Spotlight Features and Major Updates

Summer Medleyfaire Event

Amidst the tragedy and violence of Aeternum, a Medleyfaire Maestro has declared it’s time to party away your woes! Summer Villages have been erected in Brightwood, Everfall, Weaver’s Fen, and Monarch’s Bluffs. Raise your reputation with the Maestro through quests, catching fish like the famed Aeternum Sturgeon with Maudlinbugs, and more to net special holiday rewards. You can even frame your favorite catches for your home at new Mount-A-Catch stations found in every village! Come let loose and celebrate life on the island of Eternal Life!

Musical Instruments

Musical Instruments are a rhythm-action based trade skill coming to Aeternum that make the world a stage! There are 5 instruments for players to pick up and learn, plus an initial 31 songs to collect and master! You can play solo, or as a group with up to 5 Adventurers. These musical instruments include:

• Guitar
• Mandolin
• Upright Bass
• Drums
• Azoth Flute

Songs are unlocked by salvaging pages hidden throughout Aeternum. Complete the Summer Medleyfaire quests to earn a special set of pages and starter instruments. Better instruments can be crafted through the Furnishing trade skill. Furnishing can also roll new Music trade skill specific perks.

Press the F5 key to initiate a performance. Each one will reward players with trade skill XP and various buffs. Better performances receive stronger buffs and more trade skill XP. Spectators enjoying the show will also receive a buff and can toss a coin to the performers as a tip.

More buffs unlock as your trade skill XP increases. The buffs (in order of progression) are:

• Decidedly Dexterous: Gathering Speed increases by 75% for 30-90min.
• Territorial Triumph: Territory Standing Bonus increases by 10%-30% for 30-90min.
• All Together Now: Group Character XP Sharing Bonus increases by 4%-15% for 30-90min.
• Song in your Step: Reduces Player Encumbrance by 200-1,000 for 30-90min.
• Fortune’s Favor: Gathering Yield increases by 3%-10% for 30-90min.
• Luck’s Labor: Gathering Luck increases by 2% - 5% for 30-90min.

Barnacles & Black Powder

A dark tide rises in Aeternum with the arrival of Admiral Blackpowder and his dastardly crew! Quest givers in the Cutlass Keys settlement and the new docks on the territory’s eastern shore will be looking to offer you loot and renown for defeating the despicable evil within the new Barnacles & Black Powder expedition.

Rumors suggest there might be an even greater power within the Admiral’s hold. Not to mention, more than meets the eye… as with most things in Aeternum, of course. Barnacles & Black Powder is an endgame expedition. The entrance can be found at the small docks in south east Cutlass Keys.

• Expedition Mutators
  • Barnacles & Black Powder will be mutated 2 weeks after it releases into the live game.
  • 3 new mutations will also join the mutation rotation!
    • Icebound: A mutation that focuses on Ice elemental effects related to incoming and outgoing damage. It can also apply Slow status effects!
    • Oppressive: A promotion set that includes mana drains and zones of silence, which prevent ability usage for a short period of time.
    • Frenzied: This variant applies Curses to players that dodge. Curses stack and deal damage over time. Max stacks also damage nearby allies.

Expedition Enhancements

New quality of life features have been introduced to alleviate some points of friction for our expedition explorers!

Expedition Group Finder (Same World)

Finding a group to run expeditions with while solo isn’t always easy when you need to ask through Chat. So we are excited to release our first version of the Group Finder tool for expeditions! With this feature, you’ll be able to access a specific Group Finder for each expedition (accessed through expedition entrance UI or related expedition map icons), browse listings created by other players, or post your own request. The tool allows players to declare their preferred team role — such as DPS, Tank, or Healer — and recruit based on those roles. You can also set minimum Gear Score and Level, then inspect members to learn their average GS, weapons, and mastery levels.

Expedition Tuning Orb Removal

In this update, we’ve removed Expedition Turning Orbs and replaced them with daily limits for Normal and Weekly mutated expedition runs to make all expeditions easier to access. This new system features:

• 15 Normal Expedition Runs per player per day or 105 per week, per player.
• 25 Mutated Expedition Runs per week.

For concerned players, this is how we plan on introducing it after the PTR:

In order to honor the value you’ve put into acquiring existing Tuning Orbs, any orbs in your inventory upon the update will be replaced with caches that give loot appropriate for their expedition. While you won’t get a full run’s worth of coin and drops, the rolls will include boss drops for weapons and armor in addition to opportunities for Expertise bumps.

• For Normal expeditions, caches will reward a roll from the sub-boss and main boss found in that specific expedition, and grant coin equal to 50% the cost previously associated with buying that specific type of orb from the Faction Shop.
• For Mutated expeditions, caches will reward 4 boss rolls off the final boss of 4 eligible mutators, and coin equal to 50% the cost previously associated with buying that specific type of orb from the Faction Shop.

More details can be found below.

Loot Rebalance

With the accessibility changes to expeditions, we’ve moved roughly 80% of coin generated from expedition bosses and have instead spread it out to coin drops from elite chests and darkness breaches completion bonuses to help compensate for the reduction. Twice a day, players can loot elite chests in the open world or complete minor or major darkness breaches to earn a bag of coins. Each bag contains 500 coins.

Along with that, we have introduced a new method to help the player overcome the randomness of Expedition Loot. Materia is a new type of resource , Materia, that can be used to craft your desired drop. There are two ways to obtain this resource. Any named item obtained from an expedition can now be salvaged into Materia of its corresponding expedition type (Amrine Materia, Depths Materia etc.). The player will also receive Materia when defeating the main boss of an expedition.

Mutator Loot Shift

We’ve shifted the difficulty levels at which loot unlocks. The system was originally intended to give players a sense of rewarding progression as they play through the different difficulty levels — which it did accomplish — but the lower levels didn’t feel particularly good due to sparse rewards. We’ve therefore changed what items unlock at which difficulty level, which should result in a wider variety of lower level rewards. No loot has been removed, as specific items have shifted to unlock at different brackets and in certain groups.

We’ve also added another accessory to each mutator. Previously, each mutator dropped 2 of the 3 types of accessory. Now every mutator can drop all available types.

Instanced Wars

Previously while one or more wars were ongoing, server performance could become degraded. This could result in latency spikes for players in the war and surrounding areas of Aeternum. We have rearchitected the underlying technology for wars and are happy to report that wars should no longer pose risk of such a drastic negative performance impact to participants nor the world around them!

Loot, Perks, and Trade Skills

Note that all tuning values on the PTR are still in flux and may change before retail release into the live game. Please experiment, have fun, and send us your feedback!

Perk Rebalance

We have examined the meta and its issues impacting endgame viability. With this update we adjusted over 150 perks to help make them more useful and competitive compared to the best perks in the game. Skill-specific weapon perks are now more powerful, with some receiving substantial rework to be more viable. For example, we buffed the Durability perk and renamed it to “Indestructible” because players will no longer take durability damage when it is equipped.

We also tweaked how perks are calculated in order to provide players with more options for better perk combinations. For example, the trade skill drop chance on earrings now has a very low drop chance on drops to increase the combat focused perks players get from earrings. These perks can still be controlled via crafting using their specific craft mods to make specific items.

Dual Stat Change

In order to improve the quality of crafted and looted items, we’ve made some changes to dual stat attribute combinations. We’ve changed the scaling of the primary stat to scale higher, giving these stats larger impact. We’ve also made a number of changes to the 50 threshold bonuses to encourage more stat splitting across all builds. This is a very experimental change and we are looking for feedback through the PTR to evaluate the balance and impact of these changes before going live.

Loot Quality

The overall quality of drops has been improved based on player/expertise level. That means at level 60, players should earn more Epic and Rare loot than Uncommon loot. The Epic and Legendary loot also have a higher chance of receiving more viable stat combinations (e.g. increased chances for Keen, lower chances for Beast Bane). Perks that roll are all still random for non-named items, but players should see better combinations of perks overall. We’ve also improved the chances that higher Gear Score items can drop from lower level creatures, giving a small chance 600 Gear Score items can come from level 59+.

Bonus Loot Drops

The loot players rolled from Gypsum Casts were not very rewarding, so we improved the likelihood that you’ll roll Epic and Rare loot. We’ve also increased the range at which Expertise can be gained off these rolls.

Perfect Salvage

We heard the feedback, and recognize that salvage became much less interesting at endgame. With this update we made salvaging more rewarding through the introduction of Perfect Salvages. Whenever you salvage an item you will now have a chance to perform a Perfect Salvage. Perfect Salvages can reward players with the following:

• Research materials (such as weapon scraps) that can be used to gain crafting trade skill experience.
• Special orbs that can be converted into gypsum casts which bypass the normal daily limit.
• Materials to fabricate special items.
• Other valuable resources.

Trade Skill Changes

Improvements to trade skills are being made to reduce friction and speed up leveling for many Gathering, Refining, and Crafting trade skills:

Gathering

• Reduced Logging XP required to level from 1 to 50 by 15%.
• Reduced Logging XP required to level from 51 to 200 by 20%.
• Reduced Fishing XP required to level from 1 to 200 by 50%.

Refining

• We are removing tiers from reagents (Tannins, Fluxes, Sandpapers, Weaves, and Solvents). Our goal is to simplify these to a single tier, giving them the potency of T5 reagents to help players progress trade skills more efficiently and reduce the friction of converting reagents. Plus, remove the confusion around what tier of reagent to apply when crafting.
• Reduced Leatherworking XP required to level from 1 to 200 by 10%.
• Reduced Smelting XP required to level from 1 to 200 by 10%.
• Reduced Weaving XP required to level from 1 to 200 by 15%.
• Reduced Woodworking XP required to level from 1 to 200 by 15%.
• Reduced Stonecutting XP required to level from 1 to 200 by 20%.

Crafting

• Improving the trade skill XP on tier 4 and tier 5 crafted items for all skills.
• Reduced furnishing XP required to level from 1 to 200 by 20%.
• Reducing the trade skill XP required for Weaponsmithing and Furnishing for levels 1-200 (not yet in this build).

Crafting, Gathering & Refining Clothing

• We’ve rebalanced the drop chance and locations of all trade skill clothing to better improve their availability.

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Please note that this list is not all encompassing and is intended as an early look into a number of changes included within the most recent PTR build. This change list will be regularly updated, up through retail release of the game version.

Combat/AI

General

• Adjusted healing flyout numbers to no longer be limited to if the healing is greater than 5% of your HP. They are now manually set based on what is preferred.
• Set all persistent healing status effects that are either small ticks of healing, or inactive healing to not show healing number flyouts.
• Health display will no longer show 0 if player is still alive.
• Increased the number of decimal places shown in a weapon’s Critical Damage Multiplier tooltip so that Fire Staff and Blunderbuss can display their correct multipliers.
• Reduce stamina damage increase from the 150 Strength Attribute Bonus from 50% → 25%. Also limited the Attribute Bonus to only apply to light attacks.
• Updated the 200 Constitution Attribute Bonus to also increase elemental armor by 10%. Now increases physical and elemental armor by 10%.
• Updated tooltip for the 250 Dexterity Attribute Bonus to indicate that it only triggers on random critical hits.
• Removed 1s mana regeneration delay that triggers when mana is consumed.
• Removed stamina regeneration while in a jump.
• Allowed stamina regeneration when rolling after landing from a jump.
• Made several updates to the revive animation (does not apply to reviving a downed player inside of a duel):
  • Added invulnerability frames while a player is standing up after being revived to help prevent them from being killed before they have control of their character.
  • Fixed an issue where the cancel window was not functioning properly so players were stuck in the animation longer than intended.
  • Reduced the recovery cancel window from 45 frames → 30 frames. Previously, this did not function properly and would only allow a player to transition out after the animation was complete at around 50-60 frames.
• Updated descriptions for several weapon abilities to specify that they grant Grit:
  • Blunderbuss: Blast Shot
  • Great Axe: Maelstrom (“No Reprieve” upgrade)
  • Sword/Shield: Defiant Stance, Shield Bash, Shield Rush
  • Warhammer: Clear Out, Shockwave, Wrecking Ball

Notable Fixes

• Fixed a bug where projectiles may sometimes land behind the player.
• Fixed an issue where if a player stood in place after dodging while a reload was pending for the Musket/Blunderbuss, there would be an additional delay before the reload started again.
• Fixed an issue when transitioning from prone to stand while moving forward would play the incorrect weapon run animation.
• Fixed an issue where certain attacks could trigger the “Paranoia” effect on the attacking AI when blocked with specific weapons.
• Fixed an issue where players could respec Berserk and Ice Gauntlet while active, resulting in the cooldowns being permanently stuck for on the player. Activating these two abilities will now trigger the combat state to prevent respecs.
• Fixed an issue where various abilities that spawned an entity not scaling gem perk and other status effect damage properly if the damage was triggered via the entity. (Sticky Bomb, Azoth Shrapnel Blast, etc.)
• Fixed an issue with stuns not being removed on hit taken from various player attacks. (Like Flamethrower, Windchill, etc)
• Fixed desyncs that could occur after getting stunned.
• Fixed an issue with animation pausing when sheathing Sword/Shield while starting to run.
• Fixed an issue where luck bonuses were being applied from inactive weapons.
• Fixed a rare issue where sometimes magic spells effects would appear to jump around on the ground.
• Fixed an issue that caused players to stop moving if they ran into a loot bag while their inventory was open.

