Compiled Patch Notes

Patch 08/05/2016

Progression & Power Gap

Front-loaded attributes to make them gain more effectiveness at lower values with diminishing returns on the higher values
Front-loaded skill values similarly to make them more effective at lower levels
Self buffs, heal others, buff others, debuffs leveling speed increased by 50% *Later changed with the addition of scrolls*
Removed ability to level debuffs on players

Meditation

Removed all passive skills from meditation
Works continuously, both online and offline
Added most skills and all spells

User Interface

Armor now displays total protections added together per piece
Weapons in crafting window reorganized alphabetically
Made racial-crafted items exclusive to their race
FPS is displayed by default in GUI
Expanded scrollable part of NPC windows so more items can be viewed
Added stackable hotbars, reducing the need for third-party applications
Revamped vitals bar to be resizeable and display different options

Looting

Single left or right clicking items on a corpse will loot them to your backpack
Double left-clicking a bag will open it; right click will loot it
Drag and drag still intact

New Player Experience

New players now start with Lesser Magic Transfer spells
New players will start with three starter weapons: leafblade, conscript bow and dawnstaff
Default hotbar is now setup with weapons and spells, as well as recalling and resting
Starter weapons will gain base skills (archery, swords, lesser magic, etc)
Many default keybinds were changed to make more sense

Passive Skills

Many passive skills were removed and built directly into the characters (run, swim, armored archery, etc)
Many skills, when purchased, are automatically at level 100 (maintenance, endurance, survivalist, toughness, etc)
Changed requirements on many skills
Acrobatics: requires Dexterity
Dive: requires Dexterity
Fleet: requires 350 stamina
Ignore Pain: requires Strength
Nimble: requires 90 Archery
Tireless: requires Strength
Sturdy: requires Vitality
Ingenious: requires Wisdom

Quality of Life

Weight of Timber, Stone and Cloth reduced to 0.5
Reduced Paperdoll Lock delay by 60%
New characters start with some basic tools and reagents to get them started
Keybinds now auto-save and don’t require manually logging out
Hotbars are now saved instantly when they’re modified
Default UI layout has been moved around
1h Sword and Shield can be bound to the same hotbar slot and equip together
Auto-sprint is now a keybind option (tab by default)

Anti-Grief

Buffing or healing a red or grey player will make the caster “rogue”
Telekinesis now has a small damage over time effect (to stop people from using it at NPC city banks/griefing)
Being part of a party or clan does not eliminate the option for the killed player to make the killer lose alignment

Miscellaneous

Increased all applicable ship attributes by 60% across the board including: yaw rate, turning acceleration and deceleration, acceleration, max velocity, reverse velocity, etc
Disabled blinds and screen shake for GMs (helps with footage, etc)
NPC Inventory Changes
Removed wheat from merchant
Removed bread from dungeon vendors
Removed potions from alchemist
Reduced refining time on all applicable skills from 10s-7s to 5s-3.35s
Harvest nodes and speed:
Node capacity changed to a random range of 15-30 units (with a 2% chance of a node refilling twice the amount)
Increased the rate players harvest to scaling from 3s to 2s at max skill
Boat costs
Launch ~half original cost
Sloop & Pinnace: no astrolabe required
Adjusted chaos chest loot table and variance for more interesting results
Alignment granularity has been greatly increased:
Kills and ganks alignment penalties adjusted
Greater than 100 alignment: -½ alignment for kill; -20 for gank
100 or less alignment: rest of alignment for kill; -20 for gank
Negative alignment: -50 per kill; -20 per gank
Churches give +20 alignment on an 11 hour cooldown
Smelting requirements make more sense:
1, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 skill for iron, selentine, veilron, neithal, leenspar, theyril (respectively)
Lesser Magic skill requirements:
Shield: 10
Eldritch Sphere: 30
Blast: 60
Launch: 80
Burden: 100
Home taxes can only be paid by owners or residents
Dig is now an innate ability and not a skill
System Messages for clan cities:
Enemies no longer trip a system message
Enemies gathering from city resource nodes no longer creates system alert
Global siege drop message removed
Global siege reminder removed
Politcal stance changes and siege results remain the same
Party size limit increased to 15
Batch inventory move: Holding shift or alt will drag all items of the same type to either stack on the same location or stagger neatly
Both options order by damage or durability (whichever applies)
New load and splash screen
Many installer and launcher updates such as lobby music!
Tiered clan banks: (clan and captain with difference access levels)
Revamped and redesigned crafting windows (except enchanting)
New output bag slot which will drop all crafted items into that bag
Removed decaps (instakills at 0hp)
Skills no longer gain skill when used on players (except beneficial spells)

Patch Notes 08/06/2016

Crafting Window

Updated resource requirements when craft quantity is increased
Fixed highlight on some items
Added titles “skill” and “skill mastery” to box selections
Adjusted requirements box to show all within reason with a max limit so it doesn’t break other windows
Crafting count decreases as you craft
Fixed output bag placement and mouse drag area

Miscellaneous

Auto unsheathe when left click
Decreased fail rate of harvesting by ~35% by default
Can eat and drink while resting
Stamina loss from gathering reduced by 50%
Few updates on tutorial window
Aquashot upgrade now default on all characters
Greataxe now in meditation skill list
Text fixes in character creator
Fixed a buffing bug dealing with formula changes
Fixed hotbar bug with item not auto-filling with the item if it’s deleted and you have another

Patch Notes 08/10/2016

Miscellaneous

Due to a fix to configuration server side, all mobs should now be spawning
Arrows will now auto-equip if they’re in your pack and you unsheathe your bow
Head weight cut in half (to 5kg)

