January 12
Happy New Year!
After a short break for the holidays, we came back to a fun bunch of bots trying to crash our servers. We modified a few things and they should no longer be able to do any harm.
Also behind the scenes, we’ve been working on new features and the longer term projects we discussed in our last producer letter. It’s sometimes slow going (trying to get it right), but we’re committed to continue to provide at least small updates as we go to make sure the game stays fresh.
Today we have a small release with a few bug fixes, skins and pet stones.
Fixes
- Fixed pet sprite sizes in the UI
- Fixed stacking pet tool tip in the pet yard
New
Changed
January 19
Winter themed content & Chinese New Year Themed Content
While we keep working towards our next meaningful content releases, this release will mainly be adding themed content. We have included a whole batch of character skins, pet stones and special editions of gear that will be released over the next weeks. You will also find that the Nexus has been decorated with celebratory Chinese Lanterns as well as a beautiful Chinese Dragon.
New Drops
Snake Pit
- You will now have a chance to find the Eternal Snowflake Wand
Ocean Trench
- You will now have a chance to find the Arctic Bow
Shatters
- You will now have a chance to find the Ice Crown
All the drops you usually find in these dungeons can still be found as well.
New Character Skins
- Penguin Knight (Knight)
- Frimar Knight (Knight)
- Frozen King (Necro)
- Blizzard Sorcerer (Sorc)
- Ice King (Priest)
- Icicle Dial Mystic (Mystic)
- Yuki Onna (Mystic)
- Chinese Dancer Trickster (Trickster)
New Pet Stones
- Desert Cobra (Pet Skin)
- Rooster (Pet Skin), regular red + rare golden
- Chinese Dragon (Pet Skin), small & big
- Chinese Lantern (Pet Skin), small & big
- Gingerbread Man (Pet Skin)
- Mini Polaris (Pet Skin)
Special Edition Items
- Enchanted Ice Blade (Crystal Sword reskin)
- Staff of Iceblast (Staff of Extreme Prejudice)
- Eternal Snowflake Wand (Wand of the Bulwark)
- Artic Bow (Coral Bow)
- Frost Drake Hide Armor (Hydra Skin Armor)
- Frost Elementalist Robe (Robe of the Grand Sorcerer)
- Ice Crown (The Forgotten Crown)
- Frost Citadel Armor (Acropolis Armor)
- Tome of Frigid Protection (Tome of Holy Protection)
Fixed
- Vault Chest and Character Slot Unlocker will no longer equip on shift click. It needs to be used directly from the inventory (a help message has been added).
February 9
New!
- Dungeon Chest Events will be coming back this month! Keep an eye out for the week-ends
- Bella’s Dungeon is also coming back for Valentines!. You will be able to procure Keys with both gold and fame
- Added Tome of Frigid Protection, Enchanted Ice Blade and Staff of Iceblast Winter Reskins to the Drop Tables of their respective UTs (Tome of Holy Protection, Crystal Sword and Staff of EP).
- Snowflakes Token no longer drop in-game (and are no longer available in Mystery Box)
- Added Feeding Power to Snowflake Tokens. Snowflake Tokens will be removed in a later Patch in March, so use them quickly!
Fix
- Ice Dial Mystic, Snow Cloaked Rogue, Chinese Dress Trickster and Ice King Priest are now correctly shaded when dyed.
Dragon Tamer ST Set can now be dyed.
- Ice Crown and Enchanted Ice Blade Winter Reskins have been visually updated.
- Glacius (Boss) Sprite has been fixed.
- Artic Bow has correctly been renamed Arctic Bow
- Fixed 16x16 Pet Stones Icon not scaling properly
Cosmetics
Balancing Updates
Enemies
Ghost Bride
- Initial invulnerability for 2 seconds in the starting phase.
Grave Caretaker
- Initial invulnerability for 2 seconds in the starting phase.
Davy Jones
- Initial invulnerability for 2 seconds in the attackable phase.
