December 11, 2020 Update

It's time for holiday festivities! In addition, there are big changes to Elite and Boss monsters in this update. There are also revisions to the Ice Magic and Deer skills. And, of course, various other things as well. Read on for more info.

Ri-Shin Celebration

The holidays are upon us! While Alharth doesn't celebrate Christmas, it does celebrate Ri-Shin Day, and New Years' Day. Townsfolk who are your Friends will offer you gifts when you speak with them. (Make sure to have your favorite combat skills active in case they give you a piece of randomly-generated gear!)
There's also a Ri-Shin festival waiting to happen in each city and township in the land, but they will need your help getting their trees assembled. Look for townsfolk in festive red Ri-Shin hats to get started.
This year, there's also a new way for the community to work together. This is an experiment -- we've never tried anything like this before. You'll receive an introductory quest for this part of the event after you've assembled a few Ri-Shin trees. (If you're a Druid, you'll be briefed immediately upon login.)

High-Level Elite/Boss Changes

As mentioned in the last patch's notes, we're working on making high-level combat take longer. This will eventually include both solo and group combat, but we're focusing on group combat right now. Some of the big-picture details are in flux a bit as we experiment and see what's going to work (e.g. "how many Elites is a tank supposed to be able to handle at once?" answer: "we're not sure yet").
We've been improving the "tanky skills" in preparation for these longer fights, but it's been hard to get good tanking data because most high-level Elite monsters simply haven't needed a tank: a group of players could blast them to death in seconds. So it's time to make Elites live longer and see what happens!
In this update, Elite/Boss monsters have a lot more health and armor, and Bosses deal less damage. We'll be watching your feedback (and our combat data logs) to try to figure out where to go from here. We may need to temporarily revert these changes, reduce them, increase them, or add more systems into the mix to address specific problems.
Bosses (but not Elites) also deal less base damage than before. The actual amount varies by boss-tier and the bosses' personal stats, so it's hard to generalize, but at level 80 an "average boss" deals about 25% less base damage.
Both Elites and Bosses deal less damage with their Rage attacks, also. The median reduction in rage-bonus-damage is about a 40%, but again it's hard to generalize too much.
Here's some more details about the implementation.

• Prior to level 35, elites/bosses have about the same overall health+armor, but some of their health has been switched to armor as a side-effect of the formulaic changes. This will make them a bit harder, so be careful!
• Starting at about level 35, elites/bosses gain more health and armor than before. This increases fairly gradually until level 50, then it starts going up more quickly. By level 80, the total health+armor of most elites and bosses has almost doubled! (And a lot of that increase is in armor, which means the monster has more mitigation for longer.)

Elite/Boss Loot Changes

We've also added some additional rewards for killing Elites/Bosses. When you loot an Elite, you'll now automatically "find some Councils" on the corpse. The amount is based on the monster's level, with some random variance. Bosses also drop extra money in the form of Council Coinpurses. (And bosses with curses drop more money sacks.) Finally, the most deadly tiers of bosses have a higher chance to drop high-rarity gear.
(These quick generalized changes were made because we didn't want to revise every monster's custom loot table just yet. But hey, maybe it's fun enough to remain permanent. Let us know what you think after you've had some time to try it out.)

Ice Magic Changes

Ice Magic is supposed to be a versatile wizarding toolkit: it can provide exceptional crowd control, potent survival tools, and decent damage, depending on which abilities you use. Its crowd-control abilities were already top-tier, so we've focused on other aspects of the skill in this update. There's a few nerfs and a lot of buffs.
Fire Magic Over-synergy
The biggest nerf to Ice Magic is actually a change to a Fire Magic treasure mod:

• (Chest, Hands) "Calefaction causes target to take +45% damage from Cold for 12 seconds" => now +16% damage

We realized this mod was overpowered shortly after it was introduced, but it was a "let's wait and see if this is actually a serious problem" scenario. A lot of accidentally-overpowered treasure turns out to be fine, and sometimes an accident like that can really make everything "click" and help define a skill. But not this time. It was hamstringing our ability to make Ice Magic more powerful on its own, so it had to be reduced to a more reasonable level. (And it's still probably the most powerful cross-skill synergy mod in the game.)
Cryogenic Freeze
Cryogenic Freeze needs to take its rightful place in the Ice Magic survival toolbox. It has TREMENDOUS mitigation, and it's intended to be something of a "freebie" for Ice Mages: it's useful without needing to invest lots of treasure mods into it. The only cost is that you have to make room for it on your ability bar. (And treasure makes it more versatile and useful.) Of course, Cryogenic Freeze has the extreme down-side that you are completely frozen and cannot move. But now instead of a forced 10-second lockdown, you can control the duration precisely.

• Cryogenic Freeze now lasts 20 seconds or until dispelled by using the ability again. The reuse timer is 20 seconds, which begins as soon as Cryogenic Freeze ends.
• Power cost increased; all treasure effects recalculated in potency

Ice Armor, Ice Veins, and Shardblast
Ice Armor has been buffed up a bit. We've also worked to make Ice Veins and Shardblast more useful. You can now use either one to reset Ice Armor's timer, allowing you to immediately put your armor back on. Which, in turn, allows you to take advantage of Ice Armor's healing mods again!
This "Ice Armor loop" technique can be very powerful but requires a lot of treasure mods to reach full potential. It's also possible to use Ice Armor in a more passive role, and there are mods to support that style also (such as the ones that boost Cold damage).

• Ice Armor: highest tier of ability has slightly higher mitigation (+27 vs crushing, slashing, piercing, and ice), and all tiers now grant extra mitigation from Elites (+54 additional at highest tier)
• Ice Veins: power cost and base damage increased. All treasure potency recalculated
• "Ice Armor restores 80 Power over 30 seconds" => "Ice Armor costs -19 Power and restores 51 Power after a 6-second delay"
• "Ice Armor restores 170 Armor over 30 seconds" => "Ice Armor mitigates +16 Physical and Cold damage, and mitigates +32 more against Elite attacks"
• "Ice Armor boosts Cold attack damage +34" => +50
• "You regain 44 Health when using Ice Nova or Shardblast" => "Ice Nova and Shardblast deal +61 damage and cost -12 Power"
• New treasure (off-hand): "Ice Veins heals +16 Health and resets the timer on Ice Armor (so it can be used again immediately)"
• "Ice Veins heals 120 Health over 10 seconds" => 180 health over 10 seconds
• Ice Veins is now marked as a Minor Heal ability (making it eligible for equipment that boosts Minor Heals).
• New treasure (head): "Ice Armor instantly restores 80 health"
• "Shardblast resets the timer on Ice Armor (so it can be used again immediately)" => "Shardblast deals +X% damage and resets the timer on Ice Armor (so it can be used again immediately)" *

Cold Sphere Changes
Cold Sphere's old Rage attack (at high level) was a 10-second root. This was too much of a good thing and it's now a 5-second root at all levels.
We've tried to make Cold Sphere useful in two different scenarios: for Ice Mages who are using a different skill as their primary damage source, they can invest in Cold Sphere mods to get a bit of extra damage on the side (plus its innate root is always handy).
For players who ARE using Ice Magic as their primary damage-dealer, Cold Sphere's damage-boosting mods are often not worth using, but there's a new mod that gives it a Cold-vulnerability debuff. This makes Cold Sphere an interesting (but not mandatory) option for any Ice Mage.

