PATCH: April 28 – PvP Updates, Bug Fixes & More

Arcane Essence

• Arcane Essence now has a new graphic and has been updated in related menus

Arcane Essence Commodity

• Players can now make Arcane Essence Commodities
• Arcane Essence Commodities hold 5,000 per commodity
• Players can set Pricing Manifest prices on Rental Vendors for Arcane Essence Commodities

Followers

PvP Damage

• When a player is in PvP with another player, there is a Follower PvP Damage Window that resets every 3 seconds
• During these windows, each Follower (Tamed/Summoned) belonging to a player is capped at inflicting a cumulative Damage equal to its Follower PvP Damage Cap against another player
• The Follower PvP Damage Cap is (Creature’s Control Slots * (1 + (Controller’s Total Printed Follower Skills / 100))))
• Any cumulative damage inflicted by a Follower during a window that would exceed it’s Follower PvP Damage Cap will be reduced to 0

Follower Skills include all of the following:

• Animal Taming
• Animal Lore
• Veterinary
• Herding
• Spirit Speaking

Example
A player has 100 Animal Taming, 100 Animal Lore and 100 Veterinary for a total of 300 Total Printed Follower Skills

They are using a Bullvore (3 Control Slots) and a Black Widow (2 Control Slot)

The Bullvore can inflict a maximum of (3 * (1 + (300 / 100))) = 12 Damage every 3 seconds against another player in PvP
The Black Widow can inflict a maximum of (2 * (1 + (300 / 100))) = 8 Damage every 3 seconds against another player in PvP

Magic Reflect and Interrupts

• Spells cast by Followers against other players will ignore Magic Reflect on the player (will not be reflected and will not remove the Magic Reflect on the player)
• Spells cast by Followers against other players will no longer have an effect on the player’s 1st-4th circle Interrupt Window for PvP

Summoning in PvP Events / Factions

• Players will no longer be able to cast Summon spells while in an active PvP Event Zone (TS / DF / CCC / SR) zone, a Faction Castle, or within the boundaries of a Faction Waypost
• Any Summoned Followers that enter these zones will be automatically unsummoned

Followers in PvP Events

• Players will no longer be able to issue Combat (Attack / Guard / Patrol) commands to any Followers while in an active PvP Event Zone (TS / DF / CCC / SR), a Faction Castle, or within the boundaries of a Faction Waypost
• Any Followers inside of these zones that has an active Attack / Guard / Patrol command will be switched to Follow mode

Murderers / Criminals

• Dispelling or attempting to dispel a Murderer/Criminal player’s Summoned Follower will now correctly flag the caster as being attackable (grey) by the Murderer/Criminal for the next 2 minutes

Town Struggles

• Fixed an issue that was causing abandoned Mounts from not being deleted in Town Struggle Bases after Town Struggles

Player Kills

• Player Kills are now worth 15 Points Team Points
• Player kills are now worth a flat 15 Individual Points to each player involved in the kill (no scaling by Damage Dealt %)

Dungeon Flashpoints

Inactive Guild Penalty

• Fixed an issue that was not correctly applying Inactive Guild Penalties to guilds participating in Dungeon Flashpoints

Player Kills

• Player Kills are now worth 40 Points to the killing Guild
• Player kills are now worth a flat 40 Points to each player involved in the kill (no scaling by Damage Dealt %)
• Fixed an issue where Dungeon Flashpoint Kills would incorrectly give a “Corpse Creek Contest”-related system message

Beacons

• Guilds are now capped at earning a maximum of 40 Points per control tick from holding multiple Beacons (i.e. 2 Controlled Beacons, or 1 Controlled Beacon + 2 Contested Beacons)

Excessive Player Count Penalties

• If more than 10 players from a guild have participated in the event, all Individual and Team Score earned by that guild will suffer a penalty of 10% per player beyond 10 (with penalties up to a maximum of 90%)

Examples
Guild A has had 12 players from their guild participate in the event so far
All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a (2 * 10%) = 20% penalty

Later, Guild A now has had 16 total players from their guild participate in the event
All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a (6 * 10%) = 60% penalty

