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Alpha Two Update Notes - 6 de diciembre de 2024

DESTACADOS

• Añadida la función de lista de amigos en el menú social (tecla O).
• Aumentados los puntos de vida y estadísticas de los enemigos élite.
• Reducido significativamente el impacto de la rareza en el poder del equipo. Estos cambios afectarán principalmente al equipo de nivel superior. El equipo común se ha mantenido prácticamente igual, y la reducción de poder comienza desde el nivel poco común en adelante.
• Corregido un error que hacía que la estadística de calidad en fabricación otorgara demasiada eficiencia, resultando en una mayor frecuencia de objetos de alta calidad.
• Añadido de nuevo el encargo municipal para adquirir un token de Guerra de Nodo.

GENERAL

• Mejorada la calidad de los efectos visuales en configuraciones gráficas bajas.
• Observar a otros jugadores en movimiento será más fluido en áreas menos densas.
• Añadida suavidad adicional a animaciones de montura y escenarios de movimiento.
• Corregido un error donde reasignar puntos de habilidades impedía que estos se aplicaran hasta que se volviera a abrir el menú.
• Corregido un error que impedía acumular deuda de experiencia al alcanzar el nivel máximo.
• Corregidos varios problemas de estabilidad del servidor y del cliente.
• Corregidos varios errores relacionados con la pantalla de carga.

PERSONAJES Y ARQUETIPOS

• Actualizadas las estadísticas base de atributos, puntos de vida y maná.
• Actualizados los efectos visuales de varias habilidades de Clérigo y Tanque.
• Actualizados los efectos visuales de la habilidad "Empoderamiento Elemental" para incluir ataques de espada a dos manos y empujes cuerpo a cuerpo.
• Corregidos varios errores relacionados con habilidades y animaciones de movimiento.
• Corregido un error que hacía que los comandos /dance1-4 no funcionaran correctamente.
• Agregado el comando /lean.
• Renombrada la habilidad "Imbue Ammo" del Explorador a "Enhance Armament" para reflejar mejor que funciona con cualquier arma.
• La mitigación "Coraje" del Tanque ahora será aditiva en lugar de multiplicativa.
• La reducción de corrupción ahora se dividirá equitativamente entre los miembros del grupo que estén en rango.
• Las variaciones de daño físico de la varita y el libro de hechizos tendrán efectos visuales diferentes de sus contrapartes mágicas.

CARAVANAS

• Corregidos errores que afectaban el movimiento, desaparición y compra de caravanas.
• Corregidos errores que ocurrían durante el despliegue de caravanas.
• Corregido un exploit que duplicaba la carga de caravanas.

ECONOMÍA

• Reducido el tiempo de reaparición de algunos cofres de recompensa.
• Los objetos con caducidad ahora mostrarán su tiempo restante.
• Corregidos errores relacionados con la duplicación de objetos en el inventario.
• Corregidos errores relacionados con la venta de materiales y consumibles.
• Corregidos errores en el almacenamiento y la pesca.

NODOS

• Nuevos ajustes en las guerras de nodo, incluido iconos, ubicaciones de NPC y mecánicas.
• Actualizados los gráficos de algunos edificios cuando están en proceso de construcción.
• Añadido de nuevo el encargo municipal para adquirir un token de Guerra de Nodo.
• Corregidos errores en la interfaz y en el cálculo de impuestos de ciudadanía.

INTERFAZ DE USUARIO

• Actualizada la iconografía y la fidelidad visual de múltiples paneles y botones.
• Añadido un diálogo de confirmación para cancelar trabajos de procesamiento.
• Corregidos errores relacionados con textos, mapas, barras de desplazamiento e iconos de misiones.

NPCS Y ENEMIGOS

• Actualizados los efectos visuales y de sonido de numerosos enemigos.
• Ajustadas las mecánicas de combate y la población enemiga en diversas áreas.
• Corregidos errores relacionados con la posición y comportamiento de NPCs.

MISIONES, ENCARGOS Y EVENTOS

• Ahora el nivel de un evento se mostrará en la descripción del mapa.
• Implementada la opción de rendición en guerras de hermandad.
• Corregidos múltiples errores en la entrega de misiones y encargos.

ENTORNO

• Mejoradas la iluminación y la fidelidad visual de diversas áreas.
• Añadidas colisiones y nuevos elementos de entorno.
• Solucionados problemas de iluminación y posicionamiento en varios mapas.

LOBBY Y CREACIÓN DE PERSONAJE

• Añadidos mensajes de error más descriptivos.
• Añadidas nuevas animaciones de caminar y reposo para el creador de personajes.
• Actualizadas las animaciones y transiciones en el lobby.

PERSONAJE, ARQUETIPO Y COMBATE

• Guardia ahora cancelará correctamente los combos de armas durante los frames de preparación y cancelación.
• Se añadió reducción de daño y curación a la deuda de experiencia. La ventana emergente de experiencia ahora mostrará estos valores.
• Se añadió un enfriamiento de 24 horas para los personajes antes de poder unirse a una nueva hermandad tras dejar una.
• Se añadieron opciones adicionales de JcJ al menú del juego.
• Se actualizó la ventana de comercio para requerir dos pasos al retirar objetos.
• Se corrigió un error que podía causar que algunos personajes perdieran progreso (persistencia).
• Se corrigió un error que permitía a los jugadores matar a otros sin obtener Corrupción si participaban en eventos similares pero separados.
• (Tanque) Se cambió la mitigación proporcionada por la habilidad Coraje de aditiva a multiplicativa.

