Dear Tibians!

Our initial spotlight on the new features of the summer update highlights imbuements and the improvements aimed at making them more intuitive and enjoyable.

The first change: the success rate boost is being eliminated. All improvements will have a 100% success rate going forward. The costs will be adjusted as follows: Basic: 7,500 Gold, Intricate: 60,000 Gold and Powerful: 250,000 Gold.

The imbuing shrine menu has been updated to reflect the new success rate and to enhance overall usability. To keep things clear and focused, it now displays only the imbuement slots that are actually available for each item.

To enable this mechanic, a new item called blank imbuement scroll has been introduced. It can be obtained as loot. In addition, it can also be purchased from NPC Albinius for 25,000 gold, provided that The Temple of the Forgotten Knowledge Quest has already been completed on the world and the character has submitted the required five tomes to gain access to the imbuing shrines. 

At any imbuing shrine, a powerful imbuement can be inscribed onto the blank scroll. This consumes the blank imbuement scroll and produces a powerful imbuement scroll.

To perform this inscription, the player must have permission to create powerful imbuements and a Premium Account is required.

Overall, there are 24 unique powerful imbuement scrolls, one for each imbuement type. 

Imbuement types include:

• Elemental Conversion: Scorch, Venom, Frost, Electrify, Reap
• Leech: Vampirism, Void
• Critical: Strike
• Resistance: Snake Skin, Dragon Hide, Quara Scale, Cloud Fabric, Demon Presence, Vibrancy, Lich Shroud
• Utility: Swiftness, Featherweight
• Skills: Chop, Slash, Precision, Blockade, Epiphany, Punch, Bash

Powerful imbuement scrolls and blank imbuement scrolls are stackable and tradeable in the Market. Powerful imbuement scrolls can also be purchased and used by free account players. 

Using an imbued scroll is simple. If an item has an available slot and accepts the imbuement type, the scroll can be applied directly via multiuse in the inventory. 

Furthermore, the new cleansing scroll removes all imbuements from an item. It costs 30,000 gold and is also sold by NPC Albinius once The Temple of the Forgotten Knowledge is built and the five tomes have been submitted. The cleansing scroll is also stackable and tradeable.

We hope you enjoy the changes made to the imbuement mechanics and invite you to make extensive use of the new features on the test servers.

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Dear Tibians!

• Virtue of Justice: fist fighting bonus from 10/20% to 8/16%.
• Chained Penance: jump bonus from 3% to -9%. We have also adjusted the spell's position within the Wheel of Destiny to make the additional target available earlier.
• Virtue Healing depends now much more on magic level than character level and as a result the overall self healing power has been reduced.

Furthermore, we have made the following changes:

• Adjusted general chain spell behavior: If your current target is out of range, these spells will now try to start their chain on a valid target within range. If there is no valid target in range, the spell will not be cast. This affects all player chain spells.
• Spiritual Outburst: Mana is now consumed only if the spell is successfully cast.
• Combo points are now generally no longer consumed before the respective spell is actually cast.

Happy hunting,
Your Community Managers

Somewhere in Vengoth.

A remote settlement, scarcely more than a cluster of worn houses, a weary-looking inn, and a threadbare marketplace clinging to life.

Sun-browned, hollow-eyed figures drift through the dusty streets, weighed down by hardship.

Among them, one soul seems more adrift than the rest. Lost, and now the center of unwanted attention.

A group of villagers surrounds a beggar, their voices rising in anger, their words laced with scorn.

"You ought to keep that filthy mouth shut! How many times have we told you? You went too far last time! Are the rats no longer enough for you?"

Hero that you are, you cannot stand idly by. Not now.

You step in. Swift and decisive. Before the nearest assailant can bring his hammer down upon the defenseless outcast, he is already disarmed. A flash of energy - a lightning hook - lashes out, pinning him hard to the ground. His jaw cracks with a sickening sound. The others freeze. They know who you are. They know better than to challenge you. One by one, they flee, melting into the alleys and shadows.

You turn your attention to the old man. He is bleeding from the mouth, his legs scraped and raw.

"Thank you, stranger," he rasps. "These fools fear the truth more than death. They cling to their ignorance like babies to the breast. Tell me, wanderer, what life is worth more? One spent in repression and fear, or one lived in service to truth, no matter the cost?"

"They pour their anger onto me for this unspeakable evil that has gripped the land. But I'm not the one who made dozens vanish. No, no, it was green mingling with grey, twisting into something monstrous. I'm just a poor old fellow."

He pauses, lost in thought, his fingers absently stroking the bony ridges of his shins.

"Stranger, I swear it, if even a flicker more strength stirred in these legs, in this worn shell of a body, I would rise again. I never was the strongest, but I have never lacked courage. But you… you have both. Strength and spirit. I know who you are. Your name reaches even the forgotten places. And I suspect you are not here by chance."

Something stirs in you. Your eyes narrow, catch the light.

The old man sees it and smiles faintly. He knows.

He is right. Your instincts brought you here. And once again, they did not fail you. You have found him.

You are on the scent of flesh, even if it lingers with the stench of death.

Relentless as a hound, you pursue them. Those who hide in shadow, who feast and corrupt. You will not rest until you have unearthed their nest. Until the line between order and chaos blurs, until life and death are nothing but fading echoes.

You are the harbinger of truth.

The beggar stares into your eyes, and something within him recoils.
He turns his face away, shaken.

He now knows that you are aware of his secret. You know the blood on his lips is not his own...

"You leave no survivors," he whispers, barely audible and foreseeing that he is doomed.

With a casual flick of your wrist, you lift him to his feet.
Your voice is calm but firm. "Show me the way."

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