level of the Investigator rings and added some extra stat(s). The spell power bonuses on the caster and priest version are placeholder until we get specific healing and damage type bonuses available.
Headband of Woven Crystal has had its INT bonus moved to CON, and the spell crit removed since no Monk abilities use them now.
Corrected the AC value on Frosthowl Raider Greaves (slight increase)
Spear of Endless Frost now has +2 STR, +27 crit rating, +27 hit rating.
Frost Rimmed Shield AC value removed, block value reduced to correct amount
Increased the DEX and STA on the Crystalline Coat to account for the freebie CHA stat points since its a pretty coat
Shifted CHA to CON on Crystalline Legplates
Added SHM to list of classes for Scepter of Smoldering Symbols
Increased CON and WIS by 1 on the Emberweave Ceremonial Shawl

Quests

The quest item that can be acquired from the final encounter in the Ashbreathers Enclave will now be granted to all players who meet the quest pre-requisites and are in the room when the encounter is defeated.
A visual effect will now display on the ember braziers in the Ashbreathers Enclave while the cooldown for their associated NPC is in effect.

Crafting

Armorsmithing

The schematic for Asherium Chain Links, which is required by some work orders, is now available for purchase on the armorsmith trainer.

Classes

Addressed numerous stacking issues for buffs/debuffs, still more issues to resolve, but feel free to submit any that are still stacking or not stacking properly.
Long duration buffs changed from 45 min to 60 min durations

Cleric

Greater Resurrection should now be on the correct bar and properly resurrect allies.
Channelling Ward now removes properly after casting from the undead line
Added new ranks to the Luminous Surge/Burst line starting at level 32
Normalized most buff durations to 60 minutes

Dire Lord

Thresh stacks from different players
Corrupt Blood V now adds a provoking phantom stack and listed in the codex as level 41

Druid

Hirode’s Flame V added to vendors (level 50)
Hirode’s Flame checks for distance at the start of cast, rather than the end to prevent failures due to minor range changes. Larger distance gaps will still cause the spell to fail (10+ meters).
Verdanfire direct damage line damage increased slightly, mana cost increased. Fixed an issue where cooldown wasn’t being shared among ranks.
Verdanfire Pilum added to vendors (level 48)

Enchanter

Normalized most buff durations to 60 minutes

Monk

Martial Prowess added to vendors
Flurry changed back to DEX scaling
Double Dragon emerges chi cast cost removed, 5 second cooldown added
Precision Hand Strike resist stacking fixed
Updated Side Kick retaliation durations on scrolls

Necromancer

Normalized most buff durations to 60 minutes

Paladin

Wrathful Aegis stacks from multiple Paladins
Fixed a bug that prevented technique use with certain weapons equipped (please report any outliers).
Incite increased threat window for all players during the buff window removed

Ranger

Beckon Grizzly and Beckon Panther now require line of sight to the target.
Kaylen’s Command and Withdraw now require the target to be within 25 meters.

Rogue

Increased level scaling damage modifier on toxins

Shaman

Grip of the Crags and Gale Strider should now be correctly listed as level 22 abilities in the codex.
Normalized most buff durations to 60 minutes

Summoner

Mana Pins properly applies debuff

Warrior

Strike of Breaking stacking rules cleaned up
Strike of Breaking IV debuff fixed. Rank 4 debuff applies 35% armor reduction (down from 40%).
Banner of Warding decreases spell damage by 10/15/20 per rank and increases melee damage by 10/15/20 down from 10/20/30.
Taunt increased threat window for all players during the buff window removed

Wizard

Arcane Brand properly applies debuff
Hot, Chilled, Electrified last for 60 seconds and no longer remove each other.

Build 0.16.876

Released: July 17, 2025

General

– The vendor-bought class traits every 5 levels now increase all attributes by +1

Bug Fixes

Alchemical flasks now require your target to be within line of sight and within range to use.
Some Ashbreathers armor pieces that weren’t displaying when equipped on some races should now show up.

Items

Braided Needle damage reduced to reflect its actual item rarity (it was incorrectly marked as a higher rarity).
Dark Runed Gauntlets updated, and now have their correct total stats as well (+hit changed to +parry, +dex changed to +int, 1 additional stamina added).
Updated Rotten Flesh Fistwraps to the new damage/stat values.

Class

Dire Lord

Blood Bath added to vendors.

