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v0.8.0.1 | Expeditions, Combat Cards, Balancing

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Hi everyone! I've taken the last week or so to focus on progression, as I've received a TON of feedback on bottlenecks, unintentional content skips and a plethora of suggestions. Here’s everything that changed since Octobers last patch notes. This update brings us up to v0.8.0.1

Expeditions & Warden Hunts

These are longer trips requiring specific supplies to embark on, each region has it's own Expeditions and requires a certain combat and skill level. If you die you lose your chance at any rewards, and the items you deposited, if you manage to get through it you'll be rewarded with supplies of equal or higher tier. You will also be rewarded a regional key fragment, when combined create a Warden Key, which gives you access to the regions corresponding Warden boss. Keys are consumed on use, and you can only challenge a Warden once per key.

  • Added Expeditions in Deepstone (18 minutes/run), Bleakhaven (30 minutes/run), and Voidscar (50 minutes/run).

  • Expeditions require combat levels, skill levels, food, potions, and materials; they progress while offline.

  • Expedition rewards were rebalanced down so they are not an easy money printer.

  • Every Expedition gives a regional key fragment.

  • Five fragments forge a Warden Key.

  • Warden Keys open one-attempt Warden Hunts against Iron Golem, Lich Acolyte, or Abyssal Drake.

  • Warden Hunts consume the key when started and award normal monster drops plus a guaranteed Warden Cache.

  • Added a separate Expedition Log for milestones, completion counts, fragments, and forged keys.

Economy

  • Reduced item prices indicated by shop value

  • Adjusted tempering cost, scales higher with each level

  • Adjust travel cost in the map to align with new item values

  • Equipment setups: Players get 1 setup at the start, with 2 more being able to be unlocked later in the game

Slayer

  • Added new currency, Slayer Points. Each task now rewards points instead of coins to fit with the updated economy

  • Points can be spent with any Task Master, skipping, blocking, or purchasing Slayer Helms

  • The Slayer Helm gives +15% accuracy and damage against your current task.

  • Slayer Helms have 5 cosmetic looks, purchased at a Task Master for points. Requires 1 of the 5 trophies to create. Cosmetic only

  • Added Contract Chains, which consecutive completed tasks increase Slayer Point rewards.

  • Every five completed tasks grants an extra point, capped at +5.

  • Skipping, blocking, or cancelling a task resets the chain.

Queues and Offline Timer

  • The activity queue was reduced to 2 slots and the offline time was reduced to 6 hours

  • Quests and diaries can be completed to acquire longer times and the Ashvale General Store sells extra queue slots and hours

Diaries

  • Updated requirements for Diary completion, it's now more in lined with the XP rates

Quests

  • Added larger requirements for quests. (Rats Nest went from 5 rats -> 60)

  • Beneath the Voidscar now gives 5 Dragon Scales

Skills and XP

  • Gathering and crafting can now hit "miss checks", which means not every action is guaranteed to gather an item. A new node or recipe lands 60% of the time at its unlock level and raises with each level by 1.5%. Better tools and skilling gems raise the chance of success. Missed crafts do not use materials

  • Skill checks add at most 20% (reduced from 40%)

  • Constitution XP is slightly faster

  • Draken armour can be created at 91 Forging from Ember Bars and Dragon Scales

Monsters

  • Buffed Feathers drop from Mire Hens

  • Buffed Feathers drop from Cave Basilisks

  • Nerfed Coins drop by nearly half of early game Monsters

  • Skeleton in Ashvale (Level 13)

Character customization (WIP)

  • Customize your character style that is displayed on your Character Card, gear is displayed on your card aswell.

  • Equipment cards have been updated to be more modern/useful. Full stats panel, combat ratings, worn gear, titles etc.

Balance

  • Reduced the amount of coins through combat

  • Gear now has a market price in the tooltip and wiki. Selling items to shops gives less of a value than High Alchemy

  • Success chances are shown now, also counts misses

  • Regions are no longer locked to combat

Pets

  • Added skilling pets as rare activity drops (World pets will be phased out). Higher-tier gathering activities have better odds than lower tier gathering

  • Herbalism (Sporeling), Lumbering (Sprig), Fishing (River Otter), Mining (Oreling)

Other

  • CTRL Click now works in your bank

  • Added quest icons, High Alchemy spell icon

  • Chat has a tab for "Online" players

  • Discord button shows in settings

  • Added a Replay Tutorial button in Settings.

Hallowed Eve

  • Event has now concluded.