Perks

• Fixed “Shirking Empower” not properly refreshing when re-applied, and being improperly labeled as a debuff instead of a buff.
• Fixed a bug where status effect reduction perks would not activate properly with multiple perks. (Freedom, Vigor, and Invigorated)
• Fixed an issue where generic weapon perks could trigger while using the “Finger Guns” emote.
• Fixed an issue that allowed the “Duplicating Toast” perk prevented the Topaz Gypsum Attunement Potion from being consumed.
• Fixed an issue where the “Mortal Empowerment” perk was being removed while traversing the open world.
• Fixed an issue where the “Mortal Empowerment” perk was not triggering properly when loading into game modes, such as 3v3 Arenas or OPR.
• Fixed an issue where the “Sturdy Energy” perk can be applied and remain active while the player was exhausted. Updated tooltip to describe intended functionality.
• Fixed an issue where the “Vicious” perk was not applying properly to headshots.
• Fixed an issue with the “Evasive” perk not reporting accurate information in the status effect tooltip and flyout.
• Fixed an issue with the “Shirking Energy” perk being able to be placed on heavy Leg Armor, resulting in the perk not being able to function.
• Replaced the “Shirking Energy” perk on all existing heavy Leg Armor with the “Flame Conditioning” armor perk instead, due to the above bug correction.
• Updated description of the “Resupplying Mortar Charge” perk to specify that it will not activate after the final mortar shot is fired.
• Updated description of the following perks to specify that they do not trigger on blocked hits:
  • Refreshing Ward
  • Stamina Recovery
  • Mana Recovery
  • Purity
  • Fortified Recovery
  • Siphoning
  • Siphoning Blow
• Updated description of “Arboreal Attunement” to specify that it does not increase the damage of persistent or Damage over Time effects.
• Fixed a typo with the “Steel Great Axe Charm” perk.
• Fixed an issue where several buffs were not properly labeled, resulting in them not properly triggering the damage increase for the “Invigorating Punishment” Perk.

Weapons

Blunderbuss

• Fixed an issue where activating and deactivating mortar charge without firing a shot would trigger the Unload ultimate. It will now only trigger the unload ultimate upon exiting mortar charge after firing a shot.
• Fixed a text issue with the buff applied by Unload (Ultimate).

Bow

• Added a cancel window to the “Rapid Shot” ability to allow users to dodge cancel out of of the ability after the first shot as long as they are not actively firing the subsequent shots.
• Added ability for player to zoom in the camera when using the “Rapid Shot” and “Explosive Arrow” abilities.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent dodge canceling while reloading if you were exiting ADS.
• Fixed an issue where Bow would leave ADS while rapidly shooting in settlements.
• Fixed an issue where “Archer’s Speed” passive effect was not being removed when the bow was sheathed.
• Fixed an issue where “Rapid Shot” and “Explosive Arrow” abilities had too long of a duration between when the cooldown was triggered and the active frames started.
• Reduced “Poison Shot’s” “Direct Hit” passive’s damage from 150% → 100%.
• Removed stagger from “Penetrating Shot”.
• The “Splinter Shot” ability has had a complete rework and is now “Explosive Arrow”:
  • Explosive Arrow - Fire an arrow that will explode on impact dealing 50% weapon damage on hit, and an additional 125% damage to all targets within a 2.5m radius.
  • Flame Arrow - Direct Explosive Arrow hits inflict Burn, dealing 8% weapon damage every second for 10s.
  • Contained Detonation - Explosion damage increased to 150% damage, but AOE radius is decreased to 1.5m.
  • Updated the Empowering Splinter Shot Perk text to state Empowering Explosive Arrow, functionality for the perk remains the same.“

Fire Staff

• Fixed an issue where the “Efficient Burnout” perk was triggering even if the “Burnout” ability was interrupted.
• Increase initial impact of Meteor Shower from 34% to 75%. Description updated to clarify 0.75s tick rate.
• Judgment of Helios: Increase damage from 30% to 40%.

Great Axe

• Fixed an issue where the “Charge” ability would detect targets behind the player and trigger the auto attack.
• Fixed an issue where “Insatiable Gravity Well” was dealing the incorrect damage type.
• Fixed an issue where “Mauler’s Fury” (Ultimate) was not triggering properly if a player had a “Slash Damage” perk on a ring.
• Fixed an issue where the passive “Gravity Well” tooltip had unused space at the bottom of the window.
• “Gravity Well” now pulls downed players to the center of the ability upon cast.

Hatchet

• Fixed an issue where hatchet light attacks were sometimes causing desyncs.
• Extended the subsequent hatchet light attack hitboxes to make them more in line with the first hit to make the light attack chain more consistent.
• Fixed the “Infected Throw Mortal Power” tooltip showing incorrect values.
• Made a number of Hatchet Throwing skill tree updates:
  • General
    • Allowed all throws to no longer need a passive unlocked to be able to crit
    • Slightly reduced block stamina damage on all thrown attacks
    • Adjusted placement of the hatchets as they are thrown to be more in line with the player character and reticle.
  • Rending Throw
    • Increase base dmg from 110% to 120%
  • Targeted Impact upgrade
    • Updated functionality to extend the duration of the rend by 4s instead of increasing power.
    • Decreased the distance required to trigger from 8m to 6m
  • Social Distancing
    • Increased dodge back distance
    • Added a stagger to Distancing Throw
    • Reduced damage from 130% to 100%
    • Slightly Increased iframes during backwards dodge
    • Updated tooltip to indicated the ability had invulnerability frames.
    • Increased base slow effectiveness from 15% for 3s to 25% for 5s.
  • Quick Power upgrade
    • Adjusted values from 30% for 3s to 20% for 6s
  • Stay back upgrade
    • Updated functionality to root players for 1s if target is farther than 6m away.
  • Infected Throw
    • Sped up Infected Throw attack animation
    • Increase dmg from 150% to 165%
    • Increased the speed of the thrown projectile.
  • Mortal Power
    • Increased HP requirement to trigger from 30% to 50%
  • Aimed Throw
    • Updated to not interfere with movement when throwing
    • Increased movement speed while aiming from 1.65 to 2.25 (Also what the throw move speed is)
    • Improved cancel windows when transitioning from throw into abilities to match standard light attack cancels. (3 frames after throw fragment starts)
    • Increase dmg from 95% to 100%
    • Removed stamina cost of throws.
    • Increased the speed of the thrown projectile.
  • Passives
    • Critical Throws
      • Updated it so all throws can perform crits by default, this passive is no longer required.
      • Updated passive to grant a 5% crit chance on all melee attacks, and 10% crit chance on all ranged attacks.
    • On Fire
      • No longer requires Critical Throw to unlock
    • Rejuvenating Crits
      • No longer requires Critical Throw to unlock
    • Exploitation
      • Reduced damage bonus from passive from 15% to 10%.
      • “Boot and Rally” renamed to “Hurling Force”
      • Reworked to increase damage of all throws based on how far away the target is from the player.
      • Up to a max of 20% dmg at 20 meters and beyond.
    • Persistent Hindrance
      • Reduced debuff extension time from 30% to 20%
      • Updated to also deal 3% additional dmg per debuff on the target, up to a max of four debuffs.“
    • Adrenaline Rush
      • Now triggers off a hit with an ability instead of on ability activation.

Ice Gauntlet

• Added a 1s cooldown to “Pylon Dodge” upgrade.
• Allowed sprinting when afflicted with “Frostbite”.
• Fixed an issue where “Ultimate Chill” would not trigger when a target was hit with the “Windchill” or “Ice Shower” ability.
• Fixed an issue where gaining haste bonuses would result in “Windchill” being canceled early due to transitioning to a sprint.
• Fixed an issue where “Pylon” consumed mana if it didn’t spawn on cast.
• Fixed an issue where some Damage over Time effects were triggering the “Frozen Touch” passive.
• Fixed a typo in the description of “Ice Shower”.

Life Staff

• Fixed an issue where dodging would not cancel casting “Light’s Embrace” and “Divine Embrace”.
• Fixed an issue where other hotkeys could be assigned to Targeted Healing hotkeys.
• Fixed an issue where the “Protector’s Strength” passive was not showing the correct value; the displayed value was showing as 10% in the tooltip, but is functionally was actually 20%.

Musket

• Fixed a visual discrepancy bug where impact effects for the musket may play on the client even if the server invalidated the client’s shot.
• Fixed an issue with “Shooter Stance” camera not getting reset correctly when entering an Arena.
• Fixed an incorrect idle animation when the character was exhausted.
• Fixed an issue with the shoot action installing earlier than intended after a reload.
• Fixed an issue where shots were firing too soon when entering “Shooter Stance” from a dodge.
• Updated Musket reload to not have to play through the first half of the reload if the reload was interrupted after that portion of the animation played. After being interrupted and completing the first half of a reload, only the 2nd half of reload animation will need to play.

Rapier

• Fixed an issue with “Riposte” taunt’s duration not matching the ability description of 4s.
• Updated the homing on Rapier’s “Flourish” and “Finish” attacks, to match more closely to the ability’s hit areas.

Spear

• Fixed an issue where javelin throws were triggering the incorrect impact effects against various material types.
• Removed pushback from base “Spear Cyclone” ability functionality
• Grit is now on “Spear Cyclone” by default, and is no longer tied to the “Strong Momentum” upgrade.
• The “Strong Momentum” upgrade now has the pushback as an optional upgrade for “Spear Cyclone”.

Sword & Shield

• Fixed an issue where “Defensive Formation” wouldn’t always trigger if you blocked immediately after dodging.
• Fixed an issue where Sword heavy attacks were not obtaining Grit from the 300 Strength Attribute bonus throughout the duration of the attack.
• Updated “Defiance Stance” ability description to match the correct taunt duration of 8s.

Void Gauntlet

• Fixed an issue where the “Empowering Proximity” passive was not being gained if an ability was triggered too quickly after swapping weapons.
• Reduced “Oblivion’s” “Empower” from from 20% → 15%.
• Reduced light attack damage of “Void Blade” from 100% → 90% and heavy attack damage from 150% → 140%.

