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Patch 0.27.3459 — Feb 14, 2020

Decay: No longer has a casting time, but a cooldown of 3s
Decay: Is now a missile spell and does damage on impact. Reduced range by 25%
Decay: Reduced base damage over time effect by ~40%. Added new visual effects and sounds
New skill: Plaguespreader - Decay deals damage and jumps to a nearby enemy if the current target is already affected by Decay. Additionally, casting Decay grants you Haste for a short duration
New skill: Soul Harvest - Reap the souls of nearby enemies affected by Decay, dealing damage and granting you mana for each harvested soul
Revitalize: Lowered healing by ~20% as compensation for the haste interval changes

Haste now increases the interval rate of buffs that deal damage or heal
Removed 1v1 & 2v2 arena, added 3v3 & 5v5 arena
Arena fights no longer result in fame gains or losses
Guardstone: Reworked Ro'blox's crypt
Guardstone: Added Gates to BL sides forest area
Guardstone: Improved BL early grasslands area
Guardstone: Improved path terrain from VG into forest
Guardstone: Improved forest path up to coal mines
Guardstone: Improved various minor forest locations
Guardstone: Added various VG / BL guardians and vagabonds
Headless: Added monster campsite on south east mountain
Headless: Added jailed trader
Faivel: Added new monsters, various monster ability modifications and monster relocations
Faivel: Added new Plains Walker Ruins location
Faivel: Improved path up to Tribal Giants
Faivel: Added lake and tombs to Tribal Giants camp
Faivel: Added campsite and improved path from Plains of Blood to Walker Ruins
Faivel: Added campsite and fencing to BL spawn area
Faivel: Fixed many terrain flaws
Added unique IDs to item descriptions
Improved the visuals of shadows in the far distance
Fixed various world related client crashes on map borders
Fixed a bug resulting in the loot of various monster type
Fixed a bug in the world editor causing the sides of worlds to stick
Fixed a bug resulting in buff sounds not playing upon first application
Raised release version to 0.27

New skill: Temper - You slow down for 2 seconds. Then, if you are incapacitated: all control impairing effects are removed, your Charge cooldown is reset and you gain 20 Movement Speed for 3 seconds
Centrifugal Laceration: Now stacks up to 3 times
Colossal Reconstruction: Increased healing amount from 7+L8 -> 7+L14
Bulwark: Lowered cooldown from 35s -> 30s, increased duration from 8 -> 9s, raised MP cost by 3 flat
Charge: You can now charge towards any target, including friendly players and NPCs
Crescent Strike: Changed MP cost from 1+L3 -> 2+L2

Block rework: No longer negates 100% damage and all status effects. Instead, 80% damage is negated. Blocked attacks cant crit or daze
Blocked attack combat text will now be displayed with a shield icon
Stamina: Now grants 3 -> 4 HP per point
Faivel: Added Lv. 42 Golem Boss towards VG side
Faivel: Added Monster spawns to quarry
Faivel: Removed skills from certain monster groups such as TP spiders
Guardstone: Added Warden protecting the Merchant side in the BL base
Added latency, fps and net traffic bandwidth display (can be enabled in Interface settings)
Net code updates for more accurate client positioning, fixing various combat issues
Improved skill queue duration from 0.5s -> 1.0s
Improved precision with which player rotation is sent to server
Maximum health is no longer rounded in unit frames when > 1000 HP
Leveled up our marketing plans and added instagram social button

Summon: The casters PVP hostility range increases by 5 levels while the cast is active

Change EXP requirements to ease the 25-40 leveling phase
Changed PVP hostility to a fixed +- 5 level range
Added ability for some spells to increase your PVP hostility range temporarily (Summon)
Reduced fame loss on death from 7%+10 -> 5%+10
Removed EXP loss on death
Added skill bar setting for up to 24 slots
Improved / smoothed behavior of camera during CC effects / skills that affect your rotation or movement
Improvements to net code and movement behavior (experimental)
Improved visibility of the target you are currently hovering with your mouse
Improved visibility of target ground ring
Added white outline to currently selected target nameplate
Added sound for targeting
Added sound for un-targeting
Added sound for gaining fame
Added sound for receiving a whisper
Numbers on the EXP bar are now formatted
Removed various problematic steps in the tutorial
Added tutorial step for when players reach Lv. 25
Fixed bug preventing you from changing targets while queueing a skill on CD

Summon: new casting sound, new particle effects, new skill color
Summon: after accepting a summon, members receive a buff: Recall Shift - a short movement boost to promote interesting PVP charge attacks
Summon: no longer summons member closer than 12m to the caster

New default skill: Conjurers Recall - teleports you to the nearest conjurer. cant be used in combat, has a casting time and a cooldown
Conjurers Recall: Also applies Recall Shift
Removed /die
Stationary targets (Warden, King) no longer collide with static targets (Dummy, Trader, Merchant, etc.)
Fixed bug resulting in the incorrect distribution of items, exp, fame, and gold upon killing a target
Monsters now correctly reset their share table once they have no target to aggro
Faivel: Fixed many holes and generally problematic spots causing players to get stuck
Faivel: Fixed the colliders of statues
Faivel: Fixed the colliders of pine trees
Faivel: Added a backdoor-escape route to the new 43 spawn on the VG side
Faivel: Added additional warden to the VG base
Faivel: Added additional level 43 monsters to the VG side of the rotten castle area
Wardens now have the ability to use Bulwark by default
Bugfixes and optimizations in regards to item database logic
Increased bitrate of sound effects