- Doubled health (8000 -> 16000)
Bows
Tiered
| Tier |
Min + |
Max + |
Avg + |
Old |
New |
| 0 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
10-40 |
15-45 |
| 1 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
15-45 |
20-50 |
| 2 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
20-55 |
25-60 |
| 3 |
5 |
10 |
7.5 |
25-55 |
30-65 |
| 4 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
35-65 |
40-70 |
| 5 |
5 |
10 |
7.5 |
45-65 |
50-75 |
| 6 |
0 |
5 |
2.5 |
30-50 |
30-55 |
| 7 |
5 |
10 |
7.5 |
50-70 |
55-80 |
| 8 |
0 |
1 |
0.5 |
40-60 |
40-61 |
| 9 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
40-65 |
40-67 |
| 10 |
3 |
0 |
1.5 |
45-65 |
48-65 |
| 11 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
45-70 |
49-70 |
| 12 |
0 |
5 |
2.5 |
50-70 |
50-75 |
All Triple Shot Bows
- Arc: -3.25 (11.25 -> 8)
- True Range: +1.05 (2.51 -> 3.56)
- A more narrow gap means higher true range, which is the distance at which you can hit all shots.
Leaf Bow
- Damage: +2.5 Avg (95-125 -> 95-130)
- RoF: +10 (150 -> 160)
- SPD: +2 (0 -> 2)
- DPS graph here - old versions are darkened.
Katanas
Tiered
- Range: +0.55 (4.2 -> 4.75, +10 speed, +15 ms)
- Damage:
| Tier |
Min + |
Max + |
Avg + |
Old |
New |
| 0 |
5 |
10 |
7.5 |
20-60 |
25-70 |
| 1 |
0 |
15 |
7.5 |
30-60 |
30-75 |
| 2 |
5 |
10 |
7.5 |
30-70 |
35-80 |
| 3 |
0 |
20 |
10 |
45-65 |
45-85 |
| 4 |
2 |
17 |
9.5 |
53-73 |
55-90 |
| 5 |
0 |
20 |
10 |
55-85 |
55-105 |
| 6 |
5 |
10 |
7.5 |
70-100 |
75-110 |
| 7 |
0 |
10 |
5 |
90-110 |
90-120 |
| 8 |
-10 |
16 |
3 |
100-134 |
90-150 |
| 9 |
-15 |
25 |
5 |
115-135 |
100-160 |
| 10 |
-2 |
13 |
5.5 |
112-152 |
110-165 |
| 11 |
10 |
5 |
7.5 |
110-170 |
120-175 |
| 12 |
-5 |
20 |
7.5 |
140-160 |
135-180 |
Doku No Ken
- Damage: -5 Avg (130-150 -> 120-150)
- RoF: -5 (125 -> 120)
Ray Katana
- Damage: +33.5 Avg (60-95 -> 111-111)
Annoying Firecracker Katana renamed to Sullen Blade
- Range: +0.55 (3.2 -> 3.75, +5 speed, +29 ms)
- Damage: +20 Avg (50-70 -> 40-120)
- Arc: -10 (30 -> 20)
Void Blade
- Lifetime: -300 ms (4500 -> 4200)
- Just a small nerf, as the changes on the much affected enemies should already be enough of an indirect nerf.
- DPS graph new vs. DPS graph old.
Lair of Draconis UT Armors
Water Dragon Silk Robe
- ATT: +3 (3 -> 6)
- DEF: +2 (10 -> 12)
- SPD: +1 (5 -> 6)
- WIS: +3 (0 -> 3)
Leaf Dragon Hide Armor
- DEF: +4 (9 -> 13)
- SPD: +6 (0 -> 6)
- WIS: +3 (0 -> 3)
- VIT: +3 (0 -> 3)
Fire Dragon Battle Armor
- ATT: +1 (3 -> 4)
- DEF: +2 (15 -> 17)
Other
Crystal Wand and Frozen Wand
- Damage: +2.5 Avg (75-95 -> 75-100)
- RoF: +10 (100 -> 110)
Doom Circle
- WIS: +2 (0 -> 2)
- VIT: +2 (0 -> 2)
As always, thanks for Poshun & Beige for providing us with Skins and visual fixes! I will be hosting a new Art Contest soon, so get your drawing tool ready!