Hotbars

Contextual Cycling mode will now take into account bow/staff/melee and skip skills/spells that don’t apply
Cycling will now skip spells if you do not have the reagents to cast them
Swapping 1-hander/shield with others on drop is now implemented
Cycles are now reset automatically when it is no longer your last active cycle

Resource nodes

Increased probability of base resource
Decreased the probability of the secondary resource (reagent), but increased the quantity dropped from one to two (stone, ore, timber, herbs)
Herb probability in shrubs has been decreased, while the probability for strawberries and blueberries increased

Mobs

All mobs will now drop tombstones 100% of the time (applied to ~30 monsters)
The loot tables on these mobs have been adjusted accordingly including a net increase of loot by approximately 10%
Added a 100% chance of getting 3 transfer requiring regents on some starter mobs like goblins, kobolds and trolls

Stat skill-ups

Removed Quickness and Vitality gains on Sprint, Swimming and Riding
Increased Quickness gains on All melee to match that of Vitality by 3x the previous rate
Increased Quickness gains on Archery by 41%

Patch Notes 08/12/2016

Reagent drop fix/adjustments on the new player area mobs we previously changed
Skill/Spell requirement updates
Witches Brew - reduced to 35 Witchcraft
Disables - reduced to 25 in weapon skill
Necro - reduced to 50 Witchcraft
Arcane - reduced to 50 Spellchanting
Mana Blast - reduced to 10 Spellchanting / Cost: 250
Mana Conservation - reduced to 60 Greater Magic / 60 Intellect
Reduced reagent cost of Mana Blast to 1 Ash and 1 Mandrake
Added new food Berry Pie to cooking by popular demand
Arrows have been reduced to 2.5 second craft time
Food has been reduced to 3.0 second craft time
Bow disable now properly works under water
Fixed spell icons getting stuck on hotbar

Patch Notes 08/17/2016

Altered Fish Stew recipe to require a reasonable amount of components
Fixed Mana Blast still requiring 2 ash
Fixed players going rogue from buffing/healing a 0 alignment player
Added mana/stamina costs on Spell tool tips
Svartfjord - The "Guinea Pig" Hamlet
Added ability to build the following missing crafting stations - we plan to do this for all hamlets sooner rather than later and are using this as a test
Smithy
Thaumaturgist
Alchemy Table
Oven
Added cycles bar for slots that have more than one item (excluding 1-hander and shield) opens with right click or drag/hover
Dropping skills/items replaces the slot contents rather than adding to the list
Skills that previously didn't level like Rage or Throwing will now properly level
Batch move now works with the trash bin with its own confirmation dialog
Change Clan/ally Kills from alignment loss to 2 minute rogue
Fixed bug which allowed spells to get “stuck” on a slot until a relog

Patch Notes 08/17/2016

NOTE: Adding missing crafting stations to hamlets in some cases calls for a reconfiguration of the hamlet itself. Unfortunately, we have discovered that if a building we move is already built in game, it will not reflect the updated position. We realize this may create some visual bugs in hamlets, but there is not much we can do about it at this time unless we do a holding wipe. In addition, Vellenyth and Aer Tithil currently have double of a crafting station (Aer Tithil is missing a workbench), as well as some hamlets have a Smithy that when level 2 are too big for where they were placed. These issues will be fixed next patch.

Missing hamlet crafting stations have been added (Oven, Smithy, Thurmagist, Laboratory, Oven) and reconfigurations done in some case to the following hamlets
Vellenyth, Crystal Coast, Issar Ruins, Mathyra, Jeradan, Spiral Peak, Inmak, Elish, Inarith, Morador, Oethrain, Rehnagar, Velmuna, Aer Tithil
Jumpshot is now purchased separately and has a 10% mana penalty
With Aqua and Jumpshot now separated, the remaining skills are pick 2 of 4
Mage Hunter
Master Scout
Mage Killer
Mana Shield
All Key Chest respawn times have been decreased significantly
Siege Stone placement has been changed from 750m to 1001m
Clear Thoughts and Insight have been changed to a skill level 1 requirement
NPC Vendor buy rate multiplier has been doubled
Mysterious Essence global drop rate has been uncapped
Hotbar swapping functionality has been added to the hotbar options. Selecting the “Hotbar Column” you want in the macro will automatically change your active hotbar to the one you put in. This was a popular feature asked for by users who like to change the active hotbar depending on the weapon they select.
Food duration is now shown in the tooltip
Gems now sell for their original price or 50% of earlier today
Removed gem drops from scumlings and replaced with gold
Mobs can no longer be healed or buffed

Patch Notes 08/28/2016

Alignment can now be gained by killing monsters inside mainland continental dungeons
Partied players will split gains
Players can now craft while holding a shield
Lowered skill requirement to craft rafts from 50 Woodcutting to 25
Added Smelting functionality to hamlet Smithy stations
Reduced cost of Disabling Blow from 1000g to 500g
Added "Nectar of the Gods" to many gathering related starter quests
Raises all attributes 1 point
Only works with stats less than 25
Numerous hamlet placement and workstation fixes
Added all crafting stations as well as enhanced and adjusted props on all remaining hamlets:
Uqtu, Mavengar, Qiqatak, Khanruk, Surtstone, Skogal, Shargal, Skaranibben, Vranghorn, Isturuk, Quarendel, Banagar, Furghum, Kalthadar, Kharhendak, Moherah, Slimiyat, Sorgom, Ul’Turah, Ichtan, Tenaland, Tirghan, Anjir, Eslingar, Sunstone Island, Western Tlaloc
Normalized the weight of fish to 0.5kg
Contextual Harvesting
Pressing the use button on a resource node will automatically equip the proper tool for it
Lowered city node output rate