CARAVANAS

• Los Maestros de caravanas ahora deberían funcionar correctamente después de que un personaje pierda una caravana.
• Ahora debería ser posible seleccionar y ver caravanas en espera de ser desplegadas.
• Se corrigió un error que impedía comprar caravanas si una caravana anterior había sido eliminada del inventario de un personaje.

NPCS ENEMIGOS

• Se ajustó la tasa de reaparición de todos los NPC con nombre.
• Se corrigió un error que causaba problemas con cómo se enlazaban los Cíclopes y Tumok el Miserable.
• Se corrigió un error que hacía que Tumok el Miserable se volviera inactivo al evadirse en ciertas situaciones.
• Los gigantes ya no deberían quedarse atascados cuando están rodeados de jugadores.
• Se aumentó el daño general de los gigantes.

NODOS

• Se corrigieron problemas con la aparición de la ventana de Pago de Impuestos del Nodo incluso después de haber pagado los impuestos.
• Se corrigieron problemas con el tiempo de elecciones causados por el tiempo de inactividad del reino.

GUERRAS DE NODOS Y GUERRAS DE HERMANDAD

• Guerras Territoriales de Nodo: El Nodo ganador ahora tomará el 20% del oro y mercancías del Nodo perdedor. Además, se perderá un 5% adicional del oro y mercancías.
• Se añadieron recompensas para los personajes que participen en Guerras de Hermandad y Guerras de Nodos. Estas recompensas se entregarán por correo dentro del juego.
• Se añadió un botón de rendición en las Guerras de Hermandad, disponible una hora después de haber comenzado la guerra.
• La interfaz de usuario de las Guerras de Hermandad y Guerras de Nodos recibió varias mejoras.
• Se añadió un nuevo seguimiento de Guerras de Hermandad en el panel de objetivos.
• Se cambió el costo de fabricación de los pergaminos de declaración de guerra de hermandad.
• Se corrigió un error en las Guerras de Hermandad JcJ de Tala. Los personajes ahora serán marcados correctamente para JcJ.

MUNDO Y ENTORNO

• Se cambió la ubicación de las Ruinas de Portal Embershrine para evitar que los personajes se queden atascados.
• Se modificó la Ciudadela de Steelbloom para que diferentes enemigos aparezcan dependiendo de la hora del día.
• Se corrigió un problema de iluminación que hacía que la Torre de Carphin se viera más oscura de lo previsto.
• La niebla ahora será más ligera durante la noche.
• Se actualizó el comportamiento del viento.

CAMBIOS ADICIONALES

• Se cambió cómo se recompensa el Glint. Ahora se condensará automáticamente a la rareza del Glint obtenido.
• El encabezado del minimapa ahora mostrará cuando tengas correo.
• Los excrementos ahora siempre deberían caer con el mismo nivel de rareza.
• Se modificaron los textos de algunas descripciones emergentes.
• Se corrigió un error que hacía que algunas notificaciones se mostraran a un solo personaje en lugar de a todo el grupo.
• Se corrigió un error que causaba problemas al interactuar con ciertos elementos en el juego.
• Se corrigió un error que hacía que los personajes se quedaran atascados al interactuar con un vendedor de Carpintería.
• Se corrigió un error que causaba que algunos personajes atravesaran el suelo al iniciar sesión.
• Se corrigió un error con las pilas de botín de mapas del tesoro que no se generaban correctamente.
• Se corrigieron problemas con la salud máxima incorrecta de la montura Gato Pallas.
• Se corrigieron problemas que podían hacer que el almacenamiento de mercancía se volviera invisible.
• Se corrigieron problemas con el comando Desatascar que no funcionaba correctamente.
• Se corrigió un exploit de oro de vendedor al vender objetos duplicados.
• Se corrigió un exploit que permitía duplicar objetos de almacenamiento.
• Se corrigió un fallo del cliente relacionado con las animaciones de caballos.
• Se corrigieron varios problemas que causaban caídas de servidor.
• Se corrigieron algunas fugas de memoria.

Happy Friday Glorious Testers,
This weekend is a larger release than the previous 3 weekends. We had a lot of changes that came up from our lower development streams. As a result, it is entirely possible and likely that some new bugs have been introduced, and some systems may have regressed. We have caught a majority of them this week during our PTR testing.
Remember as you test this weekend, to file bug reports so we can react to the ones we deem most urgent/severe. You have all been doing a wonderful job, and week after week the Intrepid team has been kicking butt. Forward and onward!