World AI

• Fixed a bug where Spewspitter (and potentially other AI characters) could spawn inside walls.
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause the Spriggan to become unresponsive.
• Fixed an issue causing Corrupted Hounds not play their stun animation.
• Fixed an issue causing Dryad Shaman’s Rolling Vine spell not to fully reach the player.
• Reduced pushback and reaction on Dryad Shaman’s Overhead Staff Swipe and Projectile attacks.
• Fixed an issue causing Shackled Wraith’s stun status effect to not be removed after subsequent hits.
• Fixed an issue causing Varangian Knight enemies to not properly play directional death animations.
• Fixed the attack types of 2 grenades thrown by the Undead Grenadier — changing them from Light and Heavy to Magic, allowing Rime to proc.
• Updating damage type of the Disease Grenade from Strike to Nature.
• Reduced damage area for Corruption Tendril’s ranged Burrow Attack and added a warning telegraph for the incoming damage.
• Increased the buffer distance for AI to target players outside of the AI’s navigable areas, therefore allowing the AI to more reliably attack players on edges and corners of terrain.

Game Modes

War

• Fort gates now upgrade outside of wars.
• Fixed bug with siege supply generators not working properly in war and invasions.
• Fixed an issue where a company would be able to gain influence during the influence race, and then be eligible to declare war after any subsequent influence race if they did not gain any more influence in the meantime. Companies can only declare war if your company met the influence threshold during the current race and it meets the other eligibility criteria.

Invasion

• Fixed an issue causing invasion brutes to stutter when attacking the invasion claim.
• Fixed an issue where boss AI would sometimes have their animations stuck when attacking the invasion claim.
• Fixed an issue causing the Priest mini boss to sometimes spawn facing sideways.

Outpost Rush

• Changed the mesh on the Protection Ward. The ward should now be much more difficult to hit from outside of the fort walls.
• Fixed a bug where gate structures could have separated interact options when destroyed in the middle of an upgrade.
• Fixed a bug where Protection Wards would prevent a capture point’s capture percentage and would return back to 0 when built in the middle of a capture.
• Increased the width of most fort stairs in forts and fixed collision issues on ramparts. Forts should now be smoother to navigate.
• Reduced the rate at which repeater turrets accumulate heat.
• Reduced the time players must wait prior to repeater turrets losing heat by 10%.
• Sped up the building time of buildables. Minimum build time is now 4s across the board, with the exception of Azoth contribution to the Corruption Portal which remains at 10s.

PvP Arena

We’ve reworked how consumables work in 3v3 Arenas. Instead of granting players consumables upon joining each match, players are now able to bring their own consumables. These consumables are not consumed on use, so players are able to use them as they wish without worrying about the cost associated with the consumable. This will allow highly requested items, like split-attribute food, to be used in 3v3 Arenas.

• For example: If I enter the Arena with 3 health potions and my Dexterity attribute food, consuming these items in the arena will grant me their respective benefits without taking them out of my inventory.

There will not be a limit to how many consumables you can use or how many types of consumables you can use. Provided that you are in the PvP arena, as long as you have that type of consumable, you will be able to use it as many times as you want provided the cooldown is up.

• Invites are now sent by the game mode, instead of a blank player.
• Passive ability perks are now no longer applied for any players who has died in an arena match and in the Spectator Area. Those perks will start working again once the round is over and they respawn for the next round.
• Bag perks will now continue to be functional when watching the remainder of a round from the spectator box, so players are not temporarily encumbered if their item load exceeds their non-perked maximum carry weight.
• Status effects applied by consumables within the open world are now saved when entering the Arena, and restored upon exiting; however, while in the arena match, players won’t receive the benefits of these status effect
• Fixed an issue where players would not receive the special Arena-only consumables if their inventory had too many items.
• Made it so players can not use any abilities that result in extra survivability to reduce damage from the Arenas Ring of Fire.
• Fixed an issue where “Moving to Spectator Box” message displayed for the last player killed on a team in PvP Arenas.
• Fixed an issue where PvP Arena death notifications didn’t state that the Ring of Fire killed the player.
• Fixed various messages that incorrectly referred to Wars when trying to leave PvP Arenas.

Expeditions

Expedition Key Changes & Updates

General

• Standard and Mutated Expeditions no longer require Expedition Tuning Orbs, and as such, they should no longer be acquirable nor their respective materials.

Gold Changes

With the accessibility changes to expeditions, we’ve moved roughly 80% of coin generated from expedition bosses and have instead spread it out to coin drops from elite chests and darkness breach completion bonuses to help compensate for the reduction.

• Reduced coin given from bosses in expeditions by ~80%.
• Added Lost Sack of Coins to darkness breaches and elite chests.
• Each Lost Sack grants 500.00 coins.
• Players can obtain a maximum of 2 Lost Sacks daily, regardless of source.
• Minor Darkness breaches have a 10% chance of dropping a Lost Sack upon completion.
• Major Darkness breaches have a 100% chance of dropping a Lost Sack upon completion.
• Elite chests have a 35% chance to contain a Lost Sack upon being opening.

Expedition Key and Crafting Materials

• Expedition keys and their crafting materials are no longer obtainable, except for breach fragments.
  • We want to keep the different tiers of breach fragment items from breaches for use in crafting — starting with Territory Supplies (detailed under Economy)— that can be crafted at the stonecutting station.
• Expedition keys have been replaced with armament chests.
  • Normal Expedition armaments provide loot rolls on each of the potential bosses from its respected expedition.
  • Mutated Expedition armaments provide loot rolls on each of the final bosses for each expedition that can be mutated at mutation level 7.
  • Mutated Expedition armaments provide 1250 Umbral Shards.
  • All armaments will provide coin value equal to roughly 50% of the equivalent coin cost to purchase expedition orbs from the faction shop.
• The following expedition key crafting materials no longer exist and will be converted into different types of breach fragments.
  • Genesis, Lazarus and Tempest’s Cores will be converted into Corrupted Fragments
  • Undying Hearts, Earth Totems, Corrupted Runes, Molten Runes, and Glowing Spores will be converted into Corrupted Slivers.
  • Blight Seeds will be converted into Corrupted Splinters. This is the only way to obtain Splinters which convert up to Slivers.

Expedition AI

• Fixed an issue causing Captain Thorpe (Restless Shores) to not apply appropriate distance scaling to his Pull-In ability.
• Fixed an issue causing Timeless Shards to not drop from all expedition bosses. Timeless Shards should now be dropping from all end-game expedition bosses, including mutators.

Starstone Barrows

• Fixed an issue that resulted in skeletons spawning outside of the Greundgul arena.

The Depths

• Fixed a lighting issue where the water would sometimes flicker.
• Fixed collision gap at the entrance that allowed players to get out of bounds.
• Fixed an issue where the Carapace blocking the teleporter was not able to take damage from status effects and some AoEs.

Dynasty Shipyard

• Blocked a climbable area which was not intended to be playable.
• Fixed an issue where players could reset AI by climbing onto cliffs in the Eastern Pier area.
• Fixed an issue where the loot from Oro and Joven could become unreachable in the arena cages.
• Fixed an issue where Isabella would fire her pistol in random directions. Will now always fire at a player.
• The Dynasty Maidens’ Dragon Dive attack no longer adjusts aim after the tell, and instead fires straight out from the Maiden.
• Added team wipe ability to Joven and Oro to finish groups that have all fallen to Death’s Door.

Garden of Genesis

• Closed off access to a ledge before the Alluvium Marl fight.
• Fixed an exploit where certain AI were retreating in an unintended way.
• Greenskeeper will no longer target downed players prior to starting their attack sequence.

Lazarus Instrumentality

• “Chardis’ Rolling Hands” is now unblockable.
• Cleaned up the collision on Cilla’s boss arena.
• Fixed an issue where Cilla could wipe a party prematurely
• Adjusted the collision around the broken bridge on Cilla’s arena.
• Fixed an issue where the status “Arcane Rend” could persist after Cilla’s encounter had ended.
• Fixed an exploit where certain AI were retreating in an unintended way.

Tempest Heart

• Finessed and added missing collision throughout Tempest’s Heart.
• Fixed a collision gap in Neishatun’s arena that was causing players to perform a heroic hop movement.
• Removed access to a ledge in the Neishatun arena in Tempest’s Heart that would sometimes allow players to avoid ranged attacks.
• Fixed an issue where the status effect “Corrupted Soul” could persist after Neishatun was defeated.
• Updated name displayed on icon from Corrupted Naga to Corrupted Neishatun.
• Fixed an issue allowing Neishatun to spawn a Corruption Core just before his phase transition.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Neishatun’s mesh to flicker if players were extremely close to him.
• Fixed an issue where some enemies would be auto culled when the Destroy Monolith encounter was completed.
• Improved the Heretic’s visual dialogue.
• Void Tunnel Music now plays ending cue when leaving the Void Tunnel.
• Isabella will no longer stay stuck on players that are body blocking her.
• Fixed a bug where Isabella could stop attacking and become unresponsive
• Isabella’s VO is now heard clearly, as opposed to sounding muffled when obstructed by an object.
• Isabella’s cannons should now correctly mutate when playing a mutated expedition.
• Fixed a bug where the Isabella cinematic wouldn’t play in some circumstances.

Global Mutators

• Difficulty levels at which loot unlocks has been adjusted.
• The system was originally intended to give players a sense of rewarding progression as you play through the difficulty levels — which it does accomplish — but at lower levels it didn’t feel particularly good as rewards were too sparse. Therefore, this change should result in players seeing a larger variety of items given at lower levels. No loot has been removed, but specific items and item types you may expect may have been shifted to different brackets and unlock groups.
• Added another accessory reward to each mutator. Previously, each mutator dropped 2 of the 3 types of accessory. Now each mutator can drop 1 of each type.
• Fixed a Frenzied mutator status effect that showed a debug string.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Toxic mutation not to track the player.
• Fixed an issue where the Toxic effect was showing incorrect values in the Overgrown mutation tooltip.
• Fixed an issue where some status effects were not set to be removed when exiting the Expedition.
• Fixing an issue allowing Overcharged to proc when the player has less than 3 stacks applied as it expires.
• Fixing an issue causing Orbs to no longer appear for Unstable/Overcharged after a player has been downed or revived.
• Reduced the base stamina damage reduction applied to some AI in expeditions from 50% → 25%:
  • Reduced value of Shattering 1 effects from 75% → 40% (10% net reduction)
  • Reduced value of Shattering 2 effects from 125% → 75% (25% net reduction)
  • Both Shattering 1 and 2 remove the base stamina damage reduction applied to enemies in Expeditions and also increase stamina damage output.
• Updated the tooltips for the Desiccated curse Combustible and Shriveled which showed inaccurate values and did not have the correct effect icons.
• Updated VFX for the Unstable and Overcharged mutators.
• Fixed an issue where attacks that are dealt from spawned enemies didn’t always scale properly when under-geared in a Mutator 10.

World Experience

Exploration

• Fixed an issue in which some fishing hotspots did not appear on the map after discovery.
• Fixed an issue with several hotspots in Restless Shores not giving the correct amount of resources.
• Moved a few misaligned fishing locations to actual water.
• Fixed an issue where occasionally world textures would appear black for some players.
• Fixed a bug with dynamic resolution scaling where in situations of heavy smoke a feint shadow silhouette could become visible.
• The following list of named enemies have been updated to level 63 so that they have the potential to grant 600 Gear Score drop rewards for players:
  • Edengrove - Baines, Cael, Adjorjan
  • Old Mykgard Forest - Unhallowed Soul of Mykgard
  • Nihilo Visage - High Priest Oseguera
  • Balebane Maw - Articulon the Unshackeld, Mozrul the Herald
  • Caminus - Caminus Gate Lord, Overseer Levy
  • Spilaio Cavern - Tzi-Wang the Immovable, Dau-Shen the Unstoppable
  • East Illurmin - Corrupted Excubitor Luca
  • West Illurmin - Pit Lord Daehi
  • The Congregation - Mirepaw
  • Lambent Muskeg - The Blight Bringer
  • Maria’s Rest - Smoothbore Samuel
  • Ska Makogai - Thorn of the Heartwood
  • Serenity Monastery - Gnasher
  • Skysong Crypt - Ivan the Inevitable, Mordici the Mortician, Slayer Rosellen, Farley
• Fixed an issue where Thorpe could make a surprise appearance in the cathedral outside Tempest’s Heart.
• Fixed Skysong Shrine POI in Ebonscale Reach from being undiscoverable.
• Adjusted placement of the “Recipe for Disaster” lore note, which should now make it visible.
• Adjusted distribution of Black Bears in Greyvale (Brightwood) to alleviate difficulty in exploring that area.
• Fixed Bison AI getting stuck in a shack in Reekwater.
• Fixed floating AI Pistoleers in Restless Shores.
• Fixed bug where AI could be pushed into geometry in Sorcerer’s Delve.
• Fixing an issue where players would burn in Caminus despite not having touched the molten material.
• Fixed pixilation on water inside the Shattered Obelisk POI.
• Simon Grey’s footsteps can be heard again at the end of Amrine’s Excavation.

