Greetings adventurers of Zoria, Weve had a busy couple of months with the release of the Prologue and the Steam Summer Festival, going through all the awesome feedback we have received from you and updating and improving the Prologue based on that feedback. With Prologue update 0.3.5 launched and all that behind us now, we are moving towards finalizing development for the features that are still missing and adding content for the game. For todays Devlog we will make an in-depth presentation of the updated stats system and its influence on skills and items in the game. We will not be discussing exact numbers since game balance is still ongoing and many of these numbers will probably be adjusted several times before release, but the workings of the system remain in place. First thing to mention, we are renaming some stats that proved to be confusing for a lot of players to be more in-line with classic RPG players expectations.

• Mastery becomes Strength
• Prowess is now more properly named Agility
• Speed is now Initiative, to better illustrate its role in the combat queue.

• Melee Attack Power
• Ranged Attack Power
• Spell Power
• Block Power

• Stamina: directly affects the characters health. Especially important early game and the single greatest contributor to player survivability.
• Strength: especially important for melee characters, directly affects Melee Attack Power and increases the Energy pool for Lancer class and Captain. Also increases block power for characters wearing a Shield.
• Agility: increases Ranged Attack Power for Ranger. Increases Melee Attack Power for Thief. Increases Melee Attack Power for Lancer, Kingsman, Battle Cleric and Captain, to a smaller degree. Increases Energy pool for Ranger, Thief, Kingsman. Increases Crit Chance with values depending on class. Increases Armor.
• Intellect: Increases Spell Power. Increases Magic Armor. Increases Crit Chance for magic abilities. Increases Mana pool for Wizard, Necromancer, Priest, Battle Cleric, Bard.
• Armor: reduces the amount of damage received from physical abilities and effects.
• Magic Armor: reduces the amount of damage received from magic abilities and effects.

• Initiative: it influences the characters place in the combat queue at the start of the combat as well as the place it will be placed in the queue once that characters turn is finished. A character with a high Initiative value will be placed higher in the combat queue, once its turn is completed, than a character with a low Initiative value.
• Hit Chance: chance to hit with an ability. Is directly influenced by level difference between the character and the enemy. The higher the level of an enemy compared to the character, the lower the Hit Chance.
• Crit Chance: Critical chance is influenced by the dominant stat for that class Agility or Intellect.

• Fire Magic
• Water Magic
• Nature Magic
• Arcane Magic
• Death Magic
• Light Magic

• Sunder: can be applied by physical abilities. Decreases the player Armor and can stack multiple effects.
• Wound: can be applied by physical abilities. Decreases the player Initiative while active.
• Bleed: can be applied by physical abilities. Deals damage over time to the character until removed.
• Stun: can be applied by any kind of abilities. Locks the character in the current position in the combat queue for its duration.
• Poison: can be applied by Nature abilities. Decreases Hit Chance.
• Disease: can be applied by Nature abilities. Decreases Agility and Intellect.
• Curse: can be applied by Death abilities. Decreases Strength and Magic Armor.

• Strength: Basic Attack, Vanquish thy Foe, Avenger Strike, Bash of Wrath
• Agility: Shield Wall, King's Resolve, Deflect, Hold the Line, Avatar of Protection
• Intellect: Magic Absorption, King's Fire

• Light Armor: worn by Wizard, Necromancer and Priest classes.
• Medium Armor: worn by Ranger, Thief, Bard classes and the Captain.
• Hardened Armor: worn by the Ranger, Kingsman, Lancer, Battle Cleric classes and the Captain.
• Heavy Armor: worn by the Kingsman and Lancer classes.

• All weapons now have a weapon damage stat. This damage is added to the base attack of the character using that weapon.
• Specific caster weapons, like the staff, have a Spell Damage stat instead of Weapon Damage.