From Rhialto:
- Reopened the Zoo Quest. 5 points.
- Added Artifact Vending Machines to the NV Adventurers Guild and the Minath training hall. The machines sell 50 weapon artifacts and 20 armor artifacts for 1 crown each. Some restrictions apply; see the machine description for details. (Long story short: They’re regular disappearing artifacts but can’t be sold or given away.)
- Note that there are several non-artifact items (e.g. olympic gold medal) that are sold as artifacts by these machines.
- Instanced the Zoo Quest
- Instanced the Frozen Abyss quest (also fixed a bug preventing it from being solved)
- Added quest books for Zoo, Frozen Abyss, Conundrum, Olympiad and Orb of Maiye
- Significantly boosted XP awards for monsters level 25 and up
- Added new monsters to RDs, all levels 25+ (including 6 brand-new ones — I didn’t have time to finish the Banshee, but the other six are in!) The new monsters are:
- Jabberwock – vorpal blade kills it in 1 hit. Without a vorpal blade, well, someone will die quickly.
- Dreadclaw – powerful new kind of demon, level 27
- Onryo – Japanese ghost (level 28). Watch out for its new debuff spell — snuffs out resist spells.
- Angel – your basic hard-hitter neutral monster, nothing special (level 25)
- Archangel — a level 30 neutral monster that can summon angels as helpers
- Ki-Rin – think of a level 26 unicorn on steroids
- Major balance change — monsters now get an Unarmed skill equal to their level. I was trying to figure out why they are missing all the time, and it’s because if they have a default attack (cut, bite, whatever), it’s an unarmed attack and the system checks their skill and finds that it’s zero. So monsters should hit more often now. A lot more often. Watch out.
- Note that this also helps with your summons, though.
- New potion artwork. It doesn’t all match very well since it’s from 3 separate artists, but at least (nearly) every potion type has its own image now.
- Buffed the Ancient Dragon Mail artifacts quite a bit, so they’re now a lot better than regular dragon mail
- Buffed Demon Lords a wee bit, since most players claimed they were weaksauce. They’re probably still weaksauce, but we’ll see.
- fixed the model for the archangel (was the wrong size)
- same for baby wyvern
- big change — you now get XP for creatures summoned by other monsters
- another tweak — lowered kirin and dreadclaw element resists
- last one — Thunderstorm spell is now AIR + DEATH instead of AIR + SPIRIT
- Add res machine to minath hospital, per request
- Clicking a player in your group no longer brings up the tap-menu
- You can bring it up by dragging the Eye icon to them
- The new behavior is it moves you towards them. I can also make it so that it does nothing (doesn’t move you at all) or examines them. Let me know what you want here.
- *Cult of Aquator quest is now open! (Though there may still be bugs.)
- Thanks very much to Arelius and Sesha for their hours of help getting it figured out. Some wizard really did a number on this one. And that number is 2.
- Dialed back the melee attack strength on the new monsters a bit (~20%). That’s the last nerfing I’m going to do on them, though at some point I may push them deeper into the RDs.
- Fixed bug with CoA where the items from the High Priest and Aquator would be marked as owned by the previous person to solve the quest, meaning it was only solvable once per reboot.
- Fixed same bug with Loki’s corpse in Odin’s Eye quest
- Group members can now overlap anywhere, not just on exits
- Fixed a dozen or so bugs with CoA. Should be solvable by everyone now.
- Monsters whose level is 21+ are now spread out much further in RDs. Here is the new spread:
- Up to RD level 20: max mon level == RD level
- RD levels 21-24: max mon level = 20
- RD levels 25+: start seeing level 21 monsters
- RD levels 30+: start seeing level 22 monsters
- RD levels 35+: start seeing level 23
- Levels 40+: start seeing level 24
- Levels 50+: start seeing level 25 (reaper, riagor)
- Levels 60+: level 26 (angel, kirin)
- Levels 70+: level 27 (dreadclaw)
- Levels 80+: level 28 (onryo, acid hydros)
- Levels 90+: level 29 (jabberwock)
- Levels 100+: level 30 (demon lord, archangel)
- New Minath Badass Monster Arena, which is the same (for now) except all the monsters are badass. It’s the flaming portal in the arena entrance, north of the regular portal.
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