Quests

• Added clarification for Arena quest
• Fixed several typos and grammatical errors found within lore notes and quest text.
• Incomplete text for “Relic Reclamation” quest note will now reference part of the final line, reminding players of the direction of the quest.
• Increased drop rates for “Song of the Sea” quest in Mourningdale.
• Increased size of the trigger volume used to target the shipwreck for the “Sea Dreams” quest. This should now include the location of the chest, making it easier to progress.
• Made it easier for players to get kill contribution for “Joan the Faithless”.
• Made it so the gifted Agents for the Shrouded Armor set cannot be dropped.
• Made it so the Transference for enhancing the Protective Wyrd armor sets cannot be dropped.
• Made it so the Sparks for enhancing the Battle’s Embrace armor sets cannot be dropped.
• Set all quests in the ‘Last Argument’ weapon quest arc to allow Reset instead of Abandon. This should prevent players from becoming stuck due to quest abandonment, and brings this weapon questline into parity with existing weapon questlines.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes quests could be incorrectly labeled as Crafting type within the Objectives view of the map.
• Updated the “Mother Ocean” quest pin to reflect the location of the ghosts of Billiam’s old crew, since they have moved to a slightly different island and no longer lurk directly next to the ship.
• Resetting the Void Gauntlet weapon quest “Grasping at Shadows” should no longer cause players to become stuck, and players who may already be stuck can now advance properly.
• Fixed Warden Scout Titus’ lip-sync in the quest “Into the Depths.”
• Quest marker for Mourning Grizzly trophy hunt mission has been adjusted to more accurately reflect the location of the Mourning Grizzly

Economy/Progression

Gear/Items

• Fixed an issue where Crafted Faction Armor would have a different level requirement than the purchased version.
• Changing a hatchet skill perk to Refreshing and removing the Gem Slot from the Quest Reward Lightstorm’s Protector.
• Fixed a number of grammatical errors on varying items. Hyphenated terms are now properly hyphenated, and words that were previously split and should be a single word are now a single word.
• Fixed an issue where the rarity of an item was not correctly matching the number of perks on the item.
• Fixed an issue with incorrect icon appearance for Flamewake Firestaff, both Tier 4 and Tier 5
• Fixed an issue where Mana regeneration foods were not categorized properly, resulting in them being removed by other foods.
• Blessed Crucible description was corrected to say it comes from supply containers instead of Starmetal veins.
• Fixed an issue with Beast’s Demise icon.
• Fixed an issue with Hellfire Blunderbuss’s inventory icon.
• Fixed an issue with some of the icons in the Overgrown weapon set.
• Fixed an issue with the icons of some of the Overgrown armor set pieces.
• Fixed an issue with Tundra Warden’s Rifle icons.
• Fixed an issue with War War Hammer of the Soldier’s icons.
• Fixed a visual issue with Skinner Shirt cape.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Deepwarden’s Battleplate of the Nomad.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Expedition Captain’s Gauntlet.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Golden Rage cape.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Marine’s Breastplate.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Metal Raven cape.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Metal Raven Chestcover.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Nereid Bow.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Obelisk Priest’s Robe.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Pauldroned Fears Breastplate.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Pirate Light cape.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Pirated Ice Gauntlet of the Scholar.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Reinforced Shatterer’s Heavy Gauntlets of the Sentry.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Ribald Rigger chestpiece.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Skinner Shirt.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Smyhle Breastplate.
• Fixed a visual material issue with Greundgul’s cape.
• Fixed a visual stretching issue with Grendgul’s cape.
• Fixed a visual stretching issue with the Brined Chestguard of the Sentry.
• Fixed a visual issue with Empress Zhou’s Embroidered Tunic.
• Fixed a visual issue with Ranger Eintou Madaki’s shoulder pads.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Admiral’s Peg.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Brined Chestguard of the Sentry.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Brined Skirt of the Sentry.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Brined Skirt of the Sentry.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Eternal Medium Gloves.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Fanciful Capelet skin.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Holly Regent Robe.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Medium Smyhle apparel set.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Overgrown Gloves of the Ranger.
• Upgraded Isabella’s Amulet to Epic quality, better reflecting its importance both as a preorder bonus and in lore. Stats remain unchanged.

Salvaging

• As part of larger Salvage changes, Expedition Replica Fire/Life Staves have been changed to salvage into Wood (their main ingredient) to be consistent with other crafted items.
• Blunderbuss from Gypsum casts no longer salvage into materials.
• Fixed an issue where salvaging stacked Housing Items caused the UI to no show the amount of Repair Parts earned.

Housing

• Fixed clipping issue with Dragon Sconce furniture item.
• Fixed an issue in which furniture rarity was not being set properly.

Progression

• Expertise: Fixed an issue where opening multiple Gypsum Casts in one session would show only the Expertise gained from the last Cast opened on the Banner after closing your inventory, instead of the total Expertise gained.
• Expertise: The Gypsum Kiln has been changed to only allow level 60 players to use it.
• Fixed an issue where Instrumentality’s rings rarity did not scale with its gear score.
• Fixed an issue where the Topaz Gypsum Attunement potion triggered the cooldown of other consumables.
• Improved Expertise presentation by increasing Expertise shown in the level up banner, craft roll screen, box opening animation, and the loot ticker while also slightly adjusting colors to match Expertise text.

PvP Track

• Fixing an issue preventing trinkets from the PvP Rewards Track from slotting gems.
• Higher amounts of Umbral Shards are now offered on the PvP Rewards Track for the same Salt price.
• We now properly clear the PvP value of downed players on death to prevent occurrences of kill-trading.
• Fixed the notification text when buying an emote through the PvP Rewards track.

Rewards/Loot

• Hidden Stashes have taken a hiatus while the Summer Medleyfaire takes center stage. Not to worry however, as Diamond Gypsum and gold coin can instead be gathered at Town Centerpieces 3x per day for the duration of the festival.
• FIxed a bug where items with a Legendary rarity rolled back to the to Epic tier when they rolled perks that did not effect their weapons.
• Fixing the name for Elemental Mutator Medium Weight Foot Armor to be “Boots” instead of “Shoes” to better differentiate them from Elemental Mutator Light Weight Foot Armor.
• Fixed an issue where the Invasion Tower Shield of the Fighter icon did not display properly.
• Fixed an issue causing trinkets coming from Trials to not allow gem slotting, even on empty slots.
• Fixed an issue preventing Replica Shields from Tempest’s Soul from rolling at Epic rarity. New, valuable perks have been added to the potential pool of rewards for that Expedition.
• Added four new Ice Gauntlets to the game: Crystal Floe, Frosted Tips, Borealis, and Black Ice.
• Fixed an issue where damaged items could be salvaged for the maximum coin amount.
• Fixed an issue where luck bonuses from Turkey Dinner and Defiled Rabbit Foot could stack. This was not intended.
• Changed the name of “Mass produced” Blunderbusses to now read as “mass-produced”.
• Quest reward rapier “Vorpal Blade” previously had a non-functional perk on it. This has been replaced with the “Leeching Flurry” instead.
• The sword “Occult’s Razor” previously had a non-functional perk. This has been replaced with the “Chain Void” perk instead.

Economy

• PvP Perks are now searchable in the Trading Post
• Added an “X” button to the end of search boxes within Crafting Stations, to be consistent with other search boxes within the Trading Post and Inventory.
• Added a display to show the First Light Refining Bonus when looking at affected recipes in the Crafting Screen.
• Added Territory Supplies:
  • Players can now craft four different tiers of territory supplies which provide the player with large amounts of territory standing in their current territory.
  • Territory Supplies will cost different tiers and volumes of corrupted fragments, stone, and wood depending on the tier of the supplies.
  • Players can craft each tier of territory items 8 times per week
• Added a confirmation notification when initiating a trade while at the coin cap (which would result in a refund of coins back to the other player).
• Added a warning notification before crafting an item while near the item limit.
• Renamed Housing Taxes to Housing Upkeep.
• Territory Upkeep and penalty related timers will now pause during maintenance mode.

Trade Skills

• Doubled the amount of ammo received when crafting cartridges and arrows from 50 count to 100 count.
• Fixed a display issue causing patterns dropped by Trial bosses to appear as Common items in the crafting screen and in the wrong category. They’ll now properly appear as Legendary within the Pattern Recipes category.
• Fixed an issue causing Blunderbuss expedition replicas to have different expedition-specific material requirements than other expedition replicas. Replica Blunderbuss expedition material requirements are now in-line with other replicas.
• Updated descriptions on pattern items to read more clearly and to better imply that they are not the only requirement for that recipe.
• References to Tuskgorer have been removed from crafting menus. Description changed on item to remove references to crafting.
• Removed several invalid items that were listed on the Trading Post erroneously.
• Correcting the recipe item’s name “Blackened Mandje Mandje with Corn Succotash” to “Blackened Lava Barb with Corn Succotash”.
• Fixed an issue where the Trade Skill XP preview in the Crafting menu was not factoring in the Faction Control Point buff for Monarch Bluffs.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the Imbued Shrouded Intent Gloves from being crafted.

UX/UI/Social

In-Game Store

• Fixed occurrences where the “Unlocked” text can overlap an item’s name while in localized languages.
• Fixed broken VFX on Fenrir’s Fury Great Axe.
• Fixed an issue where bundles in the store had a semi-opaque discount banner when viewed in the list.
• Fixed an issue where Store discount tags were misaligned in multiple languages.

