[quote]This patch focuses on Guild Season content, introducing the next batch of Crystal Weapons and several balance changes to shake up the ZvZ meta ahead of the new season.[/quote]

New Crystal Weapons

• Flamewalker Staff (Fire Staff): Spontaneous Combustion transforms you into a raging fireball, flying towards your enemies and dealing damage to those in your path
• Forgebark Staff (Nature Staff): Dual Nature allows you to switch between fortifying your allies and ensnaring your enemies
• Arclight Blasters (Crossbow): Flickershots unleashes a barrage of energy bolts as you spin through the air, dealing damage and increasing your resistances

Season 27 Changes

• Might needed per Level: 13,000 10,400
  • Season Points per Level: 20 16

• Might needed per Level: 6,000 4,000
  • Season Points per Level: 30 20

• Might needed per Level: 34,000 27,200
  • Season Points per Level: 20 16

• Might needed per Level: 3,500 2,700

Other Changes

• Smuggler Crates are now visible on the minimap to everyone in the same region
• Players can now send only one message every two seconds in the following chat channels:
  • Say
  • Whisper
  • Help
  • Faction
  • Faction Local
  • All language channels
• The following automated chat message has been changed:
  • Player x has committed suicide. Player x has died.
• Text entered in the Marketplace UI search box now carries over when switching between the Buy and Buy Order tabs
• The Kills and Deaths tabs in the Player Stats UI now remember the previous dropdown selection on opening

Combat Balance Changes

• Bloody Reap (Infernal Scythe)
  • 2nd swing now deals damage in 3 ticks over 2 seconds (doesnt stack)
  • Damage per tick below 40%: 85 (total damage 220 255)
  • Damage per tick above 40%: 47 (total damage 120 141)

• Raging Blades (all Axes)
  • Radius: 6m 5m

• Divine Engine (Energy Shaper)
  • Channel duration: 3.3s 2.6s (Total ticks 11 9)
  • Damage per tick (vs players): 96 117
  • Damage per tick (vs mobs): 57 70
  • Initial tick: 0.2s 0.1s

• Blood Ritual (Demonfang)
  • Damage per cast: 106 112

• Ring of Death (Twin Slayers)
  • 1st cast cooldown: 25s 15s
  • Energy cost: 12 10

• Raging Flare (all Fire Staffs)
  • Cast time: 0.6s 0.4s
  • Impact damage: 186 205
  • DoT ticks: 6 3 (1s interval unchanged)
  • DoT damage per tick: 7.2 21.4
  • Total DoT damage: 43.2 64.2

• Frost (all Frost Staffs)
  • Stack requirement: 5 4

• Frozen Hell (Icicle Staff)
  • Hit delay: 0.7s 0.3s

• Ice Crystal (Permafrost Prism)
  • Damage: 184.69 173
  • Stun duration now ignores diminishing returns (but does not apply it)
  • Stun duration no longer refreshes by consecutive Ice Crystal stuns

• Ground Pound (Grovekeeper)
  • Removed: Increased resistances per targets hit
  • Added: Knocks up all targets for a duration based on the amount of enemies hit
    • 1, 2, or 3 enemies hit: 0.4s knock up
    • 4, 5 or 6 enemies hit: 0.8s knock up
    • 7 or more enemies hit: 1.2s knock up

• Sanctify (Exalted Staff)
  • Cast time: 1s 0.6s

• Eye of the Storm (Dreadstorm Monarch)
  • Resistance reduction: 0.15 0.18

• Vendetta (Camlann Mace)
  • Hit delay: 1.5s 1.2s

• Protection of Nature (all Nature Staffs)
  • Resistance: 0.24 0.2

• Fatal Blade (Black Monk Stave)
  • Damage reduction (vs. players): 22% 30%
  • Duration: 6s 5s
  • Initial tick: 0.25s 0.1s
  • Projectile speed: 30 m/s 35 m/s

• Soul Shaker (Grailseeker)
  • Area duration: 4s 3.5s
  • Root duration: 3s 3.5s

• Tornado (Soulscythe)
  • Standtime: 0.7s 0.4s

• Cripple (all Spears)
  • Damage type: magical physical
  • Added: Auto-attack speed is reduced by 25% for 4s
  • Cooldown: 20s 18s
  • Move speed buff duration: 5s 4s
  • No longer gives bonus damage when purging a sprint

• Blade Cyclone (all Swords)
  • 1 charge damage: 70 60

• Hundred Striking Fists (Ursine Maulers)
  • Damage per tick: 32.4 36 (vs players)
  • Delayed damage: 27 30 (per stack)

• Infernal Boulder (Hellfire Hands)
  • 1st boulder damage: 199.5 177
  • 2nd boulder damage: 133 126
  • 3rd boulder damage: 66.5 76
  • DoT tick damage: 14 18

• Protection of the Fiends (Demon Armor)
  • Caster resistance reduction: 0.34 0.37

• Taunt (all Plate Armors)
  • No longer distinguishes between target types
  • Bonus Damage vs All: 10% 20%
  • Defense vs Players: -10% -20%

• Untouchable (Fort Sterling Cape)
  • Base cooldown: 139 168
  • Cooldown reduction per 100 IP: 3s 8s (118s 112s at 700 IP, 91s 40s at 1600 IP)

• Invisibility Potion
  • Ability damage reduction Damage vs All reduction (-50% value is unchanged)
  • Duration: Fixed time on cast While Invisible, and remaining for 2s once revealed

• Judgment (Lightcaller) visuals have been updated to be more readable in large-scale fights

Fixes

• Spinning Blades (Dual Swords): Fixed issue where immunity to Crowd Control persisted after impact
• Holy Beam (Holy Staffs): Fixed issue where stacks persisted after casting was interrupted
• Razor Cut (Bear Paws): Fixed issue where the same enemy could be hit multiple times
• Time Freeze (Great Arcane Staffs): Fixed issue where frozen enemies could still receive healing from lifesteal effects

• Fixed issue where the Arena queue timer would not reappear if a player canceled the match invitation
• Fixed issue where combat logs in the Death Recap would be overwritten by new actions performed on the player when switching tabs in the UI
• Fixed issue where the Take All button on the Marketplace would reset filters without resetting the filter text
  • The text is now reset along with the filters
• [MOBILE] Fixed issue where main dynamic action button on the virtual controller could appear to remain in motion after use
• [CONTROLLER] Fixed issue where Select Next Party Member keybinding option was missing from the Settings menu

• Fixed Faction Warfare connection bug; it is now always possible to capture Outposts in a region if at least one adjacent frontline or backline region is owned by your Faction
• Fixed issue where it was possible for players to buy their own items at the Marketplace
• Fixed issue where Rock Giants Aspect would not pursue players or use melee attacks