Patch Notes 08/29/2016

Players can now right click to:
Whisper
Invite to Party
Ignore
Un-ignore
Add to friends
Inviting a player to a party will now start the party
Fixed Banagar bank slightly floating
Miscellaneous world fixes
Fixed fish weight
Fixed missing crafting stations in Bladethorpe/Somerstone
Cleaned up menu text
Fixed right click hotbar menu crash bug
All dungeons should now be working

Patch Notes 09/07/2016

Bugs

Fixed players gaining alignment from party kills in dungeons even if not / no longer partied
Fixed being able to see system messages concerning one-way allies
A couple of small tutorial window fixes
Fixed quest lines involving casting Heal Other, changed to Frailty
Fixed bug involving becoming permanently disabled if you drink a panacea potion while disabled
Removed the ability to spawn a mount underwater
Removed ability to drop siege stones on the bottom of the ocean floor
Fixed some abilities still leveling on players/mounts
Bows made through Bowyer mastery now level trueforge weapon appropriately
Fixed blank hotbar on login/death
Few various world fixes
Eslingar and Aer Thithil crafting station fixes
Few various quest fixes
Server performance is an ongoing effort and some tweaks were made to the configurations in an attempt to alleviate some of the problems some players have reported, but more feedback is encouraged!

Party Boxes

Implemented Phase 1 of revamping the group windows
More intelligently position the boxes as players are added to a party for the first time
Adjusted health bar to match the new vital stats window
Right click context menu on your own party box
Leave Party
Annoying gathering interruptions are a thing of the past
Swinging a Siege Hammer cost removed and made part of a base character
Read is now part of a base character, hidden and 100
Designated Loot Bag slot for one-click loot to be automatically placed into
Drop a bag on the paperdoll slot then loot!
Modified First Available and Burst Cycle modes to automatically skip skills that are being casted to allow players to “queue” a spell

Spell Scrolls

69 spells which previously had no constructive way to level are now on scrolls
Using these spells no longer levels them
You must have the spell before you can use a scroll to raise it
Reading a scrolls will raise your knowledge of the specified spell 3-6 levels
Reading a scroll now takes 15 seconds
Reading a scroll now skills up the school as well as any other associated skills accordingly (intensifies, veteran mage, regent conservation, etc)
System messages to clarify success and failure added
Movement now stops reading
Different school scrolls have been added to a variety of monster loot tables
Selected groups of mobs/families will drop a certain school predominately, with a small chance to drop the rest
Certain specific mobs have greater chances of dropping specific scrolls
Some high difficulty mobs have greater chances of dropping more scrolls

Dungeon Quests

Daily subterranean quests now award meditation points
Quests will award equal amounts of gold and meditation points!
Removed all skill books from existing monster loot tables (groundwork for re-adding books for applicable melee skills)
When looking at a node with the proper tool in hand, a bar indicating the amount of resources in the node will be displayed
This will allow you to quickly identify full nodes without having to walk up to it and hit it
Will work for Trees, Rocks, Ore and Bushes
The Wilderness Portal Network is born
Shift, Ctrl and Alt are now bindable keys

Patch Notes 09/15/2016

Resting regeneration will now increases to 2x default rate after the first 30 seconds
Village house bindspots have been increased to improve usability:
Cottage - same (1 owner + 1 guest)
House - 1 owner + 2 guests
Villa - 1 owner + 3 guests
Large Villa - 1 owner + 3 guests
Keep - 1 owner + 4 guests
Re-enabled ability of skills to surge
Reduced overall effects on surges down to 2.5% (from 180%)
Added the foundation for a New Player Chat channel

Scroll System

Proper gains when reading should now be given to parent school and all appropriate sub-skills
You must now be in the presence of a Mage, Councillor or Arcanist to read a scroll (You don’t have to press Use, just target the NPC)
Scroll drops have been completely redone. The goals of this are as follows:
Eliminate the “RNG” feel of obtaining scrolls
Related mob types with scroll drops more directly whether it be them casting the specific scroll or at least the school (where applicable)
Makes acquiring scrolls a more targeted manner - want a certain spell? Kill this or this mob, rather than entire schools and then some
Generous drop rates suitable for group farming even on mid to hard and hardest mobs
Scrolls drop off several mobs across difficulty levels
Increased gains on Strength, Quickness, Dexterity and Vitality for ranged and melee

Buff icon timers have been added as a GUI option (defaulted on):
Buffs from enchants are shown with an infinity symbol
Longest remaining regular buff (of the same kind) is displayed
Increased buff icon area size so last row is not cut off
No more multiple buff icons (except for enchanted item buff with casted buff)

Starting spells have been reverted to allow gain on use:
Mana to Stamina
Health to Mana
Stamina to Health
Heal Self
Players can now drop and pick up items in the world of Agon (Yes, that’s right): Drag and releasing item(s) anywhere on screen (except the fire barrel) will now drop the item at your feet in the world
Pressing the "Use" key on the item will pick it up
All items are represented by a bag in the world (goal is to replace with models where applicable)
Looking at the bag will show what the item is as its display name where possible
Max of 25 items can be dropped (per person) in 10 minutes starting from the first drop, with a 5 second cooldown in between each drop
Light can now be purchased for 250g with a school requirement of 1
Mana Blast has been lowered to have a school requirement of 1
Our GMs now have the ability to silently global mute, you have been warned!
Magic schools are now highlighted when selecting them in the purchase window
Made a couple of tweaks with starter weapon descriptions
Also removed durability readout on starter weapons
Fixed bug with nodes regenerating too quickly
Fixed bug with "Rest" appearing on selected spell slot