Loading Screens

• Potential fixes for infinite loading screen some players are seeing in War, Invasion, and Outpost Rush.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where equipping tools mid-use caused undesired behavior. Players can no longer access their inventory through the Esc menu when gathering.
• Fixed an issue where using the Esc menu to enter a menu (like Skills or Journal) while Fishing would cause the Fishing UI to be hidden when exiting the menu.
• Fixed an issue where Settlement and Fast Travel Shrine icons would not appear on a respawn map.
• Fixed an issue where items sold in shops were not displaying the correct variable numeric values.
• Fixed an issue where the Settings menu had a green box with a section header and a white box with a description when in specific resolutions.
• Fixed an issue where the UI for “Recall to Inn” button did not roll over properly while the player was in a menu. The “Recall to Inn” button now reactivates when cooldown timer expires, without requiring the user to re-open the menu.
• Fixed an issue where town project task coin rewards were rounded slightly different from how they’re displayed in journal objectives.
• Fixed an issue where you could see the gathering skill required on the gathering interact when showing the “Inventory is Full” message.
• Fixed an issue where client would be spammed with old area-chat messages as they were approaching a new area.
• Fixed an issue where the region name displayed in the Character Transfer window did not use the localized name.
• Fixed an issue where weapon abilities could be swapped while on cooldown but only the icons changes. Players now will get a notification that they are unable to swap weapon abilities out while on cooldown.
• Fixed an instance where the internal name of a region was used instead of the public name on the World Merge notification.
• Fixed an issue where “[Region Transfer] Buy/Sell Requirement” text did not start red when the requirement was not met.
• Fixed incorrected messaging when trying to place camp during Outpost Rush.
• Fixed an issue where linking several items in the same chat message could result in a failure to link the items or send the message.
• Fixed an issue where online and offline friends did not appear in alphabetical order.
• Fixed an issue where after fast traveling to a town the Faction Territory Border appeared incorrectly on the Map and varying zoom levels.
• Fixed an issue where Main Menu icons were misaligned on the Character Selection screen.
• Fixed an issue with item icon resolutions when completing all town board turn-ins.
• Fixed a bug where hitting Enter during the Amazon Games logo could cause a soft lock. You are now free to skip the Amazon Games logo, no judgement.
• Fixed an issue causing trades to fail if traded gems were attached to an item during the trade.
• Fixed an issue when experiencing a connection error, the string ‘Retry’ appears unlocalized in the pop-up window for all languages.
• Fixed an issue where the Attribute window flickered when committing points.
• Fixed an issue where the Azoth Vial icon in the Weapon Mastery respec pop-up was too small. It is now appropriately sized.
• Fixed an issue where Captain Thorpe’s subtitles were not localized.
• Fixed an issue where Company Treasury error messages would not show properly shown when withdrawing and depositing.
• Fixed an issue where holding left click on an item did not always activate dragging state.
• Fixed an issue where if you were in the Crafting menu, and had a recipe with a cooldown selected, and the cooldown timer reset while you were in the menu, the menu wouldn’t update to allow you to craft the item unless you switched recipes. It now refreshes in that case to show you the correct status.
• Fixed an issue where salvaging items would cause the Map to open by disabling fast travel interact when in inventory to prevent double actions firing.
• Fixed an issue where scrolling down to upgrade items with umbral shards did not work properly.
• Fixed an issue where the split stack slider was displaying the wrong amount due to a rounding value error.
• Fixed an issue where the background bled through at the top edge of Crafting screens.
• Fixed an issue where the highlighted rings and lock icon for an Ultimate ability node was removed when performing a respec.
• Fixed an issue where the post-War/Outpost Rush rewards screen wasn’t showing all received items.
• Fixed an issue where the proper name was not being used during the Siren Queen fight.
• Fixed an issue where the reload bar did not show any progress on the turret HUD.
• Fixed an issue where the Temporary Ban message showed broken mark-up tags.
• Fixed an issue where Weekly Mutation Tooltips would flicker on the screen when hovering over Mutation icons on the Map.
• Fixed duplicate message when trying to store an item in a full storage shed.
• Fixed the fishing loot ticker showing the wrong amount of bait.
• Fixed an issue where players with the rank of Settler in their guild could click the “Invite to Guild” button and receive an error stating they didn’t have permission to invite.
• Fixed an issue where some healing elixirs were showing incorrect healing values.
• Fixed language inconsistencies in pop-ups.
• Players will no longer receive group finder invites from blocked players.
• The text of completed missions on the Town Project Board is now grammatically correct when only having one mission completed.
• Borders around Challenges on the Menu pane now behave properly when clicked.

QoL

• Added a visual cooldown timer for intra-region character transfers.
• Added a visual cooldown timer to the World Transfer button. It updates appropriately based on expected region and world transfer behavior and is disabled while the world transfer timer is active.
• Added a pre-match notification reminder about checking equipped 3v3 Arena consumables and gear.
• Adjusted the Inventory search bar field to extend properly when extending past the default field of view.
• Added an animation as Inventory slots become unlocked upon leveling up.
• Added a bait counter while fishing, displaying how much of the selected bait currently remains.
• Added functionality to the bait selection window so it scrolls when the amount of bait exceeds one row.
• Added coin amount when salvaging close to the Repair Parts cap.
• Added new audio preferences to the Settings Menu
  • Menu music slider
  • Performance music slider
  • Combat music check-box
• Adjusted Starmetal and Platinum Map/Compass icons to better distinguish readability between the two.
• Adjusted UI on Turret Options to have adequate room and be legible for players to easily read.
• Daily Mission Bonus UI should now always update, even if you have the Faction Mission window open when it resets.
• Fixed an issue where the Health Bar and Status tool-tips where visible in the Setting Menu.
• Removed Dye message that states player will lose the dye when choosing the same color as the player does not lose the dye.
• Simplified Repair tooltip by removing the quantity owned and only showing what is required to repair.
• When opening the Modes menu, it will default to the last mode that the player had recently selected instead of always defaulting to Outpost Rush.
• Removed the Camp button from the Equipment screen. You can still change the skin of your camp from the interaction menu on the camp itself.
• Removed duplicated word “Bait” in bait select window.
• “Waiting” emote now loops.

Economy/Progression/Perks

• Changed the way perks roll, they now first roll by label then by perk. This will increase the diversity of perks on weapons. For example the trade skill drop chance on earrings now have a very low drop chance on drops to increase the combat focused perks players get from earrings. These can still be a controlled craft using their specific craft mods.
• Re-balanced all perk drop chances and normalized the perk chances across family creatures and expeditions. For example Refreshing was not dropping on most family and expedition tables and it can now drop from all expeditions and families.
• Skill perks now have a greatly increased effect when on a weapon vs armor. This will be displayed in update notes as 10…20…30% the first two numbers being the min/max on armor and the last being the max on weapons.
• All enemies now have a chance to drop items at +100 gearscore higher then normal. Level 59-63 have an increased chance. (The 600 max and expertise still applies to these rolls.)
• All weapons, armor and tools have a chance to salvage into new crafting materials called Scrap and Fragments, these new materials can be used to learn TradeSkill experience, fabricate new items, extract resources, and create Gypsum Orbs.
• Refinement materials no longer have 3 tiers, all crafting and refinement recipes now only drop at Tier 5 and use the Tier 5 potency. All lower tiers can be salvaged into T5.
• All Crafting and refining clothing have now had their gearscore fixed to make searching and buy orders on the trading post easier
• Crafting Clothing drop locations have been changed
• Charcoal now can only be made from unrefined wood.
• Non arena patterns crafting costs have been reduced by 66%.
• High level crafting materials and their refinement materials rarity has been updated so the refinement materials are now epic(purple) and the refined materials are legendary(orange).
• Increased the drop chances of Briar buds and reduced the drop chances of Reeds
• Increased the drop chances of Briar buds and reduced the drop chances of Thorny Vines

Stats Perks

• Fighter Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Monk Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Spellsword Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Cavalier Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Duelist Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Assassin Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Zealot Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Priest Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Artificer Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Battlemage Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Mage Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Trickster Attributes: The total stats provide by this stat combination have been increased.
• Strength Threshold 50: Now effects both light and heavy attacks by 10%
• Dexterity Threshold 50: Critical Chance increased from 5% to 10%
• Focus Threshold 50: Now reduces skill recharge by 5%
• Intelligence Threshold 50: Now increased Critical Damage by 10%
• Strength Threshold 100: Now grants 5% more damage to Slashing and Strike damage
• Intelligence Threshold 100: Now grants 10% more damage to magic basic attacks

Tools Perks

• Durable: This perk now prevents any durability lost on the item.

Armor Perks

• Reinforced: This perk has been renamed to Indestructible, and now prevents any durability lost on the item and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Corruption Resistance: This now reduces the rate in which corruption builds up. Also a reduced chance this perk will be generated in crafted or drops
• Blight Resistance: This now reduces the rate in which blight builds up. Also a reduced chance this perk will be generated in crafted or drops
• Freedom: increased reduction from 3…7.8% to 3…10.6%
• Vigor: increased reduction from 3…7.8% to 3…10.6%
• Invigorated: increased reduction from 3…7.8% to 3…10.6%
• Refreshing Ward now triggers after 4 hits instead of 5
• Refreshing evasion bonus has been reduced from 0.98% to 0.75%
• Reinforced Logging Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Reinforced Mining Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Reinforced Harvesting Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Reinforced Skinning Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Ancient Ward: Can now roll on shields. Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Angry Earth Ward: Can now roll on shields. Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Beast Ward: Can now roll on shields. Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a large amount
• Corrupted Ward: Can now roll on shields. Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Lost Ward: Can now roll on shields. Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount

Weapons Perk

• Keenly Jagged: Changed the damage and cooldown from 7% weapon damage (10s cooldown) to 10% weapon damage (7s cooldown)
• Keen Speed: changed the move speed duration and cooldown from 30% 3s (5s cooldown) to 20% 10s (10s cooldown)
• Siphoning Blow: reduced the cooldown from (10s) to (2s) and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Chain Lightning: increased the damage from 11% to 15%
• Chain Fire: increased the damage from 11% to 15%
• Chain Arcane: increased the damage from 11% to 15%
• Chain Void: increased the damage from 11% to 15%
• Chain Ice: increased the damage from 11% to 15%
• Chain Nature: increased the damage from 11% to 15%
• Mortal Lifesteal: increased the health gained and lowered cooldown from 3…5% (5s cooldown) to 3…7% (1s cooldown) and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Mortal Siphoning: increased the mana gained and lowered cooldown from 3…4.9% (5s cooldown) to 3…11% (1s cooldown) and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Mortal Energy: increased the stamina gained and lowered cooldown from 5…15% (5s cooldown) to 5…35% (1s cooldown) and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Mortal Refreshment: increased cooldown reduction from 5% (5s cooldown) to 10% (1s cooldown) and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Mortal Fortification: decreased the cooldown and increased the duration and effectiveness from (5s cooldown), 3s duration, 10% fortify to (1s cooldown) 10s duration, 15% fortify. Also reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Mortal Power: decreased the cooldown and increased the duration from (2s cooldown) 5s duration to (1s cooldown) 20s duration. Also reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Hated: increased the threat levels from 5-15% to 50-150% and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Kind: Increased the threat reduction from 5-15% to 15…45% added a max reduction of 99% from all sources and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Shirking Flames: increased the damage and duration from 5s 20% to 6s 40% and the Exclusive label from Proc to Elemental
• Shirking Nature: increased the damage and duration from 5s 20% to 6s 40% and the Exclusive label from Proc to Elemental
• Shirking Frost: increased the damage and duration from 5s 20% to 6s 40% and the Exclusive label from Proc to Elemental
• Shirking Lightning: increased the damage and duration from 5s 20% to 6s 40% and the Exclusive label from Proc to Elemental
• Shirking Abyss: increased the damage and duration from 5s 20% to 6s 40% and the Exclusive label from Proc to Elemental
• Shirking Arcane: increased the damage and duration from 5s 20% to 6s 40% and the Exclusive label from Proc to Elemental
• Flame Attunement: reduced cooldown and increased damage from 15% (2s) to 18% (1s) from Proc to Elemental
• Frost Attunement: reduced cooldown and increased damage from 15% (2s) to 18% (1s) from Proc to Elemental
• Arboreal Attunement: reduced cooldown and increased damage from 15% (2s) to 18% (1s) from Proc to Elemental
• Abyssal Attunement: reduced cooldown and increased damage from 15% (2s) to 18% (1s) from Proc to Elemental
• Thwarting Counter: increased damage bonus from 15% to 20%
• Trenchant Strikes: increased damage bonus from 15% to 20%
• Trenchant Crits: increased damage bonus from 5…19% to 5…30%
• Trenchant Recovery: increased damage bonus from 10…29% to 10…41%
• Rogue: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Beast Bane: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Ancient Bane: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Angry Earth Bane: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Beast Bane: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Corrupted Bane: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Lost Bane: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops by a small amount
• Accuracy: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Flame Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10%
• Frost Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10%
• Void Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10%
• Thrust Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10%
• Slashing Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10%
• Arcane Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10% and Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Lightning Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10% and Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Strike Shield Ward: Increased the % absorption from 2…5% to 4…10%
• Sure Footing: Reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops

Amulet Perk

• Flame Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Frozen Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Nature Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Void Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Thrust Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Slash Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Arcane Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Lightning Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Strike Protection: increased the damage reduction from 2…4.9% to 2…10%
• Alacrity: increase duration bonus from 5…15% to 5…30%
• Empowered: increase duration bonus from 5…15% to 5…30%
• Fortified: increase duration bonus from 5…15% to 5…30%
• Mana Recovery: decreased cooldown reduction from (60s) to (30s) and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Adored Logging Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Adored Harvesting Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Adored Mining Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Adored Skinning Luck: Reduced the chance this perk will spawn on random dropped and crafting gear by a significant amount
• Shirking DoT Cleanse: decreased the cooldown from (15s) to (7s)
• Shirking Debilitate Cleanse: decreased the cooldown from (15s) to (7s)