Corpse Creek Contests

Player Kills

• Player Kills are now worth 40 Points to the killing Guild
• Player kills are now worth a flat 40 Points to each player involved in the kill (no scaling by Damage Dealt %)

Beacons

• Guilds are now capped at earning a maximum of 40 Points per control tick from holding multiple Beacons (i.e. 2 Controlled Beacons, or 1 Controlled Beacon + 2 Contested Beacons)

Excessive Player Count Penalties

• If more than 10 players from a guild have participated in the event, all Individual and Team Score earned by that guild will suffer a penalty of 10% per player beyond 10 (with penalties up to a maximum of 90%)

Examples
Guild A has had 12 players from their guild participate in the event so far
All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a (2 * 10%) = 20% penalty

Later, Guild A now has had 16 total players from their guild participate in the event
All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a (6 * 10%) = 60% penalty

Factions

• Moving over a Faction Flag will now also count as double-clicking that Faction Flag (and the player will attempt to pick it up)

Meteor Swarm and Chain Lightning

Organized PvP Handling
If a player casts the Meteor Swarm or Chain Lightning spells in an Organized PvP situation, handling for the spell will become adjusted

Organized PvP Situations include the following:

• Faction Player inside of a Faction Castle or within 50 tiles of a Faction Castle Wall
• Faction Player within 50 tiles of a Faction Flag
• Faction Player within 50 tiles of a Faction Waypost
• Participant in a Dungeon Flashpoint inside the Event Zone (Dungeon 1st Floor)
• Participant in a Corpse Creek Contest inside the Event Zone (Corpse Creek region)

Targets Hit

• If a Meteor Swarm / Chain Lightning spell adopts Organized PvP handling, the spell will not hit any players or followers that are Blue (innocent)

Meteor Swarm Damage
If a Meteor Swarm spell adopts Organized PvP handling, the damage inflicted to all players will be determined based on the total number of players hit, as follows:

1-5 Players Hit: 5 Damage
6 Players Hit: 7-9 Damage
7 Players Hit: 9-14 Damage
8 Players Hit: 11-17 Damage
9 Players Hit: 13-20 Damage
10 or more Players Hit: 15-24 Damage

Example
Team A has 5 players and Team B has 8 players and every player on each team casts Meteor Swarm and hits the entire opposing Team
Team A with 5 players will inflict 5 x (11 to 17 Damage) = 55 to 85 damage to each member of Team B
Team B with 8 players will inflict 8 x (5 Damage) = 40 damage to each member of Team A

Chain Lightning Damage
If a Chain Lightning spell adopts Organized PvP handling, the damage inflicted to all player will be determined based on the total number of players hit, as follows:

1-5 Players Hit: 6 Damage
6 Players Hit: 9-12 Damage
7 Players Hit: 12-18 Damage
8 Players Hit: 15-24 Damage
9 Players Hit: 18-30 Damage
10 or more Players Hit: 21-36 Damage

Example
Team A has 5 players and Team B has 8 players and every player on each team casts Chain Lightning and hits the entire opposing Team
Team A with 5 players will inflict 5 x (15 to 24 Damage) = 75 to 120 damage to each member of Team B
Team B with 8 players will inflict 8 x (6 Damage) = 48 damage to each member of Team A

Note: The Organized PvP handling of these spells is intended to give small groups a “counterplay” against large groups, while minimizing the ability of large groups to “brute force” inflict a large amount of damage due to having sheer numbers casting the spell

Faction Friendly AOE

• Because Faction players cannot damage members of the same Faction, Faction players will have an Damage Penalty applied to any Organized PvP Meteor Swarm / Chain Lightning spells that have Friendly Players within the AOE radius
• For each Friendly Faction player within the radius of an Organized PvP Meteor Swarm, the spell will suffer a 20% penalty (up to a maximum of 80%)
• For each Friendly Faction player within the radius of an Organized PvP Chain Lightning, the spell will suffer a 30% penalty (up to a maximum of 80%)

Reactive Armor

• The Reactive Armor spell will no longer give 2 separate system messages when expired or removed