Patch Notes 09/29/2016

Skill gains have been front loaded. 1-100 takes the same time overall, but 1-75 will be quicker for all skill/stats/schools/spells (minus scroll spells and crafting)
School Sub-skill requirements have been reduced
Durable - lowered to 10 from 25
Mana Efficiency - lowered to 30 from 50
Quicken - lowered to 50 from 75
Intensify - lowered to 75 from 100
Fixed Scroll gains on schools & sub-skills
Minimap will now show simplified NPC names, aka “Merchant” instead of “Jabib the Merchant”
Skinning time and fail-rate has been brought in-line with harvesting (3s @ 1, 2 @ 100)

Merge Party

When you are already in a party, and get invited to a party, you will now be given the option to merge the two parties together
Rage and Dwarven Perseverance will now continue to work after switching weapons
The water shader on PS2 & 3 will no longer impede your vision, and this new effect has been normalized across all shader options

Mysterious Essences

Player Points are our beta incentive that will be convertible to store credit once our store opens. You can now simply double-click on essences to reap the Player Point reward
Player Points are viewable on the website
Essences are now stackable

Village Capture Mechanics

Unbuilt plots will now reward 20 gold
Built houses will continue to reward 50.
This allows the village capturing gold output to scale as the game matures

Crafting

All crafting changes here and in upcoming patches are the groundwork for our bigger changes to masteries later on
Bowyer and Bowyer Mastery
Bow arrangement, ranks, damage and speed have been refactored to make more sense and also open up some new speed vs damage options
For most ranks tiers, there is now a baseline, faster/less damage and more damage/slower versions
Added 2 new craftable R70s
Crafting prices and quantity of arrows have been adjusted
A new Arrow has been introduced that does less damage
The old arrow has been renamed to Fine Arrow and does full damage
Arrow crafting yields will now increase as you get better at Bowyer / Mastery
All arrows have been removed from vendors
Both arrow types have been rebalanced on mobs accordingly
1 hander/Shield should now always equip simultaneously.
NPC fixes to allow scroll turn-ins
Quest and other minor text fixes
Nectar of the Gods now gives +2 of a stat to remove the need to go to multiple starter cities and do the same quests over again
Dungeon Quest timers have been lowered from a 24 hour cooldown to a 21 hour cooldown
Improved Kraken loot table

Trade Routes

House deeds of all sizes have been added to the loot table
All other rewards have been raised as well
Trade routes will no longer run out of packs
Maximum purchase per player has been raised from 5000 to 10000
Turned off depositing for the normal clan vault until we can identify and fix the durability reset bug

Alignment Titles

Villain and Saint titles will now appear under player names who have been either max positive or max negative alignment for 2+ weeks.

Alignment Colors

Names will now appear an array of different colors depending on how evil or good the player is. This is just another small step towards a meaningful alignment system
Increased scroll drop chances on Fire and Ice dragon
Inactive characters will now enter storage and clans with no active players will expire
A new monster has appeared in Agon. They tend to anger easily, so be sure to tread lightly

Patch Notes 10/11/2016

New outfits for all races on the character creator
Alignment colors have been tweaked
War color has been tweaked and icon added to help distinguish warred players more
Added GUI option to switch between health bar style
Capital City Recall has been implemented
Cost based on alignment
Free for 100% alignment players with 30 minute cooldown
Cost 500 gold for 75%+ alignment players with 1 hour cooldown
Cost 1000 gold for 20%+ alignment players with 2 hour cooldown
Cost 1500 gold for 0%+ alignment players with 4 hour cooldown
Only works for positive alignment
New players (characters made after this patch) will receive 10 free capital recalls

Scribing skill added

All scrolls previously found on loot are now craftable
New item growing around Agon: Papyrus Plant - used in crafting blank scrolls
New items found on mobs: School Essences - used in crafting scrolls
Pulled back camera when browsing city building menus for a better overall view
Villages now reward school essences
Updated some legacy bow craft times and durability
Some tips can now be seen on loading screens (WIP)
Monsters should now cast surging spells like before
Icons for Nectar of the Gods and Fine Arrows now show up in chat properly

Patch Notes 10/14/2016

Magic School's now raise 30% faster from skill level 75-100
Papyrus removed from farms and added to a few mobs
Some new player tip fixes and additions
Removed the mechanic of linked spawns
New Player Protection increased to 24 hours of in-game time

Patch Notes 10/17/2016

Removed high rank bows from quests
Added first pass of Skill Books
Only for Melee Abilities at the moment (more to come)
Added new item Blank Manual
Added crafting recipe for Blank Manual to Scribing
Adding new item Manual Page
Added new crafting recipes for melee ability books to Scribing (Knockback, Whirlwind etc)
Added Manual Pages to several mob families
Added Field of View option to Video Options (90-100)
Rearranged video options to make more sense
Fixed bug Reading Mounted
Fixed bug Scribing Mounted
Fixed bug Taming Mounted
Fixed durability on new bows
Fixed spelling error on Holy scrolls
Fixed Newbie protection blocking entering Newbie Dungeon
Fixed Newbie protection blocking capital recall
Fixed infamous physics bug which affected momentum in 2 of the 4 directions
We are still assessing the impact and our options with Come Hither / Begone as a result of this change, so please stand by!

Patch Notes 10/21/2016

Miscellaneous

Halloween items enabled which include the Pumpkin, Broom, and Skeleton Hand
Players no longer can drink Nectar of the Gods potions while buffed or debuffed
Scribing now levels the skill Industry
Players can no longer read on a mount
Weapon books now raise the appropriate attributes as well
Papyrus has a new model
Sithra sub-skills can now be bought and scrolls can be crafted
Increased gold rewards on all starter quests in starter areas
Crafting stations can now be seen on the minimap with icons!
Reduced magnitude on begone and come hither

Gem Imbuing

Included in today's patch is our new "Imbued Gems" mechanic that the team is very excited about. Players will be able to take any gem found out in the world, imbue them with magical enchants at Enchanting Stations, and then transfer the enchant of the gem to any piece of equipment players currently can enchant. This means that instead having to enchant gear and weapons, players can craft, buy and/or sell imbued gems instead. This opens up more freedom to the player as well as a new market of items entering the economy.