Build 0.16.867

Released: July 16, 2025

General

Ashbreather’s Enclave Part 2 has been added

Bug Fixes

The Chilled to the Bone effect should now properly affect the enemy NPC instead of the player.
The Blackbark Scimitar is now properly treated as a sword for purposes of weapon damage.
Fixed an issue where feign death was failing when used while out of combat.
Monks will no longer automatically stand back up when feign death fails.
Fixed an issue with feign death where the player was getting notified that their enemies had forgotten about them before the enemies had returned to their normal routines.
Crowd Control immunity windows now begin at application, rather than when the duration completes.
Fixed some issues that happened in certain cases with quests that required the player to click on an object in the world, including the quest “Echoes of the Corrupted”.
Fixed an issue where a player who died in lava could die again after releasing to their bind location.

NPCs

Master Bushu now has a proper placeholder on a normal respawn cycle
Siphon Life healing amount reduced
Mass Drain Blood healing amount reduced
Ashbreathers NPC’s have remembered how to Critically hit
NPC Concentrating (Silence/Interrupt) and Rallied (CC immunity) buff icons changed to improve readability
White Wyvern is slightly more menacing, traits disabled
NPC health increased

World

Mining Nodes, Woodcutting Nodes, and Food, Alchemy, and Fiber Harvesting Nodes have been activated for the Path of Tears region in Avendyr’s Pass.

Items

General Itemization

You may notice that some items have shifted their stat focus. This is being done so that we can offer both a more balanced array of stats for characters according to our new approach, and alternative choices as more loot is converted to the new system, and more new items are added as well.

Shields

Shields are undergoing a major overhaul. The intention of these changes is to make their passive potency lower, so that more of their power lies in abilities that can be used with them.
They will no longer provide passive AC
They will usually carry some form of resistance bonus, often thematic (fire/cold/shock, or curse/poison/disease, etc)
We evaluated the potency of shields and found that it was very far out of line, most notably for Tower and Kite shields. Block ratings and values have been heavily reduced across the board.

Weapon Damage

Weapon damage was greatly increased in many cases. We evaluated the way that they were scaling up and found it to be in serious need of revision.

Armor Class

We have revised our armor totals and scaling. Cloth, leather and martial cloth will stay fairly close to where they are now. Chain will see the largest boost to mitigation at higher levels, but we’ve also boosted heavy and light plate amounts as well.

Neck slot accessories

Necklace slots were previously giving +9 to a resist at most when present – this has been reduced to the same as the other slots, which is +4. This was done to make room for adding in resistances on other slots here and there, as well as offering resistances on shields as more of a standard.
Most rare+ items in the 20-45 range have been updated. The uncommon items from the Ashbreathers areas have as well.
“haste rating” has been removed from items. We are currently reviewing our plans for that stat and it will come back eventually.
The activated effect for the Warmonger’s totem should now work properly, and the same effect should no longer be available on the Band of Battle. We really mean it this time.
Adjusted drop chances for the rarer gear drops on Ashbreathers NPCs. They should show up more often now.
Temporarily replaced crafting drops from Ashbreathers NPCs with items that are the same as what will eventually be craftable. These items will remain in the loot table until crafting is available in this level range and they can be created as intended. Once that happens, the items will be removed from the loot table, but you will still keep the dropped version.
Cursed Soot-Caked Blade and Smolder, Crush and Sunder have had their item levels (affecting damage) adjusted to be closer to the NPCs that drop them.
Most items from Ashbreathers that had negative stats have had them removed, and their stat totals adjusted accordingly.
A new version of the Dark Silk Shawl is now in the loot table and replaces the previous one. The old one will no longer drop, but if you had it before this patch, you’ll keep that version of it.
Fixed name for the new Monk leggings from Hanggore
Added a new rare baton for Monks somewhere in Thronefast.
Updated tooltip for Smolder, Crush and Sunder to indicate the proc effect.
The Cinder Flecked Gi and Singed Steelsilk Shawl should now show visuals when equipped.

Quests

Updated the final objective for the quest “Bones that should not stir” to clarify that the quest item needs to be unequipped before the quest can be turned in.
The remainder of the primary quest line for the Ashbreathers Enclave has been activated.

Classes

Mana regeneration rates have been adjusted.
Players now regenerate the same amount of mana in and out of combat.
A cap has been placed on the scaling for mana regen per tick from resting.
The time it takes to for resting mana regen ticks to ramp up to the maximum amount of mana per tick has been reduced.
The initial and ramp up regen values now increase with level.

