Merry Oryxmas, Realmers!
The winter holidays and celebrations are just around the corner and we too, in the Realm of the Mad God, will be celebrating!
Patch Notes X.32.0.0:
Reminder that the Unity Campaign will end on December, 31st!
Events
The Realm of the Mad God will celebrate Oryxmas until January, 8th 2019!
- The Permafrost Lord is back and now has a chance to drop a portal to the Ice Tomb
- Oryx’s Castle is covered in snow and scouts are reporting that a chest has been trapped in ice near the castle’s bridge
- Ice Shards, Primal Ice, Ornaments and Bells are back and can be obtained from various places in-game and exchanged for rewards in the Daily Quest Room
- Many Events in Realm, the Oryx Castle, the Nexus and other places in the game celebrate Oryxmas
- Oryxmas Gifts have a chance to spawn in many of the lower level dungeons (Godlands), explore them thoroughly for some additional loot!
- Santa’s Workshop is back
- Winter T11 weapons have a chance to drop at standard T11 weapon drop locations
- Winter T6 abilities have a chance to drop at standard T6 ability drop locations
Oryxmas Tokens and Quests
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Ice Shards Quests:
- Ice Shards drop from many places in the Realm!
- 3 quests requiring increasing quantities reward you with a total of 5 Primal Ice and 2 Ornament per day (x5, x15, x30).
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Primal Ice:
- Drops from Dungeon bosses, Realm events, Chest Events and Ice Shard Quests.
- Ice Weapon Quest: requires Primal Ice x 20 for a Weapon of Choice.
- Oryxmas Ability Quest: requires Primal Ice x 20 for a random Oryxmas T6 Ability Reskin
- Ice UT Quest: requires Primal Ice x 80 for a UT Reskin of Choice
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Ornaments:
- Drops from Quests, Chest Events, Mystery Boxes and other places in-game.
- Oryxmas Skin Quest: requires Ornament x 25 for a Skin of Choice (Scrooge Priest, Santa Wizard, Helping Huntress)
- Oryxmas Pet Skin Quest: requires Ornament x 25 for a Oryxmas Mystery Pet Skin
New
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Oryxmas Nexus by Lovens: a wonderful place to celebrate Oryxmas, filled with secrets and things to explore!
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New goal UI in realms to help with general goal setting.
- Guiding newer players on what to achieve in the realms
- Indications on the number of Heroes of Oryx left to defeat before Oryx closes the realm
- UI can be folded (by clicking on the arrow or using a hotkey, adjustable in options, default C)
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New quests and monsters in the realm
- Minotaur is now a level 9 quest and slightly more common
- Urgle is now a level 11 quest
- Hunter Centaur is a new High Forest level 13 quest
- Dark Elf Queen is a new High Forest level 15 quest
Balancing
- Rebalance of exp gain from dungeon bosses - see full table here
Fixes and Quality of Life
- Updated Quest Chest loot table
- Shatters chests are now stasis immune
- Larvae from the Murderous Megamoth will spawn more spread out
- Fixed Guill forgetting about Samurai when asked to pick a random class
- Orange Drakes now apply temporary stasis immunity to a zapped enemy like Orbs do
- Added set pieces to Wandering Turkey and Realm Event Chest to avoid spawns in closed-off areas
Misc
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Chat server split - Chat is now independently processed from game servers, which should result in a lot more server stability for dungeons hosted in the Nexus, Guild Hall, Bazaars etc.For now we are reverting the chat changes, sorry for the inconvenience! Edit: We also changed the version number from X.32.0.0 to X.31.2.0. - Optimized enemy spawning in the realm
X.31.2.1 Patch 2018-12-20
- Fixed Ghost Ship (Frozen Ship) issues: HP scaling, Davy Jones’ Locker not 100% and not updating quest on spawn
- When destroyed, the Frozen Chest will now turn into a freed chest with HP scaling and temporary invulnerability
- Updated Epic Quest Chest loot table: Samurai ST and Assassin ST pieces
- Added Ice Shard drops to the 5 Oryxmas encounters: Rock Dragon, Cube God, Hermit God, Pentaract, Ghost Ship
- Added Stasis immunity to various Heroes and their minions: Ghost King, Ghost Master, Actual Ghost King, Ent Ancient, Actual Ent Ancient, Lich, Actual Lich and Phylactery Bearer
- Fixed the goal UI not remembering whether it was minimized or not
- Fixed the goal UI not showing the realm name after leaving a dungeon
- Added a scroll bar for options in case of overflow (Steam Hotkeys)
- Added a race expert snowman and start lights for racing on the ice track in the Nexus
- Fixed certain Oryx’s Castle minions not being in a winter spirit
- Fixed Character Changer symmetry
- Fixed briefly visible regular Pentaract tower on snowman tower respawn
- Fixed Actual Ent not spreading Oryxmas cheer