• Cold Sphere: increased base damage-boost of all pets level 50+. The "root" effect from their rage attack is reduced from 10sec (!) to 5sec
• "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deal +34 damage and taunt -65%" => "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deal +50% damage and taunt -25%"
• "Your Cold Sphere gains 156 Armor" => "Your Cold Sphere gains 90 Health"
• New treasure (chest): "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deal +24 damage and cause the targets to suffer +12% damage from future Cold attacks (non-stacking)"
• New treasure (head, hands): "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deals +170 damage, but their Max Health is -80"

Other Ice Magic Changes
Added a bit more damage overall. Nerfed one of Frostbite's mods, but don't be misled: it's still an extraordinarily good debuff. (And it will only become more powerful as combat duration increases! In fact, we may need to tone it down some more later.)

• Ice Nova: power cost and base damage increased. All treasure potency recalculated
• Frostbite ability: ability base damage increased slightly
• "Blizzard deals 328 armor damage and generates -120 Rage" => "Blizzard Damage +255"
• "Frostbite deals +154 damage and raises the target's Max Rage by 79%, preventing them from using their Rage attacks as often" => "Frostbite deals +176 damage and raises the target's Max Rage by 33%, preventing them from using their Rage attacks as often"
• "Freeze Solid resets the timer on Ice Spear (so it can be used again immediately)" => "Ice Nova deals +110 damage and reuse timer is -2 seconds" *
• "Freeze Solid restores 161 armor to you after a 15 second delay" => "Freeze Solid restores 112 armor to you"

One-Tier Mods Changed\*
You may notice a couple of asterisks above. Those are treasure mods that previously only had one "tier" of effect. The revised versions add more tiers to each mod, allowing the mods to become slightly more powerful at high level. This resulted in a slight quirk: pre-existing items with these mods are still stored as having the first tier of the mod. This means even high-level items will have the lowest-tier version of these mods.
This isn't really a huge deal in terms of potency, but if you want to fix it, you can Transmute the mod off the item and then Transmute it back on -- it will be the appropriate tier when it's re-added. (And this month, Transmutation is cheap for the Ice Magic and Deer skills.)

Deer Changes

The earliest animal forms were all experimental designs, and Deer was originally the prototypical "off-tank" skill. Then we decided that off-tanks weren't useful in a game without raids, so Deer was revised in a few other directions. But the most recent revision made Deer fairly tanky again, so let's build on that. Here's a fresh idea: what if Deer was like an "off-tank"?
In old-school MMO terminology, an off-tank can act as a tank for an elite enemy (or multiple solo enemies), but may have trouble tanking some bosses -- although dedicated healers can help there. What makes them unique, though, is an ability to take over aggro for anyone... including a tank! (Hence the name "off-tank", because they can pull monsters off the tank.)
We'll try to give Deer that ability and see what it's like. There's new treasure that gives you a new sidebar ability "Feign Injury", which "temp taunts" a target. Temp taunting works like regular taunting, except it decays at a rate of 20% per second. So a temp taunt of +10,000 would be 10,000 Taunt at first, then a second later would be recalculated as 8,000, then a second later as 6,400, etc. So this ability should help Deer get aggro from anyone, anywhere... at least for a few seconds.
An off-tank should also have solid taunting and survivability, and deal decent damage. So that's what we'll try to do here. In addition, the Deer skill has always had incredible mobility (which is what makes them an interesting off-tank), and we want to keep that too.
Rethinking Deer Pet
Deer players can summon an ally deer to aid them. Previously these deer had an innate 300% taunt multiplier and were intended to be sort-of off-tanks themselves, sharing tanking duties with the player deer. We recently gave these summoned deer the benefits of our experimental genetics system, which could randomly give these pets incredible health and armor. Better for tanking! But yet... at high level, a well-equipped player deer can easily out-taunt and out-tank a pet deer. This just feels like an unwieldy design.
We've dropped the idea that these pets are tanks, and focused them on damage. They no longer have an innate taunt bonus or souped-up genetics. However, they have higher base damage, and the pet's taunting-related treasure effects have been changed into a damage boost.
There are also new treasure mods that summon additional deer for a few seconds at a time. This makes for a fun solo build, although it's somewhat mod-intensive and also pretty chaotic. But a fun kind of chaotic! (For those who don't want chaos, we've also bumped up Deer's more traditional murder methods.)
It's useful to know that every attack your pet deer makes is considered a "deer kick". This is relevant for one specific treasure mod:

• (Hands, Necklace) "Deer Kick implants insect eggs in the target. Future Deer Kicks by any deer cause target to take 310 Nature damage over 5 seconds"

This mod is unchanged, except that it no longer stacks more than four times: twice for each piece of equipment it can show up on. (That's *not* a limit of 4 stacks of damage, it's 4 stacks of the debuff that applies the damage!) Also, we've reworded the effect to clarify that pet deer can trigger the damage.
Removed treasure mods
We've tried hard to avoid breaking existing equipment by repurposing obsolete Deer effects with new ones. However, in one place this was impossible. A head-slot mod was removed without any replacement. If you had this mod on a piece of head gear, that item has become "Legacy", meaning it will stop working after a month. You can fix this by using a Transmutation table to remove the mod off of your helm, or you can speak to the Legacy Golem in Serbule to receive a randomly-generated replacement item. (Transmutation of Deer treasure is much cheaper this month, to help you adjust to these changes.)
Specific Deer Changes

• Doe Eyes: Power cost increased. Ability now resists more physical damage, especially against Elites, and lasts for 24 seconds instead of 10. (At level 77 it now gives 36 mitigation, plus 72 more vs. Elites)
• "After using Doe Eyes, your next attack deals +169 damage" => "Doe Eyes reuse timer is -2 seconds, and after using Doe Eyes your next attack deals +190 damage"
• "Doe Eyes restores 95 armor" => "Doe Eyes mitigates +16 physical damage (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) for 26 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +32 more"
• "Doe Eyes heals 80 health" => "For 10 seconds after using Doe Eyes, you mitigate +36 from all attacks, and a further +72 from Elite attacks"
• Ability "King of the Forest": base damage and Power cost increased slightly; all treasure stats tweaked slightly as a result
• "King of the Forest gives you +15 mitigation of any physical damage for 20 seconds" => this effect was available on two slots, but only applied once. This was intentional at the time, but now we're trying to make all treasure mods stack together when possible. New (stacking) version: "King of the Forest mitigates +14 physical damage (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) for 10 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +28 more"
• "Cuteness Overload heals you for 114 health" => "Cuteness Overload Damage +270"
• "Combo: Deer Bash+Any Melee+Any Melee+Deer Kick: final step hits all enemies within 5 meters and deals +100 damage." => deals +240 damage
• Summoned Deer no longer have the benefits of the experimental genetics system, but have higher base damage
• Summoned Deer no longer have an innate 300% taunt bonus
• Summoned Deer can randomly be male or female
• "Summoned Deer Taunt +X%" => "Summoned Deer Rage Attack Damage +Y"
• "Antler Slash has a 50% chance to restore 48 armor" => this effect has been replaced with an entirely unrelated effect. (head, chest): "You can use the Deer ability Feign Injury, and it temp-taunts +11300. (Equipping this item will teach you the ability if needed.)"
• (Hands, Feet) "Deer Bash deals +120 damage and knocks the enemy backwards" => "Deer Bash has a 15% chance to summon a deer ally for 30 seconds"
• New (ring): "Cuteness Overload deals +160 damage and knocks the target backwards"
• New (Head, Necklace): "Pummeling Hooves deals +45 damage and has a 8% chance to summon a deer ally for 30 seconds"
• "Antler Slash deals +X% damage" => "Antler Slash hits all enemies within 5 meters and taunts +Y". NOTE: this effect used to be available on two slots, Head and Hands. It is now only on Hands. See above about Legacy items.
• "Psychic Mitigation +34 while Deer skill active" => "Psychic and Nature Mitigation +34 while Deer skill active"
• "Nature Mitigation +34 while Deer skill active" => "Burst Evasion +8.5% while Deer skill active"
• "Deer Kick Damage +85" => "Deer Kick Damage +45 and grants you -10% Fire Vulnerability for 10 seconds"
• New: (main-hand) "Combo: Forest Challenge+Any Melee+Any Melee+Any Epic Attack: final step deals +150 damage and summons a deer ally for 30 seconds."

