Release 249

Heroes of Dracania,

**Release 249** comes with the Veteran Bonus feature which aims at rewarding heroes that have been

defending Dracania for a long time and still actively continue to do so “on multiple fronts”.

Additionally, a new parallel world dungeon opens his gates for brave heroes that do not fear the

poisonous fangs of Gorga.

Enjoy the release!

**P.S. Improvements that were based on player feedback and wishes are marked with** ⭐

**Changes / New**

- **Daily Deal**

o Players can now re-shuffle their Daily Deal offers for a small fee ⭐

- **Character Window**

o Memberships tab added

o Veteran Rank tab added

- **Veteran Bonus**

o Veteran Bonus feature added (more detailed information below)

- **Emotes**

o Accolade Emote added

- **Equipment Skins**

o Man-eating Manticore Armor pattern added

- **Mounts**

o Manticore mount added

o All mount selling prices have been increased ⭐

- **Pets**

o All pet selling prices have been increased ⭐

- **Achievements**

o A new subcategory for veterancy related achievements has been added, called

Veteran Rank, found in the Heroic Deeds category

o A new Category for Parallel World Gorga achievements has been added

▪ The achievement Fast Food I has been added

▪ The achievement Fast Food II has been added

▪ The achievement Fast Food III has been added

▪ The achievement Grilled Shark I has been added

▪ The achievement Grilled Shark II has been added

▪ The achievement Grilled Shark III has been added

▪ The achievement Snake Sashimi I has been added

▪ The achievement Snake Sashimi II has been added

▪ The achievement Snake Sashimi III has been added

- **Titles**

o Dracanian Veteran added

o Honored Dracanian Veteran added

o Noble Dracanian Veteran added

- **Equipment**

o Dark Corruption set bonus has been reworked (more info below) ⭐

- **Collectors Bag**

o The Decorative Effects category has been added

o The effect aura collection have been moved to the decorative effects category

o A trail collection has been added to the decorative effects category

o A alchemy circle collection has been added to the decorative effects category

o Thunder Gear Wings have been added to the wings category

- **Shop**

o The Treasure Collector has been added to the Free Spirits category

o The 3 days Premium and Deluxe Membership offers have been removed (more info

below)

o Fragments of Infernal Passages have been added to the Global Shop ⭐

o Fragments of Infernal Passages have been added to Emilia’s Shop ⭐

o Fragments of Infernal Passages have been added to Salvender’s Shop ⭐

- **Parallel Worlds**

o Introduction

▪ The introduction to the Parallel World has been changed

• Players will now get a quest that guides players to the Parallel Worlds

o Dungeons

▪ The second dungeon of each Parallel World chunk will no longer cost Fragments of Infernal Passages ⭐

o Monsters

▪ All enemies in the different Parallel World dungeons now have their elemental resistances based on the element of the specific boss of the dungeon

▪ All enemies in the different Parallel World dungeons now deal elemental damage based on the element of the specific boss of the dungeon

▪ To visualize the above, those monsters received a low-key colorization:

• **Parallel World Grimmag**

o Elements: Fire, Physical

• **Parallel World Arachna**

o Elements: Poison, Physical

• **Parallel World Heredur**

o Elements: Ice, Physical

• **Parallel World Bearach**

o Elements: Lightning, Physical

• **Parallel World Khalys**

o Andermagic, Physical

• **Parallel World Herald**

o Fire, Andermagic, Physical

• **Parallel World Sigrismarr**

o Ice, Lightning, Physical

• **Parallel World Gorga**

o Poison, Andermagic, Physical

o Trader

▪ Each Parallel World dungeon trader will now sell tonics, elixirs and physics based on the elements of the dungeon for Materi Fragments and Andermant ⭐

o Loot

▪ The Parallel World Treasure Chest now has been updated and the chest can now drop the following items ⭐

• Jewels (common)

• Opal divider

• Pet Cage

• Infernal Passages

• Shiny Dust

• Rune Dust

• Materi Fragments

• Multitools

• Crafting Chest

• Random Equipment

▪ Parallel World unique items can now drop from all enemies of a Parallel World dungeon ⭐

• The bosses of the Parallel World dungeons will drop the items with a minimum enchantment power level

o Quests

▪ The quest row to unlock a new Parallel World dungeon no longer requires finishing a previous Parallel World dungeon

▪ The quests to unlock the second map of a Parallel World dungeon now give 1% XP and 100 Andermant as reward

▪ The quests to finish a Parallel World dungeon now give 2% XP and 500 Andermant as reward

▪ The quests to finish a Parallel World dungeon now require the player to deliver 2000 Materi Fragments to Ammon

