April 2017

4/24/17

Armor

• Ring of Swift Strikes - removed

Players compensated 150k for each in their inventory or home.

Weapon

• Bone Crusher now weighs 500lbs

Race

• Kalidemons: 2.0/sec
• Hydras: 3.0/sec
• Stone giants: 3.0/sec
• Other giants: 3.2/sec
• Panthers: 5.0/sec
• Leopards: 5.5/sec
• Pixies: 8.0/sec
• Everyone else: 4.0/sec just like before
• Stone Giants Immune to Petrification

   "Most players should hit their max attack speed at weapon skill 40" and "The most important thing to keep in mind is: I'm not done with balancing!"

Miscellaneous

• In the works 'body' command that lists what you are wearing and will "soon display AC"

Attack speed

4/22/17 - 4/23/17

Armor

• Fixed the enchanted AC overriding the changes made in the previous patch
• (unfixed) Chain armor and other "complex AC" items have no "generic AC" so it won't protect from things like fire(an maybe other elements?)
• "Complex AC" items did not handle enchants properly applying the enhanced AC to only one type of damage i.e. cut stab etc. Now enchants apply to all ACs
• Max enchant is raised to +10
  • (Reagents for +10 are hard if not impossible to come by at the time of this update)

   "I like it at +10 because:
   -increases the rarity curve even more
   -parity with built-in enchantments
   -with the new AC computation, it's not broken
   -10 is such a nice number, as you point out"

Map

• Stensele Makeover

Armor buffs Armor buffs 2

4/21/17

Armor

• Most hard armor AC is now roughly double what it used to be. E.g platemail went from AC 20 to AC 40.
• Most shields are now triple what they used to be. On average they went from AC 7 to AC 21.
• DSM is now either 40 or 50 depending on the armor (used to be 20 to 30). Similar to platemail, but it's lighter than platemail and provides immunities.
• Ancient DSM is all AC 100 now. (Was all 30 before). Keep in mind that it only protects your torso.
• Most cloaks were not affected, but lion cloak, wolf cloak, and cloak of protection all went up nearly double.
• Leather and similar materials were generally only raised a little bit. No cloth armor went up in AC except (I think) the Wizard Hat, which went up a little.

Race

• Dwarves now have 25% resistance to nearly all damage types

Official Notes

4/18/17

Race

• Lions now have Free Action and Iron Will by default.
  • Immunity to fear
  • Immunity to slow
  • Immunity to paralysis
  • Immunity to confusion

   "I'm guessing we still won't see many lions, but... at least they have a better signature ability now. Even pixies aren't immune to fear.
   Panthers and leopards both of course need complete overhauls -- that's still in the works."

Official Notes

4/18/17

Race

• Pixie Attack speed is now 8.0 max

Misc

• Leader Boards are now 100% exp based
• QP requirements for 45 and 50 are now 500 and 550 respectively (there are 552 non-sokoban QP in the game)

Race Misc

4/12/17

Race

Rakshasas

• Raks now get 2 WC per level. They go from WC 10 at level 1, to WC 108 at level 50.

Nagas

• Kalidemons can no longer wield weapons or shields
• Kalidemons and Hydras both start with a lower WC than before, and it scales up every 5 levels.
• Hydra has WC 8, at level 20, and adds 2 points of WC every 5 levels, up to a maximum of WC 20 at demigod.
• Kalidemon has WC 10 (cut) at level 24, and it goes up by 3 points every milestone level until it caps at WC 25 cut at demigod

Weapon

• Hofud the Sword (100 lb) is now WC 65.
• The Annihilator Axe is now down to wc 45 -- but it's 1-handed.

Armor

• Bracers are now enchantable again

Misc Buffs

4/5/17

• "I've reduced or eliminated the resist-magic property on most monsters in the game. For monsters that already had a resist-cut, stab or smash, I generally reduced their resist-magic down to that level. If they did not have melee resistance I usually removed their magic damage resistance as well, or for certain magical monsters limited it to just 20%."

Spells

• Destruction Spell damage calculation was (80 + death * 2) and is now (death * 2)

Official Notes