Live Event Token Prize Changes

We've revised some of Riston's special prizes so that they use abilities instead of items. For those that have already purchased a Vendor Fox in a Box or the Small Box of Space, the summoning item in your inventory has been converted to a skill book that will teach you the new ability. This skill book can only be used once, so use caution if you must transfer this skill book to another character on your account. Also with this change, you will have to purchase these items per character now if you wish to have it on more than one character on your account.
Other important notes:

• Once you learn the Vendor Fox in a Box ability, the ability requires you to have some type of crate in your inventory. Any crafted storage crate and most pet crates (when Animal Husbandry is released) will work to allow use of the ability. The crate will not be consumed. The cool down timer on the ability will reset in 2 real-time hours, but you still need to spend 2 hours in-game before you can use the ability again. (You can see that timer in your effects bar under the effect 'Boxed Fox'.)
• Once you learn the Small Box of Space ability, there are no other requirements. Just use the ability to summon your storage box. The cool down timer for this ability has been extended to 90 minutes (from 60 minutes). The cool down timer on the ability will reset in 90 real-time minutes, but you still need to spend 90 minutes in-game before you can use the ability again. (You can see that timer in your effects bar under the effect 'Spaced Out'.)

As time goes by, we will slowly be adding more and more items, abilities and services to the game that will require Live Event Tokens. For this update, we have added a new 50 token prize! Find Riston in the Red Wing Casino to check it out!

Other Changes In This Update

• Bug fix: Rabbit: "Bun-Fu Blast deals +80 damage and restores 44 Power after a 9-second delay" => this did not add damage to Bun-Fu Blast as expected
• Bug fix: Rabbit: "Bun-Fu Blast deals +78 damage and hastens the current reuse timer of Bun-Fu Strike by 3 seconds" => this did not add damage to Bun-Fu Blast as expected
• Rabbit: added Astounding Familiar Controllers (level 80 ice magic tiara) to loot
• Flight in-combat: the Power penalty for flying while in combat now has a much higher cap (meaning flying while in-combat for more than a few seconds costs more Power than before)
• Added a "quit" button to the login and character-select screens
• Fixed AI bug that caused monsters to hate the first attack that hit them more than intended
• "Carbon-form Scrutinizer Array" only gave a +5 pathology bonus instead of intended +10 bonus
• The visual appearance for Winter Court Murder Armor (level 80 Hardcore armor) did not glow as intended
• "Rubgag's Dancing Shoes": sprint buff now only works out of combat
• Worked around Unity shader bug that could cause treants to turn into nightmarish blobs of polygons
• Fixed bugs that caused "corpse stink" particles to continue emitting after the corpse was closed

UPDATED:2020-01-20 - Made some bug fixes and documented the apps better.
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I've focused on some new elements I haven't used much before like help comments, logging, and try/catch blocks that I can standardize on across my scripts.
In my limited testing I'm using this as a Computer logon script through GPO to run this script.
Thanks!
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Jot down your ideas, keep track of classroom and meeting notes, clip from the web, or make a to-do list, as well as draw and sketch your ideas. "Microsoft.Todos" #Microsoft To Do - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-to-do-lists-tasks-reminders/9nblggh5r558 - Got something on your mind? Get Microsoft To Do. Whether you want to increase your productivity, decrease your stress levels, or just free up some mental space, Microsoft To Do makes it easy to plan your day and manage your life. "Microsoft.WindowsCamera" #Windows Camera - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-camera/9wzdncrfjbbg - The Camera app is faster and simpler than ever. Just point and shoot to take great pictures automatically on any PC or tablet running Windows 10. "Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder" #Windows Voice Recorder - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-voice-recorde9wzdncrfhwkn - Record sounds, lectures, interviews, and other events. 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- App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller" #App Installer - Keeping just in case we ever want to deploy UWP apps #'Microsoft.DirectXRuntime' #? - Framework apps which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.ECApp" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.HEIFImageExtension" #HEIF Image Extensions - Keeping so HEIF compressed images can be opened #"Microsoft.LockApp" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge" #Microsoft Edge - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.MicrosoftEdgeDevToolsClient" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.1.3" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.1.6" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.1.7" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.1" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.1.4" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.1.6" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.1.7" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.2.2" #Framework app which other apps depend on #"Microsoft.PPIProjection" #? 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- App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.Apprep.ChxApp" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.AssignedAccessLockApp" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.CapturePicker" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.CloudExperienceHost" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.Cortana" #Cortana - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.NarratorQuickStart" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.OOBENetworkCaptivePortal" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.OOBENetworkConnectionFlow" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.ParentalControls" #? - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.PeopleExperienceHost" #People Hub - App which cannot be removed using Remove-AppxPackage #"Microsoft.Windows.PinningConfirmationDialog" #? 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Active Time Q&A Battle

Q1 - Will there be more opportunities to earn more 4✭ & 5✭ motes? Golden Week event will award more motes and we also plan to give out at a higher pace as more Legend Dives are unlocked
Q2 - There are many wonderful original BGM arranges in FFRK. What are the difficulties and interesting episodes when selecting them? And also are there more original arranges in the future? A sneak peek at new BGM remixes was played during the Interval
Q3 - The recently implemented Magicite Dungeons are too difficult. Please make them easier! Currently we do not have plans to make the Magicite Dungeons easier, but we will gradually add more ways for players to conquer them. The current difficulty will not be lowered.
Q4 - We are happy that the DUs have added VII:CC and X-2 doors. Are there other realms in the future? As mentioned in an earlier FFRK Report, there will be XIII-2 coming in June as well. Other realms that we will be adding and currently in development is FFXV and FF Type-0.
Q5 - I don't have enough party slots! Can you please add more? Firstly, I would like to apologize about the 20 slot limitation. Unfortunately, due to current system limitations we can't easily add more slots at the moment. We'll consider to add this to the list of items to be developed but currently it will not be easy to implement this.

Upcoming Events

• FF2 - Inherited Blazing Will Currently being held.
• FFT - Oath to the Sword Coming this Friday, introduces Meliadoul. Legend Sphere and Legend Materias for Rapha, Delita, Ovelia and Malak will be added in this event!
• BRA✭BRA FINAL FANTASY BRASS de BRAVO 2017 Collab Event - Stage of Glittering Melodies Holding period: 27/04 - 12/05, will feature a new boss, Fat Moogle. This will be a collection event.
• FFIII - Path of the Maiden of Water Held on 12/05, introduces Aria, the Maiden of Water. Refia and Arc will get new Soul Breaks as well
• Future events planning - FFXV Prompto will be added in May. FFVIII Kiros and Ward still planned for June.