Summoners Tome

• Fixed an issue where the Air Elemental Cyclone upgrade would not correctly increase the number of Targets potentially hit

Mount Tokens

• Updated all Monster Hunter Society Mount Tokens to correctly use the Monster Hunter Society Hue (2817) instead of the incorrect War Aspect hue (2503)

OutlandsID

Houses

• If a player is the Owner of a House, then all characters across their OutlandsID (all accounts) are now also treated as the Owner of that House for access-related purposes (Refreshing / Securing / House Menu Mechanics / etc)
• The “actual” character Owner of the house will still be displayed in the Housing Menu
• Players can still only place one House per Account

Rental Vendors

• If a player is the Owner of a Rental Vendor, then all characters across their OutlandsID (all accounts) are now also treated as the Owner of that Rental Vendor for access-related purposes (Vendor Access / Vendor Menu / etc)
• The “actual” character Owner of the Rental Vendor will still be displayed in the Housing and Vendor Menus

Stationary Vendor Penalties

• If a player Recalls/Gates/Hikes, or has been stationary for 5 minutes or more, they will have a Stationary Vendor Penalty applied to them
• While a player has a Stationary Penalty, all Vendor Purchase attempts will be blocked
• A player’s Stationary Penalty will be removed once they walk or run 5 steps
• Players will receive a system message informing them if they have a Stationary Penalty in place

Knockback

• Players and creatures that are currently experiencing a Knockback effect causing them to move tiles (including “reverse Knockback” effects such as Rift Daemon Rifts abilities) cannot be affected by an additional Knockback effect until the first one resolves fully

Hiking

• Players are no longer prevented from Hiking (using an Atlas Book) if they are flagged as Recently in Combat or Recently in PvP, but will still be prevented if they have a Heat of Battle effect in place
• Players can no longer Hike if they currently flagged as Criminal
• Effectively, restrictions for Hiking will now more closely follow restrictions in place for Recall/Gate Travel

Special Effects Text

• Overhead text from a number of very frequent abilities/effects, such as Disease, Chill, Frenzy, etc, will now only be visible to the player or follower’s controller who applied them
• Overhead text from a number of special effects that affect multiple targets, such as Lightning Aspect “*shocked*”, will now only be visible to the player who caused the effect
• These changes are intended to reduce the amount of “text spam” occurring during bosses and large group content

Crafting

• Crafting items using Aspect Phylacteries will now provide a limited amount of Artisan Experience / Event Contribution (for crafting events like Cavernam Expedition) similar to Aspect Cores / Distillations

Shepherd’s Crook

• When player’s equip a Shepherd Crook, it will now automatically set that Shepherd’s Crook as their active one for the “Focus Aggression” followers mechanic
• Players will receive a “This is now your active shepherd’s crook” system message if it wasn’t previously their active one

Aspects

• The Command Aspect “Inspiration” and Water Aspect “Tidal Boon” aspect specials will no longer Hinder a player’s Followers briefly when triggered

Frost Aspect

• If a player using Frost Aspect for Weapons, Spellbook, or Armor switches to another aspect for that respective equipment, all Chill effects currently active on creatures that were applied by that player will immediately expire

Houses

• When players Demolish a house, any House Sign Restyles and Trash Barrel Restyles unlocked for the house will now be converted back into Deeds and placed into the player’s Bank Box

Interior Decorator

• Moving items with an Interior Decorator in a house will now only be blocked by Players and Followers at the same x/y location (will not be blocked by Rental Vendors, Barkeepers, etc)

House Decay Lottery

• House Decay Lottery Claim Tickets now have an updated graphic and hue

Fishing Codex

• Fixed an issue where the Heave stance would result in potential misses while on Land

Fencing Codex

• The description for Blackguard stance is now: “Successful hits have a 3% chance per rank to inflict a Disease effect on target that deals 200% Damage spread out over 20 seconds (on Stealth attack will instead deal 66% Damage)”
• Note: This change now mirrors the handling for the Swordsmanship Weapon special “Bleed” handling on Stealth Backstabs (i.e. amount is reduced to 1/3rd of normal for backstabs)