Highlights

• To help new characters, we’ve added an opt-in to PvP safety option. This is available to non-combatants that are level 5 or lower, in the starting areas
• Added a one-minute PVP protection option for characters resurrecting at an Emberspring
• Looting other characters' non-corrupted corpses will now flag you as a combatant. The looting window has been updated to make the potentially dangerous action more clear
• Guards will now attack characters flagged for PvP. This includes both Combatant (purple) and Corrupted (red) characters
• The map will now display quest numbers corresponding to a character’s quest tracker

General Character Changes

• Dodge will now be able to cancel other abilities when used
• Guard will now be able canceled when other abilities are used
• Self buffs will now be removed when respeccing your Skill Tree
• Reduced Evasive Maneuver duration from 2 seconds to 1
• Fixed issues with characters getting stuck inside of each other while loading into the game
• Unstuck has now been changed to add a cast time
• Gold maximum capacity is now set to 200
• Changed it so when a character dies, they always lose some durability
• Overall equipment durability has been increased
• Added automatic target selection when you attack an enemy and have no target selected
• Auto attacks now stop if the target dies or changes to a non-combatant
• Food buff items no longer provide regeneration while eating
• Increased the base rate in which characters will regen health and mana while out of combat and while sitting
• Rations have increased health and mana regen
• Separated the buffs for drinks and food, so characters can have both. We’re working on adding more food and drink in future updates
• Updated visual effects for Stagger, Volatile, and death animations
• Fixed a bug indicating that Chilled could stack
• Fixed missing player footsteps
• Fixed a visual bug causing the cast bar animation to not play correctly
• Resolved numerous visual clipping issues with weapons and armor
• Fixed targeting effects not displaying for certain abilities
• Fixed a bug allowing climbing and mantling on non-walkable surfaces
• Fixed a bug causing damage numbers to be delayed
• Fixed a bug preventing characters from equipping purchased Harvesting tools
• Improved the visuals of some cloaks for Vek characters
• Improved player movement

Bard

Quick Wit

• Increased base damage
• Reduced passive fire damage slightly
• The Fierce Wit passive now has a conditional tripped interaction with Quick Wit
• Renamed Monologue to "Endless Jest"
• Increased the charge count of Endless Jest
• Endless Jest now adds the Pep buff to Quick Wit
• Added optional skills, Jest and Mock (halves of Quick Wit) which have a shared cooldown for players who prefer separate buttons

Resonant Weapon

• Automatically granted at level 5
• No longer a free weapon combo finisher
• Casting any non-Melody type ability now grants a stack of Resonance
• Resonance stacks up to 10 times:
• - Your next weapon combo finisher will consume up to 4 stacks for a scaling effect.

Shielding Dance

• Shielding Dance from multiple Bards no longer stack
• Reduced base shield slightly
• Added Shielding Dance passive that boosts shield amount and allows fully absorbed shields to grant resonance stacks

Maddening Dance

• Slightly increased damage
• Changed Maddening Dance so it no longer interacts with Humiliation
• Added a passive that will stagger and potentially stun nearby enemies

Hymn of the Mind

• Increased turn rate of projectiles

Lovely Serenade

• Slightly reduced base healing
• Added a passive with interactions for single-target and AOE versions of Lovely Serenade
• - Single Target: Grants shield and damage mitigation buff
• - AOE: Increases healing and provides Glee if targets are below 50% health

Chilling Lament

• Adjusted the debuff duration for single target and AOE versions
• Now applies Weakened instead of Frozen

Marionette

• Now applies Humiliated status after Fragile Stunned expires

Dark Lullaby

• Corrected tooltip to show a 4-second stun instead of 6

Glee

• Reduced healing
• Added small damage mitigation bonus
• Added passive that slightly increases damage mitigation bonus and provides a chance for Glee to bounce to nearby allies

Pep

• Reduced base duration to 4 seconds
• Added passive that increases duration to 5 seconds and causes nearby allies to gain Pep after Flourish
• Fixed a bug causing Bard's drumsticks to be turned the wrong way
• Fixed a bug causing Maddening Dance and Nimble Dance to not properly dispel

Mage

• Updated visual effects on Imbue Weapon to show elemental weapon trails
• Updated visual effects on the wand finisher’s beam
• Updated visual effects for Magma Field
• Fixed a bug causing Frostbolt, Fireball, and Lightning Strike to instantly cast after using Accelerative Blink
• Fixed VFX bugs with Resplendent Beam and Chain Lightning
• Fixed a visual issue with Magma Field and Blizzard when cast near a wall

Ranger

• Updated visual effects on Ammo imbues to reflect the type of ammo imbued
• Improved visual fidelity of Camouflage
• Fixed a bug where parts of the Ranger’s body would remain camouflaged after exiting Camouflage
• Fixed a bug causing Thorns to not flag its owner as a combatant when dealing damage

Tank

• Added collision to Tank Walls
• Major visual effects update for Tank abilities

Cleric

• Resurrect will now be granted automatically to Clerics when they reach level 6
• Changed the cooldown of Cleric Resurrect to 30 seconds
• Updated visual effects for Chains of Restraint

Mounts

• Mounts now despawn if they are 100 meters away from their owners
• Mounts will now share their owner’s PVP status
• Improved mount movement
• Increased base HP of mounts
• Fixed a bug causing mounts to flicker
• Fixed a bug causing mount ability cooldowns to display incorrectly
• Fixed a bug causing mount cooldown timers to be longer than intended
• Fixed a bug causing mount special actions to not play for other players

Caravans

• Added the ability to recover Caravans. When you’re close to a Caravan you can recover, you should see an option in-game to allow for caravan recovery
• Fixed a bug allowing Caravan recovery outside of the intended area
• Added messaging for the second stage of defending a Caravan
• Reduced the health regeneration of Caravans from 0.1% to 0.01% of max health
• Added an unstuck ability to Caravans
• Fixed a bug preventing dismounting from a Caravan in raft configuration
• Fixed a bug preventing walking on Caravan docks
• Fixed a bug causing the Caravan’s turn-in radius to remain after dismounting
• Fixed a bug causing Caravan turn-ins to display incorrectly
• Fixed a bug that caused looted cargo to remain interactable
• Fixed a bug showing purchased Caravans as unavailable
• Fixed an exploit that allowed for Commodities to be duplicated

