Build 25377331

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This second hotfix rebalances the experience you get from the story in Acts II to V, puts the Dead Land Cave research quest back to its intended difficulty, and fixes a few quests and one wandering NPC.

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⚔️ Story Experience

- Story quests in Acts II to V now give a fixed amount of experience that matches the level of the quest.
- Handing in a story quest no longer tops your character up to a set level. The story no longer pushes you several levels past the content you are actually playing.
- Because of this, the experience you get from story quests in Acts II to V is significantly lower than before. Gold rewards are unchanged.
- Defeating preparation patrols while waiting for a story quest to unlock in Acts II and III no longer grants extra experience.

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🔍 Echoes in Stone

- Yesterday's update shipped this research quest with test values by mistake: every defeated creature left a usable sample, five samples were enough, and each examination finished instantly.
- The quest now uses its intended values again. Samples are a rare drop, not every one of them is readable, twenty have to be examined, and an examination takes 30 minutes.
- Samples you have already had examined still count.

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📜 Quests

- Fixed the city tutorial breaking when the blacksmith hands out the rest of your starting armor.
- Fixed an error when asking Pyra for her briefing at the start of Act IV.
- Fixed the success message after reading a perfect skill scroll not naming the skill you picked.
- Fixed the Valentine's event letter not updating for players when the boss chain starts.

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🚶 NPCs

- Fixed the fisher Omid walking into the blacksmith on his way into Jerro.

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Have fun playing! ⭐

— The Inferna Team