This update releases next week!
New Feature & Content
Royal Merchant Free Trial
Upon release of this update and moving forward, players from Merchant Level 10 to 20 will be offered a Royal Merchant Trial. This trial grants all the benefits of Royal Merchant for seven days, except the autocrafting machine! Perfect time to go on quests!
Autocrafting Machine Free Trial
Players Merchant Level 35 and above, and not already a Royal Merchant, will be offered an Autocrafting Machine Trial. This trial grants you access to the recently released Autocrafting Machine Royal Merchant perk for seven days. You get all the functionality of the machine for this period, so (auto)craft to your heart’s content!
Auto-Claim Expired Event Rewards
Unclaimed event rewards will now be automatically claimed after the event has ended and expired. This applies only to major events (i.e. Lost City of Gold, Tower of Titans, Dragon Invasion and King's Caprice), Content Passes and Community Events.
If the rewards are not auto-claimed within 90 days of the event ending, the rewards will be forfeited as usual.
Seasonal Content
Wizard Assembly Content Pass
Lilu and Grimar are helping Evelyn prepare for the Academy’s back to school! Help them out in this Content Pass starting on September 14th and until October 4th. Collect Runechalks and earn new rewards like the Archwizard Attire Robe and the Grimar's Starcaller Wand!
Unlock Full Access for 1500 Gems and complete all tasks to earn yourself the Nerd player title!
Magical Studies Login Calendar
Login daily from September 26th through October 5th to obtain a trove of rewards, including the new Spell Reflector shield!
Unlikely Alliance Community Event
Hemma and Donovan are teaming up for nefarious purposes in this month’s community event!
Starting on September 10th and until September 14th, help the magical duo’s schemes and unlock the exclusive Soulwrought Tiara customization and the Donovan Plushie decoration.
Balance Changes
With this update, we turned our attention toward our Champions, specifically those we felt were underperforming a bit in this current day and age of Extreme questing and spacefaring monsters. Below is a summary of the upcoming changes.
Hemma Rework
Hemma was meant to be a “damage-dealer” kind of Champion, but as time moves on we do see that Champions are having a hard time competing with Heroes in terms of stopping power. To empower Hemma in this a bit niche archetype, we’ve made the following changes:
Hemma now drains vitality from all her allies, and adds the amount of HP drained as Attack for herself, that is in addition to the bonus Attack from each drain that she had before. She also heals for the amount of HP drained.
New skill values:
Tier 1: +20% HP for the party, Drains 8% HP per Ally, +30% Attack per Drain
Tier 2: +30% HP for the party, Drains 8% HP per Ally, +50% Attack per Drain
Tier 3: +40% HP for the party, Drains 8% HP per Ally, +75% Attack per Drain
Tier 4: +50% HP for the party, Drains 8% HP per Ally, +100% Attack per Drain
There is a +400% Attack limit for Hemma’s Skill.
Donovan Buff
With a ‘niche’ similar to Hemma, Donovan’s starting concept was to draw on a varied party to provide buffs. For this first pass we are simply increasing these numbers a bit in order to make him a bit more competitive.
New skill values:
Tier 1: +5% bonus Attack to the party for each Spellcaster, +7% HP to the party for each Fighter, +4% Critical Hit Chance & Evasion for each Rogue.
Tier 2: +10% bonus Attack to the party for each Spellcaster, +8% HP to the party for each Fighter, +5% Critical Hit Chance & Evasion for each Rogue.
Tier 3: +15% bonus Attack to the party for each Spellcaster, +9% HP to the party for each Fighter, +7% Critical Hit Chance & Evasion for each Rogue.
Tier 4: +20% bonus Attack to the party for each Spellcaster, +12% HP to the party for each Fighter, +10% Critical Hit Chance & Evasion for each Rogue.
Rudo Buff
Nothing major for Rudo, but we have seen the feedback that in the current quest landscape, 4 rounds just doesn’t cut it anymore. His Critical Hit Chance bonuses to the party are the same but now last a bit longer.
Changes:
Tier 2: +40% Critical Hit Chance for 3 rounds, up from 2 rounds.
Tier 3: +50% Critical Hit Chance for 4 rounds, up from 3 rounds.
Tier 4: +50% Critical Hit Chance for 6 rounds, up from 4 rounds.
We’ll be keeping an eye out on the impact of all these changes in the upcoming updates!
Quest Areas
The costs to unlock certain quest areas have been reduced.
Chronos Ruins has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 15 million (15M) to 12.5 million (12.5M).
Haunted Castle has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 25 million (25M) to 20 million (20M) and its cost for Gems reduced from 2500 to 2250.
Sunken Temple has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 50 million (50M) to 40 million (40M) and its cost for Gems reduced from 3000 to 2500.
Bleakspire Peak has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 250 million (250M) to 200 million (200M) and its cost for Gems reduced from 3500 to 2750.
Cinderlake Volcano has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 1 billion (1G) to 800 million (800M) and its cost for Gems reduced from 4250 to 3000.
Void Dimension has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 3 billion (3G) to 2 billion (2G) and its cost for Gems reduced from 5000 to 3250.
Elysium has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 5 billion (5G) to 4 billion (4G) and its cost for Gems reduced from 5500 to 3500.
Ancient Jungle has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 15 billion (15G) to 10 billion (10G) and its cost for Gems reduced from 5750 to 3750.
Meteor Zone has had its cost to unlock with Gold reduced from 30 billion (30G) to 20 billion (20G) and its cost for Gems reduced from 6000 to 4000.
Other Balance Changes
The Gem prices for several customizations have been lowered.
Two new Tomb-Bound Chest blueprints, the Drum of Everwar Instrument and Death Battleboots Heavy Footwear, have been added. Two new Tomb-themed decorations, the Delta Slab Flooring and the Wall-Bound Keeper Wallpaper, have also been added. Available starting with the Tower of Titans on September 10th.
Minor Changes
The following items’ animations were changed to be two-handed. This is a buff (purely visual).
Titan Sword
Opulent Brand
T-Rex Buster
Plutonium Blade
Other Changes
Furniture acquired through Royal Merchant, like the Autocrafting Machine, will now be sorted first in the furniture menu.
Masks ascension line requirements will now be in line with other premium blueprint lines.
King Schedule
The King will return as a Guest Champion from September 14th until September 17th.
Event Schedule
The Tower of Titans event will start on September 10th, running for 26 days.
The King's Caprice event will start on September 15th, running for seven days.
The Dragon Invasion event will start on September 24th, running for five days.
The Lost City of Gold event will start on October 2nd, running for four days.
Notable Bug Fixes
Fixed the Spirit Spirit showing as a Water element enchantment on item enchantment screens.
Fixed an issue where the Spirit Spirit appeared as a white square in Advanced Search.
Fixed an issue where the UI for Login Calendar events would be obstructed on certain HUD scaling sizes.
Fixed Wall Decorations not triggering a celebration screen when awarded, such as from Promo Codes.
Fixed the item image not updating when cycling through active crafts.
Fixed the Fusion menu toggle button appearing in Portrait mode in the Autocrafting Machine craft menu.
Fixed a texture issue when the Wispwick Apparel customization is equipped with certain footwear.
Fixed an issue where quality multipliers did not properly apply to all applicable stats for transcended items.
Fixed an issue in the Collection Book where a worker icon would appear as a pink square if you did not own the worker.
Fixed an issue where the activation button for Zephyr's Altar would not appear on game launch.