Environment

• Improved the visual fidelity and lighting in many areas across Verra
• Improved the visual fidelity of night
• Enabled lightning storm weather
• Added clouds that cast shadows from the sun and moon
• Wind now varies in intensity and direction
• Changed the visual impact of wind on clouds, trees, and tents to be less
• Enhanced visual fidelity of fog
• Improved road generation for a more seamless appearance
• General updates to cliffs, mountain ranges, rivers, and shorelines
• Updated the appearance of bridges across Verra
• Improved lighting fidelity and performance for low graphics settings
• Enhanced performance for cliffs and forests
• Improved asset loading around Carphin
• Fixed a bug causing distant water to not appear
• Fixed multiple issues causing objects to pop in close to the player
• Reworked collision for Metalworking Stations, Braziers, Rocks, and Node building roofs

Character Creator

• Vek and Empyrean characters can now properly utilize tattoos
• Added the Blessed Sandal to available tattoos
• Fixed a bug causing skin to show when transitioning between archetypes in the character creator

Rewards and Loot

• Enemies in the Tower of Carphin have had item drop rates and type of drops adjusted
• Fishing rewards will now properly give items with a variety of rarities, and Certification experience
• Adjusted the drop rate of items from named enemies
• Giants are in the game and have reward tables
• Fixed Carphin loot sources
• Creatures now drop more Droppings
• When Droppings drop, the chance to drop at rarity has been increased to be more in line with other raw material drops

Artisanship

• Updated the user experience for Processing Stations and Fast Crafting menus
• Processing stations will now be able to yield more than one item
• Fixed a bug that could make Processing stations non-interactable
• Fixed a bug with Artisanship station locations in areas with flat layouts
• Replaced Mulch requirement in all Tier 1 farming recipes with Droppings
• Fish can now be used as fuel
• Fixed some resources that were set as fuel, but didn’t have their fuel value specified
• Fixed a bug causing recipes for bags to have a fuel requirement and a longer than expected crafting time
• Fixed a bug with the Buzhbud robe recipe requiring incorrect components
• Fixed issues with tier 1 recipes that were requiring tier 3 resources
• Fixed a number of tanning recipes that unintentionally required a gryphon carcass
• Added more sources to get Cooking recipes
• Fixed a bug causing the Tanning station to produce incorrect items
• Huntable animals now have variable respawn times
• Made changes to the tree population in the eastern mountain ranges
• Fixed an issue with some plants and trees respawning much faster than intended
• Fixed a visual bug displaying placeholder text on artisanship screens

User Interface

• Reworked the User Interface (UI), and updated many icons and windows across the UI
• Updated UI customization functionality
• Updated the quest delivery window
• Corrupted or combatant status now shows in the target window, target of target window, party, and raid interfaces
• Added "Report a Bug" functionality to the escape menu
• Added an option to adjust the display range for NPC and player nameplates
• Removed the “Invite to Party” option for non-party leaders
• Renamed City chat to Citizen chat
• Fixed a visual bug causing the scrollbar to not always appear in dialogue
• Fixed a bug causing crashes while scrolling in menus
• Fixed a visual bug causing death location to not always display on the world map
• Fixed a visual bug causing icons in the nameplate to not always disappear
• Fixed a visual bug causing secondary and tertiary quest objectives to not appear after logging out
• Fixed a visual bug causing chat text to sometimes turn purple
• Fixed a bug with the skill tree reset location button
• Fixed a bug causing party invites to not be received

Audio

• Updated the distance at which some audio can be heard
• Updated the sounds around Samia’s Hope
• Updated audio for Tank, Ranger and Mage abilities
• Added audio to Crystal Golems
• Updated the sounds of different resources being mined
• Fixed a bug causing Node music to not play
• Fixed audio bugs with several NPCs
• Fixed a bug causing unlit fires to sound like lit fires
• Added more cowbell

Nodes

• Characters will now be informed about the consequences when they go to renounce their citizenship
• Node Buy Orders now allow characters to contribute a lower minimum number of items. NOTE: This applies to new Buy Orders. Any existing Buy Orders will have the old values
• Updated the interface of several services in Nodes
• Added dialogue to all Node Guards to inform non-citizens of the node’s activities
• Rearranged marketplace location and placement so that all nodes have a consistent pattern
• Updated the positioning of Mercenary NPCs in level 1 Nodes
• Adjusted the text and description to make Node War and Territory War events more clear
• Mayoral Commissions have had character contribution requirements reduced
• Fixes for some NPCs so they’re no longer standing on top of buildings
• Removed equipment from the list of what Mayor Vendors were selling
• Removed rusty sword from the Guild Creation vendor
• Added a variety of ambient NPCs such as a lute player and a crate loader
• Node Summary now displays the tax
• Non-citizen menu now displays a list of nearby nodes
• Improved service building construction animation
• Made changes to how vendor tax is displayed
• Added citizen voting to service building demolition
• Fixed a bug causing the tax payment popup to incorrectly show after paying taxes
• Fixed a bug causing the Master Guard in Lionhold to have Node-related dialogue
• Fixed a bug causing fake Crafting station icons to appear in Miraleth
• Fixed a bug causing notification spam during a Node war
• Fixed a bug causing newly registered citizens to not be participants in an active Node war
• Fixed a bug allowing the daily contribution limit to be bypassed by logging in and out
• Fixed a bug causing items and materials to be lost or duplicated in the storage warehouse
• Fixed a visual bug causing the Node currency reward display to be too large
• Fixed a visual bug causing node war guards to incorrectly display as 5-star elites
• Updated some placeholder icons