Upcoming updates

New Character: Shadow Smith Was teased in the Global 2nd Anniversary message from Tetsuya Nomura. Name has been decided as well. He was introduced because Tyro is a very innocent and cheerful boy, so it's very hard to progress the story with just him alone. Therefore, Shadow Smith is added to move the story better. Viewers are already calling him "Dark Tyro", "Shadow Tyro". The next Magicite Dungeon update will introduce him in to the game.
Episode: Magicite 2nd part For those who have cleared the Magicite Dungeons in game already have known that our heroes are searching for the Holy and Dark Magicite dungeons. The next update will finally unlock them! You need to clear all six Magicite Dungeons to access the Holy and Dark Magicite dungeons.
The Holy Magicite Dungeon boss will be Mist Dragon. It possesses a Super Magicite Skill that deals 4xAoE Holy magic damage and gives party Dark resistance and will use strong Holy attacks to aid the party in battle. The passives for Mist Dragon are BarHoly and Mental Up
The Dark Magicite Dungeon boss is Shadow Dragon that has a Super Magicite Skill dealing 6xST Dark magic dmg with chance to cause Sap and increases the party's Dark damage. Similar to Mist Dragon, it will use Dark attacks to aid the party in battle and has passive effects of BarDark and Armor Up.
New original Story!! Sasaki-san also revealed that there is an entirely new original story that is in development for FFRK! Unlike the Magicite Dungeons that requires clearing the Abyss Dungeons etc, they are planning for this original story to be accessible to more players! This is also semi-related (maybe!) to the earlier question on why they will not reduce the difficulty of Magicite Dungeons. He hopes players will enjoy the new content as well.

Interval

Earlier, there was a poll asking players to vote for their favourite FF sound tracks from each series, the results are out and they have chosen the top songs to be done as medley remixes. A sample of the new remixes was played in the Interval.

Fan Voting Section

First off, a follow up on the previous livestream fan voting questions result.
New Dress Record: Terra A Dissidia Final Fantasy event will be held on 5/5 - 19/5 to introduce the new Amano Terra Dress Record! Not only that, they will also give PCecil a new Dress Record (still being adjusted). Also, there is W-Share collab event between FFRK and DFF Opera Omnia (produced by Hazama as well) for 2 days from 5/5 to 7/5. The details of the collab campaign will be revealed in the respective apps later.
New Party Members: Rude and Elena Rude and Elena will be added to the game in May's month end event for FFRK!
New Spinoff Series: FF Tactics Advance To be honest, they didn't discuss or get permission with the FFTA staff when they held the Livestream earlier (lol) but Hazama-san finally went to ask for permission and successfully got it! FFTA event is currently being scheduled to be held somewhere in June, but no details will be revealed now.
That concludes the follow up for the previous livestream fan voting results!
Moving on the fan vote questions....
Q1 - Which Dress Record do you want the most?

• Palom and Porom, FFIV: TAY - 35.5%
• Ramza and Delita, FFT Mercenary look - 34.3%
• Lightning and Snow, Lightning Returns - 16.5%
• Vaan and Penelo, FFXII Revenant Wings - 13.7%

Q2 - Which Villain do you want the most as a party member in game?

• Barbaricca, FFIV - 35.6%
• Ultimecia, FFVIII - 29.5%
• Genesis, CC:FFVII - 17.6%
• Caius Ballad, FFXIII-2 - 17.4%

Q3 - Which Boss do you want to fight the most in FFRK? (note that the boss voted here will be implemented as a Superboss)

• Ozma, FFIX - 33.7%
• Emerald Weapon, FFVII - 24.8%
• Yiazmat, FFXII - 22.0%
• Enuo, FFV - 19.5%

As Ozma is very special, they will have some difficulties translating the mechanics in to FFRK. More details will be provided later.

FF30th Anniversary events

Official Site: https://ffrk.jp/cpn/ff30th/

The FF30th Anniversary event will be called FF30th Anniversary Parade and it will start on 28th April. The event's main focus is to walk through the 30 years of memories of the Final Fantasy Series.
Countdown Lucky Draws Starting from 25/04, there will be 3 Countdown Lucky Draws held with a new one each day. The Lucky Draws are:

• 25/04 - Healing Burst Soul Break relics only
• 26/04 - Burst Soul Breaks or better relics only
• 27/04 - 6✭ relics only

Each Lucky draw lasts only 1 day.
FF30th Anniversary Dungeon Holding Period: 28/04 to 15/05 This dungeon will feature the early bosses from each mainline Final Fantasy. The objective is to gather Memento Pieces from each boss. While each boss also gives an Accessory reward, defeating all the bosses will let you claim Tyro's new Ultra Soul Break, "Open the Final Fantasy!". This USB will do 17xST physical dmg, party small ATK/MAG/MND/DEF/RES up and Haste. Also, the animation for this Soul Break features the main characters from each mainline FF so far! And since they already did such a high number of hits for this USB, they think it's possible to do Knights of the Round now.... hmmmm
FF30th Crystal Tower Challenge event Holding Period: 28/04 to 15/05 The infamous Crystal Tower from FFIII will be the special challenge event for Golden Week. There are 6 Levels to conquer in this event, and the gimmick this time is that each level needs to be conquered by different parties and characters that have already conquered a level can't be used for another one. It's similar to FFVI's Kefka's Tower system to make it easier to imagine. There are 5 bosses to be defeated, FF3 Xande, FFVII Tonberry King, FFVI Omega Weapon, FFXIII Alexander and FFXII Hashmal before the final boss, FFI Chaos is unlocked.
FF30th Golden Week Orbfest Holding Period: 28/04 to 08/05 Last year's Golden Vault dungeon makes a comeback this year as well! Like last year, there will be Goldor's appearing that drop casino chips when defeated. Use the Casino chips in the Golden Playground Roulette for incredible prizes! Also, the format will undergo a slight change as the dungeons will be done in 2 phases with 2 groups of Orbs per phase, while the upgrade material dungeon will be opened throughout the event.
FF30th Login bonus Holding period: 29/04 to 15/05 Additional 10-day login bonus in commemoration of the FF30th celebrations. 10th day reward will be a specially created FF30th Potion accessory!
FF30th Anniversary Fest Holding period: 28/04 to 08/05 Five banners, running for 48 hours each. The Fest this time will feature EX Mode USB's for all the mainline Final Fantasy up to FFXV so far. 8 new USB's for Warrior of Light, Firion, Luneth, Zidane, Tidus, Shantotto, Alphinaud and Noctis will debut in this fest!
FF30th Selection Draw Holding Period: 01/05 to 15/05 Gem-only, 1 time special draw. After drawing this banner, you additionally choose 1 Burst for the character of your liking as a special prize. I might be wrong but they said over 100 Burst is available to choose from.
Crystal Tokyo Tower Holding Period: 28/04 19:00 - 23:00 This is an actual collaboration with the real life Tokyo Tower. The campaign site is currently hosting a countdown and when it hits zero, a special prize will be awarded to players in game. Tokyo Tower will also have a special lighting that is a tribute to the Crystal Tower when it hits zero.
Tokyo Tower 4D Battle Projection Holding Period: 28/04 - 07/05 The Tokyo Tower Main Observatory will be holding a 4D Battle Projection event featuring scenes from the FF series bosses over the Tokyo night sky.
Tokyo Tower Animate FF30th Premium Store Holding Period: 28/04 ~ The Tokyo Tower Animate branch will be selling special FF30th Anniversary limited edition merchandise during the event duration.
FFRK x FF30th Anniversary Special CM Holding Period: 29/04 20:00 A special CM with narration by Takahiro Sakurai and Maaya Sakamoto will air during this time nationwide on CX channel.
FF30th Commemoration Baseball Match Holding Period: 30/04 13:00 ~ Special baseball match between Yokohama DeNA Baystars and Hiroshima Toyo Carp to commemorate FF30th. The opening bat will be done with a Buster Sword.
FF30th Mythril Dungeon Holding Period: 28/04 - 15/05 Mythril Dungeon that awards 30 Mythril when clearing it. One time only.
There's also a special announcement they wanted to reveal here but the higher-ups denied them behind the camera. So we will know later....
Finally, 10 mythrils will be sent to all players as the 7th Livestream Commemoration mythril gift.

