Announcement Release 220 Patchones

Dear Heroes of Dracania,

This release is all about equipment and PvE changes. We have started to revisit all boss fights and updated not only the graphical effects in order to increase the readability and to provide a more coherent look but also the skills, values and boss immunity. This comes together with an update of unique and legendary equipment drop chances to reflect the bigger challenges, especially on higher difficulties. A big change is that all your skill debuffs do now also have an effect on the biggest threats of Dracania and if some of them are immune to a specific type of effect, it is visualized in their health bar. Another part of the release is the first part of the PvE Equipment Update featuring the first set of cloaks/banners, new crafting methods and some new enchantments. And last but not least, we have updated our event window and added some new features to it including the possibility to see upcoming events.

We hope you enjoy the new release.
Changes​

• PvE
  • Consumables
    • The cooldown of Health Potions and Resource Potions has been reduced to 1 second
  • General Monster Balancing
    • The health points, damage, resistance and armor values of all elite mobs (Guardian, Champion, Leader, Sentinel, Boss) has been increased
    • The experience you get from elite mobs has been increased
    • Bosses are no longer immune against debuffs dealt by the player’s skills (excepts some special immunities for Parallel World versions of the bosses)
    • The spawn animations for all bosses on difficulty Painful and above have been removed
  • Boss Updates
    • Every boss has now the ability to spawn adds during the fights
    • Most of the skill effects have been updated to increase the readability
    • The equipment traders that appeared after a boss fight have been removed
    • We have started to also rework many of the sounds of our bosses and we will continue this over the next releases
    • The Parallel World version of the Bosses now have special immunities or a special debuff that is active during the whole fight
      • Grimmag
        • Immune to fire debuff effects
      • Heredur
        • Immune to ice/frost debuff effects
      • Bearach
        • Immune to lightning debuff effects
      • Arachna
        • Immune to poison debuff effects
      • Khalys
        • Reduces the player's resources by 50%
      • Herald
        • Immune to fire debuff effects
      • Sigrismarr
        • Immune to ice debuff effects
      • M’Edusa
        • Immune to poison debuff effects
      • Mortis
        • Immune to all debuff effects

	Immune to armor breaks
	Immune to fire debuff effects
	Immune to ice debuff effects
	Immune to lightning debuff effects
	Immune to physical debuff effects
	Immune to poison debuff effects
	Reduces maximum skill resource of enemies in the same area
	Immune to stun effects

• • New phases during the boss fight:
    • Phase 1: Boss is immune to armor break. This phase ends when the boss's life points drop below 60%.
    • Phase 2: Boss is no longer immune to armor break, but gains slightly increased armor and resistance. This phase ends when the boss's life points drop below 30%.
    • Phase 3: Boss is again immune to armor break, but retains all previous increases and gets a slight increase in damage.
• Parallel World
  • The enter map screen now always appears when entering a boss map
    • This screen now also contains information about special boss immunities or effects
• Loot
  • The drop chance of unique items has been increased
  • The drop chance of legendary items has been increased
  • Bosses can now also drop Equipment Refiners
  • Worthy Opponents from level 30 on can now drop Yarn (new crafting ingredient)

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• Bosses on level 55 on difficulty Infernal and above, can now drop Golden Yarn (new crafting ingredient)

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• Nefertari can now drop Nefertari’s Robe Fabric

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• • The Cloak/Banner of Heroes can no longer be dropped by Khalys but is a random result when using the Cloak/Banner of Guard or Cloak/Banner of Strength crafting method
  • Kaylin Lefrye’s Coat/Banner can no longer be dropped by Nefertari but can be crafted now
• Equipment
  • The visuals of an equipment item are now based on the region and not on the player level
  • A new set of region-based enchantments have been added
    • Ice Resistance
      • can be found on items dropped in the Norselands and specific ice dungeons
    • Fire Resistance
      • can be found on items dropped in Teganswall and specific fire dungeons
    • Lightning Resistance
      • can be found on items dropped in Atlantis and specific lightning dungeons
    • Poison Resistance
      • can be found on items dropped in Atlantis and specific poison dungeons
    • Andermight Resistance
      • can be found on items dropped in Lor’Tac and specific andermight dungeons
  • Cloaks/Banners
    • New cloaks/banners have been added
      • Cloak/Banner of Strength

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• Cloak/Banner of Guard

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• Quests
  • A new quest row for introducing the new Cloak/BannerCrafting has been added
    • The first quest of the row starts when you pick up Yarn for the first time

Quest Name	Questgiver	Requirements
Cover your Back (1/6)	Alyona in the Resistance Command Center	Level 30 Pick up 1 Yarn Complete From Disaster to Master (2/9)
Cover your Back (2/6)	Alyona in the Resistance Command Center	Level 30 Complete Cover your Back (1/6)
Cover your Back (3/6)	Alyona in the Resistance Command Center	Level 30 Complete Cover your Back (2/6)
Cover your Back (4/6)	Roxana in Jarlshofn	Level 35 Complete Cover your Back (3/6) Complete From Disaster to Master (4/9)
Cover your Back (5/6)	Kolyax in Hiraja	Level 55 Complete Cover your Back (4/6) Complete From Disaster to Master (8/9)
Cover your Back (6/6)	Kolyax in Hiraja	Level 55 Complete Cover your Back (5/6)

• Crafting Recipes
  • new crafting recipes have been added that can be learned during the Cover your Back quests
    • Cloak/Banner of Strength
    • Enhanced Cloak/Banner of Strength
    • Cloak/Banner of Guard
    • Enhanced Cloak/Banner of Guard
    • Cloak/Banner Unraveling
    • Golden Yarn
    • Augment Core Crafting (for Cloaks/Banner)
    • Unique Cloak/Banner Crafting
• Event Window Rework
  • A new unified event window has been added

• Also, upcoming events are now shown in the event window

• Event Mini Progress Bar
  • A new feature called “Event Mini Progress Bar” has been added
    • This can be used to track the progress of an event without opening the event window

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Bugfixes​

• An issue where the progress item for the PvE and PvP season had a wrong icon, has been fixed
• Arachna’s Offspring (Parallel World Loxley Caverns) is no longer spawning the Ghastly Spider Brood if they get destroyed by the player

Additional​

• All players who were active during the last 3 months will get a special cloak/banner starter package that contains:
  • 200x Yarn
  • 2x Cloak/Banner Bag
    • Contains a random improved Cloak/Banner
  • 1x Cloak/Banner Bag
    • Contains a random magic Cloak/Banner
  • 2x Cloak/Banner Chest
    • Contains a random Cloak/Banner

Future Plans
We also want to give you a short overview of our future plans for the cloaks & banners. Over the next few releases, we are planning to introduce many new unique cloaks/banners – to be exact, one for each boss, that also includes a new cloak/banner for Khalys.​

Best regards,
Your Drakensang Online Team

 

Dear Heroes,

Please note that the team is aware of the following issues:​

• Augment core crafting with cloaks is displaying a grey template item as result/ This display issue is known and will be fixed with Release 221.

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• Occasionally the spawn animation of Sigrismarr is not completely finished when entered the map

Best regards,
Your Drakensang Online Team