Guild Wars

• Fixed UI bugs with Guild War Declarations
• Fixed a bug causing the Guild War UI to not display the current score in an active war

Commissions, Quests, and Events

• Fixed a bug with incorrect resource spawning for the Sweat of Your Brow quest in south Lionhold
• Updated Commissions to better align with their corresponding locations
• Moved the Commissions quest giver in Samia’s Hope to be next to the commission board
• Updated Cargo delivery quests to better align with their corresponding locations
• Updated instructions for multiple Commissions to better indicate direction and completion objectives
• Updated Fishing Commission objectives to more clearly identify requirements
• Commissions have had font changes in the UI
• The Goblin Counterattack event now provides rewards
• The Sillasin Scale plunder quest has been updated to be level 23
• Fixed a bug with the kill credit in the The “Kill Teddie” commission
• Fixed bugs in the "Bonebinder Kill" commission
• Fixed a variety of typos in Commissions and Quests
• Fixed a visual bug causing quest markers and events to not appear on the map or minimap
• Fixed a bug preventing characters from completing certain quests
• Added a dialogue path to retrieve discarded quest items without abandoning the quest
• The Woe of Xander - Fixed broken interactions and adjusted Broken Gravemarkers
• The Marching Mausoleum - Fixed how objective completion displays, and loot phase issues
• The Angry Harvest - Increased event area marker
• Foul Presence - Inspection of the quest item is now an optional step
• Horns of Betrayal - Updated the event radius to better reflect objective areas, and added rewards
• The Wreckless Crew - Added loot required to progress the quest
• Strategic Denial - Added slate and wyrdstone
• The Blood Hunt - Added rewards
• The Bloom Event - Fixed a bug causing the event tooltip to display an incorrect number of participants
• The Outlaw’s End - Fixed a bug causing repeated dialogues
• Proper Burial - Fixed quest marker locations
• Justice and Redemption - Goblin Scavengers now properly drop the quest item
• Banned of Brothers - Fixed quest marker locations
• The Dig - Can now be completed
• The Pests - Fixed an issue causing tracks to not be present
• Burnt Ends - Fixed a bug with a missing interact
• Treasure Hunt - Fixed a bug preventing quest completion
• Lost Its Howl - Fixed incorrect quest dialogue, and added an objective
• Rain of Rocks - Fixed a bug preventing quest completion
• Territory Control Event - Event notification now provides more information on the start time and state of PVP, and XP debt accumulation has been turned off for a wider area around the event
• Added new Bloom Bridge Blockade quest
• Removed Mayor’s "Declare a War" starting quest
• Removed Mayor’s "Build a Service Building Expansion" starting quest
• Added new Invasive Species event near Samia’s Hope
• Added new Ancient Epitaphs quest in Samia’s Hope
• Fixed a bug causing town guards to incorrectly display a quest icon
• Treasure maps will now grant a random treasure map quest on activation
• Adjusted hidden cache rewards

Enemy NPCs

• Updated the NPC enemy population in the following areas: South Lionhold, North Lionhold, The Tower of Carphin, The Church of Seven Stars, Hall of Judication, Western Beach of the Riverlands, The Second Sword’s Outpost, Scholar’s Academy Caravan Camp, The Rosewater Tower Event, Sandsquall Desert, and the Vandagar Tropics
• Increased the aggro radius for Tumok, Firebrand, and Skla’Risha
• Firebrand can now spawn in multiple locations
• Tumok’s patrol speed has been adjusted
• Adjusted Giants to be more difficult and increased how far they can wander
• Fixed a bug causing the Bonebinder Shaman to permanently reduce a character’s physical mitigation
• Updated the visual effects and sound effects for many enemy NPCs
• Enchanting recipes now drop from humanoid enemies
• Wolves will now sleep
• Giant spiders now spawn spiderlings upon death
• Updated enemy leashing behavior
• Updated NPC navigation behavior
• Adjusted the behavior of Spiders and Goblin Flayers
• Fixed a bug causing dead NPCs to play the Tripped animation
• Fixed a bug causing dead enemies to incorrectly cause nearby enemies to aggro
• Fixed a bug preventing NPCs from spawning correctly on the ground
• Fixed a bug preventing NPC projectiles from spawning
• Fixed a bug causing some bears to instantly respawn
• Fixed a bug with NPCs that would make them friendly to you, when they should be hostile
• Fixed a bug preventing Cultists from properly applying the Rotten Blood debuff
• Fixed a bug that was causing enemies to have a higher rate of HP regeneration than intended

Additional Updates

• Removed Cargo storage in Lionhold
• Fixed a bug causing players who sold Glint at the Hunter’s Lodge to lose all gold
• Fixed an exploit allowing the duplication of inventory and storage items
• Made changes to the NPC population leading to Samia’s Hope
• Added voiceover for NPCs in Samia’s Hope
• Made changes to the NPC population in western New Aela
• Fixed several typos in item descriptions
• Lighting related client performance improvements
• Fixed a variety of server crashes
• Fixed a variety of client crashes

