Updates & Release Notes

* Support for Terra's Day event
* Memory hunting is now available to Tier 3 players
* Bug fixes

* Increased the stats and effect of the Eastern Regalia
* Increased the Attack and reduced the Resistance penalty of the Aaru and Arisen Aaru Headwraps
* The Arisen Dynasty gear for thief classes now gives access to the stance "Curse of Sekhmet"
* "Curse of Sekhmet" functions similarly to Bloodshift, but includes damage over time instead of stat bonuses

* Removed the randomness of Herbalist daily rolls. Recipes will now always show when the Herbalist is the required level for a recipe's tier
* Fishing will now result in fish more often than items or battles
* Fixed an issue that prevented the Eastern Regalia's effect to scale with quality
* Support for the new Starter Pack, rolling out to new players over the next few weeks

* The "Sands of Aaru" skill will now use either your magic or attack stat, depending on which is greater
* The Sphinx Kit monster now has "Delay Strike III", opposed to "Delay Strike"

* Adjusted the cost of the Beastfelled Summoning Scroll to 7/7/7
* Removed the "The Dioscuri" event from February

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* New Codex
-- Basic & advanced game topics added
-- More information in all sections
* Monument floors now have reduced size
* Origin Town themes - stay tuned for February!
* Bug fixes, visual tweaks, and more

* Event Summon Spells now additionally seed in Arcanists again
* Reduced the costs of Event Spells in the Monumental Guild Shop

* Cosmetic Follower options add to the Runeshop, starting with our "Festive" Chimeras
* Last Martyr gear is now functional with respect to the World Anguish Level
* Introduced guild Karma to the Monumental Guild, ensuring item forfeits made from current event items will prioritize better item rolling results
* Raid introduction quest added in Tier 7
* Support for an updated January event
* Reduced the HP of earlier tier World Raids
* Event monsters are now highlighted in the Monument map (updated app required)
* Event summons are now found in the Monumental Guild Hall

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* Exploration (Deep) Dungeons
-- Both Goblin Fortress and Mystic Cave dungeons are now completed in "Exploration" mode, allowing players to choose their battles, mine for progress, and earn rewards underground
* New Guild: The Spelunking Guild
-- This Guild rewards players for interacting with Exploration Dungeons
* New Guild: The Monumental Guild
-- This Guild rewards players for interacting with limited time World Events
-- This Guild is now an additional way to unlock World Event gear and followers
-- Additionally, this Guild rewards players for completing any Raid via additional Proofs of Felling
* New Guild: The Seer's Guild (accessible at the Oracle Temple)
-- This Guild offers additional rewards for players that enjoy Memory Hunting
* New content type: Monuments
-- Monuments offer a an additional way to interact with limited time World Events, while rewarding players with proofs for interacting with event content
-- They are a solo player experience found in Meropis
* Updated collision detection, greatly improvement game performance while travelling
* NPCs now have static locations, always being found in the same tier-appropriate Towns
* Overhaul of the Replica Titan followers
* New inventory tab: Currencies
* Bestial Bond Level 1 can now be attained via Amity traits
* The "Gauntlet Key" has been renamed to "Skeleton Key"
* Improved the display of followers found in shops, allowing easy access to their Codex entries
* AI improvements
* Bug fixes and minor improvements

Balance adjustments:
* Spells the have lowered PvP damage now reduce the damage before defense is applied (opposed to after)
-- The change ensures that defense values are correctly applied to the reduced power
-- [PvP] Reduced the damage of Fey Cataclysm, Fey Fulmination, Fey Glacier, Fey Inferno

