Portalborn — Gear Clarity & Alchemy Quality of Life

Hello everyone!

This update focuses on making equipment easier to compare, improving the crafting workflow, and removing a few small frustrations from everyday play.

Several of these changes came directly from player feedback. Thank you to everyone who took the time to explain where the interface was slowing you down.

Gear Tooltips Now Separate Base Stats from Modifications

Previously, equipment displayed all of its stats as one combined value. That meant working out whether a new drop was actually better often required mentally subtracting alchemy bonuses, Portal Imprints, Primordial Cores, and enchantments from your current gear.

Tooltips now display two columns:

• BASE — the item's natural stats, compared directly against the base stats of your equipped item.

• ADDED — everything contributed by Alchemy, Portal Imprints, Primordial Cores, and Grand Enchanter Vaelin.

The comparison value shown in brackets now compares base against base, making it much easier to judge an item's potential before investing resources into it.

The tooltip has also been widened slightly, fixing an issue where longer stat names could extend beyond the edge of the window.

Grand Enchanter Vaelin Enhancements Now Display Correctly

Vaelin's enhancements were previously stored as a combined total rather than tracked per individual stat, making them impossible to display correctly in the new ADDED column.

New enhancements are now recorded per stat and display correctly.

Enhancements applied before this update cannot be reconstructed retroactively. Those items instead display a separate summary line showing the total enhancement value, so nothing is hidden.

Alchemy Station Quality-of-Life Improvements

Alchemy Station now remembers your selections.

Previously, infusing an item cleared both the selected equipment and the selected material, requiring you to choose them again after every infusion.

Both selections are now preserved between infusions.

If an item reaches its upgrade limit, it also remains selected, with the reason clearly displayed instead of silently disappearing from the interface.

Equipped items are now listed first within the Alchemy Station.

The [EQUIPPED] label has also been moved before the item name, making equipped gear much easier to identify while scanning longer lists.

A Way Home After Completing a Quest

Completing a story quest in Dread Catacombs or Celestial Rift now opens a portal back to Oakhaven beside the NPC who gave you the quest.

Previously, the only way home was to use recall, costing 1% of your current gold.

Finishing the work you came to do shouldn't cost you anything to leave.

The return portal also serves as a clear visual indication that you've completed everything there is to do in that portal for this visit.

Like other portals throughout the game, you can simply examine it or click it to return directly to Oakhaven's town square. As always, it functions fully in both English and Simplified Chinese.

Thank you, as always, for the bug reports, suggestions, and thoughtful feedback. Small quality-of-life improvements like these make Portalborn smoother to play, and they continue to shape the direction the game is heading.

— TheHand