Glorious testers, Intrepid has been hard at work this week making adjustments based on the data collected from last weekend's testing. It is important to note that development is not a perfect science. Sometimes when you fix bugs you make new ones, and often times velocity of work done correlates to new bugs generated. Please be vigilant this weekend as you test the changes listed below. Thank you for your help and patience, as we continue to make Ashes of Creation better and better <3 - Steven

HIGHLIGHTS

• Fixed issues with the launcher impacting testers that are connecting via IPv6
• Updated NPC Navigation performance by more than 100x
• This previously severely impeded our server performance and took most of the servers' tick time in certain situations. Players should now notice much less rubber banding and much more responsive NPC behaviors
• Fixed a bug to prevent “ghost characters” appearing to be stuck on invisible walls in the world
• Fixed a bug causing an infinite loading screen loop if the unstuck command was used while mounted
• Added a Corruption “Blight” stat that is gained from killing non-combatant players. “Blight” causes you to gain Corruption faster for subsequent PK’s

KNOWN ISSUES

You can find a list of Known Issues here: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/61592/alpha-two-known-issues-list-read-me-first/p1

FIGHTER ARCHETYPE UPDATES

• Knockout ability activation time has been reduced
• Knockout cooldown has been reduced from 18 seconds to 15 seconds
• Cataclysm will now apply Tripped to Staggered enemies

MAGE ARCHETYPE FIXES

• Fixed a bug causing “Enchant Weapon” to permanently provide empowerment buffs. These will now last for a limited duration
• Fixed a visual bug for the Mage’s prismatic beam ability

CHARACTER

• Adjusted experience formulas to reduce the effectiveness of power leveling
• Reduced raid bonus experience multiplier when in a raid with 9 or more players
• Player swim speed has been reduced from 66% to 50%
• Sprint is no longer usable while swimming
• Fixed a bug causing players to incorrectly spawn if no war event spawn locations were found
• Fixed a bug causing combat settings to not properly persist on login
• Fixed a bug causing mounts to sometimes block projectiles
• Fixed a bug that caused increases to the healing received stat to stack permanently

CORRUPTION

• Added a scaling Corruption penalty which reduces movement speed
• Added a Corruption “Blight” stat that is gained from killing non-combatant players. “Blight” causes you to gain Corruption faster for subsequent PK’s
• Added corrupt player location on the minimap for other players within 100m
• Corruption reduction through killing enemies has been changed to scale based on enemy difficulty
• Corrupted players will no longer be able to unequip equipment
• Corrupted players will no longer be able to trade
• Fixed a bug causing players to become combatants incorrectly when killing a corrupted player
• Fixed corruption sometimes being granted during sanctioned PvP and also not being granted if both players were in a guild

ECONOMY

• Updated commissions and quest rewards
• Gathering/Processing/Crafting will now grant more XP with higher rarity and/or tiers
• Crafting XP now better matches the power of the slot of the item crafted
• Saplings now spawn and mature to adolescence faster
• Adolescent trees now mature to adulthood faster
• Adolescent trees now reward less base wood to account for their faster spawn and growth rate
• Adolescent trees now do more durability damage to lumberjacking tools
• Hunting & Gathering experience has been increased
• Reduced base XP rewards for common and T1 Gathering/Processing/Crafting
• Gathering tools initially given by the Sweat of Your Brow quest have had their durability reduced
• Reduced the durability of starter tools from 110 to 60
• Fixed bugs that allowed the sale of items for negative value
• Fixed missing crafting stations in Lionhold
• Fixed broken text in the Tailoring Station

NODES

• Reduced Node XP gain by 85%
• We felt that Nodes were leveling up too fast. This change is to prevent nodes from near-instantly leveling up
• Added additional Mayoral Commissions
• Added additional war preparation commissions so that war can be declared more easily
• Updated the Mayoral Commissions in New Aela so that it has a similar number of slots as other nodes
• Updated regular elections to begin its registration phase 5 days before the 1st of the month
• Updated the citizen renouncement dialogue
• Increased the cooldown time to rejoin another node after renouncing your citizenship time to 36 hours
• Increased the time for the first unscheduled election to 24 hours
• Fixed a bug allowing storage to be transferred via cargo between nodes
• Fixed a bug with Node resource storage causing items placed outside of default Node resource storage to be lost
• Fixed a bug with Node expansion plots that didn’t work correctly

LOOT

• Item roll duration has been increased from 15 seconds to 30 seconds
• Time for loot rolls appearing will now pause if another loot roll is in progress
• Fixed a bug causing Ashen Haunts to not drop gear

POPULATION

• Made changes to the NPC population in Samia's Hope
• Made changes to the NPC population in the Scholar's Academy caravan camp
• Fixed a bug that prevented Goblin Shamans in the Ursine Caves from throwing their poison orbs
• Fixed an issue with NPC pathfinding
• Fixed bugs in Samia's Hope commissions, so they should no longer refer to incorrect NPCs
• Fixed a bug causing Named Goblin High Shamans to do significantly less damage than intended

THE KILLING FIELDS

• Increased the spawn area of NPCs
• Increased the spawn rate of skeletons at night
• Ravens will now attack goblins