Gem Rank - Each gem has a certain quality of enchant that it can hold up to seen below:

Sapphire - up to Q5
Diamond - up to Q5
Emerald - up to Q4
Ruby - up to Q4
Amethyst - up to Q3
Aventurine - up to Q3
Crystal - up to Q2
Turquoise - up to Q2
Garnet - up to Q1

Using Imbued Gems - In order to use a gem that has been enchanted, simply double-click on the gem you want to use and then click on the item you want to enchant, it's that simple!

Patch Notes 10/22/2016

Papyrus Plant ID area fix
Initial changes to fix some severe reach bugs that have been discovered - this mainly affects Alfars and female characters
Fixed bug with drinking Nectar of the God that was crashing the server
Fixed client crash bug involving Imbuing items
Fixed Sithra icons in game and in journal
Fixed bad cropping on Magical Gem icons

Patch Notes 10/30/2016

Stat gains have been increased and are now 3x faster
Possible fix for double casting/double swing and weird whirlwind animation (Please provide feedback on this as we will continue to search for a solution if this does not help)
Fixed bug with killing players in alignment dungeon sometimes giving alignment
Come Hither is now parryable
Added in the rest of spells to scrolls, all spells should now be able to be crafted and leveled by scrolls
Fixed bug with some gems that when enchanted would not work
Mounts should now always spawn facing forward
Dwarven Perseverance now works as intended and no longer shares a cooldown with Rage
Updated enchanted gem icons
Added minimap/map options to toggle crafting station icons and more
Players will now start with and retroactively received 500,000 meditation points.
Papyrus Plant ID area fix.
Minor text fixes.
Fixed system log error spam when shooting a cannon.
Party merge should now work as intended.

Weapon reach changes

Greatsword: 2.5
Greataxe: 2.35 to 2.5
Greatclub: 2.35 to 2.5
Polearm: 2.5 to 2.6
Knives: 1.6 to 1.8
1h Sword: 2 to 2.1
1h Club: 1.9 to 2.1
1h Axe: 1.9 to 2.1
Sithra: 2.1 to 2.2
Weapon Angle
1h Axe: 40 to 60
1h Club: 40 to 60
Polearm: 90 to 80
Revamped melee reach range for all races/genders to properly scale with size

Revamped racial passives

Human:
Human Ingenuity - Remains the same
Human Willpower - Remains the same
NEW - Human Longevity - Buffs and debuffs duration increased by 33%

Mirdain:
Mirdain Sight - Drastically increased ID range
Mirdain Insight - Changed to Stamina Bonus (15 stam)
NEW - Mirdain Precision - Increased damage with bows (~2.5 damage)

Dwarf :
Dwarven Perseverance: Increased duration
Dwarven Steelmaster - Durability increase on both crafted armor and melee weapons
Dwarven Durability - Remains the same, Health Bonus (10hp)

Ork:
Orkish Brutality - The increased damage now applies to all melee weapons (~2.5 damage)
Orkish Toughness - Remains the same (10hp)
NEW - Orkish Capacity - Increased backpack weight limit (+15)

Mahirim:
Mahirim Huntspeed - Remains the same
Mahirim Endurance - Health bonus changed to stamina bonus (15 stamina)
NEW - Mahirim Reflexes - 1.5 natural protection to melee and archery

Alfar:
Alfar Cunning - Remains the same (15 mana)
Alfar Resilience - 1.5 natural protection to magic
NEW- Alfar Intellect - Durability increase on crafted staves

Weaponsmithing and Weaponsmithing Mastery

Greatsword arrangement, ranks, damage and speed have been refactored to make more sense and also open up some new speed vs damage options. (**Known issue with new speeds, will be hotfixed when possible**)
For most ranks tiers, there is now a baseline, faster/less damage and more damage/slower versions (Other weapon types with these variations will be implemented in the near future
Added 2 new craftable R70s
Crafting prices have been adjusted.

Patch Notes 11/13/2016

The server is now saving to our new persistence, but will also continue to save to the old. This will allow us to test it on our end with both loading and saving to make sure everything is saving correctly on the live server. This has been a lot of work and going on behind the scenes for the past month, but we feel it will certainly be worth the effort.

Village rewards improved:

Expanded rewards parser to included ability to have min/max quantity on rewards
Added ranges on all loot drops
Tweaked essence probabilities
Added chances for blank scrolls and blank manuals
Increased rare ore chances a bit
Added special override rewards for all villages of Agon by region:
Mainland, Sea/Island, Center Map, Niffelheim, Cairn, Rubiayat, Yssam

Weaponsmithing/Mastery overhaul continues - many weapons have been shuffled around, changed ranks, and there are even some newly craftable ones. They have also received the same treatment as Greatswords, with fast and slow versions for each rank. The following weapons have gone through our initial changes for this patch:

Greatclubs
Greataxes
Polearms

More Crafting window improvements:

All items now shown, color coded by 3 criteria:
Can craft (All constraints satisfied)
Can craft (Missing materials)
Cannot craft (Do not have required skill level)
Skill requirement line now in red if you cannot craft it

Extra information now displayed directly on item details (rather than use tool tip):

Weapons, Armor, Food, and other items
Other visual improvements to the crafting window
Sensitivity sliders now have numeric readouts and are twice the size for precision
Added system messages for stacking items entering your inventory even if the item already exists in your inventory