-Private Server Guide-
I have been playing the Idle Heroes Private Server for about a year. Players who just started, often have many questions about the game, many of which should be answered in this guide for beginners in the PS. Many thanks for Meh321’s work to keep this server running.

• Best heroes / the stones artifacts needed for them

This guide is made for S1 on the private server. Some things are different on the seasonal or official servers. A general tip would be to always keep an end-game team in mind. Try to make a good plan that you can build up and improve upon in the future. I’ll talk about 10 staenabled heroes, mainly. There is no point in talking about 5 or 6 star heroes. You are quickly over that point. Most heroes that are top tier as 10staenabled are also good as 5 star compared to other 5 star heroes.
PvP (Player vs Player, The three arena’s and guildwar) is all about CC (Crowd Control is: freeze, stun, petrify and silence) and high burst damage. Support heroes who buff your team can help with high burst damage (increase teams attack or other attribute). This also applies in the tower.

• PvP Heroes

Faith blade: considered to be the best hero in the game by most people. It is easy to see why. He is the fastest CC hero in the game with very high damage on two units. Speed stone fb seems less viable now. Versus full E3 teams he will do very little damage.
-Speed Stone with energy artifact / Crit stone with energy artifact or crit/att artifact.
Michelle: Second fastest CC hero in the game (Mihms base speed is faster but he is not considered a cc unit). Faster than Dark arthindol by 0.8 speed.
-Speed stone with a speed or energy artifact.
Asmodel: Durable tanky unit with aoe damage. 3rd best light hero. High AoE dmg. He is slow and will get CCed a lot in top arena battles. Fast CC heroes attack before him. However, his skill and high damage makes up for his low speed.
-Crit Stone with Crit/att artifact / He can be used in first slot with a damage reduce artifact.
Belrain: The new Light priest healebuffer. Her active ability gives Attack and speed buffs for backline units but belrains speed is very low. There is a good chance she is cc-ed before being able to use her active in pvp fights. Heals on basic attack and heals for a great amount when she dies. Making her a consistent healer, even when cced for 1 or 2 rounds and then killed she will heal your team a lot for 4 rounds. She is an amazing support/healer unit for in a light and dark team. Her skillset also looks good for pve.
-Attack stone and attack arti like antlers
Dark arthindol: Third fastest cc hero in the game. Good counter vs Faithblade. With the recent release of mage gear DA is an ever better cc unit, also capable of doing very high dmg. With mage gear she is now faster than michelle(meaning enemy michelle can’t cc da round 1 before she uses skill).
-Speed stone with energy or speed artifact
Das moge: High AoE damage dealer. Can use active ability round 1 when 4 heroes have an energy artifact in your team. Considered third best dark hero.
-Attack stone with attack or vs class dmg artifact
Amuvor: Good hero in PvP and PvE, will talk more about him in the PvE section.
Mihm: Newest dark hero with a great combination of skills. Great dmg dealer and thanks to him being cc immune also a very consistent dmg dealer. Steals energy from lowest hp enemy unit on basic attack, this seems like a strong combination with the Augustus Ball artifact on him. Making him faster than faithblade(without speed stone). His active skill targets one random unit and has strong debuffs and can petrify front line units. The high dmg comes from his active and last passive. When any hero dies all enemy units take dmg, this can cause a chain reaction effect. This is also the reason some players are running him in a cheese/suicide line up. For example a mihm and 5 lvl 100 destroyers/michelle’s/emily’s. I do not think this strategy is viable in endgame pvp, there are counters and (some) full e3 teams can easily beat these cheese line ups. In my own experience he shines the most in a full light and dark team, good vs evil aura.
-Attack stone and a damage reduction arti ideally magic sword. Attack stone and Augustus ball.
For max attack put the mage gear weapon on him and the other 3 pieces of normal gear.
Demon hunter: High CC chance, silence is not a hard CC (meaning a hero who is silenced can still do basic attack). DH is the best forest hero for pvp arena fights. She can CC heroes with her basic attack that targets 3 units. This makes a speed artifact a great choice on her. Many high level player prefer to use speed artifacts over energy.
-Speed stone with speed or energy artifact.
Vesa: Great hero to invest in early on as she can reach nightmare in the aspen dungeon. She will help you progress in basicly anything. Very high dmg on 4 targets, 6 round heals and a 100% silence when she get under 50% health (Granted the enemy isn’t CC immune or is using an item that grants CC immunity).
-Crit stone with a crit artifact for damage. Att stone with att artifact for healing, this can be usefull in PvE. In PvP it’s best to run a crit vesa.
Emily: Support/buffer hero. Gives all heroes 20% attack 20 speed and debuffs the enemy team for 20% precision on active skill. One of the better fortress heroes, usefull in both PvE and PvP. Emily doesn’t need the best gear as she increases your teams attack when she comes below 50% health. Don’t upgrade her further than c5 stone, she doesn’t need the 3% extra health.
-Speed stone with energy or speed artifact
Iceblink: He does decent damage as a tank/first spot hero. He has CC but many CC heroes are faster than him. He is very good in the tower where speeds doesn’t matter.
-Speed/hp or att stone with dmg reduction artifact for tank/first spot. Or backline with energy or speed artifact.
Valentino: Val is the newest fortress hero in idle heroes. He has very high speed and stuns with his active. He has a hard time fighting stun immune heroes like faith blade and michelle which are in the meta now(Meta=best and most used heroes). He gives each ally’s skill a 25% to stun a hero with extra damage vs 1 random hero. Note; Mage tech is not the best tree to start with.
-Speed stone with energy or speed artifact
Kamath: The best PvP shadow hero. Good to complete the rainbow aura. He adds cc to your team. He does high dmg vs pertified units, good combo with Dark arthindol.
-Speed stone with speed artifact
Jahra: Newest shadow mage. Chance to freeze and petrify with active skill and steals attack. She is slower than most top cc heroes and has no kind of cc immunity, making her an inconsistent hero. She is capable of doing high dmg crits.
-Speed stone and energy arti
Kroos: Weaken is 50% more damage to the weakened hero. 75% stun chance vs all units for 2 rounds when below 50% health. Do i need to say more? Great hero for both PvP and PvE.
-Speed stone with energy artifact at 10staenabled.
King Barton: Tanky and high dmg+cc on basic attack. He and kroos are the best abyss heroes. His cc immune% makes him perform well consistently. Putting the cc immune passive on him when enabled makes him even better.
-Attacks stone and Magic Sword/dmg reduc arti
Queen, barea, karim and skerei are all decent abyss heroes, but in my opinion less strong and usefull than the above heroes. I would not recommend to make them. Teams with enabled skerei do surprisingly well in arena lately.

