Patch Notes - ags - 2.3.0

Starbloom Festival Event

Race to the finish when the Starbloom Festival event blossoms across Solisium on March 27 through April 16. Event-only morph races, unique prizes like the Rainbewe sheep morph, seasonal delicacies, and festive village decorations await. Spring cosmetics, including the Blossom outfit and Alluring weapon skins will also be available. Check out our event announcement for additional details on Morph races, rewards, and more.

New Dimensional Trial and Arena Season

The next season of Arena and Dimensional Trials starts after maintenance. Triumph in either endgame activity for unique morphs, titles, and other desirable rewards. Even if you fall short of your goal during one round, failure is sometimes the best lesson for improvement. Another effective way to get better is through these tips from Twitch Creators NorgannonHH and Grenton.

Upcoming Arch Bosses

Topple new Arch Bosses like Deluzhnoa and Giant Cordy for unique rewards on your way to the throne.

Deluzhnoa

Long ago Deluzhnoa, a Lightbringer Society wizard, harnessed Quietis' Heart to stop the Shadowmancers invading Einar Temple. However, using this forbidden power sent her into a frenzied state, and she was transformed into a monstrous being. She has been encased in frozen armor and wields a colossal icy spear, and will pose a challenging threat.

The first Deluzhnoa Arch Boss battle will take place on March 29.

Giant Cordy

A tiny poisonous mushroom spore landed on a fragment of Sylaveth's Star, absorbing ritual energy and mana before transferring its consciousness to another spore. This spore infected a Chief Mitran seed on Mount Snowburn, taking control of its host and absorbing ambient mana to grow tremendously strong. The resulting creature, known as the Giant Cordy, has been linked to numerous disappearances in the Snowburn District.

The first Giant Cordy Arch Boss battle will take place on April 2.

Dimensional Trials

• Added the ability to use Party Matchmaking to form Dimensional Trial groups, accessed through the Co-Op Dungeon > Dimensional Trial tab.

• Dimensional Trials now drop Epic Runes and have received additional loot table updates!

Bosses

• Field Boss: As of 3/20, Dominion bosses now slowly lose HP over time after 20 minutes have passed, until they reach 10% HP remaining.

  • With the addition of this change, the previous 30% HP reduction to overall Dominion boss HP has been removed.

• Arch Bosses: Reduced the preparation phase after entering an Arch Boss portal to 1 minute from 5 minutes.

• Arch Bosses: With the unlock of Arch Boss fights for Deluzhnoa and Giant Cordy, their respective Fragment items may now be obtained from Amitoi Expedition and Fishing reward pouches.

• Bosses: Guild Portals now attempt to matchmake earlier than Dominion or Peace portals at the 3 minute mark, allowing players who fail to find a Guild portal match additional time to participate in one of the other modes.

General

• Arena: Anonymized the names of Arena opponents on the matchmaking and mid-match screens. Opponent names will be displayed on the Results popup at the end of matches.

• World: Adjusted a piton in Bercant Manor that could appear to be floating in midair at lower graphic settings.

• Cooking: Grilled Crown Fish: Added Solisium Carp as an eligible fish ingredient for this recipe.

• Twisted Laboratory: Kaiser Crimson: Added numbers to the Fear overhead visual effect.

• Items: Added tooltip indicators for items that can be acquired through Dissolving.

• Items: Increased item stack limits for Potions and Food items.

• Items: Poultry-type cooking ingredients have been consolidated to a unified Bland Meat ingredient.

• Targeting: Adjusted Tab-Target picking to hopefully improve the logic of targets chosen based on proximity and direction from your character.

Hall of Illusion

• Improved Hall of Illusion rewards by replacing Rare tier runes with Epic tier (purple) runes, artifacts, and replacing the Tier 1 Equipment Chest with Tier 2 Tokens. Tier 5 has a chance of dropping Nebula Island accessories.

• Adjusted boss HP and damage output to reduce overall difficulty of Tier 1 and 2.

• Added the ability for players to trigger a life-steal effect during Tier 1 through 4 to increase self-healing opportunities.

• Umbrakan: Adjusted defensive skill timing for Tier 5 to better reflect Tier 1-4.

• Umbrakan: Slightly increased the time available before Umbrakan uses its execution skill in Tier 5.

• Umbrakan: Changed the execution skill used by Umbrakan in Tier 1-4 to deal damage instead of instant death.

Longbow

• Deadly Marker: Cooldown reduction effect no longer stacks, even if multiple Deadly Markers are applied to the target.

• Deadly Marker: No longer affected by Evasion. Deadly Marker can still miss based on Weaken Resistance. Added Weaken tag to the Deadly Marker tooltip.

• Zephyr's Nock: Added additional 20% damage vs NPC targets effect.

• Decisive Sniping, Decisive Bombardment: Increased damage bonus against NPC targets from 60% to 85%.

• Brutal Arrow: Added additional 100% damage vs NPC targets effect.

• Strafing: Increased damage bonus against NPC targets from 15% to 25%.

Wand

• Curse Explosion: Improved hit area detection for instant damage.

UI

• Auction House: Moved Lithograph auction listings to their own category.

• Swapped the order of Equipment Sync and Combat Settings buttons on the Character window.

• HUD: Added the ability to hide certain UI elements from the Edit HUD customization.

• UI: Added icon indicators for a target's species type (Humanoid, Construct, Wildkin, etc) to the target UI.

• UI: Additional highlighting on the Target-of-Target nameplates to improve indication of these sub-targets.

• Ornate Coin Shop: Replaced missing text descriptions on several items.