- **Quests**

o The Shadows of the Past quests are now listed as main quests

- Skills / Talents

o Banner of War will no longer drain all the rage when used ⭐

**Bug fixes**

- **Equipment / Items**

o An issue with the Lapis Lazuli Boots that forced players to unequip/equip them to get back the movement speed bonus after being defeated has been fixed

o An issue that the Crafting Chest did only contain common ingredients, has been fixed

o An issue that the Magic Glasses of the Fragment Seeker had no icon background has been fixed

o An issue that the Jewel of Ingredient Hunter had a wrong icon has been fixed

o An issue that the offensive parts of the Iron Will set could not drop for Rangers has been fixed

o An issue that some costumes had a missing buff bar icon has been fixed

o An issue that the Sargon Costume showed a wrong buff bar icon has been fixed

o An issue that the Damsel Costume had a missing buff bar icon has been fixed

- **Monster**

o An issue that the armor and elemental resistance reduction dealt by the scarabs in Qaizah did not work properly, has been fixed

o An issue that the Greedy Goblin could spawn with a random enchantment that made it impossible to defeat him, has been fixed

o An issue that made it impossible for players to remove the burn debuff that was dealt by an elite mob with a fire enchantment, has been fixed

o An issue that prevented the demon sentinels Lrug’Arc and Qin’Arc from spawning in the Suburbs of Cardhun, has been fixed now

o An issue that the Vampire Hounds of the Ancient Stag in the Parallel World Wildherz Caverns were missing their monster rank has been fixed

o An issue that made it possible to deal debuffs to the Quartz Stomper in the Realm Quartz Cavern while their shield was still active has been fixed

o An issue that the demon lords sentinels could be mind controlled has been fixed

o An issue that made it impossible for the player to free from the frost effect dealt by Sigrismarr in Hjalgrimur has been fixed

o An issue that the taunt effect dealt by demon wardens had a missing icon has been fixed

o An issue that Grimmag in the Parallel World Alliance Fortress was immune to armor and resistance debuffs has been fixed

o An issue that adds of bosses in the Twisted Woods did not despawn after the boss was defeated has been fixed

o An issue that some monsters were not removed properly after they were defeated has been fixed

o An issue that the impact radius of Khalys’ meteor was bigger than the visualization has been fixed

o An issue that Balor appeared twice during is spawn in Yolotl has been fixed

o An issue that wrap skill of M’edusa’s Acolytes stunned the player too early has been fixed

- **Quests**

o An issue that during the A Cold Clue (2/5) quest players were able to hand over the needed materi fragments before talking to Frederic Galley first, has been fixed

o An issue that Einar’s Shoes had a missing icon, has been fixed

o An issue that the Annoying Troublemakers quest had no cooldown has been fixed

o An issue that the Machine Maintenance (4/4) quest could be finished without fighting against Orsha’s machine babies has been fixed

o An issue that the needed Rock Salt for the Darkness, My Old Friend quest did drop from enemies in Sildsteinn and not in Brigavik has been fixed

- **Daily Challenges**

o An issue that collecting legendary Gnawed Bones did not count for the respective daily challenge, has been fixed

- **Collectors Bag**

o An issue that the Sargon Doll, Unleashed Sargon Doll, Mortis Doll and Mortis and Skeledragon Doll, did receive the wrong resistance bonus from the Collectors Bag, has been fixed

- **Pets**

o An issue that the Mad Eye Skully pet buff also affected the runtime of the stun immunity has been fixed

- **Workbench**

o An issue that for some equipment crafting recipes, a wrong rarity for the placeholder ingredients was shown, has been fixed

o An issue that old backitems, maces or axes could not be used for the unique equipment crafting has been fixed

o An issue that some recipe names shown in the workbench had a missing rarity color has been fixed

o An issue that some unique torso crafting recipes showed boots as required generic item instead of a torso has been fixed

o An issue that some crafted item enchantments were not colored accordingly until they were placed on the workbench has been fixed

- **Dungeon Access Window**

o An issue that the access window to Yolotl didn’t show the right possible gem drops has been fixed

- **Loot**

o An issue that the Parallel World rings didn’t drop properly from normal monsters in the Parallel World dungeons has been fixed

o An issue that destructible objects in the Lor’tac temples didn’t drop loot on the level of the dungeon on normal difficulty has been fixed

o The easter eggs in the new Parallel World maps have been fixed: They now give loot on player level (not level 1) and the golden eggs are hidden.

