Hello adventurers! Today's patch enables our yearly Halloween event, which brings some cosmetic changes to Riverstone and several common monsters, as well as limited-time drops (tricks n' treats.) We've also been collecting balance feedback and have buffed a wide range of abilities that were perhaps a bit underutilized. We've also implemented a popular user request, the ability to "reroll" relics found in Wanderer's Journeys once you've unlocked Horatio in town. You will need both Legend of Shara and Dawn of Dragons to access this feature, but hopefully it should help give you more chances for great, useful relics!

Patch Notes

BALANCE

• Divine Protection shield mod now has 33% chance to negate a crit (up from the *actual* previous value of 25%, but down from the previous *displayed* value of 50%)
• Absorbing shield mod now has 75% chance to negate a crit
• Doubled the chance that merchants in Wanderers Journeys will stock (one or more) Relics
• Gamblers Hot Streak now costs 10 Stamina (down from 20)
• Floramancers Photosynthesis now costs 12 Stamina (down from 24)
• Soulkeepers Parting Gifts now costs 12 Stamina (down from 20)
• Floramancers Thornsplosion now deals 230% Spirit Power in damage (up from 190%)
• Brigands Fire Bomb now deals 175% Weapon Power as damage (down from 200%)
• Edge Thanes Verse of Suppression now costs 12 Stamina (down from 15), and has a 25% chance to inflict debuffs to enemies within 3 tiles (up from 20%/2) each turn
• Skill Orb version of Verse of Suppression now costs 10 Stamina (down from 15) and now reduces aggro chance by 85% (up from 65%) per step
• Hunters Eagle Eye now costs 16 Energy (down from 24) and has a 16 turn cooldown (down from 20)
• HuSyns Gravity Surge now costs 16 Stamina (down from 20)
• (Legend of Shara) Relic Hunter passive now grants +2.5% to damage/resists per Relic gear equipped, down from +4%
• (Legend of Shara) Polish and Shine now costs 10 Stamina (down from 20) and has a 4 turn cooldown (down from 5)
• (Legend of Shara) Chakra Shift now costs 12 Energy (down from 20) and has an 8 turn cooldown (down from 10)
• (Legend of Shara) Calligraphers Combat Biography now costs 12 Energy (down from 20)

BUGS

• Using the character name Shara no longer creates a bad game state
• Fixed rare issue where the entrance to Riverstone Waterway could get misplaced
• Fixed terrain + powerup tutorials appearing at inopportune times
• The Divine Protection shield mod that granted 50% chance to negate crits was displaying the wrong value; should have been 25%; but also it has been rebalanced slightly (see above)
• Fixed broken text for some Dragon Soul abilities
• Fixed janky looking sprite on the Adventure tab of your character sheet, if you had a big pet
• Added many extra safeguards to prevent issues where an Adventure-mode character could permanently die
• (Dawn of Dragons) Fixed issues with creating an Echo of a dragon, i.e. the Echo of a Bandit Dragon could steal your food

CONTENT/GAMEPLAY

• (Dawn of Dragons) New Frogcrafting recipe: Any two relics = one relic of similar power. The target power will be the average rank of the two input relics. There is a 50% chance that the new relic may rise slightly in rank, up to a cap of rank 10. To exceed rank 10, the input relics must be 10 or higher.

The Setting

Key Features

• Experience finely-tuned, procedurally-generated gameplay as you fight challenging monsters, complete quests, and collect items.
  
• Master deep, tactical combat across 9 unique jobs. (More to come!)
  
• Choose between two game modes – including Adventure Mode, which removes the permadeath restriction.
  
• Share some of your progress between characters by using the banking system, or planting magic trees and raising monsters in town.
  
• Take in the scenery – comprised of beautiful 16-bit graphics and carefully handcrafted maps!
  
• Relax to a beautiful soundtrack composed by award-winning composer Andrew Aversa – joined by Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana) and Grant Kirkhope (GoldenEye 007, Civilization: Beyond Earth).

Multiple Platforms and Control Methods

• Runs on both PC and Mac, with Linux support in continuing development (already works great on several distros)
  
• Play with virtually any controller, and remap any control, binding, or shortcut
  
• Old-school keyboard-only support (numpad movement) as well as WASD preset bindings available
  
• Full mouse support - can even be played with ONLY the mouse!

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04+ / Steam OS+
• Processor: SSE2 instruction set supportMemory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: Graphics supporting DX9 or DX11 with 9.3 capabilities
• Storage: 1 GB available space