• Top PvE Heroes

Pve (guildbosses, marauders, broken space bosses and celestial island bosses)
Heartwatcher: Mandatory for marauders, broken space and to a lesser extent guildbosses. She increases your whole teams damage gradually up to 300%. Not the best hero for PvP as she only targets 2 units. This doesnt matter in marauders but does in arena.
-Dmg reduc artifact is best against high dmg bosses. Crit stone/arti for pvp and aspen
Sigmund: One of the best PvE boss dmg dealers in the game. He’s good as a main dmg dealer against marauders, broken space bosses and guildbosses. Not a great hero for PvP.
-Attack stone with a class dmg artifact
Barea: deals great dmg in pve. Better than sig is some cases, vs forest bosses for example.
-Crit stone and crit or vs class dmg arti
Aiden: One of the best dmg dealers vs kamath marauders. Aiden hearwatcher 3× 5star michelle lvl 50 kroos can do a billion+ dmg vs kamath marauders and also does well vs kamath guild/pray bosses. Aiden and flamestrike together in a suicide/cheese team can clear tower. They are both average for pvp.
-Attack or crit stone/arti vs kamath marauder use aidens fury arti
Amuvor: Close to sigmund in boss dmg. Can use active ability round 1 when 2 heroes in your team have an energy artifact. Great PvE and PvP hero. He is silence immune, a dh or vesa can’t stop him. I have seen him one shot a vesa round 1 multiple times.
-Crit stone with crit/att artifact
Walter and bb can do nice boss dmg. In most cases they don’t come close to sigmund. I would not recommend them for PvP. Usefull heroes but there are better choices.
Groo is very good for aspen. He can help clearing nighmare / hell aspen. Because of his low dmg he can not beat certain stages. He can also be used for certain guidbosses thanks to his high hp, dmg reduction and crit reduction.
Emily and rosa give your whole team a 20% attack boost. Rosa’s attack reduces enemies armor by 20% for 3 rounds. Emily gives your team more attack when she is under 50% health. Kroos is also a good buffer in PvE he reduces enemies armor and weakens them(50% more damage on weakened target). These are all good buffs and will help your dps heroes do more damage in PvE bosses.
In boss fights healing can be important. For this i would use vesa and a deer pet. Vesa can do a 200mil damage to a kamath marauder in 1 fight with a good team around her. She is a very good PvE hero.

• How to get copies of the best heroes

You can search for a specific hero in the normal casino. Most heroes are available in the super casino except dark and light. Top tier heroes can be a reward for completing events. Keep good heroes and don’t use them as fodder! (fodder=heroes used to upgrade a hero in the creation circle or awakening). When you play for a couple weeks or months you start pulling good heroes from summons, orbs and replacements in the prophet tree. Luck is a big factor is this.

• How to build a team for PvP/PvE. +Hero positioning

As said earlier PvP is mostly about CC and burst damage. You will see this in the team examples.

• Rainbow team

Dark Arthindol Faithblade Kroos Valentino Kamath Demon hunter
Emily Vesa Kroos Michelle Kamath Amuvor

• Redemption team

Asmo Demon hunter Michelle Emily valentino Demon hunter

• PvE

Sigmund Vesa Heartwatcher rosa emily sigmund
Sigmund Bloodblade Vesa Heartwatcher Amuvor Kroos
Combinations like this will do great in marauders and other boss fights. Try to test different set ups with artifacts, heroes and positioning to get max damage.
Some heroes get an advantage from being hit. Like Kroos who stuns when under 50% health. Other examples are Emily, Dark Arthindol or Iceblink. These heroes are good for first spot. Second spot is best for your top dmg dealer. Heroes that hit the back line can’t damage or cc your second spot hero.

• Enabling!

A new way to upgrade 10 star heroes. On the private server for every enable level (E1,E2,E3) you can choose one passive out of list of different passives. Always try to prioritize E3 l/d before regular faction because it takes a lot of resources to do so, notable E3 heroes in the regular factions are vesa sigmund skerei heartwatcher demon hunter kamath val jahra barton. After faction type in terms of hero types prioritize dmg dealers and/or cc units than supports for e3. Do not immediately e3 support heroes like emily kroos, you wont get much out of it. Getting 7 faithblade copies isn’t easy so i recommend relativly newer players to focus on making an E3 hero that is good for aspen and boss damage. This will help you progressing faster. This applies for everyone that can’t compete in top pvp.

• How often do you need to login to get max resources

The Campaign stops gathering exp and resources after 8hours. It is ideal to log in every 8 hours and claim your campaign, mines and guildmill. You can attack a guildboss every 16h. Celestial island mines stop gathering gems, gold and dust after 6hours. Guild mill is done every 8 hours.

• Celestial island

The tower in celestial island is maxed at level 20 and the mines and other buildings at level 40. From the islands that you can attack 20 times you have a chance to get gems and orange artifact shards. Killing celestial bosses has a chance to give skin shards. The higher bosses have a higher chance to give skin shards. The last boss gives a guaranteed skin shard. I don’t recommend anyone to spend gems on the purple daffodils used to attack islands and bosses. The attack(Tyrant) towers are good to invest in early to boost your attack in the celestial islands. The Vitality and Harvest relic are also good to invest in, same for the gold, dust and gem mines.

• Marketplace/Casino shop/Brave trail shop/Aspen

In the marketplace i suggest to buy chips, arena tickets, dust and 4star heroes for gold. You can buy scrolls for 150 gems. Don’t spend gems refreshing the marketplace. Casino shop is good for completing gear sets. You can buy a missing piece to complete the set. Or buy fodder heroes. The brave trail shop doesn’t have much for good value, i suggest to buy monster materials or dust.
The Aspen dungeon is very important. This is your main source of resources. With heroes like Vesa, Groo and Faithblade with max tech you can reach nightmare. Scrolls for 1250 gems and every casino chip, arena ticket and 4star hero for gold is a good deal. Aspen is the place where you should spend most of your gems. This way you prepare for a summon event.

• saving for events

Events usually come once a month. Best is to save untill you have enough of a resource to finish an event. You can see all the different events on the event calendar on reddit. Summon event is the hardest event to complete early on. Try to progress in aspen to gather more scrolls. If you just started like a week it is okay to use scrolls to get a full 5 star team asap. After that never use any scrolls outside of a summon event (summon event has double the odds). Finishing fusion events is very important for dust and monster upgrade materials. Buying the max amount of event raid 4/3 star shards every day will help you complete fusion events. I think this is a crucial part in progressing fast on the private server. On the official server this would be vip lvl locked. You can save heroes as shards for a miracle event (miracle event= summon 3 5star heroes from the 4 normal factions, and 2 from light and dark). In special events with a special resource you collect in campaign, the campagin cap is 24hours instead of 8hours.

• PvP and PvE

Arena fights, toc, fta and guildwar are the PvP side of the game. This is a lot fun but doesn’t give much resources. I recommend new players on the private server to make a PvE team first. Try to gather gems by killing marauders and compete for the top dmg dealer in guildbosses. This way you will progress much faster. After guildboss 60 your guild unlocks the pray of fire. Here your guild summons a guildboss after praying 360 times. Everyone in the guild can pray one time for free, once for 40 gems and for 80 gems every day. The best thing is to beat all guildbosses 1-60 with a decent PvE team. As a beginner, try to join a guild that is on a low guildboss. Try to complete your mill quest every 8 hours. With a max level mill you can get between 1000 and 1500 guildcoins per day. It is not worth it to spend gems on upgrading guild mill quests. IMPORTANT TIP: The guild shop is a trap. You need all your guild coild for guild tech. Guild tech doesn’t only work in guild it applies everywhere.

• Pets

The dragon pet is the best choice all round in the current meta. The crit% with crit dmg plus the 60% holy dmg after pet attack is a good comination with burst heroes. Dragon is also very good for marauders and guildbosses. Wolf works well with heroes who have extra dmg vs bleed like Bloodblade. This is strong for marauders and guildbosses. This works the same for the Snake pet with poisen heroes. Deer is useful for brave trails, high lvl guildbosses and lvl 500 broken space bosses. I do not have much to say about fox, frost and golem. All three are very situational, but dragon does their job better generally.
Thanks to Omar aka SpicyBaghdaddy, Sleepy, Aetherflux and Thal for helping me write this guild. And everyone else who gave me feedback.