Ring Perk

• Siphoning: deceased the cooldown from (10s cooldown) to (2s cooldown) and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Poisoning: increased the duration from 5…15% to 10…30%
• Crippling: increased the duration from 5…15% to 10…30%
• Enfeebling: increased the duration from 5…15% to 10…30%
• Infected: increased the duration from 5…15% to 10…30%
• Focused: Increased the effectiveness from 5…9.8% to 25…49%
• Brilliant: increased max mana from 5…10% to 10…20% and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops

Earring Perk

• Focused: reduced the mana regeneration rate from 5-9.8% to 15-29.4% and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Despised: increased the threat levels from 5-15% to 50-150% and reduced the chacne this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Beloved: Increased the threat reduction from 5-15% to 15…45% added a max reduction of 99% from all sources and reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Evasion: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Health Toast: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Mana Toast: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Arcanist Mastery: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Armor Mastery: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Cooking Mastery: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Engineer Mastery: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Jewelcrafter Mastery: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops
• Weaponsmithing Mastery: reduced the chance this perk will be generated in crafting or drops

Skill Perks

Hatchet

• Empowering Rending Throw: Ranged hatchet attacks now deals 10…21…31% more damage vs Rending Throw targets.
• Vorpal Distancing Throw: has been renamed to Refreshing Distance Throw and now reduces cooldown by 10…30…49% if your within 6m of your target.
• Mending Infected Throw: now triggers when a target with Infected throw dies and heals for 10…21…31% max health.
• Energizing Feral Rush: has been renamed to Crippling Feral Rush and now causes a 10…20…30% slow for 3s when it hits.
• Refreshing Torrent: Recharge increased while on a hatchet to 1…4.8%…8.5%.
• Keen Berserk: Now has increased critical chance while on a hatchet (1…14…27%.)

Hammer

• Refreshing Mighty Gravel: Might Gravel now recharges 5…9.8…14% on hit (max 3 targets.)
• Repulsing Clearout: now has increased effectiveness (50…146…209%) while on a hammer.
• Penetrating Wrecking Ball: now has increased effectiveness (5…19…33%) while on a hammer.
• Sundering Shockwave: now has increased effectiveness (5…9.8…14%) while on a hammer.
• Leeching Path of Destiny: now has increased effectiveness (10…29…47%) while on a hammer.
• Empowered Armor Breaker: now has increased effectiveness (3…29…50%) while on a hammer.

Musket

• Refreshing Power Shot: now has increased effectiveness while on a musket and the cooldown increased from 3…20% to 8.5…54…98%
• Energizing Stopping Power: has been renamed to Repulsing Stopping Power and now increases knockback distance by 25…97…151%.
• Accelerating Traps: now has an increased effectiveness (5…19…33%) while on a musket and the duration increased from 3s to 5s.
• Mending Sticky Bombs: now has an increased effectiveness (10…21…31%) while on a musket and Mending Sticky Bomb now heals based on damage done by sticky bomb.
• Empowering Shooter Stance: now has an increased effectiveness (4…23…41%) while on a musket.
• Crippling Powder Burn: now has an increased effectiveness (5…24…42%) while on a musket.

Bow

• Energizing Evade Shot: now has increased effectiveness while on a bow 4…19…34 also reduces cooldown by 3…14…25%
• Fortifying Rain of Arrows: renamed to Lasting Rain of Arrows and now causes Slows and bleed from Rain of Arrows to last 10…20…30% longer
• Enfeebling Poison Shot: weakness is now increased when on a bow (3…14…25%) also increased the duration from 4s to 6s.
• Explosive Arrow: now deals increased damage when on a bow 4…19…34%
• Penetrating Rapid Fire: now effects all rapid fire attacks and the armor penetration is increased while on a bow 5…19…33%
• Refreshing Penetrating Shot: cooldown is increased while on a bow 3…14…25%.

Rapier

• Energizing Flourish: is now renamed Deadly Flourish: which now deals 10…25…39% more damage vs targets below 50%.
• Omni Direction Evade: now also deals 1…10…19% bonus damage after using evade.
• Keen Tondo: now has increased critical chance while on a rapier 2…12…21%.
• Sundering Riposte: now has increased rend while on a rapier 5…15…24%.
• Leeching Flurry: now has increased lifesteal while on a rapier 10…29…47%
• Refreshing Fleche: now has increased cooldown while on a rapier 5…19…33%

Life Staff

• Refreshing Divine Embrace: Fixed a bug that causes this not to function and added a bonus effect, now grants 12…41…69% recharge and 1…3.5…5.8% mana when triggered.
• Energizing Splash of Light: has been renamed to Purity of Light: now heals for 10…48…85% of weapon damage if splash of light removes a condition.
• Accelerating Light’s Embrace: Increase the duration of this buff from 3s to 5s and modifier now scales higher when on a lifestaff 5…18…30%
• Revitalizing Beacon: Renamed to Vicious Beacon: now when Beacon heals a player grants 2…6.1…10% critical chance for 6s.
• Fortifying Sacred Ground: now has increased fortify while on a lifestaff 3…9.7…16%.
• Mending Protection: now increased the healing effectiveness while on a lifestaff 5…24…42%.

Fire Staff

• Empowering Meteor Shower: now grants 1…2…2.9% damage per hit for 10s. (max stacks 10)
• Siphoning Incinerate: has been renamed to Stable Incinerate: This perk now grants grit to incinerate, and causes Incinerate to deal deals 3…12…20% more damage.
• Accelerating Flamethrower: Now also increases burn duration from flamethrower by 10…15…19%.
• Efficient Burnout: now grants a 5…19…33% more damage and grants 20…77…132% mana regen. This effects ends on your first hit.
• Refreshing Pillar of Fire: now has increased cooldown 3…14…25% while on a firestaff.
• Empowering Fireball: now has increased damage 5…32…58% while on a firestaff.

Sword/Shield

• Empowering Whirling Blade: now deals more damage 10…30…50%.
• Repulsing Shield Bash renamed to Diminishing Shield Bash: reduce buffs duration by a 15…30…45%
• Fortifying Shield Rush: increased fortify 5…19…33% while on a shield and the duration increased from 4s to 6s.
• Accelerated Defiant Stance: duration has been increased from 5s to 6s. Movement speed has been reduced from 5…30% to 5…20…33% and incoming healing is increased by 2…7.7…13% while on shield.
• Contagious stab: Now also increases Reverse Stab damage by 5…10…15%.
• Empowering Leaping Strike: now only increases sword damage and increases damage 3…17…31% while on a sword.

Great Axe

• Refreshing Charge: If Unpredictable Strike hits it recharges 5…30…54% charge faster.
• Mending Execute: Execute now has 10…30…50% lifestealing.
• Crippling Reap: increased slow speed 5…31…50% while on a great axe. Also the duration increased from 2s to 4s.
• Fortifying Whirlwind: Now grants 3…6.6…10% damage and damage absorption for 2s. (Max 5 stacks)
• Maelstrom: increased damage reduction 3…14…25% while on a great axe and increased weaken duration from 4s to 8s.
• Insatiable Gravity Well: damage bonus increased 15…34…52% while on a great axe.

Ice Gauntlet

• Unbroken Winds: now has grit and increases damage 10…25…40%.
• Unending Thaw: now increases ice storm damage by 1…5.9…10%
• Pylon Burst: Also increases Pylon’s damage by 1.5…5.8…10%
• Healing Tomb: Now heals for 5…18…30% of base health when Entomb ends.
• Deadly Frost: Now recharges Ice Shower by 5…9.8…14%.
• Iced Refresh: has increased cooldown 20…77…100% while on an ice gauntlet.

Spear

• Bleeding Sweep: increases the bleed damage while on a spear 2…9.6…17% also the duration from 4s to 8s .
• Enfeebling Skewer: Increased the effectiveness of the weakness to 3…24…44%.
• Keen Vault Kick: increased critical chance bonus 2…19…36%.
• Fortifying Perforate: increased fortify 2…9.6…17% while on a spear.
• Sundering Javelin: increased rend effectiveness 5…19…25% while on a spear.
• Leeching Cyclone: increased cyclone lifestealing 10…32…53% while on a spear.

Void Gauntlet

• Empowering Rupture: increased empower 10…31…49% also increased the duration from 5s to 10s and now triggers when the target dies for any reason.
• Nullifying Oblivion: now recharges Oblivion 5…9.8…14% faster.
• Putrefying Scream: increased healing effectiveness 10…29…40% while on a void gauntlet also now lasts 8s instead of 10s.
• Voracious Blade: increased healing effectiveness 10…31…51% while on a void gauntlet.
• Slowing Tether: increased slow effectiveness 20…31…40% while on a void gauntlet.
• Diminishing Orb: increase buff reduction 20…51…70% while on a void gauntlet.

Blunderbuss

• Resupplying Mortar Charge: now also grants empower for 3…8.7…14% on kill.
• Crippling Blast: increased slow effectiveness 5…19…33% while on a blunderbuss.
• Plague Splitting Grenade: increased disease effectiveness 5…15…24% while on a blunderbuss.
• Exhaustive Net: increased exhaust effectiveness 10…34…57% while on a blunderbuss.
• Venturing Claw Shot: increased empower effectiveness 5…19…33% while on a blunderbuss.
• Leeching Shrapnel Blast: increased lifesteal effectiveness 5…15…24% while on a blunderbuss.

PTR Only

• Camping is now unlocked by default on the PTR.

Combat/AI

Game Modes

Outpost Rush

• Increased Repeater damage by 25%.
• Increased ballista damage by 15%.

Invasion

• Fixed cancelled Invasions counting as a loss for players.

War

• Fixed an issue causing the Cutlass Keys Faction Control Point to provide a smaller than anticipated Gathering Luck bonus.

Perks

Life Staff

• Perk Purity Of Light gives allies additional % heal of the weapon damage regardless if any debuff is being cleansed.

World AI

• Fixed an issue causing the Varangian Scout’s double swing to not damage the player.

UX/UI/Social

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where an error message was displaying for a couple seconds when first entering the Character Transfer world list.
• Fixed an issue where players were being locked out of the transfer transaction window if the purchase button was spam-clicked.

QoL

• Added a notification for when an item received from a reward chest is dropped due to the inventory cap.

In-Game Store

• Fixed an issue where an incorrect animation would play if a player previewed weapon skins while having no weapon equipped.

World Experience

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an instance server start-up crash.
• Fixed a client crash related to particle drawing.

PTR: Summer Patch Notes - Patch 1

Please note that this list is not all encompassing and is intended as an early look into a number of changes included within the most recent PTR build. This change list will be regularly updated, up through retail release of the game version.

General

• Connected the fishing line to the top of the pole.
• Corrupted core now plays a sound when it spawns.
• Fixed an issue where Deaths Door music kept playing once a player was revived.
• Fixed an issue where players were not able to fully hear the Medleyfaire Bonfire.
• Fixed an issue where the Corrupted Impaler and Corrupted Entity could spam their vocals.
• Fixed an issue where running between instrument performance zones didn’t activate the second performance zone.
• Fixed issues when entering or viewing performances from a distance could cause animations or sounds to play improperly or not play at all.
• Gauntlet skin attachments will no longer revert back to default appearance after you log out.

Notable Fixes

Faction Control Point

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to leave an open world fort if there was an active war or invasion inside an instance in the “pre-war” phase.

Combat/AI

General

• Fixed an issue where ability cooldowns are tracked by hotkey slots, not the ability itself.
• Reduced Flurry’s base stamina by 25%→75% depending on the attack.
  • Previously damage increased for each attack of flurry.
• Reduced Hatchet base stamina damage based on tier of weapon from 36-42 to 24-30
• Reduced Rapier base stamina damage based on tier of weapon from 26-32 to 22-28

Game Modes

Invasions

• Fixed an issue allowing players to body block the Invasion Spriggan.