Time Dungeon

• Fixed an rare issue where players could get locked out of being able to use Time Dungeon Runes or Relics
• Using the Time Dungeon Statue of the Shepherdess will now only retrieve Followers that are currently inside of Time Dungeon

Wardrobe

• Traveler’s Lanterns and Yuletide Candles can now be stored in Wardrobes
• Cavernam’s Icebound Amulet should now be storable in Wardrobes

[BossResults

• Players will now only be able to see [BossResults for a boss if either they or someone in their guild participated in the fight

Custodians

• Custodians will now spawn 5 minutes after a Mini-Boss or Boss Kill has occured (previously was 15 minutes)

Achievements

• Updated the Chest Antiquities (Mythical) achievement to correctly require 10 progress and provide 50 Reward Points (players who have already completed the achievement will be given 40 Reward Points)
• Fixed an issue where buying Tickets in 100x increments for Housing Decay Lotteries would not increase progress on the Raffler (Mythical) achievement
• Updated the Animal Bond achievements to show the Min Taming requirements of creatures for each achievement

Creatures

• Creatures will now perform their “Hurt Animation” when being hit by a Melee Attack / Spell / etc at most once every 1 second (to avoid non-stop animation spamming when attacked by multiple players/creatures)

Bosses

• The Aegis High Priestess ability “Web Trails” will now apply a 4-8 second duration Hinder effect on each impact that does not stack (previously was 6 seconds that would stack)

Guard NPCs

• Added a number of additional safety checks to prevent players (or followers) from being able to attack Guard NPCs or flag Criminal against them

Stealth Footprints

• Footprints left by stealthing creatures with non-humanoid body types now has new graphics
• Stealthed Tamed Followers will now leave Footprints behind less frequently

Strangelands

• Removed the Summoner’s Tome from the Deathmage template loadout (currently doesn’t gain benefit from it)

Craftsman’s Toolbox

• Used crafted Fishing Nets with can now be combined together with the Craftman’s Toolbox

Mastery Chains

• Players can now shift-click any Mastery Chain in their backpack and select the “Activate this item” context-menu entry to Activate that mastery chain (instead of having to equip it)

Recover Mastery Chains

• Fixed an issue where the “Recover Mastery Chains” mechanic available at the Pawn Broker would not remove the Locked Down status on chains retrieved from houses (and would be unmovable in player Backpacks)

Omni Bosses

• Any Mastery Chain Links added to the corpse of an Omni Boss (because a player was unable to receive them) will now be shuffled amongst the items of the corpse, instead of being added to the end of the items “list”

Catch of the Week

• Fixed an issue where clicking the “Catch of the Week” button in the menu for Opened Fish Bait would not launch the Catch of the Week menu

Crafting

• Renamed the Picket Dip East/South Deeds under the Tinkering crafting menu as Yellow Pickpocket Dip Deed and Red Pickpocket Dip Deed (both are always east-facing)

Ship Upgrade Tome

• Fixed an issue that was causing Ship Paint Upgrade Deeds to lose their unique graphic when removed from a Ship Upgrade Tome

Sacred Journey

• Players will now receive a “Your sacred journey effect has now expired” system message when their active Sacred Journey bonus has expired

Adventurer’s Satchels

• Fixed an issue where Lift Lock being enabled on an Adventurer’s Satchel would prevent items inside the Satchel from being able to be moved

Outlands Collectable Cards

• Fixed an issue that was causing Outlands Collectable Cards for Field of Souls 2024, Graveyard Bash 2024, and Kings Faire 2024 being removed from an Outlands Collectable Card Tome to appear as their 2023 versions
• Players can PM me (Luthius) in Discord to swap any cards affected by this error

Test Shard

Player Editor Statue

• Fixed an issue with the green Player Editor statue on the Test Shard where the player’s Tactics bonus from an equipped Aspect Weapon would cause a conflict with manually setting a player’s Tactics skill

[Go

• Using the [Go command on the Test Shard while in a Rental Room (Malas Map) will now warp the player and their followers to Prevalia Town Center, or to Corpse Creek if they are a Murderer
• Players can now use the [Go command on the Test Shard to reach Cavernam 4