Added variance to Mob drop weapons and armor:

Items now have a much greater variance in durability
Weapons now have a variance in damage
This combination will render some mob drops useful, and others vendor-worthy
This will help increase the value of crafted weapons and armor, as well as planting the seed of dynamic loot in the game

Vendor window improvements:

Removed Quantity: 100000000000 on vendor item's tooltip
Replaced "Requirements:" with "No Requirements" when there are none (House Recall, for instance)
Rephrased requirement readouts on skills from i.e. Wisdom, 30 or greater to 30+ Wisdom

Diminishing returns on Crafting:

Once you reach one “level” (25) above an item’s crafting requirement, a new diminishing returns system will kick in
You will get a system message with the % of total experience gained from each craft that is not receiving maximum experience
Diminishing returns starts @ roughly 55% and decreases as you get further and further from the item’s skill requirement
Village Control Point minimum reward damage has been increased from 100 to 250

Fixes:

Fixed mount spawning angle bug that cropped up from mount direction spawn change
Fixed many vendor prices
Fixed XP gains on some weapons that changed ranks etc
Fixed Kobold Strongman loot table

Patch Notes 11/26/2016

More persistence testing

Initial Mount Changes - We our excited to introduce our first changes to mounts which includes our new mount sprinting functionality and some initial balancing. Bluetail Runners have been the go-to mount for a long time and in order to start our balancing of this system there will no longer be a variance in how fast you can go on a mount. Instead the variance between mounts will be on how long that mount can sprint without running out of stamina, making the Bluetail Runner the preferred mount for long distance travel and providing more usefulness for the rest.

All mounts now have the same “run” speed which is 13% faster than the previous speed of racial mounts
All mounts now have a new sprinting mechanic which is a little over 10% faster than previous Bluetail Runner speed and is used the same way sprinting is used while running around Agon
Turning causes the mount to run at the new regular run speed
All mounts now have their own independent stamina and they use this stamina while sprinting:
Bluetail Runners can sprint for 4 minutes on a full stamina bar
Racial mounts can sprint for 2 minutes on a full stamina bar
Battlehorns can sprint for 1 minute on a full stamina bar
Bluetail Runners have had their health decreased
Active/Moving regen (non-sprinting) time for all mounts is 2 minutes
Non-active (stopped) regen time for all mounts is 1 minute
When you get on a mount, a new GUI indicator will include both mount stamina and health:
As a result, targeting your own mount while mounted has been removed due to the annoyances that occurred while riding on Battlehorns

Graded Mob Drop Loot System - This patch implements the seedling of a full blown gear grading system for a much more dynamic and interesting mob dropped loot system. Even though our goal is to drive a player driven economy and enhance the value of crafting, we decided to go with this new system instead of simply removing mob dropped gear. It provides a variance of value to the items you receive from farming, with the chance of receiving items with stats better than player crafted gear, but the chances of this occurring are low. This means that if you want the best stats possible for a certain item, your best bet it still to craft the item yourself or buy from someone else who did it for you.

All mob-dropped equipment (Weapons, Armor and Shields) will now drop in a variety of “grades”:
Ruined, Crude, Worn, Fine, Superior, Exceptional, Peerless, Immaculate
Affected attributes depending on grade include:
Basic Damage Modifier
Speed Modifier
Critical Hit Modifier (this was always there but is now shown on the item tooltip)
Durability Modifier
Encumbrance Modifier
Physical Protections Modifiers
Magical Protections Modifiers
Grade name will be prepended onto the item name for easy identification
Some Peerless and Immaculate equipment may very well be better than their player crafted counterparts, but are not common

Initial Mob Spawn Revamp - One of our main goals for PvE is to provide options for all group sizes to be able to farm and fight over that are rewarding for those who participate. We have gone through and altered mob spawns themselves, adding variance between their respawn times, total mobs that spawn and in some cases even what mobs spawn. This was done to provide players with spawns that will become known to be good for groups and others that will be known to be good for solo and small groups of players. These changes will make some spawns more profitable than others, driving PvP hotspots, instead of normalizing all spawn types where the only difference is how many people are present. This is only our first pass of doing these changes with more planned, but we would like to ask all of you to provide your feedback and experiences when farming at these locations.

Over 100 Mob spawns have been initially changed:
Decreased respawn timers
Increased mobs per spawn
Added/removed/adjusted mob types and spawn percentages
While some spawns have more mobs, others have quicker respawn timers, and many even have both:
I.E. there may be a spawn with 10+ mobs that respawn @ 50% of the time they used to, and may even include a new mob as well previously not seen at the spawn (ideal for groups)
I.E. there may be a spawn with 2 mobs that respawn @ 25% of the time they used to (ideal for solo/duo players)
Locations vary greatly, all across Agon!

Enchanting Gains - Prior to this patch, no matter what quality enchanting materials you used or how many enchants you did at once, the skill gain was the same. This meant the best way to level enchanting was to grind single enchants at a time with Q1 materials. The following changes are geared to make the enchanting grind more customizable by the player.