Cleric

Added new resurrection ability, “Greater Resurrection”, at level 48.

Dire Lord

Arcane Tear is now usable even if stronger resist debuffs are active, debuff will not apply/stack
Arcane Tear now provides 5 to all resists at rank 1, and 10 to all resists at rank 2. Debuff remains 10/20. Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds.
Thresh ranks 1-5 added to vendor. Single target bleed that scales with Stamina for 200 Essence.
Splatter now spreads Thresh and grants additional threat. Cooldown increased to 30 seconds.
Blood State: Nightmarish now grants 5 to all resists when active. Threat increased to 20% of all damage.
Blood State: Torrential Veins increases Essence gain by 25%, Constitution removed
Blood State: Blood Bath added to vendors. Increases Physical and Magical Critical Hit Chance by 5%, heal for 20% of Critical hit damage dealt.
Blood Fiend healing modifier when a target is bleeding removed, passive healing reduced.
Essence Harvester ticks changed to 2 seconds; amount of Essence gained from Intellect increased.
Devour lines stacking rules fixed. You can now apply different drains and have the stats stack but no longer stack multiple of the same drain.
Lifetap line bonus threat removed
Vital Cage restores 200 Essence on successful absorption, duration reverted to 2 seconds (off GCD)
Provoking Phantoms threat increased, threat per stack increased. Max stacks reduced to 10.
Dark Revenge added to vendors at level 12

Druid

Temporarily removed Line of Sight check from Hirode’s Flame and Lasso, ranges reduced. Lasso cooldown increased to 30 seconds.
Added new resurrection ability, “Lifebloom”, at level 48.

Enchanter

Illusion Graft haste line cooldown removed
The Whisper line now improves the target’s resting Mana regen rate instead of their passive Mana regen rate. The amount of resting Mana regen per rank has been increased compared to the amount of the former passive Mana regen. The highest ranks of the Whisper line now increase resting Mana regen AND passive Mana regen rates.
Added two new ranks of the Whisper line at level 40 and level 50.
Expose cost reduced to 1000 Readiness (upgrade from Force)

Monk

Gate of Balance obtained at level 5
Gate of Soul obtained at level 10
Gate of Anger obtained at level 15
Elbow Strike and Wheel Kick are disabled
Side Kick replaces Wheel Kick at level 8. Additional ranks added at 18 (Hook Kick), 28 (Crescent Kick), 38 (Wheel Kick) and 48 (Gale Kick). Passive proc is always active. Effect of the kick is determined by which gate is open.
Back Hand replaces Elbow Strike at level 10. Additional ranks added at 20 (Ridge Hand), 30 (Hammer Fist), 40 (Dragon Claw) and 50 (Burning Hand). Passive proc is always active. Effect of the hit is determined by which gate is open.
Side Kick and Back Hand have varying effects based on which gate is open
Chi Spear cooldown fixed to share properly among ranks. Changed from Nature to Physical damage.
Blazing Hand Punch changed to Soaring Dragon. Stat scaling increased. Soaring Dragon now grants increased Strength for a short time after use.
Gates no longer have a shared cooldown. Activated a new gate will close the previous gate automatically.
Wandering Fist no longer has gate interactions. 250 Chi cost, 15 second cooldown, deals physical damage scaling with AGI. If used within 6 seconds of a dodge, parry, or block it does increased damage.
Flurry damage normalized (reduced)
Harmonious Frame Chi cost removed
Added new innate passive ability ‘Martial Prowess’ at level 1. “Devoted martial training has improved your reflexes, increasing your innate chance to Block by 5%.”
Added new ability ‘Iron Lotus’ at level 14. “Sacrifice your Strength, Constitution and Wisdom by 30% to increase your Stamina by 30% and your Health by a flat amount.”
Added new ability ‘Enraged Dragon’ at level 15. “Unleash a powerful burst of Chi (Physical) towards your target, causing immense threat. This threat decays over the next 5 seconds.”
Added new ability line ‘Chi Storm’ starting at level 18. “Release a surge of Chi energy, dealing Chi (Physical) damage to all enemies within 8m.”
Added new ability ‘Double Dragon Emerges’ at level 22. “Slowly consume Chi to empower your fists, granting your auto attacks a chance to release a surge of Chi (Physical) damage.”

