Announcement Release 242 Patchnotes

Release 242

Dear heroes of Dracania,

Release 242 comes with a polished Desert of Essences Event based on player feedback as well as several bug fixes.
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See you in Kingshill!

Changes / New​

• Events
  • The Desert of Essences Event has been polished (more detailed info below)
    • Kia Krisal
      • Attack Range of the Essence Shardlings reduced
      • Bosses with individual themes have been added to the different versions of Kia Krisal
    • Equipment
      • The pieces of the Black Essence Armament Set will now drop from these specific Bosses
    • Attire
      • The bonus of the Desert of Essence Event Attire has been improved
    • Entry costs
      • The amount of realm paths, needed to enter the Desert of the Lost has been decreased
      • The amount of realm paths, needed to enter the Kia Krisal has been decreased
    • Minimum level requirement
      • The minimum level that is required to be able to participate in the event is now 35
      • Therefore, the first progress bar tier (requirement: level 20-34) has been removed
    • Shady Jon
      • Shady Jon has been added to the Desert of the Lost
    • Sandstorms
      • We reduced the harmful effects of the sandstorms
    • Sentinel in the Desert of the Lost
      • The Sentinel now drops additionally loot
    • Draken
      • The amount of Draken you get per progress bar tier was changed
    • Uncovered Chests
      • Chests spawn after every sandstorm monster wave
    • Essence chest
      • The loot was slightly changed
    • Center platform gateways
      • The gateways have been moved
      • Map icons have been added

• Quests
  • Treasures Ahead (2/2)
    • The collect tasks can now also be solved by group members
  • All the colors
    • The collect tasks can now also be solved by group members
    • The drop chance of the different Crystal Shards has been slightly improved
  • All the colors (repeatable)
    • The collect tasks can now also be solved by group members
    • You now collect any Crystal Shard color, without being bound to the quest order
  • Purple Riches
    • The collect tasks can now also be solved by group members
    • The drop chance of the purple Crystal Shards has been greatly improved

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Bug fixes​

• The Adventure’s chest for Level 60 has been added back to players inventories.
• Rare client crashes caused by using the customization window has been fixed.
• The issue with skills icons being invisible when drag&drop to the skill bar has been fixed.
• The sentinel in Fyrgon’s Path of Fire has a correctly coloured name now.
• Some translation issues for Romanian, Portuguese and Polish have been fixed.
• The reward unique item for the quest Soulless Food has been updated.

Known issue​

• Desert of Essences Event
  • The achievements for the Essence Trials are not displaying the correct names (one of the Animated Armor bosses). The issue will be fixed with Release 243.

Player Suggestions
We gathered a lot of feedback regarding the Desert of Essences event and made changes accordingly:​

• Boss fights
  • During the Essence Trial, you now face Animated Armors, imbued with the respective element they represent – prepare yourself, for every boss has its’ individual strengths and weaknesses
• Desert of Essences Event Attire
  • We did add an additional bonus effect while not raising the price for the attire: You are now immune against the harmful effects of sandstorms

• Realm path entry costs
  • You now need only 1 realm path to enter the Desert of the Lost, no matter the difficulty
  • You now need only 1 realm path to enter the Kia Krisal, no matter the difficulty
• Sentinel
  • The Sentinel in the Desert of the Lost now drops Crystal Dew and Essence Water (The amount is scaling with the chosen difficulty)
• Draken
  • The amount of Draken you get per progress bar tier was changed, so that players on every tier will get 300 Draken, not only the ones on the highest tier

• Drop behavior
  • After every Sandstorm, you will now find Uncovered Chests, which amongst other loot, contain a fix amount of Crystal Dew and Essence Water (The amount is scaling with the chosen difficulty). This is an addition to the normal drop amount of Crystal Dew which was not was not changed
• Essence chest
  • We removed the uncommon Essence of Vigor (non-elemental) from the Essence Chest
• Gateways to Kia Krisal
  • To prevent players from unwillingly activating gateways, we moved the individual ones to the edges of the map. In addition to that, we added Cease Fire zones, so players do not fight there and activate a gateway by misclicking during fights
  • The Cease Fire zones are easy to spot as always
  • We added map icons for the portals
• Sandstorms
  • We lowered the debuff damage
  • We reduced the amount of ticks
  • We decreased the movement speed malus
• Essence Shardlings in Kia Krisal
  • We reduced the attack range of the Essence Shardlings and added a randomized initial attack interval, so they do not all attack at the same time

Desert of Essences Event Attire
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Bonus while active: • 50% increased Essence Water drop stack size • Makes you immune against the harmful effects of sandstorms Duration: 4 days

Essence Chest
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The uncommon Essence of Vigor (non-elemental) was removed from the Essence Chest as possible loot. The elemental versions of the uncommon essence were kept.

Sentinel loot

The Sentinel that spawns after with the final sandstorm will drop a scaling amount of Crystal Dew and Essence Water:
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Difficulty	Crystal Dew	Essence Water
Normal	8	4
Painful	10	6
Excruciating	12	8
Fatal	16	10
Infernal I	20	14
Infernal II	24	16
Infernal III	28	18
Infernal IV	32	20
Infernal V	40	24
Infernal VI	48	28
Infernal VII	56	32

Uncovered Chest
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The uncovered chests contain guaranteed Crystal Dew and Essence Water drops. They can be found after every sandstorms monster wave

Difficulty	Crystal Dew	Essence Water
Normal	4	2
Painful	5	3
Excruciating	6	4
Fatal	8	5
Infernal I	10	7
Infernal II	12	8
Infernal III	14	9
Infernal IV	16	10
Infernal V	20	12
Infernal VI	24	14
Infernal VII	28	16

Shady Jon
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Shady Jon can be found near Abbas in the Desert of the Lost. He is offering Physics of Resilience which raise your resistances in case you need to. Please note that Shady Jon can also be found in Kingshill and is selling Essence Water while the Desert of Essences event is active

Bosses

Depending on which version of Kia Krisal you entered, you will face a different Boss.
Amongst other loot, they will drop Essence Water, Draken Cores and the individual Elemental Spheres, needed to craft elemental Essences.
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	Animated Armor	“Steam Ranger”	No particular strong resistances	Drops lowest amount of progress. Drops no elemental spheres
	Electrified Animated Armor	Steam Mechanicus	Strong lightning resistance	Drops average amount of progress. Drops lightning spheres
	Poisonous Animated Armor	Ranger	Strong poison resistance	Drops average amount of progress. Drops lightning spheres
	Icy Animated Armor	Spellweaver	Strong ice resistance	Drops average amount of progress. Drops ice spheres
	Fiery Animated Armor	Dragon Knight	Strong fire resistance	Drops average amount of progress. Drops fire spheres
	Obscure Animated Armor	“Battlemage”	Strong general resistances	Drops high amount of progress. Drops Andermight spheres