UX/UI

• Added a Breath Bar that should appear while underwater
• Made several changes to UI font sizing
• Updated the Buff Bar to no longer resize the UI when a character has max buffs/debuffs
• Updated HUD UI iconography for the ignore and leave event icons
• Fixed issues with notifications in The Daragal Estates showing incorrect text
• Fixed a bug that caused an “Unknown Notification!" pop-up
• Fixed a bug that caused UI windows to be the incorrect size after resizing
• Fixed a bug causing cargo to not properly update
• Fixed a bug with transferring Commodities via Caravan Cargo Storage
• Fixed a bug causing Warehouse items to sometimes not show up the first time you open Warehouse storage

ENVIRONMENT

• Made improvements for road generation and visuals
• Made improvements to the environment in Samia’s Hope
• Changed visuals for the rounded bottoms of waterfalls
• Fixed a bug causing plants to sometimes grow through roads
• Fixed a bug causing some parts of the world to appear pink

LAUNCHER & CONNECTIVITY

• Fixed issues with the launcher impacting testers that are connecting via IPv6
• Fixed a bug with the launcher that caused multiple authentication web browsers to open at the same time
• Reenabled "GPU Crash Debugging" in Launcher settings.
• Note: Having this on can help us fix issues for people who crash often, but this will take up more space on your computer

STABILITY

• Updated NPC Navigation performance by more than 100x
• This previously severely impeded our server performance and took most of the servers' tick time in certain situations. Players should now notice much less rubber banding and much more responsive NPC behaviors.
• Made a multitude of changes to increase both client, graphics and server stability
• Made a multitude of changes to NPC navigation to improve server performance
• Fixed a bug to prevent “ghost characters” appearing to be stuck on invisible walls in the world
• Fixed a bug causing an infinite loading screen loop if the unstuck command was used while mounted

11/9 - Update Notes

Added new-character spawn locations at Portal Ruins to prevent testers from getting stuck inside each other
Improved guard placement south of Lionhold
Increased the render and calculation distance for Firebrand and Tumok
Fixed an issue where NPCs occasionally spawned underground
Fixed the "Miss" text not appearing in combat floater text
Fixed an issue where mounts did not walk on the ground over uneven terrain
Fixed an issue preventing players from entering the Hideworks building
Fixed a bug where nodes were not displaying on the map and minimap
Resolved some instances of floating NPCs

Glorious testers, Intrepid has been hard at work this week making adjustments based on the data collected from our 10/25/24 weekend testing. Our testers went hard, and so did we this week. It is important to note that development is not a perfect science. Sometimes when you fix bugs you make new ones, and often times velocity of work done correlates to new bugs generated. Please be vigilant this weekend as you test the changes listed below. Thank you for your help and patience, as we continue to make Ashes of Creation better and better ♥ - Steven

HIGHLIGHTS

• Added Samia’s Hope. This is a secondary starting questing area, in a camp to the east of where you start.
• Fully implemented the “Sweat of your Brow” quest in Samia’s Hope
• Added additional NPC population to Samia's Hope

KNOWN ISSUES

• Whenever you log out of the game or disconnect, you will need to completely close the game and relaunch to avoid issues
• You will disconnect if you stay at character creation or the character select screen for over about 100 seconds
• Samia’s Hope commissions are asking you to do things that are further away than expected
• The attunement shrine has moved for Welcome to Verra, but the quest objective marker is showing the old location. This shrine is north after the gates on the left
• There are placeholder environment assets visible at further distances in Samia’s hope. Getting closer to these assets will resolve the issue

TANK ARCHETYPE UPDATES

Courage

• Changed it so this applies Staggered to targets struck by Weapon Combo Finishers
• Courage generation from Shield Assault and Weapon Combo Finishers has been increased from 25 to 33

Vengeance

• Progression steps are no longer tied to shielding
• Damage reduced to 90% of base damage
• Changed cost to 33 Courage
• Changed from 4 steps to 3 steps
• Added a cleave mechanic similar to basic attacks
• Damage increase per step has been rolled into the base version, and reduced from 15% to 5% per stack
• Changed the buff icon to indicate what step of Vengeance you are on
• Relentless Vengeance now increases the shielding amount by 50%

Ground Pound

• Courage cost reduced from 40 to 33
• Adjusted this to be a wide line attack

Fortify

• No longer has a minimum Courage cost

FIGHTER ARCHETYPE UPDATE

Blitz

• Will now always travel the full distance to target or stop your character after 2 seconds

MOUNTS

• Mounts now have a dash ability for MAX SPEED
• Mounts are slightly faster across the board
• Mounts will show their owner's name on their nameplate. This will make it easier to find your mount when lots of mounts are present
• Fixed various mount movement visuals
• Improved mount animations
• Fixed a bug where mount eyes could dislocate from their skull
• Fixed issues with incorrect flying mounts being sold at Nodes
• Made improvements to the smoothness of mount movement

CORRUPTION

• Made changes so you need to force flag for PvP to heal a Corrupted or Combatant player. Added setting for “Required Force Flag to Heal Combatants” to Combat Settings
• Made changes so you no longer become a Combatant for healing yourself
• Made changes so you no longer become a Combatant for damaging a Corrupted player
• Corrupted and Combatant status will be more clear. For example, health bars are always red for targets that you can harm
• Added Corruption stats to the character page
• Reduced the number of kills required to grind off Corruption
• Fixed issues that caused some characters to spawn with corruption even if they died with 0 corruption

COMMISSIONS

• Added new commissions to Winstead, Miraleth, Samia’s Hope, New Aela, and Joeva
• Added bounty commissions to the pool of available commissions for players who are level 3-8
• Adjusted the area for where characters get credit for kill commissions around Lionhold
• Fixed an issue allowing Fishing commissions to be completed indefinitely