PvP Arenas

• Status Effects applied by consumables are now restored back to what they were upon entering PvP Arena after returning to the Open World from the Arena.

Perks

• Fixed an issue where OPR repeater turret damage was not being reduced via the Siege Ward PvP Perk.
• Fixed an issue where the Hearty perk was not shown in the stamina bar after login.
• Reduced effectiveness of the Invigorated Punishment perk from 3% per buff to 2% per buff on target.
• Reduced the max amount of targets that could trigger the Refreshing Mighty Gavel perk from 3 → 2.
• Reduced the values of the Iced Refresh perk from 20%-77% (100% on weapons) to 10%-43% (75% Max on weapons). Allowed the Iced Refresh perk to trigger on a killing blow from Spiky Reach as well as Mighty Spike.
• Updated the Penetrating Backstab and Penetrating Headshot perks to be stronger and more comparable to the Rogue and Vorpal perks. Penetrating perks will be better against heavier equip loads, and Rogue/Vorpal will be better against lighter equip loads.

Weapons

Bow

• Reduced damage bonus from some bow passives that are up the majority of combat.
  • Evasive Tactics - Reduced from 20% to 15%
  • Long Range - Reduced from 20% to 15%
• Increased damage of explosive arrow explosions
  • Increase damage of base explosion from 125% to 135%
  • Increase damage of the contained detonation upgrade from 150% to 170%

Fire Staff

• Fixed an issue where Pillar of Fire could go on Cooldown if interrupted before the cast.

Ice Gauntlet

• Fixed an issue where players were momentarily unable to move after exiting Entomb early.
• Fixed an issue where gaining Haste bonuses would result in Windchill being canceled early due to transitioning to a sprint.

Life Staff

• Fixed an issue where Sacred Ground cooldown could trigger before spell was cast.

Sword & Shield

• Fixed an issue where Longsword’s Empowered Whirling Blade fails to hit 3 targets at the same time and will not provide any more bonus until the weapon is re-equipped.

Great Axe

• Having the “Maelstrom” ability with the Absorb upgrade will no longer absorb friendly projectiles, only those of enemies.

Economy/Progression

General

• Changed the value of tips for musical performances from 1.00 to 10.00
• Fixed multiple display issues when crafting cases of materials using perfect salvage materials.
• Updated text for musical achievements.

Gear/Items

• Empowering Rupture → Refreshing Rupture: Hits with Essence Rupture now reduces its cooldown by 10…31…49% faster.
• Mending Infected Throw → Exhausting Infected Throw: Direct hits with Infected Throw cause Exhaustion reducing stamina regeneration by 10…20…31% for 10 seconds.
• Fixed multiple typos on Salvage Scrap items.
• Removed reference of expedition access on items that were previously used in expedition key crafting.
• Updated salvage scraps icons.
• Fixed an issue where the Topaz Gypsum potion was reducing void damage.
• Removed the ability to purchase chisels from the faction shop except for the Starmetal Chisel.
  • All chisels can now be opened to grant the player coin equal to the amount the chisel was previously purchased for.
  • All chisels are now bound to the player.

Rewards/Loot

• Fixed an issue with Lost Sack of Coins allowing it to be opened correctly now.
• Fixed an issue that was causing Storm’s Past Guitar Sheet Music Part 3 to be unobtainable.
• Beautiful baskets now have a 2.5% chance to drop a common crafting pattern.
• Exquisite baskets now have a 3.5% chance to drop a common crafting pattern.
• Completing a Maudlinbug Swarm musical event now grants Maudlindust in addition to Maudlin Bait.
• Fixed an issue causing the crafting UI to display the Potential Gear Score of items crafted with Expedition Materia incorrectly.
• The Named Rapier Dark Days and the Named Shield Compulsion previously had issues dropping from Lower Svikin. They have been moved to the Upper Svikin to fix their issues.

Taxes

• Fixed an issue where tax cooldowns were sometimes not reset after a territory ownership change.

Trade Skills

Crafting

• Updated all of the Materia based expedition replicas to no longer award territory influence.
• Updated the associated trade skill of the Materia based expedition replica weapons. Everything should now award the expected XP.

Gathering

• Fixed an issue for stuck fishing states on client under high latency conditions.
• Reworked experience curve of first 26 levels of fishing.

UX/UI/Social

General

• Fixed an issue where Maudlinbug Bait showed a debug string after completing the Mauudlinbug Haze.
• Fixed an issue where Musical Instrument Song progression information was not localized in other languages.
• When inviting a player who is already in a group, a message will appear informing the inviter.
• When inviting a player of a different faction, a message will appear to inviter.
• When inviting a player with mismatched PvP flag, a message will appear to inviter.
• When inviting a blocked player, a non descript “invitation declined” message will appear to the inviter.
• When inviting a player at the expedition limit, a message will appear to the inviter.
• Player no longer receives an “Invite to Lobby” message from people they have blocked.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to use the “Learn” function on a Musical Instrument page from the Inventory.
• Fixed an issue where a pop-up dialog stated a penalty timer for Outpost Rush instead of 3v3 PvP Arena.
• Fixed a visual issue with Silkweed in the Harvesting Tradeskill menu.
• Fixed an issue with the Buy Territory Rewards text when viewing the Territory info on the map.
• Fixed an issue with the Tier 3 War Camp text.
• Fixed Dye Channel setup for Heavy Eternal, Overgrown, and Hellfire armor sets.
• Fixed Dye Channel setup for Light Eternal, Overgrown, and Hellfire armor sets.
• Updated the loading screen music to be summer themed.

In-Game Store

• Updated preview selections as follows:
  • Clicking on a piece of an outfit no longer selects the entire outfit for preview when viewing bundles.
  • Clicking on a skin will now select it as the item to preview for that slot. If you click on another skin that matches the slot the previous selection will be removed.
  • When mousing off of the skin, the preview will revert back to the selected skin for that slot. If no skin is selected for that slot, it will revert back to what the player has equipped.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the cursor could disappearing if you get hit while selecting a song or instrument.
• Fixed a crash while talking to a Quest Giver in other languages.
• Fixed an issue when a performance member leaves while you are in a selection menu, the UI doesn’t refresh properly, leaving the instrument of the person leaving not selectable.
• Reduce the hold time for ending tip and exiting performance from 1.5 to 1.0 seconds.

QoL

• Fixed an issue with the progression text when viewing Crafting results.
• Fixed an issue where, after timing out, every subsequent musical performance ending would retrigger the timeout pop-up.
• When a player is booted for a musical performance timeout, a pop-up is now displayed that explains why the performance was ended.

Trading Post

• Fixed an issue where players on the PTR could not interact with the Trading Post.

World Experience

General

• Fixed an issue where some expedition bosses were giving less gold in Mutators.
• Fixed an issue where the Aeternum Sturgeon Hotspot was clipping into environments.
• Fixed an issue where the Swamp Beast is unable to be cleansed using the glowing totems in the arena.
• Players can no longer place camps in a way that would cause them to respawn under the world.
• Added a duration to the song selection menu.
• Fixed an issue where the Music UI would remain when you left the area. This could also result in your cursor being lost.
• Fixed an issue where you would sometimes lose control of your character if you died during a musical performance.
• Fixed an issue where the song selection menu would not properly reflect the collected pages for all players in your performance.
• Added a notification to the performance UI when certain Instrument perks fire off to make it more clear what happened.

Expeditions - Global Mutators

• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Glacial Mutator effect to be stuck on a player if they exited and re-entered the slow AOE.
• Shiver now shows on Nameplates and Delivers Damage.

PTR: Summer Patch Notes - Patch 2

Please note that this list is not all encompassing and is intended as an early look into a number of changes included within the most recent PTR build. This change list will be regularly updated, up through retail release of the game version.

PTR Only

• Mutators have been enabled on the new Barnacles & Black Powder expedition for playtesting.
  • To help facilitate higher-end testing, we have also upgraded the character creation Backstories to Gearscore 625 from 600. You will need to create a new character in order to take advantage of this new offering (or use a character with 625 gear from a previous playtest).
• Group Finder has been re-enabled. You can bring up the Group Finder by opening the expedition interface either through selecting an expedition on the world map or by walking up to the expedition’s front door.

Combat/AI

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where two Void Destroyer meshes may be visible upon spawning.
• Players will no longer be instantly killed in the Siren Queen Trial after other players die.

Game Modes

War

• Fixed an issue with capture point ground fills not rendering properly after point is claimed in War.
• Fixed an issue in Wars and Invasions where the top menu navigation bar was not working properly when exiting a turret with a ranged weapon equipped.

Perks

• Fixed an issue where the “Shirking Heals” perk was not functioning.

Weapons

Bow

• Updated “Explosive Arrow” to allow for walking navigation while firing arrows.
  • Reduced the startup of the attack from 24 to 14 frames.
  • Animation was updated to fit better with the updated attack.
  • Updated the VFX and SFX of the attack to appear and sound more impactful. Color of smaller explosion from the “Contained Detonation” upgrade is slightly different than base explosion.

Economy/Progression

Housing

• Fixed an issue where players would lose an item if they had full storage while abandoning a house with one housing item inside.

Rewards/Loot

• Increased Smolderhide and Scarhide drop rates from skinning and aptitude boxes.

Trade Skills

Gathering

• Fixed an issue where dodge roll has priority to cancel Fishing mode.
• Fixed an issue that caused the client to pause during Fishing tradeskill level up.

Musical Instruments

• Added a filter to song selection menu to only show songs that can be played.
• Added compatibility for officially supported language keyboards.
• Fixed an issue that in some cases would allow players to be invited to music performances if they were not inside the performance zone.
• Fixed an issue when running into musical performances in progress that could sometimes cause the ‘count-in’ sound to play at the wrong time.
• Fixed an issue with musical performances where the options screen could potentially try to toggle the mute state before the local player is assigned.
• Fixed an issue with the Upright Bass animation not playing for “Sneaky the Smuggler”.
• Removed the 1/3 wording on “Path Less Traveled” music pages.
• Fixed an issue where listeners were unable to tip if they were further than 5m from the lead performer when tipping opened.
• Instruments that break during a performance now get unequipped, preventing the start of another performance.

Expeditions

Barnacles & Black Powder

• Admiral Blackpowder now dies with the appropriate vocals and explosion sound effects.
• Distant powder keg explosion sound effects no longer occur when walking near the Dry Rum Passage.
• Updated the quest rewards for the Barnacles and Black Powder expedition quests to give equipment and gypsum orbs.

Global

• Partially reverted expedition coin drop reductions. Now reducing coin by 50% from values prior to July whereas previously it was previously an 80% reduction.

Open World

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the tree falling sound effect to sometimes not play.
• Addressed an issue where Group Finder could crash when converting a group to a lobby group.

Summer Event

• GS 600 patterns from the Summer Shop are now Legendary Rarity.
• Fixed an issue where the purchase of Medleyfaire shop items would not succeed if players previewed skins or emotes before buying them.

UX/UI/Social

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pinging locations on the map would cause the marker to appear at the bottom of the world.
• Fixed an issue where players were not appropriately notified if they are kicked from a Group Finder Lobby or if the Lobby is disbanded.
• Fixed an issue where the appropriate player UI did not appear after completing an arena match. Players are now presented with a “Play” button or a “Play with group” button when in group.
• Fixed an issue where Crafting UI screen could stay on screen when character wasn’t interacting with the crafting station anymore.
• Fixed an issue where items sold in shops were not displaying the correct variable numeric values.
• Fixed an issue where the PvP Arena reward banner would show you gained a Garnet Gypsum, even when you had already reached your daily maximum. This was a visual-only bug. You were not receiving more than the daily limit for Garnet Gypsum.
• Fixed an issue where trying to select a different ingredient for the Topaz Gypsum Attunement Potion caused you to need to exit the crafting screen in order to use it again.
• Fixed “Wave 1 of 8” display not updating properly in Invasions.
• Outpost Rush markers will properly refresh when playing multiple matches in a row.