Now quality of materials used acts as a direct multiplier on the experience received:
A pure Q5 enchant will now give 5x experience
Multiple enchantments done at the same time will also be calculated and award proper experience:
If you do 3 pure Q5 enchantments at once on the same item (transmute with keen and human slayer, for instance) you will get 15x experience
System messages tell you exactly what your multiplier on base experience is after each enchant

Sounds:

Added New UI sound
New pick up sound for items and Papyrus
New drop sound for items
Fixed Scribing gains so that they scale properly across all levels (feedback requested!)
Fixed R70/R80 weapons (Greatswords, Greataxes, Greatclubs, and Polearms) so that max roll crafted ones can benefit from a max roll Q5 enchant
Fixed Clan bank bug and re-enabled the Clan bank in-game
Added cost of Capital Recall to tool tip

Patch Notes 12/20/2016

Complete GUI Makeover:

New Main Menu toolbar
New enhanced Paperdoll
Resizeable Backpack and Bank
New outline for all UI menus
New icons for recalling and anti-grief mechanism under mini-map

Texture Updates:

The art team has sharpened each texture and added texture normals and ambient occlusion to allow more details to be visible

Implemented initial anti-grief mechanism for blue players:

Players may now toggle the ability to be able to hit blue players inside the new player zone
Blocks damage such as arrows/melee/bolts - AoEs still go through characters so be careful where you aim!
New enchanting material for Q1 Bone - you can no longer enchant with store-bought spell-casting bone
Dynamic loot (pile of ash, clam, etc) has all received a boost in spawn rate and output
The default field of view has been set to 100

Initial Single Alignment changes:

All players are now either red or blue to each other
Players can only bind to their previous racial alliance capital and greater bindstones, anyone can bind to lesser bindstones
Capital cities are labelled as Capital Bindstones and require 200+ alignment to bind there
Start cities are labelled as Greater Bindstones and require 100+ alignment to bind there
Outskirt cities (such as Copperdale or Chilbourne) are labelled as Lesser Bindstones and anyone above -200 alignment can bind there and towers will react accordingly
Tower damage has been increased in Capital and Starter cities

Staff Revamp:

Moved all staves out of Alchemy
Removed staff transmutes from Enchanting
Refactored all staves:
Ranks
Damage
Speed
In addition to what will now be known as “Vanilla staves”, we have added four new “types” of staves which buffs the output to their specified schools while reducing the output of the other schools:
Life - Intensifies Lesser and Greater spells
Dark - Intensifies Witchcraft and Necro spells
Light - Intensifies Spell Chanting and Arcane
Elemental - Intensifies elemental schools
Staffcrafting and Staffcrafting Mastery introduced

Alchemy revamp and Alchemy Mastery introduced

Herbalism removed from the game
Small potions moved to Alchemy
All potions were refactored:
Requirement
Cost
Recipe
Effects in a few cases
Some potions require mastery now
Panacea is now craftable
Enchant Combining introduced:
Combine Q1 into Q2, Q2 into Q3 and so on
New enchanting mats for Q4 to Q5 (i.e. Combined Bile) combines have been introduced so they will only be good for enchanting, not existing crafting recipes
And more

Mixing introduced (new Craft requiring 50 Alchemy Mastery)

Gives the ability to mix potions:
Minors into Moderates
Moderates into Majors
Tier 1 (Clean Slate, Clear Mind, etc) potions to Tier 2 (Rejuv, First Aid, etc)
And more

One-handed axe, sword, and club revamps completed
Knives revamp completed
Borderless window mode added
Can now dismount while weapon is sheathed or unsheathed
Can now dismount while moving
Increased delay before mount stamina begins to regenerate slightly
New characters should now appropriately receive their 500k mediation points on creation
Various NPC vendors cleaned-up
Camera panning speed increased during character creation
Christmas is now in Agon, hunt for santa hats and candy canes!

Patch Notes 01/28/2017

Village area now turns lawless 30 minutes before a village goes live until 30 minutes after it has been captured. (300m distance, 150m for lainstone being close to NPC outpost)
Players can now control the lawful status of their lands (To open up the territory control menu press alternate use (Default G) on the Bindstone of your holding)
If the average clan alignment is negative the tile and city will be lawless.
If the average clan alignment is positive the owners will have a choice of:
Lawless tile and lawless city
Lawful tile and lawless city
Lawful tile and lawful city
This currently sets all holdings to option selected (Initial implementation)
Sorgom is permanently set to lawful/lawful for now because it encompasses an NPC city in the tile
Shipbuilding and shipbuilding mastery revamped (Gains x50 for testing purposes)
Engineering and engineering mastery revamped (Gains x50 for testing purposes)
Initial tracking has been added for damage/debuffs taken by mobs
Paperdoll lock has been removed
Small tweaks have been made to help with ghost-cast issue (More coming)
Wall of Force cooldown increased to 60 seconds and has a significantly higher stat cost
R70 reach increase has been reverted
War status now over-rides hit protection
Texture lag has been fixed and textures adjusted
Christmas drops have been removed
Global gains for the rest of beta have been increased x10 for everything
Stormblast now cause rogue when hitting a player even with hit protection on
Knockback Club book should now result in the proper system message
Q3 venomsac combination now requires the proper materials

Patch Notes 04/02/2017

EasyAntiCheat

With this patch we are implementing the first iteration of EasyAntiCheat - this will be enhanced and optimized throughout development

A new lobby is required with this patch - you can download it here (we recommend backing up your data folder)

Dynamic spawning

Ground work has been implemented that will allow us to dynamically spawn items based on area and elevation

Mushrooms, a new dynamic spawning item, only spawn on the mainland and on Yssam

Crafting

Cooking

Mastery created
Many recipes revamped / changed
25+ new recipes
10+ new ingredients
Various foods now provide an array of different strengths

5 - 30 Health Gain
5 - 30 Stamina Gain
5 - 30 Mana Gain

All Gain formulas have been adjusted / revamped

Food effect readouts now show actual bonus gains per second

Some high level foods supply other buffs (final implementation a WIP)

Lesser & Greater Attributes
Lesser & Greater Physical and Elemental Protections

Food cooldown is now equal to ½ of the previous consumed food (up for debate)

Shipbuilding now available for purchase at 50 Woodcutting
Woodcutting:

Shovel now craftable at 25
Campfire craftable at 25 - removed iron and increased wood requirements
Door craftable at 50 - increased iron requirement

