Hey everyone!

A new patch is going to be released tomorrow at 5:00 PM MST (12:00 AM UTC). The server will go offline at 2:00 PM MST (9:00 PM UTC) to prepare for the patch.\n

Theres a few big changes we want to talk about before releasing the patch, decisions behind these changes, and the future after this patch.

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Gathering Rework

Gathering has been completely reworked and we are resetting all player gathering skill levelsback to 1.

Weve made the decision to run a Double Skill XP event that will last for a week (until Nov 25 2025).

Why?

We discovered a lot of problems with the current gathering skill implementation. The biggest of which was that skills were not giving any benefit for levels.\n

The other big problem was that we had a bug where it was not checking for the max level of a skill, and due to this bug, we couldnt determine the true level of a players gathering skill.\n

We know this isnt ideal. We said we wouldnt reset player data, but in this case we felt it was unfortunately necessary. We will strive not to reset player data, but sometimes things dont go as planned.\n

Whats it going to be like from now on?

• Gathering Mastery

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• The Mastery stat for a skill will now be compared against a gathering nodes Mastery stat in addition to the base success chance on the node to determine the success of a gathering action.

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Player Combat Stats and Talents

Player combat stats have been set to their intended values and player talent points have been refunded.

• Fighter Targe was giving players unintended permanent defense.

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• Some players also had missing or additional talent points or combat stats.

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• All players have had their talents reset in order to account for this. Make sure you spend your points before venturing back out into the world!\n

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Monster Aggro Rework

Monsters now have an aggro range so that once they move out of this range, they will teleport back to where they were.

• Previously, monsters would only go back to their spawn once they no longer had aggro for any player which has either been outside its field-of-view too long or the player leaving the map, causing them to follow players for way too long.

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• This contributed to players farming large groups of enemies in Waterfall cave that we had fun seeing, but knew we had to fix.\n

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Monster sharing aggro with other monsters has been disabled.

• With this combined with the above aggro change, monsters will be less likely to form massive groups that swarm players.

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• You can still have multiple monsters aggro on you but they arent going to invite all of their friends.\n

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These changes do not apply to Dungeon monsters which will still aggro in groups as intended.

Quest Fixes

• We had a talk with Torin and made a deal so that he will give you the ring back, which means you now can continue the main story quest.

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• This allows players to complete all 30 quests.

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Whats next?

Well have more news soon along with a roadmap laying out the major features and content we plan to add.

The following are known issues that will be addressed in future patches as we wanted to get this patch out as soon as we could:

• Invisible monsters attacking players in Twisted Ledge

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• Party functionality as a whole

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• Buff and debuff icons not showing up correctly or disappearing between maps

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• Screen tearing issues

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• Task boards showing quests youve already accepted

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• [strike]Action bars visually showing the wrong bar[/strike] FIXED

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While there were a lot of bug fixes, there are some that are still evasive and require more details from players about how theyre making this happen. Please keep sending in your bug reports, they help a lot!

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