QoL

• Improved loading times into the crafting screen.

PTR: Summer Patch Notes - Patch 4

Please note that this list is not all encompassing and is intended as an early look into a number of changes included within the most recent PTR build. This change list will be regularly updated, up through retail release of the game version.

Combat/AI

General

• Added restrictions on changing weapon masteries while In Combat.

Game Modes

Outpost Rush

• Fixed an issue causing Ug and Dug to sometimes rapidly navigate from the mines towards the nearest fort.

PvP Arenas

• Fixed an issue where destroying an Ice Pylon was counting as a kill in some game modes.

Duels

• Duel music now keeps priority over PvP music.

Perks

• Fixed an issue where the “Exhausting Infected Throw” perk was applying a stun to targets.

Weapons

Sword & Shield

• Fixed an issue where you would gain armor bonus from the Shield without having a Sword equipped.

Economy/Progression

Trade Skills

Refining

• Runestone Stopwatch now rewards the correct amount of Stonecutting tradeskill.

Musical Instruments

• The proper instrument is now selected when Musical Performance animation starts if player switched their instrument.

• You can no longer bring up the Map Objectives during a performance.

• Fixed an issue that caused crashes when tipping after a Musical Performance.

• Fixed an issue where player migration could potentially cause performances to crash.

• Lowered UI for Musical Performance watchers so that it would no longer interfere with the landmark difficulty UI.

Gear/Rewards

• Fixed a visual issue with the Azure Plain female helmet.

UX/UI/Social

In-Game Store

• Fixed an issue where certain crests were not appearing in the list of available crests if you are entitled to them.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when disconnecting and returning to the main menu, then trying to go back into the world.

• Fixed an issue where players would not get achievement progress for winning invasions.

• Fixed an issue where players could bypass the chat filter settings to enter profanity.

• Fixed an issue where some beetles were missing their health bars.

• The Winter Village icon in Everfall has been removed from the Map.

• Addressed small chance of locking in place when attempting to open a conversation with an NPC immediately after closing a conversation.

Group Finder

• Fixed a crash when players were forming a Lobby Group using Group Finder.

QoL

• Added UI icons to player markers to identify which players are part of your current Musical Performance.

World Experience

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where exiting a performance would cause the player to be in an incorrect animation on the local client.

• Fixed an issue causing login errors when client’s system clock is off by several hours.

Summer Medleyfaire

• Fixed an issue for when a player switches localizations, the “Resets daily at…” does not update with the rest of the Map for Medleyfaire icons.

• Fixed an issue where zooming in on map could cause the Medleyfaire icons to capture all mouse events.

• Fixed grammar mistakes in Medleyfaire Memento item descriptions.

• Fixed an issue causing Summer Medleyfaire recipes to consume the wrong crafting pattern.

• Fixed an issue causing the Summer Medleyfaire crafted armor items to not give materials during salvage.

Expeditions

QoL

• Removed Item Durability Loss in Expeditions. We decided with the changes to gold rewards and removal of key items it made sense to removed item durability costs, making Expeditions consistent with other game modes.

Global Mutators

• Fixed an issue where the Victory Screen in Expeditions would show Mutator Orbs still being granted the player. These rewards were removed from the game.

• Fixed an issue where some enemies would not gain elemental modifiers from Mutators.

PTR: Summer Patch Notes - Patch 4

Please note that this list is not all encompassing and is intended as an early look into a number of changes included within the most recent PTR build. This change list will be regularly updated, up through retail release of the game version.

Combat/AI

General

• Added restrictions on changing weapon masteries while In Combat.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed animation switching from tools to weapons which would have resulted in sometimes leaving players with a weapon equipped but combat animations for gathering actions.
• Fixed a bug that could cause your player to incorrectly spawn into the world while dead.

Game Modes

War

• Fixed possible server crash when accepting War invites.

Outpost Rush

• Fixed an issue causing Ug and Dug to sometimes rapidly navigate from the mines towards the nearest fort.

PvP Arenas

• Fixed an issue where destroying an Ice Pylon was counting as a kill in some game modes.
• Fixed the “Exit Match” message appearing in game modes other than PVP Arenas.

Duels

• Duel music now keeps priority over PvP music.

Weapons

Blunderbuss

• Fixed issue where firing the the blunderbuss’ mortar charge ability too quickly after loading would sometimes result in having no cooldown.

Life Staff

• Fixed an issue where the Beacon AOE was being destroyed when hitting neutral targets.

Sword & Shield

• Fixed an issue where you would gain armor bonus from the Shield without having a Sword equipped.

Perks

• Fixed an issue where the “Exhausting Infected Throw” perk was applying a stun to targets.

World Experience

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an occasional startup crash that would occur after a game update.
• Adjusted a rogue cliff that was placed in the middle a cave which prevented player progress.
• Improved terrain texture loading that became sluggish, resulting in blurry or muddy-looking ground spots.
• Fixed an issue causing login errors when the client’s system clock is off by several hours.

QoL

• Reduced the difficulty of Ghost-type monsters with the following global changes:
  • Reduced the damage of Overhead Swipe attacks
  • Removed stagger from both Overhead Swipes and Lunge attacks
  • Removed Grit from both Overhead Swipes and Lunge attacks

Expeditions

QoL

• Removed Item Durability Loss in Expeditions. We decided with the changes to gold rewards and removal of key items it made sense to removed item durability costs, making Expeditions consistent with other game modes.

Global Mutators

• Fixed an issue where some enemies would not gain elemental modifiers from Mutators.

Economy/Progression

Trade Skills

Gear/Rewards

• Fixed a visual issue with the Azure Plain female helmet.

Progression

Expertise

• Players can now obtain 10 Topaz Gypsum per day allowing for two Gypsum Orb crafts.
• Added a second Gypsum Orb to purchase in faction shops per day.

UX/UI/Social

In-Game Store

• Fixed an issue where certain crests were not appearing in the list of available crests if you are entitled to them.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when disconnecting and returning to the main menu, then trying to go back into the world.
• Fixed an issue where players would not get achievement progress for winning invasions.
• Fixed an issue where players could bypass the chat filter settings to enter profanity.
• Fixed an issue where some beetles were missing their health bars.
• Addressed small chance of locking in place when attempting to open a conversation with an NPC immediately after closing a conversation.
• Fixed a bug where expedition objective icons could not show up during an expedition run.
• Fixed text alignment within the Inventory Equipment Load tooltip.
• Fixed arrow input being disabled for text input fields.

QoL

• Updated formatting on the cooldown display within the ability slot tooltip on the Weapon Mastery Tree window so that it only shows one decimal point.
• The E key can now be rebound to a different function!

PTR: Summer Patch Notes - Patch 5

Please note that this list is not all encompassing and is intended as an early look into a number of changes included within the most recent PTR build. This change list will be regularly updated, up through retail release of the game version.

Trading Post [Notes Updated - 7/22]

• Added new filtering options to the trading post.

Combat/AI

Notable Fixes

• Fixed animation switching from tools to weapons which would have resulted in sometimes leaving players with a weapon equipped but combat animations for gathering actions.
• Fixed a bug that could cause your player to incorrectly spawn into the world while dead.

Game Modes

War

• Fixed possible server crash when accepting War invites.

Weapons

Blunderbuss

• Fixed issue where firing the the blunderbuss’ mortar charge ability too quickly after loading would sometimes result in having no cooldown.

Hatchet

• Balance Changes:
  • Accumulated Power - reduced power from 30% to 20% but also allow throws to trigger
  • Relentless Fury - reduced power from 30% to 15% but increase the duration of the effect from 3s to 5s
  • Infected Throw - Reduced damage from 165% to 120%
  • Rending Throw - Reduced damage from 120% to 110%

World Experience

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an occasional startup crash that would occur after a game update.
• Adjusted a rogue cliff that was placed in the middle a cave which prevented player progress.
• Improved terrain texture loading that became sluggish, resulting in blurry or muddy-looking ground spots.

Summer Medleyfaire

• It is no longer possible to drop Summer Medleyfaire tokens.
• Fixed an issue causing Summer Medleyfaire recipes to consume the wrong crafting pattern.
• Fixed an issue causing lower-rarity Summer Medleyfaire crafting recipes to sometimes craft an item with fewer perks than expected.
• Fixed an issue causing Summer Medleyfaire GS 600 patterns to display the wrong rarity on the crafting menu.
• Fixed the dancefloor to always allow the player to dance when expected.
• Adjusted a summer fishing hotspot location that was inside of a stone in Mourningdale.

Economy/Progression

Trade Skills

Musical Instruments

• Fixed overlapping menu in Musical Performances if you mash song select button while exiting Song Selection menu.
• Fixed fishing becoming inaccessible if you create a Musical Performance while in the Apply Bait screen.
• Fixed potential client crash during musical performance sound preloading.
• Musical performances are now cancelled when engaging in a player trade.
• Updated descriptions and localizations to many instruments and music pages.

UX/UI/Social

Notable Fixes

• Fixed a bug where expedition objective icons could not show up during an expedition run.
• Fixed the “Exit Match” message appearing in game modes other than PVP Arenas.
• Fixed text alignment within the Inventory Equipment Load tooltip.
• Fixed arrow input being disabled for text input fields.

QoL

• Updated formatting on the cooldown display within the ability slot tooltip on the Weapon Mastery Tree window so that it only shows one decimal point.
• The E key can now be rebound to a different function!

PTR: Summer Patch Notes - Patch 6

Please note that this list is not all encompassing and is intended as an early look into a number of changes included within the most recent PTR build. This change list will be regularly updated, up through retail release of the game version.

Combat/AI

Game Modes

Outpost Rush

• Outpost Rush Reward Caches are now significantly more likely to grant expertise bumps.
  • Outpost Rush Reward Caches now roll higher rarity loot more often.
  • Outpost Rush Reward Cache Weapons now have weapon perks more frequently.

War

• Faction Control Points no longer lock prior to a War or Invasion.
• Fixed an issue where other players were seen freezing or teleporting during War.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a player could get stuck in a jump animation when jumping backward diagonally.

Weapons

Hatchet

• Accumulated Power: Power reduced from 30% to 20% and now also triggers off throws.
• Relentless Fury: Power reduced from 30% to 15% but also increased the effect duration from 3s to 5s.
• Infected Throw: Damage reduced from 165% to 120%.
• Rending Throw: Damage reduced from 120% to 110%.

Expeditions

Barnacles & Black Powder

• Fixed a rare issues where Admiral Blackpowder would stutter in place when entering the cannon phase.
• Fixed an issue causing Priscilla’s Shield to have different perk spreads. The shield now consistently has Constitution, Refreshing Move, Diminishing Shield Bash, and Sturdy.

Audio

Notable Fixes

• Fixed an issue where combat music would sometimes stop working.
• Fixed issue where Corrupted Portal music continued to play after the event concluded.

World Experience

Summer Event

• Fixed an issue where summer village music would sometimes stop working.

Notable Fixes

• Fixed a bug where players could get stuck in the wrong fishing states.
• Fixed a bug where the UI could disappear if you joined an instanced activity or used the “unstuck” function while actively equipped with a fishing rod in hand.
• Fixed an issue where a player’s camp respawn point from a previous play session would show up on the respawn screen even if unavailable. * Fixed issue where items were multiple items being dropped simultaneously created multiple individual bags instead of all within the same single bag.

Economy/Progression

Gear/Items

• The named armor pieces Wanderer’s Pants and Quaint Helm have had their stats re-balanced to be more inline with other Legendary gear.

Trade Skills

Musical Instruments

• Added additional checks to ensure that the proper instrument has been selected when the play animation starts.
• Player can no longer get Musical Performance invites while fishing
• Player can no longer get Musical Performance invites while gathering.
• Fixed a client lockup when a Musical Performance has start while viewing the Menu overlay.