Updates & Release Notes

Changes:
- Ward: New battle dynamic that gives extra damage absorption based on new skills and new Off-hand equipment
- New items and spells
- June event
- Adjustments to battle damage indicators
- Overhauled blacksmith interface
- New status effect for Earthen spells: Rot
- New option to disable weather animations
- Misc improvements and bug fixes

Changes:
- Reduced orn prices for most classes
- Players who have previously purchased these classes will receive orn refunds
- Most classes now require a similar class in the previous tier
- New items and monsters
- Spell menu improvements
- Reworked Tier 4 class spells and passives
- Kingdoms can now create banners
- Misc bug fixes & improvements

Changes:
- May event
- New utility items
- Weather effects
- Raid HP bar is now realtime
- Class weapon proficiencies
- UI tweaks and adjustments
- Bug fixes

Changes:
- New Raid: Apollyon
- Added Masterforging option in the Alchemist
- New Final Quest
- Gauntlets: Added hard mode and boss mode
- New gear
- Bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- April Raid
- Fixed a item highlighting issue when bulk dismantling
- UI tweaks and adjustments

Changes:
- March raid
- Area control adjustments
- Defending power is now based on player, kingdom, and faction influence
- Rewards are based on all player activity within controlled areas
- SFX overhaul
- Kingdom war matchmaking improvements
- Other misc bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- Timed Events
- Daily quests are now auto-accepted
- Daily quests now adhere to user timezones
- New sprite packs
- New monsters and items
- Misc bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- Fresh coat of paint
- New Specialization classes
- New monsters and items
- Followers can now be "released", refunding some orns
- The keep can now store more followers
- Compass marks can now be removed
- Some orns are now rewarded on Kingdom war defeat
- Other misc bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- Multiple raids can now be active at a time
- Added Daily Quests
- New building type: the Alchemist
- Reduced memory usage to avoid crashes on longer playtimes
- Compass guides can now be added for certain points of interest
- Visual and passive changes to the Gaia class
- Buffed the Steadfast passive
- Added plenty of new followers
- New items
- New notification options
- Adjusted some class sprites
- Other misc fixes and improvements

Changes:
- Tier 7 & Tier 8 classes
- New bosses
- New Tier 3 raid: Dracon
- Increased drop rates for rarer items
- Improved Sword in Stone rewards
- New UI for changing classes and specialization
- Dex/miss adjustments
- Misc bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- GPS improvements
- Holiday sprite pack
- Bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- New monsters
- New spells (and multi-round spells)
- New weapons
- Added an option to roughly show area bounds
- Autodismantle will now favor the more rarer of an item's materials
- Participating in raids now requires 24 hours of kingdom membership
- Added bulk dismantle/drop options to the inventory menu
- Bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- Class balance adjustments: reworked the passive abilities of Tier 5 & 6 classes
- Battle server connectivity/reconnection improvements
- New monsters, bosses, and gear
- Fixed a gauntlet issue that may have resulted in statuses being applied erroneously
- Fixed a quest tracking issue when multiple quests are accepted with similar requirements
- Quests now award experience
- Misc bug fixes

Changes:
- Quests, NPCs, and lore
- New classes: Blademaster, Battlemage, Grand Mystic
- New Raid: Arthus
- New followers
- New gear and items
- Items can now be stored in the Keep
- Dungeons (world gauntlets) can now be found in the world
- Inventory UI improvements
- Area names can now be reported
- Bug fixes

Changes:
- Gauntlet improvements
- Gauntlets are now available on a 6 hour cooldown
- UI improvements
- New monsters, bosses, and gear
- Kingdoms can now have their King changed
- Bug fixes