Mechanics
* New passive for the Warrior classline: Collateral Damage
-- Knight: Added passive "Collateral Damage"
-- Centurion: Replaced passive "HP Step" with "Collateral Damage"
-- Spellsword: Replaced passive "Mana Step" with "Collateral Damage"
-- Adept: Replaced passive "EXP Step" with "Collateral Damage"
-- Majestic: Added passive "Collateral Damage II"
-- Blademaster: Added passive "Collateral Damage III"
-- Majistrate: Replaced passive "Critical Hits" with "Collateral Damage III"
-- Atlas Vanguard: Replaced passive "Siphon Ward" with "Collateral Damage III"
-- Titanguard: Replaced passive "Siphon Ward II" with "Collateral Damage IV"
-- Gilgamesh: Renamed passive "Siphon Ward II" to "Siphon Ward"
-- Gilgamesh: Added passive "Collateral Damage V"
-- Added Collateral Damage bonus effects to a variety of existing Warrior classline weapons
-- Added bonus dexterity to a variety of existing lategame Warrior classline armor

Balance
* [Blades of Finesse] Items that increase the effectiveness of defending in battle will be less effective
* [PvP/PvE] Fixed an issue that caused items that increase the effectiveness of defending in battle to stack too effectively
* [Blades of Finesse] Avidity: can no longer proc in the first round of battle
* [Blades of Finesse] Debilitating status effects (effects that provide less than 50% chance to act) are now much less likely to proc on the first 2 rounds, then half as likely to proc on remaining rounds
* [Blades of Finesse] Beowulf Auriga's double follower action cannot occur on the first round of battle
* [PvP/PvE] Pendulus: No longer 100% chance to delay a turn
* [Blades of Finesse] Reduced AI controlled opponents' HP in the earlier tiers
* [PvP/PvE] Introduced the "Timeless Pendant" to the PvP drop pool. It provides immunity to Stasis
* [PvP/PvE] Added Stasis immunity to: Amadan's Staff, Aegis, True Aegis of Athena

Other
* Kingdom raids limits are now strongly enforced through in-battle damage limits
* Removed the 5000 on-hand item limit
* Quests can now accept items under level 10
* Fixed an issue with guild shop material seeds (this may reset today's materials available to you)

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* New Guild: The Blades of Finesse
* New Guild: The Titanfelled Guild
* New Building: The Grand Market
* Customizable quick item menu
* Newly added world dungeons
* New October content
* The Heart of Change: an item to refund all ascension levels of a single class
* Towers of Olympia now grow in a way that does not favour single timezones
* Sprite updates, bug fixes, and more

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* All dungeons cooldown times have been reduced
* Medea is now found at the end of any dungeon type
* Reduced the stone costs of some buildings
* Serverside support for the upcoming Deep Dungeons and Blades of Finesse features
* Misc bug fixes

* Lessened the HP of the T7-T8 Ragnarok raids
* Increased the HP of the Jormungandr raids
* Gerd's items: increased Bestial Bond bonus, added Ward to all pieces
* Menja's Shield: Added Stunned immunity, decreased Ward penalty, increased Resistance
* Menja's Warstaff: Added T.Att/T.Mag buffs, increased View Distance to 20%
* Menja's Hood and Menja's Battlerobe: Added Magic stat
* Fenja's Grimoire's: Added adornment slots
* Bloodwarg, Spiritgarm, Stonewarg followers: updated movesets, introduced unique Bestial Bonds for each
* Bloodwarg, Spiritgarm, Stonewarg summons: updated movesets

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* New Guild Added: The Adventurer's Guild
* New Guild Added: Circle of Anguish
-- Earn rewards by increasing your world's difficulty
* Towers of Olympia movement overhaul
* Quick Follower Swap: available in Towers of Olympia
* Revamped chat system
* Kingdom Pacifist Mode – You can now enable Kingdom Wars for your Kingdom
-- Please do not enable until all Kingdom members have the update
* Many additional bug fixes and improvements

* The Training Cactus no longer has elemental weaknesses or resistances
* Support for the upcoming Guilds features
* Bestial Bond updates:
-- Stonefire is no longer split damage
-- Coral Varmint: Skill kit updated to reflect its change to the critical striker Bestial Bond
-- Fenrir: Skill kit updated to reflect its change to the critical striker Bestial Bond
-- Hybrid damage Bestial Bond added
-- Defender Bestial Bond now added temp defense buffs at Level 2
-- Critical striker bond: Re-added attack stat bond
-- Balor followers now have additional magic stat to support Bestial Bond given skills