February 28
Hey there people!
In this update we’re updating the Guild Halls and adding a Login Calendar filled with goodies which will start in March, along with a few minor changes.
New:
Login Calendar
- EDIT 2: Calendar is fixed now! Go get your rewards!
- Coming up in March you should be getting a daily pop-up reminding you to check your login calendar for free items.
- You will find the Login Calendar NPC next to the Tinkerer in his cave.
- There are two different calendars each with its own set of items
- The Non-Consecutive Calendar (1st Tab) will update every day you login on Realm.
- The Consecutive Calendar (2nd Tab) will need you to come back every day - if you miss a day it will reset to Day 1!
- On both calendar, each reward can only be claimed once.
- The Calendar will be reset at the start of every month, so don’t forget to claim your rewards before April or they will disappear!
- In case you run into any bug, please send us a ticket with as much info (and screenshots if applicable) as possible!
Updated
Guild Halls
- The Guild Hall have been updated for convenience based on the different Guild Levels! Depending on your Guild Level, you will also have access directly to the Pet Yard, Quest Room and Wardrobe!
Fixed
- Account Creation Confirmation Mail no longer links to Wildshadow’s non-existent Blog. Totally in time, wooh us!
- The Tinkerer now sits behind his desk in the Quest Room instead of chilling in front of it like an adorable doofus.
- Updated a few item sprites (Enchanted Ice Shard, Ring of the Northern Light, Frimarra)
- To avoid a bug where Skin Items would sometimes be consumed without the Skin being unlocked (due to massive lag in the Nexus), Skin Items can now only be used in the Vault.
That’s all for now folks! Next update should have quite a few things for you to enjoy!
March 9
New!
- The most common Crashing Exploit should be fixed! Stability, yay!
- Items dropped from players will now be in SB bags. Use the Trade feature to trade items with other players!
- Items should now be back to their correct Soulbound / Not-Soulbound status.
- Chase the Leprechaun! A rare monster that only appears at most once per Realm, killing him (you monster) will open a portal to the Rainbow’s End for some unique loot! The Leprechaun will disappear in two weeks, happy hunting!
- Ice Tomb End of Winter Event! The Ice Tomb will now spawn an Event Chest with all the Winter Reskins, as well as some Stat Potions! Find the entire Loot Table at the end of this post.
- /pause ! You can once again pause in Cloth Bazaars and Guild Halls!
- You can now use /w or /whisper as alternative to /t or /tell
- You can now use /tp as alternative to /teleport
Fix
- A few skins have been updated to fix existing issues (notably with dyes).
- Tunnel Rat Achievement is fixed!
- The Character Slot Price should now update correctly when purchased.
- Farm, Insect and Penguin families now display correctly
Cosmetics
Missed in the last patch notes
- Added player amount to /who
- Adjusted lock list position
Balancing Updates
Drops
- Drop chances at the Shore, Low- and Midlands areas have been increased, more improvements that adress the early game experience are on the way! And don’t worry, other balance changes are on the way too!
Polish and Quality of Life
- Encounter minions will despawn in slightly under a minute after the Encounter has been defeated
- The Interact Hotkey should now work with everything in the Guild Hall.
- Various Improvements and fixes have been applied to the Skin Selection UI
Known Bug
- Pets are currently healing less frequently than they should.
As always, thanks for Poshun, Beige and Kingged for providing us with Skins and visual fixes!
Drop Tables
Leprechaun Rainbow Dungeon
- St Patty’s Brew
- Miss Shamrock WIzard Skin
- Clover Bow
- Sword of the Rainbow’s End