ENVIRONMENT & VISUALS

• Made several visual and lighting updates to Samia’s Hope
• Made lighting updates to Carphin
• Fixed various visual bugs with roads
• Fixed various visual bugs with terrain
• Fixed an issue with beards not working with all armors
• Improved lighting in the Hall of Judication. You shall no longer venture in the monotonous darkness
• Improved the visual quality of some landscape assets

NODES

• Reduced the cost of mayoral commissions, and increased the amount of time before they expire
• Player Commodity Vendor will now show when players do not have enough storage space to purchase commodities
• Added a level requirement to plunder quests, and moved the plunder quest giver to Stage 3 Nodes

ECONOMY

• Increased the number of tier 1 gatherable spawns, and reduced their respawn time.
• Increased the max stack size for bags to be 20 for Novice, 40 for Apprentice, and 60 for Journeyman
• Changed the Sweat of your brow quest to provide one of five different horses
• Added copper gear to Lionhold and Node vendors
• Added descriptions to Glint, player commodities, and stolen cargo to explain how they can be used
• Added higher job sizes to processing recipes
• Removed profession stations from Ruins of Aela starting area
• Added more recipes using lumber
• Lumber is now the highest quantity ingredient needed in all bow recipes
• Updated Gathering station iconography
• Fixed an issue preventing players from finishing "Sweat of your Brow" if they closed the quest turn in dialogue
• Fixed bugs with unpacking commodities
• Adjusted spawn time of some trees
• Gatherable random spawn locations now change every 20-24 hours
• Added commodities to Commodity Vendors in the Sandsquall Desert and the Vandagar Tropics

LOOT

• Changed looting so items no longer automagically show up in your inventory when you win a loot roll. Items you win the roll on will need to be looted
• Reduced the loot roll duration from 60 seconds to 15 seconds
• Added additional loot drops for bows, focuses, and shields
• Non-elite mobs have reduced their gear drop % chance, elite mobs now have an additional gear drop % per star of difficulty
• Fixed bugs with chat loot roll notifications
• Changed looting visuals. These will change as you remove items from a loot pile, instead of after the loot window is closed
• Added a radius that characters must be in to get access to loot drops. Loot no longer gets auto delivered to player upon winning a loot roll

WORLD

• Adjusted the perimeter wall for "free Samia's Hope"
• Adjusted map markers for the “Sweat of your Brow” quest to line up with their actual locations
• Adjusted the “Horns of Betrayal” event radius
• Added additional Lionhold Sentry guards near the new Lionhold Emberspring respawn shrine to prevent spawn camping
• Reduced the elite ranking of some bandits within the Highwaymen Hills courtyard from 3 stars to 1 and 2 stars
• Church of the Seven Stars population overhaul: General cleanup of interior, added 3 star patrols, and increased difficulty of spawns at the top of the church
• Updated Ursine caves population to get more difficult as you descend the depths by consolidating 2 star elites on the upper level and 3 stars on the lower caverns
• Daragal Estates Population updated to have fewer 3 star elites on the outer areas, and added some additional dynamic population to appear during nighttime

NPCS

• Adjusted the attack range for plant type enemies so basic attacks will hit targets even if they are running away
• Improved NPC responsiveness in combat
• Made changes to prevent NPCs from getting into an unresponsive state
• Fixed issues with NPCs that had placeholder status effect icons
• Skeletons should no longer be able to transcend the limitations of undeath by stacking hundreds of copies of their revive ability
• Improved skeleton animation reliability
• Webweavers will no longer kite better than your party. Increased the cooldown on their backpedal
• Raving Rabids event will now give rewards

UI/UX

• UI fixes for “Spirit of the Undying” quest
• Fixed various issues with map and minimap zoom
• Added a 500 character limit to chat messages
• Fixed issues that prevented some characters from having a choice of spawns
• Fixes issues with the death location not displaying on the minimap
• Made changes so death location is visible at all map zoom levels
• Made changes to icon scaling on the map when zooming
• Added options for inverted mouse control
• Added options for screen percentage in a dropdown for AMD users
• Fixed an issue where objective markers could be underneath other icons on the map

PERFORMANCE

• Improved performance on multiple problem areas of the map
• Made improvements to reduce server crashes
• Additional server stability and FPS improvements
• Fixed client crash on lower end PCs
• Made improvements to prevent issues with characters appearing to be stuck on server boundaries
• Network improvements to reduce issues with characters running in place at server boundaries
• General network performance optimizations
• Fixed multiple animation related crashes
• Fixed multiple server crashes
• Fixed multiple client crashes
• Improved performance close to Winstead and Miraleth

LAUNCHER

• Added functionality to prompt testers to enable GPU Crash Debugging. Having this on helps us identify issues that make testers crash, but this will take up more space on your computer

OTHER BUG FIXES

• Improved hit reliability for Resplendent Beam ability
• Improved mage Blink rubberbanding issues
• Fixed an issue causing the camera to sometimes get stuck in a characters' heads
• Improved legibility and flow of Horns of Betrayal event
• Fixed issues with the scale of icons on the minimap
• Fixed a variety of typos
• Fixed a bug that caused people to crash when someone near them switched certain weapons
• Caravan health regen has been reduced
• Reworked hair appearance at difference distances