Update Notes: June 26, 2019

This update is a potpourri of tweaks, bug fixes, and new content. So let's get to it!

Gardening Almanac

Starting in this update, different gardens across the world will get daily Gardening bonuses. There are different bonuses each day; for example, today there might be a bonus to growing carrots in Gretchen's garden in Serbule Hills, and tomorrow there might be a bonus for growing daisies in Sun Vale. Gardeners who want to take advantage of these bonuses can check out the new Gardening Almanac in Serbule, Rahu, and the Casino. This book can tell you about current and upcoming Gardening bonuses. The Serbule almanac is in the windmill. Since it's possible for these gardening events to happen in Kur or Gazluk, we've added locations in those areas where it's possible to grow vegetables. However, while it's now TECHNICALLY possible, most players will run into practical difficulties due to the climate. Not all Gardening events are equally useful!
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Shop Search Upgrade

You can now use the shop-search golems to search for equipment or augments that meet certain requirements. Just click the appropriate option on the golem's sidebar menu to begin. You can search by slot, skill, rarity, and level range. This feature involved a lot of new code and could have bugs, so report them if you see them!
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War Caches

- We've added six more War Cache quests in this update. These are a bit harder than the earlier ones. (But are they too hard? If so, let us know!)
- The rewards from spending "Sir Johnson Bucks" were previously guaranteed to be Epic (4-power) items. That ended up being too good for the work involved; new reward items are now Exceptional (3-power) with a chance for higher-rarity items.
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Gazluk Keep

Gazluk Keep continues to be our testing ground for high-level group content. The following tweaks have been made in this update:
- Bosses have significantly improved chances of rare-drop items. Chances of finding Exceptional (3-power) items are 2-4x higher, and chances of Epic (4-power) items and Legendary (5-power) items are about double. (The exact amount of change varies per boss.)
- Certain types of orcs now have some Accuracy in their attacks, allowing them to overcome player Evasion. Affected orcs indicate this in their monster info (when selected). NOTE: this change also happens to affect a few monsters outside of Gazluk: "Orcish Thaumaturges" anywhere in the world now have Accuracy. Give them a pat on the back for powering up. (Even though it may be only temporary.)
- Bug fix: Stolen War Golem eventually stops calling for backup after its enemies flee or are killed.
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Live Events

We've added some major new tools for admin-run live events. We're continuing to improve the design of live events based on your feedback, so please continue to give feedback after any live event you participate in! Thanks!
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Unarmed Skill Changes

Unarmed is the oldest skill (its internal ID is #1) and it has seen many permutations. It is intended to be a strongly defensive skill with a lot of control abilities, moderate damage potential, and powerful combos.
In a previous update we accidentally created a scenario where it was possible to use the skill's Epic Attack every 15 seconds, which added a huge amount of damage potential. As usual, we left it alone for a while to see what the ramifications were (lots of times, balance errors end up working out fine), but in this case it's obvious that this is not going to be sustainable into future higher levels, and it gets more overpowered every time we add a way to buff Epic Attacks. So we've nerfed the treasure effect responsible.
We're also working on making percentage-based mitigation treasure scale better between low and high levels, and Unarmed is the first skill to see those changes. Previously, low-level mitigation treasure was very weak (e.g. "3% of the physical damage you take is mitigated"), then it scaled to the original target power-level around level 50, and then kept going higher after that. Our plan for percentage mitigation now is that it will start off much stronger and cap out around level 50 or 60, and we're adding other effects to the treasure that can continue to scale past that level.
The Unarmed skill was created before Evasion existed, but it's a natural fit for the skill, so we've added a bit of Evasion to the treasure effects. In addition, the game engine can now support "side-effects" of Evading, and Unarmed is the first recipient of these effects. (For instance, one treasure effect is "Any time you Evade an attack, your next attack deals +133 damage".) As with any new tech, bugs are possible; please report them!
We've also tweaked most of the meditation combos. Those changes aren't documented individually here because it's too spammy, but in general the combo changes came in two flavors: boosts to damage, and replacing "Punch" steps with "Any Melee" steps.
Some other changes were made to add more synergy with other Trauma-damage skills.
Ability Changes:
- Mamba Strike: This ability has changed from a Crushing attack to a Trauma attack that deals direct health damage. When the target's armor is low (below 33%), it now deals +33% immediate Trauma damage, instead of adding a Trauma damage-over-time effect. Reuse timer lowered from 8 sec to 6 sec.
- Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage: We updated ability descriptions to mention that being an empty-handed animal with claws is sufficient to activate the ability. (The behavior is unchanged, it was just not well-documented. Currently only werewolves have claws.)
Treasure Changes:
- "Bruising Blow deals +28% damage and hastens the current reuse timer of Bodyslam by 10 seconds" => Now hastens by 5 seconds. (This is the big nerf.)
- "Headbutt deals +20% damage and conjures a magical field that mitigates 20% of all physical damage you take for 10 seconds (or until 200 damage is mitigated)" => Now mitigates 15% for 10 seconds or until 400 damage is mitigated. All levels now mitigate 15% physical damage; the damage bonus and mitigation cap increase with each level.
- "While using Unarmed skill, 36% of all Darkness and Psychic damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Punch, Jab, or Infuriating Fist" => now 25% at a 300% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 8%-36% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 13%-25% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
- "While using Unarmed skill, 22% of all Acid, Poison, and Nature damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Kick at a 100% rate" => now 21% at a 280% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 8%-22% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 1%-21% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
- "Mamba Strike deals +250% Crushing damage and +400 Trauma damage (if target's armor is below 33%), but reuse timer is +8 seconds" => "Mamba Strike damage +55%"
- "Mamba Strike and Front Kick deal 95 Trauma damage over 15 seconds" => "Mamba Strike and Front Kick damage +80" - "Barrage and Headbutt ignite the target, causing them to take 130 damage over 20 seconds" => 212 damage over 8 seconds.
- "Unarmed attacks have a 23% chance to conjure a magical field that mitigates 10% of all physical damage you take for 1 minute (or until 100 damage is mitigated)." => "While Unarmed skill is active: you gain +4% Melee Evasion and any time you Evade a Melee attack you recover 64 Armor"
- "Unarmed attacks have a 16% chance to conjure a magical field that mitigates 10% of all physical damage you take for 1 minute (or until 100 damage is mitigated). Damage mitigated in this way is automatically added to the damage you do with your next Kick attack." => replaced: "While Unarmed skill is active: When you Evade an attack, your next attack deals +188 damage"
- "Hip Throw and Bodyslam deal +148 armor damage" => "Hip Throw deals +192 armor damage"
- "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike boost your Nice Attack and Signature Debuff ability damage +44 for 7 seconds" => +55 for 7 seconds
- "Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage boost damage from Epic attacks +60 for 10 seconds" => +74
- "Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 150 Trauma damage over 12 seconds": This effect can no longer be found on Hands slot, only on Legs slot. Hand items with this effect have become Legacy items. (See below for instructions on what to do with Legacy items.)
- New treasure effect for the Hands slot: "Infuriating Fist damage +103. Damage becomes Trauma instead of Crushing" - Slashing Strike: The damage-over-time is now applied over 6 seconds instead of 12.
- "Slashing Strike deals +126 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
- "Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 138 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
- "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike Damage +38%" => +58%
- "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike restore 32 Armor to you" => 40 armor
- "Bodyslam deals +37% damage and slows target's movement speed by 45%": This effect is no longer available on Hands, just Head. Items with this effect on Hands have become Legacy Items. (See below for instructions on what to do with Legacy items.)
- New hands treasure effect: "Bruising Blow deals Trauma damage instead of Crushing, and targets suffer 12.5% more damage from other Trauma attacks for 20 seconds"
- "While using Unarmed skill, 22% of all Slashing, Piercing, and Crushing damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Punch, Jab, or Infuriating Fist at a 100% rate" => now 18% at a 260% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 3%-22% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 10%-18% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
- "Headbutt and Knee Kick deal +138 armor damage" => "Headbutt and Knee Kick Damage +108" - New treasure effect for the chest and off-hand slots: New chest and off-hand treasure effect: "Headbutt Damage +44%"
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Legacy Items

Legacy items are items that cannot be generated in-game anymore, typically due to changes to the treasure-effect tables. If you have a Legacy item, you can continue using it for 30 days before it becomes permanently broken. There is a small golem in Serbule (in a house near the well) called the Legacy Item Replacer. This golem can tell you why an item is Legacy, and can replace the item with a new randomly-generated item with the same rarity.
New to this update, you can also use Transmutation to remove the treasure effect that is making your item Legacy. After you've used Transmutation to change the offending effect into something else, log out and then log back in so that the game re-examines the item and removes the Legacy status. (If it works, the message "THIS IS A LEGACY ITEM" should disappear from the item description after relogging.)
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Werewolf Treasure

We've taken a second look at a few treasure effects, especially the effects for Shadow Feint. We didn't correctly account for its dual-state nature and the effects were a bit too weak.
- "Blood of the Pack restores 90 Health over 30 seconds to you and your allies" => over 10 seconds
- "Shadow Feint causes your next attack to deal +144 damage if it is a Werewolf ability" => +192 damage
- "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 50 Armor and your Sprint Speed is +3 for 10 seconds" => 83 Armor - "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 70 Health" => 100 Health
- "Shadow Feint reduces the taunt of all your attacks by 35% until you trigger the teleport" => 46%
- "Shadow Feint raises your Lycanthropy Base Damage +36% until you trigger the teleport" => +52%
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Fixes to Damage Type Overrides

When a treasure effect changes the type of damage an ability deals, the game previously only partially implemented this: the target's vulnerabilities and resistances to the new damage type were calculated correctly, but it still used the original damage type when calculating total damage. For related reasons, the ability tooltip didn't completely show what was changing, only mentioning it at the bottom under "Other Effects".
This is fixed, both internally and in the displayed info. The tooltip will show the new damage type in green (indicating it is enchanted), and the damage is calculated based on that new damage type.
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Sonic Damage Retired

We're retiring the "Sonic" damage type. It was basically only accessible from the Giant Bat and Bard skills, and Giant Bats can't be Bards, so there wasn't much synergy (except perhaps in groups). After playing with some ideas, we realized no upcoming new combat skills were going to do a lot of Sonic damage, either.
So we're converting all Sonic attacks to a different damage type to allow for more interconnectedness between skills. We've converted them all to Nature damage for now, although some may get changed to another damage type when we next focus on the individual skills involved.
- Bard ability Blast of Fury damage type is now Nature.
- Bard ability Blast of Defiance damage type is now Nature.
- Bard ability Blast of Despair damage type is now Nature.
- Giant Bat ability Screech damage type is now Nature.
- Giant Bat ability Sonic Burst damage type is now Nature.
- Bard Treasure change: "Thunderous Note deals +45% damage, and damage type is Sonic instead of Trauma" => Nature instead of Trauma
- Bard Treasure change: "Thunderous Note causes the target to take +13% damage from Sonic attacks for 15 seconds" => Nature instead of Sonic
- Giant Bat Treasure change: "For 30 seconds after using Drink Blood, all sonic attacks deal +45 damage" => all Nature attacks deal +45 damage
- Giant Bat Treasure change: "Sonic Damage +32%" => "Nature Damage +32%"
- Bard Crafting: Bard Shirts and Bard Gloves now boost Nature damage, not Sonic damage.
- Council Pathfinder Helm now mitigates Nature, not Sonic.
- Ratty Tactics Ring now boosts Nature, not Sonic damage.
- Rattail-Ring of Screeching now boosts and protects against Nature, not Sonic.
- All monsters that were vulnerable or resistant to Sonic have been changed. Most are now resistant/vulnerable to some new type instead.
- All monster attacks that dealt Sonic damage now deal Nature damage.

Preventing Unintentional Quest Turn-ins

Having an NPC steal your good boots, when what you wanted was to give him your not-nearly-as-good boots, is a frustrating pain! So we've tweaked the behavior a little:
- Equipment that is part of a Load-Out is never counted as part of a Quest or Work-Order.
- Equipment that is in a Vendor-Locked folder is never counted as part of a Quest or Work-Order. (Note this only applies to equipment, not other items. This is so that players can still put regular quest items in vendor-locked folders to prevent accidentally selling them, and the items can still be turned in for the quest.)
These sound like small bug-fixes, but they involved a bit more work than it may seem. The changes have been tested, but as always, please be on the lookout for bugs or complications.
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Footsteps

We've made major changes to the footstep sound-effect system to allow for more types of sounds, such as squishy sounds for sand and splash sounds when running in shallow water. More work is planned in this area eventually, including volume fixes and different sounds for different boot types. (Currently the game assumes you're always wearing metal boots.)
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Other Changes

- Fixed many teleportation arrival positions where the camera could get switched around to face the player instead of being behind the player.
- Made configuring guild permissions a little more intuitive.
- Fixed bugs that could prevent the "glowing" effect on high-tier loot (in the loot window).
- Thimble Pete no longer notices if you are an animal while turning in a work order. (But still won't train animals.)
- Small performance improvements to humanoids (both NPCs and Players).
- Trolls' regeneration (when not on fire) is MUCH more potent!
- Tweaked resistances and abilities of mummies.
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Lore Adjustments

We've made a few small tweaks to game lore:
- The "Rains in Ilmari" lasted for 2 years, not 20. (Exaggeration at its best!)
- References to the "Red Mantis Gang" have been fixed to reference the "Red Wing Gang".
- Removed a reference to the god Bogdelle because she has been retconned out of existence.
- References to "Mirraverre" have been fixed to the correct spelling "Miraverre".
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External Character References

We're working on some new ways for you to share your deeds and actions with the outside world. One thing we're working on is a "news ticker" that shows recent heroic exploits, such as killing a boss, completing a recipe for the 1000th time, maxing out a skill, that sort of thing. (It's not live yet -- we're still experimenting with it.)
We'll only be using your character's name, and possibly other in-game names such as your guild's name -- we'd never share any real-life information. But if you are uncomfortable with having your character name-dropped outside of the game, you can opt out: in the "Social" window, under the "RESTRICT" tab, turn off "External References".
And, of course, when you're in Incognito mode you're also left off of the news ticker, because you obviously want to be incognito! (As a reminder of how incognito works: you can log-in Incognito by holding down the SHIFT key at the character-selection screen. The "LOGIN" button will change to say "INCOGNITO LOGIN". This mode prevents your friends-list from being notified that you logged in, prevents you from showing up in /who lists and Guild-Online lists, etc. If you want to play incognito all the time, you can type "/incognito on" (without the quotes) into the chat window.)