Necromancer

Shroud of Undeath health drain reduced
Expose cost reduced to 1000 Readiness (upgrade from Force)

Paladin

Fixed a bug with Wrathful Aegis and Fervent Strike cooldowns not being shared among ranks if used in a certain order
Lightguard has a 2 second duration to match the other reactive tank skills
Faithful Strike Wisdom scaling increased, healing multiplier removed

Ranger

Rangers now have a proper Mana pool that scales with level and Wisdom.
Increased the stack size of Trap Parts from 20 to 30.
Improved the yield amounts of certain foraged items depending on the zone.
Beckon Panther damage increased.
Predator’s Fury damage bonus fixed to scale properly with target’s health.
Fixed an issue where Swiftshot damage was gaining additional weapon contributions.
Cleaned up some ranged abilities that were still using primary weapon damage calculations.
Moved ground and flying scout to Utility bar.
Added additional rank of the Fractal Arrow line at level 38, ‘Shattering Arrow’.
Converted Faerie healing line from direct healing to HoTs. Increased Mana cost to align with new Mana pool.
Added new spell line ‘Brightfire Spark’ starting at level 10. “Strike an enemy with a spark of druidic magic, dealing Nature damage.”
Added additional ranks of Moonrose Balm starting at level 22.
Added new ability line related to foraging ‘Wild Hyacinth Draught’ starting at level 14. “Create a refreshing draught that restores 15 Momentum and quenches a small amount of thirst. Requires Wild Hyacinth which can be found by foraging in certain zones.”
Added new ability line related to foraging ‘Liquid Camouflage’ starting at level 24. “Create a mixture made from the iridescent oil of the Phosfila beetle. Coating yourself in this mixture will render you invisible to most non-magical creatures for up to 1 min. After using this ability, you will not be able to camouflage again for 3 min. Requires Phosfila Beetle Oil which can be found by foraging in certain zones.”
Added new ability ‘Aspect of the Wolf’ at level 25. “Imbue the aspect of the wolf into your target, increasing their movement speed while active. This movement speed bonus will scale with your level.”

Shaman

Added new resurrection ability, “Rite of Awakening”, at level 48.

Summoner

Arcane Rod now properly applies Vulnerable and uses Exposed
Arcamental Bond can be used on either pet

Warrior

Strike of Breaking is now usable even if stronger AC debuffs are active, debuff will not apply
Mighty Yaulp and Furious Howl BP cost removed
Mighty Yaulp tooltip fixed that it applies heavy threat (not taunt). Threat generated increased.
Cleave and Brutal Cleave BP cost reduced to 2
Disarming Strike can be cast while silenced
Shield Block removed from GCD

Gathering

Nameplates for gathering nodes are no longer shown in the world. You can still see the name of a gathering node by positioning your mouse over the object.
Apple trees in Thronefast and Avendyr’s Pass now look much more like actual apple trees. Note that when gathering from these trees, a woodcutting animation will play, but the tree will not fall when woodcutting finishes. The animation for gathering from fruit/nut trees will be adjusted in a future update.
Apple trees in Wild’s End have also been adjusted as described above, but have a unique appearance that is appropriate for their environment.
Walnut trees and Ash trees in Wild’s End now have a new coloration to better match their environment.
Coloring for gatherable Maple trees in Thronefast and Avendyr’s Pass has been adjusted.
The visual model for Vine Maple trees in Wild’s End has been adjusted to a more appropriate look for the vibrant jungle in which they are found.

Crafting

General

Nameplates for crafting stations are no longer shown in the world. You can still see the name of a crafting station by positioning your mouse over the object.
Crafting stations throughout Terminus have received updated visual appearances and should now be much easier to locate and identify wherever they appear.
Crafting stations have been consolidated so that most professions now utilize a single primary crafting station. Cooking and Brewing stations are still separate, and the Smelter is still a separate station from the Forge.
Slight adjustments have been made to the positioning of props and NPCs in Availia and Demith to accommodate the new crafting stations.
A second set of crafting stations has been added to Availia, Demith, Sorhiryth, Kingswatch, Sky Durbin, and the Port of Ru’lun.

Known Issues

A strange parasitic fungus has caused tufts of grass around the world to occasionally glow brightly in very rare circumstances. Scholars and Sages who have studied the phenomenon have assured us that there is no danger to adventurers from these strangely glowing plants, and that the fungus should die off soon rather than spread. (This is a visual-only issue with a specific plant model and will be resolved in a future update).