Armorsmithing recipe changes

Reduced the iron ingot cost of:

Chain by 33%
Banded by 30%
Scale by 25%
Plate by 45%

Ghost casting / swings

We have identified the issue and applied a fix that should eliminate most ghost casts, but we will await feedback to see if we need to further tweak the numbers to completely eliminate them

Auto-Swing

Holding down left click will now allow the player to continuously swing (melee only)

Equipping Gear

Delay lowered to 0.75 seconds for all slots
Added button to paperdoll to remove all currently worn items with a time equal to robe - 20 seconds
Created queuing system for attaching gear - drag or click as fast as you want and they will attach in succession

Digging

Removed fail messages when you do not actually fail
Cleaned up ambiguity with system messages

When you get random items
When you are close to a map location

Added new resource - Dirt

Holdings

Module costs of all structures have been halved except for walls and cannon towers
Hit points of all structures have been halved (except clan banks)
Increase Clanstone health for hamlets 100%

Added ownership to mounts, ships and warhulks

When a player spawns a mount they are tagged as the owner of that mount for 30 seconds + the despawn time
Anyone outside of party, clan or alliance that attaches to the mount will be rogue for 10 seconds
Anyone outside of party, clan or alliance attempting to despawn the mount will be rogue for 10 seconds
Whenever anyone attaches to the mount before the timer expires, the timer will be reset upon dismounting

Skinning

Cleaned up ambiguity of failing vs. no resources generated

New Player Tutorial

There is a new tutorial added to the GUI when the player first starts - this takes the place of the original tutorial
This tutorial will guide the player through various commands and advance to the next step when the player completes each command
There has been a button added to the main menu for anyone who wishes to run through the tutorial again

Spawning

Named Spawns

Have placed a small amount of named spawns to start, will be adding more in the near future from the competition winners.

Champion Spawns

3 “test” champions have been added to 3 spawns around center map (image included)
These spawns are not what to expect for live, but rather a test bed for the mechanic and to get an idea for the stat and skill usage for our champions in their first iteration.
We will be able to change multiple settings from now until launch for these champions that only require a server restart, so your feedback is invaluable
Please note that these spawns will require multiple people to complete - they are not easy spawns

Spawn Scaling

Spawn scaling works by judging your performance rather than the number of players within the spawn - for the moment we have added spawn scaling to only select spawns (low level goblins, trolls, skeletons, hivekin, ceil fey, zombies, and sarnakhs)

Note: We implemented spawn scaling on a mid-tier Greater Mummy spawn that is situated next to a mega spawn for comparison - we would really like to see your feedback on how this works for higher end mobs compared to the current mega spawn mechanic

Player Holding Tile control

Tile control is now per city for both the lawful/lawless status and the cooldown timer
Settings/Timer should now save at server down

Spell / School Changes

Spell requirement changes

Begone changed to level 50 Greater Magic
Heal Other changed to level 10 Greater Magic
Missile Fury changed to level 15 Greater Magic

Removed spells for now to alleviate new player confusion

Magic Shield
Magic Ward
Blast
Frailty
Blessing
Spell Curse
Evil Eye
Mental Weakness
Mystic Shield
Mystic Ward

Modified spells

Needles - Reduced the cooldown by 25%, reduced the cast time by 50%, reduced damage by 15%
Healing Chant - Increased healing radius by 100%, increased magnitude by 10%
Thunderstorm - Increased damage by 100%
Tornado - Cooldown reduced by 17%, cast time reduced by 66%
Acid Rain - Increased damage by 100%
Meteor Strike - Reduced cooldown by 66%, reduced cast time by 33%
Wall of Fire - Increased damage by 50%
Blizzard - Increased damage by 30%
Ice Storm - Changed to 0.5 damage a tick
Death Fog - Changed to 0.5 damage a tick (will be looking into visual size increase)
Slashing/Piercing/Bludgeoning Weakness - Increased cooldown by 500%, increased stat costs by 400%, reduced magnitude by 50%
Flames of Vengeance - Increased damage by 100%

Parry Modifier Adjustments (PVE only)

The effectiveness of parry is now in direct correlation to the rank of the weapon and the effective “rank” of the shield (shields do not currently have a rank, rather it is depicted by the crafting skill required to make it)
The maximum effectiveness for parry is still the same for max rank and scales down from there

Shields: Rank 0: 0.6 - Rank 80: 0.8
2-Handers Rank 0: 0.4 - Rank 80: 0.6
1-Handers Rank 0: 0.3 - Rank 80: 0.5
Knives Rank 0: 0.1 - Rank 80: 0.3
Siege Weapons Rank 0: 0.2 - Rank 80: 0.4

Monster Damage Cap

Monster damage cap has been effectively removed allowing us to create much more challenging scenarios

Misc Fixes / Changes

Tooltips during loading screens now change every 10 seconds
Fixed some outer NPC cities zapping you if you were about -200 alignment
Fixed Engineering Mastery showing up on the advanced smithy
Cannons now show their maker
Players can now Right Click or hold down Left Click on a bag to rename it
Miscellaneous fixes on the engineering window and siege hammer not showing up
Fixed Shadowstealers damage range
Increased Deepblade’s durability to bring it in line with the other R60 Greatswords
Fixed damage bug causing a 7% increase in top end damage that should not have been there
Villages in Lawless areas now remain lawless after being captured
Updated house tax text and fixed the delayed timer bug when house is going vulnerable - the timer on the house going vulnerable should now be accurate
Miscellaneous vendor menu fixes
Dismounting should now be a lot smoother
Falling under the world will now kick you from the game and send you back to your bindstone
The cooldown of eating now resets on death
New staff model for Sarracenia
Miscellaneous texture fixes