Combat

• Ranged attacks can now be fired through non-enemy players, now ranged players only need to worry about hitting the enemy, not firing around their allies.

Enemy AI (ongoing)

We’ve continued to tune and refine our existing AI combat experience. This release, we’ve updated an additional set of enemy AI.

New Mechanic: Large Enemy Staggers

• Allows players to knock certain large characters into a long, highly punishable reaction by fully depleting their Stamina.

• Enemies take stamina damage similar to how players trigger block breaks on shielded enemies, using charged heavy attacks and hard hitting abilities to whittle down the character’s stamina bar.

Attribute Threshold Bonuses

Attribute Threshold Bonuses give a persistent bonus to players for maintaining certain point values in each attribute. Bonuses are awarded every 50 points invested in a single attribute (e.g., at 50, 100, 150 points invested). Each threshold will have a combat bonus and a non-combat bonus.

Strength

• 50: +15% damage to melee weapon light attacks, +10% mining speed

• 100: +20% damage to melee weapon heavy attacks, +20 encumbrance

• 150: +50% stamina damage from melee weapon light and heavy attacks, -10% decrease in weight of mined items

• 200: +20% damage on stunned, slowed, or rooted enemies, +10% mining speed

• 250: Stamina regeneration continues while performing light and heavy attacks with melee weapons, +10% yield increase when mining

• 300: Light and heavy attacks with melee weapons gain Grit, 25% chance to fully mine an ore node with a single swing

Dexterity

• 50: +10% chance to critical hit, +10 skinning speed

• 100: +5% piercing damage, +20% haste for 3 seconds after skinning

• 150: Dodging cost 10 less stamina, -10% decrease in weight of skinned items

• 200: +20% bonus backstab and headshot damage, +10% skinning speed

• 250: +30% bonus critical hit damage on stunned, slowed, or rooted enemies, +10% yield increase when skinning

• 300: Ammo has +15% chance of being returned, guaranteed critical hit after a dodge roll

Intelligence

• 50: +10% damage to light and heavy magic attacks, +10% harvest speed

• 100: +20% critical hit damage, 5% chance to gain 1 azoth when harvesting

• 150: +20% to elemental damage, -10% decrease in weight of harvested items

• 200: +10 mana after a dodge, +10% harvest speed

• 250: +30% duration to damage of time spells, +10% yield increase when harvesting

• 300: +30% damage on first hit on full health target, -10% reduction in Azoth travel cost

Focus

• 50: +10% mana regeneration rate, +10% fishing line tension

• 100: +20 to mana pool, +10% yield increase when salvaging

• 150: +20% healing output, -10% decrease in weight of fishing items

• 200: +20% duration on casted buffs, +10% fishing line tension

• 250: +30 mana on any self or group kill, +10% increase to caught fish size

• 300: When mana hits zero gain 200% mana regen for 10s (60s cooldown), 10% cooldown reduction for Inn fast travel

Constitution

• 50: All health consumables +20% stronger, +10% logging speed

• 100: Increase max health by 10% of physical armor, 10% reduction on durability loss for tools

• 150: 20% reduction to crit damage taken, 10% decrease in weight of logging items

• 200: +20% increase to armor, +10% logging speed

• 250: 80% damage reduction when full health, +10% yield increase when logging

• 300: +30% duration of stun, slow, and root spells, 25% chance to chop down a tree in a single swing

Balance

Hatchet

• Light attacks

  • Added a 4th hit to light attack chain.

  • Decreased light attack damage for first three hatchet attacks by 5%

• Desperate Refresh passive ability: Reduced cooldown reduction (CDR) per hit from 20% to 5%. Previously while at low health, players could reduce their cooldowns completely in 5 hits, resulting in the ability being too powerful.

• Accumulated Power: Increased duration of status effect from 2-3 seconds, and added functionality to have it be consumed on the next attack. This will incentivize either getting to the 4th attack in a chain or transitioning to a heavy from the 3rd attack.

• Relentless Fury: Increased duration of the status effect from 2-3 seconds, but added functionality to have it be consumed after 4 attacks. This will incentivize the player to transition into light attacks from the heavy.

• Refreshing Throws: 10% CDR reduced to 5% CDR when hitting an enemy with an active debuff.

Musket

• Standard attack damage increased by 15%.

• Shooter's Stance attack damage increased by 5%.

• Powder Burn attack damage increased by 10%.

• Power Shot attack damage increased by 15%.

• Stopping Power attack damage increased by 10%.

• Marksman: CDR reduced from 35% to 25% for 3 successful hits on the same target while in Shooter's Stance.

Fire Staff

• Fireball

  • Updated this skill so that only the base hit will reduce cooldown.

  • CDR was reduced from 10% to 7%.

Bow

• Closing In: This upgrade will now only apply CDR on initial hit, not over the duration of the status effect.

War Hammer

• Acceleration upgrade: CDR against debuffed targets reduced from 10% to 7%.