- **Skills / Talents**

o An issue that the Fire Blast of the Spellweaver did not benefit from the cooldown reduction granted by the Second Chance talent has been fixed

o An issue that the frost explosion done by Adrenaline was cut off has been fixed

o An issue that the Machine Gun Turret and Mechanical Turret skill tooltips didn’t show the correct damage increase has been fixed

- **Achievements**

o An issue that crafting the Jewel of Ingredient Hunter did not count for the jewel crafting achievements has been fixed

**Misc improvements**

o Runes and Jewels had the visuals for their drop items revisited and are now showing rarity levels as well ⭐

o The obelisks on the Worldmap leading to urban areas got a separate color scheme now ⭐

**Detailed Section**

**3 days Membership offers**

We analyzed the different offers. Seeing that the 3-day Premium and Deluxe offers were rarely used,

we decided to remove them for now and overthink how we can provide you with offers that will be

more useful for you in the future. The 3-day Premium offer from the Community Trader has been

removed as well, but a one-week offer was added and the pricing of the 2-week offer has been

changed.

**Memberships Tab**

We added a Memberships tab to the character window which informs player about the merits of a

Membership:

**Daily Deals**

Players can now re-shuffle their Daily Deal offers. Depending on their current tier, Veterans can do

that for free several times per day.

**Dark Corruption set bonus rework**

The set bonus of the Dark Corruption set has been reworked:

Level 100 Item

**Veteran Bonus System**

- **Definition/Requirement**

o Two requirements must be fulfilled: Account age threshold reached and number of level 100 characters on the account:

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 II
 III

o Example1: Your Account is 6 years old and you do not have a level 100 Char → no Veteran Rank

o Example2: Your Account is 2 years old and you do have 4 level 100 Chars → no Veteran Rank

o Example3: Your account is 4 years old and you have 2 level 100 Chars → Veteran Rank I reached

- **Veteran Rank Tab**

o You will find the new Veteran Rank Tab in the character window:

Here you will find the following information:

▪ Your current Veteran Rank

▪ Days your account has to age to reach the next rank (via mouseover tooltip)

▪ Number of level 100 chars needed to reach the next rank (via mouseover tooltip)

o By clicking on one of the three Veteran Buttons, you will see all the merits you are granted as a veteran of the respective rank:

- **Veteran Boni**

 I
- You can re-shuffle a category of your daily deal offers for free 1x time
per day with every character on your account
- Receive a discount rate for all Andermant spent of: 2% with every
character on your account
- You receive the Accolade emote with every character on your
 II
- You can re-shuffle a category of your daily deal offers for free 2x time
per day with every character on your account
- Receive a discount rate for all Andermant spent of: 3% with every
character on your account
- You receive the Manticore Armor skin pattern with every
 III
- You can re-shuffle a category of your daily deal offers for free 3x time
per day with every character on your account
- Receive a discount rate for all Andermant spent of: 5% with every
character on your account
- You receive the Manticore mount with every character on your
account

- Additional Veteran Boni for Players with an active Premium Membership

 I
account
 II
account
 III
account
- Get 3x Multitool per daily login with every character on your account

- Additional Veteran Boni for Players with an active Deluxe Membership

 I
account
- Get 4x Multitool per daily login with every character on your account
- 25% more Experience Points for defeating Monsters and completing
tasks with every character on your account (stacks with other boni)
- Respawn at the spot where you died 3x for free per day with every
character on your account
- Receive a 5% discount at Emilia’s shop with every character on your
 II
account
- Get 5x Multitool per daily login with every character on your account
- 30% more Experience Points for defeating Monsters and completing
tasks with every character on your account (stacks with other boni)
- Respawn at the spot where you died 6x for free per day with every
character on your account
- Receive a 10% discount at Emilia’s shop with every character on your
account
- Receive 1x Gilded Clover for free per daily login with every character
 III
account
- Get 6x Multitool per daily login with every character on your account
- 35% more Experience Points for defeating Monsters and completing
tasks with every character on your account (stacks with other boni)
- Respawn at the spot where you died 9x for free per day with every
character on your account
- Receive a 15% discount at Emilia’s shop with every character on your
account
- Receive 2x Gilded Clover for free per daily login with every character
on your account

**New Parallel World Introduction**

Players will no longer receive a Travelitem to Cardhun when they reach level 50. They will now get a quest from Ammon himself.

During this quest, the player must find the Chamber of Ponaltiaco hidden in Nahuatlan. This chamber

can only be entered on Infernal difficulty.

After completing clearing the chamber the player will reach Cardhun where this quest will end.

For info regarding the additional changes with the release, check out the following file